Rems-Murr district

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '  N , 9 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
Region :	Stuttgart
Administrative headquarters :	Waiblingen
Area :	858.13 km 2
Residents:	426,158 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	497 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	WN, BK
Circle key :	08 1 19
Circle structure:	31 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Alter Postplatz 10 71332 Waiblingen
Website :	www.rems-murr-kreis.de
District Administrator :	Richard Sigel ( independent )
Location of the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg

The Rems-Murr-Kreis is an 858.14 km² district in Baden-Württemberg with its seat in Waiblingen . It was created in 1973 from the former Waiblingen district , large parts of the former Backnang district and a smaller part of the former Schwäbisch Gmünd district . It is named after the two rivers Rems and Murr , which shape the relief of the district with its valleys and side valleys.

The Rems-Murr-Kreis is part of the Stuttgart Region in the Stuttgart Region .

geography

location

The district's main settlement areas are in the west of the district, where it has a share in the Gäu landscapes with the Neckar basin and the Backnanger Bay , and in the Remstal , which runs from east to west in the south of the district. South of the Remstal, the heights of the Schurwald form the district boundary. The central and northern part of the district belongs to the Swabian-Franconian Forest , which here includes the Welzheimer Forest , the Murrhardter Forest and the south of the Mainhardter Forest and the Löwensteiner Mountains . The forest areas are interrupted by the valleys of the Murr, which forms the central valley in the north of the district, the Wieslauf , the "Spiegelberger" Lauter and the Buchenbach . The mountain range of Berglen rises between the Murr, Rems and Wieslauftal valleys . In the far west, the district extends to the right bank of the Neckar (a little above or south of the Rems estuary).

places

The list of places in the Rems-Murr-Kreis contains about 510 places ( towns , villages , hamlets , farms and living spaces ) of the Rems-Murr-Kreis in the geographical sense.

Neighboring areas

The Rems-Murr-Kreis borders in a clockwise direction in the southwest on the state capital Stuttgart and then on the districts of Ludwigsburg , Heilbronn , Schwäbisch Hall , Ostalbkreis , Göppingen and Esslingen .

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2015.

Nature reserves

→ Main article : List of nature reserves in the Rems-Murr district

topographic map Rems-Murr-Kreis

The Rems-Murr-Kreis has the following nature reserves . According to the protected area statistics of the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg (LUBW), 833.37 hectares of the district are under nature protection, that is 0.97 percent.

1. Mountain slide on the Kirchsteig near Urbach : 4.3 ha, Urbach district
2. Bodenbach Gorge : 8.6 ha; Spiegelberg district
3. Buchenbachtal : 118.4 ha; Districts Burgstall and Affalterbach (Ludwigsburg district)
4. Gaab : 13.0 ha; Gemarkungen Murrhardt and church Kirnberg
5. Hägeles and Brunnenblade : 5.4 ha; District Kaisersbach
6. Harbach spring swamp : 0.6 ha; District Murrhardt
7. Hirschäcker : 14.5 ha; Winterbach district
8. Hörschbach Gorge : 46.4 ha; Markings S Wechselberg, Oberbrüden and Murrhardt
9. Jägerhölzle : 2.7 ha; Rudersberg district
10. Kappelberg : 2.0 ha; Fellbach district
11. Leintal between Leinecksee and Leinhäusle : 202.5 ha, Alfdorf district
12. Morning sand and sea pool : 40.5 ha; Landmarks Haubersbronn and Oberurbach
13. Upper Zipfelbachtal with side cliff and parts of the Sonnenberg : 41.6 ha, Waiblingen and Winnenden districts
14. Oeffinger Scillawald : 11.8 ha; Oeffingen district
15. Rehfeldsee : 6.5 ha; Districts Weiler and Schorndorf
16. Red Burren : 4.7 ha; Plüderhausen district
17. Rottal between Hüttenbühl and Buchengehren : 78.0 ha, Alfdorf district
18. Schmalenberg : 32.4 ha; Districts Kaisersbach, Rudersberg and Welzheim
19. Seegut-Semmlersberg : 18.3 ha; Districts Cottenweiler and Oberweissach
20. Sommerrain : 2.0 ha; District Allmersbach
21. Steinhäusle : 20.9 ha; Parish Kirchenkirnberg
22. Strümpfelbachtal : 40.0 ha; Markings Althütte , Kaisersbach and Rudersberg
23. Lower Remstal : 158.3 ha; Districts Neustadt, Hegnach, Hohenacker and Neckarrems (Ludwigsburg district)
24. Vordere Hohbachwiesen : 12.5 ha; District Unterurbach
25. Meadow valleys near the Menzlesmühle : 62.8 ha; Districts Vordersteinenberg, Kaisersbach and Altersberg (Ostalbkreis)
26. Wieslaufschlucht and Edenbachschlucht : 42.0 ha; Districts Welzheim, Rudersberg and Kaisersbach

history

The Rems-Murr district was formed by the district reform on January 1, 1973 . At that time, the old district of Waiblingen was combined with most of the old district of Backnang to form the new Rems-Murr district. In addition, the community of Alfdorf was incorporated into the old district of Schwäbisch Gmünd . The two old districts of Waiblingen and Backnang go back to the old Württemberg upper offices of Waiblingen and Backnang , which were established during the times of the Duchy of Württemberg . In the course of history they were changed several times and in 1934/38 transferred to the districts of Waiblingen and Backnang. At that time, the Waiblingen district accepted almost all the communities in the Schorndorf Oberamt and many communities in the Welzheim Oberamt , while the Backnang district included many of the communities in the Gaildorf , Marbach and Welzheim Oberamts .

On January 1st, 1977 there was a small exchange of territory with the Ostalbkreis .

After the municipal reform has been completed, the Rems-Murr district will still comprise 31 municipalities, including eight cities and of these, in turn, six " large district towns " (Backnang, Fellbach, Schorndorf, Waiblingen, Weinstadt and Winnenden). The largest city is Waiblingen, the smallest municipality is Spiegelberg.

Population development

The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).

date Residents December 31, 1973 351,470 December 31, 1975 349.139 December 31, 1980 356.142 December 31, 1985 356.198 May 25, 1987¹ 360.634 December 31, 1990 380,813

date Residents December 31, 1995 399.116 December 31, 2000 409.296 December 31, 2005 417,697 December 31, 2010 415,448 December 31, 2015 419.456 December 31, 2018 426,528

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census, 42.9% of the population were Protestant, 22.0% Roman Catholic and 35.1% belonged to other denominations or religious communities or were non-denominational . At the end of 2019, 20.0% (85,310) Catholics lived in the district.

politics

The district is administered by the district council and the district administrator. The district council is elected for five years by those entitled to vote in the district. This body elects the district administrator for a term of eight years. This is the legal representative and representative of the district as well as chairman of the district council and its committees. He heads the district office and is an official of the district. His area of ​​responsibility includes the preparation of the district council meetings and its committees. He calls meetings, chairs them and implements the resolutions passed there. He has no voting rights in the committees . His deputy is the first state official.

District council

The district council is elected for five years by those entitled to vote in the district. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary results.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	% 2009	Seats 2009	% 2004	Seats 2004	% 1999	Seats 1999	% 1994	Seats 1994	% 1989	Seats 1989	Local elections 2019 Turnout: 57.21%  % 30th 20th 10 0 23.34% 18.93% 17.94% 14.19% 12.63% 8.47% 2.53% 1.84% 0.15% CDU FW Green SPD FDP-FW AfD left ÖDP F2 Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -7.42  % p +1.99  % p + 5.72  % p.p. -4.74  % p.p. +1.16  % p + 3.73  % p.p. + 0.05  % p + 0.21  % p + 0.15  % p CDU FW Green SPD FDP-FW AfD left ÖDP F2
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	23.34	21st	30.76	28	29.59	27	35.00	34	37.9	36	33.5	31	38.5	37
FW	Free voters in the Rems-Murr-Kreis eV	18.93	18th	16.94	15th	16.46	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	17.94	16	12.22	12	11.20	10	10.24	9	8.4	7th	11.2	10	9.3	8th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	14.19	13	18.93	16	20.27	18th	21.27	18th	23.2	20th	25.7	24	27.6	26th
FDP	Free Democratic Party - Free Voters	12.63	11	11.47	10	17.54	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
AfD	Alternative for Germany	8.47	8th	4.74	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
left	The left	2.53	2	2.48	2	1.45	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ÖDP	Ecological Democratic Party	1.84	2	1.63	1	2.04	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
F2	F2-for Fellbach	0.15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
REP	The Republicans	-	-	0.50	-	1.46	1	3.18	2	3.6	3	4.5	3	-	-
Pirates	Pirate party	-	-	0.33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
GEM	Joint election proposals from various parties	-	-	-	-	-	-	17.1	14th	18.5	15th	25.0	23	22.8	21st
Flat share	Electoral associations	-	-	-	-	-	-	13.2	11	8.5	7th	-	-	1.8	1
Otherwise.	Others	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	-	-	-
total		100.0	91	100.0	88	100.0	87	100.0	88	100.0	88	100.0	91	100.0	93
voter turnout		57.21%		48.86%		49.56%		51.6%		51.3%		64.6%		56.2%

• WG: Voter associations, as the results from 1989 to 2004 cannot be broken down into individual groups of voters.
• GEM: Joint election proposals, as the results from 1989 to 2004 cannot be broken down reliably to individual groups of voters (differences between the data from the State Office for Statistics and the data provided by the district for the 2004 district elections).

Distribution of seats in the
district council of the Rems-Murr-Kreis 2019

        

A total of 91 seats

• THE LEFT. : 2
• SPD : 13
• GREEN : 16
• FDP-FW : 11
• FW : 18
• ÖDP : 2
• CDU : 21
• AfD : 8

District administrators

The district administrators of the Backnang district 1945–1972:

• 1945: Josef Schäfer (acting)-1946
• 1945–1946: Friedrich Tränkle (acting)
• 1946–1960: Karl Limbeck
• 1960–1972: Wilhelm Schippert

The district administrators of the Waiblingen district 1945–1972:

• 1945–1946: Anton Schmidt
• 1947–1948: Fritzmartin Ascher
• 1948–1950: Karl Georg Pfleiderer , DVP
• 1950–1973: Werner Bertheau , independent

The district administrators of the Rems-Murr-Kreis since 1973:

• 1973–2002: Horst Lässing , CDU
• 2002–2015: Johannes Fuchs , FDP
• since 2015: Richard Sigel , independent

coat of arms

Description : In gold, between two slanted blue wavy strips, a slanted black stag stick

(Coats of arms awarded November 4, 1974)

Meaning: The stag bar stands for the House of Württemberg, which has ruled the majority of today's district area since the 14th century. The two wavy strips symbolize the Rems and Murr rivers, which gave the district its name.

See also: List of coats of arms in the Rems-Murr district

District partnerships

The Rems-Murr-Kreis maintains partnership relationships with the Meißen district in Saxony (since 1990), the Baranya county in Hungary (since 1991), and the Rayon and the city of Dmitrow in Russia (since 1991).

Economy and Infrastructure

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Rems-Murr-Kreis took 78th place out of 402 rural districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the places with “high future opportunities”. In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 99th out of 401.

With the companies Ericsson and Tesat-Spacecom there are two high-tech companies in Backnang. The international manufacturer of chainsaws and small power tools, Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG, has its headquarters in Waiblingen-Neustadt. The Robert Bosch GmbH has two plants in Waiblingen (for connection technology and packaging technology) and one in Murrhardt. Winnenden is the seat of the cleaning equipment manufacturer Kärcher . The US automotive supplier TRW Automotive has set up one of its technology centers (airbag and seat belt) in Alfdorf.

traffic

Road traffic

There is no federal motorway running through the district, as the plans for an Odenwald-Neckar-Alb motorway (A 45) and a federal motorway 85 have been abandoned. The A 81 Stuttgart - Würzburg passes only a few kilometers west of the district. The district is thus the most populous in Germany without a motorway connection.

The most important roads in the district are the four-lane B 29 Waiblingen– Aalen and the B 14 Stuttgart– Schwäbisch Hall , which has four lanes up to the Nellmersbach junction . A further expansion of the B 14 to Backnang is planned.

Rail transport

Rail network

The district is connected to the Stuttgart S-Bahn network. Line S2 runs from Filderstadt and the airport / exhibition center, then Stuttgart via Fellbach and Waiblingen to Schorndorf . To do this, she uses the Remsbahn , which leads beyond the district boundary to Aalen , has two tracks throughout and is electrified. A pair of trains on the Intercity route 61 Karlsruhe – Nuremberg-Leipzig also runs here.

The Wieslauftalbahn to Rudersberg, operated by the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WEG) with diesel multiple units , branches off at Schorndorf station .

The regular special trips of the Swabian Forest Railway also start here in the summer months, often with steam locomotives, via Rudersberg to Welzheim.

Line S3 runs from the airport / exhibition center via Stuttgart - Fellbach - Waiblingen to Backnang train station . This line runs on the Waiblingen – Schwäbisch Hall railway line .

From Backnang , the Backnang – Ludwigsburg line runs as the S4 S-Bahn to Marbach am Neckar . The Murrbahn was only electrified in the 1990s. It is the shortest connection from Stuttgart via Schwäbisch Hall and Crailsheim to Nuremberg .

Long-distance passenger trains run irregularly from Waiblingen via Schorndorf and Aalen to Crailsheim. The Backnang - Schwäbisch Hall (-Hessental) section is electrified, but only single-track, as is the Marbach / Neckar - Backnang section.

The city of Fellbach is also connected to Stuttgart-Mitte by the U1 light rail line . Its destination is the Stuttgart district of Vaihingen.

District facilities

schools

The Rems-Murr-Kreis is responsible for the following vocational schools : Backnang vocational school, Eduard-Breuninger-Schule Backnang (commercial school), Anna-Haag-Schule (home economics school) Backnang, Grafenberg-Schule Schorndorf (commercial school), Johann-Philipp -Palm-Schule Schorndorf (commercial school), commercial school Waiblingen, commercial school Waiblingen and Maria-Merian-Schule (home economics school) Waiblingen, as well as the special education and counseling centers with a focus on mental development and physical and motor development, each with a school kindergarten in Fellbach-Schmiden (Fröbelschule), Murrhardt (Bodelschwinghschule), Kernen-Stetten (Theodor-Dierlamm-Schule) and Schorndorf (Fröbelschule), the Christian-Morgenstern-Schule with school kindergartens in Waiblingen, Schorndorf and Sulzbach an der Murr (focus on language) and of the Waiblingen Clinic School (funding focus for students in long-term hospital treatment) .

Hospitals

The Rems-Murr-Kreis is also a partner in the Rems-Murr-Kliniken gGmbH with clinics in Schorndorf and Winnenden. Other clinics are the Center for Psychiatry Winnenden (public law institution), the Geriatric Rehabilitation Clinic Bethel Welzheim and the two private clinics Waiblinger Zentralklinik GmbH and the specialist clinic for the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction Wilhelmsheim in Oppenweiler.

Conversion of the hospitals into a GmbH and new building

On July 14, 2008, the district council decided to operate the three hospitals in Waiblingen, Backnang and Schorndorf, which had previously been run as a company, in the legal form of a non-profit GmbH. At the same meeting, the district council decided on the largest investment project in the history of the district: the construction of the district hospital in Winnenden. The costs should amount to around 266 million euros. With the opening of the district hospital in Winnenden in July 2014, the hospitals in Waiblingen and Backnang were closed. The Schorndorf Hospital continues to exist.

Others

In order to maintain the natural monuments in the district, the district office, as one of the few in Germany, maintains its own landscape maintenance team , consisting of a full-time employee and four places for the federal voluntary service .

On September 23, 2008 the district received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the Federal Government .

cities and communes

(Residents on December 31, 2018)

Cities : Backnang , large district town (37,253) Fellbach , large district town (45,671) Murrhardt (14,033) Schorndorf , large district town (39,634) Waiblingen , large district town (55,449) Weinstadt , large district town (26,987) Welzheim (11,176) Winnenden , large district town (28,339) Agreed administrative communities and municipal administration associations : Agreed administrative partnership between the city of Backnang and the communities of Allmersbach im Tal, Althütte, Aspach, Auenwald, Burgstetten, Kirchberg an der Murr, Oppenweiler and Weissach im Tal Community Administration Association Plüderhausen-Urbach with headquarters in Plüderhausen; Member communities: Plüderhausen and Urbach Agreed administrative partnership between the city of Schorndorf and the municipality of Winterbach Community administration association Sulzbach based in Sulzbach an der Murr; Member communities: Großerlach, Spiegelberg and Sulzbach an der Murr Agreed administrative partnership between the city of Welzheim and the municipality of Kaisersbach Winnenden local authority association with its seat in Winnenden; Member communities: City of Winnenden and the communities of Leutenbach and Schwaikheim

Municipalities : Alfdorf (7085) Allmersbach im Tal (4840) Althütte (4206) Aspach (8187) Alluvial forest (6779) Berglen (6387) Burgstetten (3685) Grosserlach (2437) Kaisersbach (2476) Kernen in the Remstal (15,377) Kirchberg an der Murr (3880) Basket (10,759) Leutenbach (11,517) Oppenweiler (4281) Plüderhausen (9487) Remshalden (14,042) Rudersberg (11,382) Schwaikheim (9481) Spiegelberg (2111) Sulzbach an der Murr (5340) Urbach (8863) Weissach im Tal (7354) Winterbach (7660)

License Plate

WN

On January 1, 1973, the district of Rems-Murr-Kreis, which was united with the district of Backnang, was assigned the distinctive sign WN , which has been valid for the district of Waiblingen since July 1, 1956 . It is still issued today.

BK

Since December 2, 2013, due to the license plate liberalization , the BK distinguishing mark , which was used by the former Backnang district, has been available.

Since 2007, BK has also been the primary (among a total of seven ) characteristics of the Börde district , which is located west of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt. Thus, for the first time, the same distinguishing mark will be issued in two registration districts and in two federal states. Both circles have divided the number blocks available using letter-number combinations. The district of Börde has two letters and numbers from 100–9999, the Rems-Murr district has one letter and numbers up to 9999 and two letters and numbers up to 99, although the letters B, F, G, I, O and Q are not be available.

literature

• Horst Lässing (Ed.) - Der Rems-Murr-Kreis , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-8062-0243-5 .
• The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg - official description according to districts and municipalities (in eight volumes); Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Department; Volume III: Region Stuttgart - Regionalverband Mittlerer Neckar, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 .
• Reinhard Wolf (Ed.) - The nature reserves in the Stuttgart district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-7995-5173-5 .

See also

Portal: Rems-Murr-Kreis  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the Rems-Murr-Kreis

Web links

Commons : Rems-Murr-Kreis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Survey of land according to type of actual use in 2015
3. ↑ LUBW protected area statistics ( Memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ 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. 463 f .
5. ^ Rems-Murr Religion District , accessed on August 2, 2020
6. ↑ Church statistics of the dioceses in Germany annual survey 2019 , accessed on August 2, 2020
7. ↑ (91 seats, previously 88 seats). [1]
8. ↑ Rems-Murr-Kreis: Preliminary results of the 2019 district assembly . May 28, 2019, accessed on May 30, 2019 . 
9. ↑ - ( Memento from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Result of the district election 2014
10. ↑ - ( Memento from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Result of the district election 2009
11. ↑ - ( Memento of September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Result of the district election 2004
12. ↑ [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Distribution of votes in the district elections 1989–2009  
13. ↑ [3]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Distribution of seats in district elections 1989–2009  
14. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten 2010: Johannes Fuchs remains Rems-Murr-Landrat  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ [4]
16. ↑ [5]
17. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ PROGNOS future atlas. Handelsblatt, accessed on December 10, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) District council decides to build a new hospital in Winnenden
20. ↑ - ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )