Murr (municipality)

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '  N , 9 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Ludwigsburg
Height :	203 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.79 km 2
Residents:	6553 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	841 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	71711
Area code :	07144
License plate :	LB, VAI
Community key :	08 1 18 054
Address of the municipal administration:	Hindenburgstrasse 60 71711 Murr
Website :	www.gemeinde-murr.de
Mayor :	Torsten Bartzsch (independent)
Location of the community of Murr in the Ludwigsburg district

Murr lies between hills with fields and vineyards

The town center with church, seen from the Murr

Murr is a municipality in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Geographical location

Murr is located in the natural area of ​​the Neckar Basin at an altitude of 196 to 261 meters on the Murr , two kilometers before its confluence with the Neckar and about twelve kilometers north of the district town of Ludwigsburg . An uninhabited exclave in the Hardtwald near Rielingshausen is included in the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Pleidelsheim in the west , Marbach in the south and Benningen am Neckar in the southwest, and Steinheim an der Murr in the east, which merges directly into the municipality of Murr.

Community structure

The village of Murr and the Sonnenhof homestead belong to Murr.

Division of space

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

history

Local history

The lower Murrtal, and thus also the area of ​​the municipality of Murr, has been inhabited for thousands of years. The first archaeological finds date from the Neolithic Age and go back to Roman times. A Roman consecration stone testifies to the "villagers on the Murr" for the first time around 200 AD. Today's place goes back to an Alemannic settlement and was first mentioned in a document in 972. In the 13th century Murr was the seat of an episcopal Speyer regional chapter and came to Württemberg in 1302 .

Murr, which belonged to the Marbach office from the 15th century, was the seat of the Hardt Court, which last met in 1839, alongside Marbach and Steinheim. From 1517 to 1871, logs were rafted from the Swabian-Franconian Forest on the Murr to the former raft bridge, where there was a large storage area.

When the new administrative structure was implemented in the Kingdom of Württemberg , which was founded in 1806 , Murr remained assigned to the Oberamt Marbach .

Until the 20th century, Murr was an agricultural place with a street village character on the old overland road from Ludwigsburg through the Bottwartal to Heilbronn.

The administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg led to membership in the Ludwigsburg district in 1938 . Since Murr had become part of the American occupation zone after the Second World War , the place had belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden since 1945 , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

Religions

Since the Reformation was introduced in Württemberg, Murr has also been influenced by Protestants. There is still a Protestant congregation in the village today , while the Catholics have to go to Steinheim an der Murr to attend church services .

Population development

Population figures according to the respective area. The numbers are census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office (only main residences ).

year Residents December 1, 1871¹ 870 December 1, 1880¹ 912 December 1, 1890¹ 967 December 1, 1900¹ 953 December 1, 1910¹ 1,028 June 16, 1925¹ 1,157 June 16, 1933¹ 1,188 May 17, 1939¹ 1,269 September 13, 1950¹ 1,835

year Residents June 6, 1961¹ 2,199 May 27, 1970¹ 2,855 December 31, 1980 4,257 May 25, 1987¹ 4,364 December 31, 1990 4,660 December 31, 1995 5,296 December 31, 2000 5,823 December 31, 2005 6,069 December 31, 2010 6,201 December 31, 2015 6,413

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council in Murr has 14 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following 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		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019  % 40 30th 20th 10 0 34.15% 26.73% 21.30% 17.82% FW CDU SPD Green Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4 -3.00  % p -1.50  % p -2.21  % p + 6.72  % p.p. FW CDU SPD Green
FW	Free voter association Murr	34.15	5	37.15	5
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	26.73	4th	28.23	4th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	21.30	3	23.51	3
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	17.82	2	11.10	2
total		100.0	14th	100.0	14th
voter turnout		67.28%		57.41%

mayor

Torsten Bartzsch (independent) has been mayor of the community of Murr since July 1, 2012. He was elected on April 22, 2012 in the first ballot with 72.26% of the votes and confirmed in office on April 26, 2020 with 95.36% of the votes. His predecessor was Manfred Hollenbach (CDU), who served as mayor from 1972 to 2012.

badges and flags

The municipal coat of arms is under a golden shield head, inside a black deer pole, split by gold and red, in front a red goblet, behind an upright golden horn with a green fetter pointing to the split. The municipal flag is red and yellow and was awarded on April 18, 1980.

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture and viticulture were the main sources of income until the beginning of the 20th century. The sites belong to the large Schalkstein site in the Württemberg lowlands of the Württemberg wine-growing region . Today only a few farmers cultivate around 400 ha of land. However, due to the proximity to the large sales markets of the central Neckar region, the nursery has gained a certain importance.

In the 1950s, there were only a few handicraft and industrial companies offering work on site, but their number has increased significantly. Today almost all sectors are represented in an industrial area of ​​around 30 hectares near the motorway: from prefabricated house construction to mechanical engineering; There are around 2000 jobs in Murr.

traffic

Old station building of the train station in Murr

Murr is well connected to the national road network through the Pleidelsheim junction of the 81 federal motorway, three kilometers away .

The next train station (with line S 4 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn ) is in Marbach , four kilometers away , to which there is a bus connection (line 460).

Until 1968 Murr had a train station on the narrow-gauge Bottwartalbahn from Marbach to Heilbronn Süd . The station building is a subsequently extended Württemberg standard type I station.

Public facilities

There is a retirement and nursing home of the district's own shamrock nursing homes .

education

Murr has its own elementary school and three kindergartens.

Supply and disposal

The electricity and gas network in the community is operated by Syna GmbH. The drinking water comes partly from two deep wells in Murrtal and partly from external water that is obtained from the state water supply . The Häldenmühle group sewage treatment association is responsible for wastewater treatment in Murr as well as for Marbach , Steinheim , Großbottwar , Erdmannhausen and Benningen . The waste is taken from the Abfallverwertungsgesellschaft the district Ludwigsburg mbH (AVL), a 100% subsidiary of the district Ludwigsburg. AVL is commissioned to carry out the tasks of avoiding, recycling and disposing of waste on behalf of the Ludwigsburg district.

People in connection with the community

• Marcus Ziegler (* 1973), former Bundesliga player ( VfB Stuttgart )

Web links

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

Wikisource: Murr  - in the description of the Oberamt Marbach from 1866

• Homepage of the community of Murr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg. State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume III: Stuttgart District, Middle Neckar Regional Association. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 . Pp. 458-459
4. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Murr.
5. ↑ Population development in Baden-Württemberg from 1871 to 2012  ( 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.  
6. ↑ Election information for the municipal data center
7. ^ Rainer Stein: The Württemberg standard station on branch lines . In: Eisenbahn-Journal Württemberg-Report . tape 1 , no. V / 96 . Merker, Fürstenfeldbruck 1996, ISBN 3-922404-96-0 , p. 80-83 .