Schöntal

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Coat of arms of the community of Schöntal
Schöntal
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Schöntal highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '  N , 9 ° 30'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Hohenlohe district
Height : 209 m above sea level NHN
Area : 81.65 km 2
Residents: 5610 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 69 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 74214
Primaries : 07943, 06294
License plate : KÜN, EAR
Community key : 08 1 26 072
LOCODE : DE SAJ
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Klosterhof 1
74214 Schöntal
Website : www.schoental.de
Mayoress : Patrizia Filz (independent)
Location of the community of Schöntal in the Hohenlohe district
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Schöntal is a municipality in the Hohenlohe district in the Franconian north-east of Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Heilbronn-Franconia region (until May 20, 2003 Franconia region ).

geography

Geographical location

Schöntal, the municipality with the largest area in the Hohenlohekreis, is located around 15 km west-northwest of the district town of Künzelsau and around 30 km northeast of the regional center of Heilbronn as the crow flies . The larger villages are lined up in the lower valley of the Jagst , which runs through the community west-southwest, or are located in the side valleys of the left Sindelbach , then the right Erlenbach and - only in a neighboring municipality below - the right Kessach . There are only small settlements on the heights between these and some neighboring waters.

In the southeast, the area of ​​the municipality has a share in the sub-area Kocher-Jagst Plains , in the northwest in the sub-area of building land of the natural area Neckar- and Tauber-Gäuplatten . The very hilly plateau here, mostly open and plowed, but also with a noticeable proportion of forest, is divided by deep limestone valleys. The highest point of the municipality is on the route of the prehistoric high road to the east of a settlement of the same name on the southern edge of the municipality at almost 400  m above sea level. NN , the lowest at the outflow of the Jagst at about 198  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring communities

Small towns and communities border the Schöntal area

Community structure

The community consists of the following districts (former communities with their former districts):

  • Aschhausen (214 pop.) With the lost town of Ottohausen
  • Berlichingen (660 inh.) With the Neuhof farmstead and the Ziegelhütte house as well as the abandoned towns of Erlahe and Hiupenhusen
  • Bieringen (1093 inh.) With the hamlet of Weltersberg and the abandoned Urhausen Castle
  • Schöntal Abbey (207 inh.): With the hamlets of Rossach and Spitzenhof, the village of Eichelshof, the Neusaß residential area , the Halsberg farmstead and the Kreuzberg farm as well as the abandoned villages of Brechelberg, Eschach, Eschenau, Hoefelden, Hohenhart and Stein
  • Marlach (455 inh.) With the hamlets of Altdorf and Sershof and the Unterer Sershof farmstead
  • Oberkessach (1065 inh.) With the hamlets of Hopfengarten and Weigental
  • Sindeldorf : (536 pop.)
  • Westernhausen : (999 inh.) With the abandoned villages of Ruthardtsdorf and Stein
  • Winzenhofen : (334 inh.) With the Heßlingshof homestead and the lost village of Stedenbach (?)

Population figures as of December 2013

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

Schöntal Monastery

The Cistercian monastery Schöntal was founded in 1157. The monastery church was built between 1708 and 1736, and in 1802 the monastery was secularized . Also in 1802 all today's districts except Winzenhofen came to Württemberg . The former Electoral Mainz Winzenhofen went to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806 and belonged to the Buchen district from 1939 . After the founding of the Kingdom of Württemberg , the Württemberg districts were combined in the Schöntal office until 1810, but were then distributed to different offices after this office was dissolved. Schöntal himself came to the Oberamt Künzelsau .

1851 was the founding year of the municipality, which initially only consisted of the villages of Schöntal, Halsberg and Neusaß. The hamlet of Rossach was added in 1855, followed by Eichelshof and Spitzenhof in 1888.

In 1900 the narrow-gauge Jagsttalbahn with stations in Berlichingen, Schöntal and Bieringen was put into operation, in 1988 it was shut down.

During the district reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era , the community of Schöntal became part of the Künzelsau district in 1938 . In 1945 Schöntal became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which in 1952 became part of the current state of Baden-Württemberg.

On March 1, 1972, today's community of Schöntal was formed through the merger of eight previously independent communities and added to the Hohenlohe district.

The eight communities merged on March 1, 1972 are Aschhausen, Berlichingen, Bieringen, Marlach, Oberkessach, Schöntal (now known as Schöntal Monastery), Sindeldorf and Westernhausen in the then Künzelsau district . On January 1, 1973 the municipality of Winzenhofen was incorporated into the former district of Buchen as the ninth municipality.

religion

The community of Schöntal is predominantly Catholic. There was a large Jewish rural community in Berlichingen for centuries , and a Jewish cemetery from that time still exists today. There were also Jews in Bieringen from the 17th century until the dissolution of the local community around 1900.

politics

Municipal council

In Schöntal, the municipal council is elected using the spurious choice of part of town. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . After the last election, the municipal council in Schöntal has 23 members (2009: 22). The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following official final result. The turnout was 65.7% (2009: 68.0%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairperson. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Party / list May 25, 2014 June 7, 2009
CDU 61.4% 14 seats 57.7% 13 seats
FWV 39.1% 9 seats 42.3% 9 seats

Mayor's office

The mayor is directly elected for a term of eight years. Patrizia Filz has been the mayor of Schöntal since 2004. She was re-elected for a further eight years on May 6, 2012, with a turnout of 46.3% and 80.4% of the votes cast.

The previous mayors were:

  • 1972–1996: Karl Hehn (CDU)
  • 1996-2004: Karl-Heinz Börkel (CDU)

badges and flags

The blazon of the Schöntal coat of arms reads: In green, diagonally crossed from the lower edge, a golden crook and a right silver iron fist, the intersection covered with a lowered, double-rowed bar of red and silver (Cistercian bar). The flag of the municipality is yellow-green.

The former community of Schöntal had the monastery church in their stamps. In 1972 she was awarded a symbol based on the monastery coat of arms with the Cistercian bar and the golden crook on a green background. The new municipality of Schöntal took over both figures in its coat of arms, since then the crook has represented the monastery as well as the districts that had belonged to Kurmainz . Then there was the Iron Hand of Götz von Berlichingen , who is buried in the monastery. The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the community on September 19, 1978 by the district office of the Hohenlohe district.

Parish partnership

An unofficial partnership has existed between the district of Sindeldorf and the French community of Marigny-Saint-Marcel ( Haute-Savoie ) since 1959. This was initiated by Sindeldorfer Willy Humm, who worked as a prisoner of war on a farm in Marigny in 1946. A street in Marigny was named after Willy Humm on the 50th anniversary of the partnership. Another street is called "Avenue de Sindeldorf".

Economy and Infrastructure

Reception building of the former Jagst Valley Railway at Schöntal Monastery (July 2008)

Local businesses

  • Eckert manufacturing technology
  • LTI Metalltechnik GmbH
  • Ziehl-Abegg AG
  • DLK Ventilatoren GmbH
  • KSMA, Karl Heinz Sitzler Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH

Viticulture

In the past, viticulture was very pronounced in the Jagsttal. Today it is only operated to a small extent in Bieringen.

Sports and leisure facilities

  • Schöntal bathing area
  • Westernhausen bathing area
  • Sports fields in Berlichingen, Bieringen, Marlach, Oberkessach and Westernhausen
  • Grill huts in Berlichingen, Bieringen, Marlach, Oberkessach, Westernhausen and Sindeldorf

Culture and sights

Baroque church of the Cistercian monastery Schöntal
  • The Schöntal Monastery , a former Cistercian abbey, was founded in 1157 and secularized in 1802 . It is considered to be the most beautiful ecclesiastical residence of the Baroque period in the north of Baden-Württemberg. Today, the buildings include an educational center for the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese , a forest school and the town hall of the Schöntal community.
  • Aschhausen: Aschhausen Castle dates back to the Middle Ages. It was destroyed in 1523 and got its present form mainly from buildings from the 18th century.
  • Berlichingen: Berlichingen Castle is the ancestral castle of the Lords of Berlichingen (private property). The Berlichingen Jewish cemetery is the largest in the Hohenlohe district.
  • Bieringen: The Roman Catholic Church of St. Kilian was built in 1722.
  • Westernhausen: In the ruins of Stein there are wall remains of a stone castle from the 14th century.
  • The Neusaß linden tree is a natural monument at the Neusaß pilgrimage church , which belongs to the Schöntal monastery. The tree is around 300 to 500 years old and has a trunk circumference of 8.62 meters.
  • Storchenturm, ruins of a former watchtower and observation tower on the slope of the Storchenberg on the north bank of the Jagst

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Schöntal  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Schöntal  - travel guide
Wikisource: Schönthal in the description of the Oberamt Künzelsau from 1883  - sources and full texts
ditto Aschhausen , Berlichingen , Bieringen , Marlach , Oberkessach , Sindeldorf and Westernhausen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Wendelin Schmidt: Both candidates collected points . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . April 29, 2004 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 18, 2012]).
  3. ↑ Matthias Stolla: A wooden mallet for the minister . In: Hohenloher Zeitung . January 19, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 18, 2012]).
  4. ↑ Wolf Dieter Sick: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  5. ↑ Description of the situation according to: Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information ) - detail map
  6. ^ Basis of the list: The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by districts and municipalities, Volume IV: Administrative region of Stuttgart, regional associations of Franconia and East Württemberg . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 244-251
  7. ↑ Thomas Steinmetz: residential towers in the Odenwald . In Der Odenwald , Zeitschrift des Breuberg-Bund , vol. 41, issue 3 1994, p. 92f
  8. ^ Community of Schöntal population figures
  9. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Schöntal.
  10. ^ Hohenlohekreis: Schöntal: History. Online at www.hohenlohekreis.de, accessed on October 26, 2014
  11. ^ 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. 451 .
  12. ^ 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. 452 .
  13. ↑ Heinz Bardua: The district and community coats of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 123
  14. ↑ http://www.sindeldorf.de/index.php?Is=FreundeskreisMarigny&IsK=12&S=3