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	Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′  N , 8 ° 39 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Karlsruhe
Height :	180 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.86 km 2
Residents:	3945 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	265 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	75053
Area code :	07252
License plate :	KA
Community key :	08 2 15 025
Address of the municipal administration:	Bruchsaler Strasse 32 75053 Gondelsheim
Website :	www.gondelsheim.de
Mayor :	Markus Rupp
Location of the community of Gondelsheim in the district of Karlsruhe

Gondelsheim is a municipality in the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg . Before the Baden-Württemberg district reform it belonged to the Bruchsal district .

geography

Geographical location

Gondelsheim is located in the western Kraichgau hill country in the Saalbach valley between Bruchsal and Bretten .

Community structure

The Bonartshäuser Hof (Althof) and Erdbeerhof (Neuhof) farms as well as the agricultural evacuation Dossental also belong to the community of Gondelsheim. The Gillingen desert is located in the municipality.

history

In 1188 an allodium (dt .: own property) in Gondolsheim is mentioned in a contract between Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and King Alfons VIII of Castile , in which the marriage of Friedrich's son Konrad with Alfons daughter Berengaria was agreed. This property, which is believed to be in Gondelsheim, was part of the bride's morning gift along with 29 other Staufer goods . But it is possible that this marriage contract, which was never put into practice, meant Gundelsheim .

1257 the place was first mentioned in a document as Gundolfesheim . Up until then it belonged to the Cistercian monastery in Herrenalb , which now gave it to Konrad von Wiesloch in exchange for other possessions . It came to the Counts of Württemberg via the Counts of Hohenberg . Count Eberhard then sold the place in 1483 to Plicker Landschad von Steinach , the Palatine court master, and thus became a free aristocratic town. At the end of the 16th century, Gondelsheim came to the Lords of Katzenelnbogen , who sold it to Johann Bernhard von Mentzingen in 1650. After the lords of Mentzingen were increasingly in debt, they had to sell the - already pledged - property in 1787 to the ruling house of Baden.

At first Gondelsheim belonged to the Baden County of Petershausen. In 1806, when Baden was elevated to the status of a Grand Duchy, it became the seat of the newly formed Gondelsheim office in the Pfinz and Enz districts , which, however, was dissolved again in 1826 and merged with the office of Bretten . Since 1936 the community belonged to the district office of Bruchsal , from 1939 to the district of Bruchsal , which became part of the district of Karlsruhe in 1973.

Religions

Historically, Gondelsheim is evangelical . In addition to the Protestant congregation, there is also a Catholic and a New Apostolic church congregation.

See also : Jewish community Gondelsheim

politics

town hall

mayor

Mayor of Gondelsheim is Markus Rupp (as of 2019), born in Karlsruhe in 1965. Rupp was a member of the municipal council from 1994 to 1998, was elected mayor in 1998 and was confirmed in office in the two elections that followed. He has been a member of the Karlsruhe district assembly since 1999, and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the district assembly since 2009.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 14 honorary members who are elected for five years. In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights.

The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):

Municipal Council 2019
Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
FWG	33.0% (−4.0)	4 (−1)
CDU	27.8% (−9.1)	4 (−1)
SPD	19.7% (−6.5)	3 (−1)
Green	19.5% (+19.5)	3 (+3)
Turnout: 61.2% (+8.4)

coat of arms

Blazon : "A tied golden sheaf of wheat growing in red from a green shield base."

Community partnerships

Since 1979, Gondelsheim has had a partnership with Droué , a commune with around 1,300 inhabitants in the Loir-et-Cher department in France , around 150 km from Paris, in the immediate vicinity of the Loire castles and the famous Chartres Cathedral .

Attractions

Buildings

Gondelsheim Palace with the nymph fountain

Church and old tower

• Gondelsheim Castle was built in its current form in 1857 and an Art Nouveau extension was added in the 20th century. In the castle park, the old tower and the church by Heinrich Hübsch in the style of romanticism create an unusual, eclectic -looking place. In addition, there is the restored English facility and the Gondelsheim Nymphenbrunnen with one of three copies of the Three Dancing Girls by Walter Schott . The history of the old tower has not yet been settled: historians believe that the tower a remnant of an old 13th-century and the Thirty Years' War destroyed fortress church was. The head of the restoration work, Bernd F. Cleans, takes the view that the old tower of the keep was a castle could. For the restoration of the frescoes from the 15th century , discovered in the 1960s, depicting a cycle of apostles and the legend of the three living and the three dead, the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation provided 50,000 euros. The old tower was named " Monument of the Month February 2009" by the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg . The restoration of the tower also included work on the roof and plaster to improve the indoor climate and avoid further water damage.
• The Gasthaus LoewenThor has existed as a hostel on the old Heerstraße from Speyer to Augsburg since 1701.
• The Gondelsheim Synagogue , built in 1849, has been privately owned since 1930.
• The Friedrichsbrunnen from 1903 commemorates the construction of the local water supply in the previous year and was made by Ludwig Christof Meffle from Bretten. The medallion bust with Grand Duke Friedrich comes from Sieferle.
• The grave of Josefine Benz, the mother of the car pioneer Carl Benz , who spent her retirement in Gondelsheim and died there in 1870, is located in the Gondelsheim cemetery .

Tourist routes

At the beginning of August 1888 Bertha Benz drove with her two sons from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back to Mannheim via Gondelsheim. The Bertha Benz Memorial Route , which leads through Gondelsheim, has been a reminder of this first long-distance automobile journey in history since 2008 .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Westbahn ( Bietigheim-Bissingen - Bruchsal ) runs through Gondelsheim , on the Bruchsal - Mühlacker section mainly the regional train 17 (RB17), which has two stops in the community.

Gondelsheim is located on Bundesstraße 35 , which used to run through the town, but has been led around the residential areas by the western bypass since 1959.

education

With the Kraichgau school , the community has a primary and technical secondary school. There are also two kindergartens and crèches in town.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Karl Füger (1752–1830), Councilor of Baden
• Jacob Hecht (1879–1963), founder of the Rhenania Schifffahrtsgesellschaft
• Bernd Kneißler (* 1962), German shot put champion 1985, 15 international matches for the DLV

literature

• Wilhelm Spengel: Gondelsheim in history and pictures. Gondelsheim community, Gondelsheim 1966.
• Thomas Adam: The Gondelsheim Rebellion of 1730. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2005, ISBN 978-3-89735-409-8 .
• Thomas Adam (Ed.): Gondelsheim. 750 years of history in the Saalbachtal. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-440-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 73-74
3. ^ Peter Wanner: The Staufer-Castilian marriage pact of the year 1188. Findings on the occasion of some "small" district and community anniversaries in 2013 . In: Christhard Schrenk / Peter Wanner (eds.): Heilbronnica 6. Contributions to the city and regional history . Heilbronn 2016, pp. 453–460, here: pp. 458–459. PDF 366 kB.
4. ^ Community of Gondelsheim: Mayor Markus Rupp ; accessed July 13, 2019.
5. ^ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, Gondelsheim ; Municipality of Gondelsheim: municipal council election 2019 ; accessed July 13, 2019.
6. ↑ Herbert Lohrer: Ludwig Christof Meffle, stone and sculptor in Bretten , in: Kraichgau 17 , 2002, pp. 191–196.

Web links

Commons : Gondelsheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gondelsheim in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
• www.gondelsheim.de
• The palace gardens and the church by Heinrich Hübsch on a private website