Pfronstetten

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Reutlingen
Height :	748 m above sea level NHN
Area :	54.06 km 2
Residents:	1514 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	72539
Primaries :	07388, 07373
License plate :	RT
Community key :	08 4 15 058
LOCODE :	DE PY6
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Main street 25 ; 72539 Pfronstetten
Website :	www.pfronstetten.de
Mayor :	Reinhold Teufel ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Pfronstetten in the Reutlingen district

Pfronstetten is a municipality in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Pfronstetten is located on the Swabian Alb , about 25 km south of Reutlingen .

Neighboring communities

The following cities and municipalities border on the municipality of Pfronstetten, they are named starting in clockwise direction in the north and belong to the district of Reutlingen and the districts of Biberach¹ and Sigmaringen .²

Hohenstein , Hayingen , Zwiefalten , Langenenslingen¹ , Gammertingen² and Trochtelfingen .

Community structure

A total of seven villages and farms belong to the municipality of Pfronstetten with the municipalities of Aichelau, Aichstetten, Geisingen, Huldstetten and Tigerfeld, which were independent until the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg . Only the villages of the same name belong to the districts of Aichelau, Aichstetten, Geisingen, Huldstetten and Pfronstetten. The Tigerfeld village and the St.-Georgen-Hof homestead belong to the Tigerfeld district.

In the municipality there are several Outbound places: The two places Höfle and Niklaus villages in the municipal part Aichelau. Niklausenweiler was built as a brickworks at the end of the 18th century , but did not exist long, the place was named after the abbot Nikolaus von Zwiefalten. In the hamlet of Pfronstetten the deserted villages Hendelheim or Starting home are - the place was in 1352 as a basis Hain mentioned, the place name is still as Flurname get - Schäfbuch - the town was in the 11th and 12th centuries as Schefbuoch and Scepbouch mentioned - and wolf Riede Halden, which in 11th century when Wolfridushaldun was mentioned.

history

Early history

Count Heinrich von Veringen sold a property in Tigerfeld to the Bebenhausen monastery in 1287 . In 1297 he and his son Wolfrad gave the Bebenhausen monastery further goods in Tigerfeld.

20th century

In 1942, the Stapo control center in Stuttgart was forced to house Jewish senior citizens in the Tigerfeld district until they were finally deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp .

Today's community was re-formed on January 1, 1975 as part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg by uniting the communities of Pfronstetten, Aichelau, Aichstetten, Geisingen, Huldstetten and Tigerfeld.

Coats of arms of the former municipalities

Aichelau	Aichstetten	Geisingen	Huldstetten	Pfronstetten old coat of arms	Tiger field

Population development

The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).

date	Residents
December 1, 1871 ¹	1,565
December 1, 1900 ¹	1,512
December 1, 1925 ¹	1,459
May 17, 1939 ¹	1,248
September 13, 1950 ¹	1,503
June 6, 1961 ¹	1,364
May 27, 1970 ¹	1,364

date	Residents
May 25, 1987 ¹	1,354
December 31, 1990	1,506
December 31, 1995	1,602
December 31, 2000	1,568
December 31, 2005	1,567
December 31, 2010	1,540
December 31, 2015	1,485

religion

Pfronstetten and its current districts remained Catholic after the Reformation. Since the 19th century and increasingly after the Second World War, Protestant residents have also moved in, so that a separate Protestant parish was formed in Pfronstetten . It was initially looked after by the pastor from Zwiefalten, then from Bernloch. In 1925, the then branch parish of Pfronstetten, together with the districts of Aichelau and Aichstetten, was assigned to the municipality of Pfronstetten and the district of Wilsingen in the city of Trochtelfingen from the Bernloch parish to the Ödenwaldstetten parish. From 1972 to approx. 2018 the parish of Pfronstetten and the parish of Ödenwaldstetten formed the overall parish of Ödenwaldstetten, but now they are united in the evangelical parish of Ödenwaldstetten-Pfronstetten .

politics

Municipal council

The council consists of the elected councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The municipality council in Pfronstetten has 12 honorary members, according to the main statute of the municipality 2 seats are provided for each district. Pfronstetten is one of the few municipalities in which the municipal council is elected according to the majority voting system. This means that only one list (Bürgerliste Pfronstetten) is drawn up and those applicants who receive the most votes are elected. In the case of a majority vote, each eligible person can also be included on the voting slip. The turnout in the local elections on May 25, 2014 was 65.2% (2009: 73.54%).

mayor

The mayor is elected for an eight-year term.

1975–2003: Hans Seibold
2003–2004: Stefan Horn (* 1972 - fatal accident on June 9, 2004)
2004–2008: Michael Waibel (early retirement)
since 2008: Reinhold Teufel

Teufel was confirmed in office in July 2016 with 57.3 percent of the votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue over a silver crenellated wall rising from the lower edge, on both sides with a red-roofed silver tower, a golden shield with a chipped red sloping beam."

Culture and sights

Buildings

Evangelical Christ Church : Due to the growing need for a school house and prayer room, a separate building, finally called Christ Church, was built in Pfronstetten in 1939 . The desire for a more sacred design of the church interior in the 90s led to the artistic redesign of the church windows by Ursula Nollau from Zwiefalten. The windows illustrate central events in the biblical history of salvation and allow the Old and New Testaments to have their say.
The Saddler's Chapel is located in a historic site in the forest of Pfronstetten. It bears witness to the former hermitage and the place of worship of Mary at a historical site. In addition there is the rock garden of the boulder and cross "on the saddler".

music

Shawms Pfronstetten
Albdorfmusikanten, founded November 19, 1976
Men's Choir Aichstetten e. V., founded in 1924
Aichelau church choir
Huldstetten-Geisingen church choir
Church choir Pfronstetten
Tigerfeld-Aichstetten church choir
Aichelau men's choir
Forest workers choir Zwiefalter Alb, founded October 1st, 1982

Sports

TSV Pfronstetten eV

Regular events

Annual Whitsun festival of TSV Pfronstetten with a football tournament for women and girls.
Every year on the first weekend in July, TSV Pfronstetten's youth football tournament with more than 90 teams.
Annual Stout hockete the Albdorfmusikanten Pfronstetten e. V. on the third weekend in August

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal road 312 runs through the districts of Pfronstetten, Tigerfeld and Huldstetten and connects the community in the north with Reutlingen and in the south with Riedlingen and Biberach an der Riss . The districts of Aichelau and Aichstetten are connected to the B 312 via the district roads 6747 and 6748, Geisingen via the state roads 253 and 6742.

The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The community is located in honeycomb 227.

Major companies

The Paravan company is located in the Aichelau district. It develops and builds vehicles for the disabled as well as evolutionary digital control and operating systems.

Personalities

Ludwig Stemmer (1828–1908), born in Pfronstetten, doctor and priest, who founded tourism in Lauterbach (Black Forest) after 1884 and was named Lauterbach's first honorary citizen
Anton Koch (1859–1915), born in Pfronstetten, Roman Catholic theologian, professor and university rector in Tübingen
Otto Gauß (1877–1970), from 1914 pastor in Tigerfeld, organist, composer and music editor, from 1931 diocesan president of the Cecilia Society of the Diocese of Rottenburg
Franz Xaver Arnold (1898–1969), born and buried in Pfronstetten-Aichelau, professor, university professor, pastoral theologian , holder of the chair for pastoral theology at the University of Tübingen . The funeral speech at the funeral in Aichelau was held by the then professor for dogmatics at the theological faculty at the University of Tübingen, Josef Ratzinger , who later became Pope Benedict XVI.

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 . Pp. 96-98
↑ Ingrid Bauz, Sigrid Brüggemann, Roland Maier (eds.): The Secret State Police in Württemberg and Hohenzollern. Stuttgart 2013: Schmetterling-Verlag, ISBN 3-89657-138-9 , p. 292.
^ 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. 538 .
↑ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Ödenwaldstetten-Pfronstetten
^ Nollau catalog raisonné , last accessed on June 7, 2020
↑ Heinz Thumm: cyclists meet for prayer. A star pilgrimage for cyclists leads to the solemnly decorated saddlery chapel in Pfronstetten. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from September 6, 2011