Bühl (Baden)

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Rastatt
Height :	138 m above sea level NHN
Area :	73.2 km 2
Residents:	28,900 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	395 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	77815
Primaries :	07223, 07227
License plate :	RA, bra
Community key :	08 2 16 007
City structure:	Core city and 10 districts
; City administration address :	Hauptstrasse 47 ; 77815 Bühl
Website :	www.buehl.de
Lord Mayor :	Hubert Schnurr (Free Voters)
Location of the city of Bühl in the Rastatt district

The New Town Hall in Bühl

Bühl is a city in the west of Baden-Württemberg about ten kilometers southwest of Baden-Baden . After the district town of Rastatt and the city of Gaggenau, it is the third largest city in the Rastatt district and forms a central center for the surrounding communities. Bühl has been a major district town since January 1, 1973 . The city of Bühl has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the municipality of Ottersweier .

geography

Geographical location

Bühl is located at an altitude of 123 to 1038 meters in the middle of a three-tier panoramic landscape. This extends from the Rhine plain , which is determined by arable farming, over the foothills , where wine and fruit growing dominate, to the forestry mountains of the Black Forest . The city lies on both sides of the Bühlot and its lower reaches, the Sandbach .

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border the city of Bühl. They are listed clockwise starting in the north, whereby not all exclaves of the mentioned municipalities are considered in the order.

Baden-Baden ( urban district ), Forbach ( Rastatt district ), an exclave of Sasbach , Lauf (both Ortenau districts ) and Ottersweier , Lichtenau , Rheinmünster and Sinzheim (all Rastatt districts). The municipality of Bühlertal is largely surrounded by the east of the Bühler urban area.

City structure

The Bühler urban area is divided into the core town and the districts of Altschweier, Balzhofen, Eisental, Kappelwindeck, Moos , Neusatz , Oberbruch, Oberweier, Vimbuch and Weitenung , nine of which were only incorporated as part of the community reform in the 1970s.

In the districts of Altschweier, Eisental, Neusatz, Vimbuch and Weitenung, there is a local administration where the most important local tasks of a municipality can be carried out. There is also a mayor here . In each of the districts of Balzhofen, Moos, Oberbruch and Oberweier there is a municipal administrative office with a local representative.

In addition to the districts, there are other residential areas and residential areas with their own names, but their boundaries are usually not precisely defined. This includes, for example, Affental, Bach, Brombach, Bühlerhöhe , Ebene, Einsiedel, Elzhofen, Fischerhöfe, Gebersberg, Hohbaum, Kirchbühl, Müllenbach, Neusatzeck, Ottenhofen, Riegel, Rittersbach, Sand , Schugshof, Schweighof, Waldmatt, Witstung and Wört.

Spatial planning

Bühl forms a middle center within the Middle Upper Rhine region , the upper center of which is the city of Karlsruhe . In addition to the city of Bühl, the cities and communities of Bühlertal , Lichtenau , Ottersweier and Rheinmünster of the Rastatt district belong to the central area of Bühl . There are also links with Northern Alsace .

history

Until the 18th century

The city of Bühl was first mentioned in a document in 1149. Windeck Castle was built around 1200. The oldest known mention of the place name Bühl comes from the year 1283; at that time noble servant Burkhard von Crutenbach handed over his goods "in banno Buhel" to the abbot and convent of the Schwarzach monastery. In 1370 or 1371, in a feud between Reinhard von Windeck and the city of Strasbourg, Bühl and the surrounding villages were badly affected. In 1403 King Ruprecht of the Palatinate granted Knight Reinhard von Windeck market rights.

In 1514 the construction of the old Bühler parish church St. Peter and Paul, which has served as the town hall since 1880, began; this construction was completed in 1524. During the witch persecution from 1546 to 1661, 141 people were charged in so-called witch trials in Bühl , 33 trials ended with an execution.

In 1561, Alt-Windeck Castle is said to have fallen into ruin. Since then, at the latest, the von Windeck men have lived in their castle courtyard in Bühl; in its place is today the inn "Badischer Hof". In 1592 this knight family (Windeck in the male line) went out with the death of Junker Jakob von Windeck.

During the Thirty Years' War , Croatian troops invaded Bühl in 1622 and destroyed the market town; From 1632 to 1634 and 1643 the place was occupied by Swedish troops. With the War of the Palatinate Succession , Bühl was almost completely destroyed again in 1689; between 1703 and 1707 the area around the place was again a theater of war in the War of the Spanish Succession . Under the supreme command of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden , the so-called "Türkenlouis", the Bühl-Stollhofen line could be defended.

In 1776 the place became completely Baden with the sale of the imperial fief of the von Walderdorff family to Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden . 1788 the seat of the office Steinbach (formerly Yberg ) was moved from Steinbach to Bühl.

19th century

In 1813 the Bühl office became a district office. The synagogue was built between 1822 and 1823. In 1835 Bühl was granted city rights by Grand Duke Leopold von Baden .

Around 1840 an unusually early ripening and resilient plum variety was discovered in Kappelwindeck, which gained in importance as “ Bühler Frühzwetschge ”, especially after the harsh winter of 1879/1880, and which served the city as a new source of income after the decline of the hemp industry . In 1846 Bühl was connected to the newly opened railway line between Oos and Offenburg. During the revolution of 1848/1849, Obervogt Josef Häfelin fled the unrest to Baden-Baden. There were riots against Jewish residents. The Protestant community's first own church was built in 1856 in a former brewery between Krempengasse and Bühlot. The building was demolished in 1969. Since 1863, the Bühl district office belonged to the Baden (-Baden) district. Between 1873 and 1876 the new Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul was built according to plans by the Baden-Baden district building inspector Karl Dernfeld ; the old parish church was converted into the town hall between 1879 and 1880.

20th century

Since the beginning of the 20th century the infrastructure of the place has been steadily improved; In 1902 the construction of the central water supply began; Electric light was introduced in 1920, and after the district was enlarged in 1924, the sewer system was built between 1926 and 1934.

In 1919 the fruit sales cooperative (OAG) was founded; 1927 took place on 6-8. The first plum festival took place on August 28th, and in 1928 the first Bühler theater started operations.

During the time of National Socialism National Socialist legislation was brought into line Buhler council in 1933 in the course. On November 10, 1938, the Bühler Synagogue was destroyed in the Night of the Reichspogrom; there were also riots against Jewish citizens. In 1939 the Bühl district was created from the Bühl district office . In 1940, on October 22nd, 26 Jewish citizens from Bühl were deported to the Gurs camp in the French Pyrenees. Only a few of them survived the National Socialist terror. 6% of Bühl, which had 6,932 inhabitants in 1939, was destroyed by air raids. At the end of the Second World War , French troops marched into Bühl on April 14, 1945 .

On September 15, 1946, the first free municipal council elections after 1933 took place. In 1972, after the incorporation of nine neighboring communities, the city's population exceeded the 20,000 mark. Thereupon, the city administration applied for a major district town , which the state government of Baden-Württemberg decided with effect from January 1, 1973. At the same time, Bühl lost its function as a district seat because the Bühl district was dissolved. Its northern area with the city of Bühl fell to the Rastatt district, the southern area to the newly formed Ortenaukreis . Three places had already been incorporated into the Baden-Baden district in 1972 .

Incorporations

The following communities and districts were incorporated into the city of Bühl:

1934: Kappelwindeck
1936: Windeck Castle
January 1, 1971: Neusatz (with Waldmatt incorporated in 1936) and Oberweier
January 1, 1972: Balzhofen, Eisental and Oberbruch
January 1, 1973: Altschweier, Moos , Vimbuch and Weitenung

Coats of arms of the districts

Kappelwindeck
New set
Waldmatt
Oberweier
Balzhofen
Eisental
Oberbruch
Old Swiss
moss
Vimbuch
Widening

Population development

Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).

Population development of Bühl from 1805 to 2017

Year / date	Residents
1805	1,822
1825	2.142
1846	2,860
December 1, 1871	2,383
December 1, 1880¹	3,002
December 1, 1900 ¹	3,306
December 1, 1910¹	3,640
October 8, 1919 ¹	3,764
1930	4,290
June 16, 1933 ¹	4,400
May 17, 1939 ¹	6,932
1946 ¹	7,049
September 13, 1950 ¹	7,735

Year / date	Residents
June 6, 1961 ¹	9,140
May 27, 1970 ¹	10,013
December 31, 1975	21,596
December 31, 1980	22.307
May 25, 1987 ¹	23,246
December 31, 1990	24,667
December 31, 1995	27,088
December 31, 2000	28,690
December 31, 2005	29,476
December 31, 2010	29,452
December 31, 2015	28,882
December 31, 2017	29,000

¹ census result

Religions

Churches

View from the Carl-Netter-Turm: in the back in the middle the Bühler city church St. Peter and Paul , in front the monastery Maria Hilf

The community of Bühl initially belonged to the diocese of Strasbourg and was subordinate to the archdeacon "Ultra Rhenum", Landkapitel Ottersweier. Under Margrave Bernhard III. and Philibert as well as under Baden-Durlach administration from 1594 there were reformatory efforts, but the Catholic services were not stopped. From the middle of the 17th century, the population returned to Catholicism. The community initially belonged to the diocese of Strasbourg, from 1808 to the diocese of Constance , before it became part of the newly founded Archdiocese of Freiburg in 1821/27 . Bühl was assigned to the dean's office in Baden-Baden.

Today there are the following parishes and churches in the urban area of Bühls:

Pastoral care unit Bühl-Stadt with the two parishes St. Peter and Paul (core city) and St. Maria (Kappelwindeck),
St. Gallus Altschweier (church built in 1863),
St. Matthäus Eisental (church built in 1828),
St. Dionysius Moos (church built in 1788),
St. Karl Borromäus Neusatz / St. Carolus Neusatz (church built 1911–1913)
St. Johannes the Baptist Vimbuch (church built in 1889; also responsible for Balzhofen, Oberbruch and Oberweier - in Oberweier there is a chapel from 1720, which was rebuilt in 1896),
"Zum Hl. Blut" expansion (church built in 1923).

At the beginning of the 19th century, Protestants moved to Bühl again. There was a Protestant community from 1850, which was initially supplied from Illenau . It had its own pastor from 1854. Two years later, the congregation received a house of prayer and from 1892 its own church, which was rebuilt in 1967 (today's Johanneskirche). The community initially belonged to the church district Rheinbischofsheim, today to Baden-Baden and Rastatt. The Johannesgemeinde Bühl also includes Protestants from some parts of the city of Bühl. The Protestant parishioners of the districts Altschweier, Neusatz and Sand belong to the Christ parish of Bühlertal, to which Ottersweier also belongs.

On the history of the Jewish community

In Bühl, which belonged to the margraviate of Baden until the beginning of the 19th century, a Jewish community existed until 1938. Its origins go back to the 16th century. For the first time, 1579 Jews are named in the city. After a temporary expulsion after 1622, there were again eleven Jewish households with 90 people in the city in 1698, and 17 families in 1721. In 1827 Bühl became the seat of a district rabbinate , to which up to 15 Jewish communities in the area belonged. Rabbi Baruch Mayer was made an honorary citizen of the city because of his services. The highest number of Jewish residents was reached around 1864 with 301 people. By 1900, the number fell to 226 due to emigration (1925: 111). As early as the 19th century, there were numerous Jewish trading and industrial establishments that were of great importance for economic life in the city. Around 1933 there were still brandy distilleries, textile shops, cattle shops, ironmongers and household stores, a Jewish inn and other things owned by Jewish families. As a result of the persecution and murder of Jews during the Nazi era , at least 24 of the 72 Jewish residents living in Bühl in 1933 were killed. The Jewish residential area was in the area of Johannesplatz and the adjacent side streets (Hänferdorf) until the 19th century.

At the end of the 17th century, the Jewish community of Bühl already had eleven households with 90 people. By then at the latest, there were more than ten religiously mature Jewish men in the city who were necessary for a minyan . In 1696, the barber Franz Oser in Bühl, who was in dispute with the protective Jew Joseph Jacob, claimed that he had set up a "Teufflian synagogue" in his house right next to the church, in which a "rascals, all Sabbath, Sunday and Holidays "come together. In 1705 Joseph Jacob bought the Gasthaus zum Adler at auction. At that time he was accused of wanting to set up a synagogue "to the detriment of the Christian Catholic religion" . It remains unclear whether a prayer room of the Jewish community was actually or should be housed in one of the houses.

Since 1723 at the latest, the Jewish community had a prayer room in Schmaul and Isak Bodemer's house. It was the former building at Schwanenstrasse 18, a "three-story corner house at the end of Schwanen- formerly Kornlaubgasse, on the commercial canal". The prayer room might have been on the third floor or in the attic of the house. There may have been a ritual bath in the basement. In 1927 this house was demolished when Johannesplatz was being modernized.

In 1821 the Jewish community in Bühl began planning “to build a new one in a more pleasant style instead of the existing dilapidated synagogue. She bought a suitable Jewish house for this purpose and had a construction plan made after the construction site, which we obediently submit ”(letter from the Bühl Office to the Grand Ducal Badische Landesdirektorium dated January 21, 1822). The municipality wanted to raise the estimated construction costs of 6,000 guilders from its own resources. Since the community was asked to build a new ritual bath at the same time, construction of the synagogue was postponed. Finally, with the approval of the authorities, it was decided to build the synagogue first and then the bathroom at a later date. The architect J. Wagner from Baden-Baden could be won as a master builder.

The new synagogue was built in 1823 in the neighborhood of the "old Jewish school ". Several photos have been preserved (see below) that show the view of the building towards Schwanenstrasse and in the direction of “Synagogenplatz” (since 1898: Johannesplatz). A representative building was created, the classicist facade design of which stood out from the surrounding residential area. In winter, services were held in a prayer room because the spacious synagogue was too cold.

In 1858 the synagogue was renovated. On the occasion of the reopening, the couple Joseph and Henriette Bielefeld donated a precious menorah . Two years later, the Bielefeld couple added a large golden chandelier to this foundation. In it there was a red glass vessel to hold the ner tamids for the deceased and six light holders towering above to hold the respective year candles. In the 1850s, major changes were made in the order of worship and the way the melodies were presented in many synagogues in the country. At the same time, a harmonium was purchased in the synagogue. According to a report from 1856, the Hebrew songs in the Bühler service were sung according to the "Braunschweiger Melodie", individual unison notes according to the melodies introduced in Mannheim. The Mannheim prayer book was used as a prayer book "as far as possible". In 1858 a synagogue choir was founded. All of these changes made the Buhler cantor David Brandeis harder. On the occasion of his 25th anniversary of service, the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums reported in 1859: “The local cantor David Brandeis, a man of the old school and of old age, has submitted with the greatest self-denial and devotion to the great effort that they have been doing for several years and especially since the recording of a physharmonica (= harmonium) at the local church service, impose on him the order and manner of presentation introduced. "

On August 1, 1898, the Synagogue Choir Association celebrated its 40th anniversary. A concert was held in the synagogue under the direction of Cantor Bruchsaler, at which the choirs made various contributions. The synagogue was completely overcrowded given the great interest in this concert.

Memorial stone for the deportation of Bühler Jews to the Gurs camp at the foot of the Pyrenees

During the Nazi era, there were attacks against the Bühl synagogue as early as 1935. During the November pogroms , unlike in most German cities, the synagogue was not set on fire on November 9th, but rather on the morning of November 10th. The action was carried out by the district leadership of the National Socialist Party. The fire brigade had been instructed to only protect the neighboring buildings. Most of the synagogue's inventory was destroyed in the fire, another part, sacred objects, but also the parochet was removed after the fire. Young people smashed the rabbinate's windows with stones. In the days after the synagogue was destroyed, the city administration had the fire ruins, including the buildings of the Meierhof and the Jewish school, torn down. The Jewish community had to pay the cost of 1,400 marks. Since she no longer had this money, she decided to sell the synagogue's property for this purpose. Since the synagogue fire took place in daylight, a citizen had the opportunity to film the fire. However, the author of the film is unknown. However, the Super 6 film was only found almost 60 years after the pogrom night. It documents the inaction of the fire brigade.

In the synagogue fire trial after 1945, a person involved in the November pogrom, an employee of the district administration, was sentenced to four months in prison. The man who set fire to the synagogue received a five-year prison sentence.

The synagogue site was rebuilt in 1983 (there is now an ice cream parlor on the site of the former synagogue). On November 10, 1983, Mayor Wendt and representatives of the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden unveiled a memorial stone in memory of the synagogue (Johannesplatz 10).

politics

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 49.4% (2014: 49.4%)

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Municipal council

The municipal council of the city of Bühl consists of 26 elected citizens. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	+/-
CDU	28.22%	7th	−2
FW	21.64%	6th	+1
SPD	14.22%	4th	−1
GAL	20.60%	5	+1
FDP	12.14%	3	± 0
AfD	5.19%	1	+1

mayor

A mayor had stood at the head of the community of Bühl since 1398 at the latest . He was appointed from 1488 by the margrave with the consent of the Lords of Windeck. Occasionally there was also a margrave Vogt or Ammann instead of the mayor, later mayor. He was assisted by the council with 12 members. The councils also served as judges for life. The mayor's term of office was one year. Since the 16th century, the mayor was appointed by the margrave for two years and by Windeck for the third year. At that time the council was occupied 3/4 by Baden and 1/4 by Windeck. The town of Oberbrück south of the Bühlot was self-administered and was not fully administered until 1848 with the municipality, which had meanwhile been elevated to the town of Bühl.

Since it was raised to the status of a major district town in 1973, the mayor has held the title of Lord Mayor . He is elected for a term of eight years. Hans Striebel's term of office would have ended normally in 2013, but he announced that he would resign at the end of 2011. Hubert Schnurr was elected as his successor on October 2, 2011 and took up his post in early 2012.

The mayors and mayors

1824–1832: Alois Vogt
1832–1844: Fidelis Fischer
1844–1861: Carl Berger
1861–1866: Amandus Schütt
1866–1870: Franz Conrad
1870–1873: Amandus Schütt
1873–1875: Carl Hug
1875–1881: Eduard Knörr
1881–1907: Johann Fraaß
1907–1909: Adalbert Stehle
1909–1919: Karl Bender

00.00.1919–15.08.1933: Edwin Grüninger
June 9, 1933– August 1, 1939: Philipp Ewald
November 15, 1939– February 15, 1940: Hermann Rehm
February 16, 1940– June 1, 1940: Richard Schick
June 1, 1940– December 15, 1944: Karl Renz
December 20, 1944– May 8, 1945: Hans Liewer
May 15, 1945– February 17, 1946: Edwin Grüninger
February 18, 1946–1948 00.00.: Johann Baptist Stratthaus
00.00.1948– 00.00.1957: Alfons Kist
July 4, 1957– September 30, 1981: Erich Burger
October 1, 1981–1989 00.00.: Ulrich Wendt
00.00.1989–30.09.1997: Gerhard Helbing
October 1, 1997– December 31, 2011: Hans Striebel (CDU)
01.01.2012– 00.00.0000: Hubert Schnurr (Free Voters)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the city of Bühl shows three golden two “Bühel” (= hill) in blue. The city flag is blue-yellow-blue with the city arms. The coat of arms and the flag have been in use for a very long time. The current form was established in 1900. It is a so-called "talking" coat of arms. In the 19th century, the hills were also interpreted as beehives and accordingly marked in the city's seals. But this representation was given up again because it could not be proven historically.

Town twinning

Bühl maintains city partnerships with the following cities :

France Villefranche-sur-Saône (France), since 1987
Moldova Republic Călărași Raion (Moldova), since 1990
Germany Schkeuditz ( Free State of Saxony ), since 1991
Spain Vilafranca del Penedès ( Spain ), since 2002

The district of Weitenung has maintained a partnership with the municipality of Mattsee in Austria since 1972 , the district of Vimbuch has maintained a partnership with the municipality of Mommenheim in France since 2005 . There are also friendly contacts between Bühl and the city of Haguenau in Alsace.

Culture and sights

theatre

Concerts, theater and musical performances as well as cabaret performances take place in the Neuer Markt community center. In the Schütte-Keller, a cabaret in the Hänferdorf, since 2000, under the direction of Rüdiger Schmitt and his association, events in the fields of cabaret, acoustic blues, chanson, acoustic guitar, songwriter, gypsy swing, but also bluegrass have been held at regular intervals Vaulted cellar required. The association also organizes larger events in the Neuer Markt community center, such as B. Magic Bühl with international magic artists.

Museums

Bühl has a local museum in the core city of Bühl and in the Weitenung district. In the district of Neusatz, the City History Institute is located in Waldsteg Castle, which looks after the archives and museums of the city of Bühl and the surrounding area.

City Chapel

The Stadtkapelle Bühl was founded in 1758 and is one of the oldest wind orchestras in Germany. The orchestra, with 70 musicians on all registers, was directed by City Music Director Herbert Ferstl, who was a trombonist in the Badisches Staatsorchester Karlsruhe. Rolf Hille has been the new conductor since July 2007.

Buildings

St. Peter and Paul and the town hall

The town hall with the tower of the former church is the symbol of the city. Next to it is the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul on the market square.

Other sights are the Roman milestone, the Bühlot Bridge, Schwanenstrasse, Johannesplatz, the “Hänferdorf”, the baroque church of St. Maria and the Alt-Windeck castle ruins .

Between the districts of Altschweier and Eisental there is also the Grand Duke Friedrich Jubilee Tower (called: Carl Netter observation tower). The tower was built in 1902 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Grand Duke Friedrich's reign and donated by the brothers Adolph and Carl Leopold Netter .

The Bühler Peace Cross was erected on a hill between Bühl and Ottersweier in 1952 as a symbol of reconciliation between France and Germany (and beyond).

Parks

Grand Duke Friedrich Monument in the city garden

The city garden was laid out in 1902. The bronze bust of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden is located at the Stadtgarten fountain.

The (new) city park is located west of the railway line and was opened to the public on June 21, 2008.

Regular events

The “Bühler Zwetschgenfest”, which takes place in September, attracts numerous visitors every year. The 71st plum festival took place in 2018. The figurehead of the festival, the city and the fruit itself is the Bühler plum queen, also known as the “blue queen”.

Every two years there was the “Bühler City Festival” in June. In 2006 the last one took place for the time being. A new edition is not planned.

The annual International Bühler Bluegrass Festival has been held since 2003 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Advertisement for Bühler Früh Zwetschgen 1898

The Bühl train station

New bus station in Bühl

Bühl is known nationwide for its "Bühler plums ". They are grown in the area around Bühl and offered on the markets in the surrounding area.

The history of Bühler plum goes back to 1840, when it was discovered on the farm of Matthäus Falk in Riegel. From this point on, the plums began to be marketed and distributed, which was still of great importance for Bühl's economy until the second half of the 20th century. A short time later, the first fruit market took place in Hauptstrasse, specifically for the sale of plums. This was then moved to Friedrichstrasse, later to Eisenbahnstrasse, until a fruit market hall of its own was built in 1935.

The Affentaler Winzer eG is a resident of Buhl wine cooperative with about 980 members.

traffic

Bühl is located on the federal motorway 5 Karlsruhe-Basel and can be reached via the Bühl junction. Bundesstraße 3 runs through the city .

The station Buhl is located on the Rhine Valley line Karlsruhe-Basel. Regional express trains to Karlsruhe and Konstanz as well as the S7 and S71 tram lines run here every hour . The local public transport ( ÖPNV ) serve several bus lines. Since the end of 2004 Bühl has been connected to the route network of the Karlsruhe Transport Association (KVV). The bus station, which went into operation in 2005, allows the regional bus lines to be easily connected to the KVV. From December 28, 1896 to September 15, 1958, the Bühlertal Railway ran as far as Bühlertal-Obertal, today nothing of the route is left.

Sports

TV Bühl's volleyball players have been playing in the 1st Bundesliga since the 2009/2010 season. In their first season they finished 7th and were able to participate in the playoffs. The swimming and gymnastics departments of TV Bühl also enjoy a national reputation. The youngest division of TV Bühl is baseball .

The Schartenberg Eisental rifle club is the home club of the silver medalist in the KK prone fight at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Christian Lusch . SV Eisental shot air rifles in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2000s. Teams and individual shooters repeatedly won medals and titles at the German championships.

Until 2006, a pair time trial of the UCI category 1.1 was usually organized in Bühl at the end of July under the name LuK Challenge .

media

A local edition of the Karlsruhe-based Badische Neuesten Nachrichten (BNN) as well as a local edition of the Badischer Tagblatt appear in Bühl as a daily newspaper under the name “Acher und Bühler Bote” . The Mittelbaden media center in Bühl is available for all questions relating to media education for 114 schools in the Rastatt and Baden-Baden districts.

Courts, authorities and institutions

Bühl is the seat of a local court , which belongs to the regional court district of Baden-Baden, as well as a notary's office, a branch of the Baden-Baden tax office and a branch of the Rastatt district office (including a vehicle registration office). In Bühl there is a women's prison as a branch of the Karlsruhe correctional facility .

education

Carl-Netter-Realschule

Bühl has a grammar school ( Windeck-Gymnasium ), a secondary school (Carl-Netter-Realschule), a special school (Rheintalschule), primary schools in the core city (Weststadt primary school) and in the districts of Altschweier, Eisental (Schartenberg primary school), Kappelwindeck ( Bachschloss-Schule) Neusatz (Schloßberg-Grundschule), Vimbuch (Tulla-Schule) and Weitenung as well as two primary and secondary schools with a Werkrealschule ( Aloys-Schreiber -Schule and Bachschloss-Schule).

The Rastatt district is responsible for the three vocational schools (Bühl commercial school with technical high school, Bühl commercial college with commercial high school and Elly-Heuss-Knapp school - home economics school).

The state-recognized private college for elderly care "Sancta Maria" rounds off Bühl's offerings.

The Waldorf kindergarten "Bühler Zwergenhaus", a one-group kindergarten , is also located in Bühl .

Established businesses

LuK GmbH & Co. KG in Bühl

The list includes the largest companies in Bühl:

UHU , manufacturer of adhesives (headquarters).
LuK , a supplier to the automotive industry, produces clutches and transmission components (headquarters).
GMT Gummi-Metall-Technik GmbH , manufacturer of noise and vibration dampers (headquarters).
Robert Bosch GmbH , supplier to the automotive industry (Bühl plant, another plant is in neighboring Bühlertal ).
USM U. Schärer Söhne AG, manufacturer of modular furniture systems (Bühl plant).
Kaba Gallenschütz GmbH, manufacturer and distributor of access controls and door systems (Bühl plant, belongs to dorma + kaba ).
Meckel-Spenglersan GmbH, manufacturer of pharmaceutical products ( Spenglersan colloids ).
Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH , manufacturer of explosion-protected bus systems and equipment for measurement and control technology (Bühl facility, intrinsically safe instrumentation, headquarters is Mannheim ).
Bada AG , manufacturer of engineering plastics (headquarters).
R & E Stricker Reha-Developments GmbH, manufacturer of handicapped-accessible bicycles.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Bühl has granted honorary citizenship to the following persons (honorary citizenship expires with death):

1833: Ignatz Jörger, doctor
1871: Fidel Stiegler, senior magistrate
1875: Josef Krieg, Medical Councilor
1878: Xaver Knoblauch, parish priest

Carl Leopold Netter

Anneliese Knoop-Graf

1906: Carl Leopold Netter , manufacturer
1918: Bernhard Dertinger, Medical Councilor
1924: Alexander Wittmann, senior teacher
1925: Baruch Mayer, district rabbi
1929: Wilhelm Röckel, parish priest
1933: Adolf Hitler , Chancellor (revoked)
1933: Robert Wagner , Reich Commissioner (revoked)
1933: Hermann Göring , Reich Minister and President of the Reichstag (revoked)
1933: Walter Köhler , Prime Minister (revoked)
1948: Johann Baptist Stratthaus, mayor
1962: Edwin Grüninger , mayor
1963: Josef Harbrecht , member of the state parliament
1964: Hugo Fischer, manufacturer ( eagle owl )
1966: Manfred Fischer , manufacturer, senator eh
1976: Josef Strub
1979: August Meier, parish priest, clergyman
1981: Erich Burger, Lord Mayor
1993: Hans Trautmann, city and district council and building contractor
2000: Heinz Ziegler, City and District Councilor, post office clerk
2006: Anneliese Knoop-Graf , sister of the White Rose member Willi Graf
2007: Karl Hörth, city councilor, savings bank director
2008: Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler , shareholder of the Schaeffler Group ( LuK )
2012: Ernst Kohlhage ( LuK )
2014: Hans Striebel, Lord Mayor
2017: Jan Ernest Rassek
2018: Oswald Grissede, City Councilor, Director of Studies

The formerly independent communities and today's districts have given the following people honorary citizenship:
Eisental

1954: Eugen Seiterich , Archbishop

moss

1970: Friedrich Feederle, pastor

New set

1900: Theodor Bier, teacher / organist / apple grower
1946: Johann Anton Heimburger, pastor
1955: Karl Otto Stemmler, senior director of studies
1960: Theodor Schaufler, mayor

Widening

1968: Leopold Frietsch, mayor

sons and daughters of the town

?, Bastian Gugel , stonemason and farmer's guide, † 1514 in Freiburg im Breisgau
1761, Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber , writer, travel book author and historian, † 1841 in Baden-Baden
1783, Wolf Netter , businessman, † 1859 in Bühl
1808, Alban Isidor Stolz , folk writer and professor of theology, † 1883 in Freiburg im Breisgau
1834, August Lydtin , veterinarian, veterinary officer and animal breeding scientist; Dr. hc from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
1850, Karl Hörth , architect, † after 1890
1863, Albert Wenk , painter, † 1934 in Munich
1864, Carl Leopold Netter , entrepreneur and patron, honorary citizen in 1906; † July 14, 1922 in Baden-Baden
1872, Otto Feist , sculptor, † 1939 in Karlsruhe
1879, Erwin Gugelmeier , member of the Reichstag, Lord Mayor of Lörrach from 1906 to 1927 , † April / May 1945
1890, Wilhelm Compter , † August 24, 1966 in Pforzheim, District Administrator, First Mayor
1896, Otto Wertheimer , † 1973 in Paris, German-French art historian and antiquarian
1913, Alfons Kist (* in the Neusatzeck district) † February 10, 1986 in Baden-Baden, politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
1914, Alfons Deissler , Catholic theologian (Old Testament scholar), † May 10, 2005 in Freiburg im Breisgau
1926, Hermann Brommer , school teacher and art historian, † October 26, 2012 in Waldkirch
1935, Hermann Neubert , mycologist, † August 11, 2003
1942, Michael Albus , Roman Catholic theologian
1942, Albrecht Greule , Germanic medievalist, linguist and name researcher
1942, Peter Wehlauer , cook, was awarded two stars in the Michelin Guide , † March 31, 2010
1950, Adalbert Metzinger , educationalist and author
1951, Hubert Klöpfer , publisher
1958, Michael Benedict Bender , church music director and composer in Ravensburg
1960, Peter Krauth, wanted member of the former militant, autonomous underground organization Das KOMITEE
1961, Ralf Dujmovits , extreme mountaineer who was the first German to climb all 14 eight-thousanders
1964, Matthias Reinschmidt , biologist and director of the Karlsruhe Zoo since 2015
1973, Tobias Wald , politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
1974, Sven Hermann , accordionist and composer
1981, Christian Lusch , marksman
1985, Stefan Kneer , national handball player
1992, Achim Burkart , cyclist

Connected to the city

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (* 1970), Austrian extreme mountaineer, lived with Ralf Dujmovits in the Bühler district of Kappelwindeck, the first woman to climb all 14 eight-thousanders without additionally carrying bottled oxygen
Wolfgang Preiss (1910–2002), actor ( The Longest Day , The Arnhem Bridge (film) ), died in Bühl.

literature

Badisches Städtebuch; Volume IV 2nd part of the German city book. Urban History Handbook. On behalf of the working group of historical commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the Association of German Cities and the German Association of Municipalities, ed. by Erich Keyser, Stuttgart 1959.

Ulrich Coenen: The architecture of the northern Ortenau. Monuments in Bühl, Bühlertal, Ottersweier, Lichtenau, Rheinmünster and Sinzheim . Karlsruhe 1993.

Ulrich Coenen: The building history of the city of Bühl from the beginnings to historicism. In: The Ortenau. Publications of the Historical Association for Central Baden . Volume 77, 1997, pp. 401-430.

Ulrich Coenen: The Eisenbahnstraße in Bühl . In: The Ortenau. Publications of the Historical Association for Central Baden . Volume 96, 2016, pp. 153-190.

City of Bühl (ed.): History of the city of Bühl. Volume 2, Bühl 1999.

Harald Faißt: Agriculture and the swastika in the Bühl district. From the agricultural crisis (1926/27) to the establishment of the Reichsnährstand (1936/37) . Sinzheim 1995.

Harald Faißt: The question of the market as a question of power - continuity and change in rural areas: The agricultural sector in the Bühl district in the years 1927–1937 . In: The Ortenau . Volume 74, 1994, pp. 549-592.

Tilman Krieg: Altschweier local family book of the Catholic parish of St. Gallus from 1690 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher , 172). Interest group of Badischer Ortssippenbücher Albert Köbele successor, Lahr-Dinglingen 2015 (processed period 1690–1960).
Tilman Krieg: Ortsfamilienbuch Kappelwindeck and Rittersbach of the Catholic parish of St. Maria Kappelwindeck. Beginning in 1690, before 1763 with parts of Bühlertal, before 1865 with parts of Altschweier (= Badische Ortssippenbücher, 167). Interest group Badischer Ortssippenbücher, Lahr-Dinglingen 2014 (processed period 1690–1970).
Marco Müller: Bühl in old pictures. Published by the city of Bühl, regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-565-1 .