Walzbachtal

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Karlsruhe
Height :	193 m above sea level NHN
Area :	36.69 km 2
Residents:	9739 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	265 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	75045
Area code :	07203
License plate :	KA
Community key :	08 2 15 089
LOCODE :	DE WZT
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Wössinger Strasse 26–28 ; 75045 Walzbachtal
Website :	www.walzbachtal.de
Mayor :	Timur Özcan ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Walzbachtal in the district of Karlsruhe

Jöhlingen, Wössingen and the surrounding area 1907

Walzbachtal is a community with around 9800 inhabitants in the Karlsruhe district in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg . It was created on January 1, 1971 as part of the regional reform from the previously independent municipalities Jöhlingen and Wössingen.

geography

Location and natural space

The municipality of Walzbachtal is located in the Kraichgau . It was named after the Walzbach flowing through the municipality . Like many other rivers and streams that come from the Kraichgau, this transports large amounts of sediment.

The municipal area extends over 3673 hectares. Of this, 10.8 percent is settlement and traffic area, 58.5 percent is used for agriculture and 30 percent is forested.

The next larger cities are Karlsruhe (west), Bretten (east), Bruchsal with its district Obergrombach (north) and Pforzheim (south).

Community structure

The municipality of Walzbachtal consists of the two former municipalities Jöhlingen (5860 inhabitants) with the hamlet of Binsheim and Wössingen (3943 inhabitants). The desert areas of Binsheim, Neselingen and Buwertheim are in the area of the former municipality of Jöhlingen . The Saulingen desert lies in the area of the former municipality of Wössingen.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Weingarten (Baden) , Königsbach-Stein , Gondelsheim , Bretten , Pfinztal and Bruchsal .

history

With the name ending -ingen, both districts attest to the beginning of settlement in the Merovingian period .

Woessingen

Wössingen was first mentioned in a document from 1024 as Wesingcheimero, but since the discovery of the Roman cellar in the Roman road named after him in 1966 there has been evidence of settlement around 200/300 AD - it is exhibited in Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe.

The spelling has changed over the centuries since it was first mentioned in a document: 1150 Wesendung, 1161 Vesingen, 1287 Wesingin, 1310 Weselingen, 1314 Wesingen, 1509 Wessingen, 1512 Weszingen, 1678 Wossingen (also Wasseringen), since 1821 Wössingen. In 1770 the bought Margrave of Baden-Durlach the Bishopric of Speyer from Wössingen.

In 1816 Oberwössingen and Unterwössingen were united, in 1822 the two parishes. In Wössingen were the castle Oberwössingen and the castle Unterwössingen , two water towers .

Jöhlingen

Jöhlingen (then Johannington) came to the Speyer church around 650. Excavation findings from the Church of St. Martin in Jöhlingen also provide evidence of an early 7th century church. Through Otto the Great Johannington came to Count Konrad the Red around 945. His great-grandson, Emperor Konrad II , gave the place to the Speyer Monastery in 1024 . In 1803 Jöhlingen also became Baden . There is also a Jewish cemetery in Jöhlingen .

Walzbachtal

On January 1, 1971, the places Jöhlingen and Wössingen merged as part of the Baden-Württemberg regional reform to form the municipality of Walzbachtal. In 1995 Walzbachtal received the state environmental award.

Religions

While Wössingen became Protestant during the Reformation , Jöhlingen remained Roman Catholic because it belonged to the Speyer Monastery . Today religious life is diverse. In addition to Protestant parishes in both suburbs and a Roman Catholic congregation based in Jöhlingen, the New Apostolic Church (since 1924, 1964 chapel in Friedensstrasse), the Pietist Liebenzeller Community (started in 1947, inauguration of the community center on Bachweg on May 1, 1958) and has represented a Mennonite community in the village since 1700 .

Population development

The population figures refer to today's municipality.

year	1871	1900	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2001	2005	2010	2015	2018
Residents	3730	4165	4742	6172	6695	7068	7234	7770	8315	9049	9113	9141	9642	9803

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council has 18 honorary members who are elected for five years. In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights. The 2019 local elections led to the following result (differences compared to 2014):

Municipal Council 2019
Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	38.2% (−8.4)	7 (−1)
Green	26.5% (+8.0)	5 (+2)
SPD	25.5% (−0.9)	4 (−1)
FDP	9.8% (+1.3)	2 (± 0)
Turnout: 63.5% (+9.5)

mayor

Mayor of the municipality of Walzbachtal has been the administrative specialist Timur Özcan, who previously worked at the Mannheim police headquarters, since September 9, 2019. On the first ballot on July 7, 2019, Özcan received 49.9% of the vote from among seven candidates. On July 21, 2019, he was elected in the second ballot with 65.1% of the vote and a voter turnout of 56.0% against three opposing candidates.

The following people have been mayors so far:

1971–1987: Siegbert Heckmann (CDU)
1987–2003: Hans-Dieter Mahler (SPD)
2003–2019: Karl-Heinz Burgey (CDU)
Since 2019: Timur Özcan (SPD)

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In a split shield in front in red a golden acorn between two golden oak leaves, behind in blue a half cut silver cross at the gap.

It was approved in 1972. The acorn comes from the old coat of arms of Jöhlingen, the silver cross was depicted on the coats of arms of both districts and is reminiscent of the Speyer monastery .

Partnerships

Walzbachtal has maintained partnership relationships with the Hungarian municipality of Bácsbokod since 1993 .

Culture and sights

Wössingen's church in the Weinbrenner style

Buildings

The Protestant church of Friedrich Weinbrenner can be found in the district of Wössingen . It is attractively located at the top of a long flight of stairs, which is why it is dominant in the settlement area. Typically, the steeple rises powerfully from the front of the nave. The Wössinger Weinbrenner Church was built as several Weinbrenner churches should have been. If you walk straight down the stairs from the main portal of the church, you will at some point be directly in front of the front door of the rectory. This is one of the distinctive features of this church. The old town hall has been preserved as a half-timbered house .

In the Wössingen district there is a Franconian homestead from the 18th century.

The Speyerer Hof is in the Jöhlingen district. The Speyerer Hof is the only completely preserved Franconian farm complex (so-called three-sided farm) in Walzbach Valley from 1577. From 1983 to 1987 it was redeveloped by the municipality and restored in its original manner. The Speyerer Hof houses the community library and is the seat of the local administrative office.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transfer of the Kraichgau Railway over the Landstraße in Jöhlingen after completion in 1879

traffic

Walzbachtal is located on the Kraichgaubahn ( Karlsruhe - Heilbronn ), on which the S4 urban railway of the Karlsruhe Transport Association (KVV) runs every 20 to 40 minutes during the day.

Both Jöhlingen and Wössingen are located on the federal road 293 ( Heilbronn - Pfinztal ), which since 1978 has been a bypass road past Wössingen, but through Jöhlingen. Jöhlingen and Berghausen (municipality of Pfinztal) ended earlier efforts to build a joint bypass.

Public facilities

The administrative seat of the municipality is Wössingen, but there is an administrative office in Jöhlingen. Walzbachtal has many community-owned event rooms, such as B. the Böhnhalle, the Heinrich-Wagner-Halle, the Wössinger Hof and the Speyerer Hof.

education

There is a primary school each in Wössingen and Jöhlingen . In addition, there are now three communal and one Roman Catholic and one Protestant kindergarten . In both districts there is a library and branches of the Walzbachtal adult education center.

The adult education center in Walzbachtal 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 . After her statutory mandate she has devoted herself next to the adult education and the tasks of youth education .

Personalities

Johannes Schroth (1859–1923), architect
Josef Kuld (1870–1938), architect
Josef Dehm (1904–1977), inventor
Jörg Driver (* 1978), Professor of Food Chemistry and Toxicology

literature

Iris Eßwein: Jöhlingen local family book , Walzbachtal community . Lahr: Interest group Badischer Ortssippenbücher 2007 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 129), processed period 1650–1925