Ohmden

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Esslingen
Height :	363 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.55 km 2
Residents:	1721 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	310 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73275
Area code :	07023
License plate :	ES, NT
Community key :	08 1 16 053
LOCODE :	DE 6MN
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 18 ; 73275 Ohmden
Website :	www.ohmden.de
Mayor :	Barbara Born
Location of the municipality of Ohmden in the Esslingen district

Ohmden is a municipality in the Esslingen district , in the Holzmaden -Ohmden petrification protection area. It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the peripheral zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart . Ohmden belongs to the Weilheim an der Teck administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Ohmden is located in the foothills of the central Swabian Alb , noticeably closer to the Alb eaves in the southeast than to the courses of the upper Neckar in the west-northwest and the Fils in the north. The eponymous village is predominantly to the right of the Trinkbach , which flows into the Lindach in the neighboring town of Kirchheim . It is 5–6 kilometers east of Nürtingen as the crow flies, and about 19 kilometers southeast of the district town of Esslingen am Neckar .

Neighboring communities

The following municipalities border the municipality in turn: the municipalities of Schlierbach in the north, Hattenhofen in the northeast and Zell unter Aichelberg in the east, all three in the district of Göppingen, as well as the municipality of Holzmaden and the town of Kirchheim unter Teck in the west, both in the district of Esslingen.

Community structure

The municipality includes the village of Ohmden and the Lindenhof and Talhof farms.

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

Ohmden 1683/1685 in Kieser's forest inventory book

Ohmden is first mentioned under the name Amindon in 1125 in the Rotulus San Petrinus , a parchment scroll of the St. Peter monastery in the Black Forest . It describes a barter in which Duke Konrad von Zähringen transferred the place to the monastery. Eventually the village fell to the Adelberg monastery . Ecclesiastically it belonged to Kirchheim unter Teck . The row graves in the local area indicate that Ohmden is a settlement from the Merovingian period .

The place name Ohmden is derived from the Old High German expression âmat and denotes the Öhmd , the second cut of grass. It had numerous variants in the course of history, for example Amindon, Ameden, Aymden, Ombden .

Since 1938 Ohmden belonged to the district of Nürtingen , with which it opened in 1973 in the district of Esslingen .

Religions

Ohmden has been evangelical since the Reformation . To this day, the majority of the citizens are Protestant, the Protestant parish belongs to the church district of Kirchheim unter Teck . The St. Markus Catholic Community Center has existed since 2002, where Catholic services take place regularly. St. Markus is affiliated to the overall parish of St. Ulrich in Kirchheim unter Teck .

Population development

year	1634	1813	1834	1861	1900	1939	1946	1961	1970	1980	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	200	700	621	655	649	611	865	1,026	1,249	1.611	1,733	1,704	1,714	1,722	1,719

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Ohmden has 10 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairwoman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019 % 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 17.66% 52.93% 29.41% BfB YOU FO Gains and losses compared to 2014 % p 15th 10 5 0 -5 -10 -15 -20 -25 -24.71 % p + 11.44 % p + 13.27 % p.p. BfB YOU FO Template: election diagram / maintenance / error in color input - dark
BFB	Association of Free Citizens	17.66	2	42.37	4th
YOU	The independents	52.93	5	41.49	4th
FO	For Ohmden	29.41	3	16.14	2
total		100.0	10	100.0	10
voter turnout		60.6%		68.87%

mayor

1952–1986 Walter Kröner († 2017) (independent)
1987–2010 Manfred Merkle († 2012) (independent)
2010-2018 Martin Funk (SPD)

In December 2017, Funk was elected as the new mayor of Altbach in the second ballot .

since 2018 Barbara Born (independent)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Ohmdens shows in black a six-pointed star under a horseshoe on a yellow shield. Little is known about the origin. The horseshoe symbol could indicate the presumably high number of horses in the area. The interpretation is supported by the fact that after the Nördlinger battle in 1634 125 horses were requisitioned from the community, an enormous number for the size of the town at the time. What is certain is that the star was only introduced to distinguish it from other local coats of arms with a horseshoe symbol, which kept recurring in Württemberg, and has no historical significance.

While a seal from 1765 still shows a deer pole over an "O", a seal from 1800 shows the horseshoe symbol, still without a star. The current coat of arms was awarded on December 11, 1973 by the Ministry of the Interior.

City partnerships

France Modane , France , since 2008

education

Ohmden has its own primary school . Older students have to go to neighboring towns to attend secondary schools.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Protestant parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian from 1681/83 is particularly worth seeing. It contains four altar wing pictures by Thomas Schick , which show scenes from the life of the two saints Cosmas and Damian and were created around 1500. They were produced for a previous church.

Fossil site

Fossil finds from the Posidonia slate quarries are exhibited in the Urwelt Museum Hauff .

Sons and daughters of the church

Karl Scheufelen (1823–1902), entrepreneur, founder of the Scheufelen paper mill

literature

Hans Schwenkel : Home book of the Nürtingen district. Volume 2. Würzburg 1953, pp. 992-1005.
The Esslingen district. Edited by the State Archives Baden-Württemberg i. V. with the district of Esslingen. Volume 2, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0842-1 , p. 325.
Walter Kröner: Ohmdener Schicksale - 1920 to 1950. Ohmden 1997, DNB 953002837 .