Langenau

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Langenau (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '  N , 10 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Alb-Danube district
Height :	458 m above sea level NHN
Area :	75 km 2
Residents:	15,247 (Dec 31, 2018)
Population density :	203 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	89129
Primaries :	07345, 07348
License plate :	UL
Community key :	08 4 25 072
City structure:	4 districts
City administration address :	Marktplatz 1 89129 Langenau
Website :	www.langenau.de
Mayor :	Daniel Salemi
Location of the city of Langenau in the Alb-Donau district

Langenau around 1900

Langenau is a city in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

With 15,329 inhabitants, Langenau is the third largest city in the Alb-Danube district after Ehingen and Blaustein .

geography

Langenau is located on the edge of the Swabian Alb , northeast and in the immediate vicinity of Ulm and the Bavarian Elchingen . The Nau River flows through Langenau .

Neighboring communities

The city borders in the north on Nerenstetten and Öllingen , in the east on Rammingen , in the south on the city of Leipheim and Elchingen (both in Bavaria ) and on Ulm, in the west on Beimerstetten and Bernstadt .

City structure

Langenau consists of the core town, the three independent municipalities of Albeck , Göttingen , Hörvelsingen , and the hamlets of Osterstetten , Stuppelau and Witthau . Then there are the Aussiedlerhöfe such as Kornberghöfe, Fischerhöfe, Riedhöfe, Daunerhof, Sixenmühle, Staudenhöfe, Boschhof, Laurenhof, St. Nikolaushof, Schammenhöfe, Hartgartenhöfe and Heiler Winkel-Höfe.

history

prehistory

Langenau is located in the Eastern Alamann area, where the custom of horse sacrifice and horse burial was particularly common. Two burial sites were archaeologically examined in 1971 and three in 1990 . The found horse burials clearly show the Alemannic burial rites.

middle Ages

The settlement was named after the river Nau as Naue or as Nawe for the first time in a document dated September 9, 1003 .

In the High Middle Ages, Langenau belonged to the Duchy of Swabia . King Conrad III. held an imperial assembly in Langenau in 1150. Land ownership and local rule changed in 1238 from the Counts of Dillingen to the Lords of Albeck , in inheritance around 1250 to the Margraviate of Burgau and in 1293 to the Counts of Werdenberg-Albeck . In 1376, Emperor Karl IV confirmed the town charter for Langenau, but in 1377 Langenau fell to the imperial city of Ulm , which revoked the town charter for Langenau and made it the seat of a bailiff from Ulm. The weaving trade achieved long-lasting importance in the village , but this exposed the workers to the strong economic fluctuations in the textile trade. The resulting dissatisfaction also caused some Langenau weavers to join the rebels in the peasant war . After participating in the looting of the Elchingen monastery , the rebels were defeated in the Battle of Leipheim in 1525.

Early modern age

In 1531 Ulm introduced the Reformation in Langenau. During the Thirty Years' War , Langenau had to accept heavy loads due to the constant movement of troops and billeting. Something similar had to be endured again and again during the subsequent cabinet wars and during the coalition wars.

Württemberg time

During the mediatization , Langenau first fell to the Electorate of Bavaria in 1802 and to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810 due to the border treaty of 1810 . The municipality was assigned to the Oberamt Ulm in accordance with the new administrative structure of Württemberg and raised to the status of town in 1848. The number of the predominantly Protestant residents was around 3,600 this year. In the 19th century the city of Langenau was an important location for a weekly fruit market. From 1875 the connection to the network of the Württemberg railway took place .

During the district reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , Langenau came to the Ulm district in 1938 .

post war period

After the Second World War, the city of Langenau fell into the American zone of occupation and in 1945 came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the municipalities of Albeck and Hörvelsingen were incorporated into Langenau on February 29, 1972, and the municipality of Göttingen was incorporated into Langenau on April 1, 1972, and the thus enlarged city in 1973 became part of the new Alb-Danube as part of the district reform in Baden-Württemberg -Circle affiliated.

politics

Administrative association

Langenau is the seat of the Langenau municipal administration association , which includes the town of Langenau, Altheim (Alb) , Asselfingen , Ballendorf , Bernstadt , Börslingen , Breitingen , Holzkirch , Neenstetten , Nerenstetten , Öllingen , Rammingen , Setzingen and Weidenstetten .

mayor

The mayor is elected for an eight-year term. This ended for Wolfgang Mangold on April 30, 2016.

On May 1, 2016, Daniel Salemi took office as mayor. He was elected in February 2016 with 51.9% of the vote.

Municipal council

In Langenau, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection of a part of town. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipal council in Langenau has 24 members after the last election (previously 25). It consists of the elected honorary 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 preliminary final result.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019  % 40 30th 20th 10 0 36.2% 24.1% 17.5% 22.2% FW CDU SPD GUL Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6 +1.8  % p -5.5  % p -3.7  % p + 7.4  % p FW CDU SPD GUL
FWG	Free voter community Langenau	36.2	9	34.4	9
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	24.1	6th	29.6	7th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	17.5	4th	21.2	5
GUL	Green-Independent List	22.2	5	14.8	4th
total		100.0	24	100.0	25th
voter turnout		62.7%		52.26%

coat of arms

• The coat of arms of the city of Langenau from 1855 shows a jumping black horse in a split shield, split below, in gold above. At the bottom, in red, hanging from three rings, a triple-lobed, golden-fringed silver leaning flag, at the back divided by black and silver. The jumping horse draws attention to the horse breeding that was once important in Langenau. The church flag refers to the Werdenbergers as lords of Albeck. The colors black and silver indicate that it belonged to the free imperial city of Ulm from 1377 to 1802.
• The coat of arms of Albeck, established in 1933, shows a split shield in front in red a silver heraldic lily (lily staff), in the back in silver two red diagonal bars.
• The Göttingen coat of arms is divided into red and gold by a lily cut.
• The Hörvelsingen coat of arms shows the three-lobed red leaning flag of the Count Palatine of Tübingen , one branch of which formed the aristocratic family of the Werdenbergs, under a black shield head, covered with a golden lens stem, which indicates the earlier lens cultivation .

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  Langenau coat of arms

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  Albeck coat of arms

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  Coat of arms Göttingen

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  Hörvelsingen coat of arms

See also : List of coats of arms with the emblem of the Count Palatine of Tübingen

Town twinning

Langenau maintains community partnership relations with Albeck in Carinthia ( Austria ), Langenau , district fire-Erbisdorfs in Saxony (Germany), Bridgend in Wales ( United Kingdom ) and Somberek in Baranya ( Hungary ).

Political extremism

Both right-wing and left-wing extremist groups were active in Langenau . In the past, for example, sprayings with communist or National Socialist content appeared again and again . Old Nazis are said to be resident there, providing the new generation with material support and infrastructure. In the past, this has resulted in several demonstrations and rallies by nationalist people. Furthermore, political campaigns with reference to an information portal “National Socialists” take place regularly in Langenau. The May 8th Initiative in particular warns of these conditions.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Langenau train station before the renovation

Langenau is connected by the federal highways 7 ( Flensburg - Füssen ) and 8 (Luxembourg - Salzburg ) not only with the regional road network, but also internationally with Denmark , Luxembourg and Austria . The most widely used emergency telephone in Germany was in 2013 near Langenau on the A 7.

The public transport is the Danube-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund guaranteed. Langenau is connected to the national rail network via the Brenzbahn from Ulm to Aalen .

The Hohenlohe-Ostalb-Weg leads as a long-distance cycle path from Rothenburg ob der Tauber through the city to Ulm on the Danube.

Water supply

Langenau is one of the most spring-rich places in Germany. This is also where the main branch of the regional water supply association is located, which supplies more than three million people in Baden-Württemberg with drinking water. The state capital Stuttgart also gets some of its drinking water from Langenau.

The western districts of Langenaus, Albeck , Göttingen and Hörvelsingen are supplied with drinking water by the water supply association Ulmer Alb and belong to the area of ​​the Alb water supply .

Established businesses

Outdoor - Versand Süd-West Versand GmbH, founded in 1948, is based in Langenau and also operates an outlet store . In addition, the scrap trading company Walter Kunze Group has its headquarters there. Finkbeiner Beverage Logistics also has its headquarters and central warehouse in Langenau. Around 90 locations are supplied with drinks from Langenau. Most of the markets are in Württemberg and Bavaria-Swabia. Dachser Intelligent Logistics GmbH is located directly on the A7. In October 2012, Dachser invested 26 million euros in 2 new warehouses. With around 60,000 square meters of storage space, this location is one of the company's largest. Of the total of 115,000 pallet spaces, 54,000 can be cooled. 50 trucks can dock at one of the 226 loading gates at the same time.

media

The daily newspaper Südwest-Presse appears in Langenau and is accompanied by a weekly local edition “Langenau aktuell”.

From 1860 the weekly "Langenauer Anzeiger" appeared, which from 1889 was sold daily as the " Ulmer Albzeitung ". In addition, the local newspaper “Heimat Rundschau” has existed since 1950. It appears once a week and has a circulation of approx. 5000 copies.

education

Langenau has three primary schools , a special needs school , a Werkrealschule , a Realschule and the Robert Bosch Gymnasium .

Culture and sights

Important event locations in Langenau are the Pflegehofsaal, the Zehntstadel in Langenau- Göttingen , the KulturBahnhof, the city library, the city hall, the churches, the helper's house, the Mahr bookstore and the wood workshop.

In Langenau, cultural and lecture events are often held in cooperation with various institutions. Usually the cultural office, the Ulm Adult Education Center (Alb-Donau-Kreis department), the Mahr bookstore, the city library, the May 8th Initiative and the Moving Together Initiative cooperate in changing constellations . In addition, the Evangelical Church, the ecumenical movement, Nau-Rock e. V., the music school as well as various singing and music associations are important actors in the cultural life of Langenau.

Most of the events take place in the Langenauer Pflegehof, which is of national importance with its high-quality cultural program. Numerous concerts, readings and cabaret events take place here every year. Films are regularly shown in a mobile cinema and in the Kaos youth center.

Lectures are also mainly held in the Pflegehofsaal, mainly by the Ulm Adult Education Center , the Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND), the Friends of Nature, the Swabian Alb Association , the May 8th Initiative, the Moving Together Initiative, the Lonetal Association, the Friends of Nature Association for Ice Age Art and Other Institutions.

There are also three museums in Langenau: the Heimatmuseum, the Ungarndeutsche Heimatstuben and the Museum for Prehistory and Early History as well as the city archive, which organizes a historical exhibition in the KulturBahnhof every two years.

Religious buildings

View of the Martinskirche

The Protestant Martinskirche with a baroque high altar and the Martinsturm dates from the 14th to 18th centuries . It is popularly called the "upper church".

The also Protestant "lower church", St. Leonhard's Church, dates from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century.

The cemetery church “St. Peter ", which is used by all denominations, is popularly called" St. Peter's Church ".

The Catholic Church "Mater dolorosa" dates from the late 20th century .

The apparently contradicting geographical information on the positions of the churches does not relate to the height meters at which the churches stand, but to the direction of the river in Langenau. The direction of flow resulted in Upper and Lower City. These are the districts in which the churches are located.

Parks

The Stadtpark Wörth with a mill wheel and a lake as well as a playground belongs to Langenau.

Sports

Several sports clubs, including the TSV Langenau, the HSG Langenau-Elchingen, the Langenau tennis club, the Langenau water sports club, the DLRG Langenau and the FC Langenau offer numerous sports activities.

music

Several music groups, including the Langenau Music Association, the Langenau Men's Choir 1868, the Langenau Liederkranz 1858 and the Langenau Evangelical Trumpet Choir, offer opportunities to be musically active.

Festivals

Every year on the last weekend before the summer holidays, the traditional children's festival takes place with a parade of the schools. The origins of the children's festival can be traced back to 1535. Back then it was still the student dance. At the end of the 19th century the “Schulertanz” took place alternately in the castle courtyard and the Reutte. In 1894, the municipal council moved the festival day from Wednesday to Tuesday before Pentecost and set Reutte as a permanent festival site. In 1927 the “Schulertanz” was moved to the Sunday after Pentecost and finally in 1952 to the second Sunday in July.

The tower festival has been held every two years since 1992.

The axle socket also takes place every two years . The festival is organized by the Langenau men's choir and is a reminder of the custom of driving troughs on the Ach.

sons and daughters of the town

Robert Bosch 1888

• Samuel Baur (1768–1832), Protestant pastor and man of letters
• Albrecht Besserer von Thalfingen (1787–1839), Bavarian general and minister of war
• Ludwig von Baldinger (1807–1849), born in Albeck, lawyer, member of the state parliament
• Karl Adolf Camerer (1823–1893), administrative lawyer and senior administrator in Württemberg
• Tobias Hafner (1833–1921), teacher, writer and local historian
• Carl Friedrich Alexander Bosch (1843–1904), born in Albeck, entrepreneur
• Robert Bosch (1861–1942), born in Albeck, industrialist, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH
• Gottlob Honold (1876–1923), chief engineer
• Georg von Baudissin (1910–1992), diplomat, political scientist and lawyer
• Emil Sick (1921–1978), track and field athlete
• Wulf Konold (1946–2010), musicologist, dramaturge and artistic director
• Hansjörg Schlager (1948–2004), ski racer
• Georg Erhardt (* 1950), agricultural scientist and veterinarian
• Thure Riefenstein (* 1965), actor and director
• Björn Schoo (* 1981), basketball player
• Ferdinand Führer (* 1982), musician and writer

literature

• Gertrud Beck among others: Langenau. A city through the ages. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1981, ISBN 3-88294-102-2 .
• Uwe Schmidt: The history of the city of Langenau - from the Romans to today. Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1529-4 .
• Wolf-Henning Petershagen: Langenau in the mirror of his family name. Klemm & Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2003, ISBN 3-932577-45-0 .
• Ulrich Klemm (Ed.): Langenau. Klemm + Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2009, ISBN 978-3-932577-57-4 .

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Langenau  - travel guide

Wikisource: Langenau in the description of the Oberamt Ulm from 1836  - sources and full texts

ditto from Alpeck , Göttingen and Hervelsingen

• Langenau at LEO-BW
• Internet presence of the city of Langenau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Frieder Klein: Prehistoric and Merovingian finds from Langenau, Alb-Donau-Kreis. In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 1990 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0872-7 .
3. ↑ Alamanni in view. Exhibition in the museum. In: Südkurier . July 14, 2008.
4. ↑ history. City of Langenau, accessed on March 25, 2018 . 
5. ^ 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. 457 f .
6. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Daniel Salemi becomes mayor of Langenau . In: swp.de . February 14, 2016 ( swp.de [accessed November 8, 2016]).
7. ↑ PC election HTML module, Berninger Software GmbH: result of the mayoral election 2016 Langenau - new election. In: wahlen11.rz-kiru.de. Retrieved November 8, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Petra Laible, Kurt Fahrner: Excitement about political slogans. State security investigates because of graffiti in Langenau. In: suedwest-aktiv.de. Südwest Presse , September 16, 2008, accessed April 19, 2011 . 
9. ↑ Peter Schumann: A price for international understanding. Initiative group May 8th from Langenau is honored today - Active against right-wing radicalism. In: suedwest-aktiv.de. Südwest Presse , June 26, 2008, accessed April 19, 2011 . 
10. ↑ Chronicle of brown activities in Baden-Württemberg 2009. ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Emergency call column despite smartphone - the most frequently used is on the A7 - always strange inquiries. In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz. April 23, 2014, p. 32.
12. ↑ Water supply association for the Ulmer Alb
13. ^ Langenau: At the beginning equipped scouts , Südwest-Presse, July 6, 2012.
14. ↑ Langenau: Discarded, disused, sorted out ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Media data Langenau current (PDF; 507 kB)
16. ^ The city and district of Ulm: General part, p. 893 online
17. ↑ Langenau Newspapers ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
18. ↑ Langenau, Schulen ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2017 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. 
19. ↑ Catholic parish
20. ↑ Am Erker # 70, p. 145