Kraichtal
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ' N , 8 ° 44' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Karlsruhe | |
| County : | Karlsruhe | |
| Height : | 188 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 80.56 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 14,627 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 182 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 76703 | |
| Primaries : | 07250, 07251, 07258, 07259 | |
| License plate : | KA | |
| Community key : | 08 2 15 097 | |
| City structure: | 9 districts | |
City administration address : |
Rathausstrasse 30 76703 Kraichtal |
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| Mayor : | Ulrich Hintermayer ( CDU ) | |
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Kraichtal is a town in the northeast of the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg , which was created in 1971 from the union of nine smaller towns and communities. The next larger cities are in the south the former city of Bretten , in the east the city of Eppingen ( district Heilbronn ) and in the west the former district town Bruchsal . The next big cities are Pforzheim , Karlsruhe and Heilbronn .
geography
location
The town of Kraichtal is located in the western Kraichgau , a hilly landscape between the Black Forest and the Odenwald , as well as the Upper Rhine Plain and the Neckar (near Heilbronn ). The urban area is traversed by the Kraichbach , sometimes also called "the Kraich", which rises near Sternenfels in the Enzkreis , after entering the area of the Karlsruhe district, first flows through Kürnbach and Flehingen , then the Kraichtal districts of Gochsheim, Münzesheim, Oberöwisheim and Unteröwisheim and then several communities in the northern district of Karlsruhe and the southern Rhein-Neckar district and finally flows into the Rhine at Ketsch .
Neighboring communities
The following cities and municipalities border the city of Kraichtal, they are named clockwise from the east: Eppingen ( district Heilbronn ) as well as Zaisenhausen , Oberderdingen , Bretten , Bruchsal , Ubstadt-Weiher and Östringen (all district Karlsruhe ).
City structure
The urban area of Kraichtal consists of nine districts of Bahnbrücken , Gochsheim , Landshausen , Menzingen , Münzesheim , Neuenbürg , Oberacker , Oberöwisheim and Unteröwisheim . The city of Gochsheim is part of the Gochsheim district. The Menzingen district includes the village of Menzingen and the Waldmühle house. Only the villages of the same name belong to the other districts.
In the district Gochsheim lie deserted villages Giegelberg and Pfaff wells.
| district | Inhabitants 09/30/2018 |
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| Railway bridges | 677 |
| Gochsheim | 1661 |
| Landshausen | 970 |
| Menzingen | 2117 |
| Münzesheim | 2822 |
| Neuenbürg | 502 |
| Oberacker | 650 |
| Oberöwisheim | 2008 |
| Unteröwisheim | 3414 |
history
The town of Kraichtal was created on September 1, 1971 through the union of the towns of Gochsheim and Unteröwisheim and the communities of Bahnbrücken, Landshausen, Menzingen, Münzesheim, Neuenbürg, Oberacker and Oberöwisheim, all of which except Landshausen belonged to the Bruchsal district . Landshausen was part of the Sinsheim district at the time and was therefore reclassified to the Bruchsal district on September 1, 1971. The name of the new municipality was the Kraichbach , which is why the name Kraichbachtal was initially considered. The town of Kraichtal had about 12,600 inhabitants when it was founded. It received the new zip code 7527. The city rights of Gochsheim and Unteröwisheim transferred the designation “city” to the new municipality, so that it was not necessary to reassign the designation “city”. The founding of the city was preceded by the signing of a contract by the nine mayors of the formerly independent communities on July 14, 1971 in the gym in Münzesheim.
With the district reform on January 1, 1973, the city of Kraichtal and the entire district of Bruchsal became part of the district of Karlsruhe.
In January 1977, the newly built town hall of Kraichtal in Münzesheim was moved into. Previously, the municipal offices were housed in the town halls of the former parishes.
Religions
The majority of the population of Kraichtal is Protestant , as most of the city districts used to belong to Württemberg and the Reformation was introduced from there in 1534 . Since 1806 the places have belonged to the Grand Duchy, later the Free State of Baden, and with this came to Baden-Württemberg in 1952. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the Protestant include churches for church district Bretten the Evangelical Church in Baden . These are the parishes of Bahnbrücken, Gochsheim (Baden), Menzingen (Baden), Münzesheim, Oberacker, Oberöwisheim and Unteröwisheim. There are also residents who are members of a free church . These include the Methodist Church (with the Elim Church in Menzingen, the Friedenskirche in Münzesheim and the Eben-Ezer Church in Unteröwisheim) and the Gochsheim Christian Community, which belongs to the Mülheim Association of Free Church Evangelical Congregations (MV). The Liebenzeller community is also located in Oberöwisheim and Unteröwisheim. The New Apostolic Church is also represented in the Unteröwisheim district.
There are Roman Catholic parishes in the towns of Landshausen (later with Menzingen branch), Neuenbürg (Baden) and Oberöwisheim as well as in Münzesheim, which were formerly part of the Principality of Speyer , since 1803/06 to the Grand Duchy of Baden and thus to the later Archdiocese of Freiburg Parish is relatively young. Together with the parish of Elsenz (city of Eppingen ), they all form the Catholic parish of Heilig Geist Kraichtal-Elsenz.
politics
Like all municipalities in Baden-Württemberg, the town of Kraichtal is administered by a local council and a mayor . The local council is elected by the population for five years, the mayor for eight years.
mayor
The first mayor of the young city was Berthold Zimmermann. He was elected on December 12, 1971 in the second ballot and took up his new office on February 14, 1972. After 16 years in office, Zimmermann decided not to run again. On December 13, 1987, Horst Kochendörfer (1947-2004) was elected as the new mayor. He took office on February 13, 1988 and was re-elected twice. During his third term in office, Kochendörfer died unexpectedly on November 27, 2004 after a brief illness. In 2005, Ulrich Hintermayer, to date mayor of Illingen (Württemberg) , was elected as the new mayor. On February 3, 2013, he was able to successfully defend the office with a share of the vote of 54.8%.
Municipal council
The parish council usually has 23 honorary members who are elected for five years. The municipal councils use the designation city council. The number of municipal councils can be increased by compensating seats (total 2019: 30 seats; 2014: 27). In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights.
By choosing the wrong suburb , the districts are guaranteed a fixed number of seats: At least five council members come from Unteröwisheim, at least four from Münzesheim, Gochsheim, Menzingen and Oberöwisheim each have at least three, Landshausen at least two municipal councils, railway bridges, Neuenbürg and Oberacker each have at least one Seat in the municipal council.
The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):
| Municipal Council 2019 | ||||
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| Party / list | Share of votes | Seats | ||
| CDU | 36.6% (−6.4) | 11 (± 0) | ||
| Free voters | 22.4% (+1.6) | 7 (+1) | ||
| SPD | 22.1% (−3.4) | 7 (± 0) | ||
| Green | 17.4% (+6.7) | 5 (+2) | ||
| Turnout: 60.8% (+8.2) | ||||
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the city of Kraichtal shows in gold a red-armored and red-tongued black double-headed eagle, covered with a silver breast shield, inside a nine-petalled, green-edged red rose with green sepals. The city flag is red - white. The city's coat of arms was awarded on January 12, 1973 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior .
The Kraichgau was once the landscape most dominated by smaller knightly nobles. The Imperial Knighthood of Kraichgau had been united in the knightly canton of Kraichgau since the end of the Middle Ages . This canton carried the double-headed imperial eagle with a breastplate that contained a donkey as a symbol of the medieval tournament society "With the donkey ". This coat of arms served as the basis for the new coat of arms of the city of Kraichtal. The Eberstein rose was put in place of the donkey. The Counts of Eberstein , one of the most important families in the Central Baden region, had property, rights or suzerainty in seven of the places that today belong to the town of Kraichtal in the high Middle Ages.
The districts of Gochsheim and Oberacker already had the rose in their coat of arms. In view of the number of parts of the city, what was actually a five-petal rose was transformed into a nine-petal rose. The city colors red and white are derived from the breast shield, picture (red rose) in front of field (silver = white).
Town twinning
The city has no official town twinning. But there are friendly relationships with the community of Menzingen in the canton of Zug in Switzerland, which has around 4,300 inhabitants .
The Neuenbürg fire brigade maintains friendly relations with Murakeresztür (Hungary), so gifts have already been exchanged.
Culture and sights
Attractions
- The Graf-Eberstein-Schloss in Gochsheim is the former summer residence of the Counts of Eberstein .
- The moated castle Menzingen was the headquarters of the Lords of Mentzingen in the Renaissance style and at the beginning of the 20th century was still considered one of the most authentic moated castles in the Kraichgau, but was destroyed in the Second World War and is only preserved as a ruin.
- The Schwanenburg in Menzingen is another manor in the Menzingen district.
- The Unteröwisheim Castle , former Pfleghof the monastery Maulbronn, is now living house of the YMCA.
- In several parts of the city there is a rich inventory of historical half-timbered houses, especially in Gochsheim, Münzesheim (Alte Schmiede) and in Menzingen in the area of Oberer and Unterer Schloßstraße. There are also numerous historical and contemporary local wells.
Gochsheim Castle
Ruin of moated castle Menzingen
Schwanenburg Menzingen
Museums
- Badisches Bakery and German Confectionery Museum in the Gochsheim district
- Museum of the city of Kraichtal in Graf-Eberstein-Schloss in the Gochsheim district. The Graf-Eberstein-Schloss presents around 100 works by the Karlsruhe artist Karl Hubbuch, who died in 1979. On the upper floor you can marvel at the world's largest iron exhibition by collector Heinrich Sommer with 1,300 specimens. The Krieger Foundation with works by the theologian, folklorist and painter Dr. Carl Krieger and numerous reed pen drawings by the artist Margarethe Krieger . The museum is rounded off by the presentation of the cooper's and blacksmith's workshops.
Memorials
Graves and a memorial plaque in the cemetery in the Neuenbürg district commemorate seven of the 500 typhoid prisoners of the Vaihingen concentration camp , a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp , who were housed for convalescence after the liberation by French troops in 1945 and died here.
Churches
Due to the existence of nine districts with a long history of their own, there are numerous, partly historical church buildings in Kraichtal, often with historical rectories.
- St. Sebastian's Church Bahnbrücken (Protestant): goes back to a chapel built in the 15th century, was expanded in 1811 and 1929. Inside, wall paintings from the 15th century have been preserved.
- St. Martins Church Gochsheim (Protestant): rebuilt after a fire in 1703, expanded in the 18th century; West tower in the core from the 13th century
- St. Martin Landshausen (Catholic): Parish church first mentioned in 1331, today's church, however, built in 1751 and rebuilt in 1911
- Evangelical Church Menzingen: a Nazarius church is mentioned in 770; Today's church was built in another location in 1848. Opposite it is the historic rectory.
- St. Anna Menzingen (Catholic): Branch church of Landshausen, built in 1958/59
- Martinskirche Münzesheim (Protestant): the old church was already under the patronage of the Counts of Eberstein in the 13th century; the current church was rebuilt in 1856.
- St. Andreas Münzesheim (Catholic): built 1963/65
- St. Lukas Neuenbürg (Catholic): Built as Marienkapelle in Neuenbürg Castle (hardly anything of the rest of the castle has survived), raised to a parish church in 1468 and rebuilt in 1892. The bell tower is the former castle tower.
- St. Andreas Church in Oberacker (Protestant): Choir tower church from the 14th century with nave from 1775/76
- Evangelical Church Oberöwisheim: originally Mauritius church, which served both denominations after the Reformation; In 1876 the Catholics built their own church. The previous one belonged to the Evangelicals from now on; In 1970 the nave was demolished and rebuilt. The Gothic west tower was preserved.
- St. Mauritius Oberöwisheim (Catholic): rebuilt in 1876; previously both denominations used the old church
- Kreuzkirche Unteröwisheim (Protestant): an old church in honor of the Trinity, All Saints and the Holy Cross is mentioned in 1426. The current church was rebuilt in 1825.
Martin's Church in Münzesheim
Sebastian Church in railway bridges
Kreuzkirche in Unteröwisheim
Catholic St. Anna Menzingen
Kath. St. Andreas Münzesheim
Catholic St. Lukas Neuenbürg
Regular events
- Kraichtal Church Music Days annually in spring
- Museum festival in the Gochsheim district
- Palace concerts in the Gochsheim district
- Art exhibitions in the Oberöwisheim district
- Street festivals and club festivals almost annually in almost all parts of the city
- Christmas market in the Münzesheim district on an Advent weekend
- Anti-Fruschd Open Air every two years in Oberacker
- Historic Oberacker village market
- Carnival events in Münzesheim, the Münzesheim night parade and town hall tower, as well as in the Unteröwisheim district the "Uneroiser pomp session"
- Old town festival in Gochsheim every two years.
Economy and Infrastructure
For a long time, the districts of Kraichtal were dominated by agriculture. Today only very few farmers cultivate the fields. Kraichtal is the residential community for commuters to the surrounding cities and communities (Bruchsal, Karlsruhe, Bretten, Oberderdingen and Östringen). Medium-sized industrial companies in Kraichtal are particularly in the districts of Münzesheim, Menzingen and Gochsheim.
traffic
Neither motorways nor federal highways run through the city . The urban area is therefore only accessible through state roads and district roads. The next motorway connections are Bruchsal (approx. 17 km) to the federal motorway 5 (Karlsruhe – Frankfurt), Sinsheim or Sinsheim-Steinsfurt (approx. 24 km) to the A 6 (Mannheim – Heilbronn) and Pforzheim-Nord (approx. 30 km) km) onto the A 8 (Karlsruhe – Stuttgart).
Local public transport (ÖPNV) is mainly served by the Kraichtalbahn (from Menzingen to Bruchsal ), on which the S32 runs to Karlsruhe. This line reaches Karlsruhe main station in about 30-40 minutes . Stations in the urban area are Menzingen, Bahnbrücken, Gochsheim, Münzesheim Ost, Münzesheim Bahnhof, Oberöwisheim, Unteröwisheim Bahnhof and Unteröwisheim Martin-Luther-Straße. There are shuttle bus routes in the districts of Landshausen, Neuenbürg and Oberacker. The high-speed railway line Mannheim – Stuttgart runs through the city.
education
In Münzesheim there is the Markgrafen School, a primary and secondary school with a technical secondary school . There is also a special school there . With the Eisenhut school, Unteröwisheim also has a primary and secondary school with a technical secondary school. There are primary schools in Gochsheim (Graf-Eberstein-Schule), Landshausen, Menzingen and Oberöwisheim (Burggarten-Schule).
fire Department
The Voluntary Fire Brigade City of Kraichtal is a public-law fire brigade that provides defensive fire protection and general assistance. In it the departments of the nine districts are summarized. The fire brigade is integrated into the district fire brigade association of the district of Karlsruhe, an amalgamation of all factory, company and volunteer fire departments in the district.
The Menzingen department is a special focus. Together with specialist staff from the Münzesheim department, the department is part of the Karlsruhe Land-Nord dangerous goods train . For this reason, in addition to the equipment on the emergency fire fighting group vehicle HLF 20/16 stationed in Menzingen , chemical protective suits (CSA), measuring devices and extensive reference work ( Hommel ), especially for the use of dangerous goods, are housed.
The nine district brigades are divided into Zug West (fire brigades Unteröwisheim, Oberöwisheim and Neuenbürg), middle (fire brigades Münzesheim, Gochsheim and Oberacker) and east (fire brigades Menzingen, railway bridges and Landshausen) according to the deployment areas.
The Menzingen and Unteröwisheim departments are summarized in the alarm code rescue kit and are used to provide technical assistance throughout the city in the event of traffic accidents and deployments. In the disengagement area of Zug Mitte, among other things, industrial companies are located. With the extensive equipment and provision of special extinguishing agents ( powder , CO 2 and foam ) on various trailers, the focus here is on fire fighting.
In autumn 2009, after a planning phase of more than ten years, a new fire station and clubhouse in the Münzesheim district was handed over. The functional building houses the vehicles of the entire armed forces (command vehicle, multi-purpose vehicle , equipment vehicle transport ) and the vehicles and trailers of the Münzesheim department. The equipment trolley transport (GW-T) is manned by the daily alarm group during the day. The daily alarm group consists of municipal employees from the municipal utilities / administration. In the case of non-time-critical operations, such as removing an oil trail, this group relieves the volunteer fire fighters. The hitherto unique facility in the Karlsruhe district led to interested inquiries from other communities.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
On August 26, 1978, the honorary citizenship awarded by the then city of Gochsheim in 1971 was transferred to the city of Kraichtal to the homeland and genealogist Rudolf Herzer (born January 8, 1905 in Gochsheim; † June 12, 1990 in Freiburg). Herzer was the first honorary citizen of Kraichtal. On the occasion of his 100th birthday and 15th anniversary of his death, the square in front of the two museums in the Gochsheim district was named after Rudolf Herzer in December 2005. Herzer had also been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the City Medal of Merit since 1983. Among other things, he published the “Ortssippenbuch Gochsheim” in 1968 and was also co-author of the “Ortssippenbuch Oberacker”.
sons and daughters of the town
- John VIII Entenfuß († 1525), Cistercian monk and abbot of Maulbronn Monastery from 1512 to 1518 . He left there u. a. build the winter refectory, the so-called abbot duck foot hall and the famous well chapel. In the 18th century and in the period of Romanticism, the abbot was assigned a connection with Johann Georg Faust . Joseph Victor von Scheffel immortalized it in his student song, the Maulbronner Fuge (in the winter refectory) .
- Nathan Chyträus (1543–1598), theologian, poet and philologist
- Rupertus Messenius (1582–1651), actually Peter Meiderlin , Lutheran theologian
- Julius Schickard (approx. 1650 – after 1723), staff nurse from Württemberg
- Friedrich Konrad Hiller (1651–1726), poet, who among other things wrote the well-known hymn “I praise you with whole souls”.
- Sigmund Jacob Haeckher (approx. 1720–1772), architect
- Johann Christoph Ludwig Mieg (1731–1807), born in Unteröwisheim, general superintendent and prelate of Maulbronn
- Alois Dessauer (1763-1850), banker
- Karl Benjamin Friedrich Scholl (born August 5, 1792, † October 30, 1867 in Karlsruhe) was director of the State Amortization Fund in Karlsruhe from 1835 to 1861 and founder of various social and charitable organizations. Since 1833 he was an honorary citizen of the city of Karlsruhe.
- Karl von Waechter-Spittler (1798–1874), lawyer, civil servant and politician
- Albert Helbing (1837–1914), Protestant theologian and prelate (1900 to 1903) and President of the Upper Church Council (1904 to 1914) of the Evangelical Church in Baden.
- Friedrich von Mentzingen (1858–1922), ambassador
- Johann Wild (1858–1903), born in Oberacker, Oberamtmann in Baden
- Bernhard Böhle (1866–1939), politician (SPD)
- Ludwig Schüttler (1905–1992), honorary member of the German Viticulture Association , an avid organizer and promoter of northern Baden viticulture, co-founder of the Baden and German Viticulture Association.
- Karl Dummler (1921–2010), born in Gochsheim, director of the Oberkirchenrat
- Franz von Mentzingen (* 1932), ambassador
- Heinz Fenrich (* 1945), politician (CDU), 1998–2013 Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe
Literature on Kraichtal
- Kraichtal - yearbook 1974 , ed. from the city administration of Kraichtal
- Kraichtal - yearbook 1978 , ed. from the city administration of Kraichtal
- Poems from Kraichtal , ed. from the Münzesheim Therapy Center in collaboration with the city of Kraichtal, 1988
- Kraichtal and its districts between the day before yesterday and yesterday (illustrated book) , 1986–1995 (several editions)
- City of Kraichtal - In the heart of the Kraichgau hill country (illustrated book) , 1991 and 1994
- City of Kraichtal - Unity and Diversity (illustrated book) , 1996
- City of Kraichtal - Unity and diversity in a landscape to breathe deeply (illustrated book) , 2002
- Information brochures of the city of Kraichtal , 1979–2002 (several editions)
- Walter Schmid: Kraichtaler dialect , ed. from the Heimat- und Museumsverein Kraichtal, regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 96-100
- ^ City of Kraichtal - data & facts. In: www.kraichtal.de. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
- ^ 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. 473 .
- ↑ Catholic parish Heilig Geist Kraichtal-Elsenz Catholic church Kraichtal. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Ulrich Hintermayer prevails ( Memento from November 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ City of Kraichtal: Main Statute, §3 ; accessed July 11, 2019.
- ^ City of Kraichtal: Main Statute, §13 ; accessed July 11, 2019.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg: City Council Election 2019, City of Kraichtal ; City of Kraichtal: municipal council elections 2019 and municipal council elections 2014 ; accessed July 11, 2019.
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, Volume I, Bonn 1995, p. 53, ISBN 3-89331-208-0
- ↑ Handover of the equipment car transport (GW-T) to the Kraichtal fire brigade. Kraichtal fire department, May 31, 2011, accessed on February 23, 2015 .
- ^ Günther Mahal: Questions to a funny name bearer. The Maulbronn abbot Johann Entenfuß, a "college" of the historical [Johann Georg] Faust? In: Suevica 9 (2001/2002). Stuttgart 2004 [2005], pp. 33-42.
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