Neufra

This article deals with the municipality of Neufra in the district of Sigmaringen. For other places with this name, see Neufra (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 11'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Sigmaringen
Height :	680 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.39 km 2
Residents:	1852 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	72419
Area code :	07574
License plate :	SIG
Community key :	08 4 37 082
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Im Oberdorf 41 72419 Neufra
Website :	www.neufra.de
Mayor :	Reinhard Traub
Location of the municipality of Neufra in the district of Sigmaringen

Neufra is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the valley of the Fehla , a tributary of the Lauchert on the Zollernalb .

Neighboring communities

Neufras are neighboring Neufras Bitz in the west, Burladingen and its suburb Gauselfingen in the northwest, Gammertingen and its district Bronnen in the north and east, Hettingen in the southeast, Veringenstadt in the south and Harthausen auf der Scher , a district of Winterlingen in the southwest.

Community structure

The community Neufra consists of the actual place Neufra and the district Freudenweiler. The Birkhof domain also belongs to Neufra.

coat of arms	District	Population (as of December 31, 2012)	surface
	Neufra (core town)	1647	?
	Freudenweiler	242	?

history

The demarcation of today's Neufra community was already a settlement area in recent prehistory and early history: grave finds in Freudenweiler and Neufra date to the middle Bronze Age around 1500 BC. BC, ceramic finds at the gate cave in the late Bronze Age (Bz D) around 1200-1300 BC. And in the late Latène around 150/100 BC BC to the birth of Christ, at today's location of the town hall in the upper village in the urn field culture between 750 and 450 BC. And in Freudenweiler and Neufra in the Hallstatt period around 1200 BC. BC. The Celts left a hamlet with joy Viereckschanze from the 1st century BC. Finds from Roman times on the northern slope of the Ebinger Berg date to the 1st / 2nd centuries. Century BC Chr.

Neufra is probably an Alemannic settlement from the 6th / 7th. Century. The name Niwifara can be derived from “new clan” or “new ford”. In 1138 Neufra was first mentioned as Nufiron in the chronicle of Berthold von Zwiefalten .

The Lords of Lichtenstein were first mentioned in Neufra in 1182. The hamlet of Unterlichtenstein went in the 14./15. Century from. In 1468, Count Ulrich von Württemberg sold the Gammertingen estate with Neufra to Hans and Konrad von Bubenhofen, and in 1474 he sold Vorderlichtenstein and half of the Hinterlichtenstein to his landlord Hans von Bubenhofen. In 1507 the creditors of Hans Caspar von Bubenhofen sold the rule Gammertingen-Hettingen with Neufra to the Obervogt von Urach Dietrich von Speth von Zwiefalten. This marks the beginning of von Speth's rule.

In 1534 Duke Ulrich von Württemberg occupied the rival rule of Gammertingen and introduced the Reformation . With the death of Maria Antonia Emerentia von Speth, daughter of Hans Dietrich, in 1735 the Neufra line of Speth ends after being divided several times. Today's street village Freudenweiler (original name Neuhofen ) goes back to the Neufra citizen Gregor Wetzel, who built the first house on May 24, 1795 at the suggestion of Marquard Carl Anton Speth on the territory of the Speth's rule Gammertingen / Hettingen. The end of Speth's rule came in 1806: Neufra, with 846 inhabitants the largest town under the former Speth's rule, came to the principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . The von Speths sell their possessions to the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1827.

The domain Birkhof was first mentioned in 1509 in the possession of the Lords of Bubenhofen . In the course of history it was sold to various noble houses until it was taken over by the Princes of Hohenzollern in 1827 .

In 1850 Neufra became Prussian with the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as part of the Hohenzollern Lands .

A typhus epidemic of 1814 claims 84 deaths in Neufra, one of 1862/63 136. In 1816/17 there is a great famine in the town. In the German-Danish war of 1864 three Neufraer take part. In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, 32 Neufra were under arms, Neufra was temporarily occupied by Württemberg troops.

Neufra was electrified in 1914 and Freudenweiler in 1925. The district of Sigmaringen was created in 1925, and Neufra remained an independent municipality during the Baden-Württemberg district reform in 1973 . After the Second World War , Neufra was part of the French zone of occupation from 1945 to 1949 . In 1967 the development plan for the Upper Fehlatal began ; a year later and 1986 followed Auf dem Lau and Auf dem Lau I , between 1971, 1976 and 1980 Rädlesberg I-III and 1973 Alte Steige . In 1988 the development plan for the Hochberg I industrial area began . In 1990 the development plans for Deißlesberg I and Im Schachen followed . The Hochberg industrial park was completed in the same year .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Neufra has 10 members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the local council was elected by majority vote. Majority voting takes place if no or only one nomination has been submitted. The applicants with the highest number of votes are then elected. The municipal council consists of the voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The turnout was 62.7% (2014: 57.9%).

mayor

• 1962–1982: Karl Kast (CDU)
• 1982–1990: Joachim Schweizer
• 1990–1998: Johannes Hauser
• 1998–2014: Jürgen Beck
• since 2014: Reinhard Traub

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms of Neufra, awarded in 1952, shows a split shield, in front a silver eagle's wing (Lichtensteiner wing) in blue, behind in silver a red armored and red-tongued blue lion (Veringer lion).

Town twinning

• 1990: Elstra in Saxony (administrative partnership )
• 1991: Fiesch in the canton of Valais , Switzerland (community partnership)

Culture and sights

Neufra is located on the Hohenzollernstrasse and is part of the holiday region "In the Lauchert Valley".

Buildings

Neufra (Hohenzollern) around 1900

Sacred buildings

• The popularly so called Mother of God Chapel in the lower village with a former cemetery bears the patronage of the Holy Trinity as well as the patronage of the Virgin Mary and was built in 1591 by Baron Schad von Mittelbiberach and his wife Margarethe. It is equipped with a carved winged altar from the time of construction in the Mannerist style ; the altar shrine shows the mercy seat . A renovation took place in 1959.
• The parish church of St. Mauritius had a previous building that Albrecht von Speth had built between 1603 and 1604 for himself and his family as a burial place. In the years 1860 to 1862, under court architect Josef Laur and pastor Felix Bürkle, a new building was built in the neo-Gothic style. The stones of the church were broken in Weildorf .
• The Hochbergkapelle is a plastered chapel from 1751 and was formerly a Heiligkreuz pilgrimage chapel with votive tablets by painters from the surrounding area. It was built after 14 years of hail by Pastor Constantin Adelbert Sallwürk.
• The Franz Xaver Chapel in Freudenweiler was built in neo-Gothic form in 1850 and renovated in 1959.

Secular buildings

Keep of the ruins of Hinterlichtenstein

• The former Speth'sche Schlössle was built in 1690 as the residence of Hans Dietrich von Speth. It has a sandstone arched portal with pilasters and a triangular gable. In 1827 the Schlössle became a princely forest office. Today it is privately owned and is not accessible.
• The freely accessible ruins of the Old Castle from the 11th or 12th century show the remains of Engadine masonry. At the same time, it is the site of finding play figures of an oriental type from the 11th century.
• The Lichtenstein ruin is a castle ruin between Neufra and Gauselfingen. The freely accessible double castle is divided into the Vorderlichtenstein, also called Bubenhofen, and the Hinterlichtenstein and was the seat of the Lords of Lichtenstein . The shield wall and parts of the tower were preserved.
• The Freudenweiler schoolhouse was built in the summer of 1884 under the direction of master carpenter Balthasar Burkarth (1829–1911) from Gammertingen. It was taught here until 1968.
• The Zehntscheuer - donated by Swenger von Lichtenstein as Nikolauskapelle in 1332 - is an example of a profaned church in the wake of changed beliefs and rulers. Built into the tithe barn by Duke Ulrich in 1543, the small late Gothic window in the barn wall was preserved. It makes the former use as a sacred space understandable today.

Natural monuments

• The “Herdle” nature reserve has largely preserved the meadow and hedge landscape typical of the Alps with the associated variety of animals and plants. The Freudenweiler district has a large area of ​​juniper heath followed by a succession forest.
• In the "Teufelstal" there are the peat rock caves on the upper edge of a steep valley slope , they can only be reached from above.

Sports

• In Neufra, winter sports can be practiced with floodlights over a length of 250 meters using the Roter-Bühl-Lift. The “Kohlloipe” of the Neufra ski club is a circular hiking trail with a length of six and ten kilometers. In 2010 it was continued as far as Bitz and here it was connected to the Degerfeld trail, resulting in a distance of around 15 kilometers. If there is enough snow (20 to 25 centimeters) there is a cross-country ski run on the hill between Neufra and Gammertingen.
• The running and bike event has been taking place in summer since 2002 . There are competitions in mountain biking, running and Nordic walking.

Others

The Wolfstein in Neufra is a reminder of the successful hunt for the last wolf in Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. It was shot near Gauselfingen on January 18, 1831 , after breaking into pens near Kettenacker , Harthausen and Feldhausen in June 1830 and killing three sheep. The animal preparation , called " Isegrim " by the population , is in the "Hubertussaal" at Sigmaringen Castle .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The community is located in honeycomb 439. The federal road 32 runs through the village from Lindenberg in the Allgäu to Hechingen . In 1907/08 the Burladingen – Gammertingen railway line and the Neufra train station were built. In 1970 the regular steam locomotive operation at the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn was stopped. The station building in Neufra was demolished in 1977.

Infrastructure

The Lichtenstein spring between Neufra and Gauselfingen was taken in 1847, but many residents in Neufra had to use fountains and drinking troughs and wash in the Fehla. In 1928, water came out of the pipe for the first time with the long-awaited aqueduct. At that time, the whole place celebrated the event with a large water festival. Guido Steinhart wrote the appropriate poem and a song for it. The Lichtenstein spring has an average discharge of 50 liters per second.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Karl Kast (1919–2011), politician (CDU), mayor i. R., holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded the Konrad Adenauer Medal of the Senior Citizens' Union (2005), only honorary president of the Hohenzollern Turngau
• 1965: Dean Albert Traub, has been pastor in Neufra since 1937

Sons and daughters of the church

• Werner Acker (* 1955), musician and university lecturer

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Homepage of the community ; accessed on August 13, 2016
3. ↑ http://www.neufra.de/HAUPTSEITE/gemeindeinfos/geschichte/geschichte.htm History of Neufra
4. ↑ Veringenstadt City Archives: Services of the merrymakers in building the church in Neufra 1860
5. ↑ Manfred Hermann: Folk art on the high mountain near Neufra: Evidence of popular piety on the Zollernalb . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1974, ISBN 3-7995-4022-9
6. ↑ Jörg Widmaier: Not built on faith alone. Cultural monuments of the Reformation in Baden-Württemberg. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 46 (2017) Issue 1, pp. 7–8
7. ↑ Jürgen Meyer: Wild caves, grottos, rock nests: 100 mysterious cavities between the Alb and the Danube . Oertel & Spörer, 2011, ISBN 3-88627-479-9 . Pp. 68-69.
8. ↑ Karlheinz Fahlbusch (kf): Winter fun in the district. Cross-country trails are groomed. In: Südkurier from January 9, 2009
9. ↑ Ski areas in our region . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from December 4, 2010
10. ↑ ^{a b} Ignaz Stösser (is): Winter sports enthusiasts cavort on the slopes of the Alb . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 15, 2010
11. ↑ Martina Goldau (mag): Peterchens Mondfahrt and a lot of snow . In: Südkurier of December 8, 2006
12. ↑ Lichtenstein spring. Neufra celebrates water supply . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , December 31, 2008
13. ^ Obituary by the community of Neufra, in: Schwäbische Zeitung of November 2, 2011
14. ↑ diet: Well-wishers remember the achievements of the jubilee . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of October 27, 2009
15. ↑ Ursula Mallkowsky (sky): Turngau Hohenzollern . In: Südkurier of November 16, 2010