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| Height : | 492 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 25.42 km² |
| Residents : | 1861 (Dec. 31, 2013) |
| Population density : | 73 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1973 |
| Postal code : | 73479 |
| Area code : | 07965 |
The village of Pfahlheim in the Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg is about 11.5 kilometers east of Ellwangen (Jagst) , whose district it is today.
geography
The village of Pfahlheim is 492 m above sea level. NN in the northeastern foreland of the Swabian Alb . The district covers 2542 hectares. The hamlets of Beersbach, Buchhausen, Halheim, Hardt, Hirlbach, Hochgreut, Hofstetten and the residential areas Hammermühle, Pfeifhäusle, Sonnenhof also belong to Pfahlheim.
history
From early history to the Middle Ages
Pfahlheim was an Alemannic settlement site in the 5th or 6th century , which an exhibition of the German Historical Museum examined.
The origins of the place go back much further. The Romans built a fort in nearby Halheim ( Halheim Fort ) in order to secure the Limes that ran directly through the local area .
Pfahlheim was first mentioned in a document in the 8th or 9th century. The Codex Eberhardi of the Fulda Monastery reports on a donation by King Pippin or his son Charlemagne , but the exact year (between 751 and 814) is not known. For the 1200th anniversary of the town in 2000, the year 800 was arbitrarily chosen as the founding date. The place name indicates the Limes, which mainly consisted of wooden palisades.
The Ellwang abbot Kuno I (1188–1221), who was also the abbot of the Fulda monastery, made sure at the beginning of the 13th century that the property in Pfahlheim von Fulda passed to the monastery Ellwangen .
In 1218 Ministerial Konrad von Pfahlheim donated a court in Pfahlheim to the monastery church in Ellwangen. The ministerial family, which later belonged to the lower nobility and resided in a castle, was first mentioned with this foundation. Her descendants included Rudolf II von Pfahlheim, who was abbot of the Ellwangen monastery from 1311 to 1332.
At the beginning of the 14th century, Pfahlheim was divided into three parts of property. One third was fiefdom of the Ellwangen monastery, one third was in the hands of the von Pfahlheim family of ministers and one third consisted of the property of free farmers. In addition to Pfahlheim, the von Pfahlheim family had extensive property in the vicinity, which they sold from 1428. Between 1429 and 1448, the Ellwangen monastery acquired the second third of the manorial power of the village of Pfahlheim. The castle Schneidheim was sold by Catharina der Güssen, the widow of the late Cunrat von Pfahleim at the end of the 14th century.
In the late 15th or early 16th century, the prince provost of Ellwangen also succeeded in annexing the rest of the Pfahlheim property. The prince provosty appointed a mayor in Pfahlheim.
The Pfahlheim office extended to Walxheim , Ellenberg , Wört and Stödtlen in 1501 . It was the predecessor of the later office of Rötlen, which in 1752 included the offices of Pfahlheim and Röhlingen as Oberamt Rötlen. Pfahlheim came to Württemberg in 1802 and belonged to the Ellwangen District Office until 1938 . The hamlet of Buchhausen belonging to Pfahlheim and parts of Beersbach belonged to the Principality of Oettingen-Spielberg ; they came to Bavaria in 1806 and also to Württemberg in 1810.
In the Thirty Years' War also Pfahlheim was affected. Swedish horsemen struck a hole in the church wall in 1632/33 and took the chalice with them.
A major fire on June 3, 1776 destroyed 38 houses in the village, including the school house and parsonage. The parish register burned, so that there are no more documents about the previous population history of the place. The parish archive stored in the church tower, however, remained intact.
Independent community
After the Ellwang prince provincial office was abolished, Pfahlheim was an independent parish from 1802 to 1972. From 1806 it belonged to the Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1848 the previous fiefdoms were converted into own estates, so that the farmers became independent farmers on their own clod.
A school building was built in 1842/43, a town hall followed in 1877. The fire brigade was located on the ground floor of the town hall, and a local prison with two heated cells on the top floor. During the Second World War, children from Duisburg were quartered in Pfahlheim. A Luftwaffe intelligence company was stationed in Halheim from 1942 to 1945. Forced laborers and prisoners of war were used in agriculture. Shortly before the American soldiers marched in on April 22, 1945, the bridge to Hirlbach was blown up and was only rebuilt six years later.
Due to the immigration of displaced persons and refugees, the number of inhabitants rose by almost 50 percent between 1946 and 1948. On July 1, 1948, 521 displaced persons were living in Pfahlheim. Two thirds of these newcomers left the community in the following years due to a lack of jobs.
The land consolidation took place between 1953 (Hochgreut) and 1971 (Pfahlheim).
On January 1, 1973, Pfahlheim was incorporated into the large district town of Ellwangen (Jagst) at its own request.
Population development
- 1820: around 950
- 1871: 1101
- 1889: 1100
- 1910: 1258
- 1925: 1181
- 1946: 1539
- 1950: 1561
- 1956: 1308
- 1961: 1291
- 1970: 1346
- 1983: 1406 (of which 1013 directly in Pfahlheim, the others in the suburbs)
- 1990: 1463 (of which 1084 directly in Pfahlheim)
- 2009: 1880
religion
Crosses as the first evidence of Christianity were found as grave goods in Alemannic graves of the 7th century.
The Pfahlheim parish was incorporated into the Ellwangen Monastery in 1328. The Pfahlheim parish church was first named St. Nicholas in 1512 .
After the Reformation around 1560 there were a number of Protestant residents who were looked after by the Lutheran pastor in Walxheim. As a countermeasure, the Ellwanger Stiftspröpste had 33 Evangelicals interrogated in Pfahlheim. Those who did not promise obedience should sell and move away.
Culture and sights
Buildings
The Catholic Church of St. Nicholas forms the center of the village.
The current nave was built in 1891/92 to keep pace with the growth of the parish. The choir and tower are older and reveal Gothic style elements. As part of the new building, the previously free-standing tower (built in 1701/02) was integrated into the floor plan. The architect was Joseph Cades from Stuttgart, who built more than 30 churches in the Rottenburg diocese in the following decades .
The altar structure of the right side altar contains a valuable wood-carved and framed relief relief (around 1510) with a selection of local figures. The rich figure decorations inside the church testify to the peasant worship of saints.
Museums
The Pfahlheimer Bauernstube is the smallest museum in the Ostalb district. The Karl-Ernst Hunting and Natural History Museum in the town hall, originally a teaching material collection for the training of hunters, is of a similar size . An exposed piece of the Limes wall can be seen on Kastellstrasse.
Sports clubs
The place has an outdoor swimming pool that was built around 1950. The mayor at the time financed it under the name “fire extinguishing pond”.
The Sonnenbach reservoir between Pfahlheim and Beersbach, completed in 1965, also offers bathing opportunities. There are two campsites by the lake.
Pfahlheim had at least ten clubs in 2009; in 1992, 13 clubs were still active. The two oldest clubs are Liederkranz (founded in 1876) and Musikverein (founded in 1924).
Regular events
In addition to the religious festivals, the highlights of the annual calendar are the carnival parade on Rose Monday, the local festival in June / July and the lake festival at the Sonnenbach reservoir in early August.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Agriculture still shapes the place at the beginning of the 21st century, although the number of farms has decreased significantly. Between 1974 and 1991 alone, the number of milk suppliers fell from 128 to 47.
There is a sawmill with a timber construction company in the Pfahlheim industrial park.
A telegraph company was set up in the post office in 1899.
There was a doctor in Pfahlheim for the first time in 1955.
Pfahlheim had a cooperative financial institution for more than 100 years. The Pfahlheim Loan Association, founded in 1899, developed into the Raiffeisenbank Pfahlheim . In 2000 this merged with six other cooperatives to form VR-Bank Ellwangen .
education
The earliest reference to school education in Pfahlheim dates from 1612. The schoolmaster at the time, who was also sacristan, taught the students in his apartment. The first schoolhouse was built in 1843, followed by a larger new building ( red schoolhouse ) at another location in 1903 . Today's fort school was built in 1964 as an eight-grade elementary school. In 1968 a gym was added, which is also used as an event hall.
A school association with the neighboring community of Tannhausen existed from 1968 to 1972. When it was incorporated into Ellwangen, a new neighborhood school was created between Pfahlheim and Röhlingen.
The St. Nikolaus Kindergarten has existed since 1896. It was part of the Catholic nurses' station. The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent von Paul from Untermarchtal were in Pfahlheim from 1895 to 1986. A new sister house, which still serves as a kindergarten today, was built in 1928.
In the former red schoolhouse there has been a municipal kindergarten since 1995.
traffic
Pfahlheim was connected to public transport between 1893 and 1909 when regular stagecoach rides were set up on the Röhlingen - Pfahlheim - Tannhausen line. The through-road of Pfahlheim was the first local road to be provided with an asphalt surface in 1957.
Pfalheim is connected to the national road network by the L 1076 state road. The next motorway connection is junction 113 (Ellwangen) of federal motorway 7 about 7 km away on the L1076.
The nearest train station with passenger traffic is Ellwangen train station at a distance of approx. 12 km. It is located on the electrified Upper Jagstbahn . An InterCity train on the Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Nuremberg line stops there every two hours , a regional express to Aalen and Ulm every hour and a regional express to Crailsheim every two hours . Local public transport by buses and trains has been integrated into the OstalbMobil fare cooperation since December 9, 2007 .
Long-distance cycle routes
The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .
Supply and disposal
Pfahlheim's water supply was provided by wells into the 20th century. A water pipe was not put into operation until 1919, after Pfahlheim and the neighboring town of Röhlingen had founded a water supply association. In 1951 the village was connected to the Ries water supply - named after the Nördlinger Ries .
The sewage system was built in 1949/50, a joint sewage treatment plant from Pfahlheim and has been in operation since 1971. Halheim, Beersbach, Hirlbach and Hardt have had their own sewer system only since 1983–1985; Until then, washing and rinsing water was channeled uncleared into the streams through open ditches and faeces were disposed of in septic tanks.
Personalities
- Josef Rief (* 1924), Catholic theologian and university professor
- Florian Lechner (* 1981), professional football player
literature
- City of Ellwangen, Festival Committee 1200 Years of Pfahlheim (Ed.): Receiving & shaping, home for young and old . Ellwangen 2000.
- Catholic parish St. Nikolaus Pfahlheim (Ed.): Stones talk - people act, 100 years of the Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus Pfahlheim . Ellwangen 1992.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Historical Museum
- ↑ Stan military orders, certificates 5662/1
- ^ 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. 445 .
