Forchheim (Rheinstetten)

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Forchheim
City of Rheinstetten
Forchheim's former municipal coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 116 m above sea level NN
Area : 16.81 km²
Residents : 9532  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 567 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 76287
Area code : 0721
In the background Rheinstetten-Forchheim and partly -Mörsch, in the foreground the Forchheim district Silberstreifen, in between the Epplesee

Forchheim is a district of Rheinstetten near Karlsruhe with around 9500 inhabitants.

history

Forchheim is located on a former Roman military road , so it is probably much older than the first known documentary mention from 1086 says.

In it, Emperor Heinrich V gave the county “Vorechheim” to the Bishop of Speyer in a document . So the village must have already existed then.

The place name Forchheim - Heim unter den Föhren - as well as various sources indicate a settlement in the 6th century by the Franks . This is confirmed by grave finds with a silver coin minted in Lombardy between 527 and 565 .

In 1219 Margrave Hermann V. von Baden Forchheim was given a fiefdom.

Forchheim was a farming community. Only two craftsmen - bricklayer and blacksmith - are known from the time of the Thirty Years' War . That later changed, but agriculture continued to be important.

In 1927 the tobacco research institute was founded with Paul Koenig as its first director (today a branch of the Agricultural Technology Center Augustenberg ), and in 1932 the “State Fattening Testing Institute”.

Forchheim experienced an enormous upswing after the Second World War , especially as a residential community. Since then, the number of inhabitants has almost tripled to over 9,000.

Forchheim was the occasion of municipal reform on 1 January 1975 Mörsch and Neuburgweier to the municipality Rheinstetten summarizes the 2000 town rights got.

City structure

In addition to the main town, Forchheim also includes the district of Silberstreifen , which is located between Bundesstraße 36 and Ettlingen .

traffic

Public transport

At Forchheim train station (near Karlsruhe) the lines S 7 (Karlsruhe Tullastraße– Achern ) and S 8 (Karlsruhe Tullastraße– Eutingen im Gäu / Herrenberg ) of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn stop every hour, which in the section Karlsruhe Tullastraße– Rastatt in a shared 20- / Run every 40 minutes.

The urban railway line S 2, which largely follows the course of the former Karlsruhe local railway and has the character of an intercity tram , crosses the district in the west and continues to Mörsch .

Personalities

Honorary citizens of Forchheim are:

  • 1922: Karl Schlageter, main teacher and headmaster in Forchheim 1882–1922
  • 1951, February 22nd: Paul König, head of the Tobacco Research Institute
  • 1969: Johann Rupprecht, Mayor of Forchheim 1945–1946 and 1948–1961

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred G. Raupp: The development of tobacco cultivation in Germany with special consideration of the development in the community of Staffort ; Engineering school Nürtingen 1962; 2nd expanded edition, Lörrach 2012
  2. ^ Paul Schweiger: Rauchzeichen: Chronicle of tobacco research in Forchheim from 1927 to 2006 Karlsruhe: Schweiger, 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-032355-3
  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. 482 .
  4. ↑ Current departure plan for Forchheim train station (near Karlsruhe)
  5. ↑ http://www.rheinstetten.de/Kultur-und-Tourismus/Stadtportrait-und-Geschichte/Ehrenbuerger/c516.html