Kirchberg on the Murr

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Rems-Murr district
Height :	306 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.22 km 2
Residents:	3880 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	293 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	71737, 71729
Area code :	07144
License plate :	WN, BK
Community key :	08 1 19 038
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 2 71737 Kirchberg an der Murr
Website :	www.kirchberg-murr.de
Mayor :	Frank Hornek
Location of the municipality of Kirchberg an der Murr in the Rems-Murr district

Kirchberg 1683/1685 in the Kieser forest inventory book

Zwingelhausen 1683/1685 in Kieser's forest inventory book

Kirchberg an der Murr is a municipality in the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the peripheral zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Geographical location

Kirchberg an der Murr is located on the Murr , a tributary of the Neckar , between Backnang and Marbach am Neckar . The municipality has a share in the natural areas of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains and Neckar Basin . The community lies at 201 to 343 m above sea level. NN.

Community structure

The village of Kirchberg an der Murr, the hamlets Frühmeßhof, Neuhof, Rundsmühlhof and Zwingelhausen and the homestead Obertorhöfe belong to the municipality of Kirchberg an der Murr. These six localities are listed in the main statute as districts. Their official designation is given by prefixing the municipality name and followed by a hyphenated name of the district. The localities Auhof, Eichhalden, Kronfeld, Schwabstetten, Waibstatt, Inneres Höfle and Outer Höfle are also located in the municipality .

Division of space

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

history

Kirchberg was first mentioned in a document on April 11, 1245 as Kircberc . The village, which was largely owned by the Dukes of Teck , came to Württemberg on July 12, 1302 . Kirchberg was repeatedly plundered during the Thirty Years' War , which destroyed half of the buildings and a third of the population died from the plague that was brought in in 1626. In 1693, French soldiers marched through the town, looting and murdering numerous residents. At the beginning of the 19th century came the great upheavals as a result of the coalition wars , in connection with which the Kingdom of Württemberg was founded in 1806 . After these drastic events for the population with constant war-related burdens, 1816 came to be the year without a summer . In the course of the 19th century, 184 Kirchbergers emigrated because of such famines; including to Bessarabia , where they founded the Lichtental settlement , with some descendants returning after the Second World War . The road conditions to Affalterbach, Marbach and 1956 to Backnang were not improved until 1930. The community belonged to the office, later the Oberamt Marbach and in 1938 came to the district of Backnang . After the Second World War, Kirchberg developed from an agricultural community into a commuter town.

politics

City council and mayor

The municipal council in Kirchberg an der Murr has 14 members. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following official final result:

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019  % 40 30th 20th 10 0 31.37% 27.04% 23.31% 18.26% UBK BUK FLK GGK Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p  35  30th  25th  20th  15th  10    5    0   -5 +31.37  % p.p. + 27.04  % p + 23.31  % p.p. + 18.26  % p.p. UBK BUK FLK GGK
UBK	Independent citizenship of Kirchberg	31.17	4th	?	4th
BUK	Citizens Union Kirchberg	27.04	4th	?	5
FLK	Free list Kirchberg	23.31	3	?	3
GGK	Healthy Community Kirchberg	18.26	3	?	2
total		100.0	14th	100.0	14th
voter turnout		66.8%		57.8%

Mayor is Frank Hornek (independent). He was confirmed for a fourth term in office on February 4, 2018 with 94.6% of the votes cast. The turnout was 34.8%.

coat of arms

Blazon : " A silver (white) church in red on a green mountain ".

Coat of arms history : From 1937 the coat of arms was used in the form described by the municipality. At the request of the municipality on July 24, 1959, the Ministry of the Interior granted the municipality the right to use the flag in the colors "white-red (silver-red)" including the coat of arms described.

economy

traffic

Kirchberg has been connected to the Backnang – Ludwigsburg railway line since 1879 . With the opening of the extension of the S4 S-Bahn line between Marbach and Backnang on December 8, 2012, the community is connected to the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.

Educational institutions

The community has a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule .

Culture and sights

Buildings

The buildings worth seeing include the town hall from 1787 and the old rectory, which was originally built as a private house in 1617.

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  town hall

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  Old rectory

Regular events

• The citizens' festival takes place at the end of June, one week before the Backnang street festival. This two-day street festival is organized by the Kirchberg clubs.
• The grocer's market takes place twice a year, in April and September. Clothes, toys, basketry and much more are sold at the stands in Magengasse.

Personalities

• Gotthilf Hitzler (1882–1933), editor, ministerial official and politician (SPD) born in Kirchberg

Web links

Commons : Kirchberg an der Murr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Kirchberg  - in the description of the Oberamt Marbach from 1866

• Internet presence of the Kirchberg community

Footnotes

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg . State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009.
3. ^ 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. 512-513.
4. ↑ Main statutes of the Kirchberg an der Murr community of September 18, 1980  ( 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. (PDF; 111 kB).  
5. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Kirchberg an der Murr.
6. ↑ https://www.kirchberg-murr.de/index.php?id=33 History of Kirchberg
7. ↑ ^{a b} History & Coat of Arms. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .