Neckarsulm
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Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ' N , 9 ° 13' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Stuttgart | |
| County : | Heilbronn | |
| Height : | 162 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 24.94 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 26,492 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 1062 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 74172 | |
| Primaries : | 07132, 07139 | |
| License plate : | HN | |
| Community key : | 08 1 25 065 | |
| LOCODE : | DE NEM | |
| NUTS : | DE118 | |
| City structure: | Core city and 3 districts | |
City administration address : |
Marktstrasse 18 74172 Neckarsulm |
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| Lord Mayor : | Steffen Hertwig ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Neckarsulm in the Heilbronn district | ||
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Neckarsulm ( [ nɛkaɐ̯ˈzʊlm ] ) is a city in the north of the state of Baden-Württemberg . Its core city and the neighboring city of Heilbronn represent a continuously built-up area. Neckarsulm takes its name from its location near the confluence of the Sulm and the Neckar . With over 25,000 inhabitants and around 29,500 jobs, Neckarsulm is the largest and economically most important city in the Heilbronn district and a medium-sized center in the Heilbronn-Franconia region and the outer metropolitan region of Stuttgart . Neckarsulm has been a major district town since January 1, 1973 .
Neckarsulm was first mentioned in a document in 771 and received town charter around 1300. In 1484 the city came to the Teutonic Knight Order , which ruled it for over 300 years. The town, which used to be mainly characterized by viticulture , developed into an industrial town in the late 19th century . She became known through the company NSU , which was the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in the world in the mid-1950s and at the same time celebrated great success in motor racing. The NSU tradition is continued by the Neckarsulm Audi plant , which is the largest employer in the city and region with over 14,000 employees. The city is also known for the headquarters of Europe's largest retail group, the Schwarz Group , which operates the grocery stores Lidl and Kaufland .
geography
Geographical location
Neckarsulm is located on the east side of the Neckar , where the Weinsberger Valley, through which the Sulm flows, joins the Neckar Valley. The old town is located south of the Sulm, which rises in the Löwenstein mountains and flows into the Neckar not far from Neckarsulm (in the area of Bad Friedrichshall ). The area is also called Sulmgau after this river . Foothills of the Löwenstein Mountains, which represent the north-western part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains , extend with the Scheuerberg and the Stiftsberg to the east of the Neckarsulm urban area. To the west of the Neckar lies the Obereisesheim district , to the northeast of the city center the Amorbach district, and to the east of it the Dahenfeld district. The lowest point of the Neckarsulm district is in the Neckarwiesen at 150 m above sea level. NHN , the highest in the Dahenfeld city forest at 335 m above sea level. NN . Neckarsulm is part of the four natural areas Neckar Basin , Kraichgau , Hohenloher-Haller Ebene and Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains.
Expansion of the urban area
The Neckarsulm urban area covers 24.94 km², of which 12.39 km² is attributable to Neckarsulm (of which 0.86 km² to Amorbach ), 5.11 km² to Dahenfeld and 7.44 km² to Obereisesheim .
In the years 1988 to 2004 the land use was distributed as follows: (Area information in ha, source: 1988–2004 :)
| Land use by year in ha | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | |||||
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| Section. | rel. | Section. | rel. | Section. | rel. | Section. | rel. | Section. | rel. | |
| Settlement and traffic areas |
808 | 32.4% | 860 | 33.8% | 886 | 35.5% | 898 | 36.0% | 933 | 37.4% |
| Agricultural area | 1,363 | 54.7% | 1.311 | 51.5% | 1,234 | 49.5% | 1,221 | 49.0% | 1,187 | 47.6% |
| Forest area | 289 | 11.6% | 310 | 12.2% | 310 | 12.4% | 311 | 12.5% | 311 | 12.5% |
| Water surface | 34 | 1.4% | 39 | 1.5% | 39 | 1.6% | 39 | 1.6% | 39 | 1.6% |
| Other types of use | - | - | 26th | 1.0% | 25th | 1.0% | 25th | 1.0% | 24 | 0.9% |
| to hum | 2,494 | 100% | 2,546 | 100% | 2,494 | 100% | 2,494 | 100% | 2,494 | 100% |
Area allocation 2014
in a slightly different breakdown:
According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.
Neighboring communities
The following cities and communities border the city of Neckarsulm ( clockwise , starting in the northwest): Bad Wimpfen , Untereisesheim , Bad Friedrichshall , Oedheim , Neuenstadt am Kocher , Eberstadt and Erlenbach (all belonging to the Heilbronn district) and Heilbronn ( urban district ). Neckarsulm has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the municipalities of Erlenbach and Untereisesheim .
City structure
The urban area of Neckarsulm consists of the core city and the districts of Amorbach, Dahenfeld and Obereisesheim . In by the local government reform incorporated the 1970s districts Dahenfeld and Obereisesheim that the status of a village have, there is one at each municipal election of the voting population to be elected Ortschaftsrat with a local chief . These bodies are to be heard on important matters affecting the locality.
In the core city, a distinction is made between the residential areas with their own names such as the Südstadt, Nordstadt, Viktorshöhe, Stiftsberg and the Neuberg residential area in the eastern part of the city, the boundaries of which, however, are usually not defined.
Lost places that no longer exist today are Scheuerberg and Steinach Castle on the Neckarsulm mark, Kirchenbach on the Dahenfeld mark, and Sigehardeshusen on the Obereisesheim mark.
Spatial planning
Neckarsulm forms a middle center within the Heilbronn-Franken region , in which Heilbronn is designated as a regional center . The central Neckarsulm area includes the cities and communities in the northeast of the Heilbronn district, namely Bad Friedrichshall , Erlenbach , Gundelsheim , Hardthausen am Kocher , Jagsthausen , Langenbrettach , Möckmühl , Neudenau , Neuenstadt am Kocher , Oedheim , Offenau , Roigheim , Untereisesheim and Neckarsulm Rams .
history
City history
Prehistory and early history
Archaeological finds such as shards of vessels indicate several settlement cores in the area of today's city as early as the middle of the 6th millennium before our era ( Neolithic ).
In 2001 archaeologists found a burial ground from the Late Bronze Age in Trendpark-Süd (roughly in the area of today's Bechtle area) , which, based on the metal and ceramic finds, dates back to around 1100 BC. It was dated and, according to experts, is unique in Central Europe. A total of 51 adult men are buried in the 33 grave complexes of the burial ground, who, unusually, were not cremated as was customary at the time. Due to the addition of bronze swords in three tombs, the archaeologists concluded that these dead must be warriors who represented the social elite of Late Bronze Age society.
Graves found in the area of today's Binswanger Straße - south of the old city walls - also prove that a Franconian settlement must have existed here as early as the 7th century AD .
First documented mention, history in the Middle Ages
Neckarsulm was first mentioned in writing as villa Sulmana in 771 in a deed of donation from the Lorsch Codex . In this document, a Plidroch and his wife Blitrud bequeath their entire property in this villa Sulmana to the Lorsch monastery .
The village Sulm was initially owned by the Staufer , the lords of the vineyard with the place mortgaged . Around 1212 an Engelhard von Weinsberg - or Engelhard II. - held court under Ulmen von Sulm, which is documented by a document. The lords of the vineyard, it was also that the castle on the Scheuerberg built, which is first detected for the 1264th The origins of the city palace probably go back to the 13th century . Around 1300 the place Sulm received town and market rights , which cannot be directly proven by a document. The approximate date of the town elevation was inferred from two documents issued in 1248 and 1318. The Stat zu Sulme was first mentioned in the document of 1318 . The city wall with at least ten towers and the two city gates probably dates from this time around 1300.
Scheuerberg Castle - as the administrative seat for Neckarsulm and the villages of Erlenbach, Binswangen, Obereisesheim, Oedheim, Kochertürn, Lautenbach and half of Gellmersbach - was pledged to the Archbishopric of Mainz as early as 1331 . In 1335 the Lords of Weinsberg sold Scheuerberg Castle, the city of Sulm and the above-mentioned towns for 22,000 pounds of Heller to the Archbishopric of Mainz, which pledged the place to the Lords of Sickingen from around 1450 to 1483. Around 1400 the lords of Mainz set up a mint on today's market square, east of the old town hall. The chapel in Gewann Steinach - the predecessor of today's Frauenkirche near the old cemetery - was built in the middle to the end of the 15th century .
Neckarsulm under the rule of the Teutonic Order
Finally, in 1484, the town came to the Teutonic Order of Teutonic Knights in exchange for the town with Prozelten Castle from the Archbishopric of Mainz, to which it was then subject until the early 19th century. Neckarsulm belonged to the Deutschordensballei Franconia , which in turn became part of the Franconian Empire from 1500 . The typical colors black and white of the Teutonic Order can still be found today in the city coat of arms with the black cross on a white background and in the city flag and are a reminder of the 300-year membership of the Teutonic Order. In the same year, 1484, the lion fountain was first built on the market square. In 1513 regular school lessons were established in Neckarsulm with the employment of the first Latin teacher.
In the Peasants' War in 1525, angry peasants destroyed the administrative seat of the Teutonic Order Administrator, the castle on the Scheuerberg , mainly because of their unbearable living conditions . This was no longer built up afterwards; the administrative seat of the Teutonic Order was relocated to the city palace, which was also destroyed but then restored. The keep served as a prison. As a punishment for giving Neckarsulm support to the peasants, the city fortifications were razed , but rebuilt in the course of the 16th century, and the rebellious peasants were given strict conditions until 1575, including compulsory work in the construction of the town hall (1544) and large wine press (1567) and the previous building of today's parish church (1575).
There are contradicting information about the Neckarsulm High Court: Probably the court and court were temporarily located both in Neckarsulm itself and - according to the Neckarsulm Order of 1539 - in Erlenbach .
From 1538 various religious assemblies took place in the city palace, in which important religious issues were settled in the presence of Grand Master Walther von Cronberg and later Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling . From 1546 the internal problems of the order receded after Hessian and Saxon troops threatened the territories of the order master, who was loyal to the emperor. The city was occupied by Duke Christoph von Württemberg in 1552 to protect it from Hessian troops and only returned to Schutzbar called Milchling in October 1553. The first written city ordinance also dates from that time, and in 1555 the righteousness of blood ban was passed from the high master of the order to the city councilor appointed by him. Local notability also gained a certain influence in other administrative areas .
In the second half of the 16th century, the entire order met four times in Neckarsulm. In 1572 Heinrich von Bobenhausen was elected high and German master in Neckarsulm, and in 1590 he was ousted there again.
During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Neckarsulm was occupied several times: the Swedes were in the city from 1631 to 1634, 16,000 Bavarian soldiers occupied Neckarsulm in 1644 and French and Weimar troops plundered the city in 1645/46. It was not until 1649 that the last troops withdrew. Two plague epidemics in 1626/1627 and 1635 with more than 600 deaths also decimate the needy population. In the plague year of 1635, the first Capuchins came to the city to support the local priest. During the Peasants 'War and the Thirty Years' War, the Teutonic Order accepted Jews who were, however, expelled from the city in times of peace.
In the course of the 17th century, the name "Neckarsulm", which we are familiar with today, gradually became established for the city, which had always been called "Sulm", "Solme", "Sulmana" or "Villa Sulmana". In front of the gates south of the city, the monastery church and the Capuchin monastery, which today houses the police station, were built between 1660 and 1666 . In 1668 the pilgrimage church on the Steinach (today's Frauenkirche) was expanded. Four hospitals were established in the city by the beginning of the 18th century.
At the beginning of the 18th century, Neckarsulm was reoccupied several times during the Wars of Succession . The new town church of St. Dionysius (1706–1710), the church tower of the town church (1757) and today's old town hall (1782) were also built in this century . The builder of the church tower and the town hall was Franz Häffele (1711–1785), who also built numerous churches in the area, for example the church of St. Remigius in the later district of Dahenfeld.
After the Napoleonic wars , Neckarsulm came to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1805/1806 and from then on was the capital of the newly established Neckarsulm Oberamt .
Viticulture and industrialization (19th and early 20th centuries)
The city's population increased steadily over the course of the 19th century. In order to give space to the growing city, the city fortifications were gradually removed, for example the upper (Heilbronner) gate in 1816 and the lower (Kochendorfer) gate in 1846. In 1847 the higher district court was built in the monastery garden on today's Binswanger Straße. The chief magistrate and poet Wilhelm Ganzhorn lived in this building at Binswanger Strasse 3 on the second floor (see picture under Other facilities ) from 1859 to 1878 .
Neckarsulm was a town shaped by agriculture and viticulture . The Weinbauverein was founded here in 1834 and what is probably Germany's oldest wine cooperative in 1855 . Industrialization began comparatively late in Neckarsulm. Reasons were, among other things, the lack of capital of the population and a lack of initiatives by the city, as it had too little tax income. In 1866, Neckarsulm station was connected to the Württemberg railway network through the opening of the Heilbronn - Jagstfeld section of the Württemberg Northern Railway to the border of the Grand Duchy of Baden . The transport links via rail and the Neckar and the low property prices provided favorable conditions for Neckarsulm's industrialization. The creation of the Neckar harbor (1870), the opening of the Neckar shipyard by Franz Bauhardt (1873) and the chain steamship on the Neckar (from 1877) also contributed to this. From 1880 to 1900, 22 iron river ships were built in Neckarsulm.
The knitting machine factory of Christian Schmidt (1844–1884) , which was relocated from Riedlingen an der Donau to Neckarsulm in 1880, had the largest share in industrialization . The Neckarsulmer Fahrradwerke emerged from it, under whose later world-famous company NSU bicycles , motorcycles and automobiles were produced. NSU was the decisive economic factor for Neckarsulm for over seven decades.
Other companies that followed were the Knapp woodworking company, the Hespeler steam sawmill and the Baldauf tool factory (1898) and, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Julius Spohn companies ( jute processing , 1904) and the Deutsche Ölfeuerungswerke from Heilbronn, which later became the Kolbenschmidt company (1917). In the war year 1917, the "Heimstättengenossenschaft Neckarsulm" was founded to build financially sustainable homes and rental apartments . The first buildings were erected in the same year on the Viktorshöhe north of the old town.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the city was connected to the telephone and gas network, and domestic water pipes were installed. The city had been supplied with electricity since 1913 , and in 1925 the Neckarsulm – Kochendorf section of the Neckar Canal was inaugurated.
The population structure of the city changed due to the influx of foreign workers. In 1898 a local branch of the SPD was established . The Protestant community grew steadily from the middle of the century in the city, which had been traditionally Catholic until then .
National Socialism and World War II
In 1933 there was high unemployment in Neckarsulm. Of the approximately 7,000 inhabitants, around 1,200 made a living from welfare. In the Reichstag elections on March 5, 1933 , the Catholic Center and the SPD remained the strongest force in the local council. After the National Socialists came to power , there were reprisals against the political opponents of the NSDAP . About 30 social democrats, communists and trade unionists were taken into “protective custody” - among them the SPD politician Hermann Greiner - and locked up in the Heuberg concentration camp.
The municipal council was dissolved and newly appointed. Since the other parties were banned, the NSDAP ultimately got a majority. Mayor Johannes Häußler remained in office and was only not recalled because he was supposed to lead the city out of financial and economic misery. Nevertheless, he and others (e.g. chaplain Herrmann Schmid, president of the Catholic youth associations) who did not want to submit to the dictates of the National Socialists, were defamed in the Nazi newspaper Heilbronner Tagblatt . The opposition newspaper Unterländer Volkzeitung , which could not be brought into line with the Nazi press, was temporarily banned at the end of 1933 and then finally at the end of 1934.
During the administrative reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era , the Neckarsulm Office was dissolved in 1938 and its area was incorporated into the Heilbronn district.
The number of unemployed fell from 734 (1932) to five (1937) as a result of employment programs in road and housing construction or on the Neckar Canal Mannheim-Heilbronn (inauguration in 1935). In 1935/1936 barracks were built on Binswanger Strasse and in 1937 the Neckar-Enz position was built under strict secrecy . Already on the night of August 26, 1939, Neckarsulmer conscripts received their drafts; World War II began on September 1st. The two largest factories in Neckarsulm, NSU and Karl Schmidt (1876–1954) (now KSPG), began to produce more and more armaments from 1940. NSU supplied, for example, parts for planes and submarines and the Kettenkrad HK 101. At the end of August 1943, the first bombs fell on Neckarsulm. The companies NSU and Karl Schmid built two underground tunnels at Hungerberg and at the freight yard, in which 3000 and 1500 people respectively found shelter from air raids. On March 1, 1945, the inner city of Neckarsulm was largely destroyed in an air raid by American bombers. At the beginning of April 1945 the US Army advancing from the west fought in the area around Neckarsulm and took the city on April 13, 1945.
New beginning after the Second World War
Since Neckarsulm had become part of the American zone of occupation , the city had belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden since 1945 , which became part of the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.
The Neckarsulmers rebuilt their city until the 1950s. Some historical buildings were restored, such as the parish church , the Teutonic Order Castle and the town hall. In other places, for example in the area of the market square and in the northern part of Marktstrasse (Judengasse), a new cityscape was created by renouncing the reconstruction of the houses.
From May 1, 1953 , a federal model housing estate was built in Amorbacher Feld, northeast of the old town on the road to Neuenstadt am Kocher . This new district of Amorbach , which was primarily intended to provide a new home for displaced persons and commuters, was inaugurated on September 24, 1955. Further residential areas were also built around the city center, such as Linkental (from 1958), Neuberg (from 1960) and Ahornweg (from 1966).
In the mid-1950s, NSU Motorenwerke was the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in the world with a production of just under 350,000 two-wheelers (1955). In 1969, what was then NSU AG and Auto Union GmbH, which was part of the Volkswagen Group and based in Ingolstadt, merged to form Audi NSU Auto Union AG , based in Neckarsulm.
As part of the territorial reform of the 1970s, the municipality of Dahenfeld joined the city of Neckarsulm on May 1st, 1971 and the municipality of Obereisesheim on May 1st, 1972. As a result, the number of inhabitants exceeded the 20,000 mark. The city administration then applied for a major district town , which the Baden-Württemberg state government then decided with effect from January 1, 1973. The first Lord Mayor of Neckarsulm was Erhard Klotz .
In the years 1973 to 1976 the Sulm was cleared from the flood , during which a 2.5 km long dole was built north of the city under the vehicle works and the Neckar Canal. Among other things, this measure contributed to the preservation of jobs at the Audi plants, because the energy crisis and the crisis in the car industry threatened the closure of the Audi NSU plant in 1975, which had already been decided by the VW headquarters in Wolfsburg. The threatened closure was prevented by protests such as the March on Heilbronn , in which around 7,000 people took part in April 1975. The Neckarsulm location could be retained, but around half of the 12,000 employees became unemployed. The inauguration of the Deutschordensplatz and the St. Vinzenz dormitory in the city park, both north of the old town, also took place at this time.
Since 1976, the residential areas have been enlarged mainly through construction activity in the districts of Südstadt, Obereisesheim and Dahenfeld (Im Grund) and on the Neuberg (expansion III and IV). The community and event center "Ballei" was inaugurated in 1979. In 1981 the former NSU casino (west of the old town, near Christian-Schmidt-Platz) was converted for cultural purposes. The city library , the adult education center and a youth center found accommodation there. The old town hall (from 1782 in rococo style ) was expanded from 1983 to 1985 with a modern extension. In 1990, among other things, the development of the industrial area south and the development north of the Ballei began. The brickworks were converted into a social station and the music school was rebuilt . In the same year, the AQUAtoll leisure and fun pool was opened.
During the economic crisis from 1992 to 1996, thousands of jobs were lost, especially at Audi and Kolbenschmidt.
In 1994 the development of the area north of the Ballei was completed with the inauguration of the music school. In preparation for the new industrial area in Stiftsbergstrasse , the barracks - the last US soldiers left the barracks in 1992 - were partially demolished; the last team buildings were demolished in 2007. The Amorbach II district was expanded from 1991 to 1997. The prerequisite was an expansion of the municipal area towards the east, which could be achieved by swapping around 51 hectares of land with Oedheim - the community of Oedheim received an area of the same size as the Dahenfeld marking and 13 Million DM. In Amorbach II, solar energy systems were increasingly used, for example in the biosolar residential complex Eugen-Bolz-Straße and in the construction of a long-term geothermal heat storage system .
The development of the joint industrial area Straßenäcker (together with Erlenbach ) began in 1995. Further new industrial areas were developed: the so-called Trendpark (1995) with the construction of the "glass office tower" from 1997 to 1999 of the companies TDS AG and dsb AG (today dsb GmbH & Co. KG ) and the industrial area Stiftsbergstrasse (1995) with the new building by Lidl & Schwarz (today Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG ). In 1997 the modern Europlex cinema (now Cineplex) opened south of the old town and the south tangent was built. In 2000, the development of the second construction phase in the Amorbach II area began in the Amorbach district.
Numerous companies had settled in the new business parks Trendpark , Stiftsbergstrasse and Straßenäcker from 2001 to 2005 , including the inverter manufacturer KACO new energy . In 2004, Bechtle AG set up shop in the Trendpark Süd industrial park , which was laid out in 2001 . The revitalization concept for the inner city decided in 1998 was implemented in particular with the following steps: the town hall extension (2002), the new building of the city library (today called the media library - the reopening was in July 2004), the redesign of the Marktstrasse as a pedestrian zone (2004/2005 - the inauguration was on 30 April 2005) and the exposure of truss - facades . In September 2005 the new building of the adult education center (with parking garage) was opened on Seestrasse.
On September 30th and October 1st, 2006, the Audi plant in Neckarsulm celebrated the anniversary “100 years of automobile manufacturing in Neckarsulm” with an open house . Before that, in October 2005 one of the last old buildings of the former NSU engine works - the "NSU casino" - had been demolished. It was located on Christian-Schmidt-Platz across from the Audi Forum and had to make way for an SE center (SE = Simultaneous Engineering ), which was inaugurated at the end of March 2007. This also continued the redesign of K 2000 - Gottlieb-Daimler -Strasse and NSU-Strasse west of the city center - into a city boulevard, which had already begun with the construction of the new Audi Forum (opened May 10, 2005) and with the "Customer Center" of KSPG AG (completed in March 2007, see picture for economy).
With over 27,000 inhabitants, Neckarsulm is now the largest city in the Heilbronn district and an economically important city which, in addition to the companies AUDI AG , KSPG Pierburg AG , Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG , Kaufland Stiftung & Co. KG , TDS AG and Bechtle AG, has numerous funds - and small businesses and sees itself as a location for promising production areas and services.
Source (section city history):
Incorporations
The following communities were incorporated into Neckarsulm:
- May 1, 1971: Dahenfeld
- May 1, 1972: Obereisesheim
Population development
Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).
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¹ Census result
² The population growth from 1950 to 1961 is explained by the fact that people settled in the newly built Amorbach district. Of the around 13,000 inhabitants in 1955, around 3,000 lived in Neckarsulm-Amorbach.
Religions
The area of the city of Neckarsulm belonged to the diocese of Würzburg very early on . The Reformation could not prevail, as a result Neckarsulm was a predominantly Catholic city for centuries. After the transition to Württemberg in 1805, the parish was part of the General Vicariate Ellwangen from 1814 before it was assigned to the newly founded Diocese of Rottenburg (today Rottenburg-Stuttgart ) in 1821/1827 . Neckarsulm became the seat of a deanery . The current parishes in the Neckarsulm urban area are the parish of St. Dionysius and the parish of St. Johannes (since 1973) and the parish of St. Remigius Dahenfeld and the parish (since 1960) of Pax Christi Amorbach in the city center. In Obereisesheim there has been a Catholic church (Christ Church) since 1972. The parish members, however, belong to the parish of St. Dionysius Neckarsulm.
Protestants also moved to Neckarsulm in the 19th century. In the beginning they could celebrate their services in the castle chapel, in 1888 the Protestant town church was built. The community has been a member of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg from the start . In 1955, the Heilig-Geist-Kirche was built in the Amorbach district as the second Protestant church in what was then the city. The Martin Luther Church followed. These three parishes belong to the deanery or parish of Neuenstadt am Kocher , whose parish also includes the Protestant parishioners of the Dahenfeld district. Obereisesheim, on the other hand, became Protestant at an early age as it belonged to the Duchy of Württemberg . The parish originally belonged to the Lichtenstern monastery office and in 1807 came to the dean's office or church district Heilbronn , to which it still belongs today.
In addition to the two large churches, there are also congregations of the New Apostolic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses here . There was also a Jewish community here. The Islamic community in Neckarsulm, which has emerged in the last few decades as a result of the influx of migrants from Islamic countries - especially from Turkey - began construction of a mosque in the Rötel industrial park south of the city center in the fourth quarter of 2007 . It is supported by the umbrella organization VIKZ , which represents Sunni Islam.
The Jewish community of Neckarsulm is documented as early as the 13th and 14th centuries. A Sulmer Rabbi Vives and his relatives were among the victims of the Rintfleisch pogrom in 1298, other Sulmer Jews were affected by the plague pogroms in 1349. The Teutonic Order, especially under the Teutonic Order Commander Walther von Cronberg around 1535, was not very favorably disposed towards Jews, so that there is only isolated evidence of Jews from the 16th century. These settled only increasingly during the Thirty Years War, during which a synagogue and a Jewish cemetery are mentioned. In 1625 there were 45 Jewish residents. In 1650 the Jews were expelled from other places with letters of protection because of the peace that had now ruled. The Jewish community remained relatively small and was part of the rabbinate in Kochendorf until 1832, after which it was part of the Lehrensteinsfeld rabbinate . As a result of emigration and emigration, the community rapidly shrank in the late 19th century. The synagogue was sold and converted into a barn. From 1886 to 1933 there were rarely more than 20 Jews living in Neckarsulm. Most families emigrated by 1938. Four Jews were killed during the deportations.
politics
Local council and local councils
In Neckarsulm, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection of a part of town. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . After the last election, the local council in Neckarsulm has 27 members (2014: 26) who hold the title of city councilor . The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.
| Parties and constituencies | % 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 31.05 | 9 | 40.0 | 11 | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 26.29 | 7th | 32.2 | 8th | |
| FW | Free electoral association | 15.19 | 4th | 11.7 | 3 | |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 19.52 | 5 | 13.1 | 3 | |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 4.59 | 1 | 3.0 | 1 | |
| BIG | Alliance for Innovation and Justice | 3.37 | 1 | - | - | |
| total | 100 | 27 | 100 | 26th | ||
| voter turnout | 54.73% | 45.2% | ||||
In the villages and Dahenfeld Obereisesheim there is one at each municipal election to be elected Ortschaftsrat . The local councils have eight members in Dahenfeld and ten in Obereisesheim.
mayor
The city of Neckarsulm was under the bailiffs until 1484 , then the German Order. These appointed officials headed by the city school . The Württemberg city constitution was introduced in the 19th century. Today there is a mayor , elected by the people for eight years , who has held the title of mayor since January 1, 1973, when Neckarsulm was elevated to the status of a major district town .
In the mayoral election in 2008, the incumbent Volker Blust did not run. In the first ballot on July 27, 2008, Joachim Scholz, who was previously mayor of Steinheim an der Murr and who was supported by the CDU, FDP, Free Voters and Greens, was elected as his successor . Scholz received 58.8% of the vote, the SPD candidate Klaus Grabbe, long-time Mayor of Neckarsulm, got 34.2%. Scholz took office at the end of October 2008. Joachim Scholz was not re-elected in the mayoral election in 2016. Steffen Hertwig, supported by the SPD and the Greens, won in the first ballot on September 18, 2016 against the incumbent. Hertwig was installed in office on November 3, 2016.
Schultheiß, Mayor and Lord Mayor
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badges and flags
The blazon of the Neckarsulm coat of arms reads: In silver a continuous black cross with paw ends (Deutschordenskreuz), covered with a gold lily cross, the order cross at the top accompanied by two red rings, the lily cross at the bottom with a red ring . The city colors are black and white.
The Teutonic Cross can first be seen in the city's seals in 1528 , after the Mainz wheel had been depicted in the city's seals since 1374 . The rings are probably derived from the Neipperg coat of arms; German master Reinhard von Neipperg probably introduced the change of coat of arms after he had acquired Neckarsulm in 1484 from the ore monastery of Mainz for the Teutonic Order . Since Reinhard von Neipperg resigned in 1489, the Neckarsulm coat of arms was probably created between 1484 and 1489. The rings were, apparently due to misunderstandings, repeatedly replaced by roses until the 1930s , for example in a seal from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century with four roses in the cross corners. The city determined the current form with the additional lily cross , which is common in the coats of arms of grand masters , at the suggestion of the Baden-Württemberg archives department in 1955. The coat of arms was awarded by the Baden-Württemberg state government on September 26, 1955 and the associated city flag by the Ministry of the Interior on November 14, 1963. Previously, the city colors were black and blue; the origin of this color combination is unknown.
Coat of arms on the lion fountain, original from 1484, reconstruction from 1984
Coat of arms with the Neipperg rings on the castle chapel , from 1487
Coat of arms of the high and German master Georg Hund von Wenkheim an der Große Kelter, from 1567
Seal of the Stadtschultheissenamt Neckarsulm
Town twinning
The town twinning between the southern French town of Carmaux and Neckarsulm was one of the first town twinning agreements between a French and a German town after the Second World War. The initiative came from the International Mayors' Union founded in 1950 by French and German mayors . The aim of these town twinning was and is a reconciliation and understanding between the nations at the municipal level. For his services to this town twinning, the former French mayor Jean Vareilles received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in March 1978 .
Neckarsulm maintains city partnerships with the following cities:
- Carmaux ( France ), since 1958
- Bordighera ( Italy ), since 1963
- Grenchen ( Switzerland ), since 1988
- Zschopau ( Germany ), since 1990
- Budakeszi ( Hungary ), since 1993
Urban policy
In 2006, the city of Neckarsulm won the 2nd prize (after Constance) in the competition "Living in the center - strategies for attractive city and town centers" of the state of Baden-Württemberg. The competition was launched by the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the Association of Building Societies and was under the patronage of Prime Minister Günther Oettinger . Of the 139 cities and municipalities that took part in the competition, 15 were awarded in three categories, with Neckarsulm being recognized for its exemplary overall concept in the “Strategy and Spatial Planning” category. This overall concept, which has been developed as a revitalization concept since 1998 under the leadership of Mayor Klaus Grabbe and successfully implemented in the following years, includes the points already mentioned under city history and half - timbered houses :
- The city center - the market square and Marktstrasse - were closed to through traffic and converted into a pedestrian and shopping zone (2004/2005).
- A number of multi-storey car parks, underground garages and parking lots surround the city center. You can park in these free of charge.
- Neckarsulm can be bypassed extensively on the tangents of the federal state road 27 and the K 2000.
- The “City Outfit Program” restored the plaster and sandstone facades that characterize the cityscape, thus further enhancing the city center.
- Various catering facilities were housed in unused buildings, such as the "Neckarsulmer Brauhaus" in a former department store.
- Shops have been integrated into the newly built public buildings, for example in the town hall extension from 2002 and in the new buildings for the media library (2004) and adult education center (2005) as well as in the reconstructed, former “Zur Rose” inn (2009), which is now the city archive is located.
- The new cultural facilities, such as the media library and adult education center, enhance the living environment in the city center and at the same time make the city center more attractive for shopping and relaxation.
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Gables of the houses at Marktstrasse 21 + 23
Media library (2004)
Town hall extension (2002)
Adult Education Center (2005)
Culture and sights
theatre
In the Ballei event center , which includes a large sports hall (for 1200 people), a cultural hall (for 600 people), bowling alleys and a restaurant, numerous sporting and cultural events, including theater performances, take place in addition to conferences. The term Ballei is intended to remind of the 300-year rule of the Teutonic Order .
Museums
The German Two-Wheeler and NSU Museum in the former Teutonic Order Castle from the 13th century, the symbol of the city, is open all year round and shows objects from the beginnings of the bicycle to racing machines. One focus here is the NSU brand , which later became part of the Audi group. The museum was opened in 1956 and, with around 350 exhibits, is one of the largest historical collections of its kind in Germany. Since 1971, special exhibitions on the subject of two-wheelers or other topics have been organized.
The Neckarsulm local history museum was temporarily housed in the foyer of the NSU casino until 2005. Since the NSU casino was demolished in October 2005, the city of Neckarsulm rebuilt this museum at Urbanstrasse 14 right next to the media library and opposite the Teutonic Order Castle. It was set up under the name Stadtmuseum in a half-timbered house from 1545 on 400 square meters and three floors. Based on a concept by the Stuttgart agency Reinecke New Media, the city's history is told in a lively and interesting way using multimedia . The city of Neckarsulm has invested a total of over 2½ million euros in the renovation of the building and in the design and equipment. After almost two and a half years of construction, the City Museum was open for the first time on January 28, 2007.
Buildings
Historical old city
The historic old town was almost completely destroyed by a bomb attack on March 1, 1945, especially in the northern part. Some of the buildings, such as many half-timbered houses or the “Amorbacher Hof” complex, were not rebuilt. Various alleys disappeared from the cityscape (Judengasse) and the area around the market square was completely redesigned. It is thanks to the will of the people of Neckarsulm to rebuild historically valuable buildings that some of them can now be viewed almost true to the original.
Walls and towers
Neckarsulm's old town was protected by walls that roughly form a rectangle measuring 350 meters (east-west) by 250 meters. This rectangle is divided into two roughly equal areas by Marktstrasse, which runs in a north-south direction. Five of the towers of the city fortifications are still preserved today, one of them only partially. These towers are at the corners of the city walls: on the southeast the so-called Cent- or Diebesturm, on the southwest the keep of the Teutonic Order Castle and not far from there another round tower right behind the former castle chapel. Other towers have been preserved at the northwest (only partially) and northeast corner. Parts of the city walls are also still there, for example on the south side of the old town between Centturm and Marktstrasse and almost completely on the west side, where only a larger piece is missing at the level of Grabenstrasse. Furthermore, a longer section of the northern city wall east of Marktstrasse from the nestor Hotel to the northeast corner tower has been preserved.
The Teutonic Order Castle Neckarsulm is one of the oldest buildings in the city of Neckarsulm. A previous building probably already existed in the 13th century. The Teutonic Order Castle was significantly rebuilt and expanded by the Teutonic Order . The German Two-Wheeler and NSU Museum has been located in the Teutonic Order Castle since 1956. This building complex also includes the former castle chapel (today the wedding room of the registry office of the city of Neckarsulm and the restaurant "Museum Stuben" next to it) and the former castle press (today the Neckarsulm-Gundelsheim winegrowing cooperative ).
Town hall and market square
The Neckarsulm town hall was built by Franz Häffele in 1781/1782 and has a rococo facade. The south-eastern part of the building was destroyed by bombs on March 1, 1945 and restored in its original form from 1946. Between 1983 and 1985 an extension was built along Rathausstrasse. In 2002 the town hall was expanded again to the east.
The market square is a rectangular square about 70 meters (in east-west direction) by 40 meters in size, on the south side of which is the town hall and its extension. In the middle of the market square is the lion fountain, which until 1945 stood in Marktstrasse, north of the town hall. The previous building, which is based on today's fountain, already showed the coat of arms- bearing lion (picture see coat of arms ) on an Ionic column in the middle of a polygonal system with rounded corners. It was built at the beginning of the Teutonic Order in 1484, renovated in 1680, demolished and renewed in 1910 and destroyed in 1945, then rebuilt in 1984.
Numerous events take place on the market square, including: the cultural program “Neckarsulm - this is where the music plays”, the market street festival, the Christmas market or public viewing for the football World Cup.
Former inn "Zur Rose"
Right next to the town hall at Marktstrasse 16 is the former “Zur Rose” inn, one of the oldest buildings in Neckarsulm. This house was built in its current form in 1548 as a half-timbered building over an older, large vaulted cellar. Since it towers over the town hall, it is assumed that it was built by an important client, possibly the Teutonic Order. In 1605 the "Zur Rose" inn was first mentioned in a document and in 1793 a brewery was built here. As a result of renovations in 1967, the historic sandstone facade was destroyed by covering the entire surface with granite slabs. The inn was given up in 1983 and the house was used by a shop. After the city of Neckarsulm bought this building in 2002, it was completely reconstructed between December 2006 and March 2009 at a cost of 3½ million euros. The architect was Roland Meister, co-owner of the Meister + Wittich office and partner from Stuttgart. By restoring the sandstone facade, it retained its original character. The building is used by a shop on the ground floor. Since the opening in May 2009, the city archive has been located on the first to third floors on around 320 square meters.
Big wine press
At the northeast corner of the market square - diagonally opposite the town hall - is the large wine press, which was built in 1567. Up until 1930, wine was still pressed in this two-storey building with a high pitched roof. The building has housed a savings bank since 1984. The coat of arms relief of the high and German master Georg Hund von Wenkheim above the pointed arched sandstone portal is interesting here (see picture under coat of arms and flag ).
Sources for the historical buildings: From the historical old town to the Frauenkirche
Churches and monasteries
The Catholic parish church of St. Dionysius is visible from afar on a rock spur in the north of the old town above the Sulmtal . The builder was possibly Johann Wolfgang Fichtmayer. In 1757 the church tower was built under master builder Franz Häffele . The church was completely destroyed in the bombing of March 1, 1945, but was rebuilt from 1946 to 1949.
The monastery church is a built in the 17th century Capuchin - monastery back off the southern city walls. The monastery church was completed in 1664 and, after secularization, was used as a municipal armory and junk shop from 1811 to 1892, before being returned to its original purpose. A Gothic Madonna figure, which is believed to have come from the Scheuerberg, is to be regarded as significant in terms of art history . Most of the rest of the furnishings date from the late 19th century when the church was rebuilt for worship.
The Church of Our Lady on the Steinach north of the old town goes back to an early mass chapel belonging to the Lords of Sickingen , which was expanded to its present form in 1668. In the 18th century the church was a destination for pilgrims from the Rhine and Moselle rivers.
Monastery church
woman Church
Other churches in the city center are the Protestant parish church on Binswanger Straße (built in 1888), the Catholic Church of St. Johannes auf dem Neuberg (built in 1973) and the Martin Luther Church in the Neuberg district (inaugurated in 1984).
The Catholic Church of St. Remigius was built by Franz Häffele from 1738 in the late Baroque style and was consecrated on October 24, 1748. The two oldest buildings in the village can also be found near the church. The building Eberstädter Straße 11 (farm building) was probably built in 1518, the half-timbered house (residential building) in Eberstädter Straße 8 in 1602.
The Obereisesheim district has a Gothic Protestant church, the Mauritius Church. However, this was completely changed in 1601. The Catholic Christ Church was built in 1972.
In the Amorbach district there is the Catholic Church “Pax Christi” (consecrated in 1955) and the Protestant “Holy Spirit Church” (consecrated in 1956).
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Half-timbered houses
Before 1945 Neckarsulm had many half-timbered houses , some of them quite stately , as shown by old photos. Most of it was destroyed in the bombing raid on March 1, 1945.
In 1998 a revitalization concept was drawn up for the city center, as part of which, among other things, preserved half-timbered houses were to be renovated. In this so-called “City Outfit Program” under the motto “Dressed up for our beautiful inner city”, the facade exposures and the restoration of the plaster and sandstone facades that characterize the cityscape were planned. To this end, the city of Neckarsulm launched a funding program from 1999 to financially support the private owners of the houses in their renovation. The implementation of the program began in 2000 with the first two houses at Marktstrasse 23 and 21 directly opposite the town hall. By the beginning of 2006, the facades of a total of 19 houses in downtown Neckarsulm and that of the “Linde” inn in the Obereisesheim district had been renovated and refurbished. These houses are located on Marktstrasse, for example, houses No. 16 (back, next to the town hall), 15, 13 (back), 8, 9 and 6 and in the area between Marktstrasse and Teutonic Order Castle. There in Löwengasse 1 and 3, in Schlossgasse 1 and 8 and in Schindlerstraße 2 (inner courtyard). It was worth seeing points of view that give an idea of what the Neckarsulm city center might have looked like before 1945.
The Dahenfeld district has an old half-timbered town hall from 1758. Outside the city, northwest of the Obereisesheim district, the Duke Magnus memorial stone commemorates the battle of Wimpfen on May 6, 1622.
Small monuments
There are numerous historical wayside shrines and field crosses in the area around Neckarsulm and its suburbs .
Modern buildings
Parks
Neckarsulm has two city parks; an older one north-east of the old town and the new district park Grüne Mitte in Amorbach. In the city park, which has an area of 5 hectares, there is the St. Vinzenz residential home and the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in the immediate vicinity . The Sulmtalpark connects to this city park upstream along the Sulm and ends at the level of the AQUAtoll. There are several sports facilities in the Sulmtalpark, for example a soccer field and the Im Pichterich festival area for large-scale events.
The creation of the Green Center district park was carried out in the course of the expansion of the Amorbach district in the second construction phase and began in September 2000. The district park was inaugurated on August 10, 2002. A recreational area was created on almost 8 hectares between Eugen-Bolz- and Lautenbacher Straße, which offers a skate park, soccer field, adventure playground, lawn and a small lake. 200 trees and 3,000 bushes were planted and three kilometers of cycle and footpaths were laid out. Interconnected retention troughs have been integrated into the green spaces, which can hold 6000 cubic meters of water if necessary. Amorbach is thus protected from the consequences of a flood that statistically occurs once every 50 years. This was necessary because (the little river) Amorbach above Alt-Amorbach is perverted and not enough water can drain away when it rains heavily.
Cinemas
There are two cinemas in Neckarsulm: a small one, the Kinostar Scala & Scala-Keller in the old town, which has two cinemas with around 180 seats and, since 1997, the Europlex with seven screens and around 1,800 seats, which is located south of the old town in the south industrial area . In early 2006, the Europlex Filmpalast was renamed Cineplex Neckarsulm . The cinema halls in the Cineplex are fully air-conditioned , and the screenings take place in three halls with sound systems according to the THX standard.
Culture
"Neckarsulm - this is where the music plays"
Under the motto "Neckarsulm - this is where the music plays", the city of Neckarsulm has launched a diverse cultural program for citizens and visitors to the city since April 2006. The concept envisages that this cultural program follows the rhythm of the seasons and the given framework is filled with new content every year. It consists of several series of events and individual activities and was co-developed by the Saarbrücken cultural management agency Bick und Küster .
The annual round is (mostly) opened in February and March with a festival of laughing tones in the city music school. A mix of cabaret and music parody is shown, for example by combining the genres of comedy and classical music in a humorous way.
In spring and summer, among other things, open-air events are offered. In July and August there is a varied music program under the motto “Thursdays in the city”. In this program, bands and music groups of various styles perform on the market square in Neckarsulm. For example, you can hear hits , rock 'n' roll , country music or rock music from the Neue Deutsche Welle there .
These events were supplemented (for example in 2006) by the fair of cultures with street theater and cabaret events . There was also a series of events specially created for children, Culture for Kids - including clowning and puppet theater - and the Neckarsulm Crime Weeks (in 2007).
Throughout the year there are film art series, each dedicated to a very specific topic. For example, films with famous screen couples, film classics or films that deal with the GDR past were shown.
Art exhibitions
Art exhibitions are held in the adult education center or in public spaces. For example, the Kunstfreunde Neckarsulm or other artists exhibit their work. From November 2008 to April 2009, for example, sculptures were shown in the exhibition "Terra Inkognita" by Güglingen's sculptor Gunther Stilling in the Neckarsulm area. Stilling also has the sculpture “La Mano” in front of the entrance to the VHS, which is supposed to symbolize human understanding from “first hand”.
ART MOVES Neckarsulm
The urban project series KUNSTBEWEGT Neckarsulm , the basic idea of which is to bring contemporary art to a broad audience, has existed since 2002. In recent years, the people of Neckarsulm have been able to watch the artists at work in open studios and talk to them. For example, at the fifth sculpture symposium Kunstbewegt in 2006, the artists Gerda Bier and Stefan Rohrer showed their work in the open studio in the old post office building near the train station.
From July 1 to September 23, 2007, the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg presented an exhibition as part of this project series in Neckarsulm. The exhibition was given a new dimension, as the artists approached people by exhibiting their works in public spaces. 42 sculptures, graphics, photographs, works of art of painting and a video installation were distributed over the area of the core city, but also in the media library, in the town hall foyer and in the adult education center. The works on display deal with the city of Neckarsulm, its history and the automotive industry that has shaped it to this day. Both renowned artists such as Franz Bernhard ( Sitzende Figur , 2006, Marktplatz) and young, unknown artists such as Stefan Rohrer ( Schwalbe , 2007, Marktplatz) took part in this project . The Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg was financially supported by the city of Neckarsulm for this exhibition. The KUNSTBEWEGT Neckarsulm project series has also been co-financed by the Kreissparkasse Heilbronn for four years .
The series Kunstbewegt was continued in 2008 as part of the sixth sculpture symposium with works by Till Augustin and Klaus Lomnitzer. In the eighth sculpture symposium in 2009, the artist collective BMP - Detlef Bräuer, Karl May and Uli Peter - was commissioned to develop ideas and suggestions for the artistic design of the roundabout on Deutschordensplatz southeast of the Ballei.
Sports and sports facilities
societies
In addition to the large sports club Neckarsulmer Sport-Union (NSU), in which around 3,500 people from Neckarsulmer actively participate in sports, there are a number of other sports clubs.
Of the other numerous sports clubs, only the following are to be mentioned: the cycling club Pfeil Neckarsulm eV, the chess club Neckarsulm eV, the diving club "Walhai" Neckarsulm eV, the tennis club Neckarsulm eV and five other tennis clubs, the Schützengilde Neckarsulm eV, Türkspor Neckarsulm 1969 eV (football) , the Greek football club "Odysseas", as well as the sports clubs of the districts: the sports club Amorbach eV (approx. 800 members), the sports club Dahenfeld 1946 eV and the VfL (association for physical exercises) Obereisesheim 1902 eV
Elite sport
Building on this broad basis, the following successes in top-class sport were achieved (examples):
- The wrestler Wilhelm Schröder from VfL Obereisesheim won the bronze medal in Kouvola in the weight class up to 85 kilograms at senior world championships after his successes in Belgrade in 2005 (silver medal) and in Perm in 2008 (gold medal) .
- Dominik Britsch became, among other things, the South German champion in boxing and German champion in kickboxing and in 2006 switched to the professional camp, where he fought for the title of IBF junior world champion in the middleweight division in March 2009.
- The shot putter Christina Schwanitz (SVN) was German youth champion in 2004 and in 2005 was vice European junior champion and ninth in the World Cup.
- Michaela Klammer (SVN) was Baden-Württemberg champion in 2004 over 100 m and has occupied top places in sprints over 100 and 200 m at the southern German and Baden-Württemberg championships since 2003 .
- In table tennis , the women of the first SVN women's team play in the 2nd Bundesliga. The table tennis department of SpVgg Neckarsulm was one of the most successful in the table tennis association Württemberg-Hohenzollern (TTVWH) after the Second World War . The team around the players Heinz Harst , Hans and Gerhard Werz (division manager table tennis SVN), Helmut Friedrich, Willi Veith and Josef Kroth played in the top league in the 1950s and was several times team champions of Württemberg. In 2005 the association received the Green Belt for exemplary talent promotion .
Sports funding
These top performances are funded by the "Sportförderung Neckarsulm" association, which is intended to complement the Unterland sports aid. This club was founded in 1997 with the aim of promoting above-average athletes or teams or improving their training conditions. In the past ten years, the 80 members - mostly private individuals, but also companies and associations - raised around 270,000 euros in funding. This was also made possible by the commitment of the chairman and founding member of the Friends' Association Rolf Härdtner and that of his deputy Erhard Klotz (former Lord Mayor and honorary citizen of Neckarsulm).
Sports facilities
In Neckarsulm there are six sports fields, a stadium, eight tennis courts, eleven sports halls, facilities for shooting sports, canoeing and dog sports, a BMX track and three skating facilities. In addition to the AQUAtoll fun pool, there is the municipal indoor pool and the Obereisesheim outdoor pool.
Leisure and recreational opportunities
In and around Neckarsulm there are many leisure activities, of which the following should be mentioned:
The AQUAtoll fun and leisure pool , built in 1990 in steel-glass architecture , is located south of the Scheuerberg at the eastern end of the Sulmtalpark. It advertises with the slogan: “A day's vacation under palm trees”, which is possible all year round regardless of the weather. The AQUAtoll offers, among other things, a white water river, the black hole slide, whirlpools and a brine pool with indoor and outdoor areas. Relaxation is provided by a sauna landscape with log cabin and earth sauna, steam bath, Kneipp basin and solariums . The AQUAtoll came to around 464,400 visitors in 2004, around 425,000 in 2006 and just under 416,800 in 2007. In autumn 2008, after a total of 15 months of construction, a so-called “pirate world” for children (on 700 m²) and a panorama sauna (on approx. 100 m²) were opened, which together cost around 3.7 million euros.
There is a well-developed network of cycle paths in the Neckarsulm area . Here, for example, the Neckar cycle path , which goes from Villingen-Schwenningen to Heidelberg , or the 350 km long Kocher-Jagst cycle path pass. In addition, you can go cycling on the 45 km long Öko-Regio-Tour Unteres Kochertal circular route . At the tour points you can find out interesting facts about the region, organic farming, local history and much more.
The wine-growing has a several centuries long tradition in Neckarsulm. In order to convey this tradition further, there is an approximately 2½ km long educational wine trail on the southern Scheuerberg, named after August Herold , an important vine grower who was born in Neckarsulm , the August-Herold-Weg , whose information boards explain the history of viticulture, the different grape varieties and cultivation techniques . The path begins at the Reutweg hiking car park, the entrance to which is opposite the AQUAtoll. The three 2.4 meter high wine steles at the beginning of the Heroldweg symbolize the importance of viticulture for Neckarsulm (see Scheuerberg on the right under viticulture ).
In the Dahenfelder Forest between the districts of Amorbach and Dahenfeld there is another approximately three kilometers long ecological forest nature trail , and the forest west of Obereisesheim also offers ideal hiking and recreational conditions.
Other leisure and sports options include: sports fields, tennis facilities, inline skating facilities, the bowling center in the Ballei, the Schweinshag leisure facility with barbecue area, broom taverns with "Viertele & Vesper", covered wagon tours by the Bioland company Lang, boat trips the Neckar with the Stumpf OHG passenger shipping company and the Ernst-Freyer-Bad outdoor pool .
Regular events
After there had been separate wine-press festivals for the sports club and the singing association since 1974, a joint festival, the so-called Ganzhorn Festival, was held from 1980 . A culture committee was founded in 1979 to organize the festival.
At this folk festival, which is celebrated on three days on the first weekend in September, around 50 associations serve food and drinks at stands. The clubs have the opportunity to present a cross-section of their work to the general public. Choirs , music bands , dance and sports groups perform and in some years special events were held: For example a table tennis tournament , children's theater, a whole horn run around the town hall and a poetry competition. The foreign partner congregations appeared in individual years .
In honor of Ganzhorn, the Neckarsulm-Gundelsheim wine growers' cooperative offers wines with his name and image. The respective Lord Mayor opens the festival and in some years up to 50,000 visitors were counted. By naming the festival, Neckarsulm wants to commemorate the poet of the popular folk song "In the most beautiful meadow area" Wilhelm Ganzhorn . The festival is well received by the population and is very popular.
Other regular events:
- First weekend in March: Hamburg fish market with barkers
- Saturday to Easter Monday: Easter folk festival on the Pichterich fairground (Sulmtalpark)
- Second weekend in June: Market street festival in Neckarsulm city center
- First weekend in July: Eberwin Festival in the Obereisesheim district
- Mid-July: Village festival in the Dahenfeld district
- Third weekend in July: Sun festival in Amorbach
- First weekend in Advent: Christmas market in the Neckarsulm pedestrian zone with the supporting program "Advent Magic"
- During the Advent season , the so-called “Sternstunden” takes place on the Neckarsulm market square every day at 5 p.m., a kind of Advent calendar designed by children and young people from various institutions. These “great moments” have been organized by the “Strong Families Foundation - Neckarsulm” since 2005.
Economy and Infrastructure
Economy in general
The most important employer in the city of Neckarsulm today is the automobile manufacturer Audi , which employs 14,041 people here (as of 2011) and invests an average of 250–300 million euros annually, and in 2008 around 400 million euros in the Neckarsulm location. A wide range of models is produced at the Audi plant in Neckarsulm (as of 2008): Audi A4, A5 Cabrio, S5 Cabrio, A6 (sedan, Avant and allroad quattro), S6 (sedan and Avant), A7, A8, S8 and A8 W12. The RS models, the Q7 V12 TDI quattro and the R8 sports car are also manufactured by quattro GmbH, a wholly-owned Audi subsidiary. A total of around 340,000 vehicles were produced here in 2010. The so-called "production turntable" not only flexibly utilizes the production capacities of the plants in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm (here the construction of the A4: as of 2009), but also secures jobs. At the Audi plant in Neckarsulm, it is estimated that the number of employees employed by suppliers and service providers is twice that of the Audi plant, i.e. a total of around 40,000 with Audi workers. In 2007, the Audi plant purchased goods and services from these regional suppliers and service providers for around 2.7 billion euros.
The Schwarz Group , to which the two retail chains Kaufland and Lidl belong, is also based here. Another large resident company is the auto supplier KSPG . A positive consequence of these large companies is the good ratio of population to jobs: Neckarsulm has 30,177 jobs subject to social insurance and has more employees than it has residents (26,661). The business tax revenue in 2006 was over 137 million euros. There are a total of around 2400 commercial and commercial enterprises in Neckarsulm. The employees break down according to economic sectors as follows (rounded to whole percent): manufacturing industry 67%, trade, hospitality, transport 12% and other services 21%.
The district of Heilbronn also benefits from the strong financial strength of the city of Neckarsulm through the district levy . In the years 1992 to 2008, a total of more than 180 million euros was paid in the district levy. The payments made by the city of Neckarsulm to the district in recent years were as follows:
| year | Levy (€ million) |
Share (in%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 13.1 | 17th |
| 2004 | 18.6 | 20th |
| 2005 | 13.3 | 15th |
| 2006 | 18.7 | 20th |
| 2007 | 13.3 | 15th |
| 2008 | 35.5 | 30th |
| 2009 | 20th | 20th |
According to the State Statistical Office (press release of June 30, 2004), the good economic situation of the city of Neckarsulm can be demonstrated by two further economic indicators . The city of Neckarsulm has the highest employment rate in Baden-Württemberg. In 2004 Neckarsulm had 1,079 employees subject to social insurance per 1,000 inhabitants. Neckarsulm is thus well above the average (for comparison: district Heilbronn 301, federal state Baden-Württemberg 349, each in employees subject to social insurance per 1000 inhabitants). Another key figure that proves Neckarsulm's economic strength is the tax strength indicator ( trade tax plus real estate tax A and B plus municipal share of income tax ). The tax force measurement figure is 1414 euros per inhabitant in Neckarsulm, 644 euros per inhabitant in the Heilbronn district and 619 euros per inhabitant in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
"Customer Center" KSPG
Headquarters of Bechtle AG in vogue Park South
Fujitsu TDS AG building with office tower
Hyundai Motor Germany GmbH
Business promotion
Neckarsulm has endeavored in the past to attract companies to the industrial areas through favorable framework conditions. Important commercial areas are the Trendpark with around 10 hectares, which is located northeast of the motorway - junction Heilbronn-Neckarsulm, and the Trendpark Süd with about 26 hectares to the southeast and north of the Stiftsberg (see map of the districts under city structure ). As a result of this economic development policy, well-known companies such as TDS Informationstechnologie AG , the Beck group and the Adaptec subsidiary ICP vortex have settled here. The TDS AG office tower with its 20 floors can be seen from afar . The headquarters of Hyundai Motor Deutschland GmbH , which was founded in 1991, was also located in the Trend Park until 2013 .
The IT system house Bechtle AG has built its corporate headquarters in Trendpark Süd . The overall concept of economic development includes a low trade tax rate, low property prices and fast, unbureaucratic decision-making processes in the city administration. Another factor is likely to be the good transport links between the aforementioned industrial areas.
Viticulture
The viticulture in Neckarsulm has a centuries-old tradition. As early as the 8th century, there were extensive vineyards on the lower Neckar. It is known from the 10th century that there was an almost closed wine-growing region on the middle Neckar. Around 1335 several monasteries in Neckarsulm owned real estate, for example the Amorbach Abbey in the Odenwald , the Comburg Benedictine monastery , the Schöntal Cistercian monastery , the Heilbronn Poor Clare monastery , the St. Peter monastery in Wimpfen and the Wimpfen Dominican monastery . These monasteries created large wine-growing areas on the Neckar by clearing forests . Wine was considered food by the monks and their strict fasting regime . As early as the end of the 13th century there were vineyards on the southern slope of the Scheuerberg and the Hungerberg.
The Amorbach monastery was located on the northern slope of the Odenwald and therefore unfavorable for viticulture. That is why viticulture in Neckarsulm was of particular importance for this monastery. The Amorbach Monastery obtained larger quantities of wine through the wine tithing . After the Teutonic Order took control of Neckarsulm in 1484, in 1554 it owned at least two wine presses . This emerges from the oldest extant land register . These presses were the old and new ones at the time. Today nothing is known about the location of the old wine press. The new or later small wine press stood in the Rathausstrasse east of the town hall on the site of the Neckarsulm mint, which dates back to the Mainz era around 1400. In 1567, the high and German master Georg Hund von Wenkheim built the large wine press that still stands on the market square today. This used to have an extension on the west side, which was destroyed in World War II.
From archival documents , for example from official accounts of the Teutonic Order, wine proceeds and other details of the wine trade from this time emerge. In the second half of the 18th century, the proceeds from wine sales amounted to almost 50% of the total income. After Neckarsulm passed to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1805/1806, the place had four wine presses: the castle press, the large press, the small press and the Amorbach court press.
On October 28th, 1834, Anton Victor Brunner, the wine grower Wilhelm Fischer and the town caretaker Fleiner and five other Neckarsulmers founded a vineyard association. This had set itself the task of promoting viticulture by procuring and distributing suitable vines in the appropriate locations. At that time there were around 178 hectares of vineyards. In 1855, the Neckarsulm Vineyard Association emerged from this vineyard association . This makes it the oldest winegrowers' cooperative in Germany that still exists today. The aim of this cooperative was the communal pressing and marketing of their products. The basic idea was that they no longer wanted to submit to the price dictates of the wine buyers, who often set the prices for the wine arbitrarily. The quality concept was also important and that good pay could only be demanded for correspondingly good wine. In 1855 130 members joined together in the Weingärtnergenossenschaft and in 1862 there were already 300 members.
In 1956, the majority of the Gundelsheim wine growers joined the Neckarsulm cooperative. Otto Linsenmaier (vintner and wine expert, honorary member of the "Society for the History of Wine eV") claimed in a lecture on the 150th anniversary of the Weinbauverein in 1984: Neckarsulm's international reputation was not based on wheels and motors, but rather on Neckarsulm wine.
solar power
Neckarsulm is not only known for its viticulture, wheels and motors, but also occupies a leading position in Europe when it comes to the use of solar energy . A unique solar project was developed based on the understanding that fossil energy reserves will be used up in a few decades and that a drastic reduction in CO 2 emissions is necessary for environmental reasons. In the early 1990s, the Steinbeis Transfer Center Neckarsulm and the Institute for Thermodynamics and Heat Technology at the University of Stuttgart were commissioned to develop an energy concept. This concept bundles four sensible measures that were implemented in the solar energy project in the Amorbach II construction area .
- The heated buildings must be of low-energy construction . The specific energy requirement must be less than 50 kWh per year and square meter of heating surface. (For comparison: old buildings have around 300 kWh / (m² a))
- The concept also includes a central local heating supply with a heating center, a well-insulated heat distribution network with short distances and house transfer stations in every building.
- The third pillar is made up of large-area solar collectors with an area of 6500 square meters that deliver between 405 and 425 kWh / (m² a). These collectors are on the roofs of houses (elementary school, retirement home, nursing home, etc.), free-standing above a parking lot and attached to a noise barrier on the road to Neuenstadt am Kocher.
- And last but not least, this concept is only profitable if excess solar energy gained in summer can be stored for a longer period of time. For this one was ground probes - memory designed as long-term memory and realizes that is unique in this form and size. This is because otherwise water is used to store the energy. This geothermal storage facility has a volume of 68,000 m³ and a degree of utilization of almost 90%. The geothermal energy storage system consists of water pipes that are inserted vertically up to 30 meters deep and at a distance of 2 meters into the ground. Excess solar energy is released into the ground via these probes in summer and autumn and the stored energy is removed again via the same heat exchangers in the colder months of the year . The soil is heated up to 80 degrees Celsius and is thermally insulated at the top to reduce heat losses. The heat accumulator can be flexibly expanded as required by installing additional pipes.
In the final stage, collector areas of 15,000 m² and a heat storage volume of 140,000 m³ are planned. The solar usage energy yield would then be up to 5000 MWh / a. Over 50% of the fuel required is replaced by solar energy. The city of Neckarsulm received the German Solar Prize in 1998 and the Baden-Württemberg State Environment Prize for municipalities in 1999. In the German Solar League , Neckarsulm has taken the top spot five times since 2002 in the municipalities category with between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants - most recently in the 2006/2007 season. With 0.331 square meters of solar thermal collector surface and 78.4 watts of photovoltaic output per inhabitant, Neckarsulm has the highest per capita density of solar systems among the medium-sized cities in Germany.
Neckarsulm was also the only German city - along with three other municipalities from Sweden, Austria and the Czech Republic - to be selected for the "Energy in Minds" project. The project is carried out as part of the EU funding program “Concerto” and is supervised and coordinated by the “Steinbeis Transfer Center for Energy, Building and Solar Technology” in Stuttgart. The aim of this project is to promote the use of renewable energies such as biomass , solar thermal energy and photovoltaics , to reduce the use of fossil fuels and to lower CO 2 emissions by 20 to 30 percent.
traffic
The city of Neckarsulm is directly connected to the German highway network via the so-called Südtangente, as the B 27 ( Blankenburg (Harz) - Lottstetten ) is called there, with the Heilbronn / Neckarsulm junction on the federal motorway 6 ( Saarbrücken - Waidhaus ). From this junction it is not far to the Weinsberger Kreuz and thus to the A 81 ( Stuttgart - Würzburg ). In addition to the southern bypass, the K 2000 (Heilbronner Austraße via Gottlieb-Daimler- and NSU-Straße to Bad Friedrichshall Kochendorf) leads traffic to the west of the city, so that vehicle traffic directly through Neckarsulm has been drastically reduced. This reduction in traffic was further achieved by permanently closing the level crossing for motor vehicles, as it had been found that the traffic on the K 2000 would flow better.
The Neckarsulm Station is located at the Franconia Railway Stuttgart-Würzburg, Heidelberg and Mannheim are on the bad friedrichshall Hauptbahnhof branching Neckartal and Elsenztalbahnen reached. Neckarsulm is a stopping point for all regional and regional express trains.
The lines S41 (Heilbronn – Bad Friedrichshall – Mosbach) and S42 (Heilbronn – Bad Friedrichshall – Sinsheim) of the Heilbronn light rail service the four stops Neckarsulm Süd, Neckarsulm Bf, Neckarsulm Mitte and Neckarsulm Nord. The Kaufland stop is located in Heilbronn directly on the city limits, but serves the shopping center of the same name in Neckarsulm.
Local public transport ( ÖPNV ) is served by several bus lines that are integrated into Heilbronn's Hohenloher Hall local transport .
Neckarsulm is planning to use a package of measures to optimize public transport and make it more attractive in order to encourage citizens to switch from cars to buses and trains. In addition, these measures can relieve the environment and would better interlink local bus traffic with the upcoming tram. In addition, the city districts should be more accessible: instead of every 30 minutes, buses should run every 15 minutes. Obereisesheim will be reintegrated and incorporated directly into the route network. At times of low traffic, smaller buses - the so-called “nimble city bus” - and, if necessary, the taxi to Dahenfeld, should drive. The most important measures are planned: A central transfer point with a central island opposite the Ballei, in order to better link the city bus routes. The redesign of the station forecourt on the east side of the station in order to optimally connect bus traffic - especially the continuous regional bus routes - with rail traffic. The redesign of the Westplatz station, also with a view to the planned tram connection with stops for buses from the direction of Obereisesheim and almost 100 Park + Ride spaces, was completed at the end of June 2009. The other projects are to be implemented by the timetable change for winter 2010/2011.
media
The daily newspaper Heilbronner Demokratie reports on local events in the city in its issue N, Landkreis Nord, which has been published since 1946. In Neckarsulm, the advertising paper echo (twice a week, Wednesday and Sunday) and once a week the Neckarsulm vote (on Fridays) and the Neckarsulm week (Thursdays, by Nussbaum-Medien) are distributed free of charge . In addition, the Neckarsulm city administration publishes the city of Neckarsulm's journal once a month , including event tips and announcements.
In the district Obereisesheim the operational Südwestrundfunk the Obereisesheim transmitter that on the medium wave 711 kHz, the radio program -frequency SWR cont.ra has spread.
Public facilities
City library - media library
Neckarsulm has a city library, which was opened for the first time on May 21, 1921 in the then trade school on Binswanger Straße with a book inventory of around 500 volumes. From around 1930 she was housed in the bleaching school and from 1957 temporarily in an "urban barrack" on the market square. After she was given a domicile in the "Old Latin School" in Schindlerstrasse from 1960, she moved in 1971 to the former municipal restaurant "Museumsstuben" in Urbanstrasse. (Hold about 10,000 volumes). From 1981 to 2004 this municipal facility was housed in the former "dining and social building of the NSU " (NSU casino - see picture under city history) (holdings of around 23,000 volumes). The city library was rebuilt from February 27, 2002 in the city center, on Urbanstrasse opposite the Deutschordensschloss , and reopened on July 24, 2004 under the name Mediathek .
It consists of two buildings with the working titles during construction: “Banana” (on the left as seen from Urbanstrasse) and “Bucherkiste” (right), which are connected by two glazed corridors. The media library has a net floor area of almost 2000 m² and was designed by the architects Bechler and Krummlauf from Heilbronn. The construction costs totaled 8.5 million euros. The reading café is located on the ground floor across from the booking counter and offers a wide range of magazines in addition to regional daily newspapers. The media library is equipped with modern technology, including the four online catalog PCs and eight multimedia and Internet PCs, on which anyone can surf the Internet free of charge for 30 minutes a day. On the second floor there is an event room that is used for lectures, author readings and other events. It is also noteworthy that events for children are offered several times a month in the media library. For example, regular children's theater, reading afternoons or handicrafts and, if required, events to promote reading such as author readings or reading nights on request. In 2008, the media library had around 326,000 loans from a total of almost 106,000 visitors. In 2008 it had a media inventory of 62,070 units, of which around 52,300 were books and almost 9,800 non-books (CDs, DVDs, videos, etc.).
City Archives
The city archive has been located in the building of the former “Zur Rose” inn right next to the town hall since May 2009. The origins of the city archive go back to 1726. This year a registry - the preliminary stage of today's archive - was first mentioned in the city's inventories. The old registry was stored in the Karlsschule from 1927 and was reorganized in 1936, whereby “unimportant” archival material was separated out. In 1964 the archives were housed in the Neckar School and from 1971 in the attic of the two-wheeled museum. With the incorporation, the archives of the communities of Dahenfeld (1971) and Obereisesheim (1972) were added. In 1981 the city archives moved to the music school, where a collection of photos was started. From 1986 the rooms in which the chief magistrate and poet Wilhelm Ganzhorn had lived from 1859 to 1878 housed the city archives on the top floor of Binswanger Strasse 3. In 2009 the city archives moved to the historically valuable building at Marktstrasse 16. This former inn "Zur Rose" was extensively converted for archival purposes and inaugurated in May 2009.
The reading room and the offices of the archive staff are located on the first floor of the building. On the second floor, three mobile shelving systems were accommodated in air-conditioned rooms. The ambient conditions here are constant: temperature of 18 degrees Celsius and relative humidity of 55%. In 2009, around 800 meters of the total of around 1,800 linear meters of shelving were occupied. The third floor - the first attic - serves as a magazine for pictures, photos and architectural models. The oldest archive is an interest book from 1480. The main tasks of the city archive include taking over parts of the files of the city administration and supplementing them with private documents and photos as well as researching the city's history and publishing the results. The city archivist also advises and supports local and urban researchers in their research.
Social facilities
Neckarsulm has 18 kindergartens, 15 of which are run by the city. Sufficient kindergarten places can be offered for children under three years of age, and the legal entitlement to a kindergarten place for children between three and six years is secured. Only in the Amorbach district are all groups fully booked. Some day care is offered by the kindergartens. Despite an expanded range of childcare options, the parental contributions remained stable and are in the lower third in a national comparison. The remainder of the operating expenses of almost 90% is financed by grants from the city.
Another social facility is the Neckarsulm-Erlenbach-Untereisesheim social station in Spitalstrasse opposite the Ballei. This primarily offers services in the care of the elderly and the sick, but also support and help for all household chores.
In the same building is the "Neckarsulm Citizens' Meeting", which is intended as a meeting place for generations. The organization is run by the Heilbronn DRK district association with the support of the city of Neckarsulm. The 39 voluntary employees offer help and support services for senior citizens and young families, but also joint concert and theater visits, excursions and company tours.
For elderly people or people in need of care, there is the “St. Vinzenz ”in the city park with over 100 care places, which is sponsored by the“ Paul Wilhelm von Keppler Foundation ”. The “Parkresidenz Delphin” senior citizens' home (sponsor: Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Kreisverband Heilbronn), which offers assisted living in 35 apartments, and the “ASB Center for Aid for the Elderly at the Park” ( Organization: Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, Regionalverband Heilbronn-Franken) with 76 places for short-term and long-term care.
The "Waldheim" of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , whose local association Neckarsulm was founded in 1925, is located in the Amorbach district . In the “Waldheim” children between the ages of six and twelve can spend ten days of vacation time.
A large warehouse was rebuilt on the station area south of the station as the new “House of Youth” and completed in October 2008. (See youth work)
Other facilities
Stadtwerke Neckarsulm is located in Hafenstrasse between Neckarkanal and Audiwerk and is owned by the city. The around 40 employees supply the population of Neckarsulm with natural gas, heat and drinking water. The fact that the municipal utilities are future-oriented and innovative can be seen in projects that use renewable energies such as the "Solar local heating project with geothermal heat storage" in the Amorbach district and the "Biomass heating plant" in the Trendpark industrial area.
In the immediate vicinity - at Binswanger Straße 1 - you will find the Neckarsulm police station in the former monastery building.
The Neckarsulm voluntary fire brigade has existed since 1862 and has around 160 honorary and four full-time members. It is divided into the three fire departments Neckarsulm, Dahenfeld and Obereisesheim, which have a total of 6 fire-fighting vehicles and 14 special vehicles. In 2006 she had to deploy to a total of 282 missions. The volunteer fire brigade saved the lives of 44 people and, in addition to fighting fires, provided technical assistance with oil and dangerous goods deployments as well as traffic and work accidents.
Neckarsulm also has a local association of the German Red Cross in the House of Associations in Steinachstrasse and the Neckarsulm consumer center in Schindlerstrasse, near the media center. In addition, the ASB (Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund) has a local association in Rathausstrasse.
education and parenting
schools
Neckarsulm has the following schools as municipal institutions:
The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium (ASG) is located in the Neckarsulm city park and has around 900 students. The catchment area of the general high school includes the city of Neckarsulm and its districts as well as the communities Erlenbach / Binswangen, Oedheim, Untereisesheim, Offenau and Bad Friedrichshall-Plattenwald. The then Progymnasium started in 1955 with an 11th grade and was expanded to a full institution by decision in the same year. In 1972 a new building was added to the school building on the Sulm. In the school year 1979/1980 the number of pupils rose to 1639. In October 2008 the school was expanded to include another building with 900 square meters of usable space. The cafeteria with 120 seats, an internet café and a play and reading room are located on the ground floor. On the upper floor there are two specialist rooms for the subject "Science and Technology" with modern media technology and two further classrooms. The construction time was around twelve months. The construction costs (including equipment costs) totaled around 4½ million euros.
950 pupils study in the Hermann Greiner Realschule . The beginnings of the Realschule go back to 1842, when a one-class Realschule was set up in addition to the Latin school. At that time it was housed in Frühmessgasse 12. By 1963 the number of students increased to 270 and by 1971 to 510. In 1978 the "Realschule Neckarsulm" was renamed after the honorary citizen Hermann Greiner. The school has been rebuilt and expanded several times: in 1976, 1996/1997 and most recently in 2005/2006.
The Johannes-Häußler-Schule at Karlstraße 3 in the Neckarsulm town center is a primary and secondary school with a technical secondary school . In the years 2005 to 2007 the underground new building of a three-part school sports hall with a closed training center for boxing of the SV Neckarsulm was built. The boxing hall and ancillary rooms of the sports hall of the Johannes Häussler School are located under the school yard. The new sports and boxing hall of the Johannes-Häussler-Schule Neckarsulm was designed by the architects Mattes Riglewski from Heilbronn and received the Good Buildings Award 2005 from the BDA Baden-Württemberg, district group Franconia. The new construction and renovation of the Johannes Häussler School in Neckarsulm was carried out according to plans by the architects Mattes Sekiguchi, for which they were awarded the third prize (galvanizing prize 2009). The school will receive improved fire protection and new rooms by 2020. The fundamental renovation and extensive reconstruction of the school building will cost around two million euros.
In the district Obereisesheim is situated Wilhelm-Maier-school , a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule . In the Amorbach district there is the Amorbachschule , a primary and secondary school. The Pestalozzi School is also located in Amorbach - a special school for people with learning disabilities. The Pestalozzi School starts in September 2017 with an all-day concept as an all-day school.
There is also a primary school in the Neuberg residential area and in the Dahenfeld district.
The city of Neckarsulm finances a total of six full-time positions for school social work , which are subsidized by the Heilbronn district. School social work was introduced for all types of schools and, in addition to preventive working methods, has the task of giving students advice and concrete help in the event of problems.
Neckarsulm has a music school that was founded in 1969 and had seven teachers and 185 students at the time. It was set up under the direction of then music director Josef Lindemann, the former cantor of Altenberg Cathedral . The music school is located north of the Ballei in the neighborhood of the social station and is the oldest music school in the Heilbronn district. Today 850 students study here. In addition to a wide range of lessons for all common musical instruments, the music school also offers parent-child lessons and music lessons for adults over 25 years of age. The high level of performance and teaching at the music school has been demonstrated in recent years by winning places in the Jugend musiziert competition at regional and state level as well as in the national competition . In 2007, for example, the music students won first prizes in regional and state competitions and two third prizes in the national competition in the duo category “piano and a wind instrument” and in the solo category “violin”.
The Neckarsulm Adult Education Center , which has existed since 1924, is a public educational institution for everyone . The groundbreaking ceremony for a new building designed by the architects mattes und partner architects (Heilbronn) took place on April 24, 2003. On September 10, 2005, the VHS north of the city center, on Seestrasse near the Frauenkirche and the Ballei, reopened . There it offers numerous courses under the motto “Learning together” on three floors and on a floor space of 2650 m². The extensive offers range from the topics of politics and society, culture and design, health and nutrition and the VHS language school to using the PC and the young culture workshop. The adult education center received the quality certificate from the VHS Association Baden-Württemberg in mid-2007. To this end, it has subjected itself to a two-year management process in order to analyze the quality of the teaching and to improve it if necessary. In this context, the three projects PC-Scouts (help from schoolchildren for senior citizens on the PC), “Steig 'ein” (application training for secondary school students) and “Sponsors for career entry” (support for secondary school students when starting their careers) were developed and implemented.
There are other schools from other providers:
The district of Heilbronn is responsible for the Astrid Lindgren School (district special school) with a school kindergarten for the mentally and physically handicapped.
The Christian Schmidt School (Technische Schule Neckarsulm) is a commercial district vocational and technical school named after the founder of the knitting machine factory and the later NSU works. At this vocational school, founded in 1909, around 2800 students are trained by around 100 teachers. Around 30,000 young people have attended this school since it was founded.
The Catholic college for social and curative education ("St. Paulus"), a private institution, rounds off the school offer in Neckarsulm.
Youth work
The city of Neckarsulm has converted the former “Danzas” warehouse building on the station area south of the station into the new “House of Youth”. On the approximately 720 m² total area there is a 170 m² event hall with stage technology, a soundproof rehearsal room and a recording studio for bands, a culture café and, on the upper floor, a club room, meeting rooms and a parent-child room used by families can be. This youth and cultural center has a wide range of offers such as children's and youth theater, concerts, cabaret, young talent festivals, exhibitions, discos or educational and cultural workshops. While the concept of the spatial division was largely fixed in the planning phase, young people from Neckarsulm were involved in furnishing and designing the rooms with their own suggestions based on the principle of “having a say, having a say, having a say”. The renovation cost around 1.7 million euros and was completed in October 2008.
In Neckarsulm there is also the project “Wir Tun Was - Neckarsulmer Youth Promotion Program” (WTW), which was developed by the head of the municipal children’s and youth department, Markus Mühlbeyer. The aim of this project is to encourage young people between the ages of twelve and 27 to take on longer-term voluntary work, in which they voluntarily take on responsibility for themselves and others. The participants in the project are particularly involved in various social areas, such as care for the elderly, in municipal kindergartens or school social work, in open communal youth work or as Internet and PC scouts in the adult education center. The continuous voluntary work of the young people is rewarded through so-called licenses. These C, B or A licenses, which are awarded after six, twelve or 18 months of volunteering, entitle you to free participation in selected campaigns by the youth department. A positive side effect is that the young people can prove their social competence when applying for a training position. 180 young people are currently actively participating in this project; since spring 2003 a total of 280 young people have participated. According to research by the Bertelsmann Foundation , Gütersloh, this project is a model nationwide. It is therefore presented to the public as one of 20 practical examples for the participation and codetermination of young people in the municipalities on the Foundation's website.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Neckarsulm has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1888: Franz Sträßle (* December 18, 1817 in Binzwangen near Riedlingen; † October 21, 1906 in Neckarsulm) was a senior teacher and author of books for young people with extensive literary work, including adaptations of fairy tales. According to the "German Literature Calendar" Berlin / Stuttgart 1889, he was a diverse author of school and youth publications. In 1888 he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Württemberg Order of the Crown.
- 1894: Franz Joseph Maucher (born April 14, 1826 in Hagnaufurt / Winterstettendorf Krs. Biberach; † October 29, 1910 in Neckarsulm) was pastor and pastor in Neckarsulm for 35 years and author of the first Neckarsulm homeland book (Neckarsulms Geschichte, Waldsee 1901). Because of his services in the ecclesiastical office, he was awarded the Order of Frederick by the Württemberg royal house. In 1900 he was given the title of Oberkirchenrat.
- 1911: Gottlob Banzhaf (born November 19, 1858 in Illingen near Mühlacker; † October 11, 1930 in Stuttgart) was a councilor and, after the death of his brother-in-law Christian Schmidt, first director of Neckarsulmer Strickmaschinenfabrik AG from 1884 to 1910. It was his merit that this company became the world-famous NSU works. Because of these "services to the Württemberg industry" he was appointed by the king to the council of commerce in 1908. In Neckarsulm, a street in the Viktorshöhe is named after him.
- 1930: Ernst Josef Bauer (born March 17, 1881 in Neckarsulm; † April 18, 1940 in Ludwigsburg) was a high school professor and successful author of the home game "Peter Heinrich Merkle, the lion host of Neckarsulm". Returned his honorary citizenship in 1934, presumably in protest against National Socialism.
- 1933: Christian Mergenthaler (born November 8, 1884 in Waiblingen, † September 11, 1980 in Bad Dürrheim). The NSDAP politician had been Prime Minister of Württemberg since 1933. On July 27, 1933, the Neckarsulm municipal council granted him honorary citizenship, and on August 28, 1945 it was revoked.
- 1949: Johannes Häußler (born November 24, 1879 in Arnegg near Ulm; † September 16, 1949 in Neckarsulm) was mayor and mayor for more than 30 years with interruptions. He led the community with great dedication according to his motto: "Servant of the city". Among other things, it was his merit that he supported and promoted the path from the wine-growing town of Neckarsulm to an up-and-coming industrial town. His social commitment, for example as a co-founder of the Neckarsulm home cooperative, and his steadfastness in difficult times of the two world wars were also remarkable. The former Karlsschule was renamed the Johannes Häussler School in his honor.
- 1950: Richard Spohn (born August 22, 1880 in Ravensburg; † September 20, 1959 in Heilbronn) was a local councilor and director of Gebrüder Spohn GmbH and, among other things, on the supervisory board of the United Jute Spinning and Weaving Company (Hamburg) and the Deutsche Linoleumwerke (Bietigheim -Bissingen), the Portland cement works (Heidelberg), the Schwaben energy supply (Biberach) and the Cluss brewery (Heilbronn). He was committed to its workforce with well-equipped company-owned apartments , creche, company health insurance , cafeteria , recreational area and was therefore called "Papa Spohn". In 1952 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit.
- 1956: Hermann Greiner (* February 12, 1886 in Stangenbach / Wüstenrot; † June 25, 1976 in Neckarsulm) was co-founder in 1917 and later managing director of the Neckarsulm home cooperative for a long time. Greiner (SPD) was a member of the local council. He was politically persecuted in the Third Reich and imprisoned in a concentration camp. After the war he was politically active in a variety of ways, for example as deputy mayor of Neckarsulm, as a member of the first state parliament in Württemberg, the municipal council and the district council. For his services he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1952 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1968. A secondary school in Neckarsulm is named after him.
- 1989: Karl Volk (born December 22, 1924 in Neckarsulm; † December 6, 2012) was managing director of the AUDI company health insurance fund and a member of the municipal council for 35 years. He had been chairman of the CDU parliamentary group on the local council since 1962 and a member of the district council from 1971. In addition, he was involved in various committees for a long time, for example since 1968 as chairman of the board of the Volksbank or 25 years as chairman of Sportfreunde Neckarsulm. His services were recognized in 1979 with the Federal Cross of Merit and the Medal of Honor, in 1984 with the Ring of Honor of the City of Neckarsulm and in 1990 with the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
- 1992: Erhard Klotz (born April 7, 1938 in Heilbronn) has been the mayor of Neckarsulm since 1967 and the first mayor of Neckarsulm from 1973. His merits include important construction projects in Neckarsulm (Ballei, town hall extension, city center renovation, conversion of the two-wheeled museum, AQUAtoll leisure and adventure pool, Hüttberghalle, music school, social station, Amorbach expansion and the conversion of the NSU casino, etc.) and the safeguarding of jobs at the Audiwerk ( Sulmverdolung, flood protection at the Breitenauer See etc.). He was politically active in the Baden-Württemberg Association of Cities (1980–1992), in the Association of German Cities, in the Franconian Regional Association, as parliamentary group leader of the SPD in the district council and from 1992 as Ministerial Director in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior. Klotz has received several awards for his services. In 1985 he received the Medal of Honor of the City of Neckarsulm and in 1988 the Federal Cross of Merit. In 2003 he was honored with the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2006 with the Silver Medal of Merit of the Baden-Württemberg City Council .
- 2004: Kurt Bauer (born May 7, 1934) was city councilor for 36 years, deputy mayor, SPD parliamentary group leader, chairman of the local SPD association, for several decades a committee member at the Neckarsulm sports association and the Lassallia choir, for over 30 years an honorary board member of the Heimstättengenossenschaft, Chairman of the Heimat- und Museumsverein Neckarsulm eV He received the Federal Cross of Merit in 1988, the Medal of Honor and in 2004 the Ring of Honor of the city of Neckarsulm. In September 2007 he was honored as the first honorary citizen of the city of Carmaux for his decades of efforts to create friendship between the twin cities of Carmaux and Neckarsulm.
- 2008: Volker Blust (born December 9, 1944 in Wolfach / Baden) was head of the main and personnel office from 1976 and was elected mayor of Neckarsulm in 1992. He held this office until the end of October 2008. He is independent and represents the city of Neckarsulm for the CDU in the district council. Volker Blust was awarded honorary citizenship, among other things, for his services to the positive development of the city of Neckarsulm during his tenure.
- 2016: Herbert Emerich (born May 15, 1948), 1978–2016 city councilor, 1992–2016 CDU parliamentary group leader, 2004–2016 first honorary deputy to the mayor, 1999–2014 member of the district council, 20 years chairman of Sportfreunde Neckarsulm. In 2003 he received the Medal of Honor from the City of Neckarsulm, and in 2008 the City Council's Gold Medal of Honor for 30 years of service in the local council.
sons and daughters of the town
- 1721, June 16 or July 16, Johann Michael Keller the Younger ; † August 11, 1794 in Neckarsulm, architect, builder
- 1766, November 3, Franz Simon Molitor ; † February 21, 1848 in Vienna , musician
- 1770, October 24, Heinrich Merckle ; † October 7, 1821 in Neckarsulm, member of the state parliament
- 1824, November 28, Gustav Wilhelm Sandberger ; † November 17, 1881 in Tübingen, Oberamtmann of Württemberg
- 1829, Aug. 15, Joseph Dionys Herald ; † March 30, 1898 in Würzburg, theologian and religious poet
- 1830, January 29, Johann Matthäus Zartmann ; † November 19, 1896 in Neckarsulm, sculptor
- 1834, November 19, Paul von Bockshammer ; † March 15, 1923 in Stuttgart, lawyer, member of the state parliament
- 1848, May 24, Georg Emil Rheineck ; † July 4, 1916 in Stuttgart, sculptor
- 1868, November 22nd, Heribert Holzapfel ; † May 26, 1936 in Frauenburg (East Prussia), Catholic theologian
- 1902, August 7, August Herold ; † January 8, 1973 in Neckarsulm; Vine growers
- 1906, April 25, Oskar Klumpp ; † February 11, 1973 in Oberstaufen , theologian (Württ. Synodal President), lawyer and politician (District Administrator)
- 1910, March 7, Hermann Saam ; † December 22, 2005 in Bad Wildbad , politician (FDP / DVP), member of the state and Bundestag
- 1912, November 17, Hans Geiger ; † February 20, 1986, politician ( SPD ), member of the Landtag and Bundestag
- 1915, April 14, Hans Böhringer ; † February 17 or 18, 1987, theologian, musicologist and psychotherapist
- 1926, October 7th, Walter Gress , Protestant pastor and politician (SPD); † December 4, 2001 in Welzheim
- 1950, November 14th, Bernhard Bauer , politician and President of the German Handball Federation
- 1954, November 12, Elvira Gross ; † August 25, 2005 in Eberbach , botanist
- 1959, Annegret Schüle , curator of the Topf & Sons memorial site in Erfurt
- 1960, Stefan Krebs , representative of the state government for information technology of the state of Baden-Württemberg
Other personalities associated with the city
- Franz Häffele (* 1711; † January 25, 1785 in Neckarsulm) was a Baroque master builder who built numerous churches and other representative buildings in the Odenwald and Heilbronner Unterland , especially for the Teutonic Order, and lived in Neckarsulm for four decades and therefore also " Baumeister zu Neckarsulm ”.
- Carl Joseph Gottlob Speidel (born May 9, 1797 in Besigheim ; † July 20, 1856 in Neckarsulm) was council clerk from 1829 to 1844, administrative actuary until 1848 and city councilor from 1831 to 1856. He was politically committed to the citizenship of Neckarsulm, was active in the small Protestant church community, in which he was parish councilor from 1851, and is considered to be a co-founder of the Weingärtnerverein (1834) and the then Weingärtner Society (1855).
- Wilhelm Ganzhorn (born January 14, 1818 in Böblingen , † September 9, 1880 in Cannstatt ) was chief magistrate in Neckarsulm from 1859 to 1878. Ganzhorn was also a poet and was known as the author of the text for the song "Im schönste Wiesengrunde".
- Christian Schmidt (born August 6, 1844 in Bietigheim ; † February 24, 1884 in Neckarsulm) was the founder of the “mechanical workshop for the manufacture of knitting machines” in Riedlingen in 1873 , which later became NSU engine works .
- Albert Roder (born January 20, 1896 in Nuremberg , † September 3, 1970 in Heilbronn ) was a designer who became known for the motorcycles he designed . From 1946 to 1961 he was chief designer at NSU .
- August Vogt (* 1913; † February 22, 2009) was a carpenter, studied art history and theology and was managing director of the VHS Heilbronn from 1948 to 1978 and its sole director from 1968. In 1978 he received the golden coin of the city of Heilbronn for his services to the VHS. He published a large number of local history articles about Neckarsulm, including in the “Historischen Blätter” of the Heimatverein and in “Neckarsulm. The history of a city ”. He also wrote: “Neckarsulm - Historischer Stadtführer” (1990) and “Villa Sulmana Neckarsulm - Pictures of an Urban Development” (2000). He was a founding and honorary member of the Neckarsulm Heimatverein and received the Medal of Honor of the City of Neckarsulm for his life's work in 1998.
- Klaus Zwickel (born May 31, 1939 in Heilbronn ) is a German trade union functionary and former chairman of the IG Metall . From 1968 to 1983 he was the first authorized representative of the IG Metall administration office in Neckarsulm.
- Johanna Lichy (born May 8, 1949 in Heilbronn , Kirchhausen district ) is a German politician ( CDU ) who received her Abitur in 1968 in Neckarsulm .
- Christine Thiemt (born March 18, 1965), Austrian writer
- Verena Stenke (born October 18, 1981 in Bad Friedrichshall ) is a German artist.
- Dominik Britsch (born October 21, 1987 in Bad Friedrichshall ) is a German boxer and current IBF Intercontinental Middleweight Champion.
Other / worth knowing
The name Neckarsulm is an expanded form of the original name of the city, "Sulm", which in turn is associated with the Sulm river flowing through the town . In the course of time, to better distinguish it from places of the same name and to better localize it according to its location, it was given the addition of "Neckar-", similar to Neckargartach, Rheinbischofsheim, Tauberbischofsheim, etc. Neckarsulm is therefore "the Sulm am Neckar", pronounced with in standard German pronunciation voiced s [ for ] and without glottal stop before u ( "Neckar" and "-sulm"). The place is pronounced “Neckar-Sulm” and not “Neckars-Ulm” . The misinterpretation "the Ulm am Neckar" may also be related to that in the southern German dialects, including in Neckarsulm, s well as in initial voiceless [ s ] spoken and therefore of Norddeutsche as joints According misunderstood.
The hodonyms "Sülmerstraße" and "Sülmertor" in neighboring Heilbronn, which are related to Neckarsulm, seem to preserve an old language.
The term NSU is often used synonymously for Neckarsulm. The origin of the abbreviation NSU has the following reason: In 1892 the Neckarsulm knitting machine factory no longer manufactured knitting machines because there was no longer a need for them, but bicycles and bicycle parts. They also wanted to sell these internationally. A catchy and memorable brand name was needed for this. The Neckarsulm bicycle manufacturers were of the opinion that they did just as good quality work as the well-known English company BSA . That is why they wanted to create such a quality mark. To do this, they took three letters from the name N eckar SU lm and placed them between the ends of the stag poles that they borrowed from the Württemberg state coat of arms . This gave birth to the name NSU or, as it was still called back then, "NSU with the stag horn". Since then, this name has become so common that it now appears as an abbreviation for the city name, for example on street signs and in advertisements.
literature
- Anton Heyler: Neckarsulm in the ups and downs of half a century. Chronicle 1900–1950 . Verlag Otto Welker, Neckarsulm 1955, OCLC 66287574 .
- Anton Heyler: Chronicle of the City of Neckarsulm. January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1976 . City of Neckarsulm, Neckarsulm 1989, DNB 900086815 .
- Barbara Griesinger (Red.): Neckarsulm. The story of a city . Edited by the city of Neckarsulm. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0883-2 .
- Barbara Löslein, Bernd Liebig: Chronicle of the city of Neckarsulm. 1977-2000 . Stadt Neckarsulm (city archive), Neckarsulm 2005, ISBN 3-9808419-1-X .
- Alois Seiler, Dorothea Bader, Bernhard Demel: Neckarsulm and the German Order 1484–1805–1984. Documents, plans, pictures. Catalog of the exhibition of the State Archives Ludwigsburg and the city of Neckarsulm in the Molitoraal zu Neckarsulm from 5. – 31. May 1984 . City of Neckarsulm, Neckarsulm 1984, DNB 840738005 .
- August Vogt: Neckarsulm. City tour and city history, historical city guide . 2nd Edition. Neckarsulm local history association, Neckarsulm 1990, DNB 955357500 .
- August Vogt: Villa Sulmana - Neckarsulm. Pictures of an urban development . Neckarsulm local history association, Neckarsulm 2000, DNB 95962743X .
Web links
- Neckarsulm City Museum
- Link catalog on Neckarsulm at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ Topographic map 1:25 000, No. 6821 Heilbronn, 3rd edition, 2001
- ↑ Topographic map 1:25 000, No. 6721 Bad Friedrichshall, 5th edition, 2006.
- ↑ Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg . State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009.
- ^ Structural and regional database of the State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg (accessed on June 9, 2007).
- ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Neckarsulm.
- ↑ Additional source for the urban structure section: Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 , pp. 115-118.
- ^ A b Werner Thierbach, Christina Jacob: Pre- and early history in the Neckarsulm area . In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 25–30.
- ↑ Blackboard on the Kriegerfriedhof in the Trend Park on the ground floor of the Neckarsulm City Museum.
- ^ Immo Eberl: The villa Sulmana as a forerunner of the city of Neckarsulm. An early medieval settlement and its history. In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 31–46.
- ^ August Vogt: Villa Sulmana Neckarsulm - Pictures of an Urban Development. Neckarsulm 1999, p. 19 f and 33 f.
- ^ Barbara Griesinger: Neckarsulm in the Middle Ages. In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 47–74.
- ^ Michael Diefenbacher: The official city of Neckarsulm of the Teutonic Order 1484–1805. On Neckarsulm's special role under the rule of the Teutonic Order. In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 77–88.
- ↑ Barbara Löslein: View into the Neckarsulm town history ( Memento of July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), on neckarsulm.de, accessed on January 22, 2010.
- ↑ a b August Vogt: Neckarsulm. City tour and city history, historical city guide . Neckarsulm 1990, pp. 3-31.
- ^ Willi A. Boelcke: From the wine town to the industrial town . In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 265–300.
- ↑ Uwe Jacobi: Under the swastika . In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 329–354.
- ^ 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. 450 f .
- ↑ Manfred Stockburger: What distinguishes Opel from the NSU crisis . In: Heilbronn voice . March 21, 2009, p. 33 .
- ↑ Barbara Löslein: Neckarsulm town history in brief , PDF file (approx. 23 kB) on neckarsulm.de, accessed on January 22, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Records and messages from the head of the Neckarsulm City Archives: Ms. Graduate archivist (FH) Barbara Löslein MA ( Memento from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bernd Friedel: 50 years of Amorbach. Neckarsulm 2005, pp. 6-16.
- ^ Mosque in Neckarsulm
- ^ Paragraph on the Jewish community according to Wolfram Angerbauer and Hans Georg Frank: Jewish communities in the district and city of Heilbronn . Heilbronn district, Heilbronn 1986 (series of publications by the Heilbronn district, 1), pp. 165–176.
- ↑ Four men want to be OB . Stimme.de , July 27, 2008.
- ↑ The new mayor is called Joachim Scholz. In: Heilbronner Voice from July 28, 2008.
- ↑ Heike Kinkopf: Joachim Scholz triumphs - voters create clear relationships. In: Heilbronner Voice from July 28, 2008.
- ↑ Vanessa Müller: Neckarsulm's new mayor put in office . In: Heilbronner Voice , November 4, 2016
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Mayor Joachim Scholz is installed in his office. Press release from the City of Neckarsulm on October 27, 2008.
- ↑ Seiler, Bader, Demel: Neckarsulm and the German Order 1484–1805–1984. Neckarsulm 1984, p. 65.
- ^ Anton Heyler: Neckarsulm in the ups and downs of half a century. Chronicle 1900–1950. Neckarsulm 1955, p. 180.
- ^ Anton Heyler: Chronicle of the City of Neckarsulm. 1951-1976. Neckarsulm 1989, p. 164.
- ^ Loslein, Liebig: Chronicle of the city of Neckarsulm. 1977-2000. Neckarsulm 2005, p. 674.
- ↑ Heinz Bardua: The district and community coats of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 102
- ↑ Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 117f.
- ↑ Barbara Barth: Experience the urban space and set standards. In: Heilbronner Voice of May 30, 2006, p. 38.
- ↑ Brochure of the city of Neckarsulm: Former inn "Zur Rose". Neckarsulm 2009, Otto Welker Neckarsulm printing and publishing company.
- ^ A b Andreas Bracht: "Memory of the City of Neckarsulm" at the new location. Press release from the City of Neckarsulm on May 15, 2009.
- ↑ August Vogt: Altneckarsulm: A walk through the order town . In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 139–160.
- ↑ Brochure of the City of Neckarsulm: The City Outfit Program - "Dressed up for our beautiful city center". Neckarsulm 2004.
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: City of Neckarsulm is celebrating the Festival of Laughing Tones again. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on February 6, 2009.
- ↑ Program information for 2009 on neckarsulm.de (link no longer available.)
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Urban culture series will be continued in autumn with cabaret and comedy. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on August 30, 2006.
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Neckarsulm crime weeks offer exciting thrills for young and old. Press release from the City of Neckarsulm on February 8, 2007.
- ^ Andreas Bracht: Film art program of the city of Neckarsulm with positive feedback. Press release of the city of Neckarsulm from January 18, 2008.
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Film art series of the city of Neckarsulm shows screen classics. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on January 30, 2009.
- ^ Exhibition "Terra Inkognita" with works by Gunther Stilling , press release of the city of Neckarsulm from November 4, 2008.
- ↑ A symbol for human understanding from "first hand" , press release of the city of Neckarsulm from November 2, 2007.
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Fifth sculpture symposium "Art Moves" opened in Neckarsulm. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on June 30, 2006.
- ^ Andreas Bracht: Exhibition "Art Moves 2007" opened by the Künstlerbund in Neckarsulm. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on July 9, 2007.
- ↑ "KUNSTBEWEGT Neckarsulm 2007: Art in Urban Space" on the Internet presence of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg e. V.
- ^ Andreas Bracht: Sixth sculpture symposium "Art Moves" until October 5th in Neckarsulm. Press release of the city of Neckarsulm from September 30, 2008.
- ^ Andreas Bracht: Eighth sculpture symposium "Art Moves" until July 19 in Neckarsulm. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on July 10, 2009.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Leitz: Popular and top-class sport belong together. In: Neckarsulmer Voice , Part 1: May 25, 2007 (p. 3), Part 2: June 1, 2007 (p. 3).
- ^ Andreas Bracht: World Champion Wilhelm Schröder wins bronze in Finland. Press release of the City of Neckarsulm from October 29, 2009.
- ^ Lars Müller-Appenzeller: Britsch new junior world champion . In: Heilbronn voice . March 15, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on March 16, 2009]).
- ↑ Support group Neckarsulm , magazine DTS , 1976/3, p. 47 + magazine tischtennis , 2005/11, p. 5.
- ^ Rolf Muth: Back on the road to success. In: Heilbronner Voice of June 21, 2007, p. 27.
- ↑ Heike Kinkopf: "Aquatoll is the flagship of the city" . In: Heilbronn voice . April 16, 2009, p. 32 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 1, 2009]).
- ↑ Internet presence of the “Strong Families Foundation - Neckarsulm” , accessed: December 17, 2009.
- ↑ Annual report of AUDI AG for 2008, accessed on June 8, 2009 (261 pages, PDF file 11 MB).
- ↑ Manfred Stockburger: Turntable secures Audi jobs . In: Heilbronn voice . April 23, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 8, 2009]).
- ↑ Manfred Stockburger: Audi is buying in the region for 2.7 billion euros . In: Heilbronn voice . November 22, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 8, 2009]).
- ↑ More jobs than residents in Neckarsulm and Walldorf. State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg, July 19, 2011, archived from the original on July 22, 2011 ; Retrieved July 27, 2011 (press release no.240/2011).
- ↑ Brochure of the city of Neckarsulm: Stadtinfo - Bürgerinfo - Gewerbeinfo. Neckarsulm 2006, p. 9ff.
- ↑ Reto Bosch: The city won thanks to Volker Blust . In: Heilbronn voice . October 27, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 6, 2009]).
- ↑ Reto Bosch: Municipalities pay 103 million euros . In: Heilbronn voice . January 21, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed June 6, 2009]).
- ↑ Heike Kinkopf: The first violin in the concert of the municipalities . In: Heilbronn voice . January 16, 2008.
- ^ Wolfram Angerbauer: Viticulture in Neckarsulm before 1800 . In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 89–98.
- ^ Wolfram Angerbauer: Viticulture in Neckarsulm in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Neckarsulm. The history of a city , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 225–240.
- ^ Wolfram Angerbauer: Viticulture and pressing in Neckarsulm . Ed .: Kreissparkasse Heilbronn, Neckarsulm 1986, pp. 1–26.
- ↑ Brochure from Stadtwerke Neckarsulm: Collecting the sun - storing heat: Solar heat storage project in the Neckarsulm-Amorbach II. Neckarsulm 2004 construction area.
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Neckarsulm remains German champion in the German Solar League. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on June 13, 2007.
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- ^ Andreas Bracht: From the industrial wasteland to the city boulevard. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on June 30, 2009.
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Neckarsulm municipal council resolves a bundle of measures to optimize public transport. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on June 11, 2007.
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- ^ Andreas Bracht: City of Neckarsulm is preparing the new central bus stop. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on February 13, 2009.
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- ↑ Internet presence of the Neckarsulm media library .
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- ↑ Internet presence of the Neckarsulm-Erlenbach-Untereisesheim social station .
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- ↑ Internet presence of the Neckarsulm fire brigade .
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- ^ Tanja Ochs: Five new all-day schools approved . In: Heilbronn voice . February 23, 2017 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on February 23, 2017]).
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Local council currently. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on February 19, 2009.
- ^ Andreas Bracht: Stadtische Musikschule Neckarsulm commemorates its figurehead , press release of the city of Neckarsulm from March 16, 2009.
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- ↑ Andreas Bracht: State certificate confirms the quality of the Neckarsulm VHS. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on July 5, 2007.
- ↑ Information accessed on the Christian Schmidt School's website : November 8, 2009.
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- ^ Andreas Bracht: City of Neckarsulm involved the young generation in planning the new "House of Youth". Press release of the city of Neckarsulm from March 8, 2007.
- ^ Andreas Bracht: A four-star house for open communal youth work in Neckarsulm. Press release of the City of Neckarsulm from October 24, 2008.
- ^ Andreas Bracht: The youth development program of the city of Neckarsulm is exemplary nationwide. Press release from the city of Neckarsulm on February 15, 2007.
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- ^ Anton Heyler: Neckarsulm in the ups and downs of half a century. (see literature), pp. 58 and 92.
- ^ Honorary citizen Karl Volk died. Stimme.de, December 7, 2012, accessed December 7, 2012 .
- ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, accessed on June 12, 2019 . .
- ↑ Bernd Müller: Kurt Bauer is now also an honorary citizen of the city of Carmaux in France, Neckarsulm's first twin city since 1958. Press release of the City of Neckarsulm from September 24, 2007.
- ↑ Bernd Friedel: Kurt Bauer is 75th. Press release of the city of Neckarsulm from May 7th, 2009.
- ↑ Andreas Bracht: Outgoing Mayor Volker Blust made an honorary citizen of the city of Neckarsulm. Press release of the City of Neckarsulm from October 28, 2008.
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- ↑ Bernd Friedel: On the death of August Vogt. Neckarsulm Journal, March 2009, published by Stadtverwaltung Neckarsulm, p. 12.
- ↑ Peter Schneider: The NSU Story - The Chronicle of a World Brand. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 15.
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