Stutensee

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Karlsruhe
Height :	111 m above sea level NHN
Area :	45.68 km 2
Residents:	24,541 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	537 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76297
Primaries :	07244, 07249, 0721
License plate :	KA
Community key :	08 2 15 109
City structure:	4 districts
; City administration address :	Rathausstrasse 3 ; 76297 Stutensee
Website :	www.stutensee.de
Lord Mayor :	Petra Becker
Location of the city of Stutensee in the district of Karlsruhe

Stutensee is a large district town in the Karlsruhe region in Baden-Württemberg . It is the fourth largest city in the district of Karlsruhe after Bruchsal , Ettlingen and Bretten and is designated as a sub-center in the central area or as an upper center in Karlsruhe. The administrative headquarters are in Blankenloch.

The community, which emerged from the formerly independent towns of Blankenloch , Friedrichstal , Spöck and Staffort as part of the regional reform in 1975 , has had more than 20,000 inhabitants since 1990 and has been a major district town since January 1, 1998 .

geography

location

Stutensee is located in the Upper Rhine Plain immediately north of the city of Karlsruhe. The city is named after Stutensee Castle , which is located in the center of the four districts. Parts of the municipality are covered by the Hardtwald and flowed through by the Pfinz .

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border the city of Stutensee. They are named in a clockwise direction starting in the west and belong - with the exception of the city of Karlsruhe - to the district of Karlsruhe :

Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen , Linkenheim-Hochstetten , Graben-Neudorf , Karlsdorf-Neuthard , Bruchsal , Weingarten (Baden) and Karlsruhe .

City structure

The city of Stutensee consists of the districts of Blankenloch (including Büchig ) (12,256 inhabitants on June 1, 2016), Friedrichstal (5,586 inhabitants), Spöck (4,476 inhabitants) and Staffort (1,982 inhabitants). The districts are identical to the municipalities of the same name that were independent until the end of 1974, their official name is in the form "Stutensee - ...". The city districts also form residential districts within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . In the districts of Blankenloch, Friedrichstal, Spöck and Staffort, localities are set up within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with its own local council and mayor as its chairman.

The Blankenloch district (including Büchig) includes the villages of Blankenloch and Büchig and Schloss und Häuser Stutensee. Only the villages of the same name belong to the districts of Friedrichstal and Staffort. The Spöck district includes the village of Spöck and the Försterhaus in the Hardtwald.

In the Blankenloch district (including Büchig) are the desert areas Hithelinhowa and Krettenloch, in the Spöck district the Hainhof desert and in the Staffort district the Bruch desert.

history

The Kerns-Max-Haus, “landmark” of Stutensee- Blankenloch

Community merger

Stutensee was created through the territorial reform of the 1970s, when the four communities Blankenloch (with the district Büchig incorporated in 1935 and the associated residential area Stutensee), Friedrichstal , Spöck and Staffort were united to form the community of Stutensee on January 1, 1975. Before that, the mayors of the four communities had signed the so-called "Stutensee Treaty" on the formation of the new community of Stutensee on May 20, 1974 in Stutensee Castle, which was built in 1749 on behalf of Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden.

History of the forerunner communities

Most parts of the city are already old settlements. Spöck was first mentioned in 865 as Specchaa, Staffort 1110 as Stafphort, Blankenloch in 1337 as Blankelach and Büchig in 1373 as Buchech. Friedrichstal, on the other hand, was founded by religious refugees ( Huguenots ) from northern France, Belgium and Switzerland and was created from 1699 on the cleared Hardtwald with the involvement of parts of the municipality of Spöck.

All five villages belonged to the margraviate of Baden-Durlach . Staffort was the seat of an office until the 18th century , but the places then became part of the Karlsruhe Oberamt . From 1803 to 1809 belonged the communities temporarily to office Durlach and in 1809 then to the Country Office in Karlsruhe , which in 1864 with the municipal office in Karlsruhe to District Office Karlsruhe were combined. In 1930 the districts of the communities Blankenloch, Friedrichstal and Spöck were considerably enlarged by dividing the Hardtwald . In 1935, the municipality of Büchig was incorporated into Blankenloch, and the four remaining municipalities became part of the Karlsruhe district during the district reform in 1938.

In 1919, the President of the Mannheim Regional Court, Heinrich Wetzlar, and his wife Therese founded a state educational home in which a reform program to rehabilitate juveniles who had committed criminal offenses was tried out. The Jewish couple received 1,933 professional disqualification , and in 1943 they were in the Theresienstadt concentration camp murdered. Today's state youth center honored the persecuted with the name "Heinrich-Wetzlar-Haus".

After the merger

In 1990 the population of the community of Stutensee exceeded the 20,000 mark. However, it was not until 1997 that the municipal administration submitted the application for a major district town , which the state government of Baden-Württemberg then decided with effect from January 1, 1998.

Religions

The area of the city of Stutensee originally belonged to the diocese of Speyer . Politically, the places Blankenloch, Büchig, Spöck and Staffort were part of the margraviate of Baden-Durlach, which introduced the Reformation in all places . As a result, these places have been predominantly Protestant for centuries. The Friedrichstal, which was newly created in 1699, was also founded by Protestants. At first there were only three parishes: Blankenloch (today's Michaelis parish), Spöck (with a branch parish of Staffort) and Friedrichstal. It was not until the 20th century that the Heilig-Geist-Gemeinde Büchig became an independent church. Likewise, on January 1, 1986, the parish of Staffort-Büchenau was created from the former branch parish of Staffort, which was part of Spöck, and the Büchenau district of the city of Bruchsal , which, as a predominantly Catholic place, had no parish of its own before. Today all parishes belong to the church district Karlsruhe-Land (seat in Bruchsal) within the Evangelical Church in Baden .

In addition, there are parishes of various free churches in Stutensee , including the Evangelical Free Church Community Blankenloch ( Baptists ), the Evangelical Methodist Church Community Blankenloch as well as two Liebenzell communities (Blankenloch and Staffort) and the Christian Community Blankenloch.

After the Second World War, Catholics , mostly refugees from the eastern regions, also moved to today's districts of Stutensee, and so from 1954 until today, Catholic churches have been built in all districts, namely the churches of St. Josef Blankenloch, St. Elisabeth Friedrichstal, St. Georg Spöck, St. Wolfgang Staffort and Heilig Geist Büchig. Today they all form the Stutensee Catholic pastoral care unit within the Bruchsal deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

The New Apostolic Church is also represented in Friedrichstal.

Population development

Population development of Stutensee from 1975 to 2016

Population figures according to the respective area. The numbers are census results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).

year	Residents
December 31, 1975	16,748
December 31, 1980	18,404
December 31, 1985	19,060
May 25, 1987 ¹	18,932
December 31, 1990	20,064
December 31, 1995	20,589

year	Residents
December 31, 2000	21,794
December 31, 2005	23,132
December 31, 2010	23,583
December 31, 2015	24,063
December 31, 2016	24.199
May 31, 2019	24,794

¹ census result

politics

Municipal council

The council has 26 honorary members who are elected for five years. The municipal councils use the designation city council. In addition, the mayor is the municipal council chairwoman with voting rights.

The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):

Municipal Council 2019
Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
Free voters	27.6% (−0.8)	7 (−1)
CDU	24.0% (−5.9)	6 (−2)
Green	23.2% (+6.5)	6 (+2)
SPD	12.2% (−7.1)	3 (−2)
Young List (JL)	7.3% (+7.3)	2 (+2)
FDP	5.7% (+0.1)	2 (+1)
Turnout: 59.4% (+10.0)

In the districts Friedrichstal, Spöck and Staffort there is one consisting of six members Ortschaftsrat with a local chief . The local councils are elected by the local population at every local election. You can be heard on important matters affecting the locality. The Blankenloch local council was dissolved in 2004. The district committee has taken its place. This is an advisory committee of the municipal council, to which all municipal councils from Blankenloch and Büchig belong.

Lord Mayoress

The head of the city is the mayor, since January 1, 1998 mayor , who is directly elected by the population for eight years. His permanent representative is the first alderman with the official title of mayor, since August 1, 2016 Sylvia Tröger , she was also the election officer for the mayor election in 2018.

The last mayor election took place on July 22, 2018, after no applicant had achieved an absolute majority in the first ballot. In the first ballot on July 8, 2018, Bettina Meier-Augenstein had the highest number of votes with 38.7 percent, followed by Petra Becker with 36.25%, Sven Schiebel 13.30%, Martin Pötzsche 8.19% and Maria Schneller 3 , 42%. In the second ballot, Petra Becker won with 57.3%, Meier-Augenstein only got 42.3%.

Mayor or Lord Mayor

1975: Hubert Hornung ( CDU ), official administrator
1975–1991: Richard Hecht ( Free Voters ), Mayor
1991– May 2018: Klaus Demal (Free Voters), Mayor, Mayor from January 1, 1998
since October 1, 2018: Petra Becker (independent)

coat of arms

The city's coat of arms shows a jumping red mare in gold over a blue wave shield base. The city colors are red-yellow. The coat of arms was awarded to the community of Stutensee on April 29, 1976 by the Karlsruhe district office . It emerged from a competition and is a so-called speaking coat of arms, as it expresses the two symbols of the community name (mare and lake). With the exception of its blazon, it has no historical reference. The blazon follows the Baden colors of red and yellow, after all four districts had belonged to the margraviate of Baden since the Middle Ages.

Town twinning

Saint-Riquier ( France ), since 1982
Tolna ( Hungary ), since 1990

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Stutensee can be reached via the federal highway 5 Karlsruhe-Frankfurt (junction Karlsruhe-Durlach, Karlsruhe-Nord and Bruchsal). The federal highways 3 ( Buxtehude - Weil am Rhein ) and 36 ( Mannheim - Lahr / Black Forest ) lead past the city of Stutensee to the east and west respectively.

In the districts of Blankenloch and Friedrichstal there is a train station or a stop on the Karlsruhe – Mannheim line . Local public transport (ÖPNV) is primarily served by the S2 tram of the Karlsruhe Transport Association (KVV) . The stops in Stutensee are Büchig (Büchig), Süd , Tolna -Platz , Kirche , Mühlenweg , Nord (Blankenloch), Saint-Riquier -Platz , Mitte , Nord (Friedrichstal), Hochhaus and Richard-Hecht-Schule (Spöck). The extension of the S2 from Blankenloch to Friedrichstal and Spöck was on 24/25. Opened June 2006. This means that only the Staffort district is not connected to the tram. Several bus lines complement the public transport network in the city area.

media

No daily newspaper appears in Stutensee. The Karlsruhe regional edition of the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten (BNN) reports on local events . In addition, the city publishes the weekly Stutensee Week, which contains official notices and provides information on what is happening in the parties, associations, schools, churches and / or event dates. The online platform Mein Stutensee offers a constant source of information

education

There are the following schools in Stutensee: Erich-Kästner-Realschule, Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium , Pestalozzi- Grund- und Hauptschule Blankenloch, Theodor-Heuss- Grundschule Büchig, Friedrich-Magnus -Schule Friedrichstal (elementary and secondary school with Werkrealschule ), Richard -Hecht -Schule Spöck (basic with Werkrealschule) and Drais -Grundschule Staffort.

There are also six Protestant and three each city and Roman Catholic kindergartens.

The adult education center in Stutensee is a public institution for continuing education. As a branch office, it is under the legal sponsorship of the non-profit association adult education center in the Karlsruhe district . In accordance with its statutory mandate, it also devotes itself to youth education in addition to adult education.

Volunteer firefighter

The Stutensee voluntary fire brigade emerged from the merger of the four communities of Blankenloch with Büchig, Friedrichstal, Spöck and Staffort in 1975. It currently consists of the departmental fire departments: Blankenloch, Friedrichstal, Spöck and Staffort. The emergency services deploy 16 vehicles to around 160–170 missions each year. The Büchig fire brigade disbanded in 2005, and the vehicle was handed over to the Blankenloch fire department.

Culture and sights

theatre

Theatrical performances are occasionally presented in the Stutensee festival hall in the Blankenloch district. Other venues are the foyer of the Blankenloch town hall, the Blankenloch youth center, the Spöck event hall, the Friedrichstal singer hall and the Staffort threshing floor.

Museums

Huguenot and Heimatmuseum Friedrichstal
Local history museum Blankenloch / Büchig (in the Kerns-Max-Haus Blankenloch)

Stutensee Castle

Buildings

Schloss Stutensee , namesake and thus one of the landmarks of the city
Protestant churches
- Michaeliskirche Blankenloch , built 1857–1860 with an old tower from the 15th century
- Heilig-Geist Büchig, built in 1994/96 as an ecumenical community center
- Evangelical Church Friedrichstal, built in 1830 instead of a chapel from 1725
- Evangelical Parish Church Spöck, a Gothic church at its core, the west tower was widened around 1671 and the nave was enlarged in 1865/66
- Staffort Evangelical Church, built 1899–1901 in place of a medieval church
Catholic churches
- St. Josef Blankenloch, built 1953/1954
- St. Elisabeth Friedrichstal, built in 1958, inaugurated on August 5, 1962
- St. Georg Spöck, built 1972/75, inauguration on Whit Monday, June 3, 1974
- St. Wolfgang Staffort; A church was built in a former tobacco warehouse in the 1980s (consecration on November 22, 1989)
- Heilig Geist Büchig, built in 1994/96 as an ecumenical community center
Observatory, built in 2014/15 on the roof of the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium.

Kerns-Max-Haus in Blankenloch
Hermannshäusle in Blankenloch, behind the Michaeliskirche
Catholic Church in Blankenloch
Old school building in Blankenloch
Blankenloch station
Stutensee town hall
Evangelical Church in Friedrichstal
Evangelical Church in Spöck
Catholic Church in Spöck
Evangelical Church in Staffort
Catholic Church in Staffort
Half-timbered houses in Staffort

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Stutensee and the former municipalities have granted the following people honorary citizenship:

Honorary citizen of the former parishes

1951: Karl Wilhelm Heidt (1871–1959), former mayor (Staffort municipality)
1974: Friedrich Haisch, (1915-2004) Former Mayor (municipality of Blankenloch)
1974: Oskar Hornung (1902–1985), former rector D. (Friedrichstal municipality)

Honorary citizen of the community or city of Stutensee

1991: Richard Hecht (1925–1999), retired mayor D.
1992: Waldemar Nagel, retired mayor D.
1994: Hubert Hornung, retired mayor D.
1995: Arnold Hauck (* 1928), retired mayor D.
2000: Emil Füssler, retired mayor D.

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Caspar Malsch (1673–1742), Karlsruhe historian, church councilor and school rector
Ludwig Friedrich Mayer (1905–1950), business graduate and auditor
Hanna Heidt (* 1920), Swan hostess in Staffort
Carmen Hock-Heyl (* 1955), entrepreneur
Robert Roth (* 1963), Roman Catholic graduate theologian and deacon

Known and former residents

Hans Fux , football referee (Bundesliga)
Kurt Sommerlatt (1928–2019), soccer player and coach
Werner Fischer (* 1939), former rector of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Hans Pfisterer (* 1947), Protestant theologian, former pastor in Stutensee-Friedrichstal
Werner Raupp (* 1955), historian and philosopher, lives in Hohenstein (Württ.) On the Swabian Alb
Axel Fischer (* 1966), politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag (lives in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen , son of Werner Fischer)
Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht (* 1967), Swiss politician (EPP), member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau (son of Werner Fischer)
Michael Nees (* 1967), former coach of the Rwandan national soccer team
Steffen Fetzner (* 1968), table tennis player (Olympic silver medal in doubles in Barcelona)
Daniel Caspary (* 1976), politician (CDU), member of the European Parliament since 2004 (lives in Weingarten (Baden) )
Pascal Borel (* 1978), football player
Marcel Mehlem (* 1995), football player
Marvin Mehlem (* 1997), football player

literature

Heinz Bender: Past and Current Events: A Chronicle. Blankenloch / Büchig / Stutensee Castle . Municipality, Stutensee 1995.
Konrad Dussel : Staffort 1110 to 2010; Forays through 900 years of history ; Verlag Regionalkultur Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Basel 2010 ISBN 978-3-89735-622-1
Wilhelm Hauck: Staffort - castle and village on the constant ford. History and stories . Municipality, Stutensee 1993 (local history).
Artur Hauer: The Hardtdorf Spöck. Its political, ecclesiastical and economic history . Mayor's office, Spöck 1965 (local chronicle).
Dieter H. Hengst: The old streets are still… Photo book “Alt Friedrichsthal” . 2nd Edition. Local history and Huguenot museum "Alt Friedrichsthal", Friedrichstal 2000.
Moritz Hecht: Three villages in the Hardt region of Baden. An economic and social study . Leipzig 1895 (via Hagsfeld, Blankenloch and Friedrichstal).
Hanna Heidt : memories of the past . Self-published, Schwanen Stutensee-Staffort 2003
Pia Hendel: Stutensee - Pictures of a City . Ed .: City of Stutensee. regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-430-2 .
Heiner Joswig : When our church stopped, the city of Stutensee in 2004
Manfred G. Raupp: The Stafforter families 1669–1975 ; Kinship book manuscript deposited in the Stafforter Citizens' Office and in the Evangelical parish in Staffort
the same: What the grandfather already knew - thoughts on the development of agriculture in Staffort ; written in memory of Gustav W. Raupp (1905–1985). Self-published, Lörrach and Stutensee-Staffort 2005
the same: 4000 years of Stete Ford and 350 years of church records ; Stutensee-Staffort 2010.
the same: Staffort Ortsfamilienbuch , publisher Stadt Stutensee, Verlag Gesowip Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-906129-64-8
Walter August Scheidle: Ortssippenbuch Blankenloch-Büchig and the Stutensee - 1672 to 1920 . 2001, ISBN 3-00-008164-X .
the same: Ortssippenbuch Spöck / Baden 1667–1920 , Volume 124 of the Badische Ortssippenbuch Lahr-Dinglingen 2008 ISBN 978-3-00-024233-5 .

Individual evidence

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

↑ "Stutensee - Numbers and Data"

↑ Main statute of the city of Stutensee from January 1st, 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 103 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stutensee.de

^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 120-122

^ 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. 482 .

↑ 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. 87

^ City of Stutensee: Main Statute, §3 ; accessed July 10, 2019.

^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, City of Stutensee ; City of Stutensee: municipal council elections 2019 and municipal council elections 2014 ; accessed July 10, 2019.