Hassmersheim

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '  N , 9 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Neckar-Odenwald district
Height :	145 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.15 km 2
Residents:	4986 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	260 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74855
Primaries :	06266, 06261
License plate :	MOS, BCH
Community key :	08 2 25 033
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Theodor-Heuss-Str. 45 74855 Haßmersheim
Website :	hassmersheim.de
Mayor :	Michael Solomon ( SPD )
Location of the community Haßmersheim in the Neckar-Odenwald district

Haßmersheim from the Burg Hornberg seen from

Haßmersheim is a municipality in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg . 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

Geographical location

Haßmersheim is in the Neckar Valley at an altitude of 140 to 297 meters on the edge of the Neckar-Odenwald district and the Odenwald . The place is occasionally hit by floods, in the south the Dölchengraben flows into the Neckar from the left. Also in the south the district borders on the district of Heilbronn .

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border on Haßmersheim ( clockwise , starting in the west): Hüffenhardt , Obrigheim , Mosbach , Neckarzimmern (all Neckar-Odenwald district ), Gundelsheim , Bad Rappenau and Siegelsbach (all district Heilbronn ). With the municipality of Hüffenhardt, Haßmersheim has agreed the administrative community Haßmersheim-Hüffenhardt .

Community structure

The former communities Hochhausen and Neckarmühlbach belong to the community of Haßmersheim . The village of Haßmersheim belongs to the municipality of Haßmersheim within the borders of December 31, 1971. The village of Hochhausen and the Finkenhof farm belong to the former community of Hochhausen . The village of Neckarmühlbach, Guttenberg Castle and the barrage houses belong to the former municipality of Neckarmühlbach . In the municipality of Haßmersheim in the territorial status of December 31, 1971, the Hanloch desert is located - not proven with certainty.

geology

The so-called Haßmersheim layers are named after Haßmersheim , a fossil-bearing claystone and marl layer in the Upper Muschelkalk , which divides it horizontally into two aquifers .

history

With this certificate Götz von Berlichingen was enfeoffed with Hornberg Castle and Haßmersheim.

View of Haßmersheim (1833)

Old local road from Haßmersheim

Until the 17th century

The place Haßmersheim was mentioned for the first time on June 7th, 774 as "Hasmarsheim" in the Lorsch Codex under the document no. Further donations are registered under the documents nos. 2432 and 2433. In document no. 2447 on December 31, 792, the well-known name "Asmaresheim" is used. The current suburbs of Hochhausen and Neckarmühlbach were also mentioned in 788 and 856 respectively.

Haßmersheim is seen early in the Franconian Gau Wingarteiba , which came to the cathedral monastery of Worms in 976 ; but is also assigned to the Neckargau early on . The place itself was donated to the cathedral monastery by Emperor Konrad II in 1011 .

During this time, the Counts of Lauffen also appear in the documents as fiefs from Haßmersheim and Hornberg Castle on the opposite side of the Neckar. Later they were probably gaugers and also supervised the Neckar shipping in their area. Even later, Haßmersheim, or parts of it, was often given out as a fief together with Hornberg Castle or a part of Hornberg Castle. In 1325, the place fell to Konrad V and Engelhard-Konrad von Weinsberg when the Lords of Weinsberg divided the estate . The Haßmersheim ferry is first mentioned in 1330 . In a document from Emperor Charles IV from April 20, 1366, the Speyer Monastery was renewed its rights and possessions. Among the places listed: duo castra Hornberg, super flumine Neckar cum villis Zimmern ( Neckarzimmern ), Hasmersheim, Steinbach . In 1411 the Teutonic Order acquired the place, in 1416 Count Palatine Otto sold his share in the place. In 1457 the place was pledged to Hans the Rich von Gemmingen , who had owned Guttenberg Castle since 1449.

In 1474 Lutz Schott von Schottenstein lost the place to the Electoral Palatinate . In 1504 his son Conz Schott von Schottenstein was able to recapture the family property from the Count Palatine. He won two lawsuits for this recaptured property, which were subsequently carried out. In 1517 Götz von Berlichingen acquired Hornberg Castle together with Haßmersheim, Steinbach and Neckarzimmern as a fief. A mayor is proven in 1554 , in 1555 the Electoral Palatinate and with it Haßmersheim was reformed, but the place underwent several changes of faith due to the change of faith in the Electoral Palatinate until the 18th century .

During the Thirty Years' War the place was devastated several times, including in the summer of 1622 after the battle of Wimpfen . In 1624 Haßmersheim and other places in the Neckar Valley were plundered by Tilly to force the handover of Heidelberg . In 1626 and 1635 the plague raged in Haßmersheim. After 1660, resettlers from Switzerland and the Steyermark were admitted to repopulate the place . Another wave of plague hit the place in 1666.

18th and 19th centuries

Since there were members of several faiths in the village (rk, luth. Ref), a Lutheran church was built in 1711 and a church for the Reformed community in 1729. As early as 1699, the existing church on the Neckar became the property of the Roman Catholic Church.

From 1792 to 1799 the place was sacked by the French during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1813 Cossacks were quartered for a few weeks. In 1817 there was a famine. On October 30, 1824, the worst flood disaster of the 19th century tore down two houses in the village. The church building of the Reformed parish erected in 1729 was also badly damaged by the flood.

Haßmersheim was once considered the largest boatmen's village in southern Germany . In 1809 there was already its own guild. In 1812 51 of the 250 inhabitants were boatmen. In 1860 there were 73 boatmen with their own vehicles. From here the ancestors of Theodor Heuss started the first shipping traffic from Heilbronn to Holland in 1840 .

20th century

In the years 1917 and 1918 the Reichsschwefelwerk was built in Haßmersheim, in which the sulfur, which is important for the war effort, was produced with gypsum extracted from the gypsum tunnel in Neckarzimmern . The plant was largely dismantled after 1919 due to the Versailles Treaty . During the Second World War, the Allies bombed Haßmersheim on March 22, 1945 at around 10:45 a.m., as a result of which the air pressure of an exploding aircraft bomb completely destroyed Metzger's property in Neckarstrasse. Five days later the entire Todt organization left the place. On March 30, 1945, the Germans blew up the so-called Russenbrücke , which connected Haßmersheim with Neckarzimmern, and they also sank the adjacent ships. In 1930 Haßmersheim had around 1730 inhabitants. In 1935 the canalization of the Neckar from Mannheim to Heilbronn was completed. In 1936 the new Neckar ferry was opened. In 1939 there were 1644 inhabitants, at the end of 1945 it was 1799.

On January 1, 1972, Hochhausen was incorporated. Neckarmühlbach was added on February 1, 1972 . 1975 formed Haßmersheim with Hochhausen and Neckarmühlbach as well as Hüffenhardt with Kälbertshausen the administrative community Haßmersheim-Hüffenhardt with seat in Haßmersheim. In 1978 the community of Haßmersheim had around 4,150 inhabitants. In 1988 there was a referendum in favor of keeping the ferry.

Religions

With multiple changes of denomination in the Electoral Palatinate , Haßmersheim was Reformed from 1554, Lutheran from 1555, later Calvinist Reformed, from 1585 Reformed again, and Calvinist Reformed again in 1648. From 1698 onwards, Catholics can be found on site again, and in 1711 the Electoral Palatinate became Catholic again. Since there were members of both faiths in the village, the local church was temporarily used as a simultaneous church. Both denominations have since renewed their churches. Today Haßmersheim is predominantly evangelical . However, there is also a Roman Catholic and a New Apostolic congregation.

politics

Old Town Hall

mayor

• 1791–1809: Johann Peter Dörr
• 1809–1814: Christoph Kessler, jg.
• 1814–1822: Franz Schadt
• 1822–1837: Benjamin Heuss IV.
• 1837–1843: Georg Frank
• 1843–1848: Louis Kessler
• 1848–1850: Georg Heinrich Heuss
• 1850–1865: Friedrich Kühnle
• 1865-1888: Benjamin VI. Heinrich Heuss
• 1888–1890: Karl Heuss
• 1890–1923: Heinrich Witter
• 1923–1945: Karl Heck
• 1945–1946: Adam Schmitt
• January 14, 1946 to December 31, 1961: Martin Schmitt
• January 1, 1962 to December 31, 1989: Norbert Ackermann
• January 1, 1990 to January 11, 2014: Marcus Dietrich
• since January 12, 2014: Michael Solomon

Municipal council

The parish council normally has 16 honorary members who are elected for five years. The number of municipal councils can be increased by compensating seats (2019: 17 members). In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights.

The Unechte Teilorteschahl guarantees the districts a fixed number of seats: At least eleven councilors come from the main town of Haßmersheim, three from Hochhausen and two from Neckarmühlbach.

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

Municipal Council 2019
Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
Free voters	36.4% (+11.5)	6 (+2)
SPD	25.4% (−6.7)	5 (−1)
CDU / Independent Free Voters	24.6% (−10.2)	4 (−2)
Citizens List / Greens	13.7% (+4.5)	2 (± 0)
Turnout: 59.7% (+ 7.1)

coat of arms

The blazon reads: In a divided shield above, diagonally roughened in blue and silver (white), below in silver (white) on black vine with two green leaves a blue grape. The silver, white and blue alarm clocks document the affiliation to the former Electoral Palatinate , while the grape testifies to the former importance of viticulture in the community.

Partner communities

• Chartres-de-Bretagne ( Ille-et-Vilaine , France )
• Oderwitz ( Saxony , Germany )

Economy and Infrastructure

Haßmersheim train stop (renovation in September 2014)

Pedestrian bridge in Haßmersheim (opened in September 2014)

The Haßmersheim chain ferry operated until the bridge opened in September 2014.

traffic

Rail transport

The Haßmersheim train station is on the opposite side of the Neckar and can be reached via a pedestrian and bicycle bridge . From here there is a direct connection via the Neckar Valley Railway with the Stadtbahn Heilbronn line S41 in the direction of Bad Friedrichshall - Neckarsulm - Heilbronn or Neckarelz - Mosbach . Regional trains on the Mosbach-Neckarelz-Bad Friedrichshall-Heilbronn route stopped every hour in Haßmersheim, which continued to Stuttgart (- Ulm ) several times a day , and occasional regional express trains on the Mannheim-Heidelberg-Mosbach-Heilbronn route. With the 2014/2015 timetable change on December 14, 2014, these were mostly replaced by the S41, which usually runs every hour.

Until the opening of the pedestrian bridge in September 2014, there was the electrically powered Haßmersheim ferry .

Road traffic

The B 27 also runs on the opposite side of the Neckar . The next motorway exit ( Bad Rappenau ) to the A 6 ( Mannheim - Stuttgart ) is 15 km away.

Established businesses

• Motip-Dupli GmbH: manufacturer of paint - spray cans (main production site in Germany)
• Fibro GmbH: Tool and machine factory; Subsidiary of the Heilbronn company Läpple . Product areas: rotary tables and tool making - standard parts ; Fibro Läpple Technologie GmbH, another subsidiary of Läpple AG.

Educational institutions

With the Friedrich-Heuss-Schule , Haßmersheim has a community school . In addition, both the Mosbach adult education center and the Mosbach music school have a branch or branch in Haßmersheim. There are also four municipal kindergartens , one of which is a forest kindergarten , and a Catholic kindergarten .

Culture and sights

Haßmersheim is part of the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park and is located on several regional and national recreational routes , namely on the Burgenstrasse , on the Swabian Dichterstrasse , on the Neckarsteig long-distance hiking trail , on the Neckar Valley cycle path and on the salt and brine cycle path.

Guttenberg Castle in the Neckarmühlbach district

Haßmersheim old malt house

Buildings

• The historic old town hall in the center of the town was given a new local well in 1998. The New Town Hall was built in 1939. Behind him is the community gymnasium and festival hall.
• The Evangelical Church dates from 1829. It was built after the Lutheran and Reformed congregations merged.
• The Catholic Church was built in 1882 on the site of older predecessor buildings. Historical high water marks can be seen on the Catholic Church . The Catholic rectory was built by the Teutonic Order in 1756 , the associated barn in 1802.
• Friedrichsschule from 1902, named after the Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden , who celebrated his 50th anniversary in office in the year of construction. Next to the school house is the Schiffermuseum in the former Protestant school building.
• Cenotaph with memorial stones for the dead of both world wars
• The old malt house , which together with its outbuildings looks like a castle with bay windows , balconies , dormer windows and battlements, dates back to the time of the First World War . The building was erected between April 20, 1917 and December 4, 1918 as a silo building for BASF in connection with the Reichsschwefelwerk in Haßmersheim.
• Haßmersheim ferry (initially yaw ferry to the Neckar sewer, since then chain ferry or overhead line ferry ) to the Haßmersheim train station on the other side of the Neckar (discontinued in September 2014 in favor of a new bridge)
• The cement works in Haßmersheim was built between 1958 and 1960 by the Bücker-Flürenbrock AG company.
• Guttenberg Castle with castle museum and birds of prey in the Neckarmühlbach district
• The Neckarsteg Haßmersheim is a 222 m long cable-stayed bridge with a steel composite cross-section, which makes the train stop on the other side of the Neckar accessible for pedestrians and cyclists from Haßmersheim. Motor vehicles are not allowed to drive on the bridge. With the completion of the bridge, the ferry service was completely stopped.

Neckarsteg Haßmersheim, completed in September 2014

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Karl Heuss (born January 12, 1828 in Haßmersheim; † July 9, 1908 in Mannheim), honorary citizen of Haßmersheim in accordance with a municipal council resolution of July 25, 1903, on the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary, Mayor of Haßmersheim 1888-1890, great-uncle of Federal President Theodor Heuss .
• Heinrich Witter (* December 28, 1845 in Haßmersheim; † February 12, 1924 ibid.), Honorary citizen of Haßmersheim in accordance with a municipal council resolution of May 25, 1923, on the occasion of the inauguration of his successor as Mayor of Haßmersheim, after he had held this office for 33 years . In addition, the Bgm.-Witter-Straße was later named after him.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Otto Dietrich von Gemmingen (1647–1695), nobleman and landlord
• Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen (1676–1757), imperial knight and director of the knight canton of Kraichgau
• Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen (1744–1805), Colonel and Chamberlain
• Georg Adam Kühnle (1796–1863), industrialist, founder of the mechanical engineering company Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch in Frankenthal (Palatinate) .
• Friedrich Heuss (1804–1870), skipper, manufacturer and active in the 1848 revolution, nickname Neckarnapoleon
• Wilhelm Bader Sr. (1846–1927), organ builder
• Pius Lipp (1883–1952), local painter
• Emma Zimmer (1888–1948), concentration camp guard in several concentration camps
• Lydia Pfeifer (1894-1940), teacher's daughter, lived before her assassination in grafeneck the under medical murders in the era of National Socialism in Kork Epilepsy Center , where a house and a way are named after her.
• Erich Otto Kühn (1902–1979), evangelical pastor and founder of the Neckarauer Liebeswerke

Other persons connected with Haßmersheim

• Franz Xaver Stocker (1809–1875), doctor and revolutionary in the Baden revolution of 1848/49, practiced as a doctor in Haßmersheim for over a decade from 1846, with interruptions
• Gabriele von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (* 1935), politician (CDU), has lived at Guttenberg Castle since 1961
• Susanne Stephan (* 1963), writer, grew up in Haßmersheim
• The family of Theodor Heuss (1884-1963), the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany , comes from Haßmersheim.

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. 281–284
3. ↑ Geological and hydrogeological structure of the Heilbronner Mulde. (No longer available online.) State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg , archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved October 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2431 June 7th, 774 - Reg. 1023. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 134 , accessed on April 21, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2447 December 31, 792 - Reg. 2411. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 139 , accessed on April 21, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2457, May 26th, 788 - Reg. 2024. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 142 , accessed on February 29, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Fritz Müssig: Sections of our home community Haßmersheim in the course of contemporary history. (PDF) Retrieved May 20, 2018 . 
8. ^ Notices from the Württemberg and Baden statistical offices No. 2: Results of the population census on December 31, 1945 in North Baden
9. ^ 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. 477 .
10. ↑ Leutkircher becomes the youngest mayor nationwide. Schwäbische Zeitung, November 10, 2013, accessed on January 12, 2014 (contains the career of M. Salomo). 
11. ^ Municipality of Haßmersheim: main statute, §12 (PDF) ; accessed July 2, 2019.
12. ^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, Haßmersheim ; Municipality of Haßmersheim: Public announcement of the results of the election of the municipal council on May 26, 2019 (PDF) ; Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , May 27, 2019: This is the new local council in Haßmersheim ; accessed July 2, 2019.
13. ^ Coat of arms Haßmersheim. LEO-BW, accessed March 6, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Timetable for lines S41 and S42 ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Friedrich Heuss School in Haßmersheim. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
16. ^ Volkshochschule Mosbach eV, branch in Haßmersheim. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Musikschule Mosbach eV, branch in Haßmersheim. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
18. ^ Community of Haßmersheim: day care facilities in Haßmersheim. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
19. ^ Forest kindergarten on the Mühlbach - The website of the Haßmersheim forest kindergarten on Eselsteige. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Catholic Kindergarten St. Christophorus Haßmersheim. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Salt & brine cycle path. (No longer available online.) City of Bad Rappenau , archived from the original on February 5, 2015 ; Retrieved February 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
22. ^ Reichsschwefelwerk Haßmersheim by Dr. Volker Gierth, Mosbach
23. ↑ Fritz Müssig: Sections of our home community Haßmersheim in the course of contemporary history. (PDF) Retrieved May 20, 2018 . 
24. ^ Fritz Müssig: The street names of the last 200 years - data collection on the local history of Haßmersheim am Neckar. (PDF) Retrieved May 20, 2018 . 
25. ↑ Lydia Pfeifer - A victim fate. (PDF) In: Archive News No.32. Baden-Württemberg State Archives, November 2006, accessed on January 27, 2020 . 

literature

• Konrad Dussel : Haßmersheim - The history of the Schiffergemeinde and its districts Hochhausen and Neckarmühlbach . regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2013, ISBN 978-3-89735-786-0 .
• Hermann Wirth: History of the market town Haßmersheim am Neckar . Self-published by the author, Heidelberg 1862 ( full text in the Google book search).
• Haßmersheim village register 1588–1732 . ( Digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library).

Web links

Commons : Haßmersheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Haßmersheim  - travel guide

• Internet presence of the community of Haßmersheim
• LEO-BW, discover regional studies online Haßmersheim
• Environment theme park