Rohrbach (Heidelberg)

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Rohrbach
district of Heidelberg
Location of the Rohrbach district in Heidelberg
Coordinates 49 ° 22 '48 "  N , 8 ° 41' 14"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '48 "  N , 8 ° 41' 14"  E
surface 6.39 km²
Residents 16,208 (2012)
Population density 2536 inhabitants / km²
District number 006
structure
Townships
  • Rohrbach-Ost (006 1 and 006 6)
  • Rohrbach-West (006 2)
  • Rohrbach-Hasenleiser (006 3)
  • Rohrbach-South (006 4)
  • Rohrbach-Gewann See (006 5)
Source: City of Heidelberg (PDF; 149 kB)

Rohrbach is a district of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg .

Location and structure

Rohrbach is located about three kilometers south of Heidelberg city center, about halfway to Leimen .

In addition to Alt-Rohrbach with the Melanchthon Church and the town hall, Rohrbach is made up of the districts of Kühler Grund , Gewann See , Hasenleiser and Rohrbach-Süd (industrial area). The somewhat remote, wooded and agriculturally used area around the Bierhelder Hof also belongs to Rohrbach. The now independent Heidelberg districts Boxberg and Emmertsgrund used to belong to the Rohrbach district.

With all districts, Rohrbach has a total of 15,224 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010) .

The northern border of Rohrbach was moved from Saarstrasse / Markscheide to Sickingenstrasse when it was incorporated.

history

Rohrbacher Schlösschen
Redesigned market, panorama

Rohrbach was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex in the spelling Rorbach 766. The donation of a vineyard to the Lorsch Monastery is documented there. The name Rohrbach is derived from the (reed) reed growing on the stream. Today the Rohrbach is canalised in its lower course, completely built over and part of the sewage system. Only in the upper course, in the area of ​​the Kühlen Grund , the Rohrbach can still be seen in its open, but largely straightened bed.
See also: Rohrbach Castle

The village of Rohrbach, which originally probably belonged to Kirchheim, was owned by the Count Palatine near Rhine from 1234 . In the Thirty Years' War , which left hardly any survivors in Rohrbach, and in the Palatinate War of Succession , the village was repeatedly badly destroyed.

In 1901 the place got a tram connection with the route Heidelberg-Leimen- Wiesloch . In 1927 Rohrbach was incorporated into Heidelberg.

From 1970, in the course of the construction of the new Emmertsgrund district to the south-east of Rohrbach, the Rohrbach Süd industrial area was created , in which the several thousand residents of Emmertsgrund should find work and shopping opportunities close to their home.

See also: History of Heidelberg

coat of arms

Rohrbacher coat of arms

Until it was incorporated into Heidelberg, Rohrbach had its own coat of arms, which is still presented today at local celebrations.

Blazon:
The letters ro r in a split shield on top of a yellow background.
Below five blue wavy lines on a white background.
The letters stand for the first part of the place name Ro (h) r (bach).
The blue wavy lines symbolize the stream of the same name.
Talking symbolism: the pipe over the brook.

politics

Rohrbach town hall

The Rohrbach District Advisory Board is composed as follows:

Party / list 2019 2014 2009
Green 6th 4th 3
CDU 2 3 4th
SPD 2 3 3
The party 1 - -
GAL 1 1 2
"The Heidelberg" 1 1 2
Colorful left 1 1 -
The left 1 1 1
FDP 1 1 1
HiB 1 - -
AfD 1 - -
Pirates - 1 -
FWV - - 1
Generation HD - - 1

Attractions

Melanchthon Church

The Protestant Melanchthon Church dates back to the 13th century and was rebuilt and expanded by Hermann Behaghel in the neo-renaissance style in 1907/08 . The Catholic St. John's Church from 1964 is equipped with colored glass windows by Emil Wachter . The St. Thomas Church of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church , built in 1971, is located in the Hasenleiser .

Rohrbach Castle , also known as the Rohrbacher Schlösschen , is worth seeing and is now part of the building complex of the local thorax clinic.

  • Oldest house in Rohrbach (1617)

  • Former Rohrbacher Mill (1534)

  • Detail of the Rohrbacher Mill

  • Catholic church, tower

Educational and research institutions

schools

Rohrbach local history museum

Rohrbach has two primary schools, a secondary school and a comprehensive school. In detail:

Institutes

Museums

  • Rohrbach has had a small local history museum since 1971. It has been housed in the former Café Berg and the Gröschl bakery since 1996 and presents the history of the place.
  • Egyptian Museum Heidelberg (private replica museum)

Regular events

traffic

HD-Kirchheim / Rohrbach S-Bahn station

With a feeder to the federal highway 5 , the federal highway 3 , the station Kirchheim / Rohrbach of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar , the tram lines 23 and 24 as well as the bus lines 27, 28, 29, 33, 757 and Moonliner 1, Rohrbach has very good transport connections the other Heidelberg districts and the surrounding area.

Personalities associated with the place

  • Punk , legendary marksman of the 15th century
  • Johann Andreas von Traitteur , from 1790 to 1798 unfinished construction of a fresh water pipe from Rohrbach to Mannheim , which was stopped halfway due to war and lack of money.
  • Joseph von Eichendorff , who lived in Heidelberg from 1807 to 1808, also spent some time with his friends at the Rohrbacher Gasthaus "Zum Roten Ochsen". There he met and fell in love with the local cooper's daughter Katharina Barbara Förster, known as "Käthchen". He immortalized this affection in his diaries and the song "In einer Kühlengrund".
  • Bertha Benz chugged her " Benz Motor Car No. 3 " in the morning hours of August 5, 1888 on the highway from Heidelberg through Rohrbach. The loudly cracking and strongly smelly vehicle looked like a carriage, but it had no horses to pull it. The route of this "local bypass road" ran on the country road at the "Kreuz" (today Eichendorffplatz), turning right, past the town center and leading directly to the Rose Inn. The Bertha Benz Memorial Route commemorates this trip.
  • Christian Bitter (1878–1950) was mayor of Rohrbach from 1913 until it was incorporated into Heidelberg in 1927, and from 1913 to 1918 he was a member of the second chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly.
  • Beate Weber (* 1943), Lord Mayor of Heidelberg (1990–2006)
  • Eckart Würzner (* 1961), geographer, Lord Mayor of Heidelberg (since 2006)
  • Arvid Boecker (* 1964), painter and curator who lives and works in Heidelberg

literature

  • Karl Heinz Frauenfeld: Chronicle of Rohrbach 1200 years . Annex to the Ruperto-Carola , magazine of the Association of Friends of the Student Union of Heidelberg University, XVII. Volume 38, 1965.

Periodicals

  • The Punker , since 2000, online information medium (see web links)
  • Rohrbacher Woche , weekly advertising paper with information section

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.s197410804.online.de/Zeiten/1900.htm
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 789, December 31, 766 - Reg. 102. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 291 , accessed on February 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b District Advisory Board Rohrbach on the official website of the city of Heidelberg
  4. ^ City of Heidelberg - Rohrbach District Advisory Board. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ Rohrbach District Advisory Board on the official website of the city of Heidelberg
  6. ^ Hans Gercke: Churches in Heidelberg . 1st edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2413-8 .
  7. ^ Heimatmuseum Rohrbach In: District Association Rohrbach, accessed on December 21, 2018
  8. ^ The punk in the Gutenberg project
  9. ^ Texts and sources on Eichendorff's time in Rohrbach on the earlier page of the Rohrbach district association.
  10. ^ Chronicle of Rohrbach (August 5, 1888)

Web links

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