Schura (Trossingen)

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Shura
City of Trossingen
Former municipal coat of arms of Shura
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 734 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.31 km²
Residents : 1628  (Jun. 30, 2003)
Population density : 378 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1971
Postal code : 78647
Area code : 07425

Schura is an incorporated district of Trossingen , the village is on the Baar in the Tuttlingen district .

geography

Geographical location

The Trossingen reservoir, Gaugersee, through which the Trosselbach flows, in the local recreation area between Trossingen and Schura

Schura is about one kilometer south of Trossingen, east of the federal highway 81 .

The Schönbach flows through the village . Only a few hundred meters north of the stream, the European watershed runs through the village roughly on a line from the cemetery to the neighborhood elementary school. Surface water from the area southwest of this line is drained into the Black Sea via the Schönbach, Elta and Danube , unless it seeps away near Fridingen ; Surface water from the area northeast of the watershed is drained from the Trosselbach over the Gaugersee into the Hagenbach and flows on over the Prim , the Neckar and the Rhine into the North Sea .

The Hohenlupfen and the Hohenkarpfen are two striking mountains in the vicinity.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Schura are (clockwise): Aldingen , Spaichingen , Gunningen , Durchhausen , Talheim , Tuningen , Weigheim and Trossingen .

history

Evangelical Church in Shura

Probably on June 24, 851, the place was first mentioned as "Scurheim". He was part of the Bertholdsbaar and - like Trossingen - part of the Lupfen rule . In 1282, Schura, like its neighboring towns of Trossingen, Weigheim, Tuningen and Durchhausen, was part of the County of Baar and was awarded with this to Count Heinrich von Fürstenberg. Schura had been part of Württemberg since 1444 , but claims from other rulers still existed until the upheavals at the beginning of the 19th century. For example, the Konstanz Cathedral Chapter in Shura maintained a tithe barn. The tithe barn, which is shown today in the Schuraer coat of arms, was built in 1739 and demolished in 1968 due to dilapidation.

As early as 1733, the Schura children had school lessons given by a farmer in winter. During the Napoleonic period, at the end of the 18th century, Shura was heavily plundered by the French. From a conflagration on 7th – 8th May 1849 41 families were affected. The great poverty of the population was exacerbated in the first half of the 19th century by numerous poor harvests; the Baar had not yet reached industrialization at this time. As a result, around 140 people emigrated, most of them to America .

At the turn of the century Schura experienced a positive development, from the general prosperity in the German Empire and from the industrialization of Trossingen, Schura also benefited. During World War II, many Shuraers were drafted into military service, 32 of whom were killed and seven went missing. As a small town, Shura remained relatively insignificant politically. Several fighter-bomber raids also destroyed buildings in Shura in 1945, but no one was harmed.

Schura had the character of a street village until the 20th century , but has been expanded by several new development areas since the 1950s.

On December 1, 1971, Schura was voluntarily incorporated into Trossingen as part of the Baden-Württemberg regional reform .

Population development

During the Thirty Years' War , Shura had only 15 citizens in 1624 .

In 1807, 401 people lived in Shura. In 1846 there were already 561 residents in Shura. By 1879 the population sank to 546 due to the wave of emigration and to 492 by the low point around 1900. In 1933, 559 people lived in Shura again.

After the Second World War, the population grew to 596 in 1950, 830 in 1970, 1400 in 1996 and 1628 in 2003, particularly due to immigration. According to the 2011 census , the population was 1616 on September 30, 2012.

religion

Like Trossingen, Shura is predominantly Protestant. The Protestant church with its famous leaning tower was built in 1737. For a long time as a branch of Trossingen, Schura received a parish administrator in 1846 and became an independent parish in 1894. The parsonage is on the top floor of the old school and town hall, which was built in a central location in 1846 and still shapes the townscape today.

politics

The local council consists of eight members. In Shura, no nominations were submitted for the local council elections including 2019. This means that the Schuraer can vote using a ballot slip that they can fill out freely, on which they can handwrite their preferred candidates. The mayor until 2019 was Dieter Kohler.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

State, district and municipal roads lead through Shura. The place is about four kilometers from the Tuningen motorway exit of the federal motorway 81 . Due to the heavy traffic, a bypass road was built in the southeast of the town and completed in 2009.

Facilities

Schura has a kindergarten , a primary school , two sports fields, two sports halls, two restaurants, two small grocery stores (one of them with an organic range) and an agricultural machinery workshop.

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literature

  • Martin Häffner: Trossingen - from Alemannendorf to music city. Stadtbuch-Verlag Lienhard & Junge, Trossingen 1997.

Web links

Commons : Schura  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Schura  - in the description of the Oberamt Tuttlingen from 1879

Footnotes

  1. a b Württemberg document book. Volume I., No. 118, page 138.
  2. Württemberg document book. Volume VIII., No. 3210, pages 377-378.
  3. ^ "Zehntscheuer" adorns the town hall as a sandstone relief , Schwäbische Zeitung on August 25, 2004
  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. 535 .
  5. Ingrid Kohler: First graders have a "proper knowledge of biblical history" , Schwäbische Zeitung of August 28, 2006
  6. http://www.trossingen.de/mcms.php?_oid=b2653fa-bca7-5e15-6577-2bfa2e4ce8aa9
  7. Information from the city of Trossingen on the 2019 election. Https://www.trossingen.de/de/buerger-stadt/kommunalpolitik/wahlen/ortschaftsratswahl/?L=0
  8. https://www.trossingen.de/de/buerger-stadt/kommunalpolitik/ortschaftsrat-schura/?L=0