Hüffenhardt

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Neckar-Odenwald district
Height :	292 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.62 km 2
Residents:	2091 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	119 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74928
Area code :	06268
License plate :	MOS, BCH
Community key :	08 2 25 042
LOCODE :	DE HFF
Community structure:	2 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Reisengasse 1 ; 74928 Hüffenhardt
Website :	www.hueffenhardt.de
Mayor :	Walter Neff ( SPD )
Location of the community of Hüffenhardt in the Neckar-Odenwald district

Hüffenhardt (local: Hiffelde) is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg . The community is located in the southwest of the Neckar-Odenwald district on a hill just a few kilometers west of the Neckar between Odenwald and Kraichgau - around 30 km southeast of the city of Heidelberg . It belongs to the European metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar (until May 20, 2003 the Lower Neckar region and until December 31, 2005 the Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region ).

geography

location

The community consists of two localities: the main town Hüffenhardt is located with 1536 inhabitants in the south of the district and the sub-town Kälbertshausen with 533 inhabitants in the north.

The municipality is partly in the Neckartal-Odenwald nature park between 219 and 338 meters above sea level. Part of the district is not drained to the Neckar , which is a few kilometers to the east , but to the west with the Wollenbach. The Hüttigsmühle, part of Hüffenhardt, is in the Wollenbachtal valley.

Neighboring places

The neighboring towns are Obrigheim and Hochhausen in the north, Haßmersheim and Neckarmühlbach in the east . In the south , Siegelsbach , which belongs to the district of Heilbronn , and the Bad Rappenau district of Wollenberg , and in the west, Helmstadt-Bargen , which belongs to the Rhein-Neckar district , border on the municipality.

Community structure

The former municipality of Kälbertshausen belongs to the municipality of Hüffenhardt . The Wüsthausen homestead, the Hüttigsmühle houses and the Hofsteden desolation belonged to the Hüffenhardt community within the boundaries of December 31, 1974 .

In Kälbertshausen, a locality has been set up within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code with its own local council and mayor as its chairman.

history

Hüffenhardt

The earliest traces of settlement in Hüffenhardt, burial mounds discovered in the Langherd area in 1844 , date to the Neolithic Age (3rd millennium BC). The Romans also left their mark. Continuous settlement up to the present day cannot be proven. Today's Hüffenhardt was probably not built until the 10th century and was first mentioned on the occasion of a gift from Erchenbert von Röttingen to Hirsau Monastery in 1083 . The donation book of the Reichenbach monastery in the Black Forest states that a Hufelinhart estate was owned by the Reichenbach monks around 1150.

In the High Middle Ages, the feudal lords of the place under the sovereignty of the diocese of Worms were the lords of Guttenberg Castle, i.e. from 1417 the lords of Weinsberg , from 1449 the lords of Gemmingen . From 1497 the von Gemmingen had the high jurisdiction (blood spell) over the place. In addition, the Ritterstift in Wimpfen , the Guttenberger Eucharius Chaplaincy , Wimpfen citizens, a Veit von Helmstatt and others had possessions here. Around 1525, the (Lutheran) Reformation was introduced by the Lords of Gemmingen .

In the Bargen corridor was the lost Hüffenhardt Castle, from which the remains of the walls were excavated in 1900.

Around the year 1600 Hüffenhardt had around 400 inhabitants, but the following Thirty Years' War decimated the population to six households. In the second half of the 17th century, the von Gemmingen people also settled protective Jews . In 1806 Hüffenhardt came to the newly created Grand Duchy of Baden as an independent municipality . There it initially belonged to the Neckarbischofsheim district office . When this was dissolved in 1864, Hüffenhardt came to the district office of Mosbach , which became the district of the same name in 1938 . During the Second World War, American troops bombed the village on Easter Sunday 1945, destroying 12 houses and barns. In 1939 there were 891 inhabitants, at the end of 1945 there were 1130. In the course of the Baden-Württemberg district reform in 1973 , Hüffenhardt became part of the new Neckar-Odenwald district .

Incorporations

Kälbertshausen was incorporated into Hüffenhardt on January 1, 1975.

Religions

From the Reformation until after the Second World War , the population was mainly evangelical . The Catholic refugees who poured in after the war increased the proportion of Catholics to around 27 percent today. There is a separate Protestant parish in Hüffenhardt and Kälbertshausen. Hüffenhardt and Kälbertshausen are branches of the Roman Catholic parish of Siegelsbach.

There was a small Jewish community that arose during the 17th century and was destroyed during the Nazi era . The synagogue was completely destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 ; the parishioners fled abroad or were deported to concentration camps.

politics

City Hall Hüffenhardt

mayor

The mayor is directly elected for eight years.

1994–2010: Bruno Herberich
Since March 12, 2010: Walter Neff, re-elected in 2018.

Municipal council

The municipal council normally has 12 members, possibly supplemented by compensatory seats (2014: 13 members), who are elected for five years. In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights.

The Unechte Teilorteschahl guarantees the districts a fixed number of seats: from Hüffenhardt there are at least nine, from Kälbertshausen at least two councilors.

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

Municipal Council 2019
Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
Free group of voters (FWG)	40.6% (−17.4)	5 (−2)
Citizens for Citizens (BfB)	39.0% (+39.0)	5 (+5)
Free voters	12.9% (−9.3)	2 (−1)
Turnout: 67.2% (+8.4)

coat of arms

In a split shield in front in red a fallen golden (yellow) ploughshare, behind in blue two golden (yellow) bars. The ploughshare in the front field of the coat of arms tinged in the Baden colors is Hüffenhardt's mark , which has also appeared on boundary stones and in community seals since the 18th century. The left field shows the Gemmingian coat of arms in allusion to the former local rule from 1449 to 1805, the lords of Gemmingen .

In the time of the imperial knighthood, the municipality of Hüffenhardt had a coat of arms with a ploughshare, two lions as shield holders and a crown. In 1895, the government of the Grand Duchy of Baden objected to shield holders and crowns in the coats of arms of rural communities and pushed for the affected community coats of arms to be changed. A coat of arms proposal from 1904 with a single golden ploughshare on a red background was initially rejected by the local council. The current coat of arms was determined by the State Archives Directorate in 1960.

Community partnerships

A partnership has existed with Champvans in France since April 19, 1980 and with Máriakálnok in Hungary since May 28, 2005.

Culture and sights

Evangelical Church from 1738

Buildings and monuments

The baroque Protestant church in its current form dates from 1738, when the nave was rebuilt. Inside the church, spanned by a historic barrel vault, there is a historic Overmann organ on a two-story wooden gallery. The parapet of the gallery on the first gallery is decorated with Bible scenes painted in oil. The altar is made of wood with veneer and inlay work, which is rarely found in the Kraichgau and the Kleiner Odenwald. Behind the altar is a historic pulpit decorated in baroque style. The font was donated in the late 18th century. In the church there is also a historical Helmstatt epitaph with an almost life-size sandstone sculpture.

In front of the Protestant church there is a memorial for those who took part in the war in 1870/71 and a war memorial from 1927 for those who fell in 1914–18 (after the war the names of the dead 1939–45 were added). The historic Protestant rectory and a modern fountain round off the ensemble around the Protestant church.

The Catholic Church is a modern, functional building from the 20th century.

Portal of the Evangelical Church
Evangelical church, gallery with Overmann organ
War memorial from 1927
Catholic Church

Elementary school

The town hall is a beautiful half-timbered building from 1559, which has existed in its current form since a renovation in 1861. In front of the town hall there is a modern local fountain with a girl. Further historical half-timbered houses and further fountains have been preserved in the entire center of Hüffenhardt .
In addition to the classical school building of the elementary school from 1895/96 with its brick facade, there is also the Protestant school building built in 1848 .

Fountain figure at the town hall
Evang. school
Evang. Rectory
Hist. Truss

Water tower

A plaque commemorates the local poet on the house where Karl Schramm was born.
Along the road to Siegelbach are several historical landmarks, including next wayside crosses the extraordinary Ruhbank with hours stone and the Hussars stone called atonement stone for a 1799 French soldiers killed.
On a hill on the outskirts in the direction of Kälbertshausen there is a water tower that can be seen from afar .

Hist. Well in front of half-timbered shed
Karl Schramm's birthplace
Hussar stone
Hour stone of the Ruhbank

Culture

After the Second World War, Hüffenhardt was the hometown of the painter Edgar John , after whom a street has now been named. The birthplace of the local poet Karl Schramm, after whom a street is also named, is also located in the village.

Sports clubs and sports facilities

In Hüffenhardt there are several sports clubs that cover a wide variety of sporting activities.

The Hüffenhardter Sportverein eV has over 700 members. The main sport is football , which is divided into different age groups. The club has a Bambini team, several youth teams (partly in syndicates ), two men's teams and an old men's team. There was also a women's team in the club, but this has now been canceled from the game. In addition to football, the club also offers other leisure activities.

There is also a small-caliber rifle club in Hüffenhardt (KKS Hüffenhardt for short) and the association of dog lovers in the Kälbertshausen district .

Sports and leisure facilities:

Hüffenhardt sports field
Hüffenhardt riding facility
Hüffenhardt tennis court
Rifle house Hüffenhardt
Soccer field (in the new development area)
Playground in the new development area
Playground with hard court (in the schoolyard)
Playground (Kantstrasse)

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In addition to the headquarters in neighboring Siegelsbach, Mann & Schröder also operates a parent plant in Hüffenhardt. Cosmetics and body care products are produced here in several halls.

traffic

Rail transport

Hüffenhardt is the end point of the Krebsbachtalbahn to Neckarbischofsheim Nord . Regular passenger traffic was discontinued on August 1, 2009. On Sundays and public holidays from May to October there are excursions with Uerdingen rail buses .

Public transport

Mosbach and Haßmersheim can be reached from Hüffenhardt with the bus lines 828 and 822 of the Busverkehr Rhein-Neckar GmbH . At night, on Saturdays and Sundays, there is a service with collective call taxis that replace regular bus journeys.

PlatinaBus also operates line 795 to Bad Rappenau and Helmstadt .

Educational institutions

In Hüffenhardt there is a primary school and a kindergarten for all children in the community.

energy

To the east of Hüffenhardt, EnBW AG operates a large substation, which also includes a 116-meter-high freestanding steel lattice tower.

Social

The Neckar-Odenwald-Kliniken in Hüffenhardt operate a residential and care center with 135 places for the elderly and those in need of care . The residential and care center was expanded in 2007 to include 45 places in “future-oriented forms of living”. In addition, patients with apallic syndrome and dementia are cared for in a closed area. In October 2019, the district council of the Neckar-Odenwald district decided to sell it to a private company.

Café Bea is located in the basement of the annex and is open to residents and the public on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Rail bus in the final station Hüffenhardt of the Krebsbachtalbahn
Hüffenhardt substation with radio tower

Personalities

Associated with Hüffenhardt

Edgar John (1913–1996), painter and press illustrator, lived in Hüffenhardt from 1943

Individual evidence

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↑ Alexanderrechner: Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis gives up the residential and care center. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, October 18, 2019, accessed on the same day.