Koenigheim

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Koenigheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 36'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Main-Tauber district
Height : 223 m above sea level NHN
Area : 61.23 km 2
Residents: 2997 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 97953
Primaries : 09341, 09340
License plate : TBB, MGH
Community key : 08 1 28 061
LOCODE : DE KMB
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Kirchplatz 2
97953 Koenigheim
Website : www.koenigheim.de
Mayor : Ludger Krug (independent)
Location of the municipality of Königheim in the Main-Tauber district
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Königheim is a municipality in Tauberfranken , located in the Main-Tauber district in the Franconian north-east of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Landscaping and location of the municipality of Königheim

Geographical location

The community is located about six kilometers west of Tauberbischofsheim in the catchment area of ​​the approximately 18 kilometers long Brehmbach .

Community structure

The formerly independent communities of Brehmen , Gissigheim and Pülfringen belong to Königheim .

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates of the places of the municipality Königheim: OSM

Protected areas

In Königheim there is a European bird sanctuary , a landscape , four nature reserves and a water reserve :

The FFH areas of Northwestern Tauberland and Brehmbach and Westlicher Taubergrund are partly within the Königheim district. In addition, there are a total of 14 objects protected as natural monuments in the area of ​​the municipality of Königheim .

Division of space

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

history

History of the community of Königheim

middle Ages

Königheim was first mentioned in a document in 1149. During the era of the tribal duchies, the place belonged to the Duchy of Franconia . In 1422 the community received market rights.

Modern times

Until 1585 Königheim belonged to the Würzburg Monastery , which transferred it to Kurmainz that year . As part of the secularization due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the place first fell to the Principality of Leiningen in 1803 and then to the Grand Duchy of Baden through the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806 . There, Königheim initially belonged to the Tauberbischofsheim district office , from which the district of the same name emerged in 1938 . Was dissolved as of 1973, Königheim fell by the newly formed Tauber district , which a year later in Main-Tauber-Kreis has been renamed.

During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue of the Jewish community was desecrated by SA men ; the cult objects were publicly burned on Sternplatz . A memorial plaque on the post office at Münzgasse 2 commemorates this event.

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Corpus Christi flood : On June 21, 1984 Königheim was badly affected after heavy rainfalls that caused the Brehmbach to overflow. The rain started in the afternoon; just half an hour later, the Gissigheim retention basin overflowed at around 54 m³ / s. The flood peaked at around 5 p.m. with a flow of around 100 to 120 m³ / s; as a result, the district office triggered a disaster alarm. The Bundeswehr, DLRG, fire brigades and technical aid organization were in action. The flood caused damage amounting to around 39 million euros; there were nine injured, 30 destroyed and 130 damaged buildings and 80 damaged vehicles. 55 head of large cattle and 700 pigs perished.

Königheim in the summer of 2005

Incorporations

  • January 1, 1972: Gissigheim, Brehmen
  • December 31, 1973: Pülfringen

Königheim's districts and their history

Brehmen

Brehmen

Brehmen was first mentioned in a document in 1239. It initially belonged to Boxberg . Via the Lords of Rosenberg and the Counts of Hatzfeld , the place came to the Grafschaft Löwenstein-Wertheim in 1730 , to which it belonged until 1806. The provisions of the Rhine Federation Act then led to membership in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Gissigheim

Gissigheim

Gissigheim was first mentioned in a document in 1013 in a document from the Amorbach monastery . A Keltenschanze in the border area of ​​the districts of Brehmen and Gissigheim, however, indicates a settlement in pre-Christian times. After various other landlords, the place belonged to the imperial barons of Bettendorff in the 18th century before it fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806.

Washing rings

Washing rings

Pülfringen was first mentioned in a document in 788 in the Lorsch Codex . It is the oldest of today's suburbs. From around 1050 it was under the local nobility of the knights of Bilversheim and Pülfringen , through whom it came to the Würzburg monastery . A remarkable career for this Ministerialengeschlecht succeeded Henry I of Bilversheim by the election to Bishop of Bamberg (1242-1257). From 1287 to 1597 Pülfringen was subordinate to the Counts of Wertheim and then fell back to Würzburg. In the course of secularization, the place came to the Principality of Leiningen in 1803 and finally to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806.

Weikerstetten

The small settlement of Weikerstetten, which belongs to Königheim and is located on the B 27 , has around 50 inhabitants, the majority of whom are farming. In the middle of the housing estate there is a small chapel where services are held regularly.

Population development

year total
1961 3586
1970 3043
1991 3438
1995 3466
2000 3362
2005 3290
2010 3153
2015 3035

religion

Christianity

The inhabitants of the district of Königheim are predominantly Roman Catholic, those of the districts of Gissigheim and Pülfringen almost exclusively, while the Brehmer are predominantly Protestant. The Catholic churches of the community belong to the pastoral care unit Königheim in the deanery Tauberbischofsheim of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Since there is no Protestant church in the community of Königheim, the Protestant church service participants visit the Protestant Christ Church in Tauberbischofsheim .

Judaism

Plans of the former synagogue in Königheim (exterior view)

Jewish community of Gissigheim

In Gissigheim there was a Jewish community from 16./17. Century to 1894.

Jewish community of Königheim

The Jewish community in Königheim existed from the Middle Ages until 1940.

politics

mayor

Until 1806, the municipality of Königheim was headed by a councilor and a common mayor (in the 15th century also referred to as Heimburgen ) and a mayor. In the Grand Duchy of Baden, the community leaders initially held the title Vogt and from 1831 mayor.

Ludger Krug has been mayor since 2016. Krug was elected on September 25, 2016 with 66.8% of the vote.

See also: List of mayors of the Königheim community

Municipal council

The parish council normally has 17 honorary members who are elected for five years. The number of members can increase through compensating seats (total 2019: 17 seats; 2014: 18). 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 nine from Königheim, at least three from Gissigheim and at least two from Brehmen and Pülfringen.

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

Municipal Council 2019
Party / list Share of votes Seats
Citizen List 67.1% (+0.4) 11 (−1)
CDU 32.9% (−0.4) 6 (± 0)
Turnout: 75.8% (+6.6)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Königheim shows a golden jug on a red background, which goes back to "Kannenheim" as the former name of Königheim. A village seal covered in imprints in the 18th century shows in the shield a little jug without a handle, which is interpreted as a “talking” heraldic figure in relation to the dialect form of the place name (Kennichen). The coat of arms appeared on the arch of the Mount of Olives by Tilman Riemenschneider as early as 1499 . In addition, the jug is attached to the town hall, which was expanded in 1707. The colors of the coat of arms proposed by the General State Archives in Karlsruhe were adopted by the municipal council in July 1901. The flag was awarded by the District Office on December 8, 1980.

Community partnerships

Königheim has had a community partnership with the communities of Scheifling and Sankt Lorenzen in Styria since 1971 .

Administrative community

The municipality of Königheim, together with the town of Tauberbischofsheim and the municipalities of Großrinderfeld and Werbach, form the agreed administrative community of Tauberbischofsheim for the purpose of handling their administrative business together .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Parish Church of St. Martin Koenigheim

Baroque church of St. Martin

In the center of Königheim is the baroque church of St. Martin.

Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul Gissigheim

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul from 1842 is located in the center of Gissigheim.

Kilianskirchen in Pülfringen and Brehmen

In the center of Pülfringen is the Roman Catholic parish church of St. Kilian, first mentioned in 1846.

The Church of St. Kilian in Brehmen had been a branch of the Kilian Church of the same name in Pülfringen since 1756. Today it is a branch of the Königheim Martinskirche.

Way of the Cross on the Kachelberg

Way of the Cross at Königheimer Kachelberg

A way of the cross with fourteen stations leads to the Königheimer Kachelberg.

Bettendorf Castle

The Bettendorfsche Schloss is a baroque palace built in Gissigheim in the 16th century.

More chapels

Haiger Chapel

The Haiger Chapel, built in 1740, is located in Königheim, at the beginning of the Haiger Valley.

Joseph Chapel

The Josefskapelle, built in 1888, is located on the edge of the Königheim landscape protection area in Haigergrund.

Guardian Angel Chapel

With the Guardian Angel Chapel there is a baroque chapel built in Gissigheim in 1712.

Laurentius Chapel

A Laurentius chapel from 1737 is located in Hof Esselbrunn.

Half-timbered houses

Half-timbered houses in Königheim (2008)

There are several historic half-timbered houses in the center of Königheim.

Wayside shrines and stone crosses

There are many stone crosses and wayside shrines, many of them from the Baroque era.

graveyards

The Gissigheim cemetery is surrounded by a wall from the Baroque period. There is a Jewish cemetery in Gissigheim and in Königheim.

Book booth

A public bookcase was set up in an old telephone booth in Königheimer Münzgasse in 2018 . The "book cell" should serve as a swap forum for bookworms . The book cell is located on a private property and was built with the help of a donation from the multi-generation playground in Königheim.

Recreation

In 2009, a Kneipp facility was set up in the Gissigheim district as part of a 72-hour campaign by 27 young people from the village on Roßbrunn, a square in the middle of forest and meadows.

Regular events

(annually)

  • Wine blossom festival in the town center
  • Christmas market at the Brehmbachtalhalle

Economy and Infrastructure

Königheim is a wine-growing area with around 100 hectares of vineyards.

traffic

railroad

From 1914 Königheim was connected to the national rail network by a railway line to Tauberbischofsheim . The line was closed in 1968. A planned connection from Königheim to the Walldürn – Hardheim railway line was never completed.

Biking and hiking trails

The approximately 180 km long Jakobsweg Main-Taubertal leads through Königheim.

Königheim is located on the Brehmbachtal cycle path, which leads via Dittwar station to Tauberbischofsheim , where there is a connection to the Taubertal cycle path . The Odenwald-Madonnen-Weg , which begins in Tauberbischofsheim, leads via Königheim, Hardheim , Walldürn , Eberbach and Heidelberg to Speyer . Königheim is also located on the Liebliches Taubertal cycle path - the sporty one .

The ninth circular hiking trail in the Lieblichen Taubertal (LT9) called Via the Hohe Bild to the Guardian Angel Chapel leads from Königheim via Weikerstetten and Gissigheim to the Guardian Angel Chapel and back.

Road traffic

education

With the Kirchberg School in the main town, Königheim has a primary school. There is one parish and two Roman Catholic kindergartens.

energy

  • Pülfringen wind farm with 7 wind turbines of the type AN Bonus 1.3 MW / 62 with 80 m hub height, 62 m rotor diameter and 1.3 MW output (commissioning: 2002)

Personalities

literature

  • Franz Gehrig, Helmut Kappler: Königheim - old market town and wine town . Self-published by the municipality of Königheim, (1985).
  • Franz Gehrig: Gissigheim in the Baden Franconia . Self-published by the community of Gissigheim, 1969.
  • Königheim and Dienstadt branch History and church buildings . Rita publishing house and printing company, Würzburg (1938).
  • Franz Gehrig, Otto Haberkorn: 1200 years of Pülfringen 788–1988. Self-published by the municipality of Königheim, (1988)
  • Doris Bauch: The architect Michael Anton Müller (1689–1722) and the parish church in Königheim. Master's thesis in art history at the University of Heidelberg (1994).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Main-Tauber-Kreis: Main-Tauber-Kreis: Cities and municipalities. Online at www.main-tauber-kreis.de, accessed on October 25, 2014
  3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 , pp. 351-354.
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  7. ↑ Esselbrunn Hof - living space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
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  10. ↑ Schwarzfeld-Siedlung - residential space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
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  23. ↑ Ordinance of the Ministry of Food and Rural Areas establishing European Bird Protection Areas (VSG-VO) of February 5, 2010.
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  26. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, Vol. I, Bonn 1995, p. 52, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 .
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  31. ↑ Alemannia Judaica: Gissigheim (City of Königheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
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  40. ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Parish of Königheim  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved February 25, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de  
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  42. ^ Franconian news: Königheim. Book cell In the Münzgasse in Königheim, bookworms can now find enough material to browse through. An exchange place for good reading material . August 3, 2018. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
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  50. ↑ Pülfringen wind farm .

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