Neckar-Odenwald district
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Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ' N , 9 ° 9' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg |
| Administrative region : | Karlsruhe |
| Region : | Rhine-Neckar |
| Administrative headquarters : | Mosbach |
| Area : | 1,126.24 km 2 |
| Residents: | 143,535 (Dec. 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 127 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | MOS, BCH |
| Circle key : | 08 2 25 |
| NUTS : | DE127 |
| Circle structure: | 27 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Neckarelzer Strasse 7 74821 Mosbach |
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| District Administrator : | Achim Brötel ( CDU ) |
| Location of the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg | |
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The Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a district in the administrative district of Karlsruhe in the north of Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Rhein-Neckar Region Association and to the Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region GmbH , which was founded as the legal successor to "Regionalmarketing Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck GmbH". The district office is located in the large district town of Mosbach .
geography
location
The Neckar-Odenwald district has a share in three different natural areas: The low mountain range of the Odenwald , the highest elevation of which, the Katzenbuckel (626.8 m), lies on the western boundary of the district ( Waldbrunn municipality ), the building land adjoining it to the south and the Neckar valley , which geologically cuts through the western district of Heilbronn coming to the north. Shortly after leaving the district, the river continues to flow west in the direction of Heidelberg / Mannheim, where it flows into the Rhine in Mannheim .
From a geological point of view, the Odenwald does not form a unit. It is divided into the Crystalline Odenwald, also called the Vorderer Odenwald, and the Buntsandstein-Odenwald, which takes up the much larger area. The red sandstone can be found in all historical buildings from Heidelberg via Amorbach to Miltenberg . The Neckar Valley, which separates the Little Odenwald from the rest of the Odenwald, is a defining feature of the Buntsandstein Mountains.
The landscape of the building land in the southeast is characterized by shell limestone formations . Since the farmers settled there earlier, this area is less forested.
The largest occurrence of basalt can be found on Katzenbuckel. Its mountain top is a volcanic hardy , the remnant of a no longer active volcano.
Neighboring areas
The Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis borders in a clockwise direction in the northwest with the Odenwaldkreis (in Hesse ), the Miltenberg district (in Bavaria ) and the Main-Tauber-Kreis , Hohenlohekreis , Heilbronn and Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (all in Baden-Württemberg).
history
The Neckar-Odenwald district was created by the district reform in Baden-Württemberg on January 1, 1973 . At that time, most of the communities in the districts of Buchen and Mosbach were initially united under the new name of the Odenwaldkreis . Some communities of the two old districts also came to the neighboring districts of Heilbronn, Hohenlohekreis, Main-Tauber-Kreis and Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. Since there is also an Odenwaldkreis in Hesse (seat in Erbach ), it was renamed Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis on January 1, 1974 .
The local writer Hermann Eris Busse coined the name “ Madonnenländchen ” for the area between the Main , Tauber and Neckar , which is rich in wayside shrines , houses and paths . Especially the district of Buchen, formerly part of the diocese of Mainz , had become a center of Marian veneration through the Counter-Reformation .
The old districts of Buchen and Mosbach go back to the Baden district offices, which were changed several times in the course of history and were transferred to districts in 1936/39. During the district reform in the 1970s, the city of Mosbach was able to gain the seat of the new district for itself. Buchen became the second largest city in the new district.
After the community reform has been completed, the Neckar-Odenwald district still comprises 27 communities, including six cities (including Mosbach as the major district town and largest city in the district). Zwingenberg am Neckar is the smallest municipality in the Neckar-Odenwald district.
Population development
The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).
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politics
The district is administered by the district administrator.
District council
The district council of the Neckar-Odenwald district has 42 seats, and there are often compensatory seats. The members are elected by the electorate in the district for five years, each time at the same time as the municipal council elections. After the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the district council has 50 members (8 compensation seats); Overall, the election led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):
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| Party / group of voters | be right | Seats | ||
| CDU | 35.3% (−7.9) | 17 (−3) | ||
| FW | 21.7% (+1.2) | 11 (+2) | ||
| SPD | 19.7% (−5.0) | 10 (−1) | ||
| Green | 12.6% (+2.6) | 7 (+2) | ||
| AfD | 6.7% (+6.7) | 3 (+3) | ||
| FDP | 3.0% (+1.4) | 1 (± 0) | ||
| DCB * | 1.1% (+1.1) | 1 (+1) | ||
* DCB: Democratic Christian Citizens Walldürn.
The turnout was 59.8% (+7.7).
District Administrator
The district councilor is elected by the district council for a term of eight years. This is the legal representative and representative of the district as well as chairman of the district council and its committees. He heads the district office and is an official of the district. His area of responsibility includes the preparation of the district council meetings and its committees. He calls meetings, chairs them and implements the resolutions passed there. He has no voting rights in the committees . The district administrator may only vote in preliminary discussions in decision-making committees. His deputy is the first state official.
The district administrators of the Neckar-Odenwald district since 1973:
- 1973–1981: Hugo Geisert
- 1981–1997: Gerhard Pfreundschuh
- 1997–2005: Detlef Piepenburg (independent)
- since 2005: Achim Brötel (CDU)
coat of arms
Blazon : split: front silver and blue diagonally roughened, rear a six-spoke silver wheel in red (coat of arms awarded November 5, 1975)
Meaning: The coats of arms are the Mainz wheel of the former prince-bishopric of Mainz and the Palatinate rhombuses. These gentlemen shared the predominant district area until the beginning of the 19th century, before it fell to Baden.
District partnerships
In 1991, the Neckar-Odenwald district established a partnership with the then Löbau district, which was later merged into the Löbau-Zittau district. Today the district partnership with the district of Görlitz , which was founded after a further administrative reform, continues. Since 1997 there has been another district partnership with Vas County in Hungary .
Economy and Infrastructure
facts and figures
Income, statistically speaking
The annual income per inhabitant is statistically 16,929 euros (2004, resulted in an average of approx. 1,400 per month). In the neighboring Rhein-Neckar-Kreis at 19,347 euros. The Baden-Württemberg average is 19,233 euros.
(Figures from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office)
Land use
The following overview of areas shows that the landscape of the Neckar-Odenwald district is predominantly shaped by forest and agriculture:
| Type of use | Area in ha | Area in% |
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| Settlement and traffic areas | 12,061 | 10.71 |
| Agricultural area | 51,669 | 45.88 |
| Forest area | 47,443 | 42.12 |
| Water surface | 761 | 0.68 |
| Other types of use | 658 | 0.58 |
| Total floor area | 112,625 | 100.00 |
Established businesses
The business location Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis offers a total of around 40,000 jobs. In addition to the Bundeswehr in Hardheim, Neckarzimmern and Walldürn, the largest employers in the Neckar-Odenwald district include:
- The Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach with a total of around 2600 employees looks after and accompanies around 3200 people with disabilities at more than 30 locations in various Baden cities and communities. The various offers concentrate on the Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach and the Schwarzacher Hof.
- The district office of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis has grown to around 900 employees after the administrative reform on January 1, 2005 and is thus also one of the largest employers in the district.
- The Braun factory (foil razors, epilators and IR ear thermometers) in Walldürn serves as a production facility for the company's entire shaving area and employs around 1100 people.
Other global companies such as Getrag (Getriebebau, Rosenberg ), Honeywell International (Armaturen, Mosbach ), Fibro ( Normalien , Haßmersheim ) have locations in the Neckar-Odenwald district. The fruit juice manufacturer Erwin Dietz GmbH (brand: Dietz Fruchtsafts) with production, warehouse and administration in Osterburken is one of the largest beverage manufacturers in Germany under the Karlsberg group .
Medium-sized companies, which are often world market leaders in their field, are particularly well represented: Companies such as AZO GmbH (automated feed systems for raw material handling) and Bleichert (conveyor systems) in Osterburken, the Gustav Eirich machine factory and Grammer Interior Components GmbH in Hardheim , Mosca (packaging machines) in Waldbrunn , KWM Weishaar (sheet metal processing for the printing machine and computer industry, air conditioning and clean room technology, automotive industry, machine and rail vehicle construction) and MAG Hüller Hille in Mosbach and Scheuermann & Heilig GmbH (precision parts in the areas of Spring, stamping, bending and assembly technology) in Buchen are also among the largest employers in the district, each with several hundred employees.
Intermunicipal business parks
Four intermunicipal commercial areas in the Neckar-Odenwald district offer over 130 hectares of generous commercial space for industry, service providers and craftsmen - the Regional Industrial Park Osterburken (RIO), the Association Industrial Park Walldürn (VIP), the Intermunicipal Industrial Park Odenwald bei Buchen (IGO) and the Intermunicipal industrial park Elz-Neckar in Obrigheim (TECH.NO).
The business development agency of the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis (WiNO) advises, promotes and supports in all matters of settlement or business expansion. The WiNO is supported by the district.
media
Local editions ( Mosbacher Nachrichten and Nordbadische Nachrichten in the Buchen area) of the Heidelberg-based Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) and the local edition of Buchen / Walldürn of the Franconian News (FN) appear as daily newspapers in the Neckar-Odenwald district . RNZ offices can be found in Mosbach, Buchen and Walldürn. Since June 1, 2006, all local editions of the RNZ are also available as e-paper editions. The Franconian News offices in the Neckar-Odenwald district are located in Buchen and Walldürn.
Since November 2009 Nokzeit - a privately and voluntarily operated internet newspaper - has been reporting from the Neckar-Odenwald district and the neighboring areas.
The Südwestrundfunk (SWR) maintains at locations Book and Mosbach a correspondent office, which is summarized for Odenwald office. A correspondent reports on the country and its people - not only on SWR 4 Kurpfalz Radio.
In Donebach the operation Media Broadcast GmbH to Sender Donebach , a long-wave transmitter , formerly the nationwide spread of the Germany radio to 153 kHz. The two transmission towers were the second tallest structures in Germany after the Berlin television tower . Broadcasting ceased on December 31, 2014. The towers were blown up on March 2, 2018.
The district media centers in Mosbach and Buchen give teachers and multipliers (schools, kindergartens, churches and associations) traditional media such as 16 mm films, slides and videos as well as electronic media such as B. DVD films and CD-ROMs. The Neckar-Odenwald district is responsible for the district media centers.
traffic
Road traffic
The district area is only touched at the extreme southeast by the A 81 Stuttgart –Würzburg, through which the district is integrated into the European road network. Otherwise, the following federal roads and several state and district roads open up the district area.
- B27 Heilbronn - Mosbach - Tauberbischofsheim
- B37 Heidelberg - Mosbach
- B47 Walldürn - Amorbach - Erbach
- B292 Sinsheim - Mosbach - Osterburken
Rail transport and public transport
The Neckar-Odenwald district is within the scope of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). When using the buses and trains used in local public transport, the tariff regulations of the VRN apply. In the transition area to the neighboring districts of Heilbronn and Hohenlohekreis , the tariff regulations of the Heilbronner-Hohenloher-Haller local transport network are recognized.
The timetable offered in line and rail traffic is supplemented by a call taxi service set up by the Neckar-Odenwald district .
Important railway junctions in the district are Mosbach- Neckarelz , Seckach and Osterburken . The S1 line of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn has been running hourly from Homburg via the Neckar Valley Railway and the Neckarelz – Osterburken line via Heidelberg, Neckarelz and Seckach to Osterburken since 2003 . From Osterburken there is a connection to Würzburg and Stuttgart via the Frankenbahn .
In Seckach, the Seckach – Miltenberg railway connects , which leads via Buchen and Walldürn to Miltenberg in Bavaria . As a southern extension of the Neckar Valley Railway from Mosbach-Neckarelz, the Bad Friedrichshall Hauptbahnhof railway junction is also reached.
From 1862, the Neckar-Odenwald district was initially crossed as an east-west connection by the Odenwaldbahn of the Baden State Railway from Heidelberg via Meckesheim and Neckarelz to Mosbach, which was continued in 1866 via Osterburken in the direction of Würzburg. From the southwest in the direction of Heilbronn, the Württemberg State Railroad also reached Osterburken station in 1869 via the Untere Jagstbahn . The route along the Neckar was only used by the Badische Staatsbahn from 1879 onwards through the Neckargemünd –Neckarelz – Jagstfeld line, as Hessian territory also had to be traveled along the Neckar.
Buchen and Walldürn received a connection from Seckach in 1887 by the Madonnenlandbahn, which was extended to Miltenberg in Bavaria in 1899. In 1911 there was also the Walldürn – Hardheim junction . In 1905, a narrow-gauge railway from Mosbach to Mudau was built in the Odenwald by the Grand Duchy of Baden, the so-called Odenwald Express . However, this was operated by the Vering & Waechter company for decades until the Deutsche Reichsbahn took its place in 1931 . Vering & Waechter also put the Schefflenz Valley Railway between Oberschefflenz and Billigheim into operation in 1908 . The community of Hüffenhardt is the end point of the Krebsbachtalbahn from Neckarbischofsheim, which was created in 1902 by the Badische Lokal-Eisenbahnen AG and which has been without regular traffic since August 2009.
60 kilometers of railway line were shut down for passenger traffic:
- 1945: Obrigheim – Neckarelz (5 km)
- 1954: Walldürn – Hardheim (10 km)
- 1965: Oberschefflenz – Billigheim (9 km)
- 1971: Aglasterhausen – Obrigheim (8 km)
- 1973: Mosbach – Mudau (28 km in meter gauge)
- 2009: Neckarbischofsheim – Hüffenhardt (1 km)
99 kilometers are still in operation.
tourism
All towns and communities in the Neckar-Odenwald district are members of the Touristikgemeinschaft Odenwald e. V. (TGO) , which has its seat in the district office in Mosbach.
Accommodation:
The Neckar-Odenwald district offers almost 5500 accommodations in a wide variety of accommodation facilities. In addition to the around 80 conventional hotels , inns and guest houses, there are a total of 193 holiday homes on an area of 16 hectares in the Waldbrunn holiday village directly on the Katzenbuckel . In addition to cultural and wellness offers, a farm holiday is also possible in the Odenwald holiday region. The youth hostels in Mosbach- Neckarelz and Walldürn offer accommodation for 140 and 102 guests respectively. The eight camping and mobile home pitches offer a vacation in the great outdoors for up to 1500 people .
Health facilities
Basic medical care in the Neckar-Odenwald district is provided by the Neckar-Odenwald clinics , the Hardheim hospital and the St. Josef Walldürn geriatric center . The Neckar-Odenwald-Kliniken comprise the health facilities that are sponsored by the Neckar-Odenwald district. Specifically, these are the district hospitals in Buchen and Mosbach, which were previously managed as a regional hospital, the geriatric rehabilitation facility Mosbach and the Hüffenhardt district retirement home. On July 11, 2007, these institutions were reorganized and merged into a non-profit GmbH. Neckar-Odenwald-Kliniken gGmbH continues to be wholly owned by the district. The Hardheim hospital and the St. Josef geriatric center are operated by a hospital association to which Hardheim, Höpfingen, Walldürn and the neighboring Main-Tauber district of Königheim and Külsheim belong. Emergency care is ensured by the DRK Kreisverband Mosbach eV and the Malteser Aid Service . Ambulance stations manned around the clock in Buchen (Odenwald) , Hardheim , Osterburken , Mosbach and Obrigheim-Mörtelstein, as well as an ambulance station in Oberneudorf that is manned during the day during the week ensure the legally stipulated assistance period of 15 minutes. The emergency rescue in the district is supplemented by numerous on-site helpers from the DRK district associations Buchen and Mosbach.
Senior facilities
The Neckar-Odenwald district has a wide range of options for all interests, needs and situations of senior citizens.
The senior citizen's guide , which is mainly available from the district office, the municipal administrations and the welfare associations, offers valuable information and names important contacts in the following areas:
- Types of housing, housing offers and housing advice
- general social and nursing advice
- medical and therapeutic care
- outpatient, social, nursing, domestic and supplementary services and care offers
- Partly inpatient and inpatient offers (day care, short-term care, nursing homes), also for special target groups and forms of illness
- Civic engagement, associations, self-help groups and interest groups
- Education, culture, activities and sports
Providers are non-profit associations, municipalities, churches, independent charitable organizations and private service providers. There are currently around 80 senior citizens' associations, around 40 self-help groups, twelve outpatient care services, four day care groups for dementia patients, six outpatient hospice groups, 16 “supervised” residential complexes, two day care facilities, 30 nursing homes (with integrated short-term care) in the Neckar-Odenwald district within the geriatric care group. three hospitals, two psychiatric specialist clinics, two geriatric rehabilitation facilities as well as a comprehensive network of advice centers, doctors and therapists.
Educational institutions
schools
Primary and secondary schools are on site in all cities and almost in all communities in the Neckar-Odenwald district. In the central towns of Mosbach and Buchen there are several primary and secondary schools, which therefore also have a proper name. In Mosbach these are the Wilhelm-Stern, the Kurfürstin-Amalia and the Waldsteige elementary schools, as well as the Lohrtalschule and the Müller-Guttenbrunn school as elementary and secondary schools. The Wimpina and Jakob Mayer primary schools as well as the Karl Trunzer secondary schools are located in Buchen.
Realschulen can be found in Buchen (Abt-Bessel-Realschule), Hardheim (Walter-Hohmann-Realschule), Mosbach (Pestalozzi-Realschule), Obrigheim, Osterburken and Walldürn (Konrad-von-Dürn-Realschule). Most of the secondary schools are also affiliated with Werkrealschulen.
High schools as secondary schools can be attended at five locations in the Neckar-Odenwald district. General education high schools are the Auguste-Pattberg-Gymnasium and the Nicolaus-Kistner-Gymnasium Mosbach , the Burghardt-Gymnasium in Buchen, the Eckenberg-Gymnasium in Adelsheim and the all-day high school in Osterburken . The technical college entrance qualification or the general university entrance qualification ( Abitur ) can also be obtained at the biotechnical (BTG) and nutritional (EG) grammar school of the Augusta-Bender-Schule Mosbach, the technical grammar school of the central trade school Buchen or the district trade school Mosbach, at the economic grammar school of Ludwig -Erhard-Schule in Mosbach and the Frankenlandschule in Walldürn , as well as at the social science high school of the home economics school in Buchen.
Private schools for educational assistance in Walldürn (Nardini School) and Seckach (St. Bernhard School) with primary, secondary and special schools complement the range of schools in the Neckar-Odenwald district. There are also the private special needs education and advice centers of the Johannes-Diakonie in Mosbach:
- Johannesbergschule Mosbach (special focus on mental development and physical and motor development),
- School kindergarten "Kleckse" in Mosbach (with outside groups) for mentally handicapped or physically handicapped children,
- Klinikschule Mosbach (child and adolescent psychiatry) at the Diakonie-Klinik Mosbach (for students in long hospital treatment),
- Schwarzbachschule in Schwarzach (specialization focus on mental development, physical and motor development and emotional and social development)
- School kindergarten "Vogelnest" in Schwarzach (with outside groups) for mentally handicapped or physically handicapped children
Special education and advice centers with a focus on learning have been set up in Aglasterhausen (Gebrüder-Grimm-Schule), Buchen (Meister-Eckehart-Schule), Osterburken (Astrid-Lindgren-Schule) for pupils who for various reasons cannot learn so quickly. and set up in Mosbach (Hardberg School).
The Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is responsible for the all-day high school in Osterburken and the following vocational schools :
- District Trade School Mosbach,
- Ludwig-Erhard-Schule (commercial school) Mosbach,
- Augusta-Bender-Schule (agricultural, social and home economics school) Mosbach,
- Central Trade School Buchen,
- Housekeeping School Buchen,
- District Agriculture School Buchen,
- Frankenlandschule (commercial school) in Walldürn ,
and the following special education and advice centers:
- School for the Language Disabled Buchen,
- Alois-Wißmann-Schule Buchen (special focus on intellectual development),
- Schulkindergarten dandelion for mentally, physically and speech-impaired children in Buchen.
Cooperative State University
The Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mosbach is located in Mosbach with a branch in Bad Mergentheim. In a dual course of study , in which half is trained by the university and half by a company in business, numerous courses in the fields of business and technology are offered. You can also take courses that are internationally oriented from the outset. The degrees Bachelor of Engineering in the field of technology, Bachelor of Arts in the field of economics and Bachelor of Science in the field of computer science-oriented courses can be obtained.
Music schools
The music schools Mosbach , Buchen , Walldürn and Hardheim offer a wide range of lessons from early musical education to individual and group lessons for pupils, young people and adults.
Adult education
Adult education in Neckar-Odenwald is mainly through the community colleges maintained Mosbach and Book. They offer a variety of courses and seminars from all areas of life and education, from hobbies to professional qualifications. The Volkshochschule Mosbach, in cooperation with the Pestalozzi Realschule Mosbach, regularly offers an evening school. The adult education centers are financially supported primarily by the communities and the Neckar-Odenwald district.
In addition, the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs has bundled other inter-company and public courses and courses from regional training providers in the Neckar-Odenwald district in the Fit through training program .
Sports and leisure facilities
The Neckar-Odenwald district offers numerous sports and leisure opportunities in a natural atmosphere. Tourism has developed into an important pillar of the economy. In order to bundle, improve and further expand the offers, the district founded the Odenwald Tourism Association (TGO) in 1998. In addition to the communities in the Neckar-Odenwald district, the TGO also includes towns and communities in the neighboring districts (Heilbronn, Rhein-Neckar and Bergstrasse), as well as the Neckar-Odenwald hotel and restaurant association and the holiday on the farm community .
Campsites
Whether in the middle of the idyllic Odenwald valley or directly on the Neckar - there are campsites in Binau (Fortuna Camping am Neckar), Obrigheim (Waldcamping Germania), Neckargerach (To the old ferry), Limbach-Krumbach (Odenwald-Camping Grimm OHG) and in Neckarzimmern ( Cimbria M. Gerz) as well as RV parking spaces in Mosbach, Neunkirchen, Schwarzach and Walldürn are available.
Golf courses
Embedded in forest and meadows, three golf courses were built in the charming Neckar-Odenwald district in Mudau (1993 - Mudau Golf Club, 92 ha), Ravenstein (1997 - Kaiserhöhe Golf Club, 112 ha) and near Walldürn (1987 - Golf Club Glashofen-Neusaß, 86 ha)
In addition to an 18-hole course , each golf course offers a short course , a covered driving range , putting green, practice bunker and a clubhouse with catering.
High ropes courses
The high ropes courses on the forest grounds in Walldürn-Rippberg (Forest Jump) and in Mudau-Steinbach (Eventure Park) are a combination of natural rope courses, in which the exercises are carried out between living trees, and freely constructed facilities. In addition to the experienced nature, it is about valuable experiences with regard to teamwork, communication, cooperation, social skills, self-confidence, borderline experiences, creative problem solving and of course a lot of fun.
Game parks and animal enclosures
The Schwarzach Wildlife Park is part of the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park and the UNESCO Geopark. The wildlife park is home to around 400 exotic and native animals on an area of around five hectares. Whether admiring the numerous young animals, feeding the animals, taking a ride on the small park train or playing in the large playground - a stay in the wildlife park is an interesting experience for children.
The gryphon station at Guttenberg Castle in Neckarmühlbach shows flight demonstrations of free-flying owls, eagles and vultures. In the Geierhof, the Eulengraben and the Adlerring, around 100 birds of prey and owls can be admired up close. The free tethering, without annoying bars, enables unusual eye contact with the birds.
Other animal and game enclosures can be found in Walldürn in the Marsbachtal, in the Hasenwald in Hettingen, in Mudau-Hesselbach, in Neckargerach and in Binau.
Teaching and adventure trails
The Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park e. V. has created a total of 40 teaching and adventure trails with different topics and direct encounters with nature in cooperation with the nature park communities and the forest authorities.
To find a geological nature trail in Waldbrunn . The path of the crystals begins in the former quarry at Katzenbuckelsee, explaining the history of the Katzenbuckel .
The forest educational trails in Adelsheim , Buchen , Eberstadt , Fahrenbach , Hettigenbeuern , Hettingen , Mosbach , Neckargerach , Rosenberg , Waldbrunn, Waldkatzenbach and Walldürn provide an insight into the diverse structure of relationships in the forest community . On the circular hikes, display boards provide information about the tree species of the local forest, the hidden world of the forest floor, the nocturnal life of the forest, the fungi and microorganisms and the complex interrelationships of the forest ecosystem .
The educational wine trail in Neckarzimmern illustrates the long tradition of viticulture in the Neckar Valley and provides an overview of the diverse grape varieties that are grown.
Bach educational trails along the Seckach in Seckach -Zimmern and through the Trienzbachtal in Elztal -Dallau explain the habitat in the brook and on the brook bank. An Archimedean screw and other stations are part of the interactive offer on the educational trail in rooms.
The agricultural nature trails in Hüffenhardt-Kälbertshausen and between Neckarzimmern and Mosbach- Neckarelz provide information on natural, biological, animal and plant ecological areas. The Binau apple orchard and the fruit tree path in Seckach-Großeicholzheim present many apple varieties typical of the region as well as the variety of local fruit varieties from apple, pear, plum and cherry trees.
The Limes nature trail north of Walldürn accompanies the Upper Germanic Limes for 2.2 km. Following in the footsteps of the Romans, history boards about the time of the Romans in the Odenwald, the foundations of the Steinernes Haus watchtower and the partial reconstruction of a palisade can be viewed . Numerous remains of the Limes complex and the forts in Schloßau and Scheidental can also be seen on the Limes nature trail in Mudau , where today's Odenwald Limes partially runs.
Airfields
In the Neckar-Odenwald district there are various ways to soar into the air.
The Walldürn airfield is classified as a commercial airfield and is operated by the Flugsportclub Odenwald Walldürn , Bau- und Betriebs GmbH Flugplatz Walldürn .
The Mosbach-Lohrbach airfield is also classified as a commercial airfield and is operated by Sigmund Flugtechnik . Here you can take off with a helicopter , motor glider , glider , balloon , microlight or motorized paraglider .
The Schreckhof airfield on the Hamberg is divided into two different levels. The upper landing field is diagonally to the runway on the upper plateau, it is mainly used for motor glider operation. Landing is via the lower forest. Glider operations take place on the lower landing field. The airfield is operated by Fliegergruppe Mosbach e. V. operated.
The airfield in Osterburken (district Schlierstadt) is used exclusively for parachuting . Here you can learn to parachute or simply enjoy a tandem jump. Two Cessna planes bring the parachutists to a dropping height of up to 4,000 meters.
Adventon Histotainment Park
In addition to the former Hofgut Marienhöhe of the Prince of Leiningen with its manor house, fountain house and machine hall, a medieval town, the Histotainment Park Adventon, has been under construction in Osterburken since 2004 . On more than 40 hectares, a museum park with a medieval market, children's festival, festival of minstrels, archery tournament, jousting games, workshops, Germany's first fair for reenactment and histotainment , and much more will be created with the means of experimental archeology . built. Medieval handicrafts and fighting techniques with sword, shield and long stick can be learned in courses. Events with additional themed highlights take place on all weekends and public holidays from April to October.
Authorities and courts
The district office of the Neckar-Odenwald district is based in Mosbach with a branch in Buchen. A regional court as well as the public prosecutor's office and a police headquarters are located in Mosbach . Local courts are located in Adelsheim , Buchen and Mosbach , which belong to the district of Mosbach. A total of eight notaries' offices belong to the regional judicial district . Five of them are located in the Neckar-Odenwald district with Adelsheim, Aglasterhausen, Buchen, Mosbach and Walldürn.
The correctional facility in Adelsheim for male juvenile prisoners was rebuilt in 1974. In 1979 the court prison in Mosbach was added as a branch of the prison.
Offices of the Federal Employment Agency Tauberbischofsheim are located in Mosbach and Buchen, which are run as part of a working group with the Neckar-Odenwald district (Neckar-Odenwald working group - NOA for short).
The tax office is based in Mosbach with a branch in Walldürn.
armed forces
The Bundeswehr is an important economic factor in the Neckar-Odenwald district and, together with the Johannes-Diakonie and the district, is one of the largest employers. The Bundeswehr locations are Hardheim , Neckarzimmern and Walldürn .
Hardheim has been a garrison parish since 1966 with interruptions . At the Carl-Schurz-Kaserne , among other things, the anti-tank gun battalion 12, the 3rd repair battalion 12 and the drone battery 12, the light anti-aircraft missile battery 300, the medical center, a material store and parts of the Bundeswehr service center in Ellwangen were stationed. On October 26, 2011, it became known that the site will be closed as part of the Bundeswehr structural reform. Once in the spring of 2016, the last soldiers had left the Carl Schurz barracks and the building in the meantime as a reception center used for Refugees, four buildings by the army for a time since October 2017 special unit in company strength of the in Calw -based Special Forces Command used (KSK). This makes the barracks in Hardheim the only Bundeswehr location in Germany whose closure announced in 2011 has been at least partially reversed.
The Nibelungen barracks in Walldürn is home to the 461 logistics battalion. Parts of the Ellwangen site administration are also located there. An ammunition depot is located in the Altheim district . This will also be closed in 2017.
In Neckarzimmern there is a training workshop of the SKB (ZusatzWkst) and the Air Force Maintenance Group 11. According to a decision by the Federal Ministry of Defense , the Air Force Maintenance Group 11 is expected to be dissolved in 2009 and relocated to Erding and Landsberg . There is a close cooperation between the ZusatzWkst and the District Trade School Mosbach (GSM). That is why Mosbach is one of the locations nationwide where the profession of electronics technician for devices and systems specializing in radio technology is trained. A branch of the Bundeswehr Service Center in Bruchsal has been set up in Neckarzimmern .
Arts and Culture
limes
The Neckar-Odenwald district is crossed by two Roman Limes - the Neckar-Odenwald-Limes and the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes . Both run from north to south and from both well restored remains of forts , watchtowers, entrenchments, settlements and Roman roads have been preserved. The Neckar-Odenwald-Limes lies to the west and cuts through the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park from Mudau-Schloßau to Mosbach-Bergfeld. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes touches the Neckar-Odenwald district northeast of Walldürn and extends in the Neckar-Odenwald district to Osterburken. It was established in 2005 as an archaeological monument for UNESCO - World Heritage declared. The Limes nature trail north of Walldürn and the Römermuseum Osterburken , a branch museum of the Archaeological State Museum of Baden-Württemberg, are particularly worth seeing on the Upper German-Raetian Limes .
Castles and Palaces
The Burgenstrasse , one of the most traditional holiday routes in Germany , leads through the Neckar Valley past the following castles and palaces in the Neckar-Odenwald district:
- Zwingenberg Castle (Zwingenberg)
- Guttenberg Castle (Haßmersheim-Neckarmühlbach)
- Hornberg Castle (Neckarzimmern)
- Minneburg (Neckargerach)
- Dauchstein Castle (Binau)
The following castles and palaces are available in the Neckar-Odenwald district off the Burgenstrasse:
- Lohrbach Castle (Mosbach-Lohrbach)
- Schweinberg castle ruins (Hardheim)
- Hardheim Castle
- Neuburg Castle (Obrigheim)
- Waldleiningen Castle (Mudau)
Museums
To preserve the cultural heritage, there are approx. 40 museums, parlors and other collections. As one of two districts in Baden-Württemberg, the Neckar-Odenwald district employs a museum officer as a contact and consultant. The Odenwald open-air museum in Gottersdorf is particularly significant beyond the region. A common " museum guide " for the Odenwald circuits (Neckar-Odenwald, Odenwald , Miltenberg ) contains a variety of local museums with the presentation of various living, working and professional areas. The history of the Roman border wall " Limes " is also interestingly presented on the basis of locally available excavations and relics in the Osterburken and Elztal-Neckarburken museums.
Concentration camp memorial
The concentration camp memorial in Mosbach-Neckarelz in the Comenius special needs school, together with the history trail “Goldfisch”, provides impressions of the everyday life of the concentration camp prisoners and slave laborers who were used in the underground armaments production at Neckarelz.
art
- Sculpture park in Seckach
- Sculpture cycle path building land-Odenwald
- Art Association Neckar-Odenwald
theatre
The Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal (BLB) with its venues in Buchen, Hardheim, Mosbach, Mudau, Osterburken and Walldürn offers the most extensive range of theaters in the Neckar-Odenwald district .
Regular events
Culture days
Every year the district's own culture days - the Neckar-Odenwald Days - are held alternately in the various cities and communities. The Neckar-Odenwald-Days take place from the end of September to the beginning of October.
With the six themed events Historikertag, Kreisseniorentag, women's event, children and youth day, health day and district harvest festival, very different groups of people are addressed.
Neckar and Elz live
The "Neckar and Elz live" is a regional consumer and business fair on the measuring site in Mosbach-Neckarelz. The fair has been held annually in April on four days since 1998. Around 160 exhibitors from a wide range of industries are represented on the approximately 7,500 m² site.
Mobile, of course
As part of the day of action in Baden-Württemberg "Mobile without a car", "Naturally Mobile" has been taking place in the Neckar Valley every year since 1999 on the third Sunday in June on one of the longest blocked routes (34 km) in Baden-Württemberg. On this day, the B 27 between Mosbach and Heilbronn will be closed to car traffic. Visitors can alternatively cover the route by bike, inline skates, bus, train or ship. The districts, municipalities, general local health insurance funds (AOK) and the local clubs and companies are organizing a varied program with games, fun and sport for the whole family along the route.
Book shooting market
The Buchener Schützenmarkt is the traditional folk festival of the entire region. It takes place every year in the first week of September as a major sales and entertainment market. The Schützenmarkt is organized by the oldest Buchen club, the Schützenverein, which was founded in 1822 as a civil guard .
Spring Festival Mosbach
The Spring Festival in Mosbach has been held annually on Mother's Day weekend since 1974 and has now achieved traditional status. In addition to a large fleet of showmen and women, the streets and alleys of the city center are bustling with life. The traders set up stands in front of their shops, the restaurateurs and associations serve visitors with a wide variety of delicacies. The market square has established itself as a fairground. The show stage set up there is available for various performances by regional and national bands. The spring festival is organized and marketed by the Mosbach Aktiv e. V.
cities and communes
(Residents on December 31, 2018)
Agreed administrative communities and municipal administration associations
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License Plate
On January 1, 1973, the Odenwald district of Baden-Württemberg (now Neckar-Odenwald district) was assigned the MOS distinctive sign , which has been valid since July 1, 1956 for the Mosbach district. It is still issued today.
Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old district of Buchen received license plates with the letter pairs MA (?) To ZZ and the numbers from 1 to 99 as well as with the letter pairs AP to AZ, BP to BZ, CP to CZ, DP to DZ and EP to EZ with the numbers from 100 to 999.
Since February 25, 2013 in connection with the license plate liberalization also the distinguishing sign BCH (Buchen (Odenwald)) available.
literature
- The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg - official description according to districts and municipalities (in eight volumes); Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Department; Volume V: Karlsruhe District; Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 .
- Rudolf Landauer, Reinhart Lochmann: Traces of Jewish Life in the Neckar-Odenwald District , published by the Neckar-Odenwald District District Office, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025363-8 , 200 pages, 284 photos.
- Karl Heinz Neser: Political life in the Neckar-Odenwald district - yesterday and today . Regional culture, Heidelberg 2005, 128 pp.
- Land survey office Ba-Wü: Leisure map of the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park - Mosbach. Scale 1:30 000. F 514, ISBN 3-89021-607-2 , 2005. The connection map to the west (Eberbach to Ludwigshafen) is called: Freizeitkarte Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald - Mannheim-Heidelberg. F 513, ISBN 3-89021-606-4 .
- Roswitha Graefen-Pfeil: Schefflenz, Kunstpark Seckach , ISBN 3-929295-87-3 .
- District archive of the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis (editor): The Romans in the area of the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis - border zone of the Roman Empire . regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-524-8 .
- Gabriele Klempert: Neckar, Odenwald and building land - history and culture in the Neckar-Odenwald district , Langewiesche Verlag , Königstein 2012, 208 pp., 400 fb. Photo, ISBN 978-3-7845-4870-8 .
Web links
- Official website of the Neckar-Odenwald district
- Literature from and about Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Regional Industrial Park Osterburken (RIO)
- ^ Association industrial park (VIP) Walldürn
- ↑ Intermunicipal industrial park Odenwald bei Buchen (IGO)
- ↑ Business Development Corporation of the Neckar-Odenwald District (WiNO) ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ 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. 484 ff .
- ^ Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis: District election 2019, final election result and district election 2014, final election result ; Mannheimer Morgen (morgenweb.de), May 26, 2019: Result of the district council election 2019 in the Neckar-Odenwald district ; accessed July 14, 2019.
- ↑ Survey of land according to type of actual use in 2015
- ^ Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis: Tourism . Online at neckar-odenwald-kreis.de. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
- ↑ DRK restructures the rescue service. Retrieved September 6, 2016 .
- ↑ [1] , accessed on February 9, 2018
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
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