Waldhausen (Lorch)
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Waldhausen
City of Lorch
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| Height : | 275 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 2698 (2012) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 73547 |
| Area code : | 07172 |
Waldhausen is a place in the Rems Valley in Baden-Württemberg . It was an independent municipality until 1971 and has been a district of Lorch since 1972 .
Former districts
The description of the Oberamt Welzheim from 1845 names the following settlements in addition to the main town:
- Weitmars
- Rat resin
- Erlenhof
- Marbächle
- Pulzhof
- Schneiderhof (now part of Börtlingen )
- Walkersmühle
- Vogelhof with Elisabethenberg (see below)
Geology and geography
Waldhausen is about ten kilometers east of Schorndorf , about 34 kilometers east of Stuttgart and thirteen kilometers west of Schwäbisch Gmünd .
The Rems has dug a valley in the Keuper between Mögglingen and Endersbach . Above Waldhausen, it changes from the less easily eroding sandstone and clay-rich layers of house, pebble and reed sandstone to the evaporite-rich gypsum keuper , which is easily washed out. The transition shows up morphologically in a marked widening of the lower valley.
In the valley, especially in the area of the confluence of side valleys, large gravel banks were deposited , which made the area swampy. Between Lorch and Waldhausen, large deposits were largely mined at the mouth of the Walkersbach in the 20th century, as evidenced by quarry ponds with a total area of 6.7 ha in the upper triangle of the mouth. The lakes, one of which was temporarily used as a garbage dump , are now partially protected; many species of birds have settled and breed here. There the Rems reaches its “Rems center”, newly created as part of the Remstal Garden Show 2019 with a stone monolith and a stone circle
, where the river has covered half of its way between the source and the mouth.
The Lorch-Waldhausen flood retention basin, completed in 2008, is located on the Rems above the village .
history
middle Ages
The name ending "-hausen" suggests a settlement emerged in the 7th century.
In 1188, in a contract between Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and King Alfons VIII of Castile , in which the marriage between Friedrich's son, Duke Conrad II of Swabia and Alfons daughter Berengaria , was agreed, a castrum Walthusin cum omnibus pertinenciis ( Eng .: Burg Waldhausen with all accessories) mentioned. If that meant the lost castle on the Elisabethenberg to the north, 1188 would be the first year of mention of Waldhausen. The castle and 29 other Hohenstaufen goods were part of the bride's morning gift. However, this marriage was never put into practice.
In a letter of protection for the Adelberg Monastery , Messrs. "Egino and Adelbert von Waldhausen", two ministerials from the Staufer , are named as witnesses. Around 1250 the castle became the property of the Counts of Württemberg ; it was destroyed in the Imperial War of 1311.
On the Elisabethenberg there is a chapel which was consecrated to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and probably gave the mountain its name.
In 1519 the place was burned down to two houses as part of a vengeance by the Obervogtes von Göppingen, Jörg Staufer von Bloßenstaufen , against Duke Ulrich von Württemberg . In 1535, the Reformation was introduced together with Lorch in Waldhausen .
Modern times
The Remsbahn , which passes north of the village on the other side of the Rems, was inaugurated in 1861 in the Bad Cannstatt – Wasseralfingen section, but initially without a station at Waldhausen.
Since the reed sandstone found near Waldhausen was previously sought after in house building, it was quarried in up to four quarries east of Waldhausen, which employed up to 25 workers around 1900.
In 1930 there were only two industrial plants in Waldhausen. As a result of the global economic crisis , both had to close. The old handicraft trades that had previously developed in Waldhausen had become meaningless. Virtually all of the local youth were unemployed. The well above-average result of the NSDAP in the Reichstag election in 1933 shows the support for National Socialism: 61.2% compared to 41.9% in the national average.
At the end of the Second World War , 635 urban residents who had become homeless due to bombing were housed in Waldhausen. At the beginning of April 1945, Volkssturm and Wehrmacht pioneers built six anti-tank traps and many rifle positions on Waldhäuser Markung. On the morning of April 20, units of the American 44th Infantry Division advanced both to Weitmars in the northeast and from Lorch via Kirneck to Rattenharz in the south, where they set up artillery. The residents managed to remove most of the anti-tank barriers; at the last, however, five Wehrmacht soldiers prevented them from doing so. The Americans issued an ultimatum and threatened to shoot 20 citizens of the Waldhaus, whereupon the passage became free here too.
After the Second World War
In the 1950s, some freight forwarders settled in Waldhausen because Waldhausen was within the local freight traffic zone of both the Heilbronn port and the city of Ulm ; however, this condition only lasted a few years until the zones were re-measured.
From May 2nd to 5th, 1956, flooding in the Rems flooded many streets and cellars. In 1967 the Waldhausen secondary school was closed; the students were assigned to the Lorch secondary school. In 1969, the Lorch-Waldhausen collective sewage treatment plant , located in Waldhausen and realized with the neighboring town, was put into operation.
At the beginning of the 1970s, as part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg, it became apparent that Waldhausen, then 2800 inhabitants, could not remain independent in the long term. The central planning provided for the creation of an administrative area that encompasses Lorch and Waldhausen. This corresponded to the fact that it was already through church districts, school districts, sewage treatment plants and the like. A. There were links with Lorch. However, since the district of Schwäbisch Gmünd was also up for grabs, Waldhausen wanted to join the former district of Waiblingen and thus to the Middle Neckar area (now the Stuttgart region ) by merging with Plüderhausen . In a public survey in November 1970, there were three options to choose from: retention of independence, merger with Lorch and merger with Plüderhausen. With a high participation, almost equal shares fell on each option, whereby the merger with Plüderhausen was just ahead. However, the associated reclassification of Waldhausen to the Waiblingen district was rejected by the Ministry of the Interior. The community then pushed the merger with Lorch. On September 12, 1971, this was confirmed by a very narrow citizens' vote, decided unanimously by the local council on September 14, and signed on September 17. The merger came into force on January 1, 1972.
Mayor of the former municipality
- 1954–1971: Walter Kübler (1924–2012)
Population development
The population up to 2009 includes Waldhausen, Weitmars, Rattenharz and the other homesteads.
| year | Residents |
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| 1845 | 1474 |
| 1895 | 1320 |
| 1900 | 1418 |
| 1905 | 1421 |
| 1910 | 1447 |
| year | Residents |
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| 1925 | 1596 |
| 1939 | 1609 |
| 1945 | 2169 |
| 1948 | 2137 |
| 1950 | 2218 |
| year | Residents |
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| 1955 | 2394 |
| 1960 | 2474 |
| 1965 | 2644 |
| 1970 | 2973 |
| 1975 | 3172 |
| year | Residents |
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| 1980 | 3260 |
| 1990 | |
| 2000 | |
| 2009 | 4012 |
| 2012 | 2698 1 |
Buildings
Churches
The local church was built in 1507 as St. Mary's Church and restored in 1659 after the Thirty Years War .
It was demolished in 1957 because it was in disrepair. It was also too small and, according to a note from the 19th century, the interior was "obstructed with galleries so that only sparse access to light is permitted" . From 1954 to 1956, a new Protestant church was built right next to it, the Martin Luther Church, which was consecrated on April 15, 1956. In 2013 the floor plan of the old Marienkirche was made visible again.
The Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth was consecrated on November 12, 1972 .
Elisabethenberg
The Elisabethenberg, the medieval history of which is mentioned above, was bought by Eduard Weitzel , theosophist and leader of a sun sect , in 1876 . He had the foundation walls of the destroyed castle uncovered and a country house built on it using old humpback blocks, as well as a laboratory for the production of esoteric herbal brandies. Subsequent owners expanded the property and opened a spa with a swimming pool and park in 1899. The institution served as a reserve hospital during the First World War . In 1920 the Reichsbahn company health insurance fund acquired the institution and operated a rest home for railway workers. From 1939, the Reichsbahn Insurance Fund ran a children's tuberculosis healing site, which the Federal Railway Insurance Institute as its legal successor after 1948 further operational and goal for. Since childhood tuberculosis was falling, she sold the property to the Stetten sanatorium in 1968 . Since then it has been using it as a home for the mentally handicapped and also runs workshops for the disabled .
Others
- The Waldhäuser village house in Vorstadtstrasse was built in 1933 as a home for the Hitler Youth , after the Second World War it was used to house refugees .
- In front of the former fire station there used to be the gym called "Holzoper", where sporting and cultural events took place.
Business
The structure of the retail trade has changed in the past few decades: smaller stores based in Waldhausen closed, and several supermarkets and discounters opened in the neighboring Lorcher industrial area West.
A village shop cooperative was founded at the end of November 2014 . This pursues the goal of having shopping facilities on site for the elderly and children as a “communicative village center”. Before opening, the shop was to be renovated in 2015. After the required number of members was reached and the state of Baden-Württemberg approved a grant from the funds for rural development (ELR), the project picked up again. The village shop was then able to open in December 2016.
traffic
Bus route 11 operated by Omnibusverkehr Göppingen connects Waldhausen with the cities of Göppingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd.
Waldhausen is also on the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt-Aalen railway line , which is served every 30 minutes or 60 minutes on Sundays. Waldhausen is also on federal highway 29 .
Public facilities
fire Department
The volunteer fire brigade was founded at the end of 1872. In 1958 a covered lake of fire was inaugurated in Rattenharz. The current fire station in Waldhausen was inaugurated in 1965 and was replaced by a joint fire station for Waldhausen and Lorch when it moved in on August 17, 2012.
literature
- Lorch-Waldhausen , 800 years of Waldhausen, Lorch 1981.
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Lorch: Data & Facts , accessed on January 4, 2012.
- ↑ a b c community Waldhausen in description of the Oberamt Welzheim . 1845.
- ↑ a b Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 11 ff.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 15 ff.
- ↑ a b c Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 35 ff.
- ^ Peter Koblank: Treaty of Seligenstadt 1188 on stauferstelen.net. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 57.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 51.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 185.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 107.
- ↑ Manfred Schramm (editor), history workshop of the VHS Lorch (ed.): City and Monastery Lorch in National Socialism, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2004, ISBN 3-936373-15-9 , p. 29.
- ^ Walter Hees: The Americans are coming ... , Remshalden 2006, ISBN 3-927981-84-2 .
- ↑ Albert Deibele : The end of the war in Waldhausen in 1945 , in Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 117 ff.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 134.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 128.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 131.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 134 ff.
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 95.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , pp. 145 ff.
- ↑ a b c Von Holzoper and Stauferrittern , Gmünder Tagespost of July 12, 2014
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 155.
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 161 ff.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://dorfladen-waldhausen.de/?p=511
- ↑ Anja Müller: Setting the course for implementation. In: Gmünder Tagespost. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ^ Remsdruckerei Sigg, Haertel u Co KG: The village shop in Waldhausen opens. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Lorch-Waldhausen , p. 201 ff.
