Malsch (near Wiesloch)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 8 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Heidelberg
County :	Rhein-Neckar district
Height :	171 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.77 km 2
Residents:	3516 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	519 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	69254
Area code :	07253
License plate :	HD
Community key :	08 2 26 046
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchberg 10 69254 Malsch
Website :	malsch-weinort.de
Mayoress :	Sibylle Cube
Location of the municipality of Malsch in the Rhein-Neckar district

Malsch seen from the Letzenberg

Malsch is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Malsch is located on the northwest corner of the Kraichgau south of the cities of Wiesloch and Walldorf on the edge of the Upper Rhine Plain in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . The community is located at the foot of the 244 m high Letzenberg.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities (and their associated localities) are, starting in the north clockwise: Rauenberg (with Malschenberg and Rotenberg ), Mühlhausen ( Rettigheim ), Bad Schönborn (Bad Mingolsheim) and St. Leon-Rot (Rot).

Community structure

The village of Malsch with the Rot-Malsch train station and the Tonwerk belong to the municipality of Malsch .

history

Malsch was first mentioned as Malschen in a deed of donation from the Lorsch Codex in 783 . In 976, Emperor Otto II gave the Benedictine Abbey Mosbach with 23 villages, including Malsch, to the Bishop of Worms . In 1302 the village came back as a donation to the Speyer Monastery . There it belonged to the Rotenberg office and was pledged with this to the Electoral Palatinate from 1463 to 1505 . On April 20, 1525, the peasants 'war began in the Speyer monastery with a farmers' meeting on the Letzenberg . The heap called on the surrounding localities to “move in with armed hands and help to save the gospel and gothic justice.” Malsch was destroyed when the uprising was put down.

In the Thirty Years' War lit Tilly in 1622 to the site. At the end of the war Malsch was depopulated and the number of inhabitants was only five percent of the original number. During the Palatinate War of Succession , Malsch, although it did not belong to the Electoral Palatinate , was destroyed in 1689 and 1693 by French troops under the leadership of General Mélac .

After the upheavals of the French Revolution , Malsch became Baden in 1803 , ending the 500-year association with Speyer. In 1824 the district of Malschenberg was separated. In 1818, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, the brother-in-law of the Grand Duke Karl of Baden , visited Malsch.

From 1870 until the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933, the center was the strongest party in Malsch. After the Second World War , the community took in 350 displaced persons. Malsch became part of the newly formed state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. With the dissolution of the district of Heidelberg , the community came to the new Rhein-Neckar district on January 1, 1973 .

 

Population development of Malsch (near Wiesloch) according to the adjacent table. Above from 1530 to 2017. Below an excerpt from 1871

year Residents 1530 361 1721 515 1818 1022 1852 1327 1905 1475 1939 1510 1961 2254 1965 2444 1970 2493

year Residents 1991 2837 1995 3147 2000 3189 2005 3388 2010 3468 2015 3443 2016 3587 2017 3545

Religions

In accordance with the long membership of the Speyer Monastery, the Reformation passed Malsch by and the population remained predominantly Roman Catholic . There were hardly any shifts due to immigration after the Second World War. Even today there is only one Catholic parish in town, while the Protestant church in Wiesloch is responsible for the few Protestants .

Jews had lived in Malsch since the early 18th century. In 1875 their share of the population was highest at 7.5 percent. Subsequently, an emigration to the cities began. The synagogue from 1834 was burned down in 1938.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 14 seats. In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights.

The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):

FWV	42.9% (−1.4)	6 seats (± 0)
CDU	25.3% (−12.5)	4 seats (−1)
Green	23.8% (+5.9)	3 seats (± 0)
FDP	8.0% (+8.0)	1 seat (+1)

The turnout was 70.7% (+5.5).

mayor

town hall

The mayor is directly elected every eight years . Sibylle Würfel has been in office since 2014.

Previous community leaders:

• 1946–1965: Josef Bös
• 1965–1985: Dionys Wipfler
• 1985–2014: Werner Knopf
• since 2014: Sibylle Würfel

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split of blue and red, in front a continuous, polished, half silver cross at the gap, behind a silver sester (place symbol)." The flag is red and blue and was verifiably used before 1935.

Declaration of coat of arms: The coat of arms was awarded by the General State Archives in 1900. The place symbol, which represents a Simmer (grain measure) , has been on a seal since 1771. The cross of the Hochstift Speyer is added .

Partnerships

The municipality of Malsch has maintained partnership relationships with the municipality of Zamárdi on Lake Balaton in Hungary since 2001 .

Culture and sights

Catholic Church of St. Juliana

Churches

The old parish church of St. Juliana was built between 1536 and 1577 as the successor to a destroyed, probably Romanesque predecessor church and extensively renovated in 1683. Demolished due to dilapidation, a widened new building in baroque style was built on the same site in 1771/72. On the night of June 23, 1972, the baroque church burned down to the outer walls after a fire. The figures of the 14 helpers , the organ, the pulpit, the side altars and the baroque baptism scene of Jesus were destroyed. Only the sacristy remained intact. The church was rebuilt by April 7, 1974.

The Protestant community also has its own church in Malsch.

At the 1902-built chapel on the Letzenberg every year two large Wendelinus - pilgrimages instead. The spring pilgrimage takes place on the first Sunday in May and the autumn pilgrimage on the third Sunday in September. Between the two pilgrimages, there is a Eucharistic celebration on Tuesday evenings in the pilgrimage chapel. The horse pilgrimage takes place every year on the last Sunday in September . It ends after a devotion with the blessing of humans and animals.

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  Protestant church

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  Pilgrimage chapel on the Letzenberg

Sports and leisure facilities

Malsch has the following sports facilities:

• a swimming pool
• the Reblandhalle with four bowling alleys
• a glider airfield in the south of the village
• the boules court of the boules friends Malsch at the Reblandhalle
• a tennis facility

The Letzenberg zoo is also used for recreational activities.

societies

The Boule-Freunde Malsch were founded in 2006 and have been playing with the 1st team in the Bundesliga since 2014. As of February 2015, the club has around 70 active licensed players who play in 6 different seasons in the Rhein-Neckar League. The club currently has 11 young people who are active in the Rhein-Neckar youth league (plays nationwide with Hesse, Palatinate and Saarland). With Jean-Luc Testas, the club has one of the best boules players in Germany. He has won eight German Pétanque championships so far . Furthermore, Jean-Luc Testas was French champion during his time in France.

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The Letzenberg and Malsch from the Kronau motorway exit

Economy and Infrastructure

In the former farming village, viticulture is still a strong branch of agriculture . The locations belong to the Baden wine-growing region . There are 120 hectares of vineyards on the southern slopes of the 244 meter high Letzenbergs and its eastern edge, which primarily with Müller-Thurgau , Pinot Blanc , Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir are cultivated.

Established businesses

The Tonwerk on the western edge of Malsch should be mentioned as an outstanding company. The production of clay roof tiles and bricks with the company names POROTON, TERCA, KAMTEC and KORAMIC is known beyond the borders of Malsch. The factory belonged to the Rauenberg clay roof tile, then to the Wienerberger brick industry and, after being sold again, it bears the new company name Trost-Creaton AG. In the years from 1974 the toxic waste dump (backfilling of the clay pits) hit the headlines because of leaking seepage water. The landfill has been rehabilitated and is continuously monitored.

The company Sunrise Medical , whose European headquarters is in Malsch , is also well-known nationwide. Among other things, Sopur wheelchairs are manufactured here. These are also popular with wheelchair athletes . For example, world record holder Heinz Frei drives a wheelchair from this company.

Despite the settlement of industrial companies and businesses, the greater part of the gainfully employed finds work in the nearby towns of Walldorf , Wiesloch , Bad Schönborn and Kronau .

traffic

Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn

Malsch is near the federal highway 3 . It can also be used to reach federal motorway 6 within three kilometers . There is a connection to the RheinNeckar S-Bahn via the Rot-Malsch station on the Baden-Kurpfalz-Bahn . Malsch belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association .

education

The following schools are located in Malsch:

• Malsch primary school

The community runs a library. The Volkshochschule Südliche Bergstrasse has a branch in Malsch. Two kindergartens are available for the youngest residents

literature

• State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (ed.): The city and districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description .
  • Vol. 1: General part . Karlsruhe 1966
  • Vol. 2: The city of Heidelberg and the municipalities of the district of Heidelberg . Karlsruhe 1968
• Alfons Stegmüller, Dionys Wipfler: 1200 years of Malsch: 783–1983 . Malsch 1983
• Horst Hill, Alfons Stegmüller, Dionys Wipfler: Church leaders of the parish church of St. Juliana and the pilgrimage chapel . Saarbrücken 2000

Web links

Commons : Malsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Malsch (near Wiesloch)  - travel guide

• Malsch municipality
• Pictures from around Malsch and Letzenberg
• Hochholz-Kapellenbruch nature reserve and landscape protection area

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. 391-392
3. ↑ Location Wienerberger clay brickworks in Malsch  ( 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.  
4. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2603, March 5, 783 - Reg. 1819. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 182 , accessed on March 5, 2016 . 
5. ↑ cit. n. Horst Buzello u. a. (Ed.): The German Peasants' War. Paderborn 1984. p. 90
6. ↑ History of Malsch ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. 
7. ↑ Up to 1965: District description, vol. 2 p. 645, then: Statistical State Office / Malsch HD 2000-2008 / 1  ( 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.  
8. ^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, Malsch ; Malsch municipality: municipal council election 2019 (PDF) ; accessed June 2, 2019.
9. ↑ CDU community association Malsch ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2009 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. 
10. ^ Herwig John, Gabriele Wüst: Wappenbuch Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, ISBN 3-929366-27-4 , p. 78
11. ↑ Simmer was a measure of capacity z. B. in Württemberg with 22.153 liters content.
12. ↑ The history of the Church of St. Juliana
13. ^ Viticulture in Malsch
14. ↑ Wienerberger brick industry  ( 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.  
15. ↑ Open House 2008
16. ↑ Creaton AG home
17. ↑ Black or red, we'll kill you . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1977 ( online - Mar. 21, 1977 ).
18. ↑ Toxic waste: I am not allowed to say anything . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1974 ( online - 28 October 1974 ).
19. ^ The Malsch landfill | SAD hazardous waste dump company. Retrieved on May 6, 2019 (German). 
20. ^ List of schools on the official website of the municipality of Malsch. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2013 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. 
21. ↑ List of kindergartens on the official website of the municipality of Malsch ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .