Nussbach (Oberkirch)

Nussbach City of Oberkirch
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	172 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.31 km²
Residents :	1718  (March 31, 2005)
Population density :	324 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1974
Postal code :	77704
Area code :	07805

Nussbach - "the village of sunflowers" - is a district of the town of Oberkirch in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg . Nussbach has 1718 inhabitants on an area of ​​5.31 km² (of which 0.38 km² is forest). It is the oldest parish in the Renchtal and, with the parish church of St. Sebastian, also has the oldest church in the valley.

history

On July 1, 1974, Nussbach (then spelling) was incorporated into Oberkirch.

Events

The Nussbach village festival

Since 1994, the thousandth anniversary of the village, a three-day village festival has been held every year in August. The local associations organize catering for the festival visitors. They erect numerous tents and stalls for this purpose. The festival is known, among other things, for the festival mile lavishly decorated with flowers and figures of hay bales. Other special attractions of the festival result from the romantic atmosphere along the brook, as well as from the numerous sunflowers planted for this occasion in the fields near the village.

Regular program items of the festival include a .:

• Farmers market
• Craftsmen and hobbyists market with sales
• Gaudi soap box race
• Children's afternoon "Kids creative"
• The drawing of the prize winners of the raffle
• Tent disco, designed by the rural youth

In addition, efforts are made every year to achieve a special highlight, for example a Lotus Super Seven meeting took place in 2006 . About 20 sports cars with participants from all over southern Germany took part in the presentation drive. In 2007, special highlights were a vintage car presentation and the anniversary soap box race on the occasion of the tenth Gaudi soap box race.

media

Through the local events in Oberkirch and its suburbs, including Nußbach, reported as a daily newspaper , the Acher-Rench-Zeitung of Mittelbadische press. The Oberkircher Gemeindeblatt Der Rundblick provides information about events in the city center as well as events in Nussbach and the other districts.

Attractions

• Catholic Church of St. Sebastian : the most valuable historical building in Nussbach. Romanesque tympanum with a border of heart-shaped leaf tendrils, which are close to the tympanum of the St. Martin Church in Pforzheim . The tympanum carries the lamb in the center, flanked by a sheet mask and grotesque . The church tower is Gothic with a neo-Gothic spire. The nave was rebuilt in 1827 by the master builder Johann Ludwig Weinbrenner in the classical style.

education

• Krongutschule Nussbach (elementary school) and branch of the August Ganther School
• Kindergarten St. Josef

Web links

• Information about Nussbach on the homepage of the city of Oberkirch.
• St. Sebastian in Nussbach ( Memento from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on an architecture website.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 513 .
2. ↑ Ulrike Kalbaum: Romanesque lintels and tympana in southwest Germany: studies on their form, function and iconography. Waxmann Verlag, 2011, accessed on February 3, 2019 .