Verrenberg
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Verrenberg
Large district town of Öhringen
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 19 ″ N , 9 ° 27 ′ 51 ″ E
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| Height : | 229 (216-325) m |
| Area : | 4.14 km² |
| Residents : | 680 (Jan. 1, 2006) |
| Population density : | 164 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | February 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 74613 |
| Area code : | 07941 |
 View over Verrenberg from the north
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Verrenberg is a village in Hohenlohe that has been part of Öhringen since 1972 . Today Verrenberg has about 680 inhabitants.
history
The first written mention of Verrenberg can be dated to the year 1264, but the place is likely to have originated between the 9th and 11th centuries and originally had two settlement centers, which were separated by the Verrenbach . In the late Middle Ages , the Lichtenstern Monastery , the Lords of Weinsberg and the Lords of Hohenlohe , in particular , had larger shares in the heavily fragmented property in the area. Together with the Vogtrecht over Öhringen, the Lords of Hohenlohe also came to the Vogtei over Verrenberg in the 13th century. In 1357 the place belonged to the Hohenlohe office of Öhringen. While the Vogtei soon came to the municipality of Verrenberg - the mayor and court are mentioned for the first time in 1391 - the lower and higher jurisdiction remained with the Hohenlohe people. In 1525 the Verrenberg “Schönmichel” becomes the spokesman for the Verrenberg farmers in the Peasants' War . During the main division of Hohenlohe in 1553, Verrenberg came to Hohenlohe-Waldenburg. In 1615 Verrenberg joins the newly established Hohenlohe-Pfedelbach line. After the Pfedelbach line died out in 1728, Waldenburg-Bartenstein took over. The place belonged to the Oberamt Pfedelbach until 1806 and had 357 inhabitants in that year. Until 1824 the place was then a branch of the staff school Windischenbach of the Patrimonialamt Pfedelbach, afterwards again an independent municipality within the Oberamt Öhringen. By 1885 the population rose to 453, after which the population declined for around five decades due to the migration of the population to industrialized places. On the night of June 30th to July 1st, 1897, a hailstorm devastated almost the entire plant world and a large part of the buildings. After there were only 306 inhabitants in 1933, after the Second World War the place took in well over 100 displaced persons, mainly from Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, some of whom, however, emigrated again by around 1960. In 1961 there were 364 inhabitants.
On February 1, 1972, Verrenberg was incorporated into Öhringen.
Religions
Verrenberg was never an independent parish, but has always been a subsidiary of the parish in Bitzfeld and was reformed with it in the 16th century. The place was almost purely Protestant until the recent past, before Catholics also increasingly settled there after the Second World War due to the influx of expellees.
Attractions
The most striking building in Verrenberg is the administrative center of the place, which was used as a church, town hall and school house in its eventful history. The origins of the building lie in a small chapel that was gradually expanded and a massive church tower was added from 1732 to 1738. The building was last rebuilt in 1840 to provide space for the mayor's office and primary school. In Verrenberg there are also numerous historical half-timbered buildings, including the old wine press . Several buildings from Verrenberg have been moved to the Hohenloher Freilandmuseum Wackershofen . A striking ensemble of buildings on the outskirts is the Fürst Hohenlohe Oehringen winery , which was rebuilt in 2007 next to the old Wiesenkelter and which cultivates large parts of the surrounding vineyards.
Personalities
An important Verrenberger is Johann Michael Weipert . Born in Verrenberg in 1822, he came as an orphan to the Gustav Werner Foundation at the Bruderhaus in Reutlingen, where he learned the Wagner trade. On August 6, 1866, Johann Michael Weipert opened “a business for his own account” in Reutlingen , which he relocated to Heilbronn by 1871 at the latest , where the company developed into an important machine factory. In the year of his death, 1904, 18,020 devices and machines were sold.
literature
- Öhringen. City and pen . City of Öhringen, Öhringen / Sigmaringen 1988, pp. 520-529.
- The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV.
- The district of Öhringen. Official district description Volume II . 1968.
- Jürgen Hermann Rauser: Ohrntaler Heimatbuch . Jahrbuch-Verlag, Weinsberg 1982, DNB 831141573 , pp. 299-320.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rauser 1982, p. 302.
- ^ 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. 455 .
