Kappel (Freiburg im Breisgau)

Kappel Freiburg im Breisgau
City district Freiburg (FR) Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Basic data
District with local administration of Freiburg
District number:	34 (District: 340)
incorporated on:	July 1, 1974
Geographic location :	47 ° 58 '5 "  N , 7 ° 54' 33"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '5 "  N , 7 ° 54' 33"  E
Height :	360  m above sea level NN
Area :	13.82  km²
Residents :	2,712 (January 1, 2018)
Population density :	196 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :	8th %
Postal code :	79117
Area code :	0761
Administration address :	Local administration Kappel Großtalstraße 45 79117 Freiburg
Internet presence:	www.freiburg.de
politics
Mayor :	Christoph Brender (CDU)
Dialect: Alemannic
Main variant:	Lower Alemannic
Regional variant:	Black Forest
Local variant:	Dreisamtal

Kappel is a district of Freiburg im Breisgau with its own local administration. The village with almost 2700 inhabitants (2010) is located in the east of the city south of the Dreisam and the Höllentalbahn . Kappel was incorporated into Freiburg on July 1, 1974. The place is located in a southern side valley of the Dreisamtal at the foot of the 1284 m high Schauinsland in the Black Forest .

geography

View of the Kappeler valley

The Kappler Valley divides to the south into a large and small valley (Großtal and Kleintal). There are several farms scattered in both valleys; In the north of the Großtal valley lies the Molzhofsiedlung, a smaller residential area that emerged from a miners' settlement in 1936. It was built by what was then the Reichsheimstätte near the Molzhof farm.

The Kappl district extends from 338 m at the lowest point in the north to the Schauinsland summit at an altitude of 1284 m in the south. This drops steeply on the Kappler Wand to the north towards the valley.

The western boundary to the Günterstal district runs along the ridge that slopes north from the Schauinsland summit over the Pflugfelsen, Taubenkopf, Horber Felsen, the pass between Kappler Tal and Günterstal at the Schlackerhütte and the Eichkopf to the ski jump on the almost 838 meter high Kybfelsen , where she meets the district of Littenweiler . There it follows the ridge in an almost exactly north-easterly direction to Kappeler Straße in Freiburg, along which it then runs to the east until it reaches the district of Kirchzarten near Neuhäuser .

Kappel itself is connected to the settlement area of ​​the city of Freiburg via the western neighboring district of Littenweiler. To the east of this, the development merges into the Kirchzarten district of Neuhäuser without any visible break .

history

Church of St. Peter and Paul

Kappel was probably created in the 11th century after extensive clearing in the north of the Kappler valley. A chapel (capella) is mentioned for the first time in 1275, probably the origin of the place name. Today's parish church of St. Peter and Paul (Freiburg-Kappel) was built in the middle of the 18th century in a simple baroque style and was consecrated in 1749. Until 1916 it was also the parish church of the neighboring village of Littenweiler.

From the end of the Middle Ages until 1954, mining was carried out in the Kappler Valley. The Stolberger Zink AG operated the mining and left behind a 2.4 hectare area contaminated with heavy metals, where the ore laundry was located. Due to the estimated costs of 6 to 6.5 million euros, the renovation failed for the first time at the beginning of 2017.

Around 1950, the station estate was built around the former train station, where mainly refugees found a new home.

The incorporation to Freiburg was not entirely voluntary on July 1, 1974, but the location was able to acquire a certain degree of independence in the incorporation contract. a. Preserve it through its own local constitution with mayor and local council .

traffic

The Kappel stop on the Höllentalbahn, which runs on the northern edge of the district, was shut down in the 1980s and the platforms were removed. The next train station on this route is in Freiburg-Littenweiler.

The village is connected to the local public transport network in the Freiburg region by a bus line that leads to the Littenweiler terminus of Freiburg tram line 1.

The Kappler Tunnel in Freiburg, which opened in 2002 and is a section of the B31, is named after the Kappel district .

Education, sport

Kappel has

• two kindergartens: the Fuchsbau forest kindergarten and the St. Barbara Catholic kindergarten
• a primary school: the Schauinslandschule
• a sports club: the SV Kappel.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Jäger, Lisa Petrich, Sarah Schäfer & Simone Höhl: These are the new mayors in six Freiburg towns. Badische Zeitung, September 19, 2019, accessed on September 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ pei: Freiburg Ost: Molzhofsiedlung. Badische Zeitung, September 11, 2008, accessed on January 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Uwe Mauch: Freiburg: Stolberger Zink: The remediation of the contaminated site Kappel has failed. Badische Zeitung, January 9, 2017, accessed on January 10, 2017 . 
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. 506 .

Web links

Commons : Kappel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website at www.freiburg.de
• Local history
• Statistics website of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau