Gaildorf

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Gaildorf
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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '  N , 9 ° 46'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Schwäbisch Hall
Height : 329 m above sea level NHN
Area : 62.57 km 2
Residents: 12,080 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 193 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 74405
Area code : 07971
License plate : SHA, BK , CR
Community key : 08 1 27 025
City structure: 10 districts

City administration address : 		Schloss-Strasse 20
74405 Gaildorf
Website : www.gaildorf.de
Mayor : Frank Zimmermann
Location of the town of Gaildorf in the Schwäbisch Hall district
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Gaildorf is a town on the Kocher River in northeast Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the district of Schwäbisch Hall in the Stuttgart administrative district and has around 12,000 inhabitants. The city is the seat of the Limpurger Land municipal administration association .

geography

location

Gaildorf is considered the center of the Limpurger Land , which extends south of Schwäbisch Hall . The city area is traversed from south to north by the Kocher, which forms a wide valley here. Shortly before Gaildorf, the Rot flows into the river from the left at Unterrot. Wooded heights rise on both sides of the Kocher Valley: to the west the Mainhardt Forest and to the east the Limpurger Mountains . Gaildorf has a share in the natural areas of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains and Hohenloher-Haller Ebene .

The 49th parallel runs directly through the urban area - in North America this forms the border between the USA and Canada .

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities of Gaildorf are, starting clockwise in the west, Fichtenberg , Oberrot , Rosengarten , Michelbach an der Bilz , Obersontheim , Sulzbach-Laufen and Gschwend ( Ostalbkreis ). Except for Gschwend, all of them belong to the Schwäbisch Hall district .

City structure

The town of Gaildorf includes 25 other villages, hamlets, farms and houses in addition to the core town. The city is divided into the four parts Eutendorf, Gaildorf, Ottendorf and Unterrot, they are identical to the four former municipalities. The districts are officially named by the prefixed name of the city and, separated by a hyphen, the name of the district. At the same time, Eutendorf is a village within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code with its own local council.

  • Eutendorf includes the hamlets of Adelbach (also the district of Ottendorf), Großaltdorf, Kleinaltdorf and Winzenweiler, the Schweizerhof and Steigenhaus farms and the Eisbach and Steppach houses, as well as the abandoned villages of Aschenhütte , Beylstein, Bulmer, Gesundbad, Güssel, Hagersbach, Hagestadelshusen, Haspelhausen, Jägerhaus , Neuwiese, Roggenland, Schleifrain, Schweizerhalde, Staighäusle, Westhalden, "Sägmühle" near Eisbach.
  • The abandoned villages of Erlen, Hackersbach, Rudolfsmühle and Vitriolbergwerk belong to Gaildorf.
  • Ottendorf includes the hamlets of Adelbach (also the Eutendorf district), Hägenau, Niederndorf and Spöck and the Kocherhalde and Railhalde houses as well as the abandoned villages of Eulenhaus and Einöde.
  • Unterrot includes the hamlets of Bröckingen, Münster, Reippersberg and Schönberg, the courtyards Münster Mühle and Reutfeld and the houses Chausseehaus, Kieselberg and Ölmühle as well as the abandoned villages Braunsbach, Dietenberg, Dretenweiler, Mettelberg, Reippersberger Sägmühle and Steigersbach.

Division of space

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

history

From the Middle Ages to the 19th century

The old castle

Gaildorf was mentioned for the first time in 1255. Rabenoldus de Geilendorff can be found as a witness in a certificate from Schenken Walter. Rabenoldus appears as a feudal man in 1280 and vouches for the Schenk Walter.

Already in 1286 there was talk of a castle of the knights "de Geilendorff". After it died out, the castle probably passed into the possession of the Limpurgians.

1404 received the town and market rights from King Ruprecht . It was the residence of one of the two main lines of the Limpurg taverns , later the Counts of Waldeck-Limpurg . In 1404 King Ruprecht gave Gaildorf the right to build a city wall. Gaildorf also got the right of asylum.

13 years later, the Gaildorf taverns donated a chapel that was subordinated to the mother church in Münster.

In 1434 the town of Gaildorf received the coat of arms, which is still valid today, on which a raft with raft hooks crossed over it can be seen. As early as 1399, the wood rafting on the Kocher was mentioned in a contract with Hall .

In 1482 the construction of a castle was completed. For the next 250 years, Gaildorf became the residence of the taverns. From 1500 the city was part of the Franconian Empire .

After a three-year construction phase, the new town church was inaugurated as the court church of the taverns in Gaildorf in 1521.

In 1778, after the family of Schenken had died out for 88 years, the Counts of Pückler-Limpurg began building a new castle.

Württemberg time

From 1806 Gaildorf belonged to the Kingdom of Württemberg and became the Oberamtsstadt and seat of the Oberamt Gaildorf .

In 1843 the city's first post office was set up in the Zur Krone inn . In 1868 there was a big fire in the city, in which 46 buildings, the church and the castle were destroyed.

With the founding of the Empire in 1871, Württemberg also experienced an economic boom. In 1879 Gaildorf was connected to the Württemberg railway network with the railway line to Hessental and Murrhardt . At that time, however, the transport networks in Württemberg were already so tight that the economic benefit on the way to industrialization for Gaildorf was almost entirely absent. A planned rail connection from Gaildorf to Aalen seemed so unprofitable to the state that in 1903 only a section, the Obere Kochertalbahn , was put into operation by the private Württemberg railway company.

After the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, Gaildorf in 1938-NS administrative reform in the context of Württemberg the district Backnang assigned and thus dissolved the old upper office, which had been renamed in district Gaildorf 1934th

In the last year of the Second World War, the city church and Pückler Castle were destroyed again, now by accidental artillery fire by the Germans.

post war period

In 1945 Gaildorf fell into the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden . When Baden-Württemberg was founded in 1952, the city became part of the current federal state.

Gaildorf was incorporated into the district of Schwäbisch Hall as part of the district reform in 1973 and the district of Backnang was dissolved.

In the years 1971 to 1974, the previously independent communities of Eutendorf, Unterrot and Ottendorf were incorporated into Gaildorf as part of the regional reform.

Incorporations

  • Ottendorf July 1, 1971: Ottendorf
  • Under red January 1, 1972: under red
  • Eutendorf January 1, 1974: Eutendorf

Population development

Although Gaildorf has been a town since 1404, rural use still shaped life there. In 1871 the population was just 4,381. Only during and after the Second World War there was a strong population growth. The 1933 census recorded 4499 citizens. In 1950 the number of inhabitants rose to 7199 citizens. The reasons for this were on the one hand refugees from the east and on the other hand the expansion of Gaildorf's industry. For example, the ARWA stocking works in Unterrot, founded in 1949, employed up to 1,600 workers in their heyday. In 1969 the population mark of 10,000 was passed, and exactly 10,118 citizens lived in the city. Since then, the city has not grown particularly fast, but it is noticeable that 190 farms still existed in 1979. In 2003 there were just 83 companies left. The population has increased to around 12,500 people to date. Most employees have to commute to work in Schwäbisch Hall or the Stuttgart area.

Denominations

In addition to the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, the following communities are represented in Gaildorf: the Turkish-Islamic Religious & Cultural Union (Unterrot), the New Apostolic Church , an Orthodox community (Ottendorf), the Seventh-day Adventists , the South German Community Association and a congregation from the Bund Freikirchlicher Pentecostal congregations .

politics

Municipal council

The city council in Gaildorf has 22 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following official final result:

Parties and constituencies %
2019 		Seats
2019 		%
2014 		Seats
2014
Local elections 2019
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
38.24%
26.97%
25.20%
9.59%
OIL
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+ 3.30  % p
+ 0.78  % p.p.
-1.24  % p
-2.84  % p.p.
OIL
FWV Free electoral association 38.24 8th 34.94 7th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany / Active Citizens 26.97 6th 26.19 6th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 25.20 6th 26.44 6th
OIL Open list 9.59 2 12.43 3
total 100.0 22nd 100.0 22nd
voter turnout 52.43% 45.44%

mayor

Frank Zimmermann was elected as the new mayor in the first ballot in July 2014. The predecessor was Ulrich Bartenbach, who took office in March 2012; he died in September 2015.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In red two diagonally crossed silver raftsman hooks , covered by a silver raft ."

The coat of arms is supposed to remind of the long Gaildorf rafting tradition, hence the rafting hooks and the raft (in the past, up to 130,000 cubic meters of wood were rafted annually from the forests around Gaildorf on the stove to Hall. There this was used for salt production as fuel for the salt works ) .

Town twinning

Gaildorf maintains a partnership with Budajenö in Hungary , about 20 kilometers west of Budapest . This partnership has existed since 1993. The celebrations for the 20th anniversary took place in 2013 in Budajenö.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Left the old castle, right the so-called coffee house, in the middle the tower of the Protestant town church

In the center of Gaildorf there are the old castle that the taverns of Limpurg and the Count of Waldeck-Limpurg served as a residence, which used as a town hall today and Countess Amalie von Waldeck-Limpurg built New Castle , the Protestant church and the remains of former city wall.

Parks

The palace gardens are located at the town hall. The Schillerpark is located at the confluence of the B 298 with the B 19.

movie theater

The Gaildorf Sunlight Playhouse is run by a non-profit association.

freetime and sports

The TSV Gaildorf with around 1500 members offers sports such as aerobics, swimming, soccer, table tennis and gymnastics in seven departments. The Gaildorf mineral outdoor pool on the Kieselberg is located on an area of ​​almost seven hectares with extensive lawns.

Regular events

Motocross race started in 1999
  • Motocross: The national and international motocross races "on watch" are very well known . Here z. B. the ADAC MX Masters (the Int. German Motocross Championship) takes place.
  • Blues Festival: The Gaildorf Blues Festival takes place every two years on the first weekend in July.
  • Youth Euro Cup: International indoor soccer tournament for U17 teams in the Gaildorf sports hall.
  • Horse market: Every second Monday in February, friends of horses, carriages and teams meet in Gaildorf. The Gaildorf Horse Market is the largest and oldest traditional festival in the Limpurger Land with 20,000 to 30,000 visitors annually.
  • Raft Festival: The Raft Festival takes place every two years, alternating with the Blues Festival. It is intended to remind of the town's rafting tradition. A raft runs between the two festival sites on the Kocher, one in Gaildorf's city center on Kocherwiesen and one in Gaildorf's suburb of Münster.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Gaildorf West train station

Gaildorf is crossed by the federal highway 19 , into which the federal highway 298 joins . The Gaildorf West station is on the Waiblingen – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental railway line , and the Obere Kochertal Railway also branches off here . Its Gaildorf Stadt stop was closer to the city center, operations on the line were discontinued at the end of 2005 and most of the track systems were removed in 2009.

The bus line 16 connects the city with Schwäbisch Hall; there are also other local and regional bus routes. The city belongs to the Verkehrsverbund KreisVerkehr Schwäbisch Hall .

Established businesses

The wood processing company Rettenmeier operated a plant here until January 1, 2013. This was taken over by the company Junginger Naturholz GmbH, which specializes in solid structural timber, including a power plant. The Bott GmbH & Co. KG group of companies develops and produces vehicle equipment, factory equipment and workplace systems. It has its headquarters in Gaildorf.

media

The edition Rundschau for the Swabian Forest - Der Kocherbote of the Südwest Presse appears daily with a circulation of approx. 5300 copies.

Facilities

Gaildorf is the seat of the Gaildorf church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

The city also had a small hospital with the areas of internal medicine, surgery and gynecology, which had belonged to the Diakonie-Klinikum Schwäbisch Hall since January 1, 2009 , but was closed on July 1, 2012.

There is also a volunteer fire brigade in Gaildorf . There are the following departments with magazines in the respective sub-locations:

  • Gaildorf
  • Under red
  • Eutendorf
  • Ottendorf

There is also a youth fire brigade in Gaildorf.

The police has in Gaildorf a police station . This is subordinate to the Aalen Police Headquarters .

schools

Gaildorf has several schools. In the village itself, the park school (primary and secondary school), the Schloss Realschule and the Schenk-von-Limpurg- Gymnasium form a school center. In the suburb of Eutendorf there is a primary school and the Peter Härtling School ( special needs school ), in Ottendorf and Unterrot there is a primary school each .

energy

A pumped storage power plant (16 MW, 70 MWh) with four wind turbines is being built near Gaildorf . With the natural electricity storage facility in Gaildorf , the water should not be stored in an upper basin, as is usual, but in and on the towers of the wind turbines.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities

  • Johann Heinrich Calisius (1633–1698), Protestant clergyman and hymn poet, superintendent and court preacher in Gaildorf
  • Philipp Christoph Hartung (1706–1776), from 1739 deacon and preceptor in Gaildorf, from 1764 pastor in Eutendorf, as "PC Humano" author of the important music theory and piano pedagogical work Musicus theoretical-practicus (Nuremberg 1749)
  • Georg Friedrich Karl (Waldeck-Limpurg) (1785–1826), Count of Waldeck-Limpurg, bailiff of Heilbronn and Stuttgart, spokesman for the canons during the Württemberg constitutional struggle 1815–1819
  • Amalie Wirths (1785–1852), Countess of Waldeck-Limpurg, builder of the New Palace
  • Justinus Kerner (1786–1862), writer
  • Carl Heinrich Rösch (1807–1866), doctor and social reformer, was a senior medical officer in Gaildorf from 1850 to 1853 (forced to move due to "revolutionary activities"), previously in 1847 founder of the Mariaberg sanatorium (now Mariaberg eV )
  • Gottlieb Rau (1816–1854), entrepreneur and revolutionary
  • Hermann Frasch (1851–1914), German / US-American petroleum chemist, born in Oberrot near Gaildorf, son of the Gaildorf mayor Johann Frasch
  • Eugen Heller (1862–1939), entrepreneur and founder of the Heller Prize
  • Hans Thierfelder (1913–1987), hosiery manufacturer

literature

  • Hans König: The new castle. Once a villa - then a castle - today the town hall. A report on the history of the new castle. Self-published, Gaildorf 1996.
  • Steffen Hinderer: Work and Life in Gaildorf . Sutton, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-496-8 .
  • Burkhart Oertel : Family book of the Oberamtsstadt Gaildorf in Württemberg 1610-1870. Neubiberg: Self-published by the author in 1981 (= Württemberg local family books 4)
  • Burkhart Oertel: Family book Münster, Unterrot with Bröckingen, Kieselberg, Keippersberg and Schönberg, Schwäbisch Hall district in Württemberg, 1610–1920. Neubiberg: Self-published by the author 1986 (= Württembergische Ortssippenbücher 14)
  • Burkhart Oertel: Family book Eutendorf with Großaltdorf, Kleinaltdorf, Winzenweiler (Protestant part) and all associated residential areas, districts of the town of Gaildorf, Schwäbisch Hall district in Württemberg, 1596–1920. Neubiberg: Self-published by the author 2009 (= Württembergische Ortssippenbücher 91)
  • Burkhart Oertel: Ottendorf family book with Hägenau, Niederndorf, Spöck, Erlenhof (only as far as recorded in Ottendorf) and all associated residential areas, districts of the city of Gaildorf, Schwäbisch Hall district in Württemberg, 1645–1925. Neubiberg: Self-published by the author 2010 (= Württembergische Ortssippenbücher 95)

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. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Gaildorf from November 28, 2001 (last change: January 25, 2006)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 89 kB).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gaildorf.de  
  4. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Administrative region of Stuttgart, regional associations of Franconia and East Wuerttemberg . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 467-472.
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Gaildorf.
  6. ↑ gaildorf.de: The Limpurg taverns
  7. ↑ Gaildorf. March 26, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ cm city media GmbH - www.cmcitymedia.de: City of Gaildorf. Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ cm city media GmbH - www.cmcitymedia.de: City of Gaildorf. Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ cm city media GmbH - www.cmcitymedia.de: City of Gaildorf. Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
  11. ^ Hinderer, Steffen: The series archive pictures Gaildorf . Erfurt 2004, p. 7th f .
  12. ^ Hans-Peter Müller: Oberrot and Hausen in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: 1200 years of Oberrot . Stuttgart 1982.
  13. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 446 .
  14. ^ 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. 467 .
  15. ↑ Gaildorf.de. Retrieved June 20, 2006 .
  16. ^ Election information from the city of Gaildorf .
  17. ↑ http://www.swp.de/gaildorf/lokales/gaildorf/gaildorfs-altbuergermeister-ulrich-barenbach-im-alter-von-63-jahren-verstorben-10922334.html
  18. ↑ Friendship: 20 years of partnership Gaildorf Budajenö , swp.de of July 5, 2013.
  19. ↑ TSV Gaildorf website (accessed November 26, 2008).
  20. ↑ Rettenmeier gives up Unterrot, production is to be discontinued without replacement , swp.de, February 12, 2013 (accessed on July 10, 2013).
  21. ↑ IVW  Q2 / 2010 ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu ).
  22. ^ Website of the Diakonie Klinikum , accessed on April 28, 2010.
  23. ^ Klaus Rieder: Gaildorf Clinic becomes center person . swp.de, June 26, 2013, accessed July 5, 2013.
  24. ↑ Gaildorf Fire Brigade on blaulichtsha.de , accessed on July 10, 2013.
  25. ↑ Aalen Police Headquarters website , accessed on July 11, 2013.
  26. ↑ Listed at Famous Gaildorf in the overview on the web domain of the city of Gaildorf (www.gaildorf.de).

Web links

Commons : Gaildorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Gaildorf  - travel guide
Wikisource: Gaildorf in the description of the Oberamt Gaildorf from 1852  - sources and full texts

likewise those of today's districts

Wikisource: Gaildorf in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts