Güglingen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '  N , 9 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Heilbronn
Local government association:	Upper Zabergäu
Height :	206 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.27 km 2
Residents:	6353 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	390 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74363
Area code :	07135
License plate :	HN
Community key :	08 1 25 038
City structure:	Core city and 2 districts
City administration address :	Marktstrasse 19–21 74363 Güglingen
Website :	www.gueglingen.de
Mayor :	Ulrich Heckmann
Location of the city of Güglingen in the Heilbronn district

Güglingen is a town in the western part of the Heilbronn district . It belongs to the Heilbronn-Franconia region (until May 20, 2003 Franconia region ) and the peripheral zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Güglingen is located in the Zaber Valley in the Zabergäu in the southwestern district of Heilbronn, on the northern slope of the valley in the middle of vineyards.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring towns and communities Güglingen are ( clockwise , starting in the west): Pfaffenhofen , Eppingen , Brackenheim , Cleebronn (all district Heilbronn) and Sachsenheim ( district Ludwigsburg ). Together with Pfaffenhofen and Zaberfeld , Güglingen forms the municipal administration association “Oberes Zabergäu” based in Güglingen.

City structure

Güglingen consists of the core town and the districts of Eibensbach and Frauenzimmern . The Sägmühle and Sophienhof farms also belong to Güglingen . Lost places that no longer exist today are the Heugelinsmühle in Güglingen and the Blankenhorn castle ruins in Eibensbach .

The city of Güglingen has 6,375 inhabitants, of which 4,460 live in the Güglingen district, 929 in the Eibensbach district and 986 in the Frauenzimmern district (as of 2017).

history

Güglingen from the east, with G. Ebner, around 1820

Güglingen

The Güglingen district was already settled in the Neolithic and during the times of the Celts and Romans . From 1999 to 2005, extensive excavations by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office in Güglingen uncovered a Roman settlement ( vicus ) that was inhabited from around AD 120 to 260 and made up of over 30 strip houses with shops and living quarters, a public bathhouse , and a street sanctuary and two Mithraea , sanctuaries of the Mithras cult , discovered in 2002 . It is believed that the settlement was 10 hectares in size.

Güglingen was probably founded in the 4th or 5th century at the time of the Alemannic conquest. During the time of the tribal duchies Güglingen was in the Duchy of Franconia .

In 1188 an allodium in Gugelingen (German: Eigengut in Güglingen) is mentioned in a contract between Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and King Alfons VIII of Castile , in which the marriage between Friedrich's son Konrad and Alfons daughter Berengaria was agreed. It was probably a farm with associated land. It was part of the bride's morning gift along with 29 other Staufer goods . However, this marriage was never put into practice.

The place belonged to the Lords of Neuffen in the 13th century and received city ​​rights in 1295 at the latest . In 1340 the town became part of Württemberg after several changes of ownership . In 1295 Count Rudolf von Neuffen donated the local church patronage to the Holy Sepulcher Monastery in Speyer , which was ceded to Württemberg in the course of the Reformation in 1541. During the Peasants' War in 1525, Güglingen was the center of the uproar in Zabergäu. Until 1808 the city was the seat of the office of the same name . During the implementation of the new administrative structure in the Kingdom of Württemberg , its own district was dissolved and Güglingen was assigned to the Brackenheim District Office. The old city gates and towers were demolished. Several fires around 1850 caused severe damage. During the administrative reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era , Güglingen came to the Heilbronn district in 1938. In 1939 1206 inhabitants were counted, at the end of 1945 there were 1533. After the Second World War , Güglingen became part of the American occupation zone and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which became part of the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. The city, which had been dominated by agriculture until then, turned into a commercial and industrial location in the post-war years.

View of Güglingen

Eibensbach

The emergence of the district Eibensbach is closely connected to the Blankenhorn Castle , a Hohenstaufen castle built around 1220/1235 south of the town , which fell into disrepair in the 15th century and to which the town originally belonged. Castle and village came to Württemberg in the 14th century and were assigned to the Güglingen office until 1808. After its dissolution, the place was subordinated to the Oberamt Brackenheim. On January 1, 1975, Eibensbach and Güglingen were combined to form the new town of Güglingen.

Women

The Frauenzimmern district was first mentioned around the year 800. The place name Frauen -zimmer goes back to a nunnery that existed there from 1245 to 1442. In the course of the 14th century, Frauenzimmern came to Württemberg and was also assigned to the Güglingen office until 1808, then to the Brackenheim regional office. On July 1, 1971, the place was incorporated into Güglingen.

Religions

In Güglingen, Frauenzimmern and Eibensbach there is one Protestant parish each, all of which belong to the Brackenheim parish. The Catholic parish Hl. Dreifaltigkeit Güglingen is responsible for Güglingen and its districts as well as for the communities Cleebronn, Pfaffenhofen and Zaberfeld including their districts. The Methodist Church , the New Apostolic Church and the Congregation of God are also located in Güglingen . There is also a prayer room of the Islamic-Turkish cultural association in Güglingen.

politics

Municipal council

Town hall of Güglingen

The council Güglingens has after the local elections on 25 May 2014 21 seats and is composed as follows:

• Free Independent Voter Association (FUW) 46.9% - 10 seats
• Citizens Union (BU) 31.5% - 7 seats
• New list (NL) 21.6% - 4 seats

Another member of the council and its chairman is the mayor.

mayor

The mayor is directly elected for eight years . Klaus Dieterich was in office from 1993 to 2017, who was re-elected in 2001 and 2009. Ulrich Heckmann followed in 2017.

badges and flags

Güglingen's coat of arms

The blazon of the Güglingen coat of arms reads: A silver Gugel in red . The city colors are white-blue.

The Gugel as a talking heraldic figure can be seen on all Güglingen's seals since 1359, as well as on the stone coat of arms from 1731 at Güglinger Marktbrunnen and as a mark in the Kieser's forest camp book from 1684. The colors of the coat of arms have remained essentially unchanged since 1575; only in the period before 1933, the coat of arms was a time blue-silver tinged . The flag colors white-blue, which were retained even after the reintroduction of the original tinging of the coat of arms, presumably originated from this tinging. The new town of Güglingen, which emerged from the union with Eibensbach and Frauenzimmern in 1975, has adopted the coat of arms and flag; both were awarded to the city on March 11, 1976 by the district office of Heilbronn.

Town twinning

On April 28, 2007 a partnership was entered into with Auneau in France ( Département Eure-et-Loir ). The partnership certificate was countersigned on June 23, 2007 in Auneau. Another partnership with Dorking in England (county of Surrey ) was concluded on July 21, 2007 in Güglingen. During the return visit to Dorking on September 22, 2007, the partnership certificate was signed.

Culture and sights

Buildings

City Church of St. Mauritius

• The Mauritius Church in Güglingen was first mentioned in 1241, extensively renovated in the 18th century, burned down in the town fire in 1849 and was rebuilt in 1850. The east tower is of late Gothic origin, the stair tower comes from the Renaissance. The church was modernized around 1970 by the Güglingen architect Heinz Rall , who, together with his wife Ursula Stock, shaped the entire image of the center of Güglingen through modernizations and objects of art. The Güglinger palm cloth has been hung in the church since 1988 and consists of 40 partial images by various artists. The rectory near the church was built around 1850.
• The old office building , a building dated 1592 with ornamental framework , now serves as the town hall. The old town hall from 1850, which was built next to the church after the town fire , has housed the Roman Museum since 2008.
• The German Court was established by Duke Ludwig von Württemberg around 1570. The Herzogskelter with band house and the tithe barn are still preserved today. The buildings were extensively renovated around 1980. Today the Herzogskelter houses a hotel, the Zehntscheuer a bank. Various casts of Roman stone monuments are embedded in the masonry of the German Court .
• The stone house was mentioned as early as 1349, was an aristocratic seat, then a bailiwick, 1444 to 1474 monastery care yard and in 1571 the house of the "helper", the town's second pastor, and is therefore also called the helper's house . The building's bay window dates from 1581.
• The market fountain was built in 1568 and renewed in 1787.
• The St. Leonhard chapel near the cemetery was mentioned in 1443 and renewed in 1579. Next to the chapel in the entrance area of ​​the cemetery there is a war memorial by Albert Volk , consecrated in 1923 , which was expanded in 1961 to include the names of those killed in World War II.
• Above the district of Eibensbach, at an altitude of 390 m on the summit of the Blankenhorn, is the ruin of the Staufer Blankenhorn Castle from the 13th century. There is also a historical church in each of the Güglingen districts.
• On April 1, 2017, a Staufer stele was erected in Marktstrasse next to the Oehler bakery , which among other things commemorates the first mention in 1188 in a contract between Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and King Alfons VIII of Castile .

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  Herzogskelter and Bandhaus

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  Tithe shy

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  Stone house

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  Market fountain

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  Old Town Hall

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  Rectory

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  St. Leonhard Chapel

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  Blankenhorn castle ruins

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  Staufer column (2017)

Art in public space

In Güglingen there are over 50 sculptures and other art objects in public spaces . The wine fountain in the Deutsches Hof and the sculpture Four Seasons on the market square were designed by Ursula Stock (* 1937). Also in the Deutsches Hof are the Water Animals Fountain (1988) by Wolfgang Knorr , the Güglinger Bacchus (1985) by Jürgen Goertz and the Emblems (1979) by Lee Babel . The statue Der Wächter (1980) by Richard Heß and the sculpture Güglinger Sphinx (1983) by Gunther Stilling are placed in front of the tithe barn . In addition, the 9th degree of longitude , which runs exactly there, is symbolized by a steel band embedded in the floor. Other sculptures in Güglingen are by Horst Antes , Jörg Failmezger , Klaus Hennig , Guido Messer , Ottmar Mohring , Ralph Nieling , Joachim Schmettau , Wolfgang Thiel and others.

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  Four Seasons

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  Wine fountain

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  Aquatic animals

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  Güglinger Bacchus

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  The guard

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  Güglinger Sphinx

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  9. Longitude

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  Sculpture at the town hall

Museums

In order to be able to adequately show the finds made during the excavations of the Roman vicus in Güglingen from 1999 to 2005, the old town hall was converted into a Roman museum. April 2008 opened. On three floors, the presentation of the Güglinger finds in connection with reconstructions, models and accessible installations enables a comprehensive picture of the Güglingen Roman settlement and its surroundings. In addition to the permanent exhibition, special exhibitions that change every year are planned and there are areas with tasks specially designed for school classes.

In the Güglingen open-air museum outside the town center, remains of the Roman buildings can be seen at the original location .

music

The Musikverein Güglingen, the fanfare parade of the sports shooting club Güglingen and the Layher Eibensbach factory band maintain folk music. There are active choral societies in all three parts of the city. The Vollmer madrigal choir is based in Güglingen. The Zabergäu-Sängerbund (umbrella organization of the choral societies in Zabergäu and Leintal) has set up its office with a sheet music and sound archive in Güglingen town hall.

sport and freetime

Güglingen has a heated outdoor pool.

A total of 53 clubs are active in Güglingen and its two districts and offer almost all possibilities for meaningful leisure activities. In Güglingen, the An der Weinsteige stadium (inaugurated in 1987) with six circular tracks is available for local and regional sports. More sports fields in all parts of the city. The Güglingen riding club has its domicile in women's rooms at the Faller riding stables (indoor riding arena, tournament grounds for show jumping and dressage riding). The Güglingen riding club has a riding hall and tournament grounds at the Sägmühle in Güglingen. The Güglingen rifle club has set up its shooting range (small bore, air rifle) on the L 1110 on the Heuchelberg. Club homes (some with professional catering) are run by TSV Güglingen, SV Frauenzimmern, GSV Eibensbach, small animal breeding club Güglingen and the Güglingen riding club.

tourism

Güglingen, with its Eibensbach district in the south, is directly adjacent to the densely wooded Stromberg in the Stromberg-Heuchelberg Nature Park . The city of Güglingen is a member of the tourism communities Neckar-Zaber-Tourismus , Heilbronner Land and Kraichgau-Stromberg .

The Öko-Regio-Tour Zabergäu offers various cycling and hiking trails in the Güglingen district. In Güglingen there is a natural and orchard nature trail with three routes signposted. A hiking trail around Eibensbach with three different routes is signposted.

Regular events

The cultural office of the city of Güglingen offers two series of events. In the Herzogskelter the annual season from September to March is contested with an event mix of folk entertainment, theater and classical concerts. At the Kulturflirt in Ratshöfle there are cabaret events in the foyer of the town hall (mainly Swabian cabaret). Once a month, the mobile cinema is a guest in the Herzogskelter hall with current films.

Every year on Whitsun (Saturday to Monday) the Güglinger Maienfest takes place, a folk festival with a marquee and amusement park on the Weinsteige fairground . A pageant is held on Whit Monday.

On the weekend before the summer vacation in Baden-Württemberg, the Weinbrunnenfest is held in the Deutsches Hof in Güglingen . The organizer community is made up of local winegrowers' cooperatives, restaurateurs and associations.

On the last weekend in August the Backhausfest is organized by the singing and sports club Eibensbach in the Eibensbach district . On the first weekend in September, the onion cake and fire brigade festival is celebrated in women's rooms .

On the second weekend in September, the Cleebronn-Güglingen wine growers hold their wine festival in the winery near Frauenzimmern. All wines and sparkling wines from our own production can be tasted from Saturday to Monday.

economy

Railway station building in Güglingen (Nov. 2006)

traffic

Güglingen is located at the intersection of Landesstraße 1103 (Heilbronner Straße / Marktstraße / Maulbronner Straße) and Landesstraße 1110, which leads in the south towards Vaihingen an der Enz (Eibensbacher Straße) and in the north towards Eppingen (Kleingartacher Straße). Local public transport in the HNV transport association is served by buses from Rexer and its contractors Ernesti and Gross.

The Zabergäubahn, which opened in 1896, with its Frauenzimmern-Cleebronn, Güglingen and Güglingen-Eibensbach stations, was closed for passenger traffic in 1986 and freight traffic in 1995. The train touches the built-up area in the south of the core city. The Frauenzimmern-Cleebronner station building was a unit station of type IIa, Güglinger is of type IIIa. The Güglingen station is available from Faller as an H0 model and an N model .

Established businesses

The headquarters of one of the world's largest scaffolding manufacturers, Wilhelm Layher GmbH & Co. KG with over 700 employees, is located in the Eibensbach district .

A major employer in Güglingen is the Weber Hydraulik company (manufacture of hydraulic cylinders for machines and vehicles) with its German parent plant and an Austrian branch. Over 500 people are employed at the main plant in Güglingen.

The main plant of the globally operating Afriso-Euro-Index GmbH , one of the leading German manufacturers of measuring, control and monitoring devices for building services, industry and environmental protection is also located in the core town of Güglingen . AFRISO was founded in 1869 and is now represented in more than 30 countries. AFRISO operates four production sites in Germany with 450 employees.

ROTEX Heating Systems GmbH, located in Frauenzimmer, is a manufacturer of complete heating systems and products made of technical plastic. ROTEX employs around 380 people.

media

The daily newspaper Heilbronner Voice reports on the events in Güglingen in its issue W, Landkreis West. The city of Güglingen, together with the municipality of Pfaffenhofen, also publishes a weekly gazette (Rundschau Mittleres Zabergäu) .

Public facilities

Güglingen is the seat of a notary's office . An office of the police station Lauffen / N. is also in place.

education

The elementary, secondary and technical secondary school Katharina-Kepler-Schule is attended by approximately 750 pupils, about half each of the primary and secondary school students. The Haupt- und Werkrealschule is set up as a neighborhood school for girls and boys from Güglingen, Pfaffenhofen and Zaberfeld. Almost 1000 students attend the Güglingen secondary school. In addition, the Unterland Adult Education Center in Güglingen maintains the Upper Zabergäu branch .

Güglinger Mediothek

The Güglinger Mediothek, opened in 1998, provides around 21,500 media (as of 2017) .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Otto Linck (1892–1985), honorary citizenship 1952
• Hermann Krauss (1904–2003), honorary citizenship 1970
• Gerhard Aßfahl (1904–2007), honorary citizenship 1989

sons and daughters of the town

• Paul Walther von Guglingen (* around 1422), Franciscan, Palestine pilgrim and author of a Latin-Arabic vocabulary
• Joseph Osiander (1589–1635), theologian
• Sixt Karl von Kapff (1805–1879), Protestant theologian
• Paul Klunzinger (1828–1919), railway and hydraulic engineer
• Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (1834–1914), tropical doctor and zoologist
• Karl Heim (1874–1958), theologian, born in Frauenzimmern

Individual evidence

Güglingen (from the White Quarry)

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Source for the urban structure section:
   Das Land 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. 81-84
3. ↑ Source: Population figures 2018 , accessed on June 28, 2020
4. ↑ Source on Güglingen's prehistory and early history: From excavations to the Roman Museum on www.stimme.de, accessed June 28, 2020.
5. ↑ Klaus Kortüm, Andrea Neth: The Roman vicus near Güglingen. Discoveries in the archive complement the current excavations. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 35th year 2006, issue 2, pp. 69–77 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) 
6. ^ Peter Koblank: Treaty of Seligenstadt 1188 on stauferstelen.net. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
7. ↑ Regest of the deed of gift
8. ^ Regest of the sales deed
9. ↑ Communications from the Württ. And Bad. State Statistical Office No. 1: Results of the population census on December 31, 1945 in Northern Württemberg
10. ^ 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. 465 .
11. ^ 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. 450 .
12. ↑ Thomas Dorn: Klaus Dieterich is no longer running . Stimme.de , September 14, 2016
13. ↑ Thomas Dorn: Güglingen's new mayor in office . Stimme.de , May 6, 2017
14. ^ Sources for the section coat of arms and flag:
    Heinz Bardua: The district and community coat of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 73
    Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 90
15. ↑ Norbert Jung: 1914 - Albert Volk - Kriegerdenkmale - 2014 , Heilbronn 2014, ISBN 978-3-934096-39-4 , pp. 18-19.
16. ↑ Güglingen 2017 on stauferstelen.net, accessed on April 7, 2017
17. ↑ The Romans on the doorstep. April 2018, accessed June 28, 2020 . 
18. ↑ New operator for bus routes in Zabergäu . Press release from the district of Heilbronn, June 22, 2018.
19. ^ Rainer Stein: The Württemberg standard station on branch lines . In: Eisenbahn-Journal Württemberg-Report . tape 1 , no. V / 96 . Merker, Fürstenfeldbruck 1996, ISBN 3-922404-96-0 , p. 83 .
20. ↑ VHS Unterland branch offices .
21. ^ Güglingen - media library. Retrieved June 11, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Matthias Sollweck (Ed.): Fratris Pauli Waltheri Guglingensis Itinerarium in Terram Sanctam Catharinam. Tübingen 1892
23. ↑ Kristian Bosselmann-Cyran: The Arabic vocabulary of Paul Walther von Guglingen and its tradition in the travel report of Bernhard von Breidenbach. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 12, 1994, pp. 154-184.

Web links

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Wikivoyage: Güglingen  - travel guide

Wikisource: Güglingen  - in the description of the Oberamt Brackenheim from 1873

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