Pfungstadt

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Pfungstadt
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Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '  N , 8 ° 36'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Darmstadt-Dieburg
Height : 101 m above sea level NHN
Area : 42.53 km 2
Residents: 25.096 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 590 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 64319
Area code : 06157
License plate : DA, TU
Community key : 06 4 32 018
City structure: 3 districts including the core city

City administration address : 		Kirchstrasse 12–14
64319 Pfungstadt
Website : www.epperstadt.de
Mayor : Patrick Koch ( SPD )
Location of the city of Pfungstadt in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district
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Pfungstadt is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

geography

Aerial view from west to east

Pfungstadt is about ten kilometers southwest of the city of Darmstadt on the Modau and Bergstrasse , about halfway between Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg .

Neighboring communities

Pfungstadt borders in the northwest on the city of Griesheim , in the north and east on the urban district Darmstadt, in the southeast on the municipality Seeheim-Jugenheim , in the south on the municipality Bickenbach , in the southwest on the city of Gernsheim and in the west on the city of Riedstadt (both Groß-Gerau district ).

City structure

In addition to the core city, the city also includes the districts of Hahn and Eschollbrücken with its district of Eich .

history

Pfungstadt was first mentioned in a document on May 18, 785 in the Lorsch Codex . After that has Count Werinher the Lorsch Abbey bequeathed his property. Witnesses were his son Nanther and the Lobdengaugraf Warin. For the period between 785 and 837, six donations are documented in the Lorsch Abbey copy book . With the decline of the Lorsch monastery in the 13th century, the village fell into the possession of the County of Katzenelnbogen . To the southwest of the city are the ruins of the Wellberg Castle . In 1442, which was centering Pfungstadt furnished. The settlement of numerous mills along the Modau led to the first economic boom. With the marriage of the County of Katzenelnbogen in 1479, the center finally came to the Landgraviate of Hesse as heir . In terms of administration, Pfungstadt in Hesse is temporarily its own office or belongs to the offices of Darmstadt or Seeheim. In 1821 it was incorporated into the Bensheim district of the Starkenburg province in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Today it belongs to the Darmstadt-Dieburg district.

The town hall of Pfungstadt was built in 1614 and completed in 1618. During the Thirty Years War , large parts of the village were reduced to rubble and ashes. Looting and pillage are reported in the “Mansfeld Damage Directory”, which is kept in the Darmstadt City Archives . With the founding of a Krappfabrik in the 18th century, the industrialization of Pfungstadt began, which was characterized from 1845 by the ultramarine factory of Wilhelm Büchner and the Pfungstädter brewery of Justus Hildebrandt, as well as match, cigars and brick production.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Pfungstadt in 1829:

»Pfungstadt (L. Bez. Bensheim) market town; is on the Modaubach, which flows through the place, 3 St. von Bensheim, and has 359 houses and 2799 inhabitants, the except for 5 Cath., 4 Reform. and 122 Jews are Lutheran. Among them are 134 peasants and 171 who engage in civil trades. The number of craftsmen is 21 linen weavers, 16 tailors, 15 shoemakers etc. There is a church built in 1748, 2 parsonages, 3 schools, 1 beautiful symagogue and 9 grinding mills, with which an oil mill is connected. The large wool manufacture that previously existed here, and which was the most important in the province, has now been relocated abroad. The Krappfabrik is also only operated weakly, or almost not at all. The district has large peat graves and a very large amount of peat is sold every year, especially to Darmstadt. 4 markets are held here every year. - Pfungstadt occurs in the 9th century. The Lords of Busek had goods here which they sold to Count Philipp von Katzenellenbogen in 1468. Hesse gradually came into possession of this place. The Counts of Erbach had the patronage that came to Hesse with the purchase of the Seeheimer Amt along with the tithe at Pfungstadt in 1714. Since the patronage was a fiefdom of Churpfalz, the Counts of Erbach instead made the church clauses in Obermossau, Reichenbach and Gronau von Churpfalz liable. The tithe, the Mainz fiefdom, was now borne by Hesse of Mainz as a fiefdom. According to a wisdom of 1492, the district court of Pfungstadt was cherished in the village on the tarpaulin near Born. In the vicinity of the place are several artificial mounds, and it is certain that a large number of genuine Roman urns were found between Pfungstadt and Hahn. "

Through Büchner's activities in the Hessen-Darmstadt state parliament, Pfungstadt was connected to the Rhein-Neckar-Bahn with a "secondary railway ", the Pfungstadtbahn , and on December 20, 1886, it was promoted to town. Due to the poor sandy soil, Pfungstadt was never particularly rural, but essentially a city of craftsmen and workers.

Between 1901 and 1908 Pfungstadt built a state-of-the-art water and electricity company, whose waste heat was already heating the neighboring Goethe School, its sports hall and the newly built indoor swimming pool, one of the first public indoor swimming pools in Hesse, via a several hundred meter long canal.

Immediately after the occupation by American troops in March 1945, production of the American soldiers' newspaper " Stars and Stripes " began in Pfungstadt . Pfungstadt's population grew rapidly due to the influx of displaced people from the formerly German areas in the east. Large settlement areas emerged, and Catholicism also played a notable role for the first time. An upswing began with the currency reform of 1948. Well-known industrial companies settled in or were founded, and housing construction was also promoted.

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent communities Hahn and Eschollbrücken were incorporated into Pfungstadt. The incorporation of the community of Hahn took place on July 1, 1972 voluntarily. Eschollbrücken with the district of Eich, which was incorporated into Eschollbrücken on December 31, 1971, was incorporated on January 1, 1977 by state law. This expansion increased the population from 16,500 to 22,700. For the districts of Eschollbrücken and Hahn, local districts with local advisory councils and local administrators were formed.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Pfungstadt was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Jewish community

In the period around 1820 the community had 122 members (4.3% of the total population of Pfungstadt), up to the establishment of the Reich there were 260. At that time there was a Jewish school in Pfungstadt, where Chaim Weizmann taught around 1893. Due to emigration and emigration, the number of community members decreased to 73 by 1933. During the Reichspogromnacht , the brown mob also raged in Pfungstadt. The synagogue escaped being burned down because a neighboring farmer was not concerned about his Jewish neighbors, but about his well-stocked grain barn right next to the synagogue. The prayer leader of the Jewish community was thrown out of the synagogue window that night, and the Jews from Pfungstadt were taken to the Theresienstadt ghetto immediately afterwards . In 1942 the last deported Jew from Pfungstadt was murdered.

The name Pfungstadt

The origin of the place name is not clearly proven. For a long time it was traced back to the presumed name of an early settler (Phungo?). Others trace the name back to the Old High German pfung for bags or purses. Thereafter there would be a connection with the settlement of a merchant.

population

Population structure

According to the 2011 census , there were 23,829 inhabitants in Pfungstadt on May 9, 2011. These included 2573 (10.8%) foreigners of whom 1133 came from outside the EU , 1029 from other European countries and 411 from other countries. Of the German residents, 18.0% had a migration background . The inhabitants lived in 10,627 households. Of these, 3479 were single households , 3007 couples without children and 2921 couples with children, as well as 870 single parents and 350 shared apartments .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1629: 202 house seats
• 1695: 044 men
• 1791: 1743 inhabitants
• 1800: 1743 inhabitants
• 1806: 2029 inhabitants, 283 houses
• 1829: 2799 inhabitants, 359 houses
• 1867: 4732 inhabitants, 555 houses
Pfungstadt: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 1,743
1800
  
 1,743
1806
  
 2,029
1829
  
 2,799
1834
  
 2,990
1840
  
 3,358
1846
  
 3,744
1852
  
 3,772
1858
  
 3,943
1864
  
 4,078
1871
  
 4,412
1875
  
 4,962
1885
  
 5,534
1895
  
 5,903
1905
  
 6,578
1910
  
 6,799
1925
  
 7,348
1939
  
 7,959
1946
  
 9,606
1950
  
 10,737
1956
  
 11,681
1961
  
 13,064
1967
  
 16,230
1970
  
 17,075
1972
  
 19,685
1976
  
 22,683
1984
  
 23,257
1992
  
 24,153
2000
  
 25,000
2005
  
 24,977
2010
  
 24,507
2011
  
 23,829
2015
  
 24,387
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000 :; 2005 :; 2010 :; 2011 census; 2015:
From 1972 including the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 2688 Lutheran (= 95.32%), 4 Reformed (= 0.14%), 122 Jewish (= 4.26%) and 5 Catholic (= 0.18%) residents
• 1961: 9442 Protestant (= 72.27%), 3083 Roman Catholic (= 23.60%) residents
• 2000: 8839 Protestant (= 45.39%), 4820 Roman Catholic (= 24.75%) inhabitants
• 2011: 9830 Protestant (= 41.5%), 5500 Catholic (= 23.2%), 230 Free Church (= 1.0%), 220 Orthodox (= 0.9%), 710 non-believers (= 3.0%), 7200 other (= 30.4%) residents
• 2016: 9,176 Protestant (= 35.2%), 5131 Roman Catholic (= 19.7%) residents and 11785 (= 45.2%) residents of other religions or non-denominational groups

Gainful employment

The municipality in comparison with the district, administrative district Darmstadt and Hesse:

year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Employees subject to social security contributions 2017 5,309 74,525 1,695,567 2,524,156
Change to 2000 −16.5% + 21.1% + 16.1% + 16.0%
of which full-time 2017 71.3% 68.3% 72.8% 71.8%
of which part-time 2017 28.7% 31.7% 27.2% 28.2%
Only marginally paid employees 2017 1,178 15.305 224.267 372.991
Change to 2000 −3.1% + 14.4% + 9.0% + 8.8%
Branch year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Manufacturing 2000 48.3% 41.1% 27.0% 30.6%
2017 32.4% 31.3% 20.4% 24.3%
Commerce, hospitality and transport 2000 26.6% 26.1% 26.4% 25.1%
2017 27.8% 26.8% 24.7% 23.8%
Business services 2000 05.5% 11.6% 25.1% 20.2%
2017 09.4% 17.1% 31.6% 26.1%
other services 2000 19.2% 18.8% 20.1% 22.5%
2017 29.5% 23.6% 23.0% 25.4%
Other (or without assignment) 2000 00.4% 02.4% 01.4% 01.5%
2017 00.8% 00.9% 00.3% 00.4%

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
      
A total of 37 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 29.1 11 44.8 16 45.4 17th 49.9 18th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 20.0 7th 23.6 9 31.9 12 28.7 11
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 12.6 5 15.9 6th 8.4 3 8.0 3
FWG Free community of voters 8.0 3 7.1 3 9.8 3 9.1 3
UBP Independent citizens of Pfungstadt 25.2 9 6.0 2 - - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.0 2 2.6 1 4.5 2 4.4 2
total 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 46.3 46.3 45.6 49.8

mayor

Before the Second World War, the city had the following mayors:

  • Karl Ludwig (last bailiff)
  • Philipp Hess, 1821–1841
  • Johann Georg Fey, 1841–1855
  • Johann Georg Ackermann, 1855–1866
  • Ludwig Spalt, 1868–1877
  • Wilhelm Schiemer , 1877–1889
  • Ludwig Lang (NLP), 1889–1916
  • Community secretary Adam Schwinn (acting), 1916–1919
  • Adam Schwinn, 1919-1933
  • Georg Steinmetz, 1933–1935
  • Georg Riehl, 1935

Since the Second World War the city has had the following mayors:

  • Adam Schwinn, 1945
  • Ludwig Clemenz (SPD), 1945
  • Georg Roth (SPD), 1945–1949
  • Heinrich Gunkel (SPD), 1948
  • Albert Jaeger (SPD), 1949–1958
  • Heinrich Gunkel (SPD), 1958–1974
  • Justus Ahlheim (SPD), 1974-1983
  • Erich Hoffmann (CDU), 1984–1990
  • Horst Baier (SPD), 1990-2013
  • Patrick Koch (SPD) since 2014

Districts

The following local districts with local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code exist in the municipality:

  • District Eschollbrücken / Eich (areas of the former municipality Eschollbrücken with the district Eich ). The local advisory board consists of 9 members.
  • Local district Hahn (areas of the former community Hahn ). The local advisory board consists of 9 members.

badges and flags

Banner Pfungstadt.svg

coat of arms

Pfungstadt coat of arms
 Blazon : “ Shield divided. Above in a golden field a red, blue-armed , growing lion ; below in a blue field three silver horseshoes (2: 1). "

The coat of arms was approved on April 9, 1954 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior .

The seat of a central court , which has been regarded as a patch since the end of the Middle Ages , was elevated to a town in 1887. The coat of arms, newly confirmed by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior in 1954, goes back to the picture in the court seal of the 16th century (prints since 1619). The combination of the growing (red) lion from the shield of the local authority with an individual symbol corresponds to the use in the communal seals and coats of arms in the area of ​​the former County of Katzenelnbogen . The horseshoes probably represent the older place symbol. Otto Hupp tinged the lower half of the shield with silver with blue horseshoes, with otherwise the same representation.

flag

The city flag was approved together with the coat of arms and is described as follows: "On the white central panel of the blue-white-blue flag cloth, the coat of arms of the city of Pfungstadt."

Town twinning

Pfungstadt is related to the following twin cities .

Culture and sights

Pfungstadt gallows

The Pfungstadt gallows

History and creation

The gallows, built in the 14th century, was the place of execution in the Middle Ages for the Pfungstadt Central Court, first mentioned in writing in 1442 . The initially wooden construction was replaced in 1603 by three brick and plastered pillars. Wooden planks connected by ropes were attached to the pillars, to which the ropes were attached.

The gallows today

The brick pillars of the gallows have been preserved on the border between Pfungstadt and Darmstadt-Eberstadt . The industrial area of ​​Pfungstadt was expanding all around. The monument is located on a small hill and can be visited at any time. Volunteers regularly clean the site.

Buildings

The old town hall , a baroque building from 1614, which was built directly above the Modau. Today it is used for city council meetings (1st floor). The "columned hall" is located on the ground floor and is used sporadically for cultural purposes.

The Villa Büchner , built as the home of the industrialist and politician Wilhelm Büchner (1816–1892), owner of the Pfungstadt “blue factory”, built in 1864 according to plans by the Darmstadt architect Carl Balthasar Harres. It is an extraordinary building of historicism . The room layout, windows, stucco work and wall paintings have been preserved. From 2006 to 2009 the renovation was carried out by the city of Pfungstadt. The building could be completely restored to the state of equipment of the construction period with considerable municipal expenditure. The Beletage is occasionally used by the public for public and private events, it is also available as a further branch of the registry office for marriages. A law firm is located on the upper floor.

  • Old town hall Pfungstadt

  • Villa Büchner, Pfungstadt

  • Detail from the Villa Büchner, Pfungstadt (over-port in the ballroom)

Former rectory in Borngasse

The former rectory , the oldest preserved stone house from the 16th century, stands out due to its stepped gable .

The former electricity and waterworks in Brunnenstrasse was built in 1901 and supplied the Goethe School 250 meters away (built in 1907/1908, inaugurated in 1908) with a gym and swimming pool (one of the first public indoor pools in Hesse) - with a new type of district heating. Today the former power station is a listed building thanks to civic engagement. The refurbished main building houses the cultural office and urban development company, and the factory hall is occasionally used for flea markets and small cultural events.

Former synagogue

The building of the former synagogue at Hillgasse 8 was constructed between 1815 and 1820. On the restored ceiling shine golden stars painted in bright blue with Wilhelm Büchner's ultramarine. The synagogue was looted and desecrated during the pogrom night on November 9, 1938, and the interior was destroyed. However, due to the proximity of other buildings, it was not burned down.

In 1939 the agricultural cooperative took over the property for 6000 Reichsmarks under the sign of "Aryanization" and used the synagogue as a fruit store. Later on, equipment and vehicles were parked and a barn door was broken into a side wall. Further uses were residential and warehouse and, after the installation of false ceilings and walls, it was used by five guest worker families until 1993.

Only after the acquisition of the property by the city of Pfungstadt in 1990, the building was gutted and repaired, the women's gallery was restored and the building was renovated at a cost of approx. 1.2 million euros. Damage from the period after 1938 was not covered up. Since 2001, the former synagogue has been open to the public as a cultural center, the former synagogue , and since 2011 it has served as a location for exhibitions, concerts and readings.

Protestant church

Evangelical Church Pfungstadt

The Evangelical Church in Pfungstadt was rebuilt from 1746 to 1748 on the foundations of several previous churches according to a plan by Pastor Johann Conrad Lichtenberg. The medieval tower was redesigned and completed in 1752. There is an inscription above the front door.

In the period from 1890 to 1897, the baroque interior was completely changed and shaped by the taste of the 19th century. Darkly painted timbers moved into the church. The bright lime paint was also painted over with strong colors and stencils. The floor was also adapted to the new colors.

Only the wooden angel that originally served as the pulpit is preserved from the Baroque period. It was restored in 2008. The organ was built in 1825 by Johann Hartmann Bernhard . It has 26 registers and two manuals.

Catholic Church

Catholic Church Pfungstadt

The parish church was built for a few dozen families in 1912, with around 200 seats it encompassed the entire parish. The St. Antonius Church was looked after from Eberstadt, the St. Joseph parish there is the mother parish.

As a result of the Nazi rule, the number of members grew from a few hundred to suddenly more than 3,000 after the Second World War, through displaced persons. With the arrival of many new families in the 1990s, the number of members rose steadily; in 2011 there were 5215 parishioners.

The Pfungstädter mills

Before the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Pfungstadt experienced an economic boom, which was based on agriculture combined with the numerous mills (14 in 1630) along the Modau . Further down the Modau stream, in the direction of the estuary, the gradient was too small for mills. In the Pfungstädter district, too, the only moderate gradient of the Modau allowed only so-called undershot mill wheels . In 785 three mills are documented. The waterfall height of each mill, according to a decree in 1461, had to be three “work shoes”, which corresponds to 90 cm. This limited the number of mills. The Counts of Katzenelnbogen, who ruled Pfungstadt in the 14th century, laid down in the so-called Mühlenbann exactly which mill was responsible for which village, because the millers had to pay a corresponding mill rent. The millers for their part kept 1/16 of the ground grain (the so-called molter) as wages. Since the end of the 17th century, individual mills were used for madder - later for ultramarine production.

The Neumühle ceased operations in 1990 as the last of the Pfungstadt mills. A number of mills have survived to this day. A blackboard and a historic millstone at the Kirchmühle, Kirchgasse, explain the history of the Pfungstädter mills.

  • Gallows mill , built in 1563

  • Kirchmühle , built in 1570

  • Schmeihmühle , mentioned in 1441 as Neytmühle

  • Neumühle

  • Hahnmühle

Nature and protected areas

In the area of Pfungstadt parts are the nature reserves " Pfungstadt Moor " and " Kalksandkiefernwald in Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim ".

The FFH area "Weißer Berg bei Darmstadt and Pfungstadt" protects steppe lawns, sandy lawns and pine forests. The extensive natural monument and FFH area “ Pfungstädter Düne ” lies partly in the Pfungstädter area, partly in the Darmstadt-Eberstadt district .

Pfungstadt dune

Origin and location: The Pfungstädter dune was created almost 12,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial period when the drifting sand from the Rhine, Main and Neckar rises up. It belongs to a belt of drifting sand dunes that extends from Rastatt to Mainz. Other inland dunes in the region include a. the White Mountain (in the forest behind the Pfungstädter Wasserwerk), the Ulvenbergdüne , Lerchenberg and Kernesbellen and the Brömster in Eberstadt and the Griesheimer Düne .

The Pfungstädter dune lies between the Modau and the Pfungstadtbahn . They can be reached via field or forest paths.

Flora and fauna: The Pfungstädter dune is characterized by its dryness and is one of the warmest climatic areas in Germany. It is the habitat of many rare plant and animal species, including the blue-green Schillergras and the sand-silver sliver . Due to its endangered inhabitants, 5.5 hectares of the dune are specially protected as a Natura 2000 area.

  • Pfungstadt dune

  • Pfungstadt dune

  • Tropidothorax leucopterus

  • Viola spec. ( Violets )

  • Eresus kollari ( red tube spider )

Natural monuments

Pfungstadt elm

Also protected as natural monuments are a 100-year-old Süntelbuche and a very old elm (popularly known as “the Reest” = elm) and the Schilliche in the Hahn district.

Regular events

  • The Pfungstädter brewery celebrates its brewery festival every summer.
  • The Maggd off de Gass takes place from spring to autumn .
  • The largest municipal event is the Pungschter Curb on the second weekend in September, which ends with a firework display .
  • On the third weekend of Advent there is a Christmas market in Kirchstrasse between the historic town hall and the Protestant church.

leisure

The Bad SaunaPark leisure facility in the south leisure center was located in a park and consisted of an indoor wave pool, an outdoor pool and a sauna facility. It was closed in January 2014, the discussion about the reopening continues.

In Pfungstadt there are numerous clubs with different leisure and sports activities.

The Pfungstädter Moor nature reserve can be used for walking.

Economy and Infrastructure

Land use

The municipal area covers a total area of ​​4253 hectares, of which in hectares are:

Type of use 2011 2015
Building and open space 483 491
from that Living 296 297
Business 50 58
Operating area 65 64
from that Mining land 0 0
Recreation area 36 36
from that Green area 13 14th
traffic area 356 356
Agricultural area 1969 1961
from that moor 0 0
pagan 0 0
Forest area 1252 1252
Water surface 83 83
Other use 8th 8th

Established businesses

Educational institutions

In Pfungstadt there are five primary schools (Erich Kästner School, Wilhelm Leuschner School, Goetheschule, Gutenberg School (Eschollbrücken), Hahner School), a special needs school (Schillerschule) and a secondary school (Friedrich-Ebert-Schule).

From 1997 to 2019 the private university for distance learning ( Wilhelm Büchner University ) was located in Pfungstadt.

Friedrich Ebert School in Pfungstadt

FES Pfungstadt from the south
FES Pfungstadt from the east

The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule Pfungstadt is a cooperative comprehensive school with upper secondary school and has around 1250 pupils and around 100 teachers (as of October 2017). It is located on Ringstrasse 51-61, in the northwest of Pfungstadt.

History and organization

The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule was founded in 1954. Until 1980 it was a traditional secondary school and was then supplemented by the support level, which was initially located in the Goethe and Lessing School in the city center. In 1982 the school was converted into a cooperative comprehensive school with a grammar school branch for the intermediate level. As a result of structural extensions, the funding stage was moved to Ringstrasse in 1990, and the premises of the Lessing School were used by the newly founded upper school from 1996. From August 1, 2011, there will only be two branches for all those who have just started school: the grammar school branch and, based on the support level, the network branch. As a group, the students from grades 5 to 9 stay together in a class and are accompanied by a permanent team of teachers through to graduation. A differentiation is made possible by the course system at different performance levels.

Socially effective school

The concept of the socially effective school , developed by the Munich school psychologist Hopf, is intended to improve the school's learning culture in the long term and was introduced at the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule in 2007. The five goals of the concept are to improve the perception of the educational task at school, to develop the social climate and learning culture, to impart social skills to students, to strengthen their personality and to reduce aggressiveness and violence in school.

traffic

Pfungstadtbahn : Diesel multiple unit at the exit from Pfungstadt station

Pfungstadt is located between the A 5 and A 67 motorways . In addition, the B 426 ran through the village until October 2004. After more than 40 years of planning, the construction of the bypass began in 2000 and was opened to traffic on October 8, 2004. The "old" main road through the town has meanwhile been dismantled in some places.

On December 10, 2011, the Pfungstadtbahn was put back into operation. Every hour, Darmstadt's main train station can be reached in twelve minutes. About every second train continues on the Odenwaldbahn to Erbach (Odenwald) or Eberbach .

Pfungstadt is also served by the bus lines P, PE and PG, which connect Pfungstadt with the tram and bus network in Darmstadt. The PE runs from the waiting hall in Eberstadt via Pfungstädter Bahnhof, the north of Pfungstadt and Hahn to Eschollbrücken, thus serving the north of the city. Line P runs from Eberstadt via the train station and the south of Pfungstadt back to the train station, thus serving the south of the city. The PG line connects Pfungstadt Monday to Friday with Eberstadt, the Hahn district, the Bruchackerhof in the town of Ctumstadt (town of Riedstadt), the Biebesheim train station with the community of Gernsheim.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner (1793–1874), geometer and historian
  • Georg Hess (1832–1909), artist and sculptor, born and died in Pfungstadt
  • Valentin Berdux (1841–1922), founder of the Berdux piano and grand piano manufacturer in Munich
  • Ernst Büchner (1850–1925), German chemist
  • Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917), neurologist and psychiatrist. Born in the “manor house” of the “Blaufabrik” as the son of the authorized signatory Moritz Kohnstamm.
  • Wilhelm Ulrich (1890–1971), architect
  • Hanna Hertz (1886–1973), social democratic author and translator
  • Peter Grund (1892–1966), architect, 1933–1937 director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy and 1935–1937 consultant for urban planning of the NSDAP , 1947–1959 senior construction director in Darmstadt
  • Ferdinand May (1896–1977), later chief dramaturge in Leipzig and prominent author in the GDR, father of the singer and actress Gisela May
  • Willi Eiermann (1925–2002), politician (SPD)

Associated with Pfungstadt

  • Wilhelm Büchner (1816–1892), brother of the poet Georg Büchner , pharmacist, chemist, manufacturer and politician, lived and died in Pfungstadt
  • Georg Raab (1869–1932), the first democratic minister for economics and labor in Hesse ( Ulrich I cabinet ), lived in Pfungstadt from 1885 until his death
  • Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), later the first President of Israel, taught natural science subjects at the Pfungstadt-based "Israelite Teaching and Education Institute" from 1892
  • Dieter W. Leitner (* 1935), German journalist, writer, type artist and book designer
  • Hans-Joachim Heist (* 1949), actor, known as commentator Gernot Hassknecht in the ZDF show today ; City Councilor of the SPD
  • Friedhelm K Händler (* 1950), poet and playwright, moved in 2012 from his hometown Hanover to the Pfungstadt artist house "Wildkind".

literature

  • Pfungstadt: From the Franconian mill village to the modern city . Contributions by Friedrich Battenberg, Eckhart G. Franz, Valentin Liebig. Edited by Friedrich Battenberg. Published by Helène, J., 1985, ISBN 3-9801116-0-1 .
  • Farewell without return - Jewish life in Pfungstadt 1933–1945 . Pfungstadt City Archives, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9805103-2-5 .
  • Heiner Boehncke, Peter Brunner, Hans Sarkowicz: The Büchners or the desire to change the world. Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7973-1045-3 (with a detailed chapter on Wilhelm Büchner in Pfungstadt).
  • Alfred Nitsche, Günther Jockel: Do you know Pfungstadt? City guide . Edited by Isolde Nees, Weststadt Verlag, 2010.
  • R. Dreesen, A. Haerle: Letters from the camps . Letters from the Lorch brothers from the Eschollbrück circus family from camp detention. ISBN 978-3-00-045339-7 . (Editor AK Former Synagogue Pfungstadt e.V. 2014)
  • Literature on Pfungstadt in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Literature by and about Pfungstadt in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Commons : Pfungstadt  - Collection of Images
Wikivoyage: Pfungstadt  - travel guide

Individual evidence

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