Schutterwald

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Ortenau district
Height :	151 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.04 km 2
Residents:	7215 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	343 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	77746
Area code :	0781
License plate :	OG, BH , KEL, LR, WOL
Community key :	08 3 17 122
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchstrasse 2 77746 Schutterwald
Website :	www.schutterwald.de
Mayor :	Matthias Spinner (The Pirates)
Location of the community of Schutterwald in the Ortenau district

Schutterwald is a municipality in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

location

Schutterwald lies in the Upper Rhine Plain , in the middle Upper Rhine Plain natural area. The place is on the alluvial fan of the Kinzig and about 1.5 km from the eponymous Schutter . The next larger city is Offenburg (approx. 6 km away).

Schutterwald from a south-easterly perspective (in front the St. Jakobus Church, in the back left in the north-west the Strasbourg Cathedral , about 17 km as the crow flies)

The size of the district is 2103 hectares, of which 698 hectares are forest.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Marlen and Hohnhurst , in the east on the district town of Offenburg , in the south on Hofweier and Niederschopfheim and in the west on Dundenheim, Altenheim and Müllen .

Community structure

The districts of Schutterwald, Höfen and Langhurst belong to the community of Schutterwald. The lost Mörburg castle is located in the municipality .

history

Schutterwald was first mentioned in a document in 1268 . There were frequently changing rulers until the place finally came to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806 . Whereby the interest of the ruling families of that time was less in the village than in the forest, with its abundance of wood, pasture and tithe rights. Over the centuries until today, Schutterwald has been a popular tourist destination.

See also : Mörburg

At the end of the 19th century, when the textile and glass industry settled in nearby Offenburg, there were also new ways of earning a living for Schutterwald farmers. In Baden, Schutterwald was part of the Offenburg district for a long time , with which it merged in 1973 in the new Ortenau district. Today Schutterwald is a workers' and employee housing estate, offers a variety of jobs in the village in two large industrial areas and the inter-communal industrial area H3. Agriculture is run by four families. The focus is on livestock farming, fruit and special crops (strawberries etc.) and corn cultivation. Leisure activities in more than 60 sporty and culturally oriented clubs are possible in a large forest stadium and in two sports and multi-purpose halls.

Religions

As early as 1316 there is evidence of a parish church for Schutterwald that belonged to the diocese of Strasbourg . Since the Reformation passed Schutterwald, the community is still predominantly Roman Catholic today. In addition to the Catholic community, which has two churches, including the stately St. Jakobus Church, which towers above the town center and is visible from afar , there has also been a Protestant community since 1995, after the Protestants, previously in the diaspora, had been cared for from Offenburg . The Austrian Empress Maria Theresa is said to have stayed overnight in the church of St. Jakobus on her transit with her equipage. The St. Jakobuskirche was built in 1784 by Joseph Hirschbühl, a member of the Vorarlberg master builder family.

politics

Local elections 2019

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

34.8%

19.5%

13.3%

32.4%

CDU

SPD

NÖB ^c

FWU ^d

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

-3.0  % p

-3.4  % p

-1.3  % p

+ 7.6  % p

CDU

SPD

NÖB ^c

FWU ^d

Remarks:

^c New ecological alliance / The Greens

^d Free Voters Union Schutterwald

Municipal council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 brought the following result with a turnout of 64.2%:

Allocation of seats from 2019 in the Neuried municipal council 4th 2 6th 6th 4th 2 6th 6th  A total of 18 seats SPD : 4 NÖB / Greens : 2 FWU : 6 CDU : 6

The CDU and the New Ecological Alliance each lost one seat in 2019 compared to 2014, the Free Voters Union gained two seats and the SPD was able to maintain the number of its mandates.

mayor

• 1975–1995 Rudolf Heuberger
• 1996 to 2011 Jürgen Oßwald
• from October 1, 2011 Martin Holschuh

Administrative community

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

Partnerships

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

• Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , France, since 1988
• Ottendorf-Okrilla , Saxony , Germany, since 1990

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The district of Schutterwald is crossed by the Landstrasse 98 (L98). The federal highways 3 , 33 and the regional road 75 (L75) as well as the junction 55 of the federal motorway 5 can be reached via these within a few kilometers .

The bus connection is made by SWEG with lines 301, 106, R2 and R9.

education

With the Mörburgschule , Schutterwald has a primary and technical secondary school. Langhurst has its own elementary school. There are also four kindergartens (two in the main town and one each in Langhurst and Höfen).

care

The energy supply with electricity and the water supply is provided by the municipal utility Schutterwald.

Culture and sights

Schutterwald, with its St. Jakobus Church, is a stage point of the Kinzig valley Jakobusweg , a pilgrimage route that leads past many sights.

With the Bunker Theater there is an ensemble in Schutterwald that performs in the gym of the Mörburg School.

Sports

The place is known nationwide for the handball players of the TuS Schutterwald , who played repeatedly in the Bundesliga since the mid-1980s, but have not yet been able to establish themselves.

The football club FV Schutterwald will play in the seventh-class Landesliga 1 Südbaden from the 2014/2015 season.

Schutterwald has hosted the Baden-Württemberg Equestrian Championships since 1999 .

Personalities

• Max Köhler (* 1942 in Pilsen; † 2015 in Schutterwald), painter, photographer and author; had his studio in Schutterwald
• Arnulf Meffle (* 1957 in the Langhurst district), national handball player, 1978 world champion.
• Martin Heuberger (* 1964 in Schutterwald), former coach of the national handball team
• Mark Joggerst (* 1971 in Offenburg), film composer, arranger and pianist; grew up in Schutterwald
• Christian Heuberger (* 1984 in Schutterwald), handball player

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. 399-400
3. ↑ Municipality of Schutterwald - municipal elections 2019: result , accessed on December 2, 2019
4. ↑ Internet presence of the Mörburgschule , accessed on January 17, 2011
5. ↑ www.bwm-schutterwald.de/

Web links

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