Loffenau

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Loffenau
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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '  N , 8 ° 23'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Karlsruhe
County : Rastatt
Height : 319 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.07 km 2
Residents: 2523 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 148 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 76597, 76332
Area code : 07083
License plate : RA, bra
Community key : 08 2 16 029
LOCODE : DE LF8
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Untere Dorfstrasse 1
76597 Loffenau
Website : www.loffenau.de
Mayor : Markus Burger
Location of the municipality of Loffenau in the Rastatt district
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Loffenau is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg . The place belonged for a long time to the Württemberg district of Calw and came with the district reform of 1973 to the Baden district of Rastatt .

View from the Teufelsmühle over Loffenau into the front Murg Valley to Gaggenau and further on to the Rhine plain near Rastatt

geography

Geographical location

The state-approved resort of Loffenau is located on the western slope of the northern Black Forest in a side valley of the Murgtal below the Teufelsmühle mountain . The altitude ranges from 215 to 940  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring municipalities

Loffenau borders in the east on the city of Bad Herrenalb (district of Calw), in the north on the large district town of Gaggenau and in the south and west on the city of Gernsbach .

Community structure

The village of Loffenau and the houses Albtaljagdhaus, Auf der Miss, Plotzsägmühle and Teufelsmühle belong to the municipality of Loffenau. The abandoned village of Neusägmühle is located in the municipality .

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Loffenau from the Teufelsmühle from

history

The name Loffenau is first mentioned in 1266 in a deed of donation from the Ebersteiners to the Herrenalb monastery as Lovfenowe . The Lords of Eberstein sold the village to the Herrenalb monastery in 1297, which resulted in Württemberg in 1338 . For steward Herrenalb Loffenau belonged to the beginning of the 19th century. With the reorganization of the Kingdom of Württemberg after the area increases due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the community was assigned to the Oberamt Neuenbürg according to the new administrative structure . The border between Baden and Württemberg ran between Loffenau and the neighboring community of Gernsbach . During the administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , Loffenau came to the district of Calw in 1938 . In 1945 the place became part of the French occupation zone and was thus assigned to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1947 , which became part of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. As part of the district reform in Baden-Württemberg in 1973 , the place was the only municipality in the district of Calw to become part of the district of Rastatt.

Population development

year Residents
1400 0150
1662 0180
1760 0600
1830 0810
1871 1265
1910 1481
1946 1650
1961 2038
date Residents
1970 2370
1990 2625
1995 2793
2005 2703
2010 2575
2015 2513
Evangelical
Holy Cross Church

Religions

Since the introduction of the Reformation in Württemberg, Loffenau has also been evangelical . In 1860, only two of the 1,200 inhabitants were Roman Catholic . Even today there are only a few Catholics, the Church of St. Theresa, built in the 1960s, is responsible for them. On the other hand, there is another Protestant congregation, the Methodist Church, and another Christian church in town, the New Apostolic Church.

Awards

In 1977 Loffenau was given the title of “ state-approved resort ”.

When participating in the national competition Our village should become more beautiful / Our village has a future , Loffenau won a gold medal in 1983, 1985, 1989 and 2007.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of twelve elected voluntary councilors and the separately elected mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Town hall Loffenau

The local elections on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats with a turnout of 65.7% (+ 13.0% p):

Party / list Share of votes +/-% p Seats +/-
Free community of voters 38.1% + 1.5 5 + 1
SPD / active citizens of Loffenau 32.4% - 6.9 4th - 1
CDU 29.5% + 5.4 3 ± 0

mayor

Markus Burger (* 1984) has been the mayor of Loffenau since December 12, 2017. He replaced Erich Steigerwald, who had held the office since 1977.

Administrative community

In addition to Weisenbach, Loffenau is a member of an agreed administrative community with the city of Gernsbach as the fulfilling municipality.

Partnerships

Loffenau maintains partnership relationships

Culture and sights

Holy Cross Church Loffenau (interior view)
St. Theresa Church

A special attraction of Loffenau is the Protestant Holy Cross Church . In this gallery basilica, newly built in the neo-Gothic style in 1843, the medieval tower choir with Gothic frescoes (1440-1455) was preserved. In addition to the numerous images of apostles and saints , the " Host Mill " on the north wall of the church, as one of the few surviving representations of the late medieval legend about the "mystical mill", is particularly noteworthy. Six large picture programs are available: In the vault the symbolism of the Evangelists with the Church Fathers, on and around the triumphal arch the Annunciation, in the upper, more subdivided area of ​​the east and south walls the legend of the cross, in the lower section of the east and east south wall the Credo -Apostel, in the lower zone of the western south wall the Virgin Mary flanked by saints and donors in a halo and on the entire north wall the motif of the wafer mill.

  • Frescoes of the Holy Cross Church

  • Frescoes in the tower choir, ceiling with evangelist symbols and church fathers

  • Apostles Peter, Jesus, Apostles Andrew and John

  • Apostle Judas Thaddaeus, Jakobus minor, Bartholomäus

  • Host mill under the vaulted ceiling of the tower choir

On the 908  m above sea level. NHN high Loffenau's local mountain Teufelsmühle offers a lookout tower with a view over Loffenau and the lower Murg valley as far as the Rhine plain.

Lookout tower on Loffenau's local mountain Teufelsmühle
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View from the natural monument Bockstein, a granite rock, of Loffenau and the Merkur

education

Loffenau has a primary school and two kindergartens. Secondary schools are located in the neighboring communities.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Honorary citizen

  • Erich Steigerwald (* 1951), mayor 1977–2017, honorary citizen of the municipalities of Loffenau and Montefelcino , holder of the Staufer medal

Other personalities

  • Gustav Adolf Riecke (1798–1883), clergyman, educator and politician, was pastor in Loffenau from 1851 to 1871
  • Meryl Streep (* 1949), American actress, Oscar winner, her great-great-grandparents came from Loffenau

literature

  • Municipality of Loffenau (ed.): 700 years of Loffenau 1297–1997. Rastatt 1997.
  • State archives office Baden-Württemberg, district Rastatt and state media center Baden-Württemberg (ed.): District descriptions of the state of Baden-Württemberg - The district of Rastatt. Volume 2, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-1364-7 , pp. 251-267.

Web links

Commons : Loffenau  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Loffenau in the description of the Oberamt Neuenbürg from 1860  - sources and full texts

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 V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 171-172
  3. ^ Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg, Landkreis Rastatt and Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg (ed.): District descriptions of the state of Baden-Württemberg - The district of Rastatt. Volume 2, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-1364-7 , p. 256.
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg - Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections in Loffenau , accessed on November 28, 2019
  5. ↑ Landslide victory for Markus Burger. In: BNN.de. Badische Latest News, September 24, 2017, accessed on December 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Steigerwald is now a two-time honorary citizen. In: BNN.de. Badische Latest News, November 12, 2017, accessed on December 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ 80 Steinbourgeurs celebrate the village festival. In: Badisches Tagblatt . July 20, 2018, archived from the original on July 30, 2018 ; accessed on July 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Series of articles by Veronika Gareus-Kugel in the Badischer Tagblatt from August 20 to 25, 2004 ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Clemens Kieser, Karlfriedrich Ohr, Wolfgang Stopfel, Martin Walter: Art and cultural monuments in the Rastatt district and in Baden-Baden. Konrad-Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1599-5 , p. 247.