Wäschenbeuren

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Goeppingen
Height :	442 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.95 km 2
Residents:	3918 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	303 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	73116, 73547
Area code :	07172
License plate :	GP
Community key :	08 1 17 053
Address of the municipal administration:	Manfred-Wörner-Platz 1 73116 Wäschenbeuren
Website :	www.waeschenbeuren.de
Mayor :	Karl Vesenmaier
Location of the municipality of Wäschenbeuren in the district of Göppingen

Wäschenbeuren 1683/1685 in Kieser's forest inventory book

Aerial view from the southwest, 1983

View from Hohenstaufen to Wäschenbeuren

Catholic church and office building in Wäschenbeuren

Former train station in Wäschenbeuren

Wäschenbeuren is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the peripheral zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Geographical location

Wäschenbeuren is located about 10 kilometers north of the district town of Göppingen on the eastern edge of the Schurwald on a slightly undulating plateau, which begins at the Remstal cut further north and extends in the south to the foot of the so-called Rehgebirge , the elevation of which Hohenstaufen towers above the southeast corner of the municipality. The northwestern municipality boundary runs in the forest valley of the upper Marbach , which runs into a Göppingen district of the Fils , the east follows the Beutenbach , which also runs in a forest valley northwards to the Rems. In the eastern part of the main town, the Krettenbach arises , which runs in a flatter valley to the southwest to the Marbach.

Neighboring communities

The municipality borders in turn with the cities of Lorch in the north and Schwäbisch Gmünd in the northeast, both of which are in the Ostalb district, with the district town of Göppingen in the east and south, and the communities Birenbach in the southwest and Börtlingen in the northwest, all three in their own district of Göppingen .

Community structure

Wäschenbeuren includes the village of Wäschenbeuren, the hamlets of Krettenhof, Lindenbronn and Wäscherhof, the Beutenmühle farmstead and the Schützenhof (also to Birenbach) and Ziegelhütte as well as the abandoned village of Holzweiler.

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

In 1271 Wäschenbeuren was first mentioned in a document as a buron . In it a dispute between the Lorch Monastery and a knight named "Konrad the Washer" is settled. Konrad renounced territorial claims in the Welzheimer Wald and got the "Hofgut in Buron" confirmed. The nickname of the knight is probably derived from the Waschbach in the Welzheimer forest and was the namesake for the laundry castle . The place has always been an accessory to this castle and was probably created during the expansion period between the 9th and 11th centuries. Together with the laundry castle, Wäschenbeuren fell to Württemberg in 1806 . Towards the end of the Second World War , two-thirds of the site was destroyed in an air raid on April 19, 1945.

Population development

Source: Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office for data from 1970

date	Residents
1837	1243
1907	1469
May 17, 1939	1764
September 13, 1950	1988
May 27, 1970	2584
December 31, 1983	2738
May 25, 1987	2808
December 31, 1991	3338
December 31, 1995	3579
December 31, 2005	3952
December 31, 2010	3976
December 31, 2015	3909

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Wäschenbeuren has 12 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019 Turnout: 66.0%  % 40 30th 20th 10 0 34.0% 25.2% 26.6% 14.2% CDU SPD FW Green Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p  16  14th  12  10    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -10 -12 -14 -13.8  % p -5.6  % p + 5.2  % p + 14.2  % p.p. CDU SPD FW Green
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	34.0	4th	47.8	6th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	25.2	3	30.8	4th
FWV	Free electoral association	26.6	3	21.4	2
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	14.2	2	-	-
total		100.0	12	100.0	12
voter turnout		66.0%		58.1%

mayor

Karl Vesenmaier has been the mayor since 1982; he was re-elected in 1990, 1998, 2006 and 2014.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In a shield divided from red and green by a silver oblique left bar behind a gold table, a standing woman (laundress) dressed in black with a silver headgear, with a silver sheet placed over the table in her left hand and a gold one in her raised right Holding Schlegel , at the bottom left an oval, upright golden wash tub.

The letter of coat of arms awarded to the mayor and the village court by King Maximilian I on April 14, 1491 burned in the bombing of April 19, 1945; But there is a verbatim copy of the text made by Alois Rettenmaier from Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1942 .

Despite the age of the talking coat of arms and the permission to use it on seals, it was only introduced on the mayor's office seal introduced in 1930.

The red and white flag was awarded by the Ministry of the Interior on February 14, 1958.

religion

Wäschenbeuren remained Catholic after the Reformation. Protestant residents also moved in mainly after the Second World War. These belonged with the associated hamlets of Beutenmühle, Lindenbronn, Schützenhof, Wäscherhof and Ziegelhütte to the Protestant parish of Lorch. In 1974 they were assigned to the newly formed Protestant parish Rechberghausen in the church district of Göppingen . After the establishment of its own rectory and parish hall in the 1990s, the Protestant parish was separated from Rechberghausen on January 1, 2018 and connected with the Hohenstaufen parish to form the new Evangelical parish on Hohenstaufen . The Protestant parish hall in Wäschenbeuren was expanded in 2008 and renamed the Martin Luther Church .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Wäschenbeuren is on the federal road 297 Göppingen - Lorch . Several bus lines provide the connection to the neighboring cities and communities:

• 11 Göppingen - Bartenbach - Rechberghausen - Birenbach - Wäschenbeuren - Schwäbisch Gmünd
• 11 Göppingen - Bartenbach - Rechberghausen - Birenbach - Wäschenbeuren - Maitis
• 12 Göppingen - Faurndau - Rechberghausen - Birenbach - Wäschenbeuren - Maitis - Lenglingen - Schwäbisch Gmünd

The buses of Omnibusverkehr Göppingen run from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. to and from Göppingen about once an hour, and more often during rush hour. There are fewer connections in the direction of Lorch and Schwäbisch Gmünd .

There is a rail connection at Göppingen station on the Filstalbahn Stuttgart - Ulm , and in Lorch or Lorch-Waldhausen on the Remsbahn Stuttgart - Aalen . The former Hohenstaufenbahn Schwäbisch Gmünd – Göppingen, known in Wäschenbeuren in recent decades as "Josefle" , was closed in 1984.

education

In Wäschenbeuren there is the Stauferschule, a primary and secondary school with a technical secondary school . Other schools are available in the area, secondary school in Rechberghausen and grammar schools in Göppingen and Lorch, and can be easily reached by public transport.

Other community institutions

• In the center of the village is the local care home, which was completed in 2006. The foundation is the Haus Lindenhof Foundation . It was named after Cardinal Walter Kasper , who lived in the old schoolhouse from 1938 to 1946 when he was a child.
• Next to the Catholic Church is the home of the Catholic Youth Wäschenbeuren. The home is a main meeting place for the local youth, there are film screenings and festivals.
• The Bürenhalle, completed in 2002 and bordering the Staufer School, is the town hall.
• The community library is located on the 1st and 2nd floor of the newly built town hall district.

Culture and sights

Museums

The laundry lock is in the Wäscherhof district and houses a collection on the history of the Staufer .

Buildings

In addition to the laundry castle , the Catholic Church with its interesting nave and the office building as well as the former train station, which is now used as a kindergarten, are worth seeing.

On the "Burren" north of the village are the remains of the Burren Castle , a high medieval , probably Hohenstaufen low castle .

societies

The local group Wäschenbeuren of the Swabian Alb Association was awarded the Eichendorff plaque in 2002.

Personalities

• Johannes Evangelist von Kuhn (1806–1887), Catholic theologian , was born in Wäschenbeuren
• Bernhard Kaißer (1834–1918), teacher and author, was born in Wäschenbeuren
• Manfred Wörner (1934–1994), Federal Minister of Defense and NATO Secretary General , lived in the Wäscherhof district since 1973 and was made an honorary citizen in 1994.

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The place Wäschenbeuren, seen from the " Aasrücke ", a ridge between the Hohenstaufen and Rechberg mountains

literature

• Hartwig Zürn : excavations on the "Burren" near Wäschenbeuren (Kr. Göppingen) . Find reports Schwaben NF 15, 1959, pp. 110-115
• Wäschenbeuren local history book, Josef Kleinknecht, 1979
• Peter Schührer: Beuremer Leaba, Wäschenbeurener picture and history book . 1986
• Peter Schührer: People ond houses , Wäschenbeurener picture and history book. 2001

Web links

Commons : Wäschenbeuren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Wäschenbeuren in the description of the Oberamt Welzheim from 1845  - sources and full texts

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1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ 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. 331-332.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Wäschenbeuren.
4. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: Württembergisches Urkundenbuch Online, Volume VII., No. 2190, pp. 126–127 (PDF; 246 KB).
5. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg, official description by districts and municipalities, Volume III (Stuttgart district), Kohlhammer-Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 , page 331.
6. ↑ http://waeschenbeuren.de/index.php?id=135 History of Wäschenbeuren
7. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.buergermeisterwahl-in-waeschenbeuren-vesenmaier-siegt-ohne-gegner.fc1d85cc-276f-4aff-8036-cb94f0a8bef8.html
8. ↑ waeschenbeuren.de , accessed on March 6, 2017.
9. ↑ Eberhard Gönner and Heinz Baruda: Wappenbuch des Landkreis Göppingen , published by the Landkreis Göppingen and the Stuttgart Archive Directorate, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966
10. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community at Hohenstaufen
11. ↑ http://www.waeschenbeuren.de/index.php?id=61
12. ↑ Eichendorff badge 2002 in Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein, issue 2/2003, p. 33.
13. ^ Parish website , accessed March 6, 2017.