Grantschen
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Grantschen
City of Weinsberg
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| Height : | 194 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 2.1 km² |
| Residents : | 810 (Jun 30, 2009) |
| Population density : | 386 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1973 |
| Postal code : | 74189 |
| Area code : | 07134 |
 Location of Grantschen in Weinsberg
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Grantschen is a suburb of the city of Weinsberg and is located in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg . The former community was on 1 January 1973 as the village incorporated into the town vineyard. It has 810 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2009) and an area of 2.10 km².
geography
Grantschen extends less than half a kilometer north of the small river Sulm on the still low right edge hills. A little to the north of the village edge, the terrain rises steeply to the edge of the town marker on the ridge of the Wildenberg , on whose slope on this side wine is grown. On the northern edge of the village, the only 1.3 km long Wetterischbach arises, which flows through it and flows into the Sulm from the right on Ellhofen . In the northeast, about two kilometers behind a hill cultivated by winegrowers, is the wine-growing town of Wimmental, which also belongs to Weinsberg . A little closer to the southeast is the Obersulmer suburb of Sülzbach . The closest settlement neighbor, however, is Ellhofen, which is hardly more than half a kilometer away in the south on the other side of the Sulm; its municipality marker borders hard in the southeast and south on the edge of the Grantschen development. On the Wildenberg slope in the west, the district of the main town of Weinsberg meets, its town center is more than two and a half kilometers away as the crow flies in a west-southwest direction, it can only be reached on the usual traffic routes via the Ellhofen district. The neighboring town of Eberstadt in the north is about the same distance behind the impassable Wildenberg.
history
The place name Grantschen was originally written Granzesheim , later Gransheim , and indicates that the place is part of the oldest Germanic settlement wave in the Sulmtal. The remains of Neolithic and Roman settlements that have been found testify that people also lived here earlier . Two Neolithic settlements can be found on Grantschen markings: one in the Lufenäckern , 300 m long and 200 m wide, another in the Borchäcker district . The finds (broken glass, stone tools, arrowheads) are in the Heilbronn Museum.
Grantschen was first mentioned in a document in 1037 in the Öhringer foundation letter and later belonged to the von Weinsberg family . In 1412 half of it, in 1440 (together with Weinsberg) all of it went to the Electoral Palatinate and in 1504 became part of Württemberg . In the Peasants' War in 1525 it was not destroyed like Weinsberg, as stated in the description of the Oberamts. Apparently only two poor assessors without citizenship (Caspar Weyß and Jakob Haintzelman) took part in the uprising.
From 1755 Grantschen belonged to the office or later Oberamt Weinsberg . This did not change with the implementation of the new administrative structure in the Kingdom of Württemberg at the beginning of the 19th century. Only an administrative reform carried out by the People's State of Württemberg in 1926 led to the dissolution of the Oberamt Weinsberg, so that Grantschen came to the Oberamt Heilbronn . In 1933 354 inhabitants were counted, in 1939 there were 359 and at the end of 1945 there were 445. Since the place had become part of the American occupation zone after the Second World War , it belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden since 1945 , which was in 1952 in the current state of Baden -Wuerttemberg rose.
In a public hearing on March 26, 1972, the citizens of Grantschen decided by a large majority for voluntary integration into the city of Weinsberg. The integration contract was signed on March 27, 1972, and the incorporation into the city of Weinsberg took place on January 1, 1973.
Religions
The Protestant Christians in Grantschen belong to the Evangelical Parish Sülzbach in the Weinsberg-Neuenstadt church district of the Evangelical State Church in Württemberg , which has around 1,700 members, 530 of them from Grantschen (as of 2008). The Catholic parish of St. Oswald in Wimmental is responsible for Catholic Christians.
politics
Local council and local council
Two seats are reserved for representatives of Grantschen in the Weinsberg municipal council. Since Weinsberg chooses part of the town after the Unechte , the Grantschen representatives are not only elected by the residents of Grantschen, but by all the Weinsbergers.
At each local election, a local council with six members is elected by the eligible population of Grantschen , who is heard on important matters affecting the locality. Since the 2009 election, the Weinsberg 1950 Free Voters' Association (FWV) and the CDU have each represented three members in the Grantschen local council. There were no other nominations other than FWV or CDU.
Mayor
At the suggestion of Ortschaftsrats out of Weinberger council elects a volunteer for each village mayor . In Grantschen this is (as of 2009) Jörg Steinbrenner.
badges and flags
Blazon : "In red a silver mark in the form of a double-armed, gable-shaped roofed stand cross with angle arms, in the right silver upper corner a red grape."
The flag colors of Grantschen are white and red.
In 1930 the Grantschen official seal contained the stain mark, surrounded by two branches of laurel. In 1939 the archives department of the municipality proposed a coat of arms with a split shield in front in blue a gold key, in back in gold a blue vineyard shape with a black handle. As an attribute of St. Peter , the key should point to the oldest known owner of Grantschen, who was dedicated to St. Petrus and Paulus consecrated monastery Öhringen, the Weinberghape on viticulture. Because of the outbreak of war, the proposal was no longer pursued and only taken up again in 1956. The community wanted the spot mark in the coat of arms, but also wanted viticulture to be represented, which was then included in the Obereck. The red and white colors of the coat of arms adopted in 1956 are those of the Lords of Weinsberg, who succeeded the Öhringer Stift as the owner of Grantschen.
societies
The most important clubs in Grantschen are the sports club TV Grantschen 1907 and the rural women’s club Grantschen.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
With Ellhofen , Wimmental and Weinberg Grantschen is connected through the circuit road K 2113th The federal motorway 6 leads directly past Grantschen in the north, but has no junction here ; the next one is in Weinsberg. Local public transport is handled by buses, the next train station is a little more than a kilometer away in Ellhofen on the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway line , where there is also a connection to the S4 line of the Heilbronn or Karlsruhe light rail .
economy
Grantschen is a traditional wine-growing place. The Grantschen winegrowing cooperative, which was founded in 1947 and also included winegrowers from Ellhofen and Wimmental , was also known nationwide for its wines and was merged with the Heilbronn-Erlenbach-Weinsberg cooperative in 2014 . Carola Geiger from Grantschen was first elected Württemberg Wine Queen in 1983 and then German Wine Queen . In Grantschen there are no designated industrial areas, so most of the residents are employed in the surrounding towns and communities.
education
Grantschen and Wimmental share the primary school in Grantschen / Wimmental. All secondary schools are in Weinsberg .
care
shop
Grantschen himself has hardly any supply facilities. Almost all items of daily use are available in nearby Ellhofen. The city of Heilbronn can also be reached quickly.
water
Grantschen was connected to the Lake Constance water supply on October 18, 1987 .
Buildings
Evangelical Peace Church
The Protestant Church of Peace in Grantschen by the architect Hans Schäfer (Ilsfeld; 1933-2016) was built from 1963 to 1964. The tower with a steep gable roof is only connected to the church building through the sacristy. In 2001 an annex was added to the north for community work. The artistic design of the church was taken over by Hans Epple (Flein; 1927-2006). The north gable wall, clad on the inside with irregular polygonal natural stone slabs, contains a large round window with the radiant Easter sun glazing above the altar, and the baptismal window below behind the baptismal font. The other colored windows are also predominantly made of Dall or concrete glass and also thematically specified with wrought-iron symbols: the west side, in the classical church building the sphere of calamity and evil, is assigned to the biblical discord (snake, flood, crown of thorns). The east side, facing divine salvation, contains symbols of peace that are due to Christ (manger, rainbow, dove of peace, bread and wine under the crown of life). The principles (altar, baptismal font, pulpit) made of concrete elements are also decorated with wrought-iron symbols according to their meaning.
Individual evidence
- ^ Source for population and area: Yearbook for the City of Weinsberg 2009 , p. 103
- ↑ Stream name and length according to the water network layer (AWGN) from: Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
- ↑ Hartmut Gräf: The offices of Neuenstadt am Kocher and Weinsberg at the turn of the modern era . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2004 (research from Württembergisch Franken, 51), ISBN 3-7995-7652-5 . P. 94
- ↑ Communications of the Württemberg Stat. State Office No. 4/5 of December 10, 1940: Results of the population and occupational census on May 17, 1939
- ^ Results of the population census and determination of residence on December 4, 1945 in northern Württemberg
- ^ 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. 451 .
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Sülzbach
- ^ Description of the Friedenskirche and its artistic equipment
literature
- Rudolf Hörbe: Chronicle Grantschen . Rudolf Hörbe, [Weinsberg] 2007
