Green cabbage

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '  N , 9 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Ravensburg
Local government association:	Gullen
Height :	601 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.16 km 2
Residents:	3218 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	188 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88287
Area code :	0751
License plate :	RV, SLG , ÜB , WG
Community key :	08 4 36 039
Address of the municipal administration:	Scherzachstrasse 2 88287 Grünkraut
Website :	www.gruenkraut.de
Mayor :	Holger Lehr
Location of the community Grünkraut in the district of Ravensburg

Grünkraut is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg with 42 hamlets and belongs to the Ravensburg district .

The municipality is the seat of the Gullen Municipal Administration Association .

geography

The municipal area of ​​Grünkraut with its scattered hamlets

Geographical location

Grünkraut is located in Upper Swabia , around six kilometers east of the district town of Ravensburg and 170 m above the Schussenniederung .

landscape

The landscape is characterized by the open, unforested green herb high plateau, which is delimited in the west by the Schussen basin and in the south by the Rosenharz basin. The West Allgäu hill country joins the eastern edge of the plateau.

Nature reserves

The “ Wasenmoos bei Grünkraut ” nature reserve is the source area of ​​the Scherzach

Significant wetlands on the Grünkraut mark are the nature reserves “ Quellmoore bei Englisreute ” and “ Wasenmoos bei Grünkraut ”. The latter is fed by numerous hillside springs and drained through the Scherzach . Other wetlands along the mountain hills on the northern edge of the high plateau are near Bechenried and Atzenweiler and the biotopes Buchwiesen and Stechenmoos. A total of 90 protected biotopes are designated in accordance with the State Nature Conservation Act and State Forest Act on the municipal area.

Waters

The Scherzach rises in the Wasenmoos nature reserve and flows in a south-north direction through the municipality. First through Grünkraut, then through the districts of Gullen and Rittel.

geology

Green cabbage is found in the Upper Freshwater Molasse area . Above the rock there is a Würm I moraine , a Würm II moraine and rubble .

Evangelical Church in Atzenweiler

Expansion of the municipal area

• South-north extension 6.5 km
• East-west extension 4.5 km

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Bodnegg , Schlier , Waldburg and the city of Ravensburg.

Community structure

The community consists of the main town Grünkraut and 42 hamlets: Aichenblock, Am Ottersberg, Arneggen, Atzenweiler, Bechenried, Bommen, Dangrindeln, Emmelweiler, Englisreute, Friedach, Gommetsweiler, Groppach, Gruben, Gullen, Hintersolbach, Hoherhof, Hotterloch, Hübschenberg, Kenzler, Klessenbühl, Kronhalden, Langäcker, Liebenhofen, Loch, Lochmühle, Lungsee, Mayerhof, Menisreute, Meuschen, Meuschenmoos, Neuhaus, Ottershofen, Rittel, Rößler, Schleiferhaus, Schregsberg, Sigmarshofen, Staig, Tannacker, Tobel, Wallenhaus, Weiherhalde.

history

Parish Church of St. Gallus and Nikolaus

First mention

The history of Grünkraut goes back to the year 1236, when the place name "Gruonechrut" was first mentioned. How the place got this name or what it means is not known. "Chrut" is conceivable in the meaning of greut = clearing.

19th century

Until the secularization of 1803, when the Weissenau and Weingarten monasteries were dissolved, they owned almost all of the goods there except for a few farms. Politically, Grünkraut belonged to the Upper Austrian Bailiwick of Swabia . In 1806 this came to the newly formed Kingdom of Württemberg , where the place was added to the Oberamt Ravensburg , forerunner of today's district. The administration of the Gullen municipal administration is located in the green herb hamlet of Gullen .

Outsourcing

Ittenbeuren and Knollengraben were transferred to Ravensburg on February 1, 1973.

Population development

In the Oberamtsbeschreibung from 1836 44 parcels with a total of 923 inhabitants are mentioned. The population did not increase significantly until after the Second World War and is now just over 3,000, although a population-wise important part of the former municipal area was lost.

Religions

In the parish church of St. Gallus and Nikolaus

Like the rest of the surrounding area, Grünkraut is Roman Catholic. The parish is the seat of the parish of St. Gallus and Nikolaus. It belongs to the Allgäu-Oberschwaben dean's office founded in 2007 .

The Protestant parish, which was founded in 1869, does not bear the name Grünkraut, because the Catholic population denied this to the newly arrived Protestant Christians. Therefore it called itself after a hamlet adjacent to the church building "Evangelical Parish Atzenweiler". Today it includes the political communities Grünkraut, Bodnegg and Waldburg and the outskirts of Amtzell , Ravensburg and Schlier . After the Second World War , more and more evangelical expellees settled in Grünkraut. The diaspora community belongs to the Ravensburg church district and has 1,350 members (as of 2004). The church was built in 1885 according to plans by the Stuttgart building officer Felix Berner .

politics

town hall

household

The community of Grünkraut has had a balanced budget for years and is debt-free despite high investments.

Municipal council

The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following result:

• Turnout 57.13%

1. Free voters 42.5% (−5.9%) → 5 seats (−1)
2. Citizens' list 33.7% → 4 seats
3. Christian Democratic Union of Germany 23.8% (−2.7%) → 3 seats (± 0)

mayor

In October 2010, Holger Lehr was elected as the new mayor in the first ballot, thus succeeding the long-time mayor Hans Pfeiffer (non-party). In October 2018 he was re-elected unopposed.

coat of arms

Blazon : in gold on a green three-mountain, a four-leaf green fern.

Natural monuments

• Large stone left by a glacier from the Würm Ice Age around 16,000 years ago. The huge boulder with a circumference of 12.4 m could be assigned to the Rhaetian Alps as the place of origin due to its mineral composition.
• Pedunculate oak on the road to Elisreute. The oak is about 170 years old and 22 meters high. The pedunculate oak has a light crown.
• Ash , which is located north of Dangrindeln. It is around 140 years old and a very tall ash tree.
• Summer linden tree , which is on the road to Tobel. It is a 23 meter high summer linden tree . Their age is estimated between 120 and 150 years.
• Grove of trees at the Dangrindeln estate. She is around 145 years old. The group of trees consists of two summer linden trees and a common oak.
• The pedunculate oak stands in the open between Loch and Lungsee and is around 120 years old.
• Summer linden tree on the outskirts of Arneggen. It was planted in 1901.

Sports

The new sports hall in the community of Grünkraut

The TSV Grünkraut has various departments with football, boules and gymnastics. Since July 1, 2008, the community has had a new sports hall with a gym. There is also the old gymnasium and festival hall. There is also a bike and skateboard course and a beach volleyball facility in the vicinity of the new sports hall . The TSV Grünkraut sports facility is located between Grünkraut and the Liebenhofen district. For the soccer department there is a main playing field measuring 108 by 68 m and a slightly smaller secondary playing field of 105 by 60 m. Both grass fields are equipped with automatic irrigation systems and floodlights. For the athletics departments there is a 100 m track with 4 running tracks, two long jump and one triple jump track. A high jump , pole vault and shot put facility round off the program. In the front area to the street there is a small playing field with 30 by 48 m for multi-purpose use. The division of the fields is available for basketball , volleyball , handball and tennis . The facility is rounded off with an outdoor boules court , the bouledrome and a covered area in which this sport can be played all year round.

Regular events

"Schwende-Marie" from the fool's club Grünkraut

• Herb festival
• The fool's association Grünkraut , founded in 1993, operates the Swabian-Alemannic carnival with the fool figures "Schwende-Marie" and "Widdums-Bauer".

Economy and Infrastructure

Many medium-sized companies have settled in the Gullen industrial park, on Bundesstraße 32 . Grünkraut is the location of a 380 kV substation which is fed from the nearby north-south line .

traffic

The cities of Ravensburg and Wangen can be reached by bus. Another bus connection Ravensburg - Bodnegg leads via Grünkraut, which is part of the bodo local transport network .

Established businesses

The largest company is Glas Sprinz and Blum Novotest in the Gullen industrial park with 380 employees. The second largest employer is Buchmann Fleischwaren with 240 employees, also in the Gullen industrial park.

Public facilities

Grünkraut has a public library, a gallery in the town hall and a music school.

education

Grünkraut is the only educational institution with a primary school .

Other infrastructure

The municipality owns a minibus, which is called the municipality mobile. This minibus can be rented by various clubs and groups for a small fee. There are also two Roman Catholic kindergartens.

Furthermore, there has been fast internet via fiber optic since around 2014 , speeds of up to 50 Mbit / s can be achieved.

Personalities

• Paul Knapp (1879–1953), pacifist and founder of the German Peace Party; worked as a pastor of the Protestant parish of Atzenweiler and died in Grünkraut.

Honorary citizen

• Richard Spohn (1880–1959), entrepreneur
• Josef Rist
• August Musch (1918-2009)

sons and daughters of the town

• Cajetan Baumann OFM (1899–1969), important architect of the Franciscan order in the USA

literature

• Grünkraut community (ed.): From Gruonencrut to Grünkraut. Home book of the community Grünkraut . Editing / conception by Hans Offenwanger. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2009, ISBN 978-3-933614-35-3 (contains articles on nature, history, politics, church, everyday life, art history, customs and club life)
• Grünkraut municipality (publisher): Grünkraut anno 1900 . Editor: Hans Offenwanger. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2018, ISBN 978-3-947348-21-3 (photos or drawings of all residential buildings and other facilities in the community in 1900, the residential buildings listed according to the social status of the owners, with all available historical information, so that a Image of settlement since the Middle Ages emerges)

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  The Catholic Church of St. Gallus and St. Nicholas

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  Allee between Mayerhof and B32

Web links

Commons : Grünkraut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Grünkraut  - travel guide

Wikisource: Grünkraut in the description of the Oberamt Ravensburg from 1836  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
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. 547 .
3. ↑ Hans Rainer Bernhardt: 130 Years of the Evangelical Church Atzenweiler 1885–2015 , 2015 (PDF)
4. ↑ https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/gruenkraut/