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	Coordinates: 48 ° 41 '  N , 9 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Esslingen
Height :	281 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.52 km 2
Residents:	9975 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	797 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73257
Area code :	07024
License plate :	ES, NT
Community key :	08 1 16 035
Address of the municipal administration:	Stöfflerplatz 1 73257 Köngen
Website :	www.koengen.de
Mayor :	Otto Ruppaner
Location of the municipality of Köngen in the Esslingen district

Köngen [ ˈkœŋɡən ], in Swabian spoken Kengga [ ˈkeŋɡɐ ], is a municipality in the Esslingen district , around nine kilometers from the district town of Esslingen am Neckar and around six kilometers from Nürtingen . It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Geographical location

Köngen is on the left side of the Neckar on the western slope of the Neckar Valley . The western slope is also the eastern branch of the Filder plain .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Deizisau in the north, Wernau in the northeast , Wendlingen in the southeast , Unterensingen in the south and Denkendorf in the west (all of the Esslingen districts).

Community structure

The municipality includes the village of Köngen, the Birkenhöfe, Buchenhöfe, Erlenhöfe, Kempflerhöfe, Lerchenhof, Riedhöfe, Rothöfe, Seehof, Talhof and Wangerhöfe and Haus Altenberg.

Division of space

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

history

Köngen 1683/1685 in the Kieser forest inventory book

Aerial photo of Koengen, 2011

Evangelical Peter and Paul Church

The members of the Albverein Köngen in 1911 in front of the corner tower of the Roman fort rediscovered by General Eduard von Kallee

antiquity

Köngen is located in the area of ​​the Roman settlement Grinario , which was built from a castle around 100 AD . Grinario was the end point of the Neckar-Alb-Aare Roman road , which started in Windisch (Switzerland) . In 260 the place was destroyed by the Alemanni and the Romans expelled.

→ Main article : Kastell Köngen

middle Ages

The Alemannic place, which must have originated around 700, was first mentioned in 1075 in a document from the Hirsau monastery . In 1336 the Lords of Hohenberg sold the place to Albrecht von Aichelberg. In 1382 the rule came to the Thumb von Neuburg men , who moved their residence from Graubünden to Köngen around 1430 . Hans Friedrich Thumb promoted the Reformation early on ; Lutheran sermons were therefore already being preached in Koengen in 1527, seven years before Duke Ulrich implemented the Reformation in Württemberg in 1534.

Modern times

Around the year 1600, about 900 villagers lived in Köngen. In the course of the 17th century, the Köngener suffered several severe blows of fate due to epidemics and the violence of war. From 1609 to 1611 there was a first wave of plagues, which reappeared in 1627. About a third of the population died of the disease. After the Battle of Nördlingen in the Thirty Years' War, over 100 villagers were killed by marauding troops of the victorious emperor in 1634. The number of 1000 inhabitants was only reached and exceeded in the course of the first half of the 18th century.

In 1739, Köngen became part of Württemberg ; the previous owners (Thumb von Neuburg) had been in Württemberg's service for over 200 years. After the founding of the Kingdom of Württemberg , Köngen was the seat of an upper office for a short time from 1806 to 1808 , but was then assigned to the upper office of Esslingen in 1808 in the course of the consolidation phase of the new Württemberg administrative structure . During the district reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era , Köngen came to the enlarged Esslingen district in 1938 . Since Köngen had become part of the American zone of occupation after the Second World War , the municipality belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden in 1945 , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

religion

Since the Reformation , Köngen has been predominantly evangelical . Only since 1953 has there been a Roman Catholic church in town again. The new building had become necessary due to the settlement of many Catholic expellees . There is also a Methodist Church congregation and, since 1924, a New Apostolic congregation.

The Bund der Köngener is named after Köngen because an important conference for the formation of the Bund took place there in 1919.

Population development

The population figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).

Deadline population 1600 900 1740 1.010 1800 1,400 December 1, 1871 ¹ 2,088 December 1, 1900 ¹ 2,288 May 17, 1939 ¹ 3,036 September 13, 1950 ¹ 4,160 June 6, 1961 ¹ 5,923 May 27, 1970 ¹ 8,113 May 25, 1987 ¹ 8,058 December 31, 1995 8,818 December 31, 2000 9,408 December 31, 2005 9,681 December 31, 2010 9,613 December 31, 2015 9,718 December 30, 2017 10,021

politics

mayor

• 1945–1946 Wilhelm Zaiser
• 1947 Gustav Bracher
• 1947–1982 Erwin Rath
• 1982-2014 Hans Weil
• since 2014 Otto Ruppaner

Municipal council

The municipality council in Köngen has 18 members. The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following official final 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.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019  % 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 41.46% 27.21% 16.52% 14.81% n. k. FW CDU SPD Green SPD / GREEN Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p  20th  15th  10    5    0   -5 -10 -15 -20 -25 -30 -35 +1.59  % p -2.44  % p + 16.52  % p + 14.81  % p.p. -30.48  % p FW CDU SPD Green SPD / GREEN
FW	Free voters	41.46	7th	39.87	7th
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	27.21	5	29.65	5
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	16.52	3	-	-
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	14.81	3	-	-
SPD / GREEN	Social Democratic Party of Germany - Alliance 90 / The Greens	-	-	30.48	6th
total		100.0	18th	100.0	18th
voter turnout		65.70%		53.3%

coat of arms

Blazon: “A silver bell in blue”.

Köngen has the largest bell of the Peter and Paul Church in the coat of arms. This bell is said to have been buried during the Thirty Years War for fear of looters. When the war was over, however, there was no one left who knew the hiding place. According to legend, the lost bell was finally scratched out of the ground by pigs. Since then it has been called "Sauglocke".

Partnerships

Köngen maintains partnerships with:

• Taucha in Saxony-Anhalt and
• Český Brod in the Czech Republic.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Köngen is connected to the national road network by the federal highway 313 and the federal highway 8 . The station in the neighboring community of Wendlingen am Neckar is also easily accessible by bus route 151 : There is a direct connection to and from the S-Bahn in the direction of Stuttgart and Kirchheim unter Teck ; Regional trains in the direction of Tübingen and Stuttgart and buses in the direction of Nürtingen also operate there .

Since 2016, a citizens' bus has also been running 3 days a week within Köngen ; Since December 2016 there has also been a direct connection to Stuttgart Airport and Kirchheim unter Teck train station with the new X10 express bus .

Established businesses

DHL operates a parcel center with 700 employees in Köngen . Mechanical engineering companies (ALMiG compressors, MATEC) are also located here. In addition, here the fashion discount has AWG his seat. The machine tool manufacturers Matec went into bankruptcy in 2016 and was amended by Taiwanese engineering company Anderson Group adopted.

education

In Köngen there are two state schools with the Burgschule, a community school , and the Mörikeschule , a primary school . The Anne Frank School ( special needs school ) and the Robert Bosch Gymnasium in Wendlingen are also attended by students from Köngen. There are also seven kindergartens, a Waldorf and a forest kindergarten in Köngen.

The Köngen-Wendlingen music school provides musical training and further education with a wide range of activities for young and old. The private Grinio Academy is specifically dedicated to intensive, individual training with elements of chamber music.

The community library is on the top floor of the tithe barn. It has an inventory of around 12,000 books and 3,000 other media.

Adult education is provided by the adult education center in Köngen and the fba Köngen. The Staufen Academy in Köngen Castle organizes a variety of qualification seminars for managers and teams from companies.

Culture and sights

Attractions

• Köngen lies on the Neckar line of the Upper German Limes . The 23 km long Lautertal-Limes branches off this Limes line in the village and ends at the Alblimes near Donnstetten . This straight path was up to his interpretation as a border fortification in 1976, has long been considered Sibyllenspur known.
• Köngen is the beginning and end of the Roman road Neckar-Alb-Aare .
• Two replicas of Jupiter's giant columns are worth seeing :
  • Replica of the giant Jupiter column from Hausen an der Zaber on the roundabout island on Plochinger Strasse.
  • Replica of the Jupiter giant column from Walheim in front of the reconstructed watchtower on the southern corner of the Roman Park.
• Roman Museum with Koengen Archaeological Park . The castle of Köngen has been a cultural monument since 1974 and was the only one on the entire Neckar Limes to be saved from post-war development. As a military camp on the Roman Limes, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005 . The corner tower of the ancient garrison was found in 1885 by General Eduard von Kallee and was reconstructed in 1911.
• The Köngener Schloss was built in 1392 as a castle by the local lord, the free Imperial Knight Hans Thumb von Neuburg . The Neuburg still exists as a ruin north of Chur in Graubünden . As early as 1398, the castle was expanded into a four-wing moated castle. In 1520 the castle was badly damaged by troops of the Swabian Federation . Therefore, after 1520, it was almost completely rebuilt. The castle turned into a renaissance chateau. In 1538 the jewel - the knight's hall - was expanded, which is still almost unchanged today. The renovations dragged on for most of the 16th century. Heinrich Schickhardt mentioned in his catalog raisonné that he had added a gatehouse to the castle around 1600. This was torn down together with two wings during the redesign by Chamber President Jakob Friedrich Weishaar . Weishaar bought the property in 1825 and had it redesigned according to his needs. It was a place of culture until the 1930s. Here the well-known " Bund der Köngener " was founded, in which Gerhard Gollwitzer was a member. The painter Christian Mali and the Dutch-German family of painters Peters stayed in the palace often. It was named " Monument of the Month September 2004" by the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg . In recent years, frescoes from the 18th century have been uncovered and restored on the east wall of the knight's hall , showing figures from ancient mythology and history.
• The foundation stone of the Protestant Peter and Paul Church was laid in 1512 by master builder Stefan Waid . After his death in 1504, his brother-in-law and successor Dionysius Böblinger completed the rib-vaulted choir and the nave by 1512. The dimensions of the ship: 23.0 × 12.1 meters. Under a truss - roof a painted Renaissance beamed ceiling suspended since 1613th The renaissance building received the interior of a transverse church with the pulpit then placed on the south wall (later on the choir arch) and a three-sided gallery facing the pulpit, and later an organ gallery in the choir . The west tower was built in 1724. The originally late Gothic carved altar was reworked in 1614. The Stuttgart architects Kreuz + Kreuz carried out the most recent interior renovation in 2011. The equipment: The Ulm sculptor Martin Scheible created a pulpit with carved reliefs in 1953 (themes: the works of mercy ); the renaissance pulpit cover was retained. The Stuttgart glass artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler designed the stained glass of the three choir windows in 1958 (left: three parables; center: Christ Coming, Angel, Michael; right: three more parables).
• The listed Ulrichsbrücke over the Neckar was built according to plans by Heinrich Schickhardt between 1600 and 1602. It stands on the site of an earlier Roman bridge. Due to the damming of the Neckar, the piers of the bridge are now partially below the water level.

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  Replica of the giant column of Jupiter from Hausen an der Zaber in Köngen

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  Roman Museum Koengen

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  Koengen Castle

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  The Protestant Peter and Paul Church

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  The Ulrichsbrücke from 1602 over the Neckar

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  Old Bailiwick

Regular events

• Pentecost market on Whit Monday
• Autumn market
• Culture days
• Weekly market
• Whitsun music festival of the Köngen e. V.
• 3k festival

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Gustav Adolf Boley (1835–1891), entrepreneur and inventor
• Nicolai Theilinger (* 1992), handball player
• Konrad Thumb von Neuburg (1465–1525), Hereditary Marshal of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg

Other personalities associated with Köngen

• Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), member of the " Bund der Köngener ", which took place on 9./10. October 1920 in the Köngener Castle was founded.
• Eduard von Kallee (1818–1888), found the military camp of Fort Köngen in 1885 on the basis of strategic military considerations
• Else Klink (1907–1994), head of the Eurythmeum Stuttgart from 1935 to 1991, lived in Köngen
• Christian Mali (1832–1906), animal, landscape and genre painter, in the course of his life - especially in the last years of his life - the artist spent a lot of time in the Köngener Palace
• Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) was vicar from May to December 1827 with Pastor Nathaniel Gottlieb Renz
• Anna Peters (1843–1926), painter, lived and worked from 1894 to 1924 at Castle Köngen
• Pietronella Peters (1848–1924), painter, lived and worked from 1894 to 1924 at Castle Köngen
• Daniel Pfisterer (1651–1728), Daniel Pfisterer documented life in Köngen, both positively and negatively, in numerous pictures and rhymes
• Ilse Rennefeld (1895–1984), anthroposophic doctor, in Köngen from 1946
• Otto Rennefeld (1887–1957), poet and anthroposophist, in Köngen from 1946
• Jakob Friedrich Weishaar (1775–1834), Württemberg politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies, lived in Köngen from 1823 until his death

literature

• Wurster, Otto: Eßlinger Heimatbuch for town and surroundings . Esslingen 1931. In it: Köngen (pp. 27–281).
• The Esslingen district. Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archive in conjunction with the Esslingen district, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0842-1 , Volume 2, page 81
• Burkhart Oertel : Ortssippenbuch Köngen. Complete reproduction of the Protestant church registers 1588–1808. Köngen: History and Culture Association Köngen 1998 (= Württemberg local family books 39)
• Kathrin Fastnacht: Köngen. A castle and its people. Konrad-Verlag, Weißenhorn 2007. ISBN 978-3-87437-530-6 .

First detailed monograph on the Köngener Castle.

Web links

Commons : Köngen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Köngen in the description of the Oberamt Esslingen from 1845  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality

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. 255-257
3. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Köngen.
4. ↑ Baldwin Keck: The Peter and Paul Church in Köngen. Edited by the Protestant parish, Köngen 1981, p. 19.
5. ↑ Election information for the municipal data center
6. ↑ Verbund line network on the VVS website (PDF; 1.7 MB), accessed on October 22, 2010
7. ↑ Lifelines of a city, part 4 in the Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 6, 2006  ( 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; 416 kB), accessed on September 16, 2010  
8. ↑ BBL Bernsau Brockdorff: Insolvency administrator successfully concludes sales negotiations: matec Maschinenbau under new management , accessed on February 23, 2020
9. ^ Castle School Köngen: Types of Schools and Qualifications. Retrieved July 23, 2020 . 
10. ↑ http://www.koengen.de/site/Koengen_2016/node/13684254/Lde/kindergaerten.html?zm.sid=zmbida2a9vb1
11. ↑ https://www.musikschule-koengen-wendlingen.de/
12. ↑ http://www.grinio-akademie.de/
13. ↑ http://www.buecherei-koengen.de/,Lde/start/buecherei/Angebot.html
14. ↑ https://www.vhs.info/baden-wuerttemberg/volkshochschule-koengen/
15. ↑ https://www.fba-koengen.de/
16. ↑ https://www.staufen.ag/de/akademie/
17. ↑ "Archeology in Germany", 2/2006, p. 72
18. ^ ^{A b} Konrad Miller: The Roman castles in Württemberg . J. Weise, Stuttgart 1892, p. 16.
19. ^ Dieter Planck : Restoration and reconstruction of Roman buildings in Baden-Württemberg . In: Günter Ulbert , Gerhard Weber (ed.): Conserved history? Ancient buildings and their preservation . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0450-0 , p. 150
20. ^ Elisabeth Maier: The revenge of Queen Tamiris in the knight's hall. Restorer Hans Cabanis presents exposed wall paintings . In: " Eßlinger Zeitung ", March 9, 2010, p. 13.
21. ↑ Gerald Wiegand and Hans-Peter Duncker: Building and Designing in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg ; Stuttgart 2014, p. 4
22. ↑ Andreas Maier: Impressions from the Protestant Peter and Paul Church in Köngen ; Ed. Evangelical Church Community Köngen am Neckar 2012, available as PDF see [1] , last accessed on April 26, 2019
23. ↑ Ulrichsbrücke on the pages of the Köngen History Association
24. ^ Trafo youth center | We are an institution of the District Youth Association Esslingen. In: www.jugendhaus-trafo.de. Retrieved September 1, 2016 . 
25. ↑ Quotation from the website of the Köngen History Association: “After Eduard Mörike had to give up his vicar position in Möhringen, he was to be employed as a vicar in Kirchentellinsfurt according to the decision of the church authorities on May 18, 1827. This decision was reversed when the pastor of the Kings, Nathaniel Gottlieb Renz, asked for his support on May 20th. Mörike (…) arrived in Köngen on May 24th. "