Faurndau

Faurndau City of Göppingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	302 m above sea level NN
Area :	6.61 km²
Residents :	7417  (Oct 31, 2007)
Population density :	1,122 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	73035
Area code :	07161
Location of Faurndau in the city of Göppingen

Late Romanesque collegiate church in Faurndau

Faurndau [ ˈfaʊ̯ɐndaʊ̯ ] ( 302  m above sea level ) is a district in the west of Göppingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Faurndau lies in the valley of the lower Fils , which runs from the right and northeast of the Marbach . The district marking stretches from both sides of the lower Marbach over five kilometers across the valley of the river and its left tributary Pfuhlbach to the southwest to largely uninhabited fields, while across it it is often less than one and a half kilometers wide.

history

Archaeological evidence of settlement dates from the Neolithic , the late Bronze Age and the Roman period.

At the confluence of the Brunnenbach, coming from the south, into the Fils, a small monastery was built near a ford in the 9th century. In 875, King Ludwig the German transferred the Furentouua monastery together with the church in Brenz an der Brenz to his court deacon Liutbrand . In 895 both estates were owned by the imperial monastery of St. Gallen , where Liutbrand was admitted. Until the Staufer period there were no written sources about Faurndau. Excavations carried out in 1956 showed that the late Romanesque collegiate church today, which was completed around 1220, was preceded by four construction periods.

In 1228 the written tradition started again when the rules of the Faurndauer Canons' Monastery, in which eight canons were serving at the time , were revised by St. Gallen . Since the Staufer owned the bailiff's rights over the monastery of St. Gallen at the time the collegiate church was built, and because of its poor economic situation, the Staufer monastery was hardly in a position to build such a new building, so a direct participation by the Staufer must be considered . An indirect participation can be proven on the basis of the Hohenstaufen ministerials von Rechberg and von Staufeneck , which were owned by the Bailiwick of Faurndau.

In the 15./16. In the 19th century, the counts and dukes of Württemberg became local lords of Faurndau. In 1536, with the introduction of the Reformation, the monastery, which was last occupied by four canons, was closed.

Due to its convenient location, industrialization began in the late 19th century ( paper factory , Salamander shoe factory , Kleemann). On January 1, 1975, the place was incorporated into Göppingen against the majority decision of the residents as part of the community reform. A lawsuit against the incorporation failed. In the past decades the place has grown strongly (new development areas Haier, Reute and on the site of the former paper mill), but the industry has migrated.

Place name

The name Faurndau - the first mention in 875 AD is Furentouua - is particularly interesting for name research, as it appears very unusual both for place names and phonetically . If the older research had considered a derivation from the Latin Feronia dea , according to new research the name is considered an event name that refers to the not uncommon floods of the Fils . Derived from Old High German (ir) furen (to destroy, to rob) and ouwa (valley floodplain), the name means “settlement on the destructive river”.

politics

Faurndau has a district advisory council with twelve members and ten deputies. This is ordered by the Göppingen municipal council. The chairman is the Lord Mayor of Göppingen, Guido Till, and the deputy is the District Office Manager, Stephanie Müller.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: Under the golden head of the shield covered with a black stag pole in green, a golden pole .

In order to have a coat of arms for the necessary official seals, the municipality adopted the current coat of arms proposed by the archives in 1935. Belonging to Württemberg is attested by the stag's pole. The green background refers to the end of the name “-au” of the place, while the stake only serves to break down the coat of arms. An originally proposed flower as a reference to the end of the name was rejected by the local council.

The flag is yellow-green.

The coat of arms was officially awarded on July 12, 1937 by Reichsstatthalter Wilhelm Murr , the flag on May 4, 1956 by the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg.

religion

A document from 875 in which Faurndau is mentioned for the first time is kept in the St. Gallen Abbey Archives. There was the monastery of St. Maria, which was converted into a collegiate monastery before 1228. Before that, today's collegiate church Faurndau was built between 1200 and 1220 , which is one of the most important Romanesque church buildings in Swabia. Two years after the introduction of the Reformation in Württemberg in 1534, the Faurndauer Canons' Monastery was dissolved and the collegiate church converted into a Protestant parish church.

Evangelical parish

The first Protestant pastor can be proven in 1538. The Protestant parish of Faurndau belongs to the church district of Göppingen and had two parish posts from 1964 to 2019.

Catholic parish

After the Protestant duchy had become the mixed denominational kingdom of Württemberg in 1806, the initially few Faurndauer Catholics belonged to Rechberghausen until 1877 and to the Göppingen parish of St. Maria until after the Second World War. An emergency church was set up and used in a private estate and was consecrated as a church on January 8, 1948, the feast of the Holy Family. A new building, the Catholic parish church of the Holy Family , was built from 1960 to 1961 and consecrated in December 1961. In 1963, an independent Catholic parish was again established in Faurndau.

traffic

Rail transport

In Faurndau there is a stop on the Filstalbahn . Regional trains stop here every hour in the direction of Geislingen / Ulm and Plochingen / Stuttgart. When the train timetable changed on December 13, 2008, Faurndau became a scheduled regional express stop.

From 1912 to 1994 there was the Faurndau Nord station on the Hohenstaufenbahn , which ran between Göppingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd . However, passenger traffic was discontinued in 1984. The tracks were dismantled in 2005, but according to the regional traffic plan of the Stuttgart region, the route is to be kept free for rail traffic and is now used as a cycle path.

Road traffic

South of Faurndau, the B 10 leads past Stuttgart or Ulm (with two junctions). Since the junction of the B 10 at the vocational school center has been opened, the B 297 from Kirchheim (Teck) / Uhingen in the direction of Lorch no longer runs through the village, but bypasses it in the east.

Bike lanes

In the direction of Schwäbisch Gmünd, a well-developed cycle path runs along the route of the former Hohenstaufenbahn, which begins in Faurndau. The Alb-Neckar cycle path reaches Faurndau as a long-distance cycle path . It leads from Ulm to Heilbronn .

care

education

In Faurndau there are five kindergartens, a primary school, a Waldorf school and a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule. This was adjacent to an indoor swimming pool until the 1990s.

Others

There is a district office with a notary's office and the Faurndau volunteer fire department . Shops for daily needs are available, as are pharmacies and doctors. There will be a sour water well again in the future.

Attractions

• The collegiate church in its current, late Romanesque form was built from around 1200 to 1220 on the foundations of four previous buildings as a three-nave , flat-roofed pillar basilica . Both the east gable and the capitals inside are decorated with varied sculptural decorations . The oldest part is the rib-vaulted choir in the east with a main apse and two side apses, of which the southern one later had to give way to the late Gothic vestry annex. The originally planned two- tower , then one- tower westwork was initially completed without a tower. This was only built in 1341 and in the middle of the 15th century, the upper area received its present shape. At about the same time, a Gothic window was broken into on the south side of the choir. The main entrance to the west is a three-tiered column portal . Through this one enters the anteroom with its eight-part vault, the construction of which required knowledge of western French architecture from the late 12th century. Individual columns in the anteroom carry early Gothic calyx-bud capitals , which are among the earliest of this type. The early Gothic wall paintings in the chancel date from around 1300. The four evangelist symbols can be seen in the vaulted caps. Only remnants of Christ in the mandorla in the apse calotte are preserved. On the side wall surfaces, the life of Mary is told: in the north Joachim and Anna as well as the Annunciation at the approach of the apse, in the south there is Mary with the banner: ECCE ANCILLA DMI (see, I am the maid of the Lord), the three wise men and below it the coronation of Mary . The well-known architect Martin Elsaesser created a memorial shrine on the wall of the sacristy around 1920, the winged doors of which were designed by the artist Käte Schaller-Härlin with four paintings (Crucifixion, Descent from the Cross, Lamentation, Resurrection) . The middle choir window was decorated with stained glass by Wolf-Dieter Kohler in the course of the church renovation in 1957 : The Archangel Michael weighs the human souls who, awakened by the sound of the seven apocalyptic trumpets, rise from their graves to face God's judgment of the world . - Also in 1957 the bronze altar cross was created by Emil Jo Homolka (1925-2010) and the altar, pulpit and the lamb above the south portal by Ulrich Henn . The Fountain of Mercy in front of the Church (2006) also comes from the latter . - The church has been an outstanding sight on the Staufer road since 1977 . The 800th anniversary will be celebrated in 2020.

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  Faurndau Collegiate Church: east view

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  Main portal in the westwork

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  Romanesque font and Gothic wall paintings

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  Calyx-bud capitals of the west vault

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  Choir capital

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  Faurndau Collegiate Church, nave with a view of the choir

Old barn

• Old barn
• Old Town Hall
• Main building of the former Salamander shoe factory (today T-Systems )
• About one kilometer as the crow flies is Filseck Castle on a prominent hill on the southern slope edge of the Filstal ( Uhingen district ).

Sports

The most famous sports club in Faurndau is the FV Vorwärts Faurndau, founded in 1922 with the departments football (men and women), aerobics, women’s gymnastics and a leisure group. The footballers play in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2008/09.

The Faurndau tennis club was founded in 1972 and has registered several teams in association rounds.

The FrameBreakers Faurndau maintain a mountain bike route on the Kühberg.

The oldest club is the Faurndau 1883 gymnastics club , which offers a diverse sports program with 18 departments, including gymnastics, athletics, volleyball, wrestling and Nordic walking, and is the largest local sports club with around 900 members.

Established businesses

The most important companies are:

• Deutsche Telekom AG (T-Systems) - computer center
• Antriebssysteme Faurndau GmbH (electric motors)

Personalities

• Carl Amos (1814–1890), mayor of Faurndau for 45 years
• Arnold Dannenmann (1907–1993), Protestant theologian and founder of the CJD
• Andreas Uebele (* 1960), graphic designer, university lecturer in Düsseldorf

literature

• Hans Klumbach : Fragments of a Roman helmet from Faurndau (Kr. Göppingen). In: Find reports from Schwaben NF 14, 1957, pp. 107–112.
• Lutz Reichardt, place name book of the district of Göppingen . Publication of the regional studies in Baden-Württemberg B, 112. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1989, pp. 74ff.
• Rainer Schreg : Christianization in Filstal. In: Anton Hegele (Ed.): Geppo. Warrior, farmer, settlement founder? Stadtarchiv, Göppingen 2003. pp. 60–69. ISBN 3-933844-45-2 .
• Walter Ziegler : Faurndau 875–1975. Path and fate of a community. Municipal administration, Faurndau 1975.
• Reinhard Hootz (Hrsg.): Picture manual of the art monuments: Baden-Württemberg . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1977, p. 385, ISBN 3-422-00350-9 .
• Walter Ziegler: Stiftskirche Faurndau (= Little Art Guide No. 1105). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1990.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ R. Schreg: Faurndau - before 875. Archaeology August 11, 2015 based on a lecture on the 1125th anniversary celebration in 2000: Lecture on the early history of Faurndau on the occasion of the 1125th anniversary celebration , 2000
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Walter Ziegler (Ed.): Staufer sites in the Stauferland . Stuttgart / Aalen 1977, ISBN 978-3-8062-0160-4 , No. 6.
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 462 .
4. ↑ Eberhard Gönner, Heinz Baruda: "Wappenbuch des Landkreises Göppingen" , published by the Landkreis Göppingen and the Stuttgart Archives, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966, p.
5. ↑ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Faurndau
6. ↑ Church guide on the congregation website see [1] - accessed on April 10, 2020
7. ↑ Straße der Staufer on stauferstelen.de. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
8. ↑ Event planning see [2] - accessed on April 10, 2020

Web links

Commons : Faurndau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Municipality of Faurndau in the description of the Oberamt Göppingen from 1844  - sources and full texts

• Information about Faurndau on the website of the city of Göppingen
• History of Faurndau on the website of the shark school

Faurndau of Castle Filseck seen from