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Coat of arms of the municipality of Wüstenrot
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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '  N , 9 ° 29'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Heilbronn
Height : 495 m above sea level NHN
Area : 30.02 km 2
Residents: 6750 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 225 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 71543, 71577
Primaries : 07945, 07194 , 07130Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : HN
Community key : 08 1 25 107
Community structure: 5 localities
Address of the
municipal administration:
Eichwaldstrasse 19
71543 Wüstenrot
Website : www.gemeinde-wuestenrot.de
Mayor : Timo Wolf (independent)
Location of the municipality of Wüstenrot in the Heilbronn district
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View from the north of the center of Wüstenrot

Wüstenrot is a municipality in the Mainhardt Forest with around 6,600 inhabitants, more than half of them in incorporated smaller villages. It belongs to the district of Heilbronn and the Heilbronn-Franconia region (until May 20, 2003 Franconia region ). The Wüstenrot Bausparkasse was founded in 1921 in Wüstenrot, the main town that gave the municipality its name .

geography

Aerial photo of Wüstenrot from the west, 1983

Geographical location

Wüstenrot is located in the Mainhardt Forest in the southeast of the Heilbronn district in the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains natural area . The Rot rises in the municipality and drains the central municipality. The north of the municipal area around Maienfels drains to the Brettach , while Neulautern lies in the valley of the "Spiegelberger" Lauter .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring cities and communities in Wüstenrot are ( clockwise , starting in the west): the cities of Beilstein and Löwenstein (both districts of Heilbronn), Bretzfeld ( Hohenlohe district ), Mainhardt ( district of Schwäbisch Hall ), Großerlach and Spiegelberg (both of the Rems-Murr district ) as well Oberstenfeld (Prevorst district, Ludwigsburg district ).

Community structure

The municipality of Wüstenrot consists of the five localities (and former municipalities) Wüstenrot, Finsterrot , Maienfels , Neuhütten and Neulautern .

  • The hamlets of Bernbach, Greuthof, Hasenhof, Schmellenhof, Spatzenhof, Stangenbach, Stollenhof and Weihenbronn as well as the residential areas Chausseehaus, Hals, Horkenbrück and Lohmühle belong to the village of Wüstenrot .
  • Finsterrot includes the Berg, Binsenhof and Dörfle residential areas.
  • Maienfels includes the hamlets of Berg, Busch, Kreuzle, Oberheimbach, Ochsenhof, Schweizerhof and Walklensweiler as well as the farms Blindenmannshäusle and Happbühl.
  • The hamlets of Bärenbronn, Kühhof, Lauxenhof and Plapphof as well as the Jägerhaus residential area in Kreuzle belong to Neuhütten.
  • To Neulautern the hamlets of Altlautern and Buchenbach as well as the Lautertal residential area.

The former residential area Neuhütte in Joachimstal , which belongs to Wüstenrot , has been deserted since 1999 .

According to figures from the municipal administration (as of December 31, 2014), the municipality of Wüstenrot has 6,670 inhabitants, of which 2,980 live in the Wüstenrot district, 1,666 in Neuhütten, 1,004 in Maienfels, 515 in Neulautern and 505 in Finsterrot.

Division of space

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

history

Stangenbach's first mention in Codex Eberhardi (approximately in the middle of the picture)

Roman times

The Upper German Limes is located near today's municipality . However, the area was not yet settled in Roman times.

middle Ages

The first recorded mention of a village in the municipality is in 779 when a property in Stangenbach was donated to the Fulda monastery . Wüstenrot was first mentioned in 1325.

During the 11th and 12th centuries the area belonged to the Counts of Löwenstein . In 1277, after the end of the Staufer , the Counts of Hohenlohe , the Lords of Weinsberg and the taverns of Limpurg gained influence. The castle Maienfels over the Brettachtal fell to the Lords of the vineyard, which is also the nearby Castle Böhringsweiler (on today's district of Großerlach possessed).

In the 14th century, a knight family named after the castle owned Maienfels. The knights of Maienfels died out in the 14th century, and the castle fell to Wolf von Wunnenstein , known as the “Gleißender Wolf” , in 1390 . His son undertook raids against imperial city trade trains until he was captured by the city of Rothenburg.

Early modern age

Wüstenrot fell to Württemberg in 1504 , while Finsterrot, founded around 1511, belonged to Hohenlohe . The village was created in a clearing that Wendel Hipler , Hohenlohe Chancellor, had carried out. At this time, glass production, which made use of the abundant wood supplies from the surrounding forests, gained in importance. Place names like Neuhütten are still reminiscent of this branch of industry, which existed until the 19th century. In the Thirty Years' War , the places in the Mainhardt Forest, as in all of Württemberg, were badly affected. The population fell to half in some cases and only returned to the old level decades later.

Map of Desert Red in 1765

In 1772/73 a "silver rush" hit Wüstenrot and the surrounding area. The scientifically interested prelate Oetinger from nearby Murrhardt had been brought ore samples from the Wüstenrot Pfaffenklinge . A self-proclaimed fraudulent "Bergrat Riedel" from Saxony, who was staying with Oetinger at the time, claimed that they had a high silver content and was able to convince Oetinger to support the operation of a mine at this point. Thanks to Oetinger's work, the mine called Unexpected Fortune was approved and the sale of Kuxen financed it. Riedel managed to win officers and soldiers from Ludwigsburg , including Schiller's father Johann Kaspar Schiller , to finance another tunnel alongside the first, which was named Soldier's Luck. Silver mines were also set up in the neighboring towns of Erlach and Neulautern . However, silver was never found anywhere, and despite Oetinger's miners' sermon on July 25, 1773, which exhorted him to persevere, doubts about Riedel grew, who was finally arrested in Löwenstein . The mines were closed and the inventory was sold. The Pfaffenklinge with the tunnels has been under protection as an extensive natural monument since 1986 .

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Wenzel family was widespread in Wüstenrot. Several mayors and innkeepers and, above all, numerous metalworkers from the glassworks in Neulautern came from her. The Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , whose father initially had the surname Wenzel, descends from Christian Heinrich Wenzel, who moved from Wüstenrot to Hamburg around 1800.

Württemberg time

During the reorganization of the region in the course of mediatization in Napoleon's time, the places Finsterrot, Maienfels, Neuhütten and Neulautern also came to Württemberg, which was elevated to a kingdom in 1806 . When the new administrative structure was implemented, the old Württemberg town of Wüstenrot remained with the previous Upper Office of Weinsberg . After various interim solutions, the four neighbors in Neuwuerttemberg also all came to this Oberamt by 1810. In the course of the March Revolution in 1848, there were uprisings in the Maienfels knighthood, who no longer had sovereign rights, but as a landowner could still collect taxes from the peasants. The need, misery and mismanagement of the local mayors drove the residents to emigrate and led to the fact that in 1855/56 all five municipalities were placed under state supervision, which lasted until 1864 in Wüstenrot and until 1876 in Neulautern. The first were at the end of the 19th century Industrial settlements were built which, in addition to agriculture, glass production and the timber industry, provided further opportunities for income in the region.

In 1921 Georg Kropp founded the Bausparkasse Gemeinschaft der Freunde in Wüstenrot, from which the later Wüstenrot Bausparkasse developed. The company moved to Ludwigsburg as early as 1930, but kept the name Wüstenrot. The building society Deutsche Erde , founded in 1931 by a former Kropp employee in Wüstenrot, proved to be short-lived and was dissolved again in 1933.

In 1926 the government of the People's State of Württemberg dissolved the Oberamt Weinsberg. Wüstenrot and Neulautern were now subordinate to the Oberamt Heilbronn , Finsterrot, Maienfels and Neuhütten to the Oberamt Öhringen .

During the administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , Wüstenrot and Neulautern came to the Heilbronn district in 1938 , Finsterrot to the Schwäbisch Hall and Maienfels district and Neuhütten to the Öhringen district .

post war period

After the World War II, Wüstenrot and all of the localities belonging to it today fell into the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. On January 1, 1973, the municipality of Neulautern was incorporated into Wüstenrot as part of the municipal and administrative reform. On January 1, 1974, the communities of Wüstenrot (with Neulautern), Neuhütten, Maienfels and Finsterrot merged to form the new large community of Wüstenrot in the Heilbronn district. As a result, the five locations were no longer spread across three different districts as before. Weihenbronn or Neurot were also discussed as the name of the new community. Finally, after Neuhütten's initial resistance, an agreement was reached on the name Wüstenrot, which was due to the popularity of the building society of the same name. A common town hall was built in the geographical center of the community near Weihenbronn.

On December 8, 1975, the citizens of the Maienfels district of Brettach decided to separate from Wüstenrot and to move to Bretzfeld in the neighboring Hohenlohe district , which took effect on January 1, 1977.

Religions

Wüstenrot is mostly Protestant. In Maienfels, Neuhütten, Neulautern and Wüstenrot there are Protestant parishes that all belong to the Weinsberg-Neuenstadt church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg - each with its own church building.

The United Methodist parish Wüstenrot-Neuhütten has two church buildings in Neuhütten and Wüstenrot. The Catholic parish in (Obersulm) -Affaltrach is responsible for the Catholic Christians, there is a church building in Neuhütten. There are New Apostolic parishes in Wüstenrot and Neulautern, each with its own church building. The Evangelical Free Church Community International Christ Community Wüstenrot has existed since 2001 . The Evangelical Anabaptist Congregation Neuhütten has also been represented in Neuhütten since the middle of the 19th century .

politics

The Wüstenrot town hall in the Weihenbronn district

Local council and local councils

In Wüstenrot, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection of a suburb . The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipal council in Wüstenrot has 17 members after the last election. The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following official final result. The turnout was 48.9% (2009: 50.5%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Free Voter Association (FWV) 11 seats 63.8% (2009: 12 seats, 66.9%)
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 5 seats 28.2% (2009: 05 seats, 33.1%)
List of truces 1 seate 08.0% (2009: 00 seats, 00.0%)

In each of the five localities Finsterrot, Maienfels, Neuhütten, Neulautern and Wüstenrot there is also a local council, each with six members. On its proposal, the council elects a volunteer for each village mayor . These bodies are to be heard on important matters affecting the locality.

mayor

  • 1974–1990: Ernst Schlagenhauf
  • 1990-2006: Roland Awe
  • 2006–2014: Heinz Nägele
  • since 2014: Timo Wolf

In the mayoral election on March 26, 2006, the challenger Heinz Nägele, from the neighboring community of Mainhardt (Ammertsweiler district), prevailed against the incumbent incumbent and won the election with 66.01% of the votes; the previous incumbent received 32.27%. The new mayor took office on May 3, 2006.

badges and flags

Desert red coat of arms
Old coat of arms desert red

The blazon of the desert red coat of arms reads: In red under a silver glass vessel, a lowered silver wavy bar, covered with a blue fish. The flag of the municipality is white and red.

Before the municipal reform, Wüstenrot had a coat of arms whose blazon reads a silver goblet in red . This coat of arms decreased to one used in 1930 mayor's official stamp, which the goblet-arms in the manner of a family coat of arms with helmet , crest and helmet covers contained and in turn fell to a manufactured in colored glass crest of 1720 at City Hall that belonged to a Johann Jacob Wenzel. The Württemberg archives department initially rejected this coat of arms as unrelated, but then allowed it (without the upper coat of arms ) after the community wanted to understand the goblet as a reference to the glass production previously operated in Wüstenrot. The colors were determined by the archive management. The coat of arms and the white-red flag colors were awarded to the community on February 22, 1963 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior.

After the municipality reform, the new municipality of Wüstenrot adopted a new coat of arms at the suggestion of the main state archive. The glass vessel drawn after a find near Neuhütten is reminiscent of the earlier glassworks in the municipality, while the fish in the wave bar symbolizes the waters of Rot , "Spiegelberger" Lauter and Brettach . The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the community on March 17, 1975 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior.

partnership

Wüstenrot has been related to the Solymár community in Hungary since 1989 . The partnership goes back to Hungarian-German refugees who came to Neuhütten after the Second World War, but maintained and cultivated relationships with their old homeland.

Culture and sights

Wüstenrot is located on the idyllic street that leads past many sights.

Museums

In Wüstenrot there is the building society museum as well as a glass and local history museum.

Buildings

See also: List of architectural monuments in Wüstenrot

Center of Wüstenrot with Protestant Kilian's Church
Wüstenrot old town hall

Protestant churches

There are detailed and vivid descriptions of the history of the origins of the respective parishes and their places of worship.

  • In the center of Wüstenrot is the Kilian's Church, which, after a Romanesque chapel from the 11th century that was merged into the east tower choir, was given its current form in 1732 through a considerable extension to the south (today still 450 seats) and after the fundamental redesign of the interior 1966 shows only remnants of the baroque furnishings, including the font and organ from 1784 (by Joseph Nepper from Schwäbisch Gmünd). A neat octagonal half-timbered bell house with a final Welsch hood sits on top of a square, multi-storey tower masonry .
  • The castle church in the Maienfels district is located on the slope below the castle. Built in 1433, expanded in 1613 as a single-nave aisle church to form a transverse church , it now has around 300 seats in both Gothic style ( tracery windows ) and Art Nouveau. The interior of the flat-roofed nave is characterized by a three-sided oval gallery , which spans the east choir and altar with the organ. The year of construction 1613 speaks in favor of a transverse church concept that has been maintained to this day with an alignment of the stalls and the galleries on the south pulpit. After several restorations in the 19th century, the building was rebuilt and expanded in 1914/15 by the Stuttgart architects Böklen and Feil . This resulted in the sacristy attached to the south , through which a south entrance was lost, and the small bell tower above the west facade with a Welscher dome . Another renovation under Hannes Mayer followed in 1956. The pulpit column from the Renaissance period is now outside, as is the old baptismal font as a fountain on a landing. The painter Ernst H. Graeser created the parapet painting above the altar in 1915 with the motif Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's fountain .
  • The Neuhütten church was built in 1863 at state expense by the Heilbronn master builder Albert Barth . Even today the church belongs to the state of Baden-Württemberg. Originally with 600 seats, it is a stately building in neo-Romanesque style, according to the principles of the Eisenach regulation as a three-aisled hall church with a choir apse and a three-sided gallery. There have only been minor changes since then: a dilapidated bell carrier was replaced by a turret in 1973, the sacristy was relocated during the overall renovation in 1988, the pulpit was lowered and the middle choir window was decorated with a glass painting Deluge by the artist Karola Schierle from Wüstenrot-Kreuzle .
  • The Protestant Martin Luther Church Neulautern was created by government instigation and from funds from the Protestant church property as the Martin Luther Church and parsonage from 1865 to 1867 according to plans by the Heilbronn building councilor Albert Barth . The north-western long side was badly damaged by the effects of war in 1945 and then simply restored. An interior renovation in 1971/72 largely changed the original character of the room by removing the old furnishings and adding a U-shaped gallery . The color glazing of the three choir windows by the renowned glass artist Hans-Gottfried von Stockhausen also contributed to the friendlier design : in 1951 he created the center window with the resurrection motif to commemorate the dead of World War II, and the other two windows in connection with the renovation in 1972 (Birth and Passion of Jesus).
  • The evangelical church Finsterrot was built in 1981 by the Maienfels architect Schilling. It was urgently needed because the building, which was commissioned as a prayer room in 1857 and renovated as a church in 1957, had to be abandoned in 1975 due to the risk of collapse. The church also offers a group room. The free-standing pyramid church tower with clapboard cladding had to be replaced in 2003, including the bells, after a fire that had broken out in 2002 due to a technical defect.

Profane buildings in the districts

  • Wüstenrot : The old town hall (today: community center) was built in 1780 and renovated from 1997 to 1999, today it houses the glass and local history museum. The old forester's house in the center of the village was also built in the 18th century. The old school from 1909/10 has been a kindergarten since 1980. The house Haller Straße 3 , a half-timbered house from around 1750, in which Georg Kropp founded his first building society, now houses the building society museum .
  • Maienfels Castle , first mentioned in 1302, is located in the district of Maienfels , since the 15th and 16th. Century in the possession of various branches of the Gemmingen family , which they have lived again after more than 100 years of vacancy and decay since 1930. In Maienfels there are also remains of the medieval city wall. The old town hall was built as a schoolhouse in 1825 and used as a town hall from 1912; the building has been privately owned since 1989. The former new school building was built in 1912 and privatized in 1981.
  • In Neuhütten , the former hut from around 1600 reminds of the former glass smelting, the Jägerhaus is the former Gemmingen forester's house from 1761. The rectory dates from 1863, the school house from 1872, and there is also the bakery around 1850.
  • The school and town hall was built in Neulautern in 1838, the parsonage in 1865. Outside the village is the historic Lautertal factory , which was built in 1850 as a stoneware factory and after bankruptcy in 1852 a. a. was used as a weaving mill, climatic spa and furniture store.
  • In the Finsterrot district is the historic Waldhorn Inn , which was built in the 17th century as a Hohenlohe customs house.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The district of Maienfels is a wine-growing area whose locations belong to the large Lindelberg area in the Württemberg lowlands of the Württemberg wine-growing region .

traffic

Wüstenrot is on the federal highway 39 from Frankenstein (Palatinate) to Mainhardt .

The Public transport is by bus from Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller transport the Wüstenroter companies and Omnibusverkehr reins served.

The next train stops are on the Heilbronn – Crailsheim railway line in Obersulm - Willsbach , in Bretzfeld and in Schwäbisch Hall . There are direct bus connections to all train stations, more often to Obersulm and Bretzfeld than to Schwäbisch Hall.

media

The daily newspaper Heilbronner Voice reports on the events in Wüstenrot in its edition for the Weinsberger Tal (WT).

education

There are two schools in Wüstenrot: the Neuhütten elementary school in Neuhütten and the Georg Kropp School in Wüstenrot ( Wüstenrot elementary and technical secondary school , GWRS, until May 2012 ). The Georg-Kropp-Schule Wüstenrot is one of the 34 starter schools that have been the first community schools in Baden-Württemberg since the 2012/2013 school year .

In addition, the Unterland Adult Education Center in Wüstenrot has a branch. The Wüstenrot library is available to residents of the community and holiday guests.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Born in Wüstenrot

Other people associated with the community

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg . State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009
  3. Sources for the section on community structure: Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 150–153 as well as supplements in vol. VIII, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-008113-6 , p. 662
    Wüstenroter Heimatbuch (see literature), p. 9, 84f.
  4. ^ The forester's house in Joachimstal. Order and freedom, nature and economy . Hohenloher Freilandmuseum, Schwäbisch Hall 2006, ISBN 3-9806793-6-5 (Houses, People and Museum, 3). P. 15
  5. ^ Community of Wüstenrot: information brochure . 13th edition. Municipality of Wüstenrot, Wüstenrot 2015, p. 5, online here or here (PDF; 12 MB)
  6. State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Wüstenrot.
  7. Profile of the natural monument Pfaffenklinge mit Silberstollen "..u.Soldatenglück at the State Institute for Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg
  8. Klaus Irmscher: The Wenzel ancestors of the former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the migration movement of the glassmaker Wenzel in the south-west of Germany . In: Genealogy , Issue 7–8 / 1997, pp. 597–625.
  9. ^ 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. 451 .
  10. ^ 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. 465 .
  11. ^ 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. 466 .
  12. ^ Website of the Maienfels Evangelical Church Community
  13. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community in Neuhütten
  14. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Neulautern
  15. ^ Website of the Wüstenrot Evangelical Church Community
  16. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Weinsberg-Neuenstadt
  17. ^ Website of the International Christ Church Wüstenrot e. V. (accessed on February 5, 2012)
  18. ^ The story ( memento from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Evangelical Anabaptist Congregation Neuhütten (accessed on August 29, 2009)
  19. ^ Sources for the section coat of arms and flag:
    Heinz Bardua: The district and community coat of arms
    in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 145
    Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and the district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 156
  20. Otto Friedrich: Evangelical churches in the deanery Weinsberg - picture reading book ; ed. Ev. Deanery Weinsberg, 2003
  21. a b Joachim Hennze: Strict and beautiful. Protestant churches in the Heilbronn district in the style change of the 19th century ; in: Heilbronnica. Contributions to the city and regional history. Volume 3, 2006, pp. 269-298
  22. Sabine Friedrich: Starting signal for a mammoth project . In: Heilbronn voice . May 26th, 2012 ( at Stimme.de under the title Many changes at Wüstenroter Schule [accessed on May 27, 2012]).
  23. Complete list of the starter schools of the community school at kultusportal-bw.de (PDF; 39 kB; accessed on March 11, 2012)
  24. VHS Unterland branch offices .

literature

  • Desert red homeland book . Wüstenrot municipal administration, Wüstenrot 1979
  • Desert red. History of a community in the Swabian-Franconian Forest. Municipality of Wüstenrot, Wüstenrot 1999, ISBN 3-00-005408-1 ( Municipality in transition. Volume 8)

Web links

Commons : Wüstenrot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Wüstenrot  - travel guide