Roigheim

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Heilbronn
Height :	220 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.01 km 2
Residents:	1442 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	103 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74255
Area code :	06298
License plate :	HN
Community key :	08 1 25 084
LOCODE :	DE RGH
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 20 ; 74255 Roigheim
Website :	www.roigheim.de
Mayor :	Michael Grimm
Location of the municipality of Roigheim in the Heilbronn district

View from Kirchberg over the center of Roigheim

Roigheim [ ˈrɔʏ̯khaɪ̯m ] is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn , in the Franconian north-east of Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Heilbronn-Franconia region (until May 20, 2003 Franconia region ).

geography

Geographical location

Roigheim is located in the far north of the Heilbronn district on the Seckach , a tributary of the Jagst . It is at the transition from the building land to the Kocher-Jagst levels .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring cities and communities in Roigheim are ( clockwise , starting in the south): Möckmühl (Heilbronn district), Billigheim , Schefflenz and Adelsheim (all Neckar-Odenwald district ). Roigheim has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with Möckmühl, Jagsthausen and Widdern .

Community structure

The districts Hofbrunnen and Mühlbacher Höfe also belong to Roigheim. In the Roigheim district there used to be the abandoned, no longer existing place Gorsbach.

Division of space

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

history

Until the 20th century

According to archaeological finds, the area of Roigheim was already settled in the Stone Age. At the time of the Romans around 150 there was a settlement in the Roigheim area. In 1110 Roigheim was first mentioned as Rohinkheim. During the era of the tribal duchies, the place was in the Duchy of Franconia . In the 13th century it was owned by the Lords of Dürn , from whom it first went to Hohenlohe in 1287 . In 1445 it was sold to the Electoral Palatinate and finally captured by Württemberg in the Landshut War of Succession in 1504 . The monasteries Amorbach and Seligental as well as the lords of Adelsheim , Tumminge von Domeneck and von Berlichingen owned goods in the village . On May 10, 1719, the place was largely destroyed by a devastating fire. In 1869 the place was connected to the railway. In 1968 the districts Hofbrunnen and Mühlbacher Höfe were mentioned for the first time.

Administrative history

Roigheim belonged to the Oberamt Möckmühl until 1808, from 1808 to 1810 to the Oberamt Schönthal , then until 1938 to the Oberamt (district from 1934) Neckarsulm , after its dissolution from 1938 to the Heilbronn district .

Religions

The Roigheim population is predominantly Protestant. In 1992 72% were Protestant and 18% Catholic. In 1907 92% of the population were Protestant.

Population development

1939: 0935 inhabitants
1945: 1214 inhabitants
1960: 1620 inhabitants
1991: 1459 inhabitants
1995: 1466 inhabitants
2005: 1469 inhabitants
2010: 1441 inhabitants
2015: 1420 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council in Roigheim has 10 members. The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following official final result. The turnout was 57.0%. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Free electoral association	6 seats	56.1%	(2014: 5 seats)
List active Roigheim	4 seats	43.9%	(2014: 5 seats)

mayor

On May 5, 2019, Michael Grimm was re-elected for a third term with 88.8% of the vote.

badges and flags

Roigheim's coat of arms

The blazon of the Roigheim coat of arms reads: In silver, a continuous red ashlar wall with an open gate and a red pinnacle tower. The flag of the municipality is red and white.

A stain seal from 1796 shows a coat of arms with a split shield, in front the three Württemberg stag poles , behind an upright animal, perhaps a horse . The coat of arms was in the nature of a family coat of arms with helmet , helmet covers and crest provided.

In the 19th century, a pre-form of today's coat of arms appeared for the first time. It was attached to the bridge over the Seckach, built in 1877 (destroyed in 1945) and has been proven on seals since 1903. The origin of the coat of arms is unknown, as Roigheim was never fortified with walls and a tower. The founder of the Roigheim paper mill, Jobst Rödter, had a watermark with the Ravensburger double tower in 1683 , which is somewhat similar to today's Roigheim coat of arms. In 1938, at the suggestion of the Württemberg archives department, the current shape of the coat of arms was determined, omitting the deciduous trees that had previously protruded over the wall. The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the community on November 17, 1952 by the provisional government of Baden-Württemberg.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Protestant parish church from 1902 was built according to plans by Heinrich Dolmetsch using the tower and choir of a late Gothic predecessor building from 1497. Around the church there are picturesque rural properties built on the slope of the Kirchberg, which date back to the 16th century. The baroque parsonage in Hauptstrasse dates from 1722. There is a war memorial and a striking rural property from 1908 near the new town hall. As there was a major fire in the village in 1719, only a few older half-timbered buildings have survived receive. The town center is rather characterized by buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, which, however, mostly have a very strong need for renovation.

Evangelical parish church from 1902
Rectory from 1722
War memorial at the town hall
Catholic Chapel of St. John

Museums

In Roigheim there is an electronics museum and a local history museum.

Nature reserve

The Essigberg / Hörnle nature reserve, which was designated in 2000, is around 20 hectares in size. It is a shell limestone slope with large dry grass areas and dry stone walls , in which many rare orchid species such as the orchid orchid or the bee ragwort occur.

Technical monument

In the nature reserve Essigberg / Hörnle there is an old lime kiln , which is designated as a technical monument and which was completely renovated in 2004. The first lime fire took place in October 2005.

Economy and Infrastructure

Although it used to be mainly agricultural, there was already industry-like trade with sandstone mining and (from 1833) gypsum mining in earlier centuries. Gypsum mining was stopped after the Rigips company bought up the local gypsum pits after 1970.

traffic

Roigheim is on the Frankenbahn from Stuttgart to Würzburg . There is an approximate hourly service in the direction of Heilbronn and in the direction of Osterburken with regional trains . The A 81 can be reached via the junctions in Möckmühl and Osterburken.

Established businesses

The most important employer in Roigheim is the company Pucaro Elektro-Isolierstoffe, which produces pressboard for the electrical industry and employs around 250 people. It emerged from the paper mill founded by Jobst Rödter in 1668, the name Pucaro is the abbreviation for "Pressboard and cardboard factory Roigheim". The company was bought by ABB in 1989 .

media

The daily newspaper Heilbronner Demokratie reported on the events in Roigheim in its issue N, Landkreis Nord. The municipality's official gazette, the Roigheimer Rundschau , appears weekly.

education

There is a primary school in Roigheim . There is also a kindergarten with three groups right next to the school. In addition, the Unterland Adult Education Center in Roigheim has a branch.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Hermann Geilsdörfer (1863–1934), surveying engineer (1909)
Constantin Authenrieth (1870–1929), entrepreneur (1919)
Margarethe Arndt-Authenrieth (1903–1989), entrepreneur's wife (1963)
Eugen Reichert jun. (1909–1973), Mayor (1971)
Hans Dietz (* 1940), councilor from 1971 to 2009, deputy mayor (2010)

Sons and daughters

Otto Weber (* August 22, 1861; † 1916), publisher, founder of Otto Weber Verlag

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).

^ Source for the section on community structure: Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . P. 112 and supplements in vol. VIII, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-008113-6 , p. 661

↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Roigheim.

↑ https://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail-gis/-/Detail/details/ORT/labw_ortslexikon/2175/Mühlbacher+Höfe+-+Wohnplatz

↑ https://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail-gis/-/Detail/details/ORT/labw_ortslexikon/2173/Hofbrunnen+-+Wohnplatz

↑ https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/roigheim/

^ Sources for the section coat of arms and flag:
Heinz Bardua: The district and community coat of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 118
Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and the district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 132
Text on the municipal coat of arms on the Roigheim municipality website

↑ Roigheimer Rundschau on roigheim.de

↑ VHS Unterland branch offices .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d New Order of Honor . In: Heilbronner Voice , January 30, 2009

↑ Always the wellbeing of the village in view . In: Heilbronner Voice , October 8, 2010

^ Walter Schmid: New insights and outlooks . In: Heilbronner Voice , January 12, 2010

literature

Karlheinz Englert: Roigheim: then and now . Roigheim municipal administration, Roigheim 1994
Wagner: Parish history of Roigheim . In: Leaves for Württemberg Church History . NF, 10th year 1906, pp. 172-187 ( digitized version )