Metzingen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ' N , 9 ° 17' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Tübingen | |
| County : | Reutlingen | |
| Height : | 350 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 34.58 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 22,046 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 638 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 72555 | |
| Area code : | 07123 | |
| License plate : | RT | |
| Community key : | 08 4 15 050 | |
| City structure: | Core city and 2 districts | |
City administration address : |
Stuttgarter Str. 2-4 72555 Metzingen |
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| Lord Mayor : | Ulrich Fiedler (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Metzingen in the Reutlingen district | ||
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Metzingen is a medium -sized town in Baden-Württemberg at the foot of the Swabian Alb and south of the greater Stuttgart area, near Reutlingen . It belongs to the Neckar-Alb region and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart . It is the second largest city in the district of Reutlingen after Reutlingen and forms a middle center for the surrounding communities within the Neckar-Alb region. Metzingen is known nationwide primarily for its numerous “ outlets ”. Metzingen has been a major district town since October 1, 1990 . Metzingen is part of the Swabian Alb biosphere area with a large part of its territory (80.2%) .
geography
Geographical location
The city of Metzingen is located at the entrance to the Ermstal , surrounded by vineyards and orchards typical of this region . It is about 30 km south of Stuttgart . The neighboring city in the west is Reutlingen . It is 7 km away.
geology
Metzingen is surrounded by volcanic mountains and the eaves of the Swabian Alb . The subsoil of the Jura Mountains is rich in fossils from the primeval sea. In addition, about 6 km away is the Achalm ( 706.5 m above sea level ), a so-called "witness mountain", which was created by the retreat of the Alb eaves. In the northeast direction there is another specialty with the Jusi ( 672.6 m above sea level ) near the neighboring town of Kohlberg . The lookout mountain overgrown with juniper heather is the largest volcanic vent of the Swabian volcano .
Neighboring communities
The following cities and municipalities border the city of Metzingen, they are named starting in the north in clockwise direction and belong to the district of Reutlingen or the district of Esslingen ¹:
Riederich , Grafenberg , Kohlberg¹ , Neuffen¹ , Dettingen an der Erms , St. Johann , Eningen under Achalm and Reutlingen .
City structure
The city of Metzingen consists of the three districts of Metzingen, Metzingen-Glems and Metzingen-Neuhausen , the districts are spatially identical to the districts of the municipalities that were independent until the 1970s. The three districts also form residential districts within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code and within the boundaries of the two districts of Metzingen-Glems and Metzingen-Neuhausen each has a locality with its own local council and mayor as its chairman. Each of the localities has its own administrative offices with the tasks of an office of the mayor's office.
The Metzingen district includes the town of Metzingen, the Korrenhof farmstead and the electricity works, slate works and Weimerstal houses. The village of Glems belongs to the Metzingen-Glems district. The village of Neuhausen an der Erms belongs to the Metzingen-Neuhausen district.
In the urban area are the deserts of Brenningen (in the Metzingen district) an unspecified farmstead that served as the provost's office of the Zwiefalten monastery in the 14th century and was probably abandoned in the period after 1485 (in the Metzingen-Neuhausen district) and the villages of Unterer Hof and Oberer Courtyard in the Metzingen-Glems district.
There are also residential areas with their own names, the names of which have emerged in the course of development and the boundaries of which are usually not precisely defined. These include the Haugenrainsiedlung and Neugreuth.
Spatial planning
Metzingen forms a medium-sized center within the Neckar-Alb region , whose central area includes, in addition to Metzingen itself, the cities and communities of Bad Urach , Dettingen an der Erms , Grabenstetten , Grafenberg , Hülben , Riederich and Römerstein of the Reutlingen district.
history
Metzingen
In the area of today's Metzingen there was a Roman vicus , the remains of which were found on the banks of the Erms in the corridors Auf Mauren, Roih and Baumgartenwasen. The name of this settlement can be derived from an inscription find as Vicus Armis (s) ium . The inscription mentions members of the temple of the Erms ( confanesses armisses , read as confanenses armis (s) enses ). The vicus went under with the so-called Limesfall , the settlement of Metzingen during the migration period is unclear.
Medieval Metzingen was first mentioned in a document in 1075 and half of it went to the Counts of Grüningen in 1089. In 1317 Metzingen went to the Counts of Württemberg . In 1489, Count Eberhard made Metzingen the seat of a sub-office within the Urach office. In 1562 the town hall was built. Thanks to the mild climate, wine was grown in Metzingen, which led to a rapid increase in prosperity around 1600. In the Thirty Years' War also Metzingen was heavily damaged, a short time later came the outbreak of the plague, in which two thirds of the population died. From 1635 to 1648 the village was - with short interruptions - part of the Achalm pledge and therefore part of Upper Austria. Metzingen only returned to Württemberg with the Peace of Westphalia.
After 1700 the first textile and tanning companies settled in Metzingen. Due to industrialization , there was rapid population growth around 1800. In 1820/1824 the first textile factories were built in Metzingen.
In the reorganization of the young Kingdom of Württemberg in the early 19th century that survived Oberamt Urach the administrative reform and Metzingen remained until 1938 part of this Oberamts.
It was not until 1831 that King Wilhelm I granted Metzingen city rights at the request of the guild leaders . In 1859 Metzingen was connected to the network of the Württemberg State Railroad with the opening of the Plochingen – Reutlingen line , which led to an upswing in the local economy. During the administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , the Urach Oberamt, which had been called the Urach District since 1934, was dissolved. Metzingen came to the district of Reutlingen. In 1945, Metzingen became part of the French occupation zone . From 1947 the city belonged to the post-war state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and from 1952 to the administrative district of Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern in the newly established state of Baden-Württemberg.
During the territorial reform of the 1970s, the neighboring towns of Neuhausen an der Erms were incorporated on April 1, 1971 and Glems on January 1, 1975. This gave the urban area its current size. The population of Metzingen exceeded the limit of 20,000 in 1990. The city administration then applied for a major district town , which the state government of Baden-Württemberg then decided with effect from October 1, 1990.
Glems
The village of Glems on the Albtrauf was first mentioned in a document in 1254 as "villa Glems". It was probably a subsidiary of the neighboring Dettingen an der Erms and initially belonged to the county of Urach . A short time later it came to the Counts of Württemberg and belonged to the Unteramt Dettingen within the Office or Oberamt Urach. In 1938 the place came to the district of Reutlingen.
Neuhausen
Neuhausen was first mentioned in 1089 as "Niuwinhusin". At that time, the brothers Count Kuno and Liutold von Achalm donated parts of the village to the Zwiefalten monastery as founding equipment . In 1431 Heinrich Truchseß zu Neuhausen also sold his property to the monastery, which thus held the court and bailiwick over the village. In the 15th century, Württemberg gradually gained a foothold in the village, but the bailiwick and the authorities remained with the monastery. It was not until 1750 that rule passed to Württemberg, when the Zwiefalten monastery sold the village, along with other properties, to Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg in order to acquire imperial immediacy. After that Neuhausen belonged to the Oberamt Urach. In 1938 the place came to the district of Reutlingen.
Population development
Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).
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Religions
Protestant church
Metzingen initially belonged to the diocese of Constance and was subordinate to the archdeaconate "circa Alpes", rural chapter Urach-Reutlingen. As a result of belonging to Württemberg, the Reformation was introduced in 1537 . After that, Metzingen was predominantly Protestant for many centuries.
The parish of Metzingen grew strongly due to immigration after the Second World War. The Friedenskirche was built in 1960, which was elevated to a parish in 1965. Another parish was established in Neugreuth in 1971 for a few decades until it was dissolved in the early 2000s. The first three, now two parishes, Martinskirche and Friedenskirche-Neugreuth, now form the Protestant general parish of Metzingen .
The Reformation was also introduced in Glems due to the fact that the place belonged to Württemberg. Until 1518 the place still belonged to Dettingen, then it became a temporary parish of its own, which was however abolished shortly after the Reformation. Then the place was assigned to the newly established parish Neuhausen.
The Reformation was also introduced in Neuhausen an der Erms . Ecclesiastically the place belonged to Dettingen. However, a chapel to Our Lady is mentioned as early as the 14th century. After the Reformation, Neuhausen became the seat of its own parish, which also looked after the neighboring town of Glems.
Today's Protestant parishes in Metzingen (general parish, Glems and Neuhausen) belong to the Bad Urach-Münsingen church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
Roman Catholic Church
In the 19th century, more and more Catholics moved to Metzingen. In 1860 there were 100 Catholics in Metzingen. In 1881 the community was able to build its own little church of St. Bonifatius. In 1909 the community was raised to a parish. The little church that stood where the outlet district is today was much too small and was replaced in 1959 by a new building in the Ösch development area. The old church had to give way to a street and was demolished in 1964. All that remains is the old tower cross and two church windows of Saints Peter and Paul, which were installed in the Catholic parish hall Peter and Paul in Grafenberg. The parish of St. Bonifatius with its approx. 6,200 parish members also includes the Catholics of the Metzingen districts of Glems and Neuhausen as well as those in the two communities of Riederich and Grafenberg. It belongs to the dean's office in Reutlingen-Zwiefalten of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .
Evangelical Free Churches
Various free churches are also represented in Metzingen with their own congregations. This includes an Evangelical Free Church Congregation ( Baptists ), a Methodist Church , a Free Evangelical Assembly and an Independent Baptist Congregation.
New Apostolic Church
There is a congregation of the “New Apostolic Church”, KdöR, in Chr.-Völter-Str. 25th
Other religious communities
In addition, the Jehovah's Witnesses are also represented with two congregations.
politics
Administrative community
An administrative community has existed between the city of Metzingen and the communities of Riederich and Grafenberg since July 1, 1975.
Municipal council
The municipal council in Metzingen has 24 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.
| Parties and constituencies |
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| FW | Free electoral association | 31.1 | 8th | 29.1 | 7th | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 25.2 | 6th | 29.5 | 7th | |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 24.5 | 6th | 15.8 | 4th | |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 11.3 | 3 | 12.1 | 3 | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 7.9 | 2 | 13.5 | 3 | |
| total | 100.0 | 25th | 100.0 | 24 | ||
| voter turnout | 51.3% | 43.5% | ||||
Metzingen has had a youth council since 2000 with currently 18 members.
mayor
At the head of the Metzingen community was the mayor appointed by the rulers. In the 15th century the mayor was more and more ousted by the civil servant of the Urach office. Then in the 19th century there was a mayor. From 1934 the head of the city was designated as mayor, and since it was elevated to the status of a major district town in 1990, the city chief has been designated mayor. He is elected today for a term of eight years. Dieter Hauswirth's term of office would normally have ended on June 30, 2015. On August 31, 2008, however, Hauswirth announced his resignation at the end of the year following a referendum that prohibited further logistics construction by the Metzingen-based company Hugo Boss AG. On February 8, 2009 Ulrich Fiedler was elected mayor in the second ballot with 93 percent of the valid votes cast and a voter turnout of 40.9 percent.
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coat of arms
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The coat of arms of the city of Metzingen shows under a golden shield head, in it a black deer pole, in silver a green cabbage head, known by the Metzingen people as a herb chief. The city flag is blue and white.
The coat of arms was awarded to the community by Duke Johann Friedrich von Württemberg in 1616. The stag sticks symbolize belonging to Württemberg. The head of cabbage was already listed in a signet of the court and the home citizens. However, the origin is not known. The flag was introduced in the 19th century.
Coats of arms of the incorporated communities
Date of incorporation
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| 1st January 1975 | April 1, 1971 |
Town twinning
Metzingen maintains the following city partnerships :
Culture and sights
Buildings
The list of cultural monuments in Metzingen provides an overview of the buildings relevant to the preservation of monuments .
The Kelternplatz with the seven wine presses is a symbol of the city. All wine presses have been extensively restored and are now used for different purposes. The vinotheque, a sales point of the winegrowers 'cooperative, is located in the inner holy press, the rulers' press houses the wine museum, the outer city press is used as a festival press for various events. There are several catering establishments in the inner holy press and the city library is housed in the calf press. The Ochsenkelter and the outer holy press are used as open market presses.
In Neuhausen there are three more wine presses in a row. The outer wine press is used by the winegrowers' cooperative, the middle wine press houses a historic wine press tree from the 17th century and the inner wine press serves as an event room for the various Neuhauser associations.
The oldest surviving residential building in Metzingen was dendrochronologically dated to 1452. It was built as the care yard of the Zwiefalten monastery and equipped with a vaulted cellar. The building known as the Schlössle is the parent house of the Völter family, as the long-time girl schoolmaster Christoph Erhard Michael Völter lived there. In its meeting on March 15, 2007, the local council decided to issue a demolition permit for this historically interesting building, which was taken out of monument protection by the monument office in 2006. As a result, numerous negotiations between the owners, the city and members of the Völter families led to the establishment of the Völter Foundation, which acquired the property and gave it to the city of Metzingen by granting a heritable building right for charitable purposes, which in 2018 after the renovation was completed Inaugurated the “Familienzentrum Pflegehof”.
The old town hall Metzingen was built in 1668. The market fountain dates from 1758. The Protestant St. Martin's Church was completed in 1613. For other churches, see the Religions section.
Further sights are the Eduard-Kahl-Bad and the Glems pumped storage plant .
The factory sales area on the edge of the city center has been intensively expanded and rearranged since the beginning of the 21st century. It is now a mixture of (partially renovated) old industrial buildings and modern, carefully designed new buildings with a purist "factory character". The redesign of the historic Lindenplatz as a link between factory sales and the city center was completed in September 2005. In 2008, a Hugo Boss AG distribution center was built in the Längenfeld industrial park with special permission for the height of the building; the plans for a second, as oversized, distribution center in the industrial area Braike-Wangen were stopped on August 31, 2008 by referendum.
Protestant churches
Martinskirche Metzingen
The Protestant Martinskirche was built around 1500 instead of a Romanesque predecessor. In the 15th century there were also two chapels to Our Lady of Peace and St. Bernhard. A parish church of St. Florinus stood on the mountain of the same name, but it was demolished soon after 1482, when the parish was merged with the Tübingen Castle Chapel. Today's Martinskirche was built as a three-aisled, flat-roofed hall church with a reticulated choir. Heinrich Schickhardt raised the tower to 57 meters in 1613. In 1873, chief building officer Christian Friedrich von Leins used a new type of construction technique for the vaulting of the nave and side aisles, which he had previously tried out for the vaulting of the Tübingen collegiate church: neither a priceless solid stone structure nor an inexpensive wooden vault, but a vault with cement cast ribs and light tufa vaulted fields. The Reutlingen architect Manfred Wizgall retained this vault during the extensive renovation and redesign between 1962 and 1964 , but otherwise removed the neo-Gothic fixtures, side galleries and furnishings, including the principal elements . The exterior was renovated in 1981, the choir was renovated in 1993 and the ship in 2004. The sculptor Hermann Bach created the Luther stone relief above the sacristy door in 1883, and Jakob Brüllmann created the wooden altar crucifix in 1938. The choir and sacristy windows by Rudolf Yelin the Elder. J. from 1946 were already replaced in 1953 by the choir windows (foundations) of the Reutlinger art educator at the Isolde-Kurz-Gymnasium, Adolf Huber (1910 to after 1992) with the motives birth, passion and resurrection of Christ. The colored glazing of the tracery in the west portal tympanum with the mantle division of the church patron was created by Adolf Valentin Saile in 1964 , and the pulpit wood reliefs (washing of feet, healing of the blind, incredulous Thomas, Emmaus disciple) carved by Karl Hemmeter . In 1979 the church received a new organ, the first organ is recorded in 1700.
Peace Church Metzingen
The new church was built in 1960 by the Backnang architect Otto Nussbaum, including the right-angled community hall as well as residential and kindergarten buildings. The overall artistic concept and its individual works of art come from Helmuth Uhrig : the glass design of the three windows with the Archangel cycle in grisaille technique (Raphael with Tobias, Gabriel with Maria, Michael with the dragon) and the four colored windows of the Paulus cycle: in front of the High Council ( Acts 23 LUT ); Dream of the guarding angel ( Acts 27,23 LUT ); Thanksgiving and breaking of bread ( Acts 27,35 LUT ); Paul survives snakebite ( Acts 28,2f LUT ). The so-called Bernhardt glass was used exclusively for this , "which has the luminosity of medieval stained glass and is just as opaque". Other Uhrig works of art are the altar wall sgraffito , the wood carving work on the pulpit and the altar cross as well as the paraments .
Glems Church
After a dilapidated and too small chapel, the place received a new building in 1762, which was later expanded to become a church. Despite the most economical construction method without proper foundation, it still stands today, extensively renovated in 1966/67 and equipped with a colored glass window by Wolf-Dieter Kohler above the altar , which shows a "redeemer image" in strong colors (according to Isa 9,1 LUT and Isa 60,1 -2 LUT ): the procession of the wailing and miserable, beginning with the expulsion from paradise, through fratricide to the crib and cross. The risen One is enthroned as Pantocrator over everything .
Twelve Apostles Church Neuhausen
The old Marienkapelle was expanded into a parish church around 1570 and was consecrated to the 12 apostles. The conversion in rococo forms to the transverse church was carried out in 1750/1754 "almost identical to the church in Stetten [in the Remstal]". In 1969 the church was demolished and in 1972 a new community center with the Twelve Apostles Church was built. The tower of the old church was preserved as a campanile .
movie theater
The cultural offer is enriched by the Luna Filmtheater, operated since April 2004 by the Stadtjugendring Urach eV, which opened the cinema and cultural center "forum 22" in Bad Urach in 1988. However, the "Luna" has been on the German Cultural Council's red list of threatened cultural institutions since the beginning of 2018. The lease with the owner, a local bank, expires at the end of 2019 and is only to be extended at short notice.
Museums
The Metzingen Wine Museum has been located in the Herrschaftskelter since 1979 , and was extensively renovated and redesigned in 2009.
There has been a fruit-growing museum in the Glems district since 2004, which was set up for the 750th anniversary of the district in the Kelter . A wide variety of topics relating to fruit growing and pressing are presented in the museum. It is also possible to experience the cider factory live in autumn.
Regular events
- FIVE LIVE cabaret (every January 5th)
- Easter promotion (Saturday before Easter)
- Art market in Metzingen (Whitsun)
- Metzinger city and local festival (every 3 years; last 13-15 July 2018)
- Wine culture day (first Sunday in September)
- Open air cinema (last summer holiday weekend)
- Sieben-Keltern-Fest (third week in October)
- Sunday shopping (Sunday at the end of the Sieben-Keltern-Fest)
- Neuhäuser Wine Festival (beginning of November)
- Glemser Kirbe (on the weekend after November 11th)
- Christmas market (second weekend in Advent, on Saturdays also stands from schools, associations, etc.)
- Metzingen grocer's markets (May, September, November)
- Neuhausen grocer's markets (May, October)
Sports
In Metzingen there are several sports clubs that offer different sports. These include TuS Metzingen , TB Metzingen, TV Neuhausen , FC Neuhausen and TSV Glems. There is also a tennis club and a diving club. The top division handball teams TuS Metzingen are currently the most successful for women (TuSsies) and TV Neuhausen for men.
societies
In Metzingen there are a number of associations, including the Arbeitskreis Stadtgeschichte (AKS) , the CVJM Metzingen , the pathfinder Metzingen (part of the Christian Pathfinder Association of Germany (1976) ), a volunteer fire brigade with a youth fire brigade and the Liederkranz founded in 1837 .
The Club Thing has existed in Metzingen since 1974 , a meeting point for many young people in Metzingen and one of the few event venues / clubs in Metzingen and the Ermstal. Usually parties, concerts and other music events take place here every Friday and Saturday evening.
Economy and Infrastructure
Metzingen is conveniently located at the foot of the Swabian Alb. The city is a strong business location with over 10,000 jobs and around 22,000 inhabitants. The main branches of industry are mechanical engineering and the textile sector, and increasingly also the area of precision mechanics and electronics. Just like Storopack GmbH & Co. KG, a manufacturer of transport and protective packaging.
Outlet stores
Metzingen is the seat of a few textile companies, but most of them only have their design and administrative headquarters here, as the actual production takes place outside of Germany. The best-known Metzingen company is Hugo Boss AG. There are over 90 factory outlets in Metzingen, where mainly certain branded items of clothing (e.g. Reebok , Pepe Jeans London , Adidas , S.Oliver , Esprit , Puma , Nike , Schiesser , Möve , Hugo Boss, Joop , Strenesse , Escada , Bally , Armani , Timberland , Dockers , Milka , Lindt etc.) are sold at reduced prices. There are also outlet stores with leather fashions, toys and other items. Metzingen is one of the largest outlet and factory sales locations in Germany. Over 60 shops have come together under the name Outletcity Metzingen and are managed by Holy AG. Eugen Holy married Gertrud Boss, the only daughter of Hugo Ferdinand Boss . At least another 30 factory, factory and warehouse sales are also present without belonging to the advertising association.
According to the FAZ, there were over 60,000 m² of so-called factory sales in Metzingen in 2005 and 10,000 were newly planned.
In 2014, the new construction of the Hugo Boss outlet began on the G&V area. The new outlet has an area of 8000 m². In 2019, "Hugo-Boss-Platz" was inaugurated in the new outlet, a large square with representative shops (including the new one from HUGO BOSS), restaurants and outdoor activities. The old outlet area of 5000 m² will be divided into smaller shops. In the meantime, the Enzian-Höfe on the site of the former soap factory Bazlen on the south side of the Erms opposite the Ulmer Straße are almost completed. Rental apartments were and are being built there alongside small-scale outlet shops.
traffic
Metzingen is on the three federal highways B 28 , B 312 and B 313 . The A 8 motorway is less than 30 minutes away by car and Stuttgart Airport is around 20 km away. The most important traffic junction for individual traffic is Lindenplatz, which has, however, been converted into a modern pedestrian zone for factory sales.
The electrified Neckar-Alb-Bahn Stuttgart – Tübingen runs through the city's train station, from which the single-lane route of the Ermstalbahn branches off in the direction of Bad Urach . In addition to regional trains, an InterCity train pair on line 32 has also been stopping on the Düsseldorf - Tübingen route since December 2009 .
The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The city is in honeycomb 219.
The “Bockwiese” landing area with an aircraft hangar is located in the Glems district near the reservoir hotel.
There is a second airfield on the Alb plateau, the Rossfeld glider airfield.
Agriculture, forestry
The city is a well-known wine town in the Württemberg wine-growing region with the Metzingen-Neuhausen wine cooperative. The Metzingen-Neuhausen winegrowers' cooperative has created a 2700 m long circular path that leads through the middle of the vineyards and invites you to take a walk. The 17 display boards contain information about viticulture , the grape varieties and the tradition of viticulture in Metzingen. The path also contains useful information about the country and its people. From the path the visitor has a view over the Ermstal and the Albtrauf. Metzingen is the southern end of the Württemberg Wine Route .
A fruit growing company owned by the city cultivates a considerable part of the orchards that characterize the landscape.
The forest areas on the Metzingen district - largely deciduous forest - cover 1,700 hectares; 870 hectares of which are in municipal ownership. The steep-slope mixed beech forests on the Albtrauf, located on the outskirts of the Glems district, are an outstanding feature.
gastronomy
In Metzingen itself there is a four-star hotel with the Hotel-Restaurant Schwanen . The Gasthof zum Waldhorn , which has been family-owned for 130 years and also has a distillery, is located in the suburb of Glems .
media
The daily newspaper Metzinger-Uracher Volksblatt / Der Ermstalbote appears in Metzingen and gets its cover from the Südwest Presse in Ulm. There is also a Metzinger edition of the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger , the Metzinger-Uracher General-Anzeiger .
The regional TV station RTF.1 also reports on current events in Metzingen and the surrounding area.
Public facilities
Metzingen has a notary's office and a town hall. Cases outsourced by the Bad Urach District Court are sometimes being negotiated in the town hall .
education
Metzingen has a grammar school (Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium), a secondary school (Schönbein-Realschule), a special school (Seyboldschule), a primary school (Sieben-Keltern-Schule, formerly Hindenburgschule) and two primary and secondary schools (Neugreuthschule with primary school support class and Uhland school ). The Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium is the only G9 model school in the Reutlingen district.
The Reutlingen district is responsible for the Metzingen industrial schools. The private Protestant vocational school for geriatric care rounds off Metzingen's range of schools. There is also a music school that is organized as a registered association.
Further educational institutions are the fba, family education work Metzingen, and the adult education center in Metzingen.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Metzingen has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1893: Karl Beck, parish priest
- 1908: Christian Völter, Councilor of Commerce
- 1910: Friedrich Caspar, Stadtschultheiß
- 1934: Wilhelm Carl, Mayor
- 1955: Hermann Bräuchle (1877–1965), leather manufacturer, local councilor
- 1955: Julius Wizemann, manufacturer
- 1970: Otto Schmid, councilor and tannery owner
- 1973: Hans Speidel (1897–1984), General
- 1976: Heinrich Schmid, toolmaker, councilor
- 1981: Pierre Dubois, Mayor of Noyon
- 1981: Joseph Duchemin, Chairman of the Noyon Partnership Committee
- 1983: Eduard Kahl, mayor
- 2002: Monique Silvert, Chair of the Noyon Partnership Committee
- 2004: János Fodor, Mayor of Nagykálló
- 2004: Heinz Kipper, local councilor, AWO chairman
- 2005: Eva Maria Weiblen, co-founder of the Metzinger Keltern support group
- 2008: Horst Laubner, theater director, chairman of the event ring
- 2010: Frieder Gaenslen, entrepreneur, councilor
- 2014: Sibylle Küßner, councilor
- 2017: Dieter Feucht, First Mayor i. R., former chairman of the Ev. General parish council, the Swabian Alb Association Metzingen, the TV Neuhausen
sons and daughters of the town
- Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799–1868), discoverer of ozone and inventor of nitrocellulose
- Philipp Auer (1831–1912), landlord, local councilor and member of the state parliament
- Karl Rath (1833–1903), member of the Württemberg state parliament
- Reinhold Bräuchle (1861–1932), member of the state parliament
- Albert Fischer (1883–1952), Member of the Landtag of the People's State of Württemberg
- Friedrich Münzinger (1884–1962), power plant builder
- Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948) laid the foundation stone for the clothing manufacturer Hugo Boss AG with his tailoring
- Hugo Lausterer (1890 - unknown), SS squad leader and commando leader
- Wilhelm Speidel (1895–1970), Air Force General in World War II
- Hans Speidel (1897–1984), General and from 1957 to 1963 Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Land Forces in Central Europe
- Konrad Hummel (1923–2014), professor of blood group serology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
- Hugo Restle (1928–2011), economist and board spokesman for Agrippina Versicherungs AG
- Marianne Koch (1930–2020), educator, pastor and dean
- Doris Oswald (* 1936), author, humorist and Swabian dialect poet
- Rosemarie Bauer (* 1936), painter, graphic artist, author and Swabian dialect poet
- Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019), politician (FDP), Federal Foreign Minister
- Wolfgang Straßer (1941–2015), computer scientist
- Friedrich Volz (1944–1988), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
- Wolfgang Laib (* 1950), artist
- Reinhard Febel (* 1952), composer
- Eberhard Fritz (* 1957), historian and archivist
- Thomas Reusch-Frey (* 1959), politician, member of the state parliament
- Peter Kienle (* 1960), fusion and jazz musician
- Jochen Mannhart (* 1960), physicist
- Andreas Schmauder (* 1966), historian and archivist
- Michael Donth (* 1967), politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag
- Barbara Wurster (* 1970), actress
- Franziska Brauße (* 1998), cyclist
Personalities who work or have worked in the city
- Laura Siegemund (* 1988), tennis player
literature
- Württemberg city book. Volume IV Sub-volume Baden-Württemberg Volume 2 from Erich Keyser: German city book. Handbook of urban history - on behalf of the working group of historical commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Municipalities. Stuttgart, 1961
- Metzingen. Information brochure. 12th edition, Mering: WEKA-Info-Verlag, 2005, 48 pp.
- Andreas Schmauder / Bruno Seitz: Glems - history of a village at the foot of the Swabian Alb (Metzinger Heimatblätter, issue 3, Metzingen 1986.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Metzingen from May 18, 2006 (PDF)
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 . Pp. 38-41
- ↑ CIL XIII 6378 (Metzingen)
- ^ Gerhard Rasch: Ancient geographical names north of the Alps. P. 19.
- ↑ Eberhard Fritz: The "Achalm Pfandschaft" owned by the Tyrolean line of the House of Habsburg. Expansion efforts in Upper Austria during the Thirty Years' War. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter. 49, 2010, pp. 239-348.
- ^ 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. 531 and 538 .
- ^ Website of the Evangelical General Church Community in Metzingen
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Churches in Glems
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Neuhausen an der Erms
- ^ Südwest Presse on the resignation of Hauswirth on September 1, 2008
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Details of the building research see [2]
- ^ Eva-Maria Seng: The Protestant Church Building in the 19th Century. The Eisenach movement and the architect Christian Friedrich von Leins . Tübingen Studies on Archeology and Art History Volume 15, Dissertation from 1992, published Tübingen 1995, pp. 509–511, note 219
- ^ Claudia Lamprecht: Rudolf Yelin (1902-1991): catalog raisonné of the building-related works ; o. O. (Stuttgart), o. J. (1991), p. 61
- ^ Adolf Graf: The Peace Church Metzingen ; in: Evangelisches Mesnerblatt (38th volume), 4/1987, Stuttgart, pp. 492–499
- ↑ Ingrid Helber (ed.): Helmuth Uhrig, 1906-1979. A Christian artist from Württemberg ; Horb aN, 2006, p. 54 and Fig. 103 (with catalog raisonné)
- ↑ Local portrait on discover regional studies online BW see [3]
- ^ Günther Memmert: The city church in Aalen and the Stephanus church in Alfdorf. On the type of Protestant cross-hall church in the Swabian Baroque . Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 2010, p. 98
- ↑ http://biosphaerengebiet-alb.de/index.php/reiseziel-biosphaerengebiet/infozentren/48-reiseziel-biosphaerengebiet/infozentren/359-unterartikel-rz-glems
- ↑ FAQs , Outletcity Metzingen, accessed on July 11, 2011.
- ↑ FAZ of May 7, 2005, p. 11 (same number in Rheinischer Merkur of June 13, 2006)
- ↑ http://textination.de/de/TN_Archiv/dtTN_07.02.12.pdf
- ↑ "Obituary Eva Maria Weiblen died at the age of 87 - farewell to a highly committed honorary citizen" on swp.de on July 14, 2020
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