Ochsenberg (Koenigsbronn)
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Ochsenberg
Königsbronn municipality
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| Height : | 617 m | |
| Area : | 5.89 km² | |
| Residents : | 616 (April 1, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 105 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | February 1, 1972 | |
| Incorporated into: | Koenigsbronn | |
| Postal code : | 89551 | |
| Area code : | 07328 | |
Location of Ochsenberg in Baden-Württemberg |
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 Aerial photo 2005 (top left of the Falchen )
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Ochsenberg is a suburb of the municipality of Königsbronn in the Heidenheim district in Baden-Württemberg .
geography
The village of Ochsenberg is located in the eastern part of the Swabian Alb (Ostalb), on the western edge of the Härtsfeld at an altitude of 617 m above sea level. NN (town hall). The district covers 589 hectares.
history
Overview
The first documentary evidence dates back to 1538. Years earlier, Abbot Melchior Ruff, who worked in the Königsbronn monastery , had settled in a clearing in what is now the hamlet of Holzmacher, Köhler and Tagelöhner. The village name comes from the "ox pasture for the monastery, on top of the mountain." In 1572 Ochsenberg was annexed to Königsbronn.
A major fire completely destroyed ten houses in 1817. In 1849 Ochsenberg became an independent municipality again. With the commissioning of the Härtsfeld water pipeline (Zweckverband Härtsfeld-Albuch water supply) on November 11, 1891, Ochsenberg receives a constant supply of drinking water from the fountain in Itzelberg .
In 1910 today's town hall is built, which also serves as a school house and fire department store. The supply of electricity is ensured by UJAG from 1917 onwards . The Oberkochen forester Wilhelm Braun was shot by poachers in the Falchen forest on August 1, 1926 , and a memorial stone commemorates the scene.
Until 1963, churchgoers had to walk to Königsbronn, as the church path still bears witness to today . On June 12th of the same year, after a two-year construction period, the inauguration of St. John's Church by Pastor Scheydt takes place. On February 1, 1972, Ochsenberg was again incorporated into Königsbronn. With the age-related felling of the 175-year-old linden tree on May 9, 1974, the redesign of Lindenplatz begins . In 1976 the place received the collective connection to the sewage works in Itzelberg. The state machine yard, which was relocated from Königsbronn, is put into operation on May 20, 1977. The newly built gymnasium and multi-purpose hall can be officially opened on March 31, 1979. In 1988 they celebrated 450 years of Ochsenberg.
School, leisure home
At first, school lessons were held in private rooms. From 1910 school lessons took place in the newly built town hall and school building. In 1964 a new building was built in Burrenweg and the old school hall in the town hall was converted into a kindergarten. For 12 years a teacher taught the 1st to 4th primary school grades in one room at the same time. Since 1976 the children have been taking buses to school in Königsbronn.
In 1981 the school building, which had not been used up until then, was converted into a Protestant leisure home with 53 beds and expanded.
Due to the low occupancy rate, the building was rented to the Heidenheim district from the end of 2015 to autumn 2018 and refugees were quartered. The municipality of Königsbronn has rented the property since autumn 2018 and uses it as follow-up accommodation.
youth hostel
Planned as a motel in the early 1960s, construction was discontinued as a shell in the late 1960s. In the mid-1970s, it was extended / converted into a youth hostel with 110 beds, operations began in 1977. The hostel closed on October 31, 2005, and was demolished in February 2014.
Ammunition depot, solar park
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For a planned ammunition depot for the Bundeswehr , a piece of forest east of the town was cleared in 1963. The 19 hectare site was built in 1964–65:
- Administration area with the guard / service building and technical area
- 11 concrete warehouses
- 29 larger and 8 smaller earth-covered ammunition stores of the type ECM (earth-covered magazine) Stradley
- 2 small ammunition warehouses 25 m 2 and 50 m 2
In December 1998 the ammunition depot was closed and in 2010 the ammunition stores were demolished.
A solar park with 40,000 modules will be built on the unused site from February 2014 , which will supply up to 3,000 households with electricity. Commissioning will take place in May.
Population development
| year | Residents, families, houses ... |
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| 1538 | 6 houses in the hamlet |
| 1618 | 40 families, 24 houses (start of the 30 years war ) |
| 1648 | 8 families, 10 houses (end of 30 years war) |
| 1708 | 25 houses |
| Around 1800 | approx. 260
The houses are not made of bricks, the roofs are only covered with straw. |
| 1844 | 357, 51 thatched-roof houses
2 stoners, some wage-earners, several masons and carpenters working in Königsbronn and Itzelberg. The farmers transported salt, peat, wood and iron in chord. Many residents increased their income by making wood. |
| 1891 | 323 |
| 1918 | The 1st World War claims 11 fallen and 6 missing soldiers. |
| 1939 | 291 |
| 1945 | 432
The 2nd World War claims 17 fallen and 12 missing soldiers. |
| 1950 | 448 |
| 1955 | 432 |
| 1960 | 443 |
| 1965 | 497 |
| 1972 | 572 (February 1, incorporation) |
| 1975 | 598 |
| 1980 | 620 |
| 1987 | 642 (census) |
| 1997 | 730 |
| 2019 | 616 (April 1) |
societies
Lust for songs Ochsenberg
At the end of 1920, the village teacher Heggenberger founded a three-part girls' choir. The conversion to a mixed choir takes place on January 14, 1924, the club is named Liederlust Ochsenberg . In 1931 there were 63 singers.
The resumption of singing lessons begins in October 1947, in January 1948 the association is re-established. In 1994 the children's choir performed for the first time. In the 75th anniversary year of 1999, 104 members were counted, 49 of them active singers.
SSV Ochsenberg
In the autumn of 1928, 11 men met with the idea of founding the KK shooting club 'Edelweiß' Ochsenberg . That takes place in 1929 and shooting started in the spring in the clay pit in the middle Falchen . In 1939 the club had 30 active members and 5 young shooters.
After the 2nd World War, shooting clubs were initially banned by the occupying powers. On October 15, 1954, an extraordinary meeting was held at the Zur Linde inn to re-establish the company , and the name was changed to 'Edelweiß' Ochsenberg . First a shooting room was provided in the Hirsch Gasthaus , later shooting could also take place in Heinz Elser's private house. From March 15, 1957, the shooting continued until the completion of the shooting house in the leased, community-owned barracks.
In 1979 the club had 115 members: 94 active shooters, 2 honorary members and 19 passive ones. With the 60th anniversary in 1989, the new club flag was inaugurated, in 2004 the 75th anniversary was celebrated.
Rifle house
On July 29, 1961, the construction of the new rifle house began. After 6,000 hours of voluntary labor service, it was officially opened on October 26, 1963. In 1972 the kitchen is expanded. In 1988 a further expansion takes place (sanitary facilities, heating & evaluation room). The current appearance of the shooting range was given in 1999 by the addition of the new shooting range.
Nickname
Steftsstecke is the historical nickname of the Ochsenberger. A Steftsstecke is a strong and long stick, which is provided with an iron point at the lower end. People used this stick in a variety of ways, especially to poke at the ground or in objects (stiffly). It was not only used for walking or climbing steep paths in winter, but also helped push a sled.
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Culture and sights
Associations, interest groups
- Lust for songs Ochsenberg
- Sport shooting club Edelweiß
- Angelfreunde Ochsenberg e. V., founded in 2016
- Association of forest work championships, founded in 1995 in Ochsenberg
- Voluntary fire brigade (Königsbronn, Ochsenberg department)
- DRK readiness Königsbronn / Ochsenberg
- Maypole friends (community of interests)
Regular events
| date | event | place |
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| April, 30th | Maypole erection | Lindenplatz |
| Last Saturday in June | Football game village youth - fire brigade | Playground ( soccer field ) |
| First Saturday in July and the following Sunday | Children's and forest festival | playground |
| August (2 days) | Summer night and forest festival | Rifle house |
| Saturday before the 1st of Advent | Christmas Villages | Lindenplatz |
| Every 2 years | Forest work championship Baden-Württemberg | Playground, state machine yard |
| In winter (depending on the weather) | Ice hockey game village youth - fire brigade | Dorfhülbe |
Natural monuments
- Landscape protection area Gewann Falchen with sinkholes , dry grass and Falchensee
- Sand pit : Brenz gravel outcrop, sand deposits formed by the Urbrenz
- Judenbusch : The Judenbusch is an extensive natural monument with several old beeches . The name comes from the Jews who camped and stayed there. From Nördlingen in Bavaria they came with their cattle across the Württemberg border and moved on to the markets. By far the largest tree was colloquially known as the "Judenbusch". The storms of the past decades continued to affect the tree, on May 18, 2020 the last remaining branch crashed under its own weight. Its age was approximately 300 years, the remaining tree stump has a circumference of 6.35 m.
- Dorfhülbe
- More pods, sinkholes and clay pits
Dolinenfeld in Falchen
Falchensee
Sand pit
Judenbusch on May 16, 2020 (on the right the now overturned "Judenbusch")
Dorfhülbe
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture
Despite the fact that the soil is very poor and mostly small-scale farms existed, Ochsenberg was shaped by agriculture from the start. The owners could not support themselves and also had a side job. Until technology progressed, children had to do their job too.
The number of milk suppliers decreased continuously over time. If there were 29 in 1955, there were 4 in 1995 and only 2 in 2020.
traffic
Ochsenberg is connected to the B 19 via the K 3011 district road (Itzelberg) and Zahnberger Straße (Königsbronn) .
The closest motorway connection 11 km away is the federal motorway 7 near Nattheim (junction Heidenheim / 116).
The next train station with hourly connections in the direction of Aalen and Heidenheim / Ulm is in Königsbronn ( Brenzbahn ).
The Heidenheimer Verkehrsgesellschaft provides a basic service with public buses.
Personalities
- Hans Bäurle (* 1931), painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- Jörg Haug (* 1937), professor for home and general education
Web links
Literature and Sources
- Festschrift Liederlust Ochsenberg (1974/1999): 50- / 75-year anniversary
- Festschriften SSV Ochsenberg (1979/2004): 50- / 75-year anniversary
- Festschrift of the municipality of Königsbronn (1987): 700 years of Königsbronn
- Book by Karl Burr (1995): Chronicle of Königsbronn, April 1945 - March 1995
- HNP article by Karl Burr (October 27, 1997): 70 men once built the main road
- Chronicle of Roland Schmid (2011): 75 years of the Ochsenberg volunteer fire department
- HNP article by Gerhard Stock (April 24, 2014): 40,000 modules for the solar power plant
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipality of Königsbronn, facts and figures
- ^ Härtsfeld-Albuch water supply association. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Former ammunition depot Ochsenberg - geschichtsspuren.de - Forum. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ EnBW puts largest solar park in Baden-Württemberg into operation | EnBW. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Hans and Wolfgang Wulz: About Knöpfleswäscher, Pantscher and Ratze - Swabian nicknames from the Heidenheim district . Verlag der Buchhandlung Meuer GmbH, Heidenheim, 1998, ISBN 3-921178-03-7 , pp. 114, 115.
- ↑ Jürgen Blümle: Baumschätze Baden-Württemberg, Volume 1: The Swabian Alb . Publisher: epubli GmbH, Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7375-3313-3 , pp. 276, 277.