Urbach (Remstal)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ' N , 9 ° 35' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Stuttgart | |
| County : | Rems-Murr district | |
| Height : | 275 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 20.76 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 8863 (December 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 427 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 73660, 73614, 73655 | |
| Area code : | 07181 | |
| License plate : | WN, BK | |
| Community key : | 08 1 19 076 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Konrad-Hornschuch-Strasse 12 73660 Urbach |
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| Mayor : | Martina Fehrlen | |
| Location of the municipality of Urbach in the Rems-Murr district | ||
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Urbach is a municipality in the Remstal , east of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .
geography
Geographical location
The place Urbach is about 4 km east of Schorndorf and almost 20 km east of the district town Waiblingen in a wide expanse of the Remstal, which runs westward between the wooded mountain landscapes of the Welzheimer Wald in the north and the Schurndorf in the south . This expansion belongs to the sub-area of the Middle Remstal and Schorndorfer Basin of the Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald natural areas, which encompass all parts of the municipality . The town borders in the south on the Rems river, which crosses the almost 21 km² municipal area . The Urbach area extends in the north to near parts of the Welzheimer Forest, from which the Rems flows into the smaller waters of Bärenbach and Urbach ; the first still flows upwards in the municipality of Plüderhausen, the eponymous brook after it has crossed the urban area of Urbach.
Community structure
The municipality of Urbach consists of the formerly independent municipalities of Oberurbach and Unterurbach. The former village of Oberurbach, the hamlets of Hegnauhof and Wellingshof and the residential area of Wasenmühle as well as the abandoned villages of Burg, Judenburg, Katzenbrunn and Schneckenweiler Hof belong to the former municipality of Oberurbach with the significantly larger north-western subdivision of the municipality . The former village of Unterurbach, the hamlet of Bärenbach and the farms of Eulenhof and Ilgenhof belong to the former municipality of Unterurbach with the smaller south-eastern subdivision.
The former parishes have now grown together completely into one place. Only the two town centers still bear witness to the former independence of the two districts. There are no localities within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code. In administrative terms, the designations Urbach-Nord and Urbach-Süd exist in some areas (e.g. school and electoral districts).
Division of space
According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.
Neighboring communities
The city of Welzheim borders Urbach in the north ; from northeast to east to south the community Plüderhausen first with the community exclave Walkersbach and then with its main area, between which in the east a wedge tip of the Urbach area extends to the Walkersbach and the area of the community Alfdorf ; on the entire west side the town of Schorndorf . All neighboring communities also belong to the Rems-Murr district.
history
middle Ages
Urbach was first mentioned as Uracbach in 1181 : Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa had a certificate issued on May 25, 1181 in which he took the Adelberg Monastery under his protection. Among the noble, named witnesses there was also a gerund from Urbach, who was in the entourage of the Hohenstaufen . The aristocratic von Urbach family could be proven from 1181 to 1513. At first it was a question of Ministeriale der Staufer. Urbach was part of the county of Württemberg since the 13th century . The abbots of the Lorch and Elchingen monasteries also played a role as landlords. The castle of the Lords of Urbach on Altenberg was destroyed in 1493 by Count Eberhard im Bart .
Modern times
In 1534 the Reformation was carried out in the Duchy of Württemberg, so that the two villages of Urbach have been evangelical since then. Oberurbach was the seat of a staff office of the Schorndorf office.
The inhabitants of Urbach also suffered from the devastating wars that had a significant impact on the Rems Valley. The Thirty Years' War, especially in the years after the Battle of Nördlingen lost for Württemberg , the War of the Palatinate Succession , the War of the Spanish Succession and the War of the Coalition, brought about looting, arson, death from violent attacks and epidemics.
After the founding of the Kingdom of Württemberg , membership of the Oberamt Schorndorf continued. In 1819 the towns of Ober- and Unterurbach were separated into two independent communities. Oberurbach remained predominantly agricultural, while in Unterurbach some industries settled in the late 19th century, which withdrew workers from traditional viticulture. The nearby industrial site of Schorndorf also meant that many farmers swapped their agricultural activities in favor of work in the factory.
The administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg led to membership in the Waiblingen district in 1938 . In 1945 Ober- and Unterurbach and the district of Waiblingen came under the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.
Incorporation and district reform
On January 1, 1970, Ober- and Unterurbach were merged again to form one municipality. In the course of the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , Urbach came to the Rems-Murr district on January 1, 1973 .
 Oberurbach |
 Unterurbach |
Population development
| year | population | Women | Men |
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| 2011 | 8,711 | 4,383 (50.3%) | 4,328 (49.7%) |
| 2010 | 8,631 | 4,378 (50.7%) | 4,253 (49.3%) |
| 2009 | 8,592 | 4,345 (50.6%) | 4,247 (49.4%) |
| 2008 | 8,530 | 4,320 (50.6%) | 4,210 (49.4%) |
| 2007 | 8,527 | 4,324 (50.7%) | 4,203 (49.3%) |
| 2006 | 8,559 | 4,340 (50.7%) | 4,219 (49.3%) |
| 2005 | 8,541 | 4,338 (50.8%) | 4,203 (49.2%) |
| 2004 | 8,469 | 4,282 (50.6%) | 4,187 (49.4%) |
| 2003 | 8,456 | 4,276 (50.6%) | 4,180 (49.4%) |
| 2002 | 8,339 | 4,228 (50.7%) | 4,111 (49.3%) |
| 2001 | 8,208 | 4,173 (50.8%) | 4,035 (49.2%) |
- Status: December 31, 2011, source: Information sheet of the municipality of Urbach from March 1, 2012
politics
coat of arms
Since 16 January 1979, the municipality of Urbach again has a municipal coat of arms : "Under a gold shield main , in a black deer rack , in red a silver brackish body " - the official description in the document. While the stag's pole symbolizes belonging to Württemberg, the bracken's trunk shows the heraldic animal of the Lords of Urbach. After the merger of Ober- and Unterurbach on January 1, 1970, the right to use the former coat of arms expired .
Town twinning
Urbach maintains a community partnership with Szentlörinc in Hungary .
Municipal council
The municipal council in Urbach has 18 members.
The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result. The municipal council consists of the elected honorary councilors and the mayor as chairperson. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.
| Parties and constituencies |
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Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
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| FW | Free voters | 38.27 | 7th | 38.46 | 7th | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 23.88 | 4th | 25.53 | 5 | |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 16.02 | 3 | 13.52 | 2 | |
| BLU | Urbach Citizens List | 11.48 | 2 | - | - | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 10.35 | 2 | 22.50 | 4th | |
| total | 100.0 | 18th | 100.0 | 18th | ||
| voter turnout | 63.78% | 53.93% | ||||
mayor
The full-time mayor has been Martina Fehrlen since the mayoral election on April 22, 2018.
From 2002 to 2018 Jörg Hetzinger was mayor of Urbach.
Culture and sights
Urbach is located on the Stromberg-Schwäbischer Wald-Weg , a main hiking trail of the Swabian Alb Association .
Buildings
The Evangelical Afra Church is a Gothic fortified church from 1509. It has Renaissance wall paintings in the choir and galleries from the 17th, partly from the 16th century. The pulpit and lid date from 1721.
The new building of the Urbach Baptist Church was awarded the Free Church Architecture Prize in 2003.
Museums
- Museum at the Widumhof in Urbach-Nord
- Farrenstall Museum in Urbach-Süd
Remstal Garden Show 2019
From May 10 to October 20, 2019, a green project of the state of Baden-Württemberg took place in Remstal , in which Urbach is also participating. This Remstal garden show 2019 is one of the "small" garden shows that alternate annually with the state garden shows.
In this context, a “green belt” was created in Urbacher Mitte and a rest area on the Rems. Urbach took part in the “16 stations”, the architecture project of the garden show, with the twelve meter high “Tower on the Birch” made of curved plywood strips. It is located near the Hegnauhof and is intended to remind people that the construction of towers has a tradition in Baden-Württemberg, not least with the Stuttgart television tower .
Protected areas
The following nature reserves are located in the municipality of Urbach :
- Front Hohbachwiesen
- Morning sand and sea pools
- Mountain slide on the Kirchsteig near Urbach : On April 7, 2001, around 70,000 cubic meters of rock and earth slid over a width of 240 meters on an orchard slope on the Kirchsteig above Urbach, and the terrain sagged by up to 17 meters. This terrain has now been designated as a geotope and nature reserve.
In the years from 1921 to 1926, a mighty landslide exposed a sandstone bank in the Altenberg vineyard below the former Judenburg. Today the area is overgrown. It is designated as a landslide natural monument on the Old Mountain and as a protected geotope.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Many small and medium-sized companies are based in Urbach. The largest are the company Vossloh-Schwabe , which is active in lighting technology and is based in Urbach, as well as branches of Oskar Frech GmbH + Co. KG and Dresselhaus . For many years mineral water was also bottled here, which was marketed under the name Urbacher. Production was stopped by the parent company Coca-Cola .
traffic
Urbach is a stopping point for regional trains on the Remsbahn to Stuttgart and Aalen . Urbach has a junction with the four-lane federal highway 29 between Waiblingen (there transition to the B 14 to Stuttgart) and Nördlingen.
Furthermore, the bus routes 243 and 248 run through Urbach between Schorndorf and Plüderhausen and the bus route 249 between Schorndorf and Urbach train station. They are integrated into the line and tariff concept of the Verkehrsverbund Stuttgart (VVS) .
Public facilities
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- outdoor pool
- Youth center
- Media center / library
- Sports facilities
- Atrium hall: one-part sports hall with multi-purpose and gymnastics room
- Forest sports field at the sewage treatment plant
- Wittumhalle (three-part sports hall with auditorium)
- Wittumstadion: Sports field with 400 m running tracks and athletic facilities as well as an all-weather small playing field
- Club facilities:
- Rifle house of the rifle guild Urbach
- Tennis facility with hall of the TC Urbach
education
With the Wittumschule, Urbach has a community school (with primary level), which emerged in 2013 from the primary and secondary school with the Werkrealschule . There is also a pure elementary school with the atrium school. There are five parish kindergartens and one Protestant and one Roman Catholic kindergarten for the youngest Urbach residents . Since September 1st, 2009 there is a forest kindergarten in the Bärenbachtal.
Regular events
- Schnitzfetzede - street festival - usually takes place at the beginning of July every three years in the new Urbacher Mitte, most recently on 7/8. July 2018 (12th edition in total).
- The term "Schnitzfetzede" is derived from "Schnitzfetzer" (High German, for example: Obststückeschneider), the nickname for the residents of Urbach, who, according to legend, were supposed to have supplied the Württemberg farm with dried fruit (Swabian: "Schnitzen") in earlier centuries.
- Urbach Christmas Market - every year on the second Sunday in Advent
- The open-air concert Zabbaduschder Open Air took place annually at the beginning of the summer holidays next to the Urbach sewage treatment plant from 2002 up to and including 2009. The focus was on death metal and thrash metal .
- The Urbach Mud Race, an annual event in which the participants have to cross a 30 m long mud hole, be it on foot, by off-road vehicle or motorcycle.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the Urbach community
- Theodor Bäuerle (1882–1956), politician (independent, Minister of Culture of Württemberg-Baden )
- Eleonore Dehnerdt (* 1956), writer
- Hermann Nuding (1902–1966), KPD politician ( Member of the Bundestag , Member of the State of Württemberg-Baden )
literature
- Topographical map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 7123 Schorndorf and (only for a region snippet in the south) No. 7223 Göppingen
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Urbach
- Mountain slide near Urbach
- Map of the municipality of Urbach on: State Agency for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
- Map of the merged villages of Ober- and Unterurbach on: Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information )
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume III: Stuttgart District, Middle Neckar Regional Association. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 . Pp. 536-537
- ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Urbach.
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- ↑ Architecture with 16 stations on remstal.de. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
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