Hohenlohe district

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
Region :	Heilbronn-Franconia
Administrative headquarters :	Künzelsau
Area :	776.78 km 2
Residents:	112,010 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	144 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	KÜN, EAR
Circle key :	08 1 26
Circle structure:	16 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Allee 17 74653 Künzelsau
Website :	www.hohenlohekreis.de
District Administrator :	Matthias Neth ( CDU )
Location of the Hohenlohe district in Baden-Württemberg

In terms of population, the Hohenlohekreis is the smallest district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Heilbronn-Franken region in the Stuttgart administrative region . The historic Hohenlohe region gives it its name .

geography

location

The Hohenlohekreis has a share in the Hohenlohe Plain and in the southern building land and in the south in the Waldenburg Mountains , which belong to the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park . The two right tributaries of the Neckar , the Jagst and the Kocher, flow through the district . The highest point in the district measures 523 m and is located near Waldenburg .

places

The list of places in the Hohenlohekreis contains the approximately 320 places ( towns , villages , hamlets , farms and living spaces ) of the Hohenlohekreis in the geographical sense.

The two largest places are the district town of Künzelsau (seat of the district administration) with approx. 15,000 and the large district town of Öhringen with approx. 23,000 inhabitants.

Neighboring areas

The Hohenlohekreis borders in a clockwise direction in the northwest on the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis , Main-Tauber-Kreis , Schwäbisch Hall and Heilbronn districts .

nature

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2015.

Nature reserves

→ Main article : List of nature reserves in the Hohenlohe district

The Hohenlohekreis has the following nature reserves . According to the protected area statistics of the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg (LUBW), 486.16 hectares of the district are under nature protection, that is 0.63 percent.

1. Brettachtal above Geddelsbach : 25.7 ha; Gemarkungen Geddelsbach and Maienfels
2. Einberg : 7.8 ha; District Untersteinbach
3. Harvesting soil : 7.2 ha; District Obersteinbach
4. Goldberg in the Messbachtal : 16.3 ha; Gemarkungen Meßbach and Altkrautheim
5. Slope in the Rengerstal : 3.3 ha; District Dörzbach
6. Heath on the Dünnersberg : 7.2 ha; Mulfingen district
7. Hohenberg-Setz : 15 ha; Bieringen district
8. In the lake : 8.1 ha; Community Krautheim
9. Pool Rock Rock Meadows : 6.2 ha; Winzenhofen district
10. Laibachsweinberg-Im Tal-Im Köchlein : 18.6 ha; Gemarkungen Klepsau and Ljubljana
11. Upper pasture : 22.2 ha; District Obersteinbach
12. Plant locations Brühl and Rautel : 2.9 ha; District Unterginsbach
13. Plant locations on Pfahl and Sündrich : 8.8 ha; Crispenhofen district
14. Riedhölzle and Jagstaue : 62.4 ha; Landmarks Jagstberg and Mulfingen
15. Rößlesmahdsee with Pfaffenklinge : 16.2 ha; Districts Waldenburg and Westernach
16. Shield : 3.4 ha; District Dörzbach
17. Stone : 6.1 ha; Gemarkungen Marlach and Gommersdorf
18. St. Wendel zum Stein : 12.1 ha; Districts Dörzbach and Hohebach
19. Cattle pasture on the Michelbach marker : 18.2 ha; Michelbach district
20. Vogelhalde Sindringen-Ohrnberg : 216.0 ha; Landmarks Sindringen and Ohrnberg
21. Wagrain-Lange Wiese-Stegbrühl : 10.2 ha; Gommersdorf and Marlach districts

history

The Hohenlohekreis was formed by the district reform on January 1, 1973 . At that time, the old districts of Öhringen and Künzelsau were combined to form the new Hohenlohe district. The town of Krautheim in the district of Buchen and the community of Simprechtshausen in the district of Crailsheim came to the district area . County town was Künzelsau . The two old districts of Öhringen and Künzelsau go back to the old Württemberg upper offices of the same name , which were established after 1803 after the transition of the former Hohenlohe dominions to Württemberg . In 1926, the eastern part of the dissolved Oberamt Weinsberg was attached to the Oberamt Öhringen . In 1938, both upper offices were transferred to rural districts and some border changes were made. The area around Krautheim was Baden until 1945 and initially formed its own office, which was merged with the Office Boxberg in 1864 and finally became part of Buchen (Odenwald) when it was dissolved. During the district reform, most of the Buchen district became part of the Neckar-Odenwald district, but the area around Krautheim became part of the Hohenlohe district.

After the community reform has been completed, the Hohenlohekreis will comprise 16 communities, including eight cities. The largest city and now a major district town is Öhringen, the smallest municipality is Zweiflingen.

On January 1, 1977, Brettach came from Wüstenrot to Bretzfeld from the Heilbronn district to the Hohenlohe district through its reunification .

Population development

The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).

date Residents December 31, 1973 84,933 December 31, 1975 83,514 December 31, 1980 83,872 December 31, 1985 85,510 May 25, 1987 86,675 December 31, 1990 92.907

date Residents December 31, 1995 104,347 December 31, 2000 107,754 December 31, 2005 109,718 December 31, 2010 108.913 December 31, 2015 110.181

politics

The district is administered by the district council and the district administrator.

District election 2019 in Hohenlohekreis

Turnout: 57.8%

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SPD

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AfD

left

Pirates

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District council

The district council is elected for five years by those entitled to vote in the district. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Distribution of seats in the district council of Hohenlohekreis 2019

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13

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1 7th 6th 9 4th 13 3 

A total of 43 seats

• Left : 1
• Greens : 7
• SPD : 6
• FW : 9
• FDP : 4
• CDU : 13
• AfD : 3

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	% 2009	Seats 2009	% 2004	Seats 2004	% 1999	Seats 1999	% 1994	Seats 1994	% 1989	Seats 1989
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	33.0	13	39.0	15th	36.0	15th	39.8	17th	43.0	18th	38.1	16	37.9	14th
FWV	Free voter association Hohenlohekreis	22.7	9	26.5	10	27.6	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
WV *	Electoral associations	-	-	-	-	-	-	28.2	11	24.1	10	24.0	10	32.5	11
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	14.4	7th	9.1	4th	7.9	3	7.7	3	6.5	2	9.4	3	7.4	2
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	11.4	6th	13.9	6th	14.8	6th	13.7	5	17.2	7th	20.4	8th	21.5	7th
FDP	Free Democratic Party	9.2	4th	8.1	3	13.7	5	10.6	4th	9.3	3	8.2	3	-	-
AfD	Alternative for Germany	6.5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
LEFT	THE LEFT	2.8	1	3.3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
PIRATES	Pirate Party Germany	-	-	0.15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Otherwise.	Others	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6	-
total		100	43	100	39	100	40	100	40	100	40	100	40	100	34
voter turnout		57.8%		49.4%		52.2%		54.0%		55.3%		66.8%		63.1%

^* WV: Voter associations, as the results from 1989 to 2004 cannot be broken down to individual groups of voters.

District Administrator

The district council elects the district administrator for a term of office of 8 years. This is the legal representative and representative of the district as well as chairman of the district council and its committees. He heads the district office and is an official of the district.

His area of ​​responsibility includes the preparation of the district council meetings and its committees. He calls meetings, chairs them and implements the resolutions passed there. With the exception of preliminary discussions in the decision-making committees, he has no voting rights in the committees . His deputy is the first state official.

The district administrators of the Künzelsau district 1939–1972:

• 1939–1944: Wilhelm Wöhrle
• 1945–1946: Heinz Hohner
• 1946–1960: Otto Ehrler
• 1960–1972: Bernhard Vesenmayer

The district administrators of the district of Öhringen 1938–1972:

• 1938–1944: Artur Fiederer
• 1944–1945: Richard Funck (clerk)
• 1945–1946: Fritz Eppinger
• 1946–1948: Max von Lütgendorff-Leinburg
• 1948–1951: Georg Lenkner
• 1952–1971: Friedrich Bauer
• 1971–1972: Franz Susset ( clerk )

The district administrators of the Hohenlohe district since 1973:

• 1973–1989: Franz Susset
• 1989–2013: Helmut M. Jahn
• from 2013: Matthias Neth

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver over a raised red shield base, inside a six-spoke silver wheel, two striding, red-tongued black leopards with folded tails (coat of arms awarded April 3, 1974)"

Meaning: The two coats of arms symbolize the former ruling structures in the district until the beginning of the 19th century: the leopards of the princes of Hohenlohe and the Mainz wheel of the former duchy of Mainz.

See also: List of coats of arms in the Hohenlohe district

District partnerships

The Hohenlohekreis has partnerships with County Limerick in Ireland (since 1990) and the Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski in Poland (since 2009).

Economy and Infrastructure

The economic focus is mainly on the electrotechnical industry, in the metalworking industry including machine and vehicle construction, in regulation and control technology as well as in the textile industry and in publishing.

It is precisely here that the inventiveness and the proverbial inventiveness of the companies located there are positively noticeable. Leading companies in the industry, whose products and know-how are of international importance, are located in the Hohenlohe district.

In addition to the manufacturing industry and a pronounced craft structure, well-known and important trading companies, especially in fastening technology, such as Würth , Berner and BTI , as well as numerous service companies are based in the Hohenlohe district. The 16 cities and municipalities in the district support new settlements and business expansions by providing inexpensive building land. In recent years there has been a structural change in this structurally weakest district of Baden-Württemberg, which in earlier years had a very strong agricultural character. In relation to the number of inhabitants, the Hohenlohekreis has the highest density of world market leaders in Germany.

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district was ranked 86th out of 402 rural districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the places with "high future prospects". In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 55th out of 401.

traffic

Road traffic

The federal motorway 6 ( Mannheim - Nuremberg ) runs through the southern district area , in the extreme northwest the federal motorway 81 ( Heilbronn - Würzburg ) grazes the district area. Furthermore, the federal highway 19 ( Schwäbisch Hall –Würzburg) as well as several state and district roads open up the district.

Rail transport

The city of Öhringen was connected to the Heilbronn – Schwäbisch Hall ( Kocherbahn ) route as early as 1862 by the Württemberg State Railroad . Since 1892 the Kochertalbahn branched off from it in Waldenburg as a branch line to Künzelsau, which was only extended down to Forchtenberg by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1924 .

From here there was a gap of around 14 km in length to the end of the Untere Kochertal Railway , which ran from Bad Friedrichshall -Jagstfeld to Ohrnberg and was opened in 1913 by the Württemberg Railway Company .

In the Jagsttal a narrow-gauge railway, the Jagsttalbahn , was built by the company Vering & Waechter from 1900 to 1901 , which left the main line Würzburg – Heilbronn in Möckmühl and ran up the valley to Dörzbach.

Since around 1980, the district has relied entirely on buses and regular service in all localities with the highly regarded Hohenlohe local transport model. Of the only 78 km long railway network, only 28 km with four stations remained in operation, until the S4 line of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft extended the traffic to Öhringen on the Heilbronn – Crailsheim railway line .

These sections were closed for passenger traffic:

• 1951: Jagsttalbahn (Möckmühl–) Berlichingen – Dörzbach: 23 km (used for school traffic between 1967 and 1979)
• 1980: Kochertalbahn Waldenburg – Künzelsau – Forchtenberg: 24 km
• 1993: Lower Kochertal Railway (Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld–) Möglingen – Ohrnberg: three kilometers

Bus transport

The bus traffic is through the own operation of the Hohenlohekreis Nahverkehr Hohenlohekreis (NVH). This is tariff integrated into the Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller local transport network.

District facilities

The Hohenlohekreis is responsible for the following vocational schools : the Künzelsau commercial school, the Künzelsau commercial school, the Künzelsau home economics school, the Öhringen commercial school, the Öhringen commercial school and the Öhringen home economics and agricultural school, as well as the following special educational and advisory centers : Geschwister-Scholl-Schule (focus on intellectual Development and physical and motoric development) with the Künzelsau school kindergarten and the Erich-Kästner-Schule Künzelsau (focus on language).

The Hohenlohekreis is a partner of Hohenloher Krankenhaus gGmbH based in Öhringen, which is responsible for the two hospitals in Künzelsau and Öhringen as well as various retirement homes and senior centers.

cities and communes

Administrative communities

In the Hohenlohekreis there are the following agreed administrative communities and municipal administration associations :

1. Local government association Hohenloher Ebene based in Neuenstein; Member municipalities: the cities of Neuenstein and Waldenburg and the municipality of Kupferzell
2. Community administration association Krautheim with seat in Krautheim; Member communities: City of Krautheim and communities Dörzbach and Mulfingen
3. Agreed administrative partnership between the city of Künzelsau and the city of Ingelfingen
4. Community administration association Mittleres Kochertal based in Niedernhall; Member municipalities: towns of Forchtenberg and Niedernhall as well as the municipality of Weißbach
5. Agreed administrative partnership between the city of Öhringen and the communities of Pfedelbach and Zweiflingen

Cities and other municipalities

Cities in the Hohenlohe district

city	coat of arms	Area km²	Resident December 31, 2018	PE density PE per km²	Height above sea level
Forchtenberg		38.07	5,057	133	223
Ingelfingen		46.48	5,480	118	217
Krautheim		52.91	4,613	87	298
Künzelsau		75.17	15,391	205	218
Neuenstein		47.84	6,531	137	284
Niedernhall		17.71	4.106	232	202
Öhringen , large district town		67.79	24,374	360	230
Waldenburg		31.55	3,094	98	506

Communities in the Hohenlohe district

local community	coat of arms	Area km²	Resident December 31, 2018	PE density PE per km²	Height above sea level
Bretzfeld		64.69	12,651	196	210
Dörzbach		32.36	2,485	77	242
Copper cell		54.28	6.164	114	340
Mulfingen		80.08	3,643	45	263
Pfedelbach		41.30	9.123	221	240
Schöntal		81.65	5,610	69	209
Weissbach		12.77	2,021	158	201
Doubts		32.10	1,667	52	308

License Plate

On January 1, 1973, the district was assigned the KÜN distinctive sign , which had been valid for the Künzelsau district since July 1, 1956 . It is still issued today.

Until the 2000s, vehicles from the old district of Öhringen received license plates with the letters KA to ZZ and the numbers from 1 to 99 and then with the letters KA to LZ and the numbers from 100 to 999.

Since February 2, 2015, the distinguishing mark ÖHR (Öhringen) can be used again due to the license plate liberalization .

literature

• The Hohenlohe district . Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archive in conjunction with the Hohenlohe district. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7995-1367-1 ( Baden-Württemberg - The country in its circles ).
• Siegfried Baier: The Hohenloher Land . Baier Verlag, Crailsheim 2001, ISBN 3-929233-13-4 .
• Rudolf hose : Hohenlohe Franconia. Landscape, history, culture, art. Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1964.
• Albrecht Gaebele: Hohenlohe - The circle between Ohrn - Kocher - Jagst . Kehrer Offset GmbH, Freiburg 2001.
• Gertrud Schubert, Roland Schweizer: Hohenlohe - landscape, people and culture . Mira-Verlagsgesellschaft, Künzelsau 2002, ISBN 3-89222-620-2 .
• The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Edited by Reinhard Wolf . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-7995-5173-5 .

Web links

Commons : Hohenlohekreis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the district
• Literature from and about Hohenlohekreis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Link catalog on the subject of Hohenlohekreis at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help ).
2. ↑ Survey of land according to type of actual use in 2015
3. ↑ LUBW protected area statistics ( Memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ 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. 466 f .
5. ↑ https://www.statistik-bw.de/Wahlen/Kommunal/02043000.tab?R=KR126 District election results 2019
6. ↑ Always up . In: WirtschaftsWoche, No. 20 of May 14, 2007, pp. 78–83 (PDF; 444 kB) ( Memento of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
7. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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.  
8. ↑ PROGNOS future atlas. Handelsblatt, accessed on December 10, 2019 .