Lobbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lobbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '  N , 8 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Rhein-Neckar district
Height :	216 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.91 km 2
Residents:	2359 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	158 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74931
Area code :	06226
License plate :	HD
Community key :	08 2 26 104
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 38 74931 Lobbach
Website :	www.lobbach.de
Mayor :	Edgar Knecht (independent)
Location of the community Lobbach in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis

Lobbach is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the Rhein-Neckar district . The community was created on December 31, 1974 through the merger of the previously independent places Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach . The smaller district of Lobenfeld emerged from the Lobenfeld monastery founded in the high Middle Ages .

geography

location

Lobbach belongs to the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and is located in the northern Kraichgau at an altitude of 160 to 425 meters on the edge of the Little Odenwald , about 23 km from Heidelberg , 20 km from Mosbach , 26 km from Walldorf and 19 km from Sinsheim . The community is named after the watercourse of the Lobbach , which runs through both districts of Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach.

Neighboring places

Adjacent places are, starting in the north in a clockwise direction, Mückenloch (district of Neckargemünd ), Haag (district of Schönbrunn ), Reichartshausen , Epfenbach , Spechbach , Mönchzell (district of Meckesheim ) and Wiesenbach .

Community structure

The former communities Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach belong to the community of Lobbach. The village of Lobenfeld, the monastery Lobenfeld and the farms Biedersbacherhof and Klingentalerhof belonged to the municipality of Lobenfeld in the territorial status of December 30, 1974 . The village of Waldwimmersbach belonged to the community of Waldwimmersbach.

history

Lobenfeld

The district of Lobenfeld is a high medieval settlement at a place already populated by the Romans. Initially there was a manorial estate there, which presumably went to the Augustinian canons of the Frankenthal Monastery in 1145 , from whom the Lobenfeld Monastery, first mentioned in 1167 , was founded. In 1229 the place Lobenfeld was mentioned for the first time, which until the 19th century consisted of only isolated buildings in the vicinity of the monastery complex. The local rule over Lobenfeld was exercised by the monastery until the Reformation , which was under the patronage of the Palatinate from 1330 . After the abolition of the Lobenfeld monastery in 1560, the local rule passed to the conductor of the clerical administration and from this gradually to the office of Dilsberg, to which Lobenfeld was completely subordinated in 1801.

Jesuits and Sabbatarians , later also religious refugees from Switzerland, were settled in the monastery on various occasions , before the monastery church was left to the Catholic sabotage in 1808 and the monastery area was partially demolished and rebuilt from the middle of the 19th century. In 1857 57 buildings were counted in the monastery and town. Building materials from the monastery were used in the construction of the town hall in 1885. In 1890 Lobenfeld had over 400 inhabitants for the first time.

In Lobenfeld, the center was the strongest party until the end of the Weimar Republic . The population development fell sharply from 1890 to the beginning of the Second World War. It was not until after the war that displaced people were settled that the population ceiling of the 19th century was exceeded again.

In 1966 and 1971 new building areas were opened up. Lobenfeld had 123 inhabitants in 1805 and 773 inhabitants in 1974.

Waldwimmersbach

Waldwimmersbach

The district Waldwimmersbach, originally only called Wimmersbach (the name became common in the 17th century to differentiate it from the nearby Neckarwimmersbach ), was first mentioned in a document in 1306 and was probably created as a clearing settlement from Lobenfeld. From 1330 Wimmersbach was under Palatinate sovereignty and already in 1369 was one of the own villages of the Dilsberg district. Here the arable land was predominantly owned by farmers, which was heavily parceled out over time through the division of inheritance. A chapel on the site of today's Protestant church was first mentioned in 1494, a Catholic church was built in 1740.

After the two localities had previously belonged to the Meckesheimer Zent of the Electoral Palatinate Unteramts Dilsberg, they became Baden in 1803 . Waldwimmersbach belonged to the Oberamt Mosbach . In 1805 there were 421 inhabitants and in 1818 there were 442 inhabitants, by the middle of the 19th century the number of inhabitants rose to over 600, but then fell sharply again until the Second World War.

Politically, the National Liberals in Waldwimmersbach were the strongest before the First World War . From 1930 the NSDAP received the most votes and rose to 82 percent by 1933.

After the Second World War , the community took in 118 displaced persons from Hungary, the Sudetenland and Yugoslavia. With the development of the Ostring building area in 1948, the character of the previous street village changed for the first time to its current structure. In 1957 and 1966, further building areas were developed. In 1974 Waldwimmersbach had 1150 inhabitants.

Merger to Lobbach 1974

The eponymous Lobbach in Waldwimmersbach

The merger of Waldwimmersbach and Lobenfeld had already been suggested by Waldwimmersbach in 1935, but initially remained unfulfilled. Only in the run-up to the community and district reform in the 1970s were there considerations again about the merging of the communities. In 1970, both communities initially rejected the formation of a greater Heidelberg district from the previous Mannheim, Heidelberg and Sinsheim districts, but agreed to the merger of the Sinsheim and Heidelberg districts. When reorganizing the communities, there were initially various proposals, including the unification of Waldwimmersbach, Lobenfeld, Spechbach and Mönchzell to form a single community or the incorporation of the two places into Meckesheim and Neckargemünd . At a citizens' hearing in Waldwimmersbach in 1972, a majority spoke out against incorporation into Neckargemünd. Likewise, in Lobenfeld in the same year they spoke out against incorporation into Meckesheim. A citizens' hearing in both communities in January 1974 resulted in the approval of the merger with Lobenfeld in Waldwimmersbach, whereas in Lobenfeld there was a clear rejection of such plans. Under pressure from the state government, both municipalities then agreed to merge in May 1974. Due to the previous rejection in Lobenfeld, the name of the larger community was not adopted for the new overall community, but the new community name Lobbach was created, which takes up the name of the water of the same name that crosses both districts .

With the dissolution of the district of Heidelberg , Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach became the new Rhein-Neckar district . The Lobbach community was created on December 31, 1974 as part of the administrative reform in Baden-Württemberg through the merger of Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach. The municipal coat of arms remained controversial for a long time, so that Lobbach remained the only municipality in the Rhein-Neckar district without its own coat of arms for a long time before an agreement was reached in 1996 on the current coat of arms with elements of the two previous municipal coats of arms.

Due to the designation of commercial and new development areas, the population grew from 1886 in the year of the merger to over 2,400 in 1999.

Population development

Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach

year	1577	1727	1834	1875	1939	1961	1965	1970
Lobenfeld	100	108	334	392	329	498	530	619
Waldwimmersbach	200	163	548	594	517	944	1035	1101

Lobbach

year	1961	1965	1970	1991	1995	2005	2010	2015
Residents	1442	1565	1720	2230	2382	2446	2400	2364

Evangelical Church Waldwimmersbach.

Religions

Lobenfeld was mostly Catholic at the end of the 18th century. The distribution of religions hardly changed, so that in 1965 three quarters of the population were still Catholic.

In Waldwimmersbach, however, the Protestant denomination predominated. Only after the admission of displaced persons after the Second World War did the Catholic proportion rise from under 20 to almost 30 percent in 1965.

There is a Protestant parish in Waldwimmersbach that is also responsible for Lobenfeld. There is a Catholic parish in Lobenfeld, which is also responsible for Waldwimmersbach and Mönchzell.

politics

Municipal council

In addition to the mayor as chairman with voting rights, the municipal council normally has 14 members; By choosing the wrong part of town , the two districts of Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach are guaranteed seven seats in the council.

The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):

SPD	50.5% (+2.6)	7 seats (± 0)
CDU	49.5% (−2.6)	7 seats (−1)

mayor

• Herbert Kiefer, 1975–1991 (previously Mayor of Waldwimmersbach since 1971)
• Harald Ehrler, 1991-2001
• Heiner Rutsch, 2001-2017 (deputy: Wolfgang Kuhnle (CDU); Klaus-Peter Ruf (SPD) until April 2017; Ludwig Christ (SPD) from May 2017)
• Edgar Knecht, since 2017 (deputy: Ludwig Christ (SPD) and Jörg mayor (CDU))

In the mayoral election on March 12, 2017, Edgar Knecht (non-party) was elected from four opposing candidates. The long-time head of the public order office took up his post on June 12, 2017.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In a shield split by silver and blue, a lowered wavy bar in confused colors, above a green deciduous tree and a green conifer with rooted black trunks, behind a floating silver high cross with wider ends.

The coat of arms combines the two old coats of arms of Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach and was awarded in 1997 by the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district office. The wave bar symbolizes Lobbach.

Partnerships

Lobbach has maintained partnership relationships with the French community of Loury on the edge of the Loire Valley near Orléans since 1996 . The sports youth maintains a partnership after Gannat in France; the voluntary fire brigade Lobbach to Nempitz in Saxony-Anhalt.

Culture and sights

Lobenfeld monastery church

The Lobenfeld Monastery is a village complex dating back to a monastery from the 12th century, in which the Lobenfeld Monastery Church, which was also begun in the 12th century, is preserved as the most important building. Remains of the former conductors' workshop and the former Protestant school have gone up in residential buildings near the church. In addition to historical farm buildings and rural houses, the monastery mill , built in 1846, is particularly worth mentioning, where mills have been documented since the 18th century at the latest.

In Lobenfeld there is also the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche from 1904, the historic inns Zur Linde and Zum Kloster , an old schoolhouse and an old town hall .

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  Sacred Heart Church

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  Town hall Lobenfeld

Nepomuk statue in Waldwimmersbach

In Waldwimmersbach there is the Protestant church from 1792 with a baroque rectory from 1769, as well as the Catholic St. Peter and Pauls Church from around 1740 next to the old schoolhouse . The lower mill is a reminder of the former several mills in the town . There is a statue of Nepomuk from 1781 on the local bridge .

There are also historic inns in Waldwimmersbach, including the Zur Rose inn and today's town hall , which once served as the Lamm inn .

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  St. Peter and Paul

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  Town hall, formerly Gasthaus Lamm

Economy and Infrastructure

The formerly agricultural villages have become a residential community with trade, handicrafts and businesses; In 1999 there were 330 jobs in the village. The commercial settlement in the community is mainly located in the Spitzacker industrial area between the two districts . The largest employer in the community is Manfred Sauer GmbH , which manufactures items for the disabled and incontinence systems.

traffic

The L 532 , which connects Heidelberg to Mosbach, the L 530 towards Helmstadt / Sinsheim and the L 595 towards Eberbach runs through the village . There are bus routes to the surrounding communities. Lobbach belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association .

Facilities

• Center to promote the motivation of paraplegics (Manfred Sauer Foundation)
• Mission home
• Heidelberg-Lobenfeld Golf Club
• Lobenfeld Monastery Spiritual Center

education

There is a primary school in the Waldwimmersbach district . The secondary school with the Werkrealschule is located in Meckesheim, the secondary school and grammar school are in Neckargemünd . For the youngest residents there is a Protestant and a Roman Catholic kindergarten , the toddler group "Rappelkiste" and private childcare.

Personalities

The community grants honorary citizenship to persons who have made a contribution to the well-being of the community or its citizens or who have gained the appreciation and respect of the citizens because of their personality, their attitude or their work and who have any internal or external connection to Lobbach . In addition, the community awards the ring of honor in gold for exemplary overall civic awareness and unselfish, idealistic action in the interests of the community as a whole.

Honorary citizen

• Heinrich Neudeck (1889–1985), awarded in 1979 for his services to the community and for many years of work for local history in Lobenfeld
• Hans Arnold (1900–1985), awarded in 1980 for his services to the community and for his many years of service for Waldwimmersbach
• Wenzel Jilka (1905–1994), awarded in 1982 for decades of music care in the community and in the surrounding area
• Eva Auer (1901–1990), awarded in 1983 for her services to the community and the mission home with its social welfare institutions
• Manfred Sauer (* 1944), entrepreneur, awarded in 2007 for his services to the community
• Doris Ebert (* 1928), councilor, awarded in 2008 for her services to the community
• Ludwig Edinger (* 1931), awarded in 2008 for his services to the community

Honorary ring bearer

• Fritz Zeller (1919–1994), awarded in 1989 for his 40 years of service as a country doctor for Waldwimmersbach and the surrounding area
• Walter Bender (* 1944), awarded in 2000 for many years of honorary membership in the municipal council and 25 years as 1st Deputy Mayor
• Ludwig Edinger (* 1931), awarded in 2000 for long-term honorary membership in the municipal council 1962–1999
• Hartmut Mäurer (* 1935), awarded in 2013 for long-term voluntary membership in the local council 1971–1994, mayor 1975–1980, rector of the school 1967–1984

literature

• Lobbach Mayor's Office (ed.): 25 years Lobbach 1975–2000, community with heart , Lobbach 2000
• State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (ed.): The city and districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description .
  • Vol. 1: General part . Karlsruhe 1966
  • Vol. 2: The city of Heidelberg and the municipalities of the district of Heidelberg . Karlsruhe 1968
• Karl Christ: The Lobenfelder and Schönauer documents 1142-1225 in excerpts, translations and with explanations. In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 5/1904, Sp. 76–82, 113–118, 156–161, 189–205, 255–259; 6/1905, col. 33-42, 52-57, 176-182, 198-205.

Individual evidence

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 V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 360-361
3. ↑ Harald Ehrler: The community reform in Baden-Württemberg , in: 75 years Lobbach 2000, p. 10/11.
4. ↑ Walter Bender: The agreement to merge the two communities , in: 75 Years Lobbach 2000, p. 12/13.
5. ^ Rosemarie Edinger: The rocky road to the new community name Lobbach , in: 75 Years Lobbach 2000, p. 22/23.
6. ^ 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. 487 .
7. ↑ Bernd Braun and Ursula Müller: Community coat of arms, in: 75 Years Lobbach 2000, pp. 22/23.
8. ↑ District description, vol. 2 p. 634: Place Lobenfeld incl. Monastery.
9. ↑ District description, Vol. 2, p. 961.
10. ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal council elections 2019, Lobbach ; Lobbach municipality: municipal council election 2019 (PDF) ; accessed May 31, 2019.
11. ↑ Edgar Knecht takes up his post as mayor at Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, June 13, 2017, accessed on the same day
12. ^ Herwig John, Gabriele Wüst: Wappenbuch Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, ISBN 3-929366-27-4 , p. 76
13. ↑ Honor regulations of the community § 3

Web links

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

• Lobbach community
• History of the village of Lobenfeld