Wiernsheim

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Enzkreis
Height :	366 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.62 km 2
Residents:	6810 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	277 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	75446
Primaries :	07044, 07041
License plate :	PF
Community key :	08 2 36 065
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Marktplatz 1 ; 75446 Wiernsheim
Website :	www.wiernsheim.de
Mayor :	Karlheinz Oehler
Location of the municipality of Wiernsheim in the Enzkreis

Wiernsheim is a municipality in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the Heckengäu on the so-called plate about 150 m above the Enz valley. The roads L1134 and L1135 form the main roads and cross the town north-south and east-west.

Community structure

The formerly independent suburbs of Iptingen, Pinache and Serres belong to the municipality of Wiernsheim. After their incorporation, the names of the formerly independent municipalities were retained as part of town names.

history

overview

Wiernsheim in the 1682 forest inventory book by Andreas Kieser

The founding of the oldest districts Wiernsheim and Iptingen goes back to the time between 500 and 700. The two places were first mentioned in the 12th century and came to Württemberg in 1504 via the Maulbronn Monastery . The districts of Pinache and Serres were founded in 1699 by religious refugees ( Waldensians ), to whom the Duke of Württemberg had allocated land in what is now northern Italy after their expulsion from Piedmont.

When the young Kingdom of Württemberg was reorganized at the beginning of the 19th century, the four places were transferred from the monastery to the Maulbronn Oberamt . In 1842 Iptingen moved to the Oberamt Vaihingen , while Wiernsheim, Pinache and Serres remained with the Oberamt (or from 1934 to 1938 with the district) Maulbronn until 1934. During the district reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , all four towns became part of the Vaihingen district in 1938 . In 1945 the places fell into the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was added to the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. Due to the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , the places came to the Enzkreis in 1973 . In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the municipality of Pinache was incorporated on January 1, 1970. On January 1, 1974, the municipalities of Iptingen and Serres were incorporated.

Districts

Wiernsheim

Wiernsheim was probably founded in Franconian times (500–700 AD) and from 1259 was owned by Maulbronn Monastery. When the monastery became part of Württemberg after the War of the Bavarian-Palatinate Succession in 1504, Wiernsheim also became part of Württemberg and became Protestant in 1535. In the coffee mill museum, a renovated, historical building, there is the unique and largest coffee mill collection in Germany with exhibits from three centuries. In September 2013 the training center with its innovative heating system (heat pump with solar ice storage) went into operation.

Pinache

Pinache is a Waldensian place. The place was founded in 1699 so that religious refugees from the Chisonetal could settle there. The oldest Waldensian church in Germany is located in Pinache and was built in 1721.

Serres

Serres is also a Waldensian village and was founded at the same time as Pinache. The coat of arms of the place with the seven stars and the shining flame is strongly based on the coat of arms of the Waldensians. On April 11, 1945, 75% of the buildings in Serres were destroyed with incendiary bombs as a result of an air raid. During the reconstruction the typical structure of the Waldensian village was preserved. In November 2009 Germany's first plus-energy kindergarten was inaugurated in Serres, and in 2010 it won a prize in the “Municipal Climate Protection” competition in the “Innovative Technical Measures in a Municipal Building” category, which gave the municipality prize money of 40,000 Brought in euros.

Evangelical St. Margaret's Church in Iptingen

Iptingen

Due to the ending of the place name in -ingen, Iptingen should be regarded as an Alemannic foundation from before 500 AD. The earliest documented mention of Iptingen dates back to around 1120. On February 4, 1206, King Philip confirmed the return of the property in Iptingen, which Ulrich von Iptingen had first given to Maulbronn Monastery , but which was later sold to the Count Palatine of Tübingen . An outstanding historical building in Iptingen is the fortified church , which goes back to an old castle, which was first mentioned in 1194. Today's church tower is still the old castle with the exception of the half-timbered part with clock and bells that was added later. Around 1250 the ring scrubs still preserved today were added to the stockpiling. In 1504 Württemberg took over sovereignty over the Maulbronn monastery and thus also over Iptingen. The place was evangelical during the Reformation in 1535 and subordinated to the Maulbronn monastery office in 1557.

religion

With the Reformation , Wiernsheim, like all of Württemberg, became Protestant . The parishes of the Protestant Waldensians , who were settled in Pinache and Serres in 1699, have meanwhile been incorporated into the Evangelical Church . At the end of the 18th century, Johann Georg Rapp led a community of radical Pietists from Iptingen , the majority of whom emigrated to North America with Rapp at the beginning of the 19th century.

Today there are several Protestant parishes (see Mauritius Church ) as well as a Roman Catholic and a New Apostolic congregation.

politics

mayor

Karlheinz Oehler has been the mayor of Wiernsheim since April 2, 1982. Since his re-election on January 26, 2014, he is in his fifth term.

Municipal council

Since the abolition of the phony sub-district election, the municipality council in Wiernsheim has only 18 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019 Turnout: 67.2% % 40 30th 20th 10 0 35.1% 18.9% 17.8% 24.3% 4.0% FW CDU SPD COUNTRY AfD Gains and losses compared to 2014 % p 25th 20th 15th 10 5 0 -5 -10 -15 -8.6 % p -10.1 % p -9.5 % p + 24.3 % p + 4.0 % p FW CDU SPD COUNTRY AfD Template: election diagram / maintenance / error in color input - dark
FW	Independent list Wiernsheim	35.1	6th	43.7	9
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	18.9	4th	29.0	6th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	17.8	3	27.3	6th
COUNTRY	List COUNTRY	24.3	4th	0.0	0
AFD	Alternative for Germany	4.0	1	0.0	0
total		100.0	18th	100.0	21st
voter turnout		67.2%		52.2%

The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Awards

At the beginning of 2009, Wiernsheim was the sixth municipality in Germany and the first municipality in Baden-Württemberg to be awarded the European Energy Award Gold (eea) . Among other things, energy efficiency and climate protection activities of the community and the commitment of local initiatives, e.g. B. to increase the use of renewable energies. Recertification took place in 2011, whereby Wiernsheim achieved the highest number of points in Germany and was once again awarded the European Energy Award in gold. In 2015 Wiernsheim was recognized as an “energy municipality” for its commitment to the heating transition .

Town twinning

The municipality of Wiernsheim maintains partnerships with New Harmony in the US state of Indiana (since August 23, 1980), with Pinasca in the metropolitan city of Turin / Italy (September 25, 1982) and since 1998 with Ayancik in Turkey . The latter is intended to strengthen the friendship between Germans and Turks and promote the integration of Turkish fellow citizens in Wiernsheim.

Culture and sights

Regular events

Riedler Open Air, metal and rock festival in the Wiernsheim district that has existed since 2013 with around 1000 visitors per year

Museums

Coffee mill museum Wiernsheim

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Hans Albrecht (1923–2006), Vice President of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg
Rolf Scheuermann (1930–2013), founder a. a. a collection of over 1000 historical coffee grinders

town hall

Sons and daughters of the church

Christian Gottfried Nicolai (1702–1783), Lutheran theologian
Johann Georg Rapp (1757–1847), most important Pietist leader in Württemberg after 1785 , emigrated to the USA in 1803
Christian Zeller (1807–1865), agricultural scientist and member of parliament
Friedrich Kercher (1832–1918), member of the Reichstag and mayor of Iptingen
Friedrich Zundel (1875–1948), painter and long-time husband of Clara Zetkin

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).

^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe district Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 , pp. 557–558.

^ 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. 490 .

^ Württembergisches Urkundenbuch: Volume II., No. 529, pp. 353–354.

^ Official Journal of the Wiernsheim community, week 22, May 31, 2019

↑ State Gazette No. 8 of March 6, 2009

↑ Energie-Kommune Wiernsheim advances the local heat transition with geothermal energy from October 29, 2015

Web links

Commons : Wiernsheim - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Wiernsheim - in the description of the Maulbronn Oberamt from 1870

www.wiernsheim.de - the official website