Graben-Neudorf

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Graben-Neudorf
Graben-Neudorf
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Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '  N , 8 ° 29'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Karlsruhe
County : Karlsruhe
Height : 107 m above sea level NHN
Area : 28.8 km 2
Residents: 12,184 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 423 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 76676
Area code : 07255
License plate : KA
Community key : 08 2 15 099
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 39
76676 Graben-Neudorf
Website : www.graben-neudorf.de
Mayor : Christian Eheim ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Graben-Neudorf in the district of Karlsruhe
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Graben-Neudorf is a municipality in the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Graben-Neudorf is a municipality in the Baden-Württemberg district of Karlsruhe between Mannheim and Karlsruhe and between Bruchsal and Germersheim . The distance to Karlsruhe is around 20 kilometers, to Mannheim around 45 kilometers, to Bruchsal around 11 kilometers and to Germersheim around 17 kilometers.

Community structure

The municipality of Graben-Neudorf consists of the formerly independent municipalities of Graben and Neudorf. The village of Graben belongs to the former municipality of Graben. The village of Neudorf and the houses of the Graben-Neudorf and Johannisgrund railway stations belong to the former municipality of Neudorf. The deserted Hainhof is located in the area of ​​the former community of Graben and partly in the Spöck district of the city of Stutensee .

Former municipal coats of arms of today's districts

history

Practically nothing is known about the foundation and early history of the Graben district. The Roman road , which ran in a north-south direction through the district of Graben, is partially still visible today; it led from Kehl via Mühlburg, Heidelberg to Neuenheim. This road and finds of Roman coins suggest that a fortified Roman camp was in Graben. The cluster village of Graben was probably founded between the 5th and 7th centuries.

Graben was first mentioned in a document in 1306.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, Graben was an official seat, a market town ("Graben der Markt") and the seat of a rural chapter (deanery). The Thirty Years War brought a lot of hardship and misery in Graben: In 1622 the town had 145 citizens, in 1648 there were only 42 residents.

In the Palatinate War of Succession , which broke out in 1688, the French destroyed the castle and village of Graben, leaving only the church, town hall and a few buildings. The inhabitants of Graben now lived in the woods and in the neighboring towns. The place did not recover until the middle of the 18th century.

The place Neudorf was created by the merging of two clearing settlements. This "New Village" was first mentioned in 1497 as Nuwdorff. This makes Neudorf - this is not only indicated by this late first mention, but also by the small district, small commons and missing community forest - the youngest place in the vicinity, but also one of the smallest and poorest.

Politically, Neudorf belonged to the Prince Diocese of Speyer , while Graben had not belonged to it since 1312; ecclesiastically, however, it was assigned to Graben.

In the 17th century, Neudorf is said to have been "laid to rubble a few times", and it was repeatedly ravaged by typhus and the plague , so that in 1683 only eight families lived in Neudorf.

Neudorf also took part in the general upswing that the area of ​​the Hochstift Speyer on the right bank of the Rhine experienced in the first half of the 18th century, which can be seen from the relatively large increase in population in these years (1719/20: 48 families; 1742/43: 70 families).

Together with the part of the prince-bishopric of Speyer on the right bank of the Rhine, Neudorf fell to Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden on December 1, 1802 . A special feature of the first time in Baden is the relatively strong increase in population: In 1813 the place had 537 inhabitants, in 1852 there were already 1,136 inhabitants. But the inhabitants, who lived from cultivating fields, meadows and raising livestock and whose main source of food was peat cutting, remained “more poor than rich”, so that in the 1850s and 1860s many families felt compelled to emigrate. A steady upward development did not begin until the last quarter of the century.

During the Second World War, Graben-Neudorf was often the target of bombing missions. The train station was the main target as the transport hub was to be destroyed.

On January 1, 1972, the two communities Neudorf and Graben merged to form the municipality of Graben-Neudorf. With the unification, Neudorf came from the district of Bruchsal to the district of Karlsruhe .

Anecdote: The forest hat

In the middle of the 18th century, the Margrave of Baden invited the mayors of the towns of the Margraviate of Baden to a festive dinner. The wine offered made the mayors drunk, and without knowing what they were doing they all signed a contract by which they gave the Margrave their forests. Only the mayor of Graben suspected where the food was going and disappeared. He let his hat down to show the others that he was still there. That's why every new mayor has been given a hat, the so-called forest hat, since then.

Religions

The fact that the two ecclesiastically related places belonged to two different secular domains was of great importance for the further development. In 1556, Margrave Karl II of Baden-Durlach introduced the Reformation in his dominion , and so the residents of Graben had to convert to Protestantism , whereas the residents of Neudorf remained Catholic as secular subjects of the Bishop of Speyer.

The following official religious communities are based in Graben-Neudorf:

  • Protestant parish Graben-Neudorf
  • Evangelical Association for Inner Mission AB
  • Catholic parishes of St. Nikolaus Graben and St. Wendelinus Neudorf
  • New Apostolic Church Graben-Neudorf

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council has 18 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
CDU 48.9% (−3.1) 9 (± 0)
SPD 29.5% (−3.7) 5 (−1)
Green 21.6% (+6.9) 4 (+1)
Turnout: 59.1% (+11.7)

mayor

The mayor is directly elected for eight years . Christian Eheim (SPD) has been in office since August 1, 2016. In the mayoral election on July 10, 2016, he received 57.1% of the valid votes.

Former incumbents:

  • Alois Köhler (CDU), 1972, official administrator, honorary citizen, died in 2012
  • Werner Juchler (SPD), 1972–2003, now retired, honorary citizen
  • Hans Dirk Reinwald (CDU), 2003–2016, now Lord Mayor of Leimen

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue two crossed silver shovels with a black handle, a silver paw cross."

Community partnerships

In 1980 the city of Usk in Wales and Graben-Neudorf made a mutual commitment to promote friendly relations as much as possible and thus to contribute to understanding between peoples, to the unification of Europe and to peace in the world.

There is also a partnership with Wilsdruff .

Economy and Infrastructure

Bruhrainbahn (left) and Rheintalbahn (right) in Graben-Neudorf.
SEW plant in Graben

traffic

Graben-Neudorf is a regional transport hub.

The Badische Rheinbahn ( Mannheim - Rastatt ) and the Bruhrainbahn ( Bruchsal - Germersheim ) cross at the Graben-Neudorf station . The federal highways 35 (Germersheim – Illingen ) and 36 (Mannheim – Rastatt) also run through the district . The B 35 has been bypassing Neudorf since 1977. A bypass of the B 36, which was laid for a good three kilometers on the existing route of the B 35, was opened to traffic on May 26, 2006.

Local businesses

The largest employer in the community is drive technology manufacturer SEW-Eurodrive with headquarters in nearby Bruchsal . This company has a plant in the Graben district with a total of around 1500 employees. Geholit-Werke has been located in the Graben district since it was founded in 1904. In 1975 these merged with the Heinrich Wiemer company to form GEHOLIT + WIEMER Lack- und Kunststoff-Chemie GmbH.

education

With the Pestalozzi Community School, the Adolf Kußmaul Primary School and the Erich Kästner Primary School, there are a total of three schools in Graben-Neudorf. There are also five kindergartens, two of which are run by the Evangelical Church , two by the Roman Catholic Church and one by the community.

The adult education center in Graben-Neudorf is a public institution for continuing education. As a branch office, it is under the legal sponsorship of the non-profit association adult education center in the Karlsruhe district . In accordance with its statutory mandate, it also devotes itself to youth education in addition to adult education.

Public facilities

Graben-Neudorf has an outdoor pool and a multi-purpose hall. The historic cemetery in the Graben district has been converted into a park. For this purpose, the war victims memorial was moved from the long standing location in front of the church to this park.

Culture and sights

Evangelical church in the district of Graben, rear view

Graben-Neudorf is located on the Baden Asparagus Road , which leads past many sights.

In the district of Graben there are some listed houses in the center (in the vicinity of the listed church), some of them dating from the 18th century.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), an important doctor and medical researcher, was born in the Graben district. A plaque commemorates his work, but the house where he was born on the site of today's Raiffeisenbank in the Graben district has been demolished.
  • Hermann Blau (1871–1944), engineer
  • Klaus Ferentschik (* 1957), writer
  • Michael Ehrich (* 1959), clergyman

Other personalities associated with the place

literature

  • Konrad Dussel: Dig. From a farming village to a modern industrial community. Edited by the community of Graben-Neudorf. Verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-439-5 (464 pages with 249 b / w illustrations and 29 color illustrations).
  • Municipality of Graben-Neudorf (Ed.): Neudorf. Home between Pfinz and Saalbach. Verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher, 1997, ISBN 978-3-929366-46-4 (560 p. with over 170, partly colored illustrations).
  • Community of Graben-Neudorf (Ed.): 25 years of Graben-Neudorf. Grown together - strengthened for the future. Verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 978-3-929366-47-1 (104 p. with 115, partly colored illustrations).

Web links

Commons : Graben-Neudorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Graben-Neudorf  - travel guide

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. 89-91.
  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. ^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal council elections 2019, Graben-Neudorf ; Graben-Neudorf municipality : municipal council election 2019 and municipal council election 2014 ; accessed July 9, 2019.
  5. Compilation of the results of the mayoral election on July 10, 2016. Graben-Neudorf municipality, July 11, 2016, accessed on the same day.
  6. Since midnight Leimen has had a new town hall chief. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, June 11, 2016, accessed on the same day.
  7. Road construction report 1977 (PDF; 10.2 MB)