Kirchheim am Neckar

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Kirchheim am Neckar
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Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '  N , 9 ° 9'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Ludwigsburg
Height : 178 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.53 km 2
Residents: 5904 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 692 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 74366
Area code : 07143
License plate : LB, VAI
Community key : 08 1 18 040
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 78
74366 Kirchheim am Neckar
Website : www.kirchheim-am-neckar.de
Mayor : Uwe Seibold
Location of the municipality of Kirchheim am Neckar in the Ludwigsburg district
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Kirchheim am Neckar is a municipality in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Stuttgart region and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Geographical location

Kirchheim am Neckar is mainly located on the return of a former left loop of the Neckar , through which the Mühlbach runs to the river today , on its western bank. Heilbronn is about 12 km as the crow flies in the north-northeast, the district town of Ludwigsburg in the south about 17 km.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring municipalities are in turn the city of Brackenheim in the north-west, the city of Lauffen am Neckar in the north and north-east and also in the north-east the community of Neckarwestheim , which all belong to the neighboring district of Heilbronn . In their own district of Ludwigsburg, the communities Gemmrigheim in the southeast, Walheim in the south and Bönnigheim in the west follow .

Community structure

Kirchheim am Neckar includes the village of Kirchheim am Neckar and the Römerhof homestead.

Division of space

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

history

Kirchheim am Neckar was first mentioned in 1003 in a document from King Heinrich II . Kirchheim had the status of an imperial village whose citizens were not serfs and did not have to do any labor . With the increasing decline of imperial power, the Kirchheimers feared the covetousness of the neighboring nobility and voluntarily placed themselves under the protection of the Counts of Württemberg around 1400 . In 1477, Count Eberhard V. confirmed Kirchheim's rights in a letter of freedom against payment of an annual tax. In 1683 the village received market rights. Until 1803 Kirchheim was subordinate to the Brackenheim office. After the establishment of the Kingdom of Württemberg , the place came to the Oberamt Besigheim in 1808 . In 1938, during the regional reform of Württemberg during the Nazi era , Kirchheim was assigned to the Ludwigsburg district . In 1945 the place became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

Religions

Evang. Mauritius Church

Since the Reformation was introduced in the 16th century , Kirchheim has been predominantly Protestant. In addition to the Evangelical Mauritius Church, there is now also a Roman Catholic church in the village, the Marienkirche . The Christian Center in Kirchheim, on the other hand, belongs to the Bund Freikirchlicher Pentecostal congregations . In addition to the churches already mentioned, there is also a mosque .

Population structure

Kirchheim am Neckar has a high proportion of immigrants and with 24.3% (as of 2011) the highest proportion of foreigners in the Stuttgart region.

politics

Kirchheim town hall

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kirchheim am Neckar has 14 members. The last local election on May 26, 2019 brought the following result. 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 turnout was 51.97%.

Political party be right Seats 2014 result
Kirchheim voter community 56.54% 8th 6 seats
Independent voter association Kirchheim 36.22% 5 4 seats
CDU 7.24% 1 4 seats

badges and flags

The municipality's coat of arms shows a single-towered silver church with a turret in blue. The municipality flag is white and blue. The coat of arms and flag were awarded on April 18, 1966.

Partnerships

Kirchheim am Neckar has been on friendly terms with Piolenc in Provence in France since 1997 .

Sponsorship

In 1986 the sponsorship for the expelled Sudeten Germans from the community of Stangendorf in Schönhengstgau was taken over.

Culture and sights

The Neckartor

Kirchheim is on the Württemberger Weinstrasse , which leads past many sights.

Economy and Infrastructure

Kirchheim is a wine-growing town, the locations of which are part of the Stromberg area in the Württemberg lowlands of the Württemberg wine-growing region .

traffic

The municipality is connected to the motorway network with the Mundelsheim junction of the federal motorway 81 . The federal road 27 runs through Kirchheim.

The place is on the Frankenbahn ( Stuttgart - Würzburg ), the stop is the Kirchheim (Neckar) train station . There are connections with RegionalBahn trains in the direction of Stuttgart and Heilbronn every half hour . There are bus connections to Bönnigheim, Gemmrigheim, Walheim and Besigheim.

Kirchheim can also be reached by ship, with Neckar passenger shipping serving the landing stage below the train station.

education

The community has a community school (Schule auf dem Laiern). There are also two communal and two Protestant and one Roman Catholic kindergarten.

sons and daughters of the town

  • Konrad Braun (around 1495–1563), theologian, university professor, prince-bishop chancellor, head of the chancellery at the Imperial Court of Justice
  • Ulrich Rebstock (* 1951), orientalist and Islamic scholar

Web links

Commons : Kirchheim am Neckar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ^ 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. 400-401
  3. State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Kirchheim am Neckar.
  4. Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 50.
  5. State Statistical Office BW. ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de