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City of Balingen
Former municipality coat of arms of Frommern
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 550 m above sea level NN
Residents : 4425  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 72336
Area code : 07433

Frommern is the second largest district of Balingen in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg . It lies at the foot of the Swabian Alb .

geography

Frommern is located around four kilometers southeast of Balingen in the Eyach Valley . The places Weilstetten, Balingen, Stockenhausen and Heselwangen are in close proximity to Frommern.

history

Frommern was first mentioned in 793 as Frumara in a document from the St. Gallen monastery . In the 9th century, the district around the Frohnhof and the St. Gallus Church belonged to the St. Gallen monastery. The second district, separated by a village stream (Bitzergraben), belonged to the Scherragrafschaft . However, since the 13th century at the latest, the manor had largely belonged to the Schalksburg rule and was therefore subject to the Counts of Zollern. On November 3, 1403, Frommern came to Württemberg with the sale of the Schalksburg estate by Count Friedrich V, known as Mülli .

Frommern was not affected by acts of war in the first half of the Thirty Years' War . But it suffered from the high tax burden and had to feed troops passing through. The cherry war also had no direct impact on the place. However, the defeat of the Swedes in September 1634 in the Battle of Nördlingen was devastating . Frommern was then at the mercy of the wandering soldiers, was looted and half of it was devastated. An extreme famine followed and in the autumn of 1635 the plague broke out. In Frommern the population loss was particularly large at 60 to 70%. The place was when the Kingdom of Württemberg was founded in the Oberamt Balingen .

Friedrich Erhard bought the former oil mill in 1889 and converted it into Frommern's first furniture factory. The mill owner Konrad Stotz started generating electricity in 1907 with the help of the water power of the Eyach and an additional steam engine. The surrounding towns were also connected to the power grid. With the availability of electricity, the furniture factories Gottlieb Münze, Jakob Münze and the Maier and Schwegler brothers were founded immediately before the First World War.

Frommern came to the Balingen district in 1934 and to the Balingen district in 1938 .

The Frommern concentration camp existed from 1944 to 1945 in order to extract fuel from oil shale as part of the desert company .

Incorporations

  • In 1937 Dürrwangen was incorporated into Frommern.
  • On January 1, 1971, the previously independent parish of Stockenhausen came to Frommern.
  • On January 1, 1975, Frommern, Weilstetten and Balingen unite to form the large district town of Balingen.

Population development

year Residents
1525 ~ 120
1545 ~ 188
1605 372
1660 232
1706 414
1744 548
1806 690
year Residents
1824 795
1843 962
1867 741
1885 803
1900 755
1910 930
1919 965
year Residents
1925 1046
1934 1263
1939 2078
1961 2889
1970 3493
2008 4431
2010 4425

religion

Protestant church
  • Evangelical parish
  • Catholic parish of St. Paul
  • Methodist Church

politics

Mayor

  • Hans Uhl (1975-2017)
  • Stephan Reuß (since 2017)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Frommern shows under a golden shield head , a lying black deer pole , in black a bear .

Culture and sights

See also: List of cultural monuments in Frommern

Buildings

  • The Protestant St. Gallus Church is partly early Gothic. The tower probably dates from the 17th century.
  • The Catholic Church of St. Paul , built in 1965, was the victim of a series of arson attacks. It burned down completely on the night of March 13, 2011. There was a million damage.
  • Church of Peace of the United Methodist Church

Sports

  • DFB base
  • TSV Frommern

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In 1878 the Frommern train station was opened. It is located on the Zollernalbbahn , which runs from Tübingen via Balingen, Ebingen to Sigmaringen . A new crossing station is planned to be built in Frommern in Germany.

Frommern is in the immediate vicinity of the federal highway 463 Balingen-Sigmaringen.

Established businesses

  • Kern & Sohn GmbH, the oldest precision balance factory in Europe

education

  • Elementary and secondary school with Werkrealschule Frommern
  • Realschule Frommern
  • Free Waldorf School Balingen

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Frommern  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 524 .
  2. ^ 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. 540 .
  3. ^ Arson. Millions in damage: Church burns down completely . In: Südkurier of March 14, 2011
  4. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Ed.): Target timetable Deutschlandtakt . Presentation of selected results Third expert draft June 2020 Actors conference July 15, 2020. Berlin 2020.