Philippsburg
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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ' N , 8 ° 27' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Karlsruhe | |
| County : | Karlsruhe | |
| Height : | 100 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 50.56 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 13,615 (Dec 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 269 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 76661 | |
| Area code : | 07256 | |
| License plate : | KA | |
| Community key : | 08 2 15 066 | |
City administration address : |
Rote-Tor-Strasse 6-10 76661 Philippsburg |
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| Mayor : | Stefan Martus | |
| Location of the city of Philippsburg in the district of Karlsruhe | ||
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The city of Philippsburg , originally Udenheim , is located in the north of the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg . The city is known nationwide as the location of the decommissioned Philippsburg nuclear power plant .
geography
Philippsburg lies in the Upper Rhine Plain . The city lies between Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Mannheim , Heidelberg , Speyer , Germersheim , Bruchsal and Karlsruhe .
City structure
The city of Philippsburg consists of the three districts Huttenheim (2487 inhabitants on December 31, 2011), Philippsburg (7369 inhabitants) and Rheinsheim (2740 inhabitants). The spatial boundaries of the districts are identical to the earlier communities of the same name, their official name is in the form of "Philippsburg district ...". The city districts also form residential districts within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . In the districts of Huttenheim and Rheinsheim, localities are set up in the sense of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with its own local council and mayor as its chairman.
The Huttenheim district includes the village of Huttenheim and the Insel Elisabethenwörth house. The Philippsburg district includes the city of Philippsburg, the courtyards Mittelhof, Schönborner (Neudorfer) Mühle and Unterhof and the houses Am Waldweg, Engelsmühle, Fischkutter, Garrisonmühle, Rheinwärterhaus and Torflager. The village of Rheinsheim belongs to the Rheinsheim district.
In the Philippsburg district are the desert areas of Gevenhart and Winden.
Neighboring communities
Philippsburg borders the following municipalities (clockwise, starting in the north): Oberhausen-Rheinhausen , Waghäusel , Bruchsal , Graben-Neudorf , Dettenheim , Germersheim , Lingenfeld and Römerberg .
history
Until the 19th century
The name of the city goes back to the Philippsburg fortress , which was founded in 1615 by the Speyer bishop Philipp Christoph von Sötern . Before that, the city was called Udenheim.
It was first mentioned in 784 on the occasion of a donation to the Lorsch Abbey as Hiutenheim in a document from the Lorsch Codex . During the time of the tribal duchies, the place belonged to the Duchy of Franconia . In 1316 it was bought by the Speyer Monastery . Ludwig the Bavarian raised Udenheim to a city in 1338. Since 1371 it was the residence of the Speyer prince-bishops. The fortress was founded because the bishopric felt its power threatened by the surrounding Protestant areas. During the Thirty Years War , the rulership of the place, which suffered great destruction, changed several times. In 1644 French troops took the city. But even after the end of this war the fighting continued: It was not until 1676 that the imperial troops succeeded in recapturing after several months of siege . But already in 1688 the French besieged and conquered Philippsburg again under General Ezéchiel de Mélac . In the Peace of Rijswijk , the city was then reassigned to the Holy Roman Empire .
During the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, the city was besieged by the French, and the loss of human life can no longer be precisely determined. The French casualties are not known, there are sources that speak of up to 30,000 men killed and wounded, the casualties of the besieged were 337 dead, 359 wounded, 321 prisoners or deserters.
As a result of the mediatization due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Philippsburg came to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803 and was initially the seat of the Philippsburg office , which was opened in the Bruchsal district office in 1864 (from 1939: Bruchsal district ).
20th century
During the November pogrom in 1938 , the prayer room of the Jewish community was desecrated and set on fire by SA men , later used for residential purposes and demolished in 1981. A memorial plaque on the Weißetorstrasse / Alte Kirchenstrasse house commemorates this event. The community's Jewish cemetery has been preserved as a cultural monument.
The 1st French Army crossed the Rhine near Philippsburg on April 1, 1945 and advanced towards Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen . Since the district reform in 1973, the city has been part of the Karlsruhe district .
From 1963 Philippsburg became the Bundeswehr's largest artillery garrison through the stationing of the 122 rocket artillery battalion and other active and inactive artillery units. At the same time as the Salm barracks were built, the gymnasium, indoor swimming pool and sewer system were built.
Religions
Philippsburg was predominantly Roman Catholic because it belonged to the Speyer monastery . Even today the majority of the population is of Roman Catholic faith. In addition, Philippsburg was the seat of a Roman Catholic deanery in the Archdiocese of Freiburg until 2008 . The first Protestant church was built in 1936. Many Muslims also live in Philippsburg today, primarily through immigration . There are four mosques and prayer rooms in the city. According to the 2011 census , 50.3% of Philippsburg's residents were Catholic, 18.4% Protestant, 2.2% Christian Orthodox and 28.5% do not belong to any or any other religious community.
The cultural monument " Jewish cemetery Philippsburg " commemorates the Jewish population .
Population development
According to the Baden census for 1858, Philippsburg had 2236 inhabitants.
Incorporations
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January 1, 1973: Huttenheim
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October 1, 1974: Rheinsheim
politics
mayor
- 1871–1893: Hieronymus Christoph Nopp
- ? –1945: Oswald Kirchgeßner, called "Langschäfter"
- 1948–1959: Rudolf Odenwald
- 1959–1973: Karl Frank
- 1973–1989: Fritz Dürrschnabel
- 1989–2005: Jürgen Schmidt
- since 2005: Stefan Martus
Municipal council
The municipal council has 22 honorary members who are elected for five years. The municipal councils use the designation city council. In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights.
The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):
| Municipal Council 2019 | ||||
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| Party / list | Share of votes | Seats | ||
| CDU | 32.1% (+2.4) | 7 (± 0) | ||
| Independent List (ULi) | 24.9% (+5.7) | 6 (+2) | ||
| Free voters | 24.2% (−1.9) | 5 (−1) | ||
| SPD | 18.8% (−6.3) | 4 (−1) | ||
| Turnout: 50.1% (+4.3) | ||||
coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In a blue shield split by a silver thread, a continuous cut silver cross at the front and a silver lily at the back."
Town twinning
- Île de Ré , France
- Le Gua (Charente-Maritime) , France
- Phillipsburg , Kansas ( USA )
- Philippsbourg , Lorraine ( France )
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Bruhrainbahn ( Bruchsal - Germersheim ) connects Philippsburg to the national rail network.
In addition, the federal highway 35 ( Germersheim - Illingen ) crosses the city.
Established businesses
Philippsburg is known from 1979 put into operation in nuclear power plant Philippsburg of EnBW (Block 1 was 2,011 decommissioned and dismantled since 2017, Unit 2 was shut down on 31 December 2019) and the now closed Goodyear Dunlop Tires Germany GmbH , which here is the biggest tire warehouse in Europe operated by the group of companies. The German Signal-Instrumenten-Fabrik Max B. Martin is also based in Philippsburg, world-famous for the signal horns it produces (Martin horn, coll. Martinshorn ).
Courts and authorities
Philippsburg is the seat of the Philippsburg District Court , which belongs to the Karlsruhe Regional Court and Higher Regional Court .
The community of Philippsburg has three primary and secondary schools : the Hieronymus Nopp School in Philippsburg, the Franz Christoph von Hutten School in Huttenheim and the primary and secondary school in Rheinsheim. The Konrad-Adenauer - Realschule and the Copernicus-Gymnasium Philippsburg exist as secondary schools .
There is also the Nicolaus-von-Myra-Schule for special needs . The existing schools in the city center are all part of a large school center. The music and art school rounds off the offer.
Others
The former site shooting range of the Bundeswehr was taken over by a private investor and converted into a modern sports shooting range, on which large competitions and German championships of various shooting associations take place regularly . In particular, the 2001 European championship in IPSC shooting, the 2006 European championship in western shooting and the 2007 European championship in silhouette shooting were held at the facility.
Culture and sights
Museums
In Philippsburg there is a local history museum (Kronentorstrasse 1), which presents the history of the city in changing exhibition themes, as well as a fortress and weapon history museum. Both museums are run by sponsoring associations. In 2015 the Heimatmuseum received an award in the competition “Heimatmuseum hat Zukunft” of the working group Heimatpflege im Karlsruhe eV
Murals
From 2008, the mural painter J. Hudec created several large-format pictures from the history of Philippsburg on various house walls.
Natural monuments
The Old Rhine , which was created by straightening the Rhine in Tulla , is now a local recreation area.
War memorial 1870/71
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The sculptor Christian Elsässer created a war memorial for Philippsburg, which was ceremoniously unveiled on June 11, 1899 in the presence of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden and the Prince of Salm-Grumbach .
The inscription on the front of the monument reads:
THE BRAVE HEROES
OF 1870/71
THE GRATEFUL CITY
OF PHILIPPSBURG
Peace monument
In Philippsburg there is a peace monument called Pax aeterna , which was designed in 1988 by the sculptor Giacomo Manzù . It was donated by Franz Burda .
societies
Philippsburg offers a large number of sports and clubs (e.g. a sports promotion club, soccer, motoball, fishing, diving, swimming, judo / ju-jutsu, karate, kickboxing, boxing, tennis and a rifle club). Since 1994 there has been a free fool's guild in Philippsburg, the Philippsburger Geese (Geißen).
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1831: Johann Georg Stulz von Ortenberg (1771–1832), benefactor of the city after the floods of 1831
- 1953: Oskar Frey , pastor and clergyman
- 1958: Franz Burda (1903–1986), publisher
- 1969: Johannes Gothe (1898–1979), clergyman
- 1973: Karl Frank (1909–1991), retired mayor D.
- 1980: Friedrich Hebbel (1898–1985), parish priest i. R.
sons and daughters of the town
- Simon Ribeisen (born around 1483), provost and rector of Heidelberg University
- Niklas Ribeisen (1484–1547), councilor to the prince-bishop
- Johann Georg Metzger (1746–1793), composer and flautist
- Johann Andreas von Traitteur (1752–1825), engineer, construction clerk, saltworks owner and balloon developer
- Hieronymus Christoph Nopp (1832–1893), member of the state parliament and poet, as well as mayor and merchant in Philippsburg. He wrote the town history of Philippsburg.
- Franz Burda (1903–1986), publisher, founder of Burda-Verlag
- Meinrad Belle (1943–2015), politician (CDU), mayor of the Brigachtal community, member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 2002
- Michael Pfreundschuh (1949–2018), hematologist and oncologist; born in Rheinsheim
Others
- Martin Walser immortalized the place name in 1957 in his first novel " Ehen in Philippsburg ", for which he received the Hermann Hesse Prize . However, the model for the location in the novel was not the real Phillipsburg, but the city of Stuttgart .
- Wilhelm Jensen immortalized the historical Philippsburg around 1800 with the historical novel “At the end of the empire”.
- Nikolaus is traditionally celebrated by the Philippsburgers (mainly by the born Philippsburgers) on December 5th and not as usual on December 6th. According to legend, for the following reason: During the siege of Philippsburg by the French, it became known that the fortress was to be bombed on December 6th. For fear of not being able to experience the next day and the associated family celebration, the celebrations were brought forward by one day.
literature
- Ekkehard Zimmermann: Philippsburg. Between republic and dictatorship. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-031-2 .
- Gebhard M. Fieser: The storm year 1849 - the events of the Baden revolution and its consequences in the official town of Philippsburg. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-522-5 .
- City history of Philippsburg: History of the city and former imperial fortress of Philippsburg from its emergence from the castle and the village of Udenheim to the onset of the same in Baden. Speyer 1881.
- Dieter Haas: Local family book Philippsburg 1576 - 1905, created according to the church books and registry office registers . Philippsburg: City of Philippsburg 2005 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 36)
Web links
- Publications on the city of Philippsburg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for City of Philippsburg in the German Digital Library
- Search for the city of Philippsburg in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Philippsburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ "City of Philippsburg - Statistics"
- ↑ Main statute of the city of Philippsburg of September 13, 2005, last amended on October 17, 2006
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 , pp. 115-117.
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1880, July 1, 784 - Reg. 1926. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 332 , accessed on May 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, Vol. I, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 69.
- ^ Mosques in Philippsburg
- ↑ 2011 census: People by religion for Philippsburg
- ^ 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. 473 .
- ^ 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. 482 .
- ^ City of Philippsburg: Main Statute, §3 ; accessed July 6, 2019.
- ^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, City of Philippsburg ; City of Philippsburg: municipal council elections 2019 and municipal council elections 2014 ; accessed July 6, 2019.
- ↑ Tire press of October 20, 2009: Goodyear Dunlop completes car tire warehouse in Philippsburg
- ↑ SuperUser: Notariats. December 3, 2004, accessed September 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Hieronymus Nopp School in Philippsburg a primary and secondary school with a technical secondary school
- ↑ European Championship 2001 in IPSC shooting
- ↑ 2007 European Championship in silhouette shooting
- ↑ Nikolaus Ribeisen in Salzburgwiki
- ↑ Florian Illies: The Forgotten Great Novel , in: ZEITmagazin LEBEN, April 10, 2008, No. 16 ( online )
- ↑ Holdings 218 in the GLA Karlsruhe ; Book overview from Heimatverein Philippsburg ; Press report in the Heimatverein
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