Horrheim

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Horrheim
Former coat of arms of Horrheim
Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 47 "  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 17"  E
Height : 223 m
Residents : 2568  (Aug 2014)
Incorporation : March 1, 1972
Postal code : 71665
Area code : 07042
Horrheim 1684 ( Andreas Kieser )
Horrheim around 1902
Aerial photo from 1984

Horrheim is a wine-growing town in the Ludwigsburg district on Stromberg . It belongs to the town of Vaihingen an der Enz and is located in the Metter valley between the mountain spurs of Eselsberg and Baiselsberg .

history

The first documentary mention of the place Horrheim in the donation book of the Lorsch monastery comes from 771 AD.However, excavation finds in the Mettertal near Horrheim point to Mesolithic deposits (around 10,000 BC), and to settlements of the Neolithic band ceramists (around 4,500 BC. ) and the Urnfield people of the Late Bronze Age (1200–800 BC) as well as Roman settlements and an Alemannic-Franconian prehistory.

In the 12th and 13th centuries a local nobility in Horrheim is mentioned with the "Lords of Horrheim", later Horrheim with Hohenhaslach was largely owned by the noble Belrein von Eselsberg , which the Counts of Vaihingen inherited and who after 1364 with Eselsberg Castle belonged to the house Württemberg came. On the occasion of that change of ownership and in other documents from the 14th and 15th centuries, Horrheim is referred to as a town, but nothing is known about the granting of town charter , so the name town probably only goes back to the defensive character of the place. Remains of the former fortifications are still there today (walling, moat, round tower, "customs house"). Within Württemberg, Horrheim was assigned to the Vaihingen District Office. On March 1, 1972 Horrheim was incorporated into the city of Vaihingen an der Enz as part of the regional reform at the time .

In regional jargon, the people of Horrheim are often referred to as "Dunghäufles Turks". The origin is a legend according to which at the time of the siege of Vienna by the Turks on a cold night a Horrheim wall guard thought the steam from the manure heaps spread for fertilization was smoke from the campfires of an enemy army and therefore called the town to arms. Only at dawn did it become clear that the “Turkish fires” were nothing but heaps of dung. As a reaction to this, the people of Horrheim called their wine "Türkenblut", but from 1971 this wine was renamed to "Klosterberg" with the correct location name.

The foundations of the Augustinian nuns' priory for the Holy Trinity , which had been cleared after the Reformation and left to decay, were uncovered and can be viewed on the Baiselsberg. During the excavations, a large amount of ceramics were found, but also fragments of glass vessels, metal objects such as sickles, vine knives, chisels, picks and nails. The Baiselsberg, at the foot of which lies Horrheim, is the highest point in the Stromberg area and is said to have served as a pagan sacrificial site in prehistoric times.

politics

badges and flags

The Horrheim coat of arms shows, in silver, a lying black Wurttemberg stag pole, on which a red hip horn with the mouthpiece turned to the left with golden fittings hangs on a red fetter. The heraldic figures are already documented in seals from the 15th century. On August 10, 1957, Horrheim was also awarded a red and white flag.

Partnership connection

For a long time there have been partnerships between the Horheim , Wutöschingen , and Horrheim districts. The contacts of the local council at that time with Kurt Büche from Horheim and Klaus Bramm from Horrheim were initiated.

Culture and sights

Clement Church

Buildings

Parish Church of St. Clement

The first simple church probably already existed in the 8th or 9th century. Presumably it was named after Saint Clement, one of the first popes, in Franconian times. It was replaced around 1250 by a choir tower church with a low tower, which had a cross vault, a base area of ​​about 6 m × 6 m and a short nave. This also forms the basic structure of today's church building. In the 13th or 14th century, an ossuary was built on the north outer side at the site of today's sacristy, followed by a Johannes chapel, and further chapels followed. Around 1325 the four choir insides were artistically painted with semicircular biblical motifs. Of these, only the depiction of the coronation of Mary by Christ on the north side of the organ gallery and a detail of the Last Judgment on the south side as well as later additions with a prophet figure and a Christmas motif are preserved. Around 1435 there was a noticeable expansion of the nave to the west and south, which gave it the asymmetrical design it is today. Around 1460, the choir was expanded to the east with a three-sided closure and today's cross-ribbed vault and the choir windows were installed. In the 16th century after the Reformation, the side altars in the church and the outer chapels were removed and uniform interior fittings were created in the style of a Protestant preacher's church. In the 17th century, under the direction of Friedrich Vischlin and with the initial participation of the ducal-Württemberg master builder Heinrich Schickhardt, the previous square tower stump was raised; an octagonal tower still forms the transition to the spire today. In addition to many renovations, there was a radical redesign of the interior in 1962 with the removal of the north gallery, raising the ceiling, exposing the choir arch and relocating the pulpit. Until the Reformation, the Horrheim parish belonged to the Vaihingen regional chapter in the Archdiakonat Trinitatis of the Diocese of Speyer, since then to the church district of Vaihingen an der Enz. In addition to the depiction of the Coronation of Mary, two grave monuments of Georg von Wihingen and his wife, an oversized one, are particularly worth seeing Crucifix as well as the Renaissance baptismal font and altar from 1599, the door from the choir to the sacristy with unusual wrought iron fittings and a late Gothic garment, the gilded organ front from 1768 and 13 picture panels on the parapet of the organ loft with representations, probably from the beginning of the 19th century of Christ and his apostles. The four-part chime includes the praying bell created in 1513 by the Heilbronn foundry Lachaman.

Buildings in place

  • The town hall is a three-story half-timbered building from the 16th century. The small museum of the Baiselsberg monastery ruins is housed on the ground floor .
  • The wide wine press from 1788 now houses the wine museum. The huge winepress tree inside is ten and a half meters long and one meter thick; weighted down with its sandstone weight, it could generate a pressure of fifty tons.
  • The building at Untere Kirchgasse 2 has a Renaissance basement with a door frame that is well worth seeing, dating from around 1620. The half-timbered floors above date from the 18th century.
  • The half-timbered building at Alte Schulstrasse 16 dates from the 17th century. It served as the quarters of the Württemberg dukes when they came to the area to hunt.
  • The half-timbered house at Klosterbergstrasse 36 , a stable house with a half- hipped roof , was built around 1540.
  • The former Zum Ochsen inn is also located on Klosterbergstrasse .
  • The lower bakery from 1837 is made of hewn stones and has a half-timbered gable.
  • The upper bakery from 1844 is a plastered building with three blind arcades on the gable side.
  • The building at Mühltorstraße 5 shows an ox head and the year 1713 above the decorated door.
  • At the half-timbered house at Mühltorstraße 7 there are remains of the city wall and a round tower made of rubble stones with loopholes and an eight-sided roof on the southwest corner.
  • The former customs house at Mühltorstraße 17 shows a Württemberg state coat of arms from 1426 on the gable side from the Mühltor.
  • In the cemetery east of the medieval city area, integrated into the wall, there is a house from around 1700 with a high, pointed roof.

  • town hall

  • Wine press

  • Untere Kirchgasse 2

landscape

Vineyards on the southern roof of the Baiselsberg
Nature reserve Unterer See and surroundings

Baiselsberg

The Baiselsberg north of the village is the highest point of the Stromberg. The vineyards reach up to over 350 m. In the areas above the mountain is covered with dense mixed forest. The Baiselsberg monastery ruins are on its south-east side. From the paths on the edge of the forest you have a panoramic view far over the entire Ludwigsburg lowlands to the Swabian Alb . A vineyard educational trail with around a hundred different grape varieties has been set up in the vineyard trails.

Lower lake

Immediately to the east of the village is the 61.5 hectare nature reserve Unterer See and the surrounding area , which was designated in 1989 . To the northwest of the village are the two small Seewald lakes , which are used for local recreation.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 458 .
  2. ^ Werner Günzel (lez): Guests from the Swabian region. In: Südkurier. May 12, 2007.
  3. ↑ Hartmut Leins: The Horrheimer Clemenskirche and its sacristy . In: Series of publications by the city of Vaihingen an der Enz . tape 15 . Vaihingen an der Enz 2017, p. 77-104 .

Web links

Commons : Horrheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Horrheim  - in the description of the Oberamt Vaihingen from 1856