Sinsheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ' N , 8 ° 53' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Karlsruhe | |
| County : | Rhein-Neckar district | |
| Height : | 154 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 127.01 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 35,442 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 279 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 74889 | |
| Primaries : | 07260 1 , 07261 2 , 07265 3 , 07266 4 , 07268 5 | |
| License plate : | HD | |
| Community key : | 08 2 26 085 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SIH | |
| City structure: | Core city and 12 districts | |
City administration address : |
Wilhelmstrasse 14-18 74889 Sinsheim |
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| Lord Mayor : | Jörg Albrecht (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district | ||
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Sinsheim ( ) is a town in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg , about 22 kilometers southeast of Heidelberg and 28 kilometers northwest of Heilbronn , on the Elsenz . Sinsheim, first mentioned in 770, belonged to the Electoral Palatinate for centuries . After Weinheim, it is the second largest city in the Rhine-Neckar district and a medium-sized center in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . Sinsheim has been a major district town since January 1, 1973 . The city of Sinsheim has agreed an administrative partnership with the communities of Angelbachtal and Zuzenhausen . Until the district reform in 1973 , Sinsheim was the seat of the district of the same name with the license plate SNH .
Sinsheim is known for the Technik Museum Sinsheim , the bathing world Sinsheim and the Messe Sinsheim as well as the sporting successes of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and their Prezero-Arena .
geography
location
Sinsheim is located in the heart of the Kraichgau between Heidelberg and Heilbronn and borders the southern foothills of the front Odenwald . The Elsenz , a small, mostly non-navigable, left tributary of the Neckar flows through the city, which flows into Neckargemünd . Near Neckargemünd, the Elsenz is navigable for small watercraft over a distance of around 250 m.
Neighboring communities
The following cities and communities border the city of Sinsheim. They are called clockwise starting in the east:
Bad Rappenau , Kirchardt , Ittlingen and Eppingen (all districts of Heilbronn ), Östringen ( district of Karlsruhe ) and Angelbachtal , Mühlhausen (Kraichgau) , Dielheim , Zuzenhausen , Waibstadt and Neckarbischofsheim (all of the Rhein-Neckar district ).
City structure
The urban area of Sinsheim is divided into the core town 2 and the twelve districts of Adersbach 2 , Dühren 2 , Ehrstädt 4 , Eschelbach 3 , Hasselbach 5 , Hilsbach 1 , Hoffenheim 2 , rows 2 , which were incorporated into the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg between 1971 and 1973 . Rohrbach 2 , Steinsfurt 2 , Waldangelloch 3 and Weiler 2 (the numbers in superscript refer to the telephone area code, see info box above).
The homestead Rauhof belongs to the Adersbach district . The Dühren Mühle house belongs to the Dühren district. The Ehrstädt district includes the Eulenhof farmstead , the Neuhaus castle and house, and the Mühle and Jägerhaus houses. The Junghof homestead and the Eichmühle and Mettelmühle houses belong to the Hilsbach district. The district of Hoffenheim includes the hamlet Neufeldsiedlung (formerly the settlement on the Balzfelderwald ) and the houses Am Krähenberg and Mühle Kolb. The hamlet of Immelhäuser Hof , the Frankenhof homestead and the Walkmühle houses belong to the core town of Sinsheim . The hamlet of Hammerau and the Birkenauerhof and Buchenauerhof (Ziegelhof) farms are part of the Weiler district .
The Wüstungen Windhusen and the abandoned Mustrichesheim mentioned in 827, which is not exactly localized and possibly in the district of Sinsheim, are located in the district of Dühren . In the district of Eschelbach lies the deserted Schlupferstadt and in the district of Waldangelloch the abandoned, unlocated Studernheim.
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Spatial planning
Sinsheim forms a middle center in the area of the main center Heidelberg . In addition to the city of Sinsheim, the central area of Sinsheim also includes the cities and communities Angelbachtal , Epfenbach , Eschelbronn , Helmstadt-Bargen , Lobbach , Mauer , Meckesheim , Neckarbischofsheim , Neidenstein , Reichartshausen , Spechbach , Waibstadt and Zuzenhausen of the Rhein-Neckar district.
history
Early history
The most spectacular and oldest find in the area dates from around 600,000 years before our time. In 1907, in a sand pit near Mauer between Sinsheim and Heidelberg , the lower jaw of Mauer was found, which is still the oldest fossil of a representative of the Homo genus in Germany. In the history of the earth's development, the Kraichgau developed over the millennia into a hilly landscape that offered fertile floodplains as well as areas of refuge that were difficult to access, making the region ideal for the settlement of early cultures.
The first traces of settlement in the area of today's Sinsheim district date from the Neolithic and Bronze Age . To date, a total of 26 barrows from the second and third centuries BC have been found in and around Sinsheim, as well as stone age urn fields as well as stone axes, lance heads and numerous other finds.
In the district of Dühren there was around 400 BC. A Celtic ring wall, besides other Celtic finds in Sinsheim are known, including the "princess grave" with rich grave goods.
Roman times
With the suppression of the Batavian uprising in 70, the Romans began to expand their sphere of influence by a few kilometers east of the Rhine. The area around Sinsheim probably came under Roman control at this time. In 98 at the latest, when the imperial border was moved forward to the Odenwald and Neckar (see Neckar-Odenwald-Limes ) under Emperor Trajan , the area became part of the Roman Empire. Today's Sinsheim is in the middle of the then newly occupied area, the so-called Dekumatland ( agri decumates ). A Roman stone of the four gods found in Sinsheim names a settlement Saliobriga . The foundations of Roman manor houses in the Sinsheim district as well as the largest giant Jupiter column ever found in southern Germany , which was recovered in today's district of Steinsfurt , also bear witness to the Romans .
With the disintegration of the Neckar Limes and the withdrawal of the Romans 259/260 (" Limesfall "), Germanic tribes ( Alamanni ) penetrated the area of today's Sinsheim. Traces of Alemannic settlement are known as early as the third century AD. Around the year 500 the area of Sinsheim became part of the Franconian Empire and the oldest Franconian traces of settlement in the area of today's core city date back to around 550.
The settlement of Sinsheim was justified by the course of the Elsenz and the old trunk road from Magdeburg via Leipzig to Würzburg and Basel, which in this area leads from Heilbronn via Steinsfurt to Sinsheim.
First written mention 770
In the Lorsch Codex , Sinsheim is first mentioned in a document in 770, when a certain Hagino assigned a hoof to the Lorsch Monastery in “Sunnisheim”. A large Franconian cemetery provides information about this time. The place was important as the center of Elsenzgau early on, a count family probably had its seat here. Around 908 Konrad von Hessen is said to have built a castle in Sinsheim and fortified the place with a wall.
Founding of the monastery around the year 1000
Gaugraf Otto of Carinthia (about 948 to 1004) was on the Stiftsberg the monastery Sinsheim built and a church, the first of the Bishopric of Worms were under. After the death of Otto in 1024 leaving Rhine francs ruling Salian the Kraichgau and the surrounding lands Count tungsten from the family of Zeisolf-Wolframe as a fief. Gaugraf Zeisolf received market rights in Sinsheim from Heinrich IV in 1064 , and in 1067 also the right to mint. Zeisolf's brother Johannes , who became Bishop of Speyer , exchanged the Augustinian monastery in Sinsheim from Worms and rededicated it to a Benedictine monastery in 1100 in the presence of Heinrich IV. On this occasion, larger pieces of land, including what is now the Steinsfurt district, were added to the monastery. The monastery remained more important than the market town for a long time, even after the abbey ceded various rights to the site to King Henry V in 1108 .
In 1192, Emperor Heinrich VI. the place municipal rights . From a document issued by Emperor Friedrich II in Apricena in 1234 , it can be deduced that Sunnesheim was handed over to Margrave Hermann V of Baden as a pledge before 1220 and was already a town ( civitas ) at that time . The oldest city seal has come down to us from the year 1300. The city name was meanwhile "Sunnensheim".
During the 12th and 13th centuries, the lords of Laufen became counts in Kraichgau and Elsenzgau, after which Sinsheim was pledged several times and had frequently changing lords. In addition, there were territorial alliances with neighboring villages. The margraves of Baden , the lords of Gemmingen and the lords of Hirschhorn ruled .
Sinsheim Castle was located in the southwest corner of the old town of Sinsheim, within the former city wall .
Belonging to the Electoral Palatinate from 1329
In 1329 Sinsheim came to the Electoral Palatinate and from 1362 was subordinated to the Electoral Palatinate Oberamt Mosbach . In 1410, the city fell to Count Palatine Otto I of Pfalz-Mosbach, who from 1440 also raised claims to the neighboring village of Serien and acquired it in 1472. After the death of the last Mosbacher in 1499, Sinsheim returned to the main line of the Count Palatine. The surrounding villages were mostly subordinate to the aristocrats in the knightly canton of Kraichgau . Count Palatine Philipp the Sincere transferred to Sinsheim in 1506 to be repurchased to Orendel von Gemmingen . The repurchase took place by 1524 at the latest.
In 1496, the Benedictine monastery in Sinsheim was converted into a secular knightly monastery under Abbot Michael von Angelloch. During the Peasants' War in 1525, Sinsheim was besieged by around 1200 armed peasants who, after the opening of the city gates, under the leadership of the former Eppinger pastor Anton Eisenhut , stormed the knight's monastery and left numerous destruction behind. The anger of the peasants was directed against the sons of the landlords of the Elsenz and Kraichgau who lived in the monastery. Many nobles from the Kraichgau joined Luther's theses in the following years. The knight's monastery in Sinsheim was restored from 1528 to 1533. In 1557 Elector Ottheinrich confessed to the Augsburg Confession , his successor Friedrich III. then carried out the Reformation in the entire Electoral Palatinate. In 1565 Friedrich III. open the choir of the knight's monastery and burn catholic inventory. Since the chapter of the monastery continued to refuse to accept the Reformation, Friedrich abolished the monastery on July 5, 1565.
During the period of the Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648, Sinsheim was plagued several times by marauding troops and the population was poor and poor. Some loss-making battles took place in the surrounding area, e.g. B. the battle of Mingolsheim and the battle of Wimpfen in 1622, and the imperial general Tilly also devastated Sinsheim. The Swedes moved to Tilly, then Croatian riders , then French. In what is now the district of Linien, the population decreased from 300 at the beginning to 14 at the end of the war. There were similar losses in Sinsheim itself. In the turmoil of the war, one last attempt to re-establish the Sinsheim monastery failed.
After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, however, no peace returned to the city. The nearby Philippsburg fortress was the starting point and destination of many troops during the subsequent French wars, which often made their way through Sinsheim. In 1674, 20,000 soldiers met in the battle of Sinsheim , the French marshal Turenne severely defeated the German imperial troops and sacked the city. In 1689 the troops of Louis XIV under General Mélac burned down the city completely.
In August 1730, Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia ( Frederick the Great ) tried to escape his father and the responsibility of the Prussian court in the small rural property "Lerchennest" in Steinsfurt . The escape was foiled, however, and the Crown Prince was imprisoned in the Küstrin Fortress .
From the middle of the 18th century, Sinsheim experienced rebuilding and modest growth, so that in 1797 Goethe was able to describe the city in his diary on his trip to Switzerland as a “cheerful country town”.
Baden official city in the 19th century
With the end of the Electoral Palatinate in 1803, Sinsheim was briefly added to the newly formed Principality of Leiningen , and then in 1806 to the newly founded Grand Duchy of Baden as an official city. The administration of the district office was initially housed in the town hall, which was newly built in 1712, before a grand ducal district office building could be moved into in 1840.
From 1819 Karl Wilhelmi was pastor in Sinsheim. In January 1820 a first synod took place in Sinsheim, which prepared the union of 1821. In this, the Reformed and Lutheran churches were united to form the Baden regional church . As secretary, Wilhelmi had a major influence on the results. In 1830 he founded the Sinsheim "Society for the Research of the Patriotic Monuments of Prehistoric Times", which secured and researched the prehistoric monuments.
In September 1840, a maneuver of the VIII German Army Corps took place, whose headquarters were in Sinsheim from September 14th to 16th. On this occasion, numerous important personalities stayed in the city, including the Baden Grand Duke Leopold , the King and Crown Prince of Württemberg, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Prince of Hesse, Prince Wilhelm I of Prussia (the later German Emperor) and high military personnel from Russia. Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland and various old German states.
During the Baden Revolution of 1848 there were uprisings by democratic citizens and craftsmen in Sinsheim as well. The revolutionaries Karl Bauer, Eduard Speiser and Müller Rau ruled the Sinsheim town hall from April 1848 and proclaimed the democratic republic there, after which they moved to Heidelberg with 250 armed militants to assist the revolutionary Friedrich Hecker . One of the Sinsheim revolutionaries was the pharmacist Gustav Mayer , who in 1849 temporarily became the town's civil commissioner.
The suppression of the Hecker uprising intensified the wave of emigration to the United States , which had already begun due to the prevailing poverty, throughout Baden , where many Badeners fought as so-called Forty-Eighters in the Northern Army or were otherwise democratically active. Franz Sigel , who was born in Sinsheim , achieved the rank of general in the Civil War . On the other hand, phylloxera and other vineyard pests came from America in the 1870s, so that viticulture, which had been practiced in and around Sinsheim since the 16th century, practically came to a standstill within a few years. Many vineyards became fields or meadows.
In 1864 the Sinsheim district office was enlarged to include the area of the disbanded Neckarbischofsheim district office . In 1868/69 the Meckesheim – Jagstfeld railway line was built via Sinsheim. The construction of the railroad and the economic boom of the Wilhelminian era brought economic upswing, the quarries needed to build the routes offered work for many men. In 1900 the Steinsfurt – Eppingen railway was opened as a cross-connection between the Elsenz Valley Railway and the Kraichgau Railway.
Sinsheim in the 20th century
By 1910, most of today's districts were electrified and connected to water pipes. During the term of office of Mayor Karl Sidler (in office from 1913 to 1930), despite inflation, a residential construction project comprising 56 single-family houses was completed by a building cooperative in the garden city as the largest construction project in Sinsheim by 1928. The uniform elementary school built in 1929 was named Sidler School in honor of Sidler . The economic crisis from 1929 onwards again resulted in high unemployment and great poverty. Soup kitchens were operated in the city to provide the unemployed with essentials. This also contributed to the election successes of the National Socialists , who also took power in the community from 1933. The boom of the early 1930s came to an abrupt end with the outbreak of World War II .
In 1924 the Sinsheim district office was enlarged to include the area of the dissolved Eppingen district office , and in 1939 the Sinsheim district emerged from the district office , making Sinsheim the seat of a district office.
In the wake of the Reichspogromnacht in 1938 riots against Jews and Jewish institutions also broke out in Sinsheim and the surrounding area. Under the command of the Sinsheim mayor and NSDAP local group leader Jürgen Rieg, Jewish facilities such as synagogues, cemeteries and shops were destroyed in all 53 communities in the then Sinsheim district on November 10, as a result of which a memorial stone in the Kleine Grabengasse 6 of Sinsheim and in the Hoffenheim cemetery remember a plaque. The last Germans of Jewish faith living in Hoffenheim and other localities were picked up by Kripo officers ( Gestapo ) on October 22, 1940 , taken to assembly camps in Heidelberg , Mannheim and Karlsruhe and deported in seven trains via Belfort to Camp de Gurs .
The war ended for Sinsheim with the invasion of the Americans on April 2, 1945. The Sinsheim district was restructured by the American military administration immediately after the war.
From 1946 onwards, the allocation of numerous displaced persons and refugees to be integrated resulted in strong population growth and the associated problems of integration. A lot of building land had to be developed and the city expanded far beyond the historic town center. The farmers previously residing in the city center were relocated , the city center modernized and schools and sports facilities enlarged or newly built. The demolition of the historical structure of the old town and the new buildings of that time are now classified as architecturally questionable by many residents.
The construction of the autobahn section of the A 6 from Heilbronn to Mannheim in the 1960s connected Sinsheim to international traffic routes and also brought important industrial settlements with it. The economic boom of the " economic miracle " years brought the first guest workers to Sinsheim. This and other immigrants v. a. from Turkey have shaped the city ever since. In the course of the district reform on January 1, 1973 , the district of Sinsheim was dissolved and its area was mainly divided into the Rhein-Neckar district and the district of Heilbronn . Sinsheim itself came to the Rhein-Neckar district.
As part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , several neighboring communities were incorporated into the city of Sinsheim from 1971 to 1973. As a result, the urban area reached its current size and the number of inhabitants exceeded the 20,000 mark. The city administration therefore applied for a major district town , which the state government of Baden-Württemberg decided with effect from January 1, 1973.
In 2008 the city received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .
Incorporations
The following communities were incorporated into Sinsheim:
- April 1, 1971: Dühren
- July 1, 1971: Hilsbach , Weiler
- December 1, 1971: Adersbach , Ehrstädt , Hasselbach
- December 30, 1971: Rohrbach
- July 1, 1972: Eschelbach , Hoffenheim , rows , Waldangelloch
- January 1, 1973: Steinsfurt
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 Hilsbach |
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 Adersbach |
 Ehrstädt |
 Hasselbach |
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 Eschelbach |
 Hoffenheim |
 Rows |
 Forest fishing hole |
 Steinsfurt |
Population development
Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).
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¹ census result
- Population of the districts
(As of December 31, 2014)
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Religions
Christianity
Sinsheim initially belonged to the diocese of Worms , since 1099 to the diocese of Speyer and was assigned to the archdeaconate of the provost office of the collegiate monastery of St. John and St. Guido in Speyer. In addition to the collegiate church on Michaelsberg, the Jakobuskirche was built in the village in the 12th century. In the time of the early Reformation , a Protestant pastor was expelled from Sinsheim in 1527. Around 1540 the reformer Ottmar Stab worked as a pastor in Sinsheim. The Reformation was formally carried out in 1553 with the first local evangelical priest appointed by the Electoral Palatinate , after which the city shared the eventful religious history of the Electoral Palatinate. In 1557 Sinsheim received its first Protestant church order and from 1559 the Reformed Confession prevailed. Between 1576 and 1583 Sinsheim was temporarily Lutheran . However, it was not until 1696 that there was a separate Lutheran congregation again. During the Thirty Years' War , Sinsheim was temporarily Catholic. From 1697, the only remaining church on site after the abolition of the monastery was used simultaneously by both Protestant and the now officially approved Catholic parish before it was divided as part of the church division of the Palatinate in 1707. The Catholics were given the choir, the Reformed the nave. In 1715 a partition wall was even installed.
After the transition to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806, the two Protestant communities were merged into one uniate community in 1821 . Sinsheim became the seat of a deanery . The associated church district of Sinsheim merged on January 1, 2005 with the neighboring church district of Eppingen-Bad Rappenau to form the new church district of Kraichgau . All parishes in the city belong to it. These are the parishes of Adersbach and Hasselbach, Dühren, Ehrstädt, Eschelbach, Hilsbach and Weiler, Hoffenheim, rows, Rohrbach and Steinsfurt, Sinsheim and Waldangelloch. The Sinsheimer congregation was divided into the Lukasgemeinde and the Markusgemeinde in 1981. However, these continue to form the entire parish of Sinsheim. The Evangelical City Church has belonged to the Catholic Church of St. Jakobus d. Ä. 1964 the Protestants alone. There is a separate Protestant church in each of the district communities.
The Catholic parish, which has existed again since the 17th century, initially continued to belong to the Diocese of Speyer , from 1801 to the Dalberg administration and then to the General Vicariate of Bruchsal, before becoming part of the newly founded Archdiocese of Freiburg in 1821/27 . The parish was assigned to the Waibstadt deanery. In 1964 the new Catholic St. James Church was built. In the districts of Sinsheim, too, partly independent Catholic communities emerged, especially after the influx of displaced persons after the Second World War. After the dissolution of the Waibstadt deanery in 1976, the parishes in the Sinsheim city area were assigned to the Kraichgau deanery . Today this includes 21 parishes. Most of the Catholics in the city are looked after by the Sinsheim pastoral care unit, which includes the St. Jakobus parish of Sinsheim with Dühren and Hoffenheim as well as the parish of St. Peter Steinsfurt with rows and Rohrbach. Waldangeloch and Hilsbach with hamlet are looked after by the pastoral care unit Angelbachtal, Adersbach von Waibstadt and Ehrstädt and Hasselbach von Bad Rappenau-Obergimpern.
Free church communities
In addition to the two large churches, there are also congregations in Sinsheim that belong to the Free Churches , namely the Christian Congregation Sinsheim, the Christian Community Steinsfurt, a congregation of the United Methodist Church , the Free Evangelical Churches belonging to the Federation of Free Evangelical Congregations (FeG) Hoffenheim parish, a church of God and a Mennonite church . There is also a New Apostolic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses in Sinsheim .
Judaism
Jews in Sinsheim are documented as early as the 14th and 15th centuries. The modern community, however, was not formed until the 18th century and grew to the same extent that the Jewish communities in the surrounding towns had to record a decline. In 1827 Sinsheim became the seat of a district rabbinate for the surrounding towns. Due to financial problems, the city was only able to support the planning and construction of a synagogue from 1827 by providing construction timber; it took more than ten years to complete the simple structure. The congregation had its highest membership in 1890 with just under 150 people, but then declined to around 70 people by emigration and emigration by 1933, about half of whom were still able to emigrate, while the remaining half were killed by the persecution of the Jews.
Islam
1995 of the DİTİB bought the Sinsheim industrial park to the fact that a hall Fatih - Mosque set. There has also been the Mescid-i-Aksa Mosque since 2010, which is run by the IGMG umbrella organization .
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council of the city of Sinsheim normally has 32 members who have the title of “city councilor”. In addition, the Lord Mayor comes as a voting member. The number of members can increase through compensatory seats.
The municipal councils are elected in a false choice of suburbs, so that the districts are represented in the council according to the following proportional representation: the core city has 9, Hoffenheim and Steinsfurt each 3, from Dühren, Eschelbach, Hilsbach, rows, Rohrbach, Waldangelloch and Weiler 2 councils each come from Adersbach, Ehrstädt and Hasselbach each have a local council.
After the municipal elections in 2019 , the municipal council has 41 members with compensation seats with the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):
| Party / list | Share of votes | Seats |
| CDU | 31.6% | 14 seats (−1) |
| FWV | 23.0% | 11 seats (± 0) |
| Green | 15.9% | 7 seats (+4) |
| SPD | 13.6% | 6 seats (−1) |
| Active for Sinsheim | 11.1% | 5 seats (+2) |
| NPD | 3.1% | 1 seat (+1) |
| FDP | 1.4% | 1 seat (± 0) |
Local councils
In each district there is a local council , which is elected by the population of the district in each local election. The chairman of the local council is the mayor . The local councils are to be heard on important matters affecting the locality . In each district there is also an administrative office in which the most important matters of a city administration can be dealt with “on site”. The mayor also hold regular consultation hours here.
mayor
At the top of the city, the mayor, since 1 January 1973 the mayor , who is elected directly by the people for eight years. His permanent representative is the "alderman" with the official title "mayor".
- 1962–1980: Helmut Gmelin
- 1980-2004: Horst Sieber (CDU)
- 2004–2012: Rolf Geinert (SPD)
- since 2012: Jörg Albrecht (independent)
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the city of Sinsheim shows a red armored, black eagle in gold. The city flag is yellow with a black eagle. Coats of arms and flags have been used for many centuries. Sinsheim belonged to the Electoral Palatinate Oberamt Mosbach until 1803 and to the Principality of Leiningen from 1803 to 1806. After it came to the Palatinate in 1329 and stayed with it, like other former imperial cities that had become Palatinate, it continued the seal image, the imperial eagle, which was once entitled to it as an imperial city. The representation of the eagle has changed several times over the centuries. The oldest known seal with the inscription: "s. civivm de. svnnensheim “hangs on a document from the year 1300.
Town twinning
Sinsheim has had town twinning with Longué-Jumelles in the French department of Maine-et-Loire since 1976 and with Barcs in Hungary since 1989 .
Sinsheim as the namesake
The name Sinsheim was given in 2011 for the Lufthansa D-AIBF aircraft ( Airbus A319-100 ) and on October 9, 2011 for the DB Regio's 425 213-6 electric multiple unit used on the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn .
Culture and sights
theatre
In Sinsheim there are several amateur theaters such as the Würfeltheater , the professionally directed Sinsheimer Theaterkiste with a wide range of plays, the Friedrich Hecker Theater , which belongs to the Friends of Sinsheim History Association of the Sinsheim City Museum , which is an amateur theater that exclusively produces in-house productions with historical reference plays, as well as the Max-Weber-Theater at the Max-Weber-School.
Museums
In Sinsheim there are several museums, of which the Auto and Technology Museum Sinsheim is the best known nationwide. A Concorde and a Tupolev Tu-144 are exhibited here. The Sinsheim City Museum in the City Cultural Quarter in the Old Town Hall primarily shows the history of the city and the surrounding area, with the Mother of God from the Palatinate Court among its exhibits . The Lerchennest museum courtyard in the Steinsfurt district houses the Friedrich-der-Große-Museum. There is a local history and typewriter museum in the Hoffenheim district .
Buildings
The castle Steinberg , a Stauferburg octagonal keep on a basalt cone in the district of Weiler is a landmark of the city. The castle is also known as the “compass of the Kraichgau”. It has been owned by the city of Sinsheim since 1973. The inner courtyard is ideal for cultural events. This is why the Castle Festival and other theater performances as well as the Steinsberg Festival take place here in the summer months.
Another historic landmark is the 1524 built pin tower of the pin Sinsheim on the Michael Berg. The associated collegiate church was converted from 2009 to 2011 into a cultural center for the Rhein-Neckar district and has a largely original roof structure from the 13th century. The other monastery buildings , which have been used by a youth welfare facility since 1889, are also worth seeing. The old hospital was built at the foot of the monastery in 1803 and was used as a hospital from 1857 to 1896. The care was in the hands of the medical officer and a guard. Servants and craft boys traveling through were also given accommodation here for a few nights. 1985 to 1988 this building was converted into a residential building. The former monastery building (Wilhelmstrasse 16), built in 1888, is now part of the town hall.
Sinsheim Abbey
Old hospital
Gate building of the monastery
Former Stiftschaffnerei
From 1894 to 1896 the former Grand Ducal Baden district court was built on Werderstrasse. The architect was Julius Koch, head of the Heidelberg district building inspection. Facade with stone carvings and ornate gables, state coat of arms with crown.
The core town of Sinsheim is rich in historical buildings. The Gasthaus Drei Könige is a former Catholic rectory from 1766. The Evangelical Dean's Office (Pfarrstrasse 5) was built in 1859/60. The Kath schoolhouse was built in Pfarrstrasse 10 in 1833/34 . The school rooms of the simultaneous school (elementary school) from 1876 to 1929 were housed on the ground floor. Today it serves as a Catholic parish hall. The new Catholic rectory “St. Jakobus ” was built from 1837–1838 next to the Catholic schoolhouse in the gardens in the north of the city.
Former Catholic rectory (1744)
Evangelical Dean's Office
Catholic schoolhouse
Catholic parish office of St. James
The Schwennsche Haus (Bahnhofstrasse 22) was built around 1730 and is one of the oldest surviving residential buildings in Sinsheim. Typical for this period are the gable-independent design, the crippled mansard roof and the proportions of the building with great height and narrow width. The ground floor was massively renovated in 1811, the lintel dated to 1811.
The former Gasthaus Zum Schwarzen Bären (Hauptstrasse 127) was used in 1847 as a meeting place for the revolutionary democrats around the pharmacist Gustav Mayer. With its neighboring houses, Haus Stammer (Ziegelgasse 2), and the former Gemlin butcher's shop , the house forms a striking half-timbered ensemble on Sinsheimer Hauptstrasse. In Haus Stammer, which was once used by a tanner and dates back to 1744, lived the bear owner Georg Dörner, who was an avid supporter of the revolutionary democrats. In addition, another tanner's house from 1807 in Sinsheim has been preserved on Lewertörlein . The Lewertörlein, which is walled up in the building, dates from 1609 and bears the symbols of the tanning trade in the keystone. It was a small city gate of its own in the wall around the inner suburb through which the tanners could get to their hides, which had been watered in Elsenz.
Old Town Hall
To the black bear
House Stammer (1744)
Gerberhaus (1807) with Lewertörlein
There are also historical buildings worth mentioning in the suburbs, including numerous churches as well as several castles and mansions. In addition, the Sinsheim telecommunications tower is a landmark of the city.
Guard house in Hilsbach
Evangelical Church in Hoffenheim
Old synagogue in Ehrstädt
Baroque building in Adersbach
Sports
The best-known soccer club in Sinsheim is TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , which has played in the Bundesliga since the 2008/2009 season and whose Prezero Arena , right on the A 6 , was a venue for the 2011 women's soccer world championship .
There are also a number of other sports clubs in Sinsheim and its districts, including TV Sinsheim (badminton, basketball, handball, athletics, table tennis, etc.) and SV Sinsheim (volleyball and soccer), whose women play first volleyball in the Sinsheim city center -Bundesliga played. There has been an American football team since 2010.
A local association is the Flugsportring Kraichgau, which uses the Sinsheim im Wiesental glider airfield located between Sinsheim, Rohrbach and Steinsfurt for air sports.
Regular events
The annual foal market has been held in Sinsheim since 1902 . The origins of this folk festival lie in what was once a nationally important market for cold blood breeding.
Sinsheim has a large exhibition center, in which regular trade and public fairs took place until April 1, 2018, such as model railroad real steam meetings, fascination motorcycle, fascination model making, the BadenBau or the Car & Sound HiFi fair.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Sinsheim is located directly on the A 6 Mannheim – Heilbronn. The city can be reached via the Sinsheim, Sinsheim-Süd and Sinsheim-Steinsfurt junctions. The federal highways 39 , 45 and 292 also run through the city.
There are several train stations in the city on the Elsenz Valley Railway Bad Friedrichshall – Heidelberg (Steinsfurt, Sinsheim Museum / Arena, Sinsheim (Elsenz) Hbf , Hoffenheim). In Steinsfurt the Steinsfurt – Eppingen railway branches off , at which there is a stop in rows and which connects to the Kraichgau Railway Karlsruhe – Heilbronn in Eppingen . The S5 S5 of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn (Heidelberg – Sinsheim – Eppingen), the RE 2 regional express line (Mannheim – Heilbronn) and, since December 2014, the Heilbronn Stadtbahn (Heilbronn – Bad Friedrichshall ) line S42 –Sinsheim; previously RB 74). The districts of Waldangelloch and Hilsbach used to have their own railway connection through the Wiesloch – Meckesheim / Waldangelloch and Katzbachbahn railway lines, which were operated by passenger traffic until 1980 and 1960, respectively.
Local public transport ( ÖPNV ) is served by several bus lines of the Sinsheim city bus, which is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). Both line bundles have been operated by PalatinaBus since 2011 (north) and 2012 (south) . Previously, they were served by bus traffic Rhein-Neckar and SWEG in a different division .
media
A local edition of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung appears as a daily newspaper in Sinsheim .
The television station Sinsheim TV reports on current events in Sinsheim, the districts and the surrounding area.
The Sinsheim transmitter is located about two kilometers southwest of the city center, in the immediate vicinity of the A6, and functions as a radio transmitter .
Court and authorities
Sinsheim is the seat of the Sinsheim District Court , which belongs to the Heidelberg District Court . In the city there is also a tax office and a branch of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district office. Sinsheim is also the seat of the Kraichgau church district of the Evangelical State Church in Baden and DMG interpersonal , a large evangelical aid organization.
Healthcare and Baths
With the Sinsheim health center, the city has a hospital, a geriatric rehabilitation clinic and a nursing home. The Thermen & Badewelt Sinsheim , which opened in 2012, has the largest sauna in the world.
education
Sinsheim is traditionally a school town for the entire surrounding area. The city is a school provider or location of several high schools (Wilhelmi-Gymnasium (general high school), Friedrich-Hecker-School (technical high school), Max-Weber-School (business high school) and Albert-Schweitzer-School (social science high school)), the Kraichgau -Realschule , the Carl-Orff-Schule (special education and advice center with a special focus on learning) as well as two elementary and technical secondary schools (Schule am Giebel Steinsfurt and Theodor-Heuss-Schule Sinsheim). There are also primary schools in the districts of Dühren, Eschelbach, Hilsbach-Weiler, Hoffenheim, rows (Wingertsbergschule), Rohrbach and Waldangelloch.
In the vocational school center of the Rhein-Neckar district, the Max Weber School also includes the commercial school with vocational school and vocational college, the Friedrich Hecker school a commercial school with vocational schools, vocational college and the Albert Schweitzer school as a home economics school and vocational schools Vocational colleges for care and education. The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is also the school sponsor of the Steinsberg School (special education and advice center with a focus on intellectual development).
In addition, there are two private schools in the buildings of the former Benedictine monastery: the vocational special education and counseling center with a focus on emotional and esocial development of the State Youth Home Monastery Sunnisheim and the private school on Michaelsberg (special needs education and counseling center with focus on emotional and social development) .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Sinsheim has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1859: Wilhelm Laurop , district forester
- 1871: Leopold Otto, senior magistrate
- 1886: Carl Albert Ihm, engineer
- 1894: Louis Bergdoll, beer brewer
- 1924: Georg Christmann, main teacher
- 1924: Adam Ullrich, main teacher
- 1932: Ambros Saur, senior teacher
- 1932: Franz Fischer, doctor
- 1932: Wilhelm Eisen, Protestant Dean
- 1944: Walter Stein, Colonel a. D.
- 1955: Georg Zink , founder of the Association of Friends of Sinsheim History and the City Archives
- 1963: August Ratzel, professor
- 1972: Else Schwenn, school councilor
- 1973: Eugen Dürrwächter, entrepreneur
- 1975: Friedrich Hub , local history researcher
- 1980: Helmut Gmelin, retired Lord Mayor D.
- 1988: Paul Herrmann , District Administrator a. D.
- 2000: Johann Appenzeller, city councilor and local researcher
- 2004: Horst Sieber, retired Lord Mayor D.
- 2005: Wilhelm Bauer , local researcher
- 2015: Dietmar Hopp , entrepreneur and patron
In the Third Reich were also honorary citizens:
- Adolf Hitler , Chancellor and Fuhrer
- Franz Seldte , Reich Minister of Labor
- Robert Wagner , Reich Governor and Gauleiter
Bearer of the Karl Wilhelmi honor coin
Since 1969, the city has also been awarding the Karl Wilhelmi honorary coin to people who have made special contributions to the city and its citizens . It is named after Karl Wilhelmi , the archaeologist who died in Sinsheim. The following people have received this award so far:
- 1972: Elisabeth Reeb, home nurse
- 1973: Paul Herrmann, District Administrator
- 1973: Helmut Gmelin, Lord Mayor
- 1975: August Petri, City Councilor
- 1984: Katharina Zimmermann, local history researcher
- 1984: Walter Barth, home nurse
- 1984: Adam Schlitt , local history researcher
- 1985: Ludwig Schumacher, city councilor
- 1987: Johann Appenzeller, city councilor and local researcher
- 1994: Wilhelm Bauer , local researcher
- 1995: Ernst Müller, Mayor
- 1998: Horst Sieber, Lord Mayor
- 2001: Gerhard Weiser , member of the state parliament
- 2002: Eberhard Layher , entrepreneur and founder of the Auto and Technology Museum
- 2003: Klaus Finck , veterinarian and book author
- 2005: Emil Schumacher, local researcher
- 2010: Ferenc Feigli, former mayor of the town twinning
- 2015: Inge Holder, City Councilor
- 2015: Helmut Göschel, City Councilor
- 2015: Richard Spranz, City Councilor
- 2017: Hartmut Riehl, local history researcher
sons and daughters of the town
- Hans Seyfer (around 1460–1509), stone sculptor and wood carver
- Ottmar Staff the Younger (1543 – after 1610), Poeta laureatus
- Jakob Friedrich Rausmüller (1767–1846), innkeeper in Meckesheim, there also mayor from 1814 to 1828, member of the state parliament 1818–1823
- Jakob David Greiff (1776–1865), post holder in Wiesloch and member of the Baden state parliament 1837–1840
- Franz Sigel (1824–1902), freedom fighter and later American Northern General
- Emil Fieser (1835–1904), member of the Reichstag and Landtag
- Johann Ritter and Edler von Braun (1867–1938), Lieutenant General, first head of the Army Personnel Office of the Reichswehr
- Karl Sidler (1875–1930), lawyer and politician
- August Karolus (1893–1972) physicist
- Franz Bachelin (1895–1980), film architect
- Emil Rupp (1898–1979), physicist
- David Heinz Gumbel (1906–1992), silversmith and designer in Israel
- Wilhelm Bauer (1924–2013), local history researcher
- Erich Kronauer (* 1930), manager and benefactor
- Norbert Kapferer (1948–2018), philosophy historian and political scientist
- Volker Kauder (* 1949), politician, former Secretary General of the CDU and from 2005 to 2018 chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
- Werner Schubert (* 1953), classical philologist
- Sönke Brandschwert (* 1965), crime writer
- Kurt Holzkämper (* 1971), musician
- Markus Frick (* 1972), ex-TV presenter, stock market speculator, stock market letter and stock market writer
- Ulrich Schneider (* 1972), politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Christian Eichner (* 1982), soccer player
- Sebastian Hofmann (* 1983), soccer player
- Matthias Krieger (* 1984), athlete and Paralympian
Persons related to Sinsheim
- Ottmar Stab († 1585), Reformation-minded pastor in Sinsheim around 1540, later court preacher to the Palatinate
- Reinhard Wolf (1589–1637), 1611 deacon and pastor in Sinsheim
- Karl Wilhelmi (1786–1857), pastor in Sinsheim and founder of antiquity research in southern Germany
- Karl Bornhäuser (1868–1947), Protestant theologian; Temporarily pastor in Sinsheim
- Adam Schlitt (1913–1990), teacher and local history researcher
- Gerhard Weiser (1931–2003), former Minister of Agriculture of the State of Baden-Württemberg; died in Sinsheim
- Werner Fischer (* 1939), former rector of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences; Abitur at Wilhelmi-Gymnasium
- Dietmar Hopp (* 1940), co-founder of SAP AG ; grew up in Sinsheim-Hoffenheim and attended Wilhelmi-Gymnasium
- Wolfgang Welsch (* 1944), political scientist, publicist and former escape helper; lives in Sinsheim
- Thomas Erle (* 1952), writer and crime writer; Grew up in Sinsheim, graduated from Wilhelmi-Gymnasium
- Thomas Schleh (* 1964), musician and discotheque operator in Sinsheim
- Axel Schock (* 1965), author and journalist ; Abitur at Wilhelmi-Gymnasium, temporarily employee of the Sinsheim regional editorial office of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
- Matto Barfuss (* 1970), German artist , painter , photographer , filmmaker , conservationist and author
- Golineh Atai (* 1974), television journalist; grew up in Sinsheim-Hoffenheim and attended Wilhelmi-Gymnasium
literature
- Erich Keyser (Ed.): Badisches Städtebuch. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1959 (German Town Book, Vol. 4: Southwest Germany. 2: State of Baden-Württemberg, sub-volume Baden).
- Käthe Zimmermann-Ebert: Sinsheim ad Elsenz. A chapter of local history in pictures , Gummersbach 1981
- Käthe Zimmermann-Ebert: Around the Steinsberg. Large district town Sinsheim , Sinsheim 1990
- Wilhelm Bauer : Sinsheim. From Frankendorf to the large district town. Self-published, Sinsheim 2002.
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. 405-413
- ↑ Landratsamt Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, surveying authority: Extract from the real estate cadastre, area of the municipality, as of December 24, 2017, municipality of Sinsheim (original area data in m²)
- ↑ Population statistics of the city of Sinsheim: update of the register of residents
- ^ On this stone of the four gods ( AE 1968, 320 ) see Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, Renate Ludwig: Die Heidelberger Römersteine. Sculptures, architectural parts and inscriptions in the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8253-6693-3 , p. 42 f.
- ^ RI V, 1.1 n. 2060 , in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
- ^ Adolf von Oechelhäuser, Adolf [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8.1): The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909, p. 94.
- ↑ Rainer Wirtz: The confusion of terms of the farmers in the Odenwald 1848. Odenwälder 'Excesse' and the Sinsheimer 'republican shield elevation'. In: Detlev Puls, (ed.): Forms of perception and protest behavior. Studies on the situation of the lower classes in the 18th and 19th centuries. Suhrkamp Frankfurt am Main, 1st edition 1979. pp. 81-104.
- ↑ Christine and Holger Friedrich: Unknown facts from the last years of the life of the Sinsheim 1848/49 revolutionary Gustav Mayer (1810-1852) in St. Louis (Missouri) , in: Kraichgau 17, 2002, pp. 257-264.
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 84
- ^ 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. 478 .
- ↑ a b c d e Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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. 479 .
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office: Population by nationality and gender - quarterly. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
- ^ Arson attack on a mosque in Germany , Spiegel on November 18, 2004
- ^ Mosques in Sinsheim
- ↑ Main Statute Sinsheim, § 1.4 ; accessed May 31, 2019.
- ^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, City of Sinsheim ; City of Sinsheim: municipal council election 2019 ; accessed May 31, 2019.
- ↑ Typewriter Museum - HEIMATVEREIN HOFFENHEIM. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
- ↑ The village where everyone comes to the World Cup
- ^ Pull cord: Messe Sinsheim is history . ( rnz.de [accessed on March 24, 2018]).
- ↑ http://www.swr.de/nachrichten/bw/mannheim/-/id=1582/1y69y47/index.html
- ^ Bathing world in North Baden: Guinness book selects largest sauna in the world . In: Spiegel online from May 15, 2013
- ↑ Inhabitants of the Sinsheim district, 1937 edition, p. 17
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