Simmersfeld

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
coat of arms Germany map
Coat of arms of the municipality of Simmersfeld
Simmersfeld
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Simmersfeld highlighted

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '  N , 8 ° 31'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Karlsruhe
County : Calw
Height : 764 m above sea level NHN
Area : 44.18 km 2
Residents: 2101 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 72226
Area code : 07484
License plate : CW
Community key : 08 2 35 066
Community structure: 6 districts
Address of the
municipal administration:
Gartenstrasse 14
72226 Simmersfeld
Website : www.simmersfeld.de
Mayor : Jochen Stoll
Location of the community Simmersfeld in the district of Calw
Ostelsheim Enzkreis Landkreis Karlsruhe Landkreis Karlsruhe Landkreis Böblingen Landkreis Tübingen Landkreis Rastatt Landkreis Freudenstadt Pforzheim Bad Herrenalb Dobel Höfen an der Enz Unterreichenbach Schömberg (Landkreis Calw) Oberreichenbach (Schwarzwald) Bad Liebenzell Althengstett Calw Bad Teinach-Zavelstein Bad Wildbad Enzklösterle Neuweiler Simmersfeld Altensteig Rohrdorf (Landkreis Calw) Egenhausen Haiterbach Nagold Wildberg (Schwarzwald) Ebhausen Neubulach Gechingen Ostelsheim Simmozheim Simmozheimmap
About this picture

Simmersfeld is a municipality in the Calw district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Northern Black Forest region .

geography

Geographical location

The climatic health resort of Simmersfeld is located in the middle of the northern Black Forest on the hilly plateau between the upper Enztal and Nagoldtal , between Bad Wildbad and Freudenstadt , 1 km off the B 294 . 75% of the community area is forest, almost 20% is used for agriculture, the rest is settlement and traffic area.

Neighboring communities

The community borders the city of Bad Wildbad in the north, Neuweiler in the east, the city of Altensteig in the southeast, Grömbach in the south, Seewald in the southwest and Enzklösterle in the west .

Community structure

Simmersfeld consists of the six districts of Aichhalden, Beuren, Ettmannsweiler, Fünfbronn, Oberweiler and Simmersfeld. The spatial boundaries of the districts are identical to those of the earlier municipalities of the same name, their official name is in the form "Simmersfeld - ...". The districts also form residential districts within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . In the spatial boundaries of the districts of Beuren, Ettmannsweiler and Fünfbronn, localities within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code are each set up with their own local council and local councilor as its chairman. The districts of Aichhalden and Oberweiler together form the village of Oberweiler-Aichhalden . In the four localities there are local administrative offices of the municipal administration with the designation "Gemeinde Simmersfeld, Verwaltungsstelle ...".

The village of Aichhalden and the hamlet of Oberweiler belong to the district of Aichhalden. The Beuren district includes the village of Beuren and Neumühle. Only the villages of the same name belong to the districts of Ettmannsweiler, Fünfbronn and Simmersfeld.
In the district of Simmersfeld is the Moosberg desert .

history

The Protestant St. John's Church

Simmersfeld probably owes its existence to the Hirsau monastery . The place was first mentioned around the year 1100 as "Sigmaresfeld" in connection with a Count Sigmar. In 1303 it was called "Sigmarsvelt". Who this Sigmar was, from which the place name is derived, can no longer be determined today.

Abbot Wilhelm lived in Hirsau around 1100, to whom Simmersfeld probably owes the establishment of his old church. It was built in the simplest form of the Romanesque style and was demolished in 1886 because it was dilapidated. From 1886 to 1889, today's Johanneskirche was rebuilt in the same place, whereby the peculiar choir of the old building was retained (in April 1945 the tower of the church in particular was badly damaged by fire).

The oldest lords of the area, as feudal bearers of the empire, were the Nagoldgaugrafen , later the Count Palatine of Tübingen . In 1240 Simmersfeld, Altensteig, Haiterbach and Wildberg-Bulach came to the Hohenberger. The Schilteck Castle, which stood near the Schildmühle in the Schnaitbachtal, also fell during the time of the Tübingen sovereignty.

After the lords of Hohenberg, Hugo von Berneck and Württemberg, the Altensteig rule came to the Margrave of Baden in 1393 . Beuren, Ettmannsweiler and Simmersfeld became Baden for 200 years until, on December 20, 1603, after much back and forth, a purchase was made that brought the Altensteig rulership, which also included Simmersfeld, to Württemberg.

In February 1826 Simmersfeld received from the Kgl. Württemberg government is given permission to hold a market each spring and autumn, the markets are still held today.

The other districts emerged either as Waldhufendörfer or later from scattered settlements on cleared areas.

Today's community Simmersfeld was re-formed on January 1, 1975 by the union of the communities Simmersfeld, Aichhalden, Beuren, Ettmannsweiler and Fünfbronn.

Together with the city of Bad Wildbad, the municipality of Simmersfeld maintains the Simmersfeld school association. This originates from the time when the mountain villages Aichelberg, Hünerberg, Meistern, Rehmühle and Kälbermühle, which are now part of Bad Wildbad, formed the independent municipality of Bergorte and later the municipality of Aichelberg (1850 to 1974).

Religions

The Protestant inhabitants of the capital Simmersfeld with the districts Ettmannsweiler, Fünfbronn and Beuren belong to the Evangelical Church of Simmersfeld in the church district Calw-Nagold , the Protestant community of Aichhalden (with Oberweiler) , however, is in the parish Zwerenberg part of the Evangelical composite parish Zwerenberg in the church district Calw-Nagold the Evangelical Regional Church in Württemberg .

politics

Municipal council

The local election on May 25, 2014 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

FWG 100% 14 seats

mayor

In the mayoral election in mid-2009, Jochen Stoll emerged as the winner. He thus succeeds his predecessor Gerhard Feeß, who, after his re-election at the end of 2008, entered the mayoral election in Altensteig and was elected to the office of mayor there.

Churches

  • Aichhalden : The small and simple Protestant St. Martin's Church seems to have undergone few external changes for centuries. The sturdy three-story choir tower with corner blocks still contains frescoes from the construction period around 1300 in the choir . It used to be a pilgrimage church. In 1965, the glass artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler created the choir window with Christ in the mandorla and the evangelist symbols for Matthew, Markus, Lukas and Johannes.
  • Beuren : The St. Anna Chapel in Beuren dates from the pre-Reformation period, it was first mentioned in 1527 and renovated in 1676 and in the 20th century. In 1820 the tower was renewed. After 150 years of uncertainty about communal or ecclesiastical jurisdiction and ownership, the chapel became the property of the Simmersfeld parish in 1978.
  • Simmersfeld : The Protestant Johanneskirche Simmersfeld had a Romanesque St. Sebastian church as its predecessor since the beginning of the 12th century , which was first mentioned in 1360. The Reformation was carried out in 1556 in the margraviate of Baden, to which Simmersfeld with the Altensteig office belonged at that time. In 1604 Simmersfeld came to Württemberg. After the Thirty Years' War until the 19th century, the structural condition deteriorated more and more despite repairs, so that St. Sebastian's Church had to be demolished in 1885. The large, neo-Romanesque St. John 's Church of today was planned by the Württemberg chief building officer Karl von Sauter with over 700 seats and inaugurated in September 1889. The entire glazing including the decorative rosette above the west portal and above all the choir window (motif: Christ, the good shepherd) was carried out by Wilhelm Jahn from Heilbronn. A brochure provides information about the one Beurener and the four Simmersfeld bells.

Economy and Infrastructure

The wind turbines of the Northern Black Forest wind farm
A Vestas V90 wind turbine at the Northern Black Forest wind farm

The agriculture still plays a pretty big role in Simmersfeld. In 2003 the statistics named nine full-time farms and 35 part-time farms.

There are around 580 jobs on site, 380 of them in manufacturing; other sectors are services and gastronomy, which are mainly to be assigned to tourism.

The Northern Black Forest wind farm, built on a former ammunition store, was the largest wind farm in Baden-Württemberg until October 31, 2015 . It consists of 14 wind turbines , 4 of the Vestas V80 type with a hub height of 100 meters and 10 Vestas V90 systems with a hub height of 125 meters. Nine wind turbines are in the Simmersfeld district, five in Seewald -Besenfeld. Each of the plants has a nominal output of 2.0 MW. The Northern Black Forest wind farm went into operation in July 2007 after its construction was approved in February 2006. Although the 14 rotors were built at a height of almost 900 meters in the northern Black Forest, evaluations of the wind farm from 2011, which u. a. in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten it was published that the yield is far below expectations.

Events

  • Sauwetterfest Simmersfeld
  • Threshing Shed Festival
  • Simmersfeld cultural workshop

Sons and daughters of the church

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. Main statute of the community of Simmersfeld from June 20, 2001  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; accessed on August 20, 2008)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.simmersfeld.de  
  3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 472-474
  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. 488 .
  5. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Simmersfeld
  6. ^ Website of the Evangelical Association Church Community in Zwerenberg
  7. Reinhard Sayer, Evangelisches Pfarramt Zwerenberg (ed.): Zwerenberg - 150 years church - 500 years parish ; Reutlingen 1990
  8. ↑ For historical information on the St. Anna Chapel see [1]
  9. ^ Werther Schneider and Brigitte Schneider: Churches in and around Nagold ; ed. Ev. Nagold Church District, Tübingen 1993, page 86
  10. ↑ For historical information on the Simmersfeld Church see [2]
  11. ^ Werther Schneider and Brigitte Schneider: Churches in and around Nagold ; ed. Ev. Nagold Church District, Tübingen 1993, page 69
  12. Company brochure with references: Glasmalerei von Wilh. Jahn in Heilbronn aN; Heilbronn, Brok & Feierabend, [approx. 1895]
  13. Alexander Schweizer: The service of the bells ; Simmersfeld 2004
  14. Windpark Nordschwarzwald on the ALTUS website ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altus-ag.de
  15. ↑ A mild breeze instead of a stiff breeze StN Online from June 14, 2011, accessed on September 18, 2012

Web links

Commons : Simmersfeld  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Simmersfeld  - travel guide