Fichtenau

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Fichtenau
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Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′  N , 10 ° 13 ′  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Schwäbisch Hall
Height : 528 m above sea level NHN
Area : 31.28 km 2
Residents: 4591 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 147 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 74579
Area code : 07962
License plate : SHA, BK , CR
Community key : 08 1 27 102
LOCODE : DE FIH
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 2
74579 Fichtenau
Website : www.fichtenau.de
Mayoress : Anja Schmidt-Wagemann
Location of the municipality of Fichtenau in the district of Schwäbisch Hall
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Fichtenau is a municipality in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in the Franconian north-east of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

The state-recognized resort of Fichtenau is located in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg, right on the border with Bavaria , and about 12 km to 16 km (depending on the suburb) from the Bavarian town of Dinkelsbühl and the medium- sized center Crailsheim .

The community has a share in the natural areas of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains , the Middle Franconian Basin and the Franconian Heights . The municipality is divided into two halves by the main European watershed between the North Sea and the Black Sea, which runs from north to south ; the western part drains over the Rechenberger Rot and the Reiglersbach to Jagst , Neckar and then the Rhine , the eastern part mainly over the Rotach and then the Wörnitz to the Danube . The villages of Matzenbach and Wildenstein are exactly on the watershed.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring cities and communities of Fichtenau are ( clockwise , starting in the west): Stimpfach , Crailsheim and Kreßberg (all three districts of Schwäbisch Hall), Dinkelsbühl ( district of Ansbach , Bavaria), Wört , Ellenberg and Jagstzell (all three of the Ostalb district ).

Community structure

Church in Wildenstein
Town house in Wildenstein
View of the hamlet of Fichtenhof

Overview

The municipality of Fichtenau, consisting of the former municipalities of Lautenbach , Matzenbach , Unterdeufstetten and Wildenstein , includes 25 villages, hamlets, farms and houses as well as some desert areas . After the municipality of Fichtenau did not make use of the possibility of introducing the local constitution, the former municipalities no longer have any political significance. However, the land registers of the former municipalities were continued, so that the plots of the municipality are still grouped into four districts based on these former municipalities.

The Lautenbach village, the hamlets Bernhardsweiler , Buckenweiler, Neustädtlein and Rötlein and the residential areas Felsenmühle, Hammermühle, Ölmühle and Vorstadt are located in the Lautenbach district.

The Matzenbach district includes the village of Matzenbach, the hamlets of Fichtenhof, Hahnenberg and Krettenbach, the Melbersmühle and Neuhaus residential areas and the abandoned village of Abtsbach.

The Unterdeufstetten district includes the village of Unterdeufstetten, the hamlet of Oberdeufstetten and the Birkenhof residential area, as well as the abandoned village of Zum alten Hof.

The village of Wildenstein, the hamlets of Großenhub , Gunzach and Wäldershub , the residential areas of Spitzenmühle, Völkermühle and Zankhof are in the Wildenstein district.

The community is today due to the introduced in Fichtenau loggerhead part of local election divided into the following seven residential districts: Lautenbach / Buck Weiler / Rötlein , Neustädtlein / Bernhard Weiler , Matzenbach , Krettenbach / Fichtenhof , Unterdeufstetten / Oberdeufstetten , Wildenstein / Gunzach and Wäldershub / Großenhub .

Wildenstein

Wildenstein
 In the Wildenstein district, the municipal administration is located in the town hall built in the late 1970s. A well-known Easter egg market takes place there every year on the weekend before Easter . In addition to the town hall, there is also a community kindergarten and a renovated castle in Wildenstein . Hasso von Haldenwang describes in his book Die Jenischen , memories of the Wildenstein peddlers the traditions, the trade and the everyday life of the Wildenstein peddlers .

Unterdeufstetten

Unterdeufstetten
 In the Unterdeufstetten district there is a primary school with around 350 pupils, a special school for pupils with learning disabilities and a gym with a small indoor pool. In addition, there is another church kindergarten and a children's home in this district , which was originally run by the Catholic Church , but has been run by a foundation since 2001. There is also a castle in Unterdeufstetten, but it has not yet been renovated. The former synagogue was converted into a residential building.

The craftsman-poet Johannes Lämmerer and the hymn poet Christoph Karl Ludwig von Pfeil (1712–1784) lived in Unterdeufstetten . The latter is buried in the castle chapel there.

Matzenbach

Matzenbach
 In the Matzenbach district there is also a church kindergarten and a large sports facility that was created as part of the incorporation. This stadium , as it is called in the municipality, consists of a gymnasium, a large soccer field and a medium soccer field, a hard rubber running track, a hard rubber field and a sand pit for long jump. A tennis court with two courts, a squash court and a mini golf course are adjacent to the stadium.

Wäldershub

In the district of Wäldershub there is still the former moated castle Wäldershub from the mid-16th century, which is now divided between several families. A former school building now serves as a village community and youth room. There is also a children's playground on the site of the former school building. A soccer field and a volleyball court are located on a newly created sports area.

Lautenbach

Lautenbach
 In the Lautenbach district there is a pond (Storchenweiher) where a lake festival takes place every year on the 1st weekend in July . This pond has been developed as a bathing water. In June 2011, at the instigation of the Hall health department, the municipal administration had to put signs with the warning "No bathing water!", "Bathing is not recommended!" attach. The district also includes the village of Neustädtlein, which is known for its direct location on the motorway (A 7).

Large stroke

In Großenhub there is a small church, which was restored in 2002, with an adjoining cemetery. There is also an old schoolhouse that is now used as a community center.

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

Fichtenau was created in the course of the administrative reform in Baden-Württemberg on January 1, 1973 through the merger of the four previously independent communities Lautenbach, Matzenbach, Unterdeufstetten and Wildenstein.

The area of ​​the municipality of Fichtenau is an old border area. Already in Roman times it was a wooded borderland only a few kilometers north of the Roman border wall, the Limes . After the Migration Period, the borders of Riesgau , which belongs to the Duchy of Swabia, and of the Maulachgau , which belongs to the Duchy of Franconia, ran through the municipality. At the same time, the borders of the dioceses of Würzburg and Augsburg ran .

In the Middle Ages, the manors Wäldershub, Wildenstein, Matzenbach, Unterdeufstetten, Lautenbach and Bernhardsweiler developed in this border region, but the Margraviate of Ansbach and, in some cases, the Prince Provost of Ellwangen tried to exert their influence on them. Wäldershub was sold to Ansbach as early as 1700, Lautenbach in 1730. After the last Ansbach margrave abdicated in 1791, Prussia , succeeding the margrave, imposed its suzerainty on the other manors.

With the Margraviate of Ansbach, the municipality became Bavarian in 1806 and, after the border adjustment treaty between Bavaria and Württemberg, became Württemberg in 1810. Wuerttemberg was the first to set up the “mayor's shops” Wildenstein, Lautenbach, Matzenbach and Unterdeufstetten, so that at that time all other larger towns lost their communal independence. Around 1850 there were still plans to merge the communities of Unterdeufstetten and Matzenbach and to connect the Matzenbach sub-communities Gunzach to Wildenstein and Krettenbach and Fichtenhof to Rechenberg. Bernhardsweiler also wanted to break away from the Lautenbach community together with Rötlein and Neustädtlein and form their own community. Nothing came of these plans, however, so that the current state of affairs did not result until 1973 through the municipal reform.

The border location is still made clear today by the fact that a dialect border also runs through Fichtenau. In the places Matzenbach and Unterdeufstetten mainly Swabian dialect with Franconian sprinkles is spoken, in all other places Hohenlohe-Franconian dialect.

The manor owners in Lautenbach and Wildenstein, but above all from Matzenbach and Unterdeufstetten, settled traveling people, the so-called Yeniche , on their estates after the Thirty Years' War . These have a long tradition of producing and selling goods for the peddler trade in homework or in factories.

religion

In Fichtenau there are the Protestant parishes of Bernhardsweiler, Unterdeufstetten and Wildenstein and the Roman Catholic parishes of Großenhub, Matzenbach and Unterdeufstetten.

politics

mayor

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  • the mayors of the "old" communities:
    • Karl Lindner - Wildenstein community until March 31, 1966; from April 1, 1966 to December 31, 1972: Hilmar Brattke
    • Karl Ohr - Lautenbach community
    • Ernst Meyer - Matzenbach community
    • Xaver Blank - Unterdeufstetten municipality
  • Until 2005: Dieter Wolf
  • 2005–2015: Martin Piott (elected Mayor of Bretzfeld on March 8, 2015)
  • since August 1, 2015: Anja Schmidt-Wagemann: Ms. Schmidt-Wagemann was elected in June 2015 in the first ballot with 62.8% of the vote.

Municipal council

The local council in Fichtenau has 14 members. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairwoman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local election on May 29, 2019 led to the following final result. The turnout was 57.6% (2014: 51.8%).

Political party be right Seats
Free electoral association 50.2% 7th
Fichtenau citizen list 49.8% 7th
Fichtenau coat of arms

coat of arms

Blazon: A green spruce growing in gold from a lowered green corrugated shield base, top right a black buzzard head reinforced with red.

Community partnerships

Fichtenau maintains a partnership with the Saxon community of Bad Schandau .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Fichtenau is connected to the national road network with the Dinkelsbühl / Fichtenau junction (112) of the federal motorway 7 ( Flensburg - Füssen ).

education

In the school center there is the Christoph von Pfeil School, a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule and the Oberlin School, a special needs school . There is a Roman Catholic kindergarten in Matzenbach and Unterdeufstetten . The kindergarten in Wildenstein is run by the Fichtenau community itself.

Social

The St. Raphael children's home offers, among other things, supervised apartments for young people.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Wildenstein Castle in the town district dates back to the 16th century. In the community center , the former school from 1841, is next to the local library and the community hall, which for events and courses for the adult education center is used.

Memorials

In the Lautenbach district at the exit towards Wildenstein , a stone cross commemorates the farmer Friedrich Späth, who was murdered by SS men here in April 1945 .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Ernst Otto von Arlt (1818–1892), born in Matzenbach, Prussian major general
  • Paul Lang (1846–1898), born in Wildenstein, pastor and writer
  • Karl Walter (1858–1930), district judge, member of the state parliament ( ZENTRUM ), president of the Württemberg state parliament; was born in the Unterdeufstetten district
  • Wilhelm August Dollinger (1873–1959), member of the Hessian state parliament (DVP)
  • Alma Hagenbucher (1922–2012), entrepreneur; was born in the Lautenbach district

Personalities associated with the community

  • Friedrich von Praun (born July 21, 1888 in Hersbruck; † April 19, 1944 in Nazi captivity), church lawyer, director of the Ansbach Evangelical Church Office since 1936, was buried in the cemetery in Unterdeufstetten, his wife's home village.

literature

Web links

Commons : Fichtenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Lautenbach district in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg . State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009.
  3. ↑ § 67 Baden-Württemberg municipal code. ( dejure.org ).
  4. ↑ § 1 of the ordinance of the Ministry of Justice for the implementation of the state law on voluntary jurisdiction in the field of land registry (GBVO) of May 21, 1975. ( wedebruch.de ).
  5. ↑ a b The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 457-462.
  6. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Fichtenau from January 27, 2003 ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fichtenau.de
  7. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Fichtenau.
  8. ^ 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. 448 .
  9. ↑ swp.de
  10. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 34.