Herrenberg

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Coat of arms of the city of Herrenberg
Herrenberg
Map of Germany, position of the city of Herrenberg highlighted

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '  N , 8 ° 52'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Boeblingen
Height : 460 m above sea level NHN
Area : 65.71 km 2
Residents: 31,545 (31 December 2018)
Population density : 480 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 71083
Area code : 07032
License plate : BB, LEO
Community key : 08 1 15 021
City structure: Core city and 7 districts

City administration address :
Marktplatz 5
71083 Herrenberg
Website : herrenberg.de
Lord Mayor : Thomas Sprißler ( Free Voters )
Location of the city of Herrenberg in the Boeblingen district
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Old town and collegiate church

Herrenberg is a city in the middle of Baden-Württemberg , about 30 km southwest of Stuttgart and 20 km west of Tübingen . It is the fourth largest city in terms of population and the largest city in the district of Böblingen and forms a central center for the surrounding communities. Herrenberg has been a major district town since January 1st, 1974 . The city ​​of Herrenberg has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the municipalities of Deckpfronn and Nufringen .

geography

Geographical location

Marketplace

Herrenberg lies at the foot of the Schlossberg , an extension of the Schönbuch into the Korngäu or Upper Gäu . The Ammer , a small left tributary of the Neckar, rises in the western part of the city . The entire core urban area of ​​Herrenberg is located in a depression between the Schönbuch in the east, the Black Forest foothills in the west and parts of the upper Gäus in the north and south, each higher up. Like a large basin, the Herrenberg urban area is therefore dependent on the runoff of all precipitation via the Aischbach and further over the Ammer, which still flows in a wide valley, which is still in a wide valley, but then at Reusten through a ditch-like narrow structure that also unites the Herrenberg basin south-eastern, almost complete hydrological closure. Thus the districts of Oberjesingen, Kuppingen, Affstätt and Haslach are noticeably higher than the core city, Mönchberg and Kayh at a similar height on the south-western slope of the Schönbuch, and Validstein is slightly lower in the valley of the Ammer.

The Herrenberg collegiate church is 442  m above sea level. NN . The lookout point on the castle ruins is 522 m above sea level. The lowest point of the urban area is 377.5 m in the Ammer between the district of Validstein and the neighboring Ammerbuch-Altingen, the highest near the so-called "Dreiländereck", the current district boundary between ceilingpfronn, Wildberg and Herrenberg, at 602.03 m Height.

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border the city of Herrenberg. They are named in clockwise direction, starting in the north:
ceiling Pfronn , Gärtringen , Nufringen , Hildrizhausen and Altdorf (all districts Böblingen ), Ammerbuch ( district Tübingen ), Gäufelden and Jettingen (both districts Böblingen) and Wildberg ( district Calw ).

City structure

In addition to the "core town", the municipality of Herrenberg also includes seven other incorporated suburbs (population figures as of November 2018, when 15,674 of a total of 32,801 residents were residents of the core town):

district coat of arms Incorporation Residents
Affstätt Affstätt coat of arms September 1, 1965 2087
Valid stone Coat of arms of Gvalstein July 1, 1975 3459
Haslach Haslach coat of arms 1st December 1971 1711
Kayh Kayh Coat of Arms 1st December 1971 1633
Kuppingen Kuppingen coat of arms 1st December 1971 4112
Mönchberg Coat of arms of Mönchberg 1st December 1971 1135
Oberjesingen Coat of arms of Oberjesingen March 1, 1972 2990

The districts are officially named by the prefixed name of the city and by the subsequent name of the respective district connected with a hyphen. The city districts also form residential districts within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . In addition, with the exception of the Herrenberg district, localities within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code with their own local council and mayor have been set up in the districts. There are local administrations (district offices) in the districts.

The Affstätt district includes the village of Affstätt and the abandoned village of Hasenhof. The district of Gvalstein includes the village Gvalstein and the houses Gasssteiner Mühle, Kochmühle and Sägmühle as well as the abandoned villages of Kampf- or Karpfhaus and Mohrhof. The Haslach district includes the village of Haslach and the Steinbruch house. The Herrenberg district includes the town of Herrenberg, the Third Ammermühle, Talhof and Second Ammermühle farms and the Altenbergen, Erste Ammermühle, Gutleuthaustal and Leiblesgrube houses as well as the abandoned towns of Ammerowe, Mühlhausen, Raistingen, Waldbruderhaus, Waldhaus and Woldowe. Kayh Village is part of the Kayh District. The village of Kuppingen and the abandoned village of Wehlingen belong to the district of Kuppingen. The village of Mönchberg belongs to the Mönchberg district. The village of Oberjesingen belongs to the Oberjesingen district.

Furthermore, in the core city, further residential areas with their own names are sometimes distinguished, the names of which have emerged in the course of history due to the development and which, however, are usually not precisely delimitable. These include, for example, Kirchhalde and Längenholz, Affstätter Tal in the north, Alzental, Altstadt, Ehbühl and Ziegelfeld in the east, Holdergraben in the west.

Spatial planning

Herrenberg forms a middle center within the Stuttgart region , the upper center of which is the city of Stuttgart . The central area of ​​Herrenberg also includes the communities in the southwest of the Boeblingen district, namely Bondorf , Deckpfronn , Gäufelden , Jettingen , Mötzingen and Nufringen .

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

The merian engraving, created before the town fire of 1635. Herrenberg Castle is on the left, the Herrenberg Collegiate Church is shown in the middle .
Herrenberg 1683, forest inventory book by Andreas Kieser
On a cobblestone market square there are some large carts, a town hall with a small clock and bell tower, to the right of which a higher-lying square with several half-timbered houses can be reached via a staircase.  Behind it, a little higher on a mountain, a large church with a massive church tower, the top cannot be seen because of the edge of the picture.
Herrenberg market square, 1908

middle Ages

Herrenberg emerged from the hamlets of Mühlhausen and Raistingen , which merged into the city of Herrenberg when the city was founded in the 13th century. Margrave Heinrich von Ronsberg donated large estates around Altingen and Herrenberg to the Ottobeuren monastery in 1182 . Count Palatine Rudolf von Tübingen documented “castrum nostrum herrenberc” in 1228 . Around 1245 Herrenberg was under Rudolf III. von Tübingen seat of the rulership of the Count Palatine of Tübingen , who were also called "Scheerer". The oldest known seal of the citizens of Herrenberg comes from the year 1278. Around 1276 the construction of the collegiate church began. In 1314 the current district of Oberjesingen was first mentioned in a document. The Count Palatine Rudolf IV and Konrad I divided the County of Herrenberg into two parts in 1334, with the town initially remaining in common ownership before the lower town and rear castle went to Rudolf in 1347, the upper town and front castle to Konrad . After the death of Rudolf's childless son Ulrich in the battle of Reutlingen in 1377, Konrad again ruled alone over the Lordship of Herrenberg, but already in 1379 pledged part of it to the Counts of Württemberg, who acquired the entire rule in 1382 and made it the seat of an office.

Württemberg time

In the Nürtingen Treaty of 1442, which divided Württemberg between Ludwig I and Ulrich V , Herrenberg came to the Urach line of Count Ludwig until the reunification of Württemberg in 1482. In the first big city fire in 1466, Herrenberg burned down almost completely and was then rebuilt. In 1503 the Herrenberg town charter was renewed.

After Duke Ulrich was expelled , the city surrendered to the Swabian Federation in 1519 . On March 5, 1525, Ulrich initially recaptured the city before it was reoccupied by troops of the Swabian Confederation on March 17, 1525. During the Peasants' War , the city was stormed and sacked by farmers in May 1525. The fierce resistance of the citizens against the peasants moved the Swabian League to refrain from punishment and the like. a. to foresee the loss of municipal rights because of the surrender to Ulrich. After Duke Ulrich had regained Württemberg in 1534, he introduced the Reformation there, and thus also in Herrenberg. At that time there were frequent plague epidemics, which also resulted in numerous deaths in Herrenberg. Duke Christoph avoided the plague with his court from Stuttgart to Herrenberg in 1551, and the University of Tübingen also sought refuge from the plague with several faculties in Herrenberg between 1554 and 1556 and again in 1594 and 1610.

During the Thirty Years' War , the city was almost completely destroyed by the second large city fire in 1635. 280 houses fell victim to the disaster. Then the old town of Herrenberg was built as it is today in a uniform, closed form. Although 1635 was an outright plague year with 421 deaths in Herrenberg, two faculties of Tübingen University again took their alternative quarters in the city from 1635 to 1641.

During the wars of the late 17th century, Herrenberg was occupied by the French in 1688. After the destruction of Calw by the French, most of Herrenberg's residents fled the city temporarily.

The Oberamt Herrenberg , which has existed since 1758, was enlarged in several steps to the south after the establishment of the Kingdom of Württemberg . In 1810 the upper office was subordinated to the bailiwick on the Middle Neckar, in 1814 a court camera office was set up and in 1818 the upper office in Herrenberg was subordinated to the Black Forest district .

In the meantime, in 1807 the castle was sold "for demolition" to a citizen of Herrenberg. In 1880 the castle's former powder tower was converted into a lookout tower. After 1820 the gate and wall towers were demolished, a first precise city map was drawn up and various schools were built. Many formerly stately buildings came into public or private ownership. In 1841 the community acquired the town hall and in 1851 the fruit box. In the 1860s, the guilds were also dissolved and public institutions such as the fire brigade were donated from their assets.

In 1875 the royal railway administration acquired the old court chamber office and set up a railway construction office in it. With the Gäubahn Stuttgart – Freudenstadt, opened in 1879 , the city got a rail connection to Stuttgart, which had a beneficial effect on the establishment of industry. The Vollmöllersche jersey factory at the train station was the first factory building in Herrenberg in 1899. From 1906 to 1910 the railway connection from Herrenberg to Tübingen was also built.

When the district was reorganized during the Nazi era in Württemberg , the Herrenberg Oberamt was initially renamed the Herrenberg district in 1934 and dissolved in 1938. The largest part and with it the city of Herrenberg came to the district of Böblingen .

post war period

After the Second World War, Herrenberg became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

As part of the regional reform , the population of the city of Herrenberg exceeded the limit of 20,000 in 1972. Thereupon, the city administration applied for a major district town , which the Baden-Württemberg state government decided with effect from January 1, 1974.

In 1992 Herrenberg was connected to the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.

Population development

Population development of Herrenberg.svgPopulation development in Herrenberg - from 1871 onwards
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Population development in Herrenberg according to the table below. Above from 1622 to 2017. Below an excerpt from 1871

The population figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ). Unless otherwise stated, all figures from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office.

year Residents
1622 approx. 1,800
1652 1.006
1771 1,570
1803 1,796
1825 1,985
1843 2.140
1861 2.015
December 1, 1871 ¹ 2.127
December 1, 1880¹ 2,646
December 1, 1890¹ 2,614
year Residents
December 1, 1900 ¹ 2,557
December 1, 1910¹ 2,705
June 16, 1925 ¹ 3,021
June 16, 1933 ¹ 3,395
May 17, 1939 ¹ 3,689
1946 5,605
September 13, 1950 ¹ 6,292
June 6, 1961 ¹ 9,539
May 27, 1970 ¹ 12,573
December 31, 1975 24,389
year Residents
December 31, 1980 25,422
May 27, 1987 ¹ 26.001
December 31, 1990 27,344
December 31, 1995 28,839
December 31, 2000 30,377
December 31, 2005 31,255
December 31, 2010 31,292
December 31, 2015 31.003
December 31, 2017 31,499
December 31, 2018 31,545

In August 2015 there were 267 refugees living in Herrenberg.

Religions

The population of Herrenberg originally belonged to the diocese of Constance and was subordinate to the archdeaconate ante nemus .

Between 1469 and 1580, beguines lived in Herrenberg , a women's community recognized as religious who had their own beguinage.

Protestant church

Since the city belonged to Württemberg early on , the Reformation was introduced here from 1534 . Therefore, Herrenberg was a predominantly Protestant city for centuries. At that time the city became the seat of a deanery (see Herrenberg church district ), whose deanery church is the collegiate church. Several pastors are active in the parish of Herrenberg today. The Reformation was also introduced in the former communities that are now incorporated into Herrenberg as a result of their early affiliation with Württemberg. Herrenberg is considered the center of Württemberg pietism . The theologian Friedrich Christoph Oetinger was the parish priest in Herrenberg between 1759 and 1765. All parishes in the Herrenberg urban area belong to the Herrenberg church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . The number of Protestant (or pietistic-evangelical) house groups is exceptional .

Catholic Church

Catholics have only returned to Herrenberg since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1933, a separate St. Josef church was built for them. In 1953 a separate parish was established there. A second Catholic Church (St. Martin) was built in 1971. The Herrenberg parish also looks after the Catholics of the districts of giltstein , Haslach , Kayh and Mönchberg . Since 1968, however, there has been a separate church "Zum Guten Hirten" (Zum Guten Hirten) in Validstein. The Catholic Church of St. Antonius was built in the Kuppingen district in 1958. In 1971 Kuppingen was raised to a parish. The parish of Kuppingen also looks after the Catholics of the districts of Affstätt and Oberjesingen as well as the neighboring towns of ceilingpfronn and Nufringen . Both parishes (Herrenberg and Kuppingen) are to form pastoral care unit 4 within the dean's office of Böblingen in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese in the future with the parish of St. Maria, Help the Christians in Unterjettingen .

Islam

Islam exists with four mosques . They are each represented by the Islamic Community Milli Görüs (IGMG) , the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion e. V. (DITIB), the Union of Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations in Europe (ATIB) and the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers (VIKZ).

Other denominations

In addition to the two large churches, there are also free churches in Herrenberg , including the United Methodist Church with parishes in Herrenberg and Kayh. The New Apostolic Church is also represented in Herrenberg.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Herrenberg has 32 members. The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following official final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Parties and constituencies %
2019
Seats
2019
%
2014
Seats
2014
Local elections 2019
 %
30th
20th
10
0
25.3%
23.9%
17.2%
14.5%
9.2%
5.8%
3.8%
0.3%

List of women
Per-
spective
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-5.9  % p
+ 7.3  % p
-6.4  % p
-2.5  % p
+ 0.7  % p
+ 2.6  % p
+ 3.8  % p.p.
+ 0.3  % p

List of women
Per-
spective
FW Free voters 25.3 8th 31.2 10
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 23.9 8th 16.6 5
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 17.2 5 23.6 8th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 14.5 5 17.0 5
Women Herrenberg women's list 9.2 3 8.5 3
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.8 2 3.2 1
AfD Alternative for Germany 3.8 1 - -
perspective List perspective 0.3 0 - -
total 100 32 100 32
voter turnout 65.3% 53.6%

mayor

View of the market square and the town hall

A so-called mayor had stood at the head of the town of Herrenberg since 1276 . The first was probably appointed by Prince Heinrich. There was also a mayor and a court.

Since 1819 the mayor has been called "Stadtschultheiß", since 1930 mayor, and when it was elevated to the status of a major district town on January 1, 1974, the official title was mayor . This is elected directly by the electorate for eight years. He is chairman of the municipal council. His general deputies are the 1st alderman with the official title "First Mayor" and the 2nd alderman with the official title "Mayor".

Thomas Sprißler has been Lord Mayor of Herrenberg since February 21, 2008 .

badges and flags

The coat of arms of the city of Herrenberg shows "a three-lobed golden (yellow) flag in red on three golden (yellow) suspension rings." The city seal from 1278 already shows this image, which goes back to the Count Palatine of Tübingen . The colors, which are reversed compared to the Palatine coat of arms, have been documented since the early 15th century.

The city flag consists of two horizontal stripes, yellow at the top and red at the bottom.

Arranged around a square: a stele with the inscription "Place de Tarare", half-timbered houses and a fountain
The Place de Tarare in the old town of Herrenberg

Town twinning

Herrenberg has been in partnership with Tarare ( France ) since 1960 . Contact and first encounters took place in 1958. The town partnership with Fidenza ( Italy ) has existed since 1989. In the course of these partnerships, after the two towns in the old town of Herrenberg, two previously unnamed places were officially named “Place de Tarare” and “Piazza di Fidenza ”, and steles in the relevant national language and German provide information about the partnership in the squares.

The district of Validstein has had a partnership with Amplepuis in France since 1970 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Herrenberg is the location of some medium-sized companies that are active in the production of electronics, pharmaceuticals and furniture. There are also branches of various multinational corporations, such as Omega Pharma (formerly the location of GlaxoSmithKline ).

The global design agency Roman Klis Design GmbH , which has already won various awards and prizes, is also based in Herrenberg.

traffic

The federal autobahn 81 Würzburg - Stuttgart - Singen (Hohentwiel) leads over Herrenberg municipal area between giltstein and Mönchberg to the east past the city center. The industrial area giltstein borders directly on the A81; the outskirts of the city center are approx. 500 m from the motorway. The city can be reached via the Herrenberg and Gärtringen junctions. The federal highways 14 (Stuttgart– Stockach ) and 28 ( Kehl - Ulm ) used to cross in the middle of Herrenberg; in the meantime some of these have been relocated and / or renamed. The B 296 from Bad Wildbad and Calw now leads through Herrenberg.

Since January 1, 2009, an environmental zone has been set up for large areas of the core city of Herrenberg, so that entry into the city center is only permitted with a suitable fine dust sticker . The sub-locations are currently excluded from this regulation.

Public transport

The center of public transport in Herrenberg is the Herrenberg train station with the Bahnhofstrasse central bus station and the Kalkofenstrasse central bus station in the immediate vicinity. The train and bus connections are theoretically coordinated. The trains and buses arrive on schedule between minutes 9 and 13 and minutes 39 and 43 and then depart again between minutes 17 and 21 or 47 and 51. This should enable a problem-free transfer. In the case of delays, however, the transfer times are often too short; In particular, the arriving S1 often accumulates delays to its final stop in Herrenberg during peak times.

Trains
Station building
A class 423 S-Bahn train shortly before the terminus of the S1 line in Herrenberg

The Herrenberg Station is located on the Gäubahn Stuttgart-Singen and regional express trains towards Stuttgart and Singen and Stuttgart and Freudenstadt / Rottweil served. In addition, Herrenberg is connected to the Stuttgart S-Bahn network as the terminus of the S1 line ( Kirchheim (Teck) –Stuttgart – Herrenberg) , with trains running at least half an hour to Stuttgart.

In 1999 the Ammertalbahn , a rail link to Tübingen , was reactivated. On this railway line, the two other stations are located in the Herrenberg area: Herrenberg-Zwerchweg and Validstein. All lines with the exception of the Ammertalbahn (from Validstein in the direction of Tübingen) run at uniform prices within the Stuttgart Transport and Tariff Association (VVS). Since January 2002, Herrenberg has also been integrated into the Neckar-Alb-Danube transport association (naldo).

buses

In Herrenberg there is the ZOB Bahnhofstraße and the ZOB Kalkofenstraße. They can be easily reached on foot, with the train station and the tracks between them. Lines 770, 774 and 775 run from ZOB Kalkofenstraße. Lines 773 and 780 have this ZOB as a station before they end at ZOB Bahnhofstraße. All other lines run from the ZOB Bahnhofstraße.

Herrenberg is a hub for many regional bus routes. The following lines operate here:

  • Line 770 Herrenberg – Nagold (–Altensteig) (express bus)
  • Line 773 Herrenberg – Deckpfronn – Calw
  • Line 774 Herrenberg – Mötzingen – Nagold– Altensteig
  • Line 775 Herrenberg– Wildberg
  • Line 783 Herrenberg – Mönchberg (school traffic only)
  • Line 790 Herrenberg– Mötzingen
  • Line 791 Herrenberg – Ammerbuch – Tübingen
  • Line 794 Herrenberg – Tailfingen
  • Line N70 Herrenberg – Nagold (night bus)
  • Line N77 Gärtringen – Herrenberg – ceilingpfronn – Gärtringen (night bus)
  • Line N80 Herrenberg – Tübingen (night bus)

The trips are carried out by the following bus companies:

The Herrenberg Citybus also runs here, which includes the following lines:

  • Line 779: ZOB – Vogelsang – ZOB
    The line runs every 60 minutes during the week from 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and there are four courses on Saturday mornings. Since the living area that it opens up is not far from the city center and the train station, demand is relatively low.
  • Line 780: ZOB – Holdergraben – Schwarzwaldsiedlung – ZOB
    Line 780 runs every hour during the week from 6.30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and runs every 30 minutes until 9 a.m. At the weekend there is also a 60-minute cycle, on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. At the weekend, the same bus continues as line 782, so you can reach the forest cemetery without changing. The line is important for residents in the Schwarzwaldsiedlung / Holdergraben area.
  • Line 781: ZOB – formerly IBM – Daimlerstraße – ZOB
    Line 781 runs every 60 minutes from Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with individual repeater trips in the morning. The line is particularly important to connect Herrenberg train station with the EnBW locations and the northern industrial area. The travel times are based on a change from the S-Bahn (morning / morning) or to the S-Bahn (noon / afternoon).
  • Line 782: ZOB – Ehbühl (–Waldfriedhof) –ZOB

The busiest line of the city bus connects the train station with the remote residential area of ​​Ehbühl, and it continues to drive to the forest cemetery in Schönbuch as required. During the week there is a 30-minute cycle from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and continues to the Waldfriedhof every hour from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (summer) or 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (winter). On Saturdays there is a 60-minute cycle from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the buses run to the forest cemetery from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (summer) and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (winter). On Sundays the bus runs every hour in the summer from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. to the forest cemetery and back; in the winter half year, a regular taxi is used from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and only goes to the forest cemetery until 5 p.m. The line is mainly used by residents of the Ehbühl residential area and hikers. As the oldest of the four existing lines, the line has existed since 1992, the year Herrenberg was connected to the S-Bahn network.

The operator is Stadtwerke Herrenberg , but the trips are carried out by the Däuble company. Improvements to the bus network are currently being discussed to standardize the Regiobus lines in the populous city districts and the buses in the city center and to improve the utilization of the city bus lines, which were previously in unattractive loops that were difficult to understand for users. Call taxis are still used on lines 780 and 782 every day after the buses have closed.

License Plate

As a municipality in the district of Böblingen, residents of Herrenberg have been able to choose between the license plates 'BB' (" Böblingen ") and 'LEO' (" Leonberg ") since the license plate was liberalized in 2012 . Until then, only 'BB' marks were issued.

media

The daily newspaper in Herrenberg is the Gäubote , a headline in the cover of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten .

The Herrenberg radio station broadcasts the Energy Stuttgart program .

Authorities and institutions

Herrenberg has a notary's office . There are also branch offices of the Böblingen District Office (vehicle registration office, district youth welfare office, agricultural office, state communal accommodation / state transitional residence).

The city is the seat of the Herrenberg church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

The German Post leads the city in their address-recognition system as "Herrenberg im Gäu". The addition "im Gäu" serves on the one hand to differentiate the city more quickly from the numerous districts of the same name in other municipalities in Germany and Switzerland and on the other hand serves the purpose of assigning the city to the mail sorting center in nearby Eutingen im Gäu even for those who are unfamiliar with the area . In contrast to Eutingen, the continuation “im Gäu” is not officially used by the city of Herrenberg, but with this name, Deutsche Post is probably helping to identify the inhabitants in their geographic area of ​​the Gäus.

At the beginning of 2016, the state of Baden-Württemberg bought the former IBM training building on the outskirts of the Herrenberg core city during the “ refugee crisis ” in order to set up a state initial reception facility for up to 1250 refugees. But when the need for it quickly no longer existed, this project was abandoned. Instead, the building is to be used as a training center for police trainees.

education

In Herrenberg there are two high schools ( Andreae-Gymnasium , Schickhardt-Gymnasium ), two secondary schools (Jerg-Ratgeb-Realschule, Theodor-Schüz-Realschule), a special school (Albert-Schweitzer-Schule), two primary and secondary schools with a Werkrealschule ( Vogt-Heß School and Elementary and Neighborhood High School in Kuppingen) as well as seven independent elementary schools (Pfalzgraf-Rudolf Elementary School in the city center and one each in the districts of Affstätt, Validstein, Haslach, Kayh, Mönchberg and Oberjesingen). There is also an adult education center and a music school in Herrenberg.

The schools in the urban area are largely grouped in the two school centers “Längenholz” (Hilde-Domin-Schule, Pfalzgraf-Rudolf-Grundschule, Schickhardt-Gymnasium and Theodor-Schüz-Realschule) and “Markweg” (Andreae-Gymnasium, Jerg-Ratgeb -Realschule and Vogt-Heß-Schule). The two grammar schools each had just under 1,100 students in the 1990s and were among the 20 largest in Baden-Württemberg. In the meantime, the number of pupils has decreased and is around 700–800 pupils at both grammar schools (as of 2017–2019).

The Böblingen district is responsible for the Hilde Domin School ( vocational school for house and agriculture) and the Friedrich Fröbel School for the mentally handicapped with a kindergarten for the mentally handicapped.

The private nursing school at the district hospital rounds off the school offer in Herrenberg.

Culture and sights

Herrenberg lies on the regional route Neckar - Black Forest and Lake Constance of the German half-timbered road with many sights.

Jerg Ratgeb Sculpture Trail

The Jerg Ratgeb sculpture path has been under construction in Herrenberg since 2012 . The calligraphic figure by Hellmut Ehrath was inaugurated on July 22, 2012 as the first station . Since then, numerous other works of art have been added, for example a work by Timm Ulrichs in May 2014 .

Musikverein Stadtkapelle Herrenberg

The Musikverein Stadtkapelle Herrenberg describes itself as the oldest music association in Germany. It goes back to a brotherhood of minstrels founded in 1457.

Museums

In the Collegiate Church of Herrenberg is the Bell Museum , in the former Fruchtkasten there is a city museum.

Buildings

Stiftsfruchtkasten Herrenberg
Herrenberg Collegiate Church
Former upper office building

The Herrenberg Collegiate Church is the city's landmark . It is located in the historic old town with many half-timbered houses. The town hall with the bell and clock tower from 1806 and the market fountain, which was first mentioned in 1347, are located on the market square. The upper office building was built in 1655, it housed the district administration until 1938. Other important buildings are the Spitalkirche zum Heiligen Geist , which was rebuilt after 1635, the Stiftsfruchtkasten from 1683 and the deanery from 1439. The most interesting streets are Tübinger Strasse, Stuttgarter Strasse and Bronngasse. The town hall was opened on October 16, 1936. It is located at the city exit towards Böblingen.

City hall and multi-purpose hall (in the building complex)

There are the following churches in the districts:

  • Today's Evangelical Church in Affstätt was built in 1927/1928 (architect: W. Jost), a chapel of St. Katharina is attested from 1353.
  • The Protestant church in Gvalstein , a former fortified church , is a Romanesque choir tower with a ribbed vaulted choir. The furnishings are partly late Gothic , otherwise from the 18th century.
  • The Haslach Church was built in 1788, but there is also evidence of a St. Jakob chapel from 1524.
  • The Evangelical Church of Kayh was built in 1487 using the defensive tower of the previous chapel.
  • The Kuppinger Church is a choir tower side layer, the choir was built around 1300. The ship dates from the 14th or 15th century and was modified in 1581; the tower is Romanesque.
  • Mönchberg's Protestant church dates from 1749. The tower was retained from the chapel mentioned in 1491.
  • The Oberjesinger Evangelical Church was built in 1857/58 in place of the previous church.

Regular events

Old gym
Youth center

In addition to smaller regular events takes place on Shrove the town hall tower at the annual Schmotzigen Thursday and on Shrove Tuesday, the carnival procession through the historic old place. The parade is organized by the 1. Narrenzunft Herrenberg eV. Parallel to this there is the shopkeeper market connected with the horse market. In April there is the jazz festival “Jazzin 'Herrenberg” in the old gym, on Whitsun the Whitsun market, in July the culture festival “Summer Colors” as well as the city festival and summer night cinema. The autumn market takes place in September and the annual consumer fair “Herbstschau” takes place in October. In December there is a Christmas market on the market square. From 1993 to 2016 the 48-hour music festival " 48er " took place in the JuHa, the Herrenberger Jugendhaus, in the summer .

Parks

The arboretum is located in the direction of Nagold in the Kuppinger Forest of the Herrenberg city forest with over 100 different tree and shrub species, domestic and foreign such as sequoia , false cypresses or the coastal fir . A walk to the game reserve in the Schönbuch Nature Park begins at the forest cemetery at the foot of the Schönbuch . The Bebenhausen monastery (near Tübingen ) can also be reached from here in a two-hour walk .

freetime and sports

In the south of the city there is an indoor swimming pool built in 1977 and a natural swimming pool opened in 2015; previously there was an independent open-air swimming pool in the northeast near the city center. The new natural outdoor pool had to close repeatedly after it opened due to the high level of germs in the water and became part of some satirical programs. In August 2016, the bathing season ended prematurely due to a significant increase in the limit values ​​for Pseudomonas bacteria . After several attempts to fix the problems, the bathing season started again in May 2017 after replacing the water filters.

The Schönbuchturm is located around 3 km northeast of the city .

There is a stadium in Herrenberg that was built in 1952 with the help of the American occupation forces. The grandstand was built in 1982.

The Herrenberg Wanderers baseball & softball club played with the men in the 1st baseball league in 2002 and 2004 , and since 2007 the women have been represented in the 1st softball league . In 1999 the youth team became German champions.

The football department of the TV Validstein played for several years in the third-class 1st amateur league North Württemberg . In 1974 the club qualified for the DFB Cup , where it lost 5-0 to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the first round . The football department of VfL Herrenberg became successful in 2004 and, through successful youth work, was also able to promote the active team of VfL Herrenberg, which at that time was promoted to the national league. For the 2007/2008 season they played again in the district league, since the club was relegated from the regional league in the 2006/2007 season. In contrast to the active team, however, the youth teams of VfL Herrenberg were able to show off. The Herrenberger, who were already considered to be strong at the game, are probably the second best youth team in the Böblingen / Calw district. Especially the C-youth up to the A-youth are strong teams. The best age group at VfL Herrenberg in the 2006/2007 season was the B-youth, who won 1st place in the district relay in Böblingen / Calw with a 16-point lead. In addition, the B-Juniors won the district cup in the 2006/2007 season.

The first men's team of the handball community SG H2Ku Herrenberg (SGH2Ku) secured the championship title in the Regionalliga Süd on the last match day of the 2009/2010 season and thus promotion to the 2nd handball league , the second handball league. The 2010/2011 season ended the SG in 14th place. This was not enough due to the league restructuring to keep up in the 2nd handball league. The SG played in the third division in the 2011/2012 season. In June 2011 the name was changed to SG H2Ku Herrenberg . The female A-youth was German runner-up in the 2002/2003 season.

The first men's team of the Herrenberg tennis club has been playing in the association class since 2009, and men's 2 in the district league. The juniors 1 play in the association league and the girls 1 qualified in 2009 for the Württemberg finals of the eight best teams.

Two national sporting events have meanwhile become firmly established. The biennial 100 km old town run (in uneven years) in June has 1000 participants. The “Schönbuchtrophy” at the end of April combines a mountain bike race in Schönbuch with the first marathon in the Böblingen district over two days and also has well over 1000 participants.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Württemberg city book ; Volume IV Sub-Volume Baden-Württemberg Volume 2 from "German City Book. Handbook of Urban History - On behalf of the Working Group of the Historical Commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Municipalities, edited by Erich Keyser, Stuttgart, 1961
  • Traugott Schmolz: Herrenberg - Chronicle of a City , Herrenberg 1987
  • Roman Janssen (Ed.): "The meaning is found". New discoveries and representations of the history of Herrenberg , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1997 (Herrenberger Studien, Volume 1), ISBN 3-7995-2600-5 .
  • Roman Janssen: Herrenberg personalities from eight centuries , city of Herrenberg 1999 (Herrenberger historical writings, volume 6), ISBN 3-926809-09-4 .
  • Gabriel Holom, Thomas Morawitzky: Herrenberg . 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-87407-711-8 .
  • Roman Janssen (Ed.): "Remembering is pleasant". New discoveries and presentations on the history of Herrenberg , DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1999 (Herrenberger Studien, Volume 2), ISBN 978-3-87181-733-5 .
  • Roman Janssen: Middle Ages in Herrenberg , Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008 (City History Herrenberg, Volume 1), ISBN 978-3-7995-2601-2 .
  • Gerhard Bäuerle, Dieter Balinger, Norbert Weimper: Herrenberg (special cover) . DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1994, ISBN 978-3-87181-296-5 .
  • Volker Gantner: Herrenberg… Herrenberg…: History in our time Remembrance of the years 1985–2008 . 1st edition. DRW-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-87181-786-1 .
  • Marcel vom Lehn: Herrenberg under National Socialism. City and Society (1933–1945) , regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2017 (Stadtgeschichte Herrenberg, Volume 3), ISBN 978-3-95505-056-6 .

Web links

Commons : Herrenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Herrenberg  - Travel Guide

Individual evidence

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  3. Figures, data, facts , website of the city of Herrenberg, accessed on January 17, 2019
  4. Main statute of the city of Herrenberg from July 20, 1985, last amended on March 14, 2006 ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 36 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herrenberg.de
  5. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume III: Stuttgart District, Middle Neckar Regional Association. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 , pp. 97-103.
  6. State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Herrenberg.
  7. Statistical Office Baden-Wuerttemberg (These figures are inclusive of the unincorporated neighborhoods.)  ( Not available page , search in web archivesInfo: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de  
  8. ^ Official Journal Herrenberg, Issue 33, August 13, 2015, p. 5
  9. Beguines in Herrenberg. Frauengeschichtswerkstatt Herrenberg / Ilja Widmann, 2008, accessed on September 2, 2019 .
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  12. Clean air / action plan for the Stuttgart administrative district, Herrenberg sub-plan ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 1.83 MB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  13. Jochen Stumpf: The opening will not be before autumn 2019. Gäubote, March 1, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2018 .
  14. ^ Chronicle , on the website of the Herrenberg City Chapel .
  15. Another closure of the natural swimming pool. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 31, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / naturfreibad.herrenberg.de  
  16. Herrenberger open-air swimming pool "justifiably optimistic" started. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 7, 2017 ; accessed on May 31, 2017 . 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. // via archive.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zvw.de
  17. ^ Herrenberg Stadium , accessed on June 26, 2010.
  18. Spielgemeinschaft Haslach, Herrenberg, Kuppingen ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 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. . Retrieved June 29, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sgh2ku.de