Neufra (Riedlingen)

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Neufra
City of Riedlingen
Former coat of arms of Neufra an der Donau
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 540 m above sea level NN
Residents : 947  (March 1, 2016)
Incorporation : June 1, 1972
Postal code : 88499
Area code : 07371

The village of Neufra is a district of Riedlingen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Biberach .

geography

Neufra is located on the steep eastern edge of the Danube Valley , around one kilometer from the river. The Röthenbach, which rises in the neighboring municipality of Erisdorf, flows through the village .

history

The district of Neufra was already a settlement area in ancient times. In 1984/85, for example, remains of Roman buildings were found on aerial photographs , which suggest a Roman estate ( villa rustica ).

Neufra on the Danube around 1900

Neufra, in early documents also Neufrach , Neufern or Niverun , once belonged to the Lords of Gundelfingen , from 1546 to the Counts of Helfenstein and from 1627 to the Princes of Fürstenberg . There were two locks in the area.

The pastor of Neufra, which in 1806 became an independent parish in the Württemberg Oberamt Riedlingen , received the so-called "Springhaber" in the amount of three 'Simri' oats that citizens had to pay for illegitimate impregnations in 1827. From 1810 the Oberamt Riedlingen belonged to the Landvogtei on the Danube. In 1818 it belonged to the Danube District , which was dissolved in 1924. In 1934 the Oberamt Riedlingen was renamed the Riedlingen district , in 1938 it was dissolved and its communities assigned to the Saulgau district .

As part of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the previously independent municipality of Neufra was incorporated into Riedlingen on June 1, 1972, and after the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , it belonged to the Biberach district since January 1, 1973.

Population development

The place had a population of 742 on June 6, 1961. On May 27, 1970 there were 702 inhabitants. On March 31, 2016, the population was 947.

religion

The Protestant Christians Neufras belong to the church district of Biberach via the parish of Riedlingen .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the formerly independent municipality of Neufra shows a red and gold crossed shield in the 1st and 4th field, a standing silver elephant facing towards the center, in the 2nd and 3rd field an inwardly inclined, chopped red bar. The elephant is a rare heraldic animal in European heraldry , it symbolizes the rule of Helfenstein.

Historic hanging garden in Neufra

Buildings

  • The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul is located on the Schlossberg next to Neufra Castle . The note “ niclaus weckman, bildhawer ” was discovered in 1964 on the “knight Stefan von Gundelfingen” in the church .
  • The hanging gardens of Neufra : A renaissance garden that was created between 1569 and 1573 by Count Georg von Helfenstein with 202 serfs in front of his castle as a "hanging garden" on a specially built extension of the natural castle hill on a flat surface. The garden is supported by 14 up to nine meter high vaults. The historic garden was restored in 1988 on the private initiative of Waltraud Johannsen based on a drawing from the archives of the Princes of Fürstenberg with the help of the Monument Office.
  • On the western outskirts of the town was the Ranzenburg , which was now lost .
  • Old Neufra Castle
  • New Neufra Castle

traffic

Neufra is on the federal highway 311 and on the Ulm – Sigmaringen railway line .

Personalities

Personalities who were born here

Personalities who have worked on site

literature

  • Karl Werner Steim: Neufra on the Danube . Volume 1: From aristocracy to the Kingdom of Württemberg, City of Riedlingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-947348-10-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Neufra  - in the description of the Oberamt Riedlingen from 1827

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Gensheimer: Luftbildarchäologie in Baden-Württemberg in the years 1984/85 . In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 1985 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, p. 14ff., ISBN 3-8062-0465-9
  2. ^ 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. 532 .
  3. ↑ http://www.riedlingen.de/Home/Ppolitik+_+Verwaltung/Ortschaften.html
  4. ↑ Xaver Knittel (xk): On the trail of the early ancestors . In: Südkurier from June 1, 2005
  5. ^ The historic hanging garden of Neufra on the Danube ; Retrieved July 27, 2011