St. Georgen in the Black Forest

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St. Georgen in the Black Forest
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '  N , 8 ° 20'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Freiburg
County : Schwarzwald-Baar district
Height : 862 m above sea level NHN
Area : 59.85 km 2
Residents: 12,958 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 217 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 78112
Primaries : 07724, 07725
License plate : VS
Community key : 08 3 26 052

City administration address : 		Hauptstrasse 9
78112 St. Georgen
Website : www.st-georgen.de
Mayor : Michael Rieger
Location of the city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest in the Schwarzwald-Baar district
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St. Georgen im Schwarzwald is a city in the southern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg . Its origins go back to a Benedictine monastery . After Villingen-Schwenningen , Donaueschingen and Bad Dürrheim, the city ​​is the fourth largest municipality in the Schwarzwald-Baar district .

geography

Geographical location

The area of ​​the city is at an altitude of 800 to 1000 meters above sea ​​level . The largest part of the city area of ​​almost 60 km² consists of forests and fields .

St. Georgen is located on the Rhine - Danube - watershed and is therefore part of the European watershed between the North Sea and the Black Sea . The location of the city has therefore been known as the "apex of Alemannia" since the Middle Ages (the founding of the monastery). On the Brogen (approx. 895 m), the watershed between the Rhine and Neckar branches off, so that this is probably the most important watershed point in Baden-Württemberg. The Brigach , which is a source of the Danube, rises in the district of St. Georgens.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of the city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest (in alphabetical order) are, unless otherwise noted, all in the Schwarzwald-Baar district :

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St. Georgen seen from the south. In the middle the city center with the two church towers, on the left behind the Halde district, on the right behind the Rupertsberg and the Seebauernhöhe

history

At the beginning of the investiture controversy (1075–1122) a Benedictine monastery was founded on the "vertex of Alemannia" (vertex Alemanniae) in the Black Forest: The monastery of Sankt Georgen , located at the source of the Brigach, was the result of the merging of Swabian nobility and clergy Reform party, impressively represented by the monastery founders Hezelo and Hesso and the abbot and monastery reformer Wilhelm von Hirsau (1069–1091). Instead of the Upper Swabian Königseggwald , which was initially considered , Wilhelm St. Georgen was asked to choose the place where the monastery was founded. With the settlement of St. George by Hirsau monks in the spring and summer of 1084 and the consecration of the monastery chapel on June 24, 1085, the history of the Black Forest monastery began, which during the 12th century was the reform center of the Benedictine monks in Alsace, Lorraine, Swabia and Bavaria. In the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) the monastery church and buildings were destroyed on October 13, 1633. The monastery in St. Georgen was not rebuilt after that and the Catholic monastic community remained limited to Villingen. In 1704 the French invaded St. Georgen in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession , which resulted in some destruction and the church records were also lost. Villingen became part of Württemberg as part of the Napoleonic reorganization of southwest Germany in 1805, and one year later it became part of Baden. Now the monastery suffered the fate of secularization . Monastic inventory came to Stuttgart, while the people of Baden ordered the abolition of the monastic community and the takeover of the remaining monastic property (1806).

City view of St. Georgen (around 1890)

In 1810 the place St. Georgen became Baden itself . In 1891 the place received city rights from the Grand Duke of Baden. The city ​​has had its name in the Black Forest since October 22nd, 1962. In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the previously independent municipality of Brigach was incorporated on January 1st, 1972. Langenschiltach was incorporated on July 1, 1973, and Oberkirnach on February 1, 1974. The two communities Peterzell and Stockburg were incorporated on April 1, 1974.

politics

Municipal council

Until the municipal council election in 1999, the fake sub-district election was in effect . The urban area was correspondingly Württemberg Baden-into the three residential districts for the purposes of the Municipal Code residential district Langenschiltach , residential district Peterzell and residential area Rest of urban area divided.

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 55.9% (+ 6.8):

Party / list Share of votes +/-% p Seats +/-
CDU 20.4% - 7.2 4th - 2nd
SPD 21.0% - 2.7 5 ± 0
FDP 13.0% + 1.2 3 ± 0
Green list 14.8% + 14.80 3 + 3
Free voters 30.8% - 6.1 7th - 1

mayor

In July 2016 Michael Rieger was confirmed for a second term with 98.6% of the votes.

population

St. Georgen in the Black Forest has around 13,000 inhabitants. 40 percent of St. Georgen residents are Protestant and 33 percent are Catholic . Over 12 percent of the population do not have German citizenship. Italians (approx. 560) make up the largest proportion , followed by immigrants from ex- Yugoslavia (approx. 470), Turks (approx. 190) and Spaniards (over 60).

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 41.9% of the population in 2011 were Protestant , 33.2% Roman Catholic and 24.9% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. Of the 13,093 inhabitants (as of Dec. 31, 2018) , 4,717 (36.0%) were Protestant, 4,159 (31.8%) were Catholic, and 4,217 (32.3%) were non-denominational or other. The number of Catholic citizens fell to 4116 inhabitants (31.4%) in 2019.

City structure

In addition to the city itself, St. Georgen in the Black Forest consists of five districts.

district coat of arms Incorporation Residents
Brigach Brigach coat of arms 01/01/1972 893
Langenschiltach Langenschiltach coat of arms 07/01/1973 569
Oberkirnach Coat of arms of Oberkirnach 02/01/1974 228
Peterzell Coat of arms of Peterzell 04/01/1974 1471
Stockburg Stockburg coat of arms 04/01/1974 82

With the exception of St. Georgen im Schwarzwald - Stadt, the districts are officially named by prefixing the city's name. The urban area, with the exception of the district of St. Georgen im Schwarzwald - Stadt, consists of five localities in the sense of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with its own local council and mayor as its chairman. The districts of Brigach , Brigach-Sommerau and Brigach-Stockwald are combined to form the village of Brigach , the remaining districts each form a village.

In the urban area of ​​St. Georgens in the Black Forest before the community reform in the 1970s is the abandoned village of Huphenhus.

The districts of St. Georgen are more rural and have a village-like character. The largest district is Peterzell , which has now almost "grown" with St. Georgen. In addition, Peterzell has its own industrial park, which has been built near Königsfeld since 2000. The Peterzell district is located directly on the federal highway 33 between St. Georgen (city center) and Villingen-Schwenningen. The district with the second most inhabitants is Brigach , on whose district the river of the same name rises. Brigach includes the Sommerau district and part of the Stockwald forest. The third largest district is Langenschiltach and is very rural. The second smallest district is Oberkirnach , where most of the winter sports are located. The smallest district is Stockburg , which is located in the Groppertal, through which the Brigach flows.

coat of arms

Description : "In red on a gold-bridled silver horse, the golden-armored Saint George riding left, with his right hand pushing the black lance into the neck of the green dragon lying on his back."

It is a talking coat of arms and shows St. George killing the dragon.

The oldest seal of the city from the early 19th century shows Baden's coat of arms , with the composition of the saint and the dragon in the lower half. The saint is shown as a walking knight, holding a shield with a cross. After St. Georgen had been granted city rights, the inclined beam in Baden was removed and the current coat of arms developed.

Town twinning

St. Georgen maintains partnership relationships with

The main sponsors of the town twinning are schools, clubs and orchestras:

  • Saint-Raphaël: high school and youth symphony orchestra
  • Scandale: Italian Association and the Town Music Youth Orchestra
  • Vesilahti: secondary school and youth symphony orchestra
  • Museros: St. Georgen town music

Culture and sights

Lorenz Church

Museums

  • The German Phonomuseum deals with the history of the watch and entertainment electronics industry in St. Georgen, which flourished in the 20th century with Kundo, Staiger, Perpetuum Ebner and Dual. The Phonomuseum was reopened on July 15, 2011 and is now located in the former "Brigau" department store on Bärenplatz.
  • The local museum “Black Gate” deals with the history of life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Among other things, it shows a watchmaker's workshop and a watch collection from the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • The Grässlin art space contains the Grässlin collection. It is one of the largest (private) art collections of modern art in Europe. The museum opened in mid-June 2006.
  • The Kobisenmühle near Oberkirnach is also one of the St. Georgen museums that show how a farmer's mill works.

Buildings

  • The medieval and early modern monastery stones of the lapidary are among the historical sights of St. George . The stone collection dates back to 1867 and was only converted into a kind of museum in 2002 with the construction of a gallery in the monastery courtyard. The stones of the monastery wall are the only visible remnants of the monastery.
  • The city's train station is the highest station on the Black Forest Railway at a height of 806 meters above sea level, a railway line with a total of 39 tunnels .
  • The Staiger watch factory is an industrial monument . In the company's hundred-year history, not only watches have been made. Shortly after the First World War, the Staiger brothers , founded in 1898, began to produce carbide lamps . During the Second World War, it manufactured landing gear for the Fieseler Storch aircraft, among other things . 2000 came with the bankruptcy the end. In 2009 the entrepreneur Jörg Wisser acquired the Staiger site. Since then a museum has been set up there (oldtimers, toys) and the Forum am Bahnhof - culture and technology association was founded.
  • Lorenz Church
  • The goods hall was Monument of the Month in June 2015

Economy and Infrastructure

In St. Georgen establishments exist of precision engineering , watch technology , and there are a software center . The place is right on the German Clock Route . Many resident companies have emerged from the watch industry. The traces of some former large watch manufacturers are still visible in the cityscape today and are rooted in the corporate landscape.

Staiger clock from St. Georgen

Former, well-known companies

  • Perpetuum-Ebner , former manufacturer of record players and record changers
  • Dual , former manufacturer of turntables and hi-fi components. Record players are now manufactured by Alfred Fehrenbacher GmbH, also based in St. Georgen.
  • Gebr. Heinemann Maschinenfabriken , mechanical engineering
  • Kundo (watches)
  • Staiger (watches)

State schools in St. Georgen

traffic

St. Georgen in the Black Forest is well connected to the German transport network with the federal highway 33 . In about 20 minutes by car , the federal highway 81 can be reached from St. Georgen via the B 33. There are also many country and district roads in and around St. Georgen that lead to all of the surrounding towns and communities.

The closest regional airport is Schwenningen airfield , which is about 20 minutes by car from St. Georgen. Larger airports are located in Friedrichshafen and Stuttgart , which can be reached from St. Georgen in around an hour's drive .

St. Georgen is located on the Baden Black Forest Railway . Offenburg station can be reached in an hour by train , from which ICE connections lead to many large cities.

Sports

There are over 40 sports clubs in St. Georgen . The largest among them is the Turnverein 1863 St. Georgen e. V. with 1893 members (as of 2008). There are also five smaller ski lifts that can be used by winter sports enthusiasts in the winter season . In winter there is the addition to the core city around several kilometers cross-country trails , which in summer trails for Nordic walking , mountain biking or jogging serve on 900 meters is St. Georgen sports and education center (including the 2016 renovated indoor swimming pool), just Close to Germany's highest stadium and two other football fields. The tennis hall as well as 6 tennis courts and a fitness trail are located in the adjacent high forest . One of the largest seasonal skate parks in southern Germany is located at the Klosterweiher natural swimming pool . In winter, the equipment in the skate park is dismantled so that the area can be used for other purposes as an ice rink .

Central sporting event

A large number of St. Georgen clubs take part in the Sankt Georgiade and want to compete in various sports within a year . Twelve different clubs, made up of 8–12 participants per club, can take part. The name "Sankt Georgiad" is an analogy to the term Olympiad .

St. Georgen also takes part in the Black Forest Bike Marathon .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

literature

  • 900 years of the city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest 1084–1984. Festschrift, ed. vd City of St. Georgen, St. Georgen 1984.
  • Heinrich Büttner: St. Georgen and the Zähringer. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . 92, pp. 1-23 (1940).
  • Michael Buhlmann: How St. George came to St. Georgen. St. Georgen 2001. (= Vertex Alemanniae, H. 1)
  • Michael Buhlmann: St. Georgen and Southwest Germany to the Middle Ages. St. Georgen 2002. (= Sources on the medieval history of St. George, Part I = Vertex Alemanniae, H. 2)
  • Michael Buhlmann: Foundation and beginnings of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest. St. Georgen 2002. (= Sources on the medieval history of St. George, Part II = Vertex Alemanniae, H. 3)
  • Michael Buhlmann: The document of Pope Alexander III. for the St. Georgen Monastery. St. Georgen 2003. (= Vertex Alemanniae, H. 5)
  • Michael Buhlmann: The Popes in their relationship to the medieval monastery of St. Georgen. St. Georgen 2004. (= Sources on the medieval history of St. George, Part IV = Vertex Alemanniae, H. 8)
  • Michael Buhlmann: The Tennenbacher goods dispute. St. Georgen 2004. (= Sources on the medieval history of St. George, Part VII = Vertex Alemanniae, H. 12)
  • B. Heinemann: History of the city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest. Freiburg i. Br. 1939.
  • Karl Theodor Kalchschmidt: History of the monastery, the city and the parish of St. Georgen in the Baden Black Forest. 1895, Ndr Villingen-Schwenningen 1988; online in the Internet Archive .
  • EC Martini: History of the monastery and the parish of St. Georgen in the Black Forest. St. Georgen 1859.
  • Eduard Christian Schmidt: The Benedictine monastery of St. Georgen in the Black Forest 1084–1633, a subsidiary of Hirsau. Stuttgart 1959 (shown on the basis of the sources and the excavations in summer 1958)
  • Hans-Josef Wollasch: The beginnings of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest. To develop the historical character of a monastery within the Hirsauer Reform Freiburg i. Br. 1964. (= research on the history of the Upper Rhine region, vol. 14)

Web links

Commons : St. Georgen im Schwarzwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: St. Georgen in the Black Forest  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Südkurier Medienhaus: Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis: Bad Dürrheim is now bigger than St. Georgen | SÜDKURIER Online . In: SÜDKURIER Online . ( suedkurier.de [accessed on August 29, 2017]).
  3. ^ 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. 504 and 517 .
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Result of the municipal council elections 2019 - City of St. Georgen in the Black Forest
  5. ↑ http://www.suedkurier.de/region/schwarzwald-baar-heuberg/st-georgen/Michael-Rieger-bleibt-Buergermeister-in-St-Georgen;art410944,8754938
  6. ^ City of St. Georgen in the Black Forest Religion , 2011 census
  7. ↑ Annual statistical report of the city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest for 2018 , accessed on August 5, 2019
  8. ↑ The number of people leaving the church is increasing in the mountain town , Südkurier from July 20, 2020
  9. ↑ Main statute of the city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest of June 12, 2002
  10. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg region Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 577-581
  11. ↑ Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald - coat of arms of Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald (coat of arms). In: www.ngw.nl. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
  12. ↑ ath: Other industrial monuments in the region. Watch factory in St. Georgen. In: Südkurier of November 12, 2010
  13. ↑ denkmalstiftung-baden-wuerttemberg.de
  14. ↑ The directorship - Andrea Zietzschmann on berliner-philharmoniker.de, accessed on September 4, 2017
  15. ↑ She knows how a musician's soul works on schwarzwaelder-bote.de from October 13, 2016, accessed on September 4, 2017