Grünwettersbach

Grünwettersbach
District of the city of Karlsruhe
Basic data
Geographer. location	48 ° 58 ′  N , 8 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′  N , 8 ° 28 ′  E
height	211 m above sea level NN
surface	6.0349 km²
Residents	4,078 (as of March 31, 2017)
Population density	676 inhabitants per km²
Incorporated	1st January 1975
Postcodes	76228
prefix	0721
Transport links
Highway
Federal road
Bus routes	27 47 47A 118
Night traffic	NL6 NL6 taxi

Main street with a view of Kirchstaig and the old school (Kirchstaig, corner of Am Steinhäusle)

Grünwettersbach has been a district in the southeast of Karlsruhe (Baden) since it was incorporated in 1975 . Together with Palmbach (further south-east), Grünwettersbach forms the Wettersbach administrative unit . Grünwettersbach naturally belongs to the northern Black Forest . It can be reached via the Karlsbad junction from the A8 motorway between Karlsruhe and Pforzheim .

history

The place was probably founded by the monks of the Herrenalb monastery ( Calw district ). The Evangelical Parish Church of St. Lucia was first mentioned in 1278. The former patron saints included the Counts of Vaihingen , whose coat of arms led the place to the incorporation. Count Konrad V. von Vaihingen and his brother Johann sold the Teutonic Order Master Wolfram von Nellenburg "all goods to ... Grünwettersbach including the right of patronage and the tithe".

The village appeared in the local chronicle under the name "Wedersbach" or "Weddersbach". This name refers to the stream that flows through the place and is said to have belonged to a "Weter" or "Withar".

The monastery was under the patronage of Württemberg. With the introduction of the Reformation by Ulrich von Württemberg , the monastery was dissolved around 1535. Ulrich took over the area of ​​the Alb-Pfinz plateau and thus owned a Protestant and Württemberg corridor through the area of ​​the former margraviate of Baden . Their heirs protested and one of them, Bernhard III. , obtained an imperial mandate against the seizure and achieved that the parish was again occupied by Catholics. From 1549, however, exclusively Protestant pastors followed.

In the Thirty Years' War the place was badly affected by Croatian and Swedish troops around 1640 and is said to have been completely depopulated every year, like Mutschelbach. In 1689 it was sacked and burned again by General Ezéchiel de Mélac's troops. In 1697 at the latest, the oldest surviving building in the village was built with a forge. It is located in Hauptstrasse 38 and contains the year on the upper door beam. In 1701 , Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg settled 28 Waldensian families in the Grünwettersbacher district. The foundation stone for Palmbach was laid on 340 acres of land .

In 1806 the place came to the Grand Duchy of Baden via the exchange and epuration agreement .

The current town hall from 1881 used to be the seat of the fire brigade, the police and the prison. Today, the administration, which is the registration office , the building authority, the Office of Citizen Service and the Office of Ortsvorstehers accommodated therein. Grünwettersbach owns 70 hectares of green space.

In order to prevent incorporation into Karlsruhe , Grünwettersbach and Palmbach merged on January 1, 1972 to form the Wettersbach community, named after the Wettersbach river that runs through both localities. On January 1, 1975, Wettersbach was incorporated into Karlsruhe after all. Both parts of the city got their original names back.

Telecommunications tower

Attractions

Evangelical Parish Church of St. Lucia

Biforias and arched frieze of the church tower

The oldest building in the village is the Romanesque church tower of the parish church of St. Lucia , which dates from the 12th or 13th century. The nave of the church was renewed in 1781–82 by church council builder Wilhelm Friedrich Goez from Ludwigsburg.

In the course of the introduction of the Reformation in the village, the parish church became Protestant.

The place is known for the 144 meter high communication tower Grünwettersbach , visible in large parts of the region . The tower is a type tower type "FMT 2". In 2017, the Wettersbach sculpture park was supplemented by another work of art.

Sports

The ASV Grünwettersbach plays with his men's team in the first table tennis league . The home games are played in the ASV Grünwettersbach table tennis center, which was opened in 2015 . In 2020 the ASV won the German Table Tennis Cup.

Transportation

Grünwettersbach is very well connected to the network of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (KVV). At rush hour there is a bus connection with lines 47 and 47A every 10 minutes to the Zündhütle (tram stop) or every 20 minutes to Karlsruhe main station . There is also a similarly good bus connection to Durlach with line 27. From Monday to Friday there have been new bus connections to the neighboring district of Karlsruhe since December 2018 : Bus line 118 to Langensteinbach to the local Langensteinbach train station. The school bus also drives to the Langensteinbach school center.

literature

• Günther Löffler: Ortschronik in: Festbuch der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Grünwettersbach For the 50th anniversary May 18-25, 1974
• G. Löffler, H. Löffler: Evangelical Church Grünwettersbach. 1986

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadtwiki Karlsruhe: Evangelical Church Grünwettersbach. accessed on December 26, 2018 (German).
2. ↑ LABW, State Archive Ludwigsburg, JL 425 Bd 24 Qu. 46: Gradient of DO care Vaihingen ...  in the German Digital Library
3. ^ 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. 476 .
4. ^ 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. 481 .
5. ↑ Grünwettersbach wins the German table tennis cup on pfaelzischer-merkur.de
6. ↑ Description of the new bus lines 117 and 118 on wettersbach-online.de . Retrieved December 28, 2017.

Web links

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

• Current and interesting facts from Grünwettersbach
• Website of the local administration Karlsruhe - Wettersbach
• Grünwettersbach in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
• Grünwettersbach in the GenWiki information for family and genealogists