Rehnenhof-Wetzgau

Rehnenhof-Wetzgau City of Schwäbisch Gmünd Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 58 " N , 9 ° 46 ′ 42" E
Height :	448-466 m
Residents :	3845 (2012)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1938
Postal code :	73527
Area code :	07171

Rehnenhof-Wetzgau is a district of Schwäbisch Gmünd in Baden-Württemberg and combines different types of settlement. While Wetzgau is a classic clustered village with a medieval town center, Rehnenhof is a modern satellite town of the 20th century. In 1938, Wetzgau , which had previously belonged to the community of Großdeinbach, and the still largely undeveloped district of Rehnenhof were merged into a new district. In contrast to the other ten districts , Rehnenhof-Wetzgau does not have any further residential areas or homesteads .

geography

The Rehnenhof-Wetzgau district is located about two and a half kilometers northwest of Schwäbisch Gmünd in a hollow of the Lias plateau belonging to the Alfdorf-Welzheimer Platten . The highest point is at 466 meters, at the Wetzgau water reservoir in the Laichle forest area . In the north ( Waldau ), west and southwest ( Wustenriet ), Rehnenhof-Wetzgau borders on the Großdeinbach district, and in the south, mostly separated by the Taubental recreational area , on the city center. The eastern neighbor is the municipality of Mutlangen .

history

Since the area of today's Ostalb district was densely populated during the Hallstatt period, it is assumed that the area around the Koloman linden tree was leveled with grave mounds from this era. The Romans also left their mark on what is now the district. Between 150 and 260 AD, the Roman border fortification of Limes ran through the nearby Taubental and across today's Rehnenhof settlement to protect the empire from the Alemanni .

Wetzgau

Map of Wetzgau around 1830

The village of Wetzgau was first indirectly mentioned in a document under Hohenstaufen rule in 1266, when a "Berngerus de Weggeshaine" waived various rights and goods in favor of the Adelberg Monastery . In the Bernger mentioned, a member of a local noble family is suspected, but no further traces have been preserved.

In 1301 a B. dictus de Wexhain was named as the town school of Lorch and in 1347 a building in Schwäbisch Gmünd was named "Wegkshaims hus" in connection with a transfer of income to the Gotteszell monastery .

In the late 16th century the place name "Wetzgen", first mentioned in 1545, became established.

In 1382 a document mentions a Gothus zu Wegschain . The old parish church was meant. The dilapidated church was torn down and replaced by a new church in 1447, the Koloman Church . Remnants of the Romanesque structure can still be seen in this magnificent Gothic building . The farms and houses of Alt-Wetzgau are grouped all around. Visitors to the town center can still feel the importance of the Koloman Church for the villagers. Behind its walls people not only sought God's help and pastoral advice, but also protection and common defense in times of war.

Wetzgau belonged to the Lords of Rechberg , who sold large parts of their rule in the late Middle Ages. Already in 1424 half of the big tithe belonged to a citizen of Gmünd. Ulrich von Rechberg sold further rights in Wetzgau in 1445. The village order of 1553 confirms the condominium of the three lordships of Rechberg, Lorch Monastery and the Imperial City of Schwäbisch Gmünd. In 1552 Hans Wolf von Rechberg and Rothenlöwen ceded the last Rechberg rights to the hospital in Gmünd .

After the Lorch monastery was dissolved in the course of the Reformation , the Duke of Württemberg appeared as the legal successor to Lorch in the village, who shared the rights in Wetzgau with the Gmünders until the end of the Holy Roman Empire . In contrast to Lorch, Wetzgau remained Catholic.

In 1634 the village was occupied and sacked by Swedish troops. Many buildings were destroyed. The tower of the Koloman Church was rebuilt in 1675. In 1803 Wetzgau came to Württemberg , which in 1824 assigned the place to the community of Großdeinbach in the Oberamt Welzheim .

In 1909 Wetzgau was connected to the group water supply together with Großdeinbach, Kleindeinbach, Hangendeinbach, Waldau and Wustenriet.

Rehnenhof

The Rehnenhof chapel from 1801. In the background the Rehnenhof homestead

The area of today's Rehnenhof was undeveloped except for one farm. Presumably it is about Gut Höflin, which the Gmünder citizen Jos von Brogenhofen sold to the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1419. The field name "Höfle" still reminds us of the existence of this property . The remaining area was divided between the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd and the Counts of Rechberg until the end of the imperial city period . The latter temporarily gave their property to Schwäbisch Gmünd as a fief. Around 1700 the Rehnenhof was the only court belonging to the imperial city of Gmünd that was outside the city walls. The Catholic residents of the farm were parish in Wetzgau.

Lutz Reichardt has the Oberamtsbeschreibung from 1870 as the first document from Rehnenhof. But there are certainly earlier documents, such as Renhof from Andreas Buchner 1821.

Rehnenhof-Wetzgau

In order to counter the housing shortage in the urban area, the municipal council of Schwäbisch Gmünd decided on March 28, 1935 to exercise the right of first refusal for a settlement on the Rehnenhof there . Originally it was planned to lay out the settlement along Mutlanger Strasse . The first settlers were selected for this as early as 1936 and a water pipe was laid from the linden ridge. However, the state geologist advised against this location because of the risk of slipping and instead suggested the plateau along the road to Wetzgau as the construction area.

In January 1937, the first 17 settler families were able to move into their apartments on the Rehnenhof. For the further construction project, however, two fields were required, which belonged to Wetzgau and thus also to the Oberamt Welzheim. After Mayor Glos von Großdeinbach refused to change the marking boundary, Wetzgau with a marking area of 224 hectares was unceremoniously incorporated into Schwäbisch Gmünd on April 1, 1938. In 1938, 13 more families moved to Rehnenhof, but the settlement did not see a major upswing at first.

The Schenk Werkzeugbau company , which set up a branch in the Schwäbisch Gmünd emergency area in 1937, had so-called gift houses built on the Rehnenhof in 1940/41, which were co-financed by the company and later handed over to employees. This gave 50 families their own homes. The Willy-Schenk Street in Rehnenhof reminded of this operation.

On 19 April 1945 occupied after a brief battle with a train stationed in Gmund construction spare - Battalion US tank troops Wetzgau, a second wave tanks took without a fight a Rehnenhof. The Allied forces had thus reached the urban area of Schwäbisch Gmünd. From Rehnenhof the tanks shelled the Hardt barracks, an artillery regiment deployed in Laichle took the Rechberg under fire and damaged the pilgrimage church there . From Wetzgau, the US armed forces advanced first to Wustenriet and later to Schwäbisch Gmünd.

After the Second World War , more expellees were settled in Rehnenhof-Wetzgau. Residents and displaced persons joined together in 1950 to form a building community . At that time, the district already had around 700 residents, 100 buildings and 11 semi-detached houses. The growing settlement received a school from 1952. In 1953 the Martin Luther Church was built, followed by the Maria Queen Church in 1960 , which was merged with the parish of St. Koloman in Wetzgau to form the new parish of St. Maria Wetzgau-Rehnenhof in 1970 . Today, the three churches are the landmarks of the merged district on the welcome boards. The Koloman Church, with its tower that can be seen from afar, is what all the citizens of the district see as the historical heart of their place. Since 1994 a “ One World Market ” has been held by the parish of St. Maria Wetzgau-Rehnenhof during Advent for the benefit of the “ servants of the poor ” in India .

At the time of the stationing of nuclear missiles and protests in nearby Mutlangen , Wetzgau became known for the peace camp that was temporarily built behind the “Laichle” forest.

On October 23, 2013, Rehnenhof-Wetzgau was upgraded from a city district to a district.

politics

District Advisory Board

Rehnenhof-Wetzgau is the only district of Schwäbisch Gmünd that does not have a local council , but only a district advisory council as a citizen representative.

The current district advisory board has been in office since the 2009 elections. It consists of 17 members and is composed as follows: CDU 6 seats, SPD 5 seats, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen 4 seats, Free voters / FDP 1 seat, Free voters women 1 seat.

badges and flags

The then Großdeinbacher district of Wetzgau did not have its own coat of arms before it was incorporated into Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Even today's district Rehnenhof-Wetzgau does not have an official coat of arms awarded by the Ministry of the Interior. However, on solemn occasions, e.g. B. the appointment of the mayor, a flag with an applied coat of arms for the district. The coat of arms signet shows in the split shield heraldic right the three churches of the place on a silver background, as they are also shown on the welcome signs. On the left you can see the Gmünder city coat of arms , an upright silver unicorn on a red background.

The flag colors are red and white.

The district council agreed on the two symbols on July 17, 2009.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In Rehnenhof which crosses county road 3268 , the B 298 , which in turn Gaildorf combines and Schwabisch Gmund.

Line 6 (Schwäbisch Gmünd - Kleindeinbach) of the Gmünd city bus serves several stops in Rehnenhof and Wetzgau. The district, which was growing rapidly, mainly due to the large number of settler families, ensured increasing numbers of passengers in Schwäbisch Gmünd city traffic from 1957.

The routes 61, 62, 63 and 266 of the FahrBus Gmünd also go to Rehnenhof.

Established businesses

Weleda healing garden in Rehnenhof-Wetzgau

The Im Spagen industrial park is home to several companies.

The Weleda Naturals medicinal gardens are located in Wetzgau . A production building originally planned for the Wetzgau location is being built on the Gügling in Bettringen .

Culture and sights

Green spaces

Kolomanlinden

The district borders directly on the Taubental recreational area, a mixed forest area close to the city with the 2.5 km long NATURATUM adventure forest path .

As part of the 2014 State Garden Show, the Wetzgau-West landscape park is being set up in cooperation with the pharmaceutical and cosmetics company Weleda for 1.8 million euros on the footpath between the healing gardens and Rehnenhof .

The Kolomanus linden trees , a group of three free-standing linden trees with a field cross, stand at an altitude of 456 m between Großdeinbach and Wetzgau . In the 18th century, hundreds of riders met at the Koloman Festival on Whit Monday to march from the Kolomanslinden to Wetzgau. No written evidence has been received about the background of the equestrian procession . It is believed that this was a short-lived attempt to lure visitors from the equestrian procession in Böhmenkirch to Wetzgau.

Sports

The "Waldstadion" in Laichle, on the right the TSB office

Wetzgau became known in sporting terms through the TV Wetzgau, which is nationally to internationally successful in the sports of gymnastics , karate and weightlifting . Wetzgau is home to their gym, the forest stadium and a mini ramp for skateboarders behind the stadium.

The soccer team of SV Rehnenhof , which was founded in 1955, played at times in the third-class amateur league in Northern Württemberg and in 1981 merged with the Schwäbisch Gmünd gymnastics and sports community to form TSB Schwäbisch Gmünd , the largest club in the city in terms of members.

Furthermore, a small animal breeding club and a choir have their home in Rehnenhof.

literature

Hans-Wolfgang Bächle : Culture and history in the Gmünder area . Remsdruckerei Sigg, Härtel & Co., Schwäbisch Gmünd 1982
The first houses were built on the Rehnenhof 50 years ago . In: einhorn yearbook Schwäbisch Gmünd 1987 . Einhorn-Verlag Eduard Dietenberger, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1987
Peter Spranger : St. Coloman in Wetzgau. The building and its history , ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Maria Wetzgau-Rehnenhof. Einhorn-Verlag Eduard Dietenberger, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1994 online .
Richard Strobel: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd, Volume IV: Churches and secular buildings outside the old town. Districts . German art publisher and Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Munich / Berlin 2003

Web links

City of Schwäbisch Gmünd: Rehnenhof-Wetzgau

Individual evidence

^ Hasso Kaiser: Prehistory and early history in the Schwäbisch Gmünd area . In: History of the City of Schwäbisch Gmünd , ed. from the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8062-0399-7 , p. 22.

^ Adolf Glos: 700 years of Deinbach . Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1971.

↑ Digitized at landesarchiv-bw.de (last accessed on June 27, 2019).

↑ Karl Eduard Paulus the Elder with the collaboration of his son Eduard and - for the historical - by Hermann Bauer: Description of the Oberamt Gmünd. Stuttgart: H. Lindemann, 1870, page 293. Full text on Wikisource .

↑ Place names book of the Ostalbkreises 2 (1999), p. 93.

↑ http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV010553168/ft/bsb11173540?page=54 .

↑ Ernst Lämmle: From the empire over the time of the world wars to the democratic republic. Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1894 to 1945 . In: History of the City of Schwäbisch Gmünd , ed. from the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive. Konrad Theiss Verlag., Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8062-0399-7 , p. 417f.

↑ Winfried Hofele: Schenk has an eventful history. Schenk tool and machine construction has existed in Schwäbisch Gmünd for 75 years . In Gmünder Tagespost , June 30, 2011.