Sasbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Sasbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '  N , 8 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Ortenau district
Height :	147 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.74 km 2
Residents:	5340 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	319 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	77880
Area code :	07841
License plate :	OG, BH , KEL, LR, WOL
Community key :	08 3 17 116
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 4 77880 Sasbach
Website :	www.sasbach-ortenau.de
Mayor :	Gregor Bühler
Location of the municipality of Sasbach in the Ortenau district

Aerial view from Sasbach towards the Black Forest

Sasbach is a municipality in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Sasbach is located in the Ortenau , on the edge of the Upper Rhine Plain and on the western edge of the Black Forest , between Achern (2 km southwest) and Bühl (about 8 km northwest). Obersasbach is located east of Sasbach.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Ottersweier in the Rastatt district , in the east on Lauf , in the south on Sasbachwalden and in the west on the city of Achern.

Obersasbach

Obersasbach

Community structure

The municipality of Sasbach with the formerly independent municipality of Obersasbach includes 13 villages, hamlets, Zinken and farms. The village of Obersasbach, the hamlets of Blumberg and Hundsbosch, the Zinken Erlenbad with monastery and sanatorium Marienheim, Illenbach, Vogelsberg and Winterbach and the farms of Kammersbrunn and Klepperhöfe belong to the former municipality of Obersasbach. The village of Sasbach and the places Lindenhof (house), Siedlung and Unterstmatt belong to the municipality of Sasbach in the 1972 borders . The abandoned villages of Rothenhausen and Überslag are in the municipality of Sasbach .

history

Battle of Sasbach 1675

Historical spellings of the place name: Sahspach, Sachspach, Saspach, Saßsbach, Sahenspach etc.

The settlement of Sasbach on the former Roman road (ford through the Sasbach stream at today's Gasthaus Ochsen), which connected the Strasbourg camp with the seaside resort of Baden (-Baden), must have existed around 750, because in 776 the Strasbourg bishop Heddo, who owned the parish, died in 776 Sasbach am Ort founded one of the three large marque cooperatives of the Ortenau in the area of ​​the diocese of Strasbourg.

Sasbach was one of the early settled places of royal Franconian origin, was a royal estate and the seat of the mother church of a large district. The patronage of St. Brigida , also on an earlier influence of the Honau monastery , which retained rights (interest rate differentials) in Sasbach until 1348.

In 1070 the Ullenburg and lands in the anterior Renchtal and in the wider Ortenau, including Sasbach, became the property of the Bishop of Strasbourg by donation.

1136 appeared "ecclesia" and affiliations in Sasbach in the possession of the Schuttern monastery . It can be concluded that the Schuttern monastery was the patron saint of the Sasbach church in the Middle Ages.

In 1138/52 the freeborn Eberhard von Sasbach and his wife Heilwig handed over their estate in Sasbach to the Reichenbach monastery. Heinz Gabathuler identified this with Eberhard de Saccho, who was procurator of the Counts of Gammertingen in Chur in 1137/39. This would make Sasbach the origin of the noble family of Barons von Sax from eastern Switzerland .

In 1316, the Strasbourg bishop also became a secular sovereign in the Rench, Acher and Sasbach valleys, so the bishop also had high jurisdiction. In Sasbach the bishop was the landowner, spiritual lord and secular ruler.

From 1392 on, the parish of Sasbach was supplied by monks from the Schuttern monastery .

The battle of Sasbach on July 27th 1675 made Sasbach in the history books. During the Dutch War (1672–1679), troops of Louis XIV under Marshal Turenne and imperial troops under the general Raimondo Montecuccoli met in and around Sasbach . The place was burned down. Only three houses are said to have remained standing. Marshal Turenne was fatally hit by a bullet before the actual battle began. A memorial stone from 1675 ("Here Turenius was killed"), an obelisk and a small museum (Turenne Museum) commemorate this event .

In 1781 Sasbach received market rights from the sovereign, the Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg; a year later, a second market day was granted and set on Catherine's Day (November 25th). This "Katharinenmarkt" is still held today.

The municipality, which was part of the bishopric of Strasbourg , fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden during the Napoleonic period . There the place belonged to the district of Bühl for a long time . When this was dissolved in 1973, Sasbach fell to the Ortenaukreis .

In 1875, Pastor Prelate Franz Xaver Lender founded the “Lendersche Lehranstalt”, which still exists today as the Lender home school with several secondary schools .

On January 1, 1973, the Obersasbach community was incorporated.

Religions

The mother house of the Franciscan Sisters of Erlenbad is located in Obersasbach .

politics

Administrative community

The community belongs to the agreed administrative community of the city of Achern.

Municipal council

The municipal council election on May 26, 2019 brought the following result:

CDU	52.70%	9 seats
Free list of citizens for Sasbach and Obersasbach	47.30%	9 seats

mayor

On September 27, 2009, the mayoral elections took place parallel to the federal elections. Wolfgang Reinholz was re-elected for a second term with 55.4%. In October 2017, business economist Gregor Bühler prevailed against the incumbent in the first ballot with 59.5% of the votes. From 1985 to 2001 Ewald Panther (* 1946) was at the top of the town hall.

Partner communities

Sasbach maintains a city ​​partnership with the following cities :

• Mapello , Lombardy , Italy
• Marmoutier , Grand Est , France

Culture and sights

Turenne Museum

Museums

• The Toni Merz Museum (in Obersasbach) presents the works of the painter Toni Merz.
• The Kühnerhof , a unique homestead with a sawmill and a grain mill, has been preserved with all of its equipment.
• The Turenne Museum commemorates the French Marshal Turenne , who died in the Battle of Sasbach in 1675.

Sports

The Tour de France had a sprint classification in Sasbach in 2005.

In football, the community is represented on the one hand by SV Sasbach, who currently (2014/15) plays in the Baden-Baden district league, and on the other hand by SV Obersasbach, which is active in the district B.

The sport of chess is represented by Schachfreunde Sasbach eV. In 2018, the club was able to win the Badische team blitz championship and the Baden individual title.

Furthermore, the inline hockey club Blue Arrows Sasbach e. V. an inline hockey field. In addition to games, inline courses for children are also offered there.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is connected by bus lines with Achern, Bühl (Baden) and Lauf (Baden) and belongs to the tariff association Ortenau (TGO).

There is a connection to the railway network at Achern station on the Rheintalbahn and Achertalbahn ; ICE trains can be reached in Offenburg or Baden-Baden .

There is a connection to the Autobahn 5 ( Basel - Frankfurt am Main ) at the Achern junction (53).

The nearest airports are Strasbourg Airport (50 km) and Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden Airport (25 km).

education

In Sasbach there is the Sophie von Harder School, a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule and a primary school in Obersasbach.

There is also a Montessori school , the Lender home school , a Catholic grammar school of the Archdiocese of Freiburg and a vocational grammar school with an economic and socio-educational branch.

There are also three kindergartens: the Waldfeld Kindergarten and the Obersasbach Kinderhaus are publicly owned, the St. Elisabeth Kinderhaus is a Catholic institution.

Judiciary

Sasbach belongs to the district of the Achern District Court .

Personalities

• Philipp Lichtenauer (1799–1850), Oberamtmann of Baden
• Constantin Frommann (* 1998), soccer player

• On May 2, 1969, the former Chancellor and one of the main defendants in the Nuremberg Trial , Franz von Papen , died in Obersasbach.
• On June 27, 1980, Walter Robert Dornberger , head of Wernher von Braun in Peenemünde , later a member of the board of Bell Aircraft Corporation , died in Obersasbach.
• Hans Filbinger (1913–2007), politician (CDU), 1966–1978 Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, spent the years of the First World War and later holidays on the farm of his mother's grandparents in Sasbach and called this place his real home. In 1968 the municipality made him honorary citizen .

literature

• Erich Strack: Sasbach local family book , Ortenau. 2nd Edition. Lahr-Dinglingen: Interest group Badischer Ortssippenbücher 2009 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 131)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg region Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 300-302
3. ↑ ETH Library Zurich : ETH - e-periodica. Retrieved July 13, 2017 . 
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. 494 .
5. ^ Election information for the municipal data center.
6. ↑ Result of the mayoral election on September 27, 2009  ( 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.  
7. ↑ Gregor Bühler becomes the new mayor of Sasbach
8. ↑ Sasbach's former mayor Ewald Panther is 70 years old

Web links

Commons : Sasbach (Ortenau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Turenneddenmal and museum in Sasbach
• Hornisgrinde-Biberkessel nature reserve