Lahr / Black Forest
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Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ' N , 7 ° 52' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Freiburg | |
| County : | Ortenau district | |
| Height : | 170 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 69.86 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 46,797 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 670 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 77933 | |
| Area code : | 07821 | |
| License plate : | OG, BH , KEL, LR, WOL | |
| Community key : | 08 3 17 065 | |
| City structure: | Core city and 7 districts | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 4 77933 Lahr / Black Forest |
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| Lord Mayor : | Markus Ibert (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Lahr / Black Forest in the Ortenau district | ||
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Lahr / Black Forest (until September 30, 1978 only Lahr ) is a large district town in the Ortenaukreis in western Baden-Württemberg . It is the second largest city in the Ortenau district after the district town of Offenburg and forms a central center for the surrounding communities.
When the municipal code of Baden-Württemberg came into force, Lahr became a major district town in 1956. The city has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the municipality of Kippenheim .
geography
Geographical location
Lahr is located on the western edge of the Black Forest , on the eastern side of the Rhine plain at the foothills of the Schuttertal .
Lahr is located about 38 km north of Freiburg im Breisgau and 100 km south of Karlsruhe . Strasbourg (F) is 40 km northwest .
Waters
The Schutter reached from the Black Forest Coming the urban area in the southeast. It then flows through the districts of Reichenbach and Kuhbach in a north-westerly direction , then the core city (the old town is on the right bank of the river) and the district of Dinglingen. Here the river turns north, flows through the district of Hugsweier and then leaves the city again.
The Schutter relief canal branches off not far from Dinglingen.
Neighboring places
In a clockwise direction , starting in the north, the following cities and communities border the city of Lahr / Black Forest:
City structure
The urban area of Lahr is divided into the core city , which today also includes the town of Burgheim, which was incorporated in 1899, and the municipality of Dinglingen, which was incorporated in 1933. Both have grown together with Lahr today.
In addition, there are the municipalities incorporated as part of the municipal reform of the 1970s and today's districts of Hugsweier, Kippenheimweiler, Kuhbach , Langenwinkel, Mietersheim, Reichenbach and Sulz.
see also Burgheim Castle
Some parts of the city have further separately located residential areas with their own names, which usually have very few residents, but have now partly grown together with the main town. On the other hand, there are also new residential areas with their own names, the boundaries of which, however, are usually not precisely defined. In detail, the following residential areas or settlements belong to the districts:
- to Kuhbach : Brudertal
- to the city center : Schutterlindenberghof, Waldfrieden
- to Reichenbach : Eichberg, Gereut, Giesenhof, Langeck, Poche, Schindelhöfe
- to Sulz : Dammenmühle, Ernethof, Hohberg, Langenhard
climate
Lahr is located in a zone with a warm, humid and temperate climate. The climate in this region varies slightly between highs and lows, and there is sufficient rainfall all year round. However, it is almost a "humid subtropical climate", as the average temperatures in July and August are just under 22 ° C and the Upper Rhine region creates a subtropical climate over the summer months.
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Spatial planning
Lahr / Black Forest forms a middle center within the southern Upper Rhine region with the associated regional center Offenburg (another regional center is Freiburg im Breisgau). In addition to the city of Lahr / Black Forest, the cities and communities Ettenheim , Friesenheim , Kappel-Grafenhausen , Kippenheim , Mahlberg , Meißenheim , Ringsheim , Rust (Baden) , Schuttertal , Schwanau and Seelbach belong to the central area of Lahr .
history
Until the 18th century
In the Lahr-Dinglingen district between Schutter, the “Mauerfeld” district and in the industrial area, there were remains of a Roman settlement ( vicus ) with multi-phase development. The finding shows a Gallo-Roman temple , well, pottery, farm buildings and strip house in half-timbered technology , a characteristic construction method of the Romans, especially in the northwestern provinces. The finds are in the collection of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Lahr.
The Lahr settlement was built around the Lahr Storchenturm , a low castle of the Geroldsecker family from 1220, and was probably elevated to a town in 1278 . The city privilege, which was renewed in 1377, formed the cornerstone of urban freedoms until the end of the Old Kingdom and allowed the city to flourish as a trading center in the 18th century due to its clear tax privileges.
The town and the lordship of the same name remained in the possession of the von Geroldseck family until 1426 . Her heirs were the lords of Moers-Saar Werden , who pledged half of the rule in 1442 to the Margraviate of Baden . This bought its part in 1497. The other half went to the Nassau-Saarbrücken house in 1522 . Both rulers introduced the Reformation and administered the city and its surroundings as a condominium until 1629, when Lahr came completely to Nassau . Lahr became an official city very early on.
After a sharp decline in population during the Thirty Years' War, the city was set on fire by French troops under Marshal Créquy during the Dutch War in 1677 . The most important events in the 18th century were the various "Lahr Trials " of the citizens against their own sovereignty, which were decided in 1726 and 1778 in favor of the citizens and prevented the absolutist system intended by the rule in the city.
19th century
In 1803 Lahr and its surrounding area came to Baden and the city became the seat of a Baden office that has been changed several times in the course of history.
In the 19th century Lahr was an important printing town. The Burda-Verlag , which emerged from a printing company and is now based in neighboring Offenburg, has the origin of its company history z. T. in Lahr.
20th century
Lahr was a garrison town from 1898 to 1919 and from 1936 to 1945. After the Second World War, Lahr became a base for French armed forces (until France left NATO ). From 1969 to the 1990s, the headquarters of the Canadian NATO armed forces in Europe was based here. Due to the subsequent influx of former Russian Germans and ethnic German repatriates , a total of 9,000 people, and of around 4,000 people of other nationalities, around one in four people is currently Lahrs a place of birth in the territory of the former Soviet Union . After the withdrawal of the Canadian armed forces , a small community of Canadian citizens - around 200 mostly former civil servants in the military - remained in Lahr.
As early as 1939, Lahr had become the district town of the Lahr district , which had emerged from the previous Lahr district office and was later given the license plate "LR". During the district reform on January 1, 1973, the Lahr district was dissolved and its communities assigned to the newly formed Ortenau district . Lahr was thus by far the largest city in the former administrative district of South Baden (Freiburg), which had lost its district of the same name and its district seat.
Districts
The districts of Lahr also have a long history. Most belonged to the Lahr rule (Hugsweier, Burgheim, Dinglingen, Langenwinkel and Mietersheim) and consequently shared the fortunes of the city. In 1803 they came to Baden and were parishes in the Lahr district before they were incorporated into the city of Lahr in 1972. Hugsweier was first mentioned in 1341 as "Hugeswilre", Burgheim in 1035 as "Burcheim", Dinglingen 961 as "Tuntelinga", Mietersheim 762 as "Mutherisheim" and Sulz in 1270 as "Sulz".
Langenwinkel is a very young village. It was first created from 1787 in the Dinglingen district in the Nassau forest area, which was cleared for this purpose. The first house was built in 1790, and in 1797 Langenwinkel became an independent municipality, which with Lahr came to Baden in 1803. After 1951, the French armed forces' airfield was built in the immediate vicinity . This led to a considerable burden for the residents of Langenwinkel. In 1965 the Federal Ministry of Defense therefore decided to relocate the site. It was rebuilt a few kilometers southeast not far from the Hurster Hof between 1968 and 1971.
Kippenheimweiler was first mentioned in 1417 as "Wilre" and in 1462 as "Kippenwiler". It was an extension of Kippenheim and came with this in 1629 to the Baden rulership of Mahlberg, from 1810 to the Ettenheim office and only after its dissolution in 1924 to the Lahr district office.
Kuhbach was first mentioned in 1035 as "Cuobach". It initially belonged to the Geroldseckern and when they were divided it came to Hohengeroldseck (Vogtei Seelbach) in 1278. Ecclesiastically it first belonged to Burgheim, then to the parish of Lahr. After the Counter Reformation in Hohengeroldseck, the place became Catholic again. The place came to Baden only in 1819 and was then assigned to the Lahr district office.
Reichenbach was first mentioned in 1270 as "Richenbach". The place was divided between Geroldseck and Tiersberg. The Tiersberg part came in the 14th century via Schwarzenberg and Ettendorf, Hummel von Staufenberg little by little to Baden, who gave the place to the Röder as a fief. The Hohengeroldseckische part came to the Counts of Leyen via the Cronberg . Reichenbach was initially Protestant, but became Catholic again from 1658. The Baden-Röder part came to the County of Geroldseck in 1806, became Austrian with this in 1815 and was ceded to Baden (Hohengeroldseck Office) in 1819. It was not until 1832 that Reichenbach came to the Lahr district office.
21st century
The first stumbling blocks for those persecuted and victims of National Socialism were laid in Lahr in January 2004, see list of stumbling blocks in Lahr / Black Forest .
Incorporations
The following communities were incorporated into the city of Lahr / Black Forest:
- 1899: Burgheim
- 1933: Dinglingen
- January 1, 1972: Hugsweier, Kippenheimweiler, Kuhbach, Langenwinkel, Mietersheim, Reichenbach and Sulz
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
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census, 38.7% of the population were Protestant and 34.7% Roman Catholic . 26.6% belonged to other denominations or religious communities or were non-denominational . According to the Laar City Bureau, 15,267 (32.5%) Protestant and 14,136 (30.0%) Roman Catholic church members of around 47,000 residents were registered with their main residence in Lahr on June 25, 2019. 37.5% belonged to other denominations or religious communities or were non-denominational. In 2019, 84 more people left the churches in Lahr than in the previous year, 2018. This exceeded the previous high of 2014. The Lahr registry office recorded a total of 332 church resignations in 2019.
history
The Lahr area belonged to the diocese of Strasbourg until the Archdiocese of Freiburg was founded in 1821 . The town was originally looked after by the parishes of Dinglingen and Burgheim. In 1259 an Augustinian monastery was founded by the Steigerherren at the gates of the city , which was converted into a collegiate monastery for regulated Augustinian canons in 1482 .
In 1492 the parish of Burgheim was moved to Lahr and the former monastery church became Lahr's parish church (collegiate church). Afterwards, Lahr was an exclusively Protestant city for centuries. During the time of Baden, the collegiate church was the seat of a dean for the entire surrounding area. Further parishes emerged from the collegiate community, namely the Christ Community and the Peace Community. These later joined together to form a general parish. This also includes the Johannesgemeinde Sulz, the Luthergemeinde, Paulusgemeinde and Melanchthonggemeinde in Dinglingen or Lahr-West and the Petrusgemeinde Burgheim. There are other Protestant parishes in the districts of Hugsweier, Kippenheimweiler and Langenwinkel, while Langenwinkel is looked after by the parish of Hugsweier and Kippenheimweiler from the neighboring parish of Kippenheim. The Protestants from Kuhbach and Reichenbach are looked after by the community of Seelbach and that of Mietersheim von Lahr. Most of the Protestant parishes belong to the Ortenau deanery of the Evangelical Church in Baden . The Evangelical Community Association AB and the Liebenzeller Community Association are also based in Lahr. There are also congregations in Lahr that belong to free churches , including Evangelical Free Churches ( Baptists ), the Evangelical Methodist Church , the Adventist Church and a Free Christian Congregation. The New Apostolic Church is also represented in Lahr.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Catholics also moved to Lahr again. In 1843 the Catholic parish was founded and from 1846 the own church of St. Peter and Paul was built. The 2nd parish became St. Marien in 1960 (church from 1954/56). There are other Catholic parishes in Dinglingen (Hl. Geist with St. Martin Hugsweier branch church), Kuhbach (Assumption of Mary and Chapel of Our Lady), Reichenbach and Sulz (St. Peter and Paul). Between 1773 and 1959 there was a simultaneum between Protestant and Catholic parishes in Sulz . The Catholic parishes belong to the Lahr deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
politics
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Municipal council
The local council is directly elected for five years and has 32 members who are called city councils.
The local elections on May 26, 2019 with a voter turnout of 45.51% (2014: 36.88%) produced the result shown in the adjacent diagrams.
The incorporated for local government reform in 1972 districts are also towns within the meaning of Baden-Wuerttemberg Municipal Code, that is, there is one of the voters in each municipal election to be elected Ortschaftsrat with a mayor as chairman. Every village has a local administration, a kind of "town hall on site".
Lord Mayor
At the beginning of the city there were four council members, the "Vierer", from 1377 12 elected councilors, including four mayors . There was also a city administrator or bailiff or mayor who mediated between the rulers and the city. In the 19th century there was a mayor and a council with 11 members and a larger citizens' committee. In 1888 the town order was introduced. Since then there has been a lord mayor at the head of the city. This is elected today by the population for eight years. He is chairman of the municipal council. His general deputies are the first alderman with the official title "First Mayor" or "First Mayoress" and the alderman with the official title "Mayor".
- Public official since 1889
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coat of arms
Blazon of the city of Lahr / Black Forest: “Split of gold and blue, in front a red bar (= former Geroldseckische colors), behind a continuous, black grooved, silver wall with three dovetail pinnacles, open, pointed arched gate with raised, black portcullis, above two black Arched window between two black strips. "
The city flag is blue and white. The coat of arms symbol has been attested to in the seals since 1305. It is the coat of arms of the city founders von Geroldseck as well as the usual symbol for cities at the time, the wall. The latter was replaced by a tin tower in the 15th century. From 1898 to 1958 the coat of arms only showed the pinnacle tower with an angel's head as a shield holder. This depiction had been known since the 18th century, but in 1958 the old coat of arms depiction was reverted to.
Town twinning
Lahr / Black Forest maintains a city partnership with the following cities :
- Dole , Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region , France, since 1962
- Belleville , Ontario , Canada, since 1971
- Alajuela , Alajuela Province , Costa Rica, since 2006
City guilders Lahr
In autumn 2017, the Lahr municipal council voted unanimously in favor of a three-year pilot phase for the citizens' budget. From February 2019 project proposals can be submitted, in October 2019 the first "Day of Decision" will take place.
childcare
The city of Lahr today has a very high birth rate. The administration attributes this to various offers for the care of children between one and ten years old, such as day-care centers and student assistance, which it also organizes in cooperation with other providers.
Culture and sights
Attractions
The stork tower is the city's most famous landmark . It is the remainder of the former low castle of the von Geroldseck family, which, like the remains of the old city wall, is still preserved. The hammer mill is located in the Reichenbach district.
The Lahr city park with a museum in the Villa Jamm is also worth seeing . To the east of the city park is the Protestant Christ Church, built in 1880 with funds from the CW Jamms Foundation. Its copper-clad dome is visible from afar.
On June 18, 1893, the monument to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck was ceremoniously unveiled in the city park . The bust was created by the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf from Lasa marble .
Probably one of the most prominent points of the city is the old town hall from 1608 with exposed arcades and a late Gothic outside staircase.
The New Town Hall of Lahr, once built as a classicist industrial villa, has a facade designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner .
1960–1962 the round high-rise buildings were built by Klaus Humpert together with Hans-Walter Henrich.
Baden-Württemberg's only café that is a listed building, the Süße Löchle, is located on Judgment Square . It was opened by Eugen Hildebrand at the end of the 19th century. After him, the confectioner Gertrud Hauser continued to run the business, who handed it over to her niece Hildegard Seidel, who had grown up in the business. With Seidel's death, the café's future was uncertain. Citizens of Lahr founded a non-profit corporation that has been committed to maintaining the café for over ten years. During this time Maria Kiesele was the leaseholder of the café. Roland and Adelheid Wagner bought the building in 2017 and renovated it, previously it had only been renovated in 1921. It will close in January 2020 [obsolete] , the future is uncertain.
Churches
- Today's main church in the city is the Protestant collegiate church, formerly of Our Lady , an early Gothic three-aisled basilica with a west tower built in 1874. It goes back to a foundation of the Geroldsecker in 1259, from which today's monastery also emerged. The building was built in the 13th century in the Gothic style. A west tower was added around 1500, and in 1850 a thorough restoration was carried out by the architect Friedrich Eisenlohr . In 1874 the dilapidated late Gothic west tower was torn down and replaced by the current one based on a design by Ludwig Diemer .
- The Burgheimer Kirche (also Peterskirche), a Romanesque choir tower church with Gothic wall paintings, is older . It is probably one of the oldest churches on the right of the Upper Rhine.
- The Christ Church in Lahr was built between 1877 and 1880 as the second Protestant church in the city. It is a domed structure in the style of the Italian Renaissance.
- The Evangelical Church of Peace in the south of the city was built in 1956.
- The first Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul was built in 1846 in neo-Romanesque style with a double tower facade.
- The second parish church is St. Marien, built between 1954 and 1956. 1967 expanded.
- Evangelical Martinskirche Dinglingen (Baroque, built 1784).
- Catholic Church Heilig Geist Dinglingen (built 1911).
- Evangelical Melanchthon Church Dinglingen (built 1979).
There are the following churches and chapels in the districts:
- Evangelical Church Hugsweier (formerly St. Margarethen, built 1755 to 1790).
- Catholic branch church St. Martin Hugsweier (built 1966).
- Evangelical branch church Kippenheimweiler (built in 1902).
- Catholic chapel St. Gallus in Kuhbach (built in the 13th century).
- Catholic Church Mariae Visitation in Kuhbach (built in 1908).
- Protestant chapel in Mietersheim (built in the 16th / 17th centuries).
- Reichenbach Catholic Church (built from 1846 to 1848 in neo-Romanesque style).
- Catholic Marienkapelle on Eichberg in Reichenbach (built 1958).
- Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Sulz (built in 1864 in neo-Romanesque style).
- Evangelical Johanneskirche Sulz (built 1960).
- Evangelical Church Langenwinkel (built 1970).
- St. Blasius Chapel in Kippenheimweiler
Sports
The city of Lahr has several sports fields, sports halls, hockey and tennis courts, including the Dammenmühle stadium, the Klostermatte sports field, and the indoor sports center, which includes two sports halls and the indoor swimming pool. There is also an 18-hole golf course in Lahr-Reichenbach.
The largest outdoor pool in Lahr is the terrace pool, located directly on the slope of the Schutterlindenberg . It has a 50 m pool with a diving pool, an attraction pool with a giant slide, water mushroom and whirlpool, as well as a children's and baby pool. There is also a beach volleyball field available.
There are 86 sports clubs in Lahr, from fishing clubs to yacht clubs. The Lahr gymnastics club from 1846 is the largest sports club in Lahr with almost 2000 members. The Lahr soccer club 1903 plays in the Association League South Baden (2012/2013) and was champion of the previous league, 1st Amateur League , under the name Sportfreunde Lahr in 1949 .
Regular events
The Chrysanthema - a three-week flower exhibition that is unique in Germany - takes place annually in the late year and attracts thousands of flower enthusiasts from all over Germany and neighboring countries to the elaborately decorated old town.
In addition, the Lahr City Festival takes place every four years, at which various "live acts" are presented on various stages across Lahr.
Special event
The state cabinet decided that the city will host the state horticultural show in 2018 . Here Lahr prevailed against 16 other competitors. As the organizer of the flower show (April 12 to October 14, 2018), the city has received state funding of around 5 million euros and around 13 million euros for work in connection with the flower show. According to the then Prime Minister Günther Oettinger , the funding should give the region a boost.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Lahr has with the former NATO - Airbase about the airport Black Forest Airport , is one of the start / runway of 3 km in length and 45 m width to the longer in Germany.
Lahr has a motorway connection to the A 5 Karlsruhe – Basel and is the intersection of federal highways 3 and 415 .
The Lahr / Schwarzwald train station is on the Rhine Valley Railway operated by Deutsche Bahn . The French SNCF has been serving Lahr station with the TGV high-speed train since 2018. Paris can be reached without changing trains in 2 hours 40 minutes with a stop in Strasbourg. The former city station on the Lahr – Lahr Stadt railway line and the facilities of Mittelbadische Eisenbahnen AG , which ran through the city as a steam tram from Seelbach (Schutter) to Kehl , have now been completely dismantled.
Local businesses
- Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co.KG ; Manufacturer of machine parts; largest industrial employer in Lahr.
- Grohe AG Lahr plant ; Sanitary fittings and thermostats
- Schneider Electric Motion Germany GmbH & Co. KG ; formerly Berger Lahr GmbH & Co. KG; ( Drive technology , electronics)
- Elektrizitätswerk Mittelbaden AG & Co. KG ; regional energy supplier
- The state-owned SWEG Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-AG operates numerous railway lines and bus routes.
- The Oscar Weil GmbH is an old-established Lahrer operation, including through the brand names abrazo is known.
- In Ernst Kaufmann-Verlag several publishers are combined, which include the oldest companies in the sector worldwide and are attributable to the year 1815th From 2001 to 2010 the Lahrer Hinkende Bote was published by Kaufmann Verlag, and since then by Silberburg Verlag , which moved its Baden office from Lahr to Baden-Baden in 2012. In addition, the Kaufmann-Verlag publishes around 80 new titles every year.
- Gugi's audio books produce his publishing products with Franz Hohler , Gert Heidenreich and Ilja Richter, among others .
- The Moritz Schauenburg publishing house was also a traditional company in Lahr, which was liquidated in 1999.
- The Badische Tabakmanufaktur Roth-Händle GmbH , which was founded in Strasbourg in 1871, played an important role in the city . In 1920 it was moved to Lahr and existed until 2007. Since 1957 it has belonged to the Reemtsma Cigarette Factory Group.
- Another once important company in Lahr was Albert Nestler Konstruentechnik, an internationally important manufacturer of drawing boards and slide rules, which existed from 1876 to the 1990s. The Nestler area in Bahnhofstrasse is the former company premises.
- The Rewe Group is represented in the Lahr industrial park with a logistics center for its Penny stores in the southern Baden and Saarland areas.
- The Feuerstein GmbH , also known as Molotov, is a manufacturer of paints , markers , spray cans and accessories for street art and graffiti area . The company is based in Lahr.
- The company Zehnder Group Deutschland GmbH is part of the radiator industry and has specialized in domestic ventilation systems with heat recovery.
- With the MediClin Heart Center , Lahr has a specialist clinic of national importance. Over 5000 patients from all over Germany and abroad are treated here every year.
- Zalando maintains a logistics location with around 1,000 employees.
- The Vogel-Bau group of companies with more than 900 employees is headquartered in Lahr.
Authorities, courts and institutions
The Lahr Institute for Education and Training, or IBA Lahr for short, of the Baden-Württemberg Police University is located in Lahr-Mietersheim . Here, young candidates are prepared for their service and go through the theoretical phase. Lahr also has the Lahr District Court , which belongs to the Offenburg District Court , chambers of the Freiburg Labor Court , a tax office , an employment agency and a notary's office. The medical service of the Baden-Württemberg health insurance company is also headquartered here. Lahr is also the seat of the Lahr deanery of the Evangelical Church in Baden and the Lahr deanery within the Ortenau region of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
media
Three daily newspapers appear in Lahr . The Lahrer Zeitung , a local edition of the Schwarzwälder Bote , the local edition of the Badische Zeitung from Freiburg (formerly “Lahrer Anzeiger”) and the Lahrer local part of the Mittelbadische Presse from Offenburg under the revived title “Lahrer Anzeiger”. A special feature is the Lahrer limping messenger , which has been appearing since 1800 . The media production company Punchline Studio is also based in Lahr and has already won several international film and media awards for its documentaries.
Education and Research
Until 2012, Lahr housed the state-recognized private university Lahr Scientific University of the AKAD private universities . The Lahr Clinic is an academic teaching hospital of the University of Freiburg .
In the city of Lahr there is
three grammar schools :
- Max Planck Gymnasium (profile: French and English, science and technology)
- Scheffel-Gymnasium (since 1804, the oldest secondary school between Karlsruhe and Freiburg, profile: French and English, Latin and English, Italian, bilingual English train, gifted class, NaT working, natural science and technology)
- Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium (since 1997 with eight-year train, profile: focus on music, seven-year advanced train from grade 7, three-year advanced train after secondary school, boarding school with approx. 45 places)
the Otto Hahn Realschule , the Gutenberg School ( special needs school ), nine elementary schools : Eichrodt Elementary School, Geroldseckerschule, Johann-Peter-Hebel-School, Luisenschule, Schutterlindenberg-School, Elementary School Kuhbach, Elementary School Langenwinkel, Schoolhouse Kippenheimweiler, Elementary School Sulz and Elementary School Mietersheim . There is also a primary and secondary school in Reichenbach and two pure secondary schools: Friedrich-Hauptschule and Theodor-Heuss-Hauptschule Dinglingen.
The Ortenaukreis is responsible for the commercial schools Lahr, the commercial school Lahr (including the integrated vocational high school Lahr, which has a social and economic direction), the vocational school in Mauerfeld (home economics and agricultural school), the Brothers Grimm School for the speech-impaired with a Pinocchio school kindergarten for the speech-impaired and the Georg-Wimmer-School for the mentally handicapped with a school kindergarten for the mentally handicapped.
Other public schools are the Badische Malerfachschule and the nursing school at the Lahr Clinic.
Numerous private schools complete the educational offerings in Lahr. There are, among other things, a night school , a Abendrealschule that Altenpflegeschule the Workers' Welfare at Altvaterweg, a vocational school for Cosmetics Ferdinand Fingado school for educational support, a Free Evangelical school (primary, secondary and junior high school and high school), a midwifery school and a physiotherapist school of the German Employees Academy e. V. and the speech healing school at the Evangelical Child and Youth Welfare Center.
Aid organization THW
The Lahr local association of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) has existed since the 1950s. So far, he has been throughout Germany and abroad. A. active after flood disasters. Part of the local association is the lighting specialist group , which is unique in Germany .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Lahr has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1818: Ludwig Freiherr von Liebenstein
- 1829: Carl Ludwig II. Von Lotzbeck; for the advantages that his tobacco factory granted the city and the citizenry
- 1844: Philipp Jacob Bittmann, official auditor; for services to the population and the accounting of the city
- 1851: Friedrich Greiner, district engineer; for his services to the construction of the Lahr aqueduct
- 1858: Karl August Gebhard, councilor and grammar school director
- 1862: Friedrich Freiherr von Seldeneck, chief forester
- 1863: Ferdinand von Lotzbeck, manufacturer; for services to the city and the promotion of the railway
- 1893: August Winther, head of the district office
- 1895: Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), former Chancellor
- 1899: Ferdinand Sander (1840–1920), manufacturer
- 1928: Gustav Altfelix (1859–1934), Lord Mayor
- 1933: Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Reich Chancellor (deleted from the list following a municipal council resolution of 1947)
- 1933: Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), President of the Reich (deleted from the list following a municipal council resolution of 1947)
- 1953: Paul Waeldin (1888–1969), District President and Lord Mayor
- 1952: Hans Benetz, manufacturer; because of his services to the citizens of the formerly independent community of Kuhbach. With the incorporation of Kuhbach in 1972, Benetz became an honorary citizen of Lahr
- 1976: Charles Laurent-Thouverey, Mayor of Dole ; for his services to the friendly relationship between Lahr and Dole
- 1981: Felix Wankel (1902–1988), engineer; in tribute to his "pioneering invention" of the rotary piston engine
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- ?, Georg Heid; † October 22, 1525 in Lahr, known as the Geysmeyer, a national farmer leader
- 1789, November 12, Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer ; † May 14, 1845 in Bümpliz , initiator and main speaker of the Hambach Festival
- 1804, March 12, Wilhelm von Bausch ; † March 8, 1873 in Karlsruhe, Baden Oberamtmann, member of the state parliament
- 1809, June 30, Christian Wilhelm Jamm ; † May 7, 1875 in Lahr, wholesale merchant in Cuba , founder of the city park, the Christ Church and the city library, builder of the Villa Jamm
- 1811, April 22, Denis Bühler ; † 1890 in Lausanne ( Switzerland ), landscape architect (including Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon )
- 1814, February 2 in Kippenheimweiler, Ludwig Huber † October 10, 1887 in Hohberg -Niederschopfheim, beekeeper
- 1814, December 5, Reinhard Schellenberg ; † February 23, 1890 in Karlsruhe, Protestant theologian and senior church councilor in Baden
- 1818, July 1st, Karl von Vierordt ; † November 22, 1884 in Tübingen, German physiologist
- 1838, August 8, Friedrich Neubronn von Eisenburg ; † June 13, 1915 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden judge and politician
- 1844, November 14th, Friedrich Geßler ; † January 3, 1891 in Lahr, German writer
- 1853, September 1, Karl Maxstadt ; † January 14, 1930 in Munich, folk singer, vocal humorist
- 1858, March 30, Friedrich Weill ; † June 3, 1934 in Karlsruhe, lawyer and politician
- 1858, April 13, Max Heidlauff ; † unknown, member of the Baden state parliament
- 1860, December 9 in the Hugsweier district, Carl Bader ; † August 25, 1918 Wuppertal , founder and director of the Diakoniewerk " Bethesda " in Wuppertal
- 1865, March 18, Karl Jakob Ludwig Bucherer ; † August 6, 1925 in Leipzig, German Reich judge
- 1865, July 23, Ludwig Sütterlin ; † November 20, 1917 in Berlin , inventor and designer of the Sütterlin script
- 1868, May 20, Adolf Schmidlin ; † June 22, 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau, painter
- 1875, October 12, Emil Rudolf Weiß ; † November 7, 1942 in Meersburg , graphic artist , painter , type designer , typographer , Weiß'sche font , teacher and poet
- 1876, June 22, Hermann Hummel ; † September 13, 1952 in Krefeld , chemist, educator, manager and politician (DDP), President of the Republic of Baden
- 1880, Karl Bender ; † 1970 in Karlsruhe, politician (center), Lord Mayor of Freiburg
- 1883, Paul Bader ; † February 28, 1971 in Emmendingen , officer, most recently general of the artillery
- 1884, May 28, Alfred Frank ; † January 12, 1945 in Dresden , painter and graphic artist
- 1885, December 23, Gustav Traub ; † May 16, 1955 in St. Märgen , painter and graphic artist
- 1886, September 9, Wilhelm Wickertsheimer ; † February 7, 1968, landscape painter
- 1897, January 6, Karl Gärtner ; † November 26, 1944 in Strasbourg, Baden Ministerial Director
- 1888, June 12, Paul Waeldin ; † November 15, 1969 in Lahr, lawyer and politician (DDP, later FDP), member of the state parliament
- 1898, May 27, Richard Oechsle ; † May 12, 1986 in Munich , politician (SPD), Bavarian State Minister
- 1900, October 19, August Kramer ; † July 22, 1979 in Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach, politician (NSDAP), MdR
- 1902, August 13, Felix Wankel ; † October 9, 1988 in Heidelberg , inventor of the Wankel engine , honorary citizen of Lahr since 1981
- 1903, May 18, Alfred Horcher ; † May 21, 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau, 1947 and 1948 district administrator of the district of Lörrach
- 1904, June 5, Hans Furler ; † June 29, 1975 in Achern , politician ( CDU ), Member of the Bundestag , MEP , President of the European Parliament 1960–1962
- 1905, March 22, Rudolf Ritter ; † June 18, 1994 in Ettenheim, politician (FDP), mayor and district administrator
- 1909, March 18, Jakob Renz ; † January 25, 1951 in Mosbach, Mayor of Mosbach from 1902 to 1925
- 1909, May 4, Robert Thren ; † October 26, 1995 in Radebeul, biologist and drug researcher
- 1909, November 15, Fritz Rinderspacher ; † July 8, 1998 in Hugsweier , politician ( SPD ), Member of the Bundestag
- 1913, November 17, Helmut Beinert ; † December 21, 2007, American biochemist
- 1922, June 13, Inge Ott , writer
- 1924, September 2, Philipp Brucker ; † July 23, 2013, former mayor, local poet
- 1928, April 1, Marta Laudien; † June 28, 2014, in Dettingen u. Teck, daughter of Gustav Kappus, founder of the Kappus bakery in Dinglingen
- 1930, March 14, Dieter Schnebel ; † May 20, 2018, composer of experimental music, theologian
- 1934, February 24 in the Hugsweier district, Robert Ruder ; † August 13, 2015, educator and politician of the CDU
- 1941, October 17th, Jürgen Weber , Chairman of the Supervisory Board and former Chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa AG
- 1942, June 24th, Martin Herrenknecht , founder (1977) and CEO of Herrenknecht AG
- 1942, November 22nd, Walter Caroli , politician (SPD), member of the state parliament and alderman in Lahr
- 1944, July 12, Gerhart von Graevenitz ; † March 25, 2016, literary scholar, rector of the University of Konstanz
- 1946, June 17th, Carl-Eugen Eberle , lawyer and university professor
- 1948, August 7, Walter Schmidt , track and field athlete and Olympic participant
- 1948, September 6th, Werner Schwärzel , motorcycle racing driver and sidecar world champion
- 1953, December 11th, Arno Ehret , handball world champion and former national coach
- 1954, September 20, Renate Götting , politician (FDP / DVP), member of the state parliament from 2004 to 2006
- 1955, October 13, Adrienne Goehler , politician ( non-party ) and publicist
- 1956, August 8, Bernd Pohlenz , draftsman and cartoon artist
- 1960, Ralf Bernd Herden , lawyer, lecturer, journalist and historian
- 1961, April 26th, Andreas Blank ; † January 20, 2001 in Kirchhain , Romance studies, linguist and university professor
- 1962, June 11th, Ira Wilhelm , translator
- 1964, July 17, Chris Ohnemus , author
- 1966, October 8th, Tabea Zimmermann , violist and professor at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin
- 1969, February 27, Oliver Schäfer , soccer player
- 1969, June 5, Niko Reith , politician (FDP), member of the state parliament
- 1969, December 13th, Tom Mueller , musician
- 1974, May 2nd, Timo Reus , soccer player
- 1975, Timo Handschuh , conductor
- 1975, Marco Hertenstein , composer and university professor
- 1977, Christian Bronsard , ice hockey goalkeeper
- 1978, April 20, Jochen Saier , sports official
- 1981, August 22nd, Christina Obergföll , javelin thrower, world champion and European record holder
- 1983, March 23, Sascha Riether , soccer player. German soccer champion 2009 with VFL Wolfsburg
- 1985, September 20, Julius Emrich , handball player
- 1988, July 4th, Sandrino Braun , soccer player
- 1989, December 25th, Pirmin Styrnol , journalist, filmmaker and voice actor
Other personalities associated with Lahr
- Ludwig Eichrodt , * 1827 in Durlach ; † February 2, 1892 in Lahr, poet, the term Biedermeier comes from him
- Adolf Bartels , * 1862 in Wesselburen ; † 1945 in Weimar , poet and literary historian, from 1890 to 1892 editor-in-chief of the "Lahrer Zeitung"
- Otto Werner , * 1885 in Wriezen; † 1954 in Lahr, architect
- Frieda Unger , * 1888 in Schopfheim ; † 1975 in East Berlin; Lahr's “Rosa Luxemburg”, 1921–1925 KPD member in the Baden state parliament
literature
- Badisches Städtebuch; Volume IV 2nd part of volume from “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 ”, ed. by Erich Keyser, Stuttgart 1959
- City of Lahr (Ed.), History of the City of Lahr
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the Middle Ages, Lahr 1989, ISBN 3-7806-2261-0
- Volume 2: From the Thirty Years War to the First World War, Lahr 1991, ISBN 3-7806-2262-9
- Volume 3: In the 20th century, Lahr 1993, ISBN 3-7806-2263-7
- Thorsten Mietzner: Sacrificed on the altar of Mars? Industry and garrison in the small town of Lahr in Baden in the 20th century . In: Robert Bohn , Michael Epkenhans (ed.): Garrison towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. [A publication of the Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History and the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr ] (= IZRG series of publications . Vol. 16). Publishing house for regional history, Gütersloh 2015, ISBN 978-3-7395-1016-3 , p. 147 ff.
- Klaus Siefert: Ortssippenbuch Mietersheim, municipality of Lahr, Ortenaukreis, in Baden, 1631–1972 . Grafenhausen: Köbele 1975 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 34)
- Albert Köbele and Erich Henschke: Dorfsippenbuch Kippenheimweiler, Lahr district in Baden, 1655–1957 . Grafenhausen: Köbele 1957 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 7)
- Walter Caroli, Dinglingen. The village on Schutterlindenberg . A local history, Grenzach-Wyhlen / Weinstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86372-000-1 .
- Joachim Becker, Bernd Friedrich (ed.): The Nestlers. History of an entrepreneurial family from Lahr. Bärenfelser Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-86372-046-9 .
- Alexandra Fies Emigration from Baden to North America in the 19th century with special consideration of the district of Karlsruhe between 1880–1914 - 4.3.2 State-funded emigration , KIT Scientific Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86644-425-6
- Eugen von Philippovich : The state-supported emigration in the Grand Duchy of Baden in Archives for Social Legislation and Statistics - Quarterly journal for researching the social conditions of the federal states , Berlin 1892, fifth volume, pages 27-69, in particular pages 48 ff. And 66 digitized version
Web links
- Website of the city of Lahr / Black Forest
- Geography online: Lahr (pictures, city history etc.)
- Lahr ( memento of April 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on a private architecture website
- Directory of former residents of the city of Lahr
- Lahr city register from 1356 (PDF file; 152 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ Gerhard Fingerlin : Lahr-Dinglingen (upper floor). Roman settlement . In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1555-3 , pp. 170-172.
- ^ 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. 498 .
- ↑ City of Lahr population in regional comparison by religion -in% -
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Church resignations are at a record level
- ↑ City of Lahr / Schwarzwald, municipal council election 2019, preliminary final result , accessed on August 7, 2019
- ^ Council information system of the city of Lahr: Participation project “Citizens' budget - Lahr city guilders”. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Lahr: City Gulden Lahr. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Documentation “Family-friendly Lahr” of the city ( memento of the original from September 29, 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. ( PDF , 8.2 MB)
- ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/lahr/rundhochhaeuser--37855000.html
- ↑ Mark Alexander: The tenant of the traditional café Süßes Löchle gives up after half a year. Badische Zeitung, December 19, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
- ↑ For salvation and citizen welfare. 750 years of the Lahr collegiate church and hospital (1259–2009) . Lahr, Kaufmann Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-7806-8170-6 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 9, 2014 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.
- ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Lahr: Lahr is blossoming: State garden show opened . In: swp.de . April 12, 2018 ( swp.de [accessed May 7, 2018]).
- ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/lahr/rewe-baut-penny-logistikzentrum-fuer-28-millionen--9259810.html
- ↑ MOLOTOW / Company / About us ( Memento of the original from June 15, 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.
- ↑ Zehnder
- ↑ Every heartbeat counts, MediClin Heart Center Lahr - short portrait . Website of the MediClin Heart Center Lahr. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ↑ Close network with cardiologists, internists and acute clinics, MediClin Heart Center Lahr - Referrer information ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ↑ Alexander Demling et al. a .: Interview with Martin-Devid Herrenknecht; in: Handelsblatt, January 17, 2017, p. 16.
- ^ Badische Zeitung: Lahrer Styrnol-Brothers win two media prizes for documentary film - Lahr - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ^ List of honorary citizens , Badische Zeitung.
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