Wangen (near Göppingen)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ' N , 9 ° 37' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Stuttgart | |
| County : | Goeppingen | |
| Height : | 379 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 9.68 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 3191 (December 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 330 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 73117 | |
| Area code : | 07161 | |
| License plate : | GP | |
| Community key : | 08 1 17 055 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Pfarrberg 2 73117 Wangen |
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| Mayor : | Troy Dutta | |
| Location of the municipality of Wangen in the district of Göppingen | ||
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Wangen 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
Wangen is located on a hill above the Filstal on the edge of the Schurwald , as the crow flies about 4 km northwest of the center of the district town of Göppingen .
Neighboring communities
The municipality borders in turn on the communities Adelberg in the north, Börtlingen very briefly in the northeast and Rechberghausen in the east, then on the district town of Göppingen in the south and the city of Uhingen in the southwest, all of which belong to their own district of Göppingen . Finally, in the northwest, Wangen briefly touches the area of the town of Schorndorf in the Rems-Murr district .
Community structure
The formerly independent municipality of Oberwälden belongs to Wangen. The two villages Wangen and Oberwälden belong to the municipality. The hamlet of Niederwälden has risen in cheeks.
Division of space
According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.
history
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Until the 19th century
The place was first mentioned in 1274. In that year Friedrich von Staufeneck sold all of his goods in Wangen and Oberwälden to the Adelberg Monastery . Württemberg had already had rights in Wangen since 1327, but most of the town still belonged to the monastery.
In 1806 the Degenfeld rulership of Rechberghausen and the Adelberg monastery administration were abolished and incorporated into the Göppingen regional administration , the predecessor of the Göppingen district.
Religions
In terms of the church, Oberwälden was initially significant: a church was mentioned there as early as 1187. Later it is called Nikolauskirche . The patrons were the von Staufeneck , which then came to the Adelberg monastery as well as Ahelfingen and Zillenhart . Oberwälden formed its own parish until the end of 2019. It is now called the Evangelical Church Community of Wangen-Oberwälden . After Wangen was initially a branch of the Oberhofenkirche Göppingen , a Protestant parish was set up in the course of the Reformation in 1557 , but it was provided from Oberwälden until 1967.
Since the Reformation there has been no Roman Catholic parish in the area; the Catholic faithful are looked after by the Rechberghausen community. There is also a small Evangelical Methodist congregation in Wangen .
Incorporations
In 1935 the Niederwälden settlement was changed from Holzhausen to Wangen. As part of the community reform in Baden-Württemberg, the previously independent community of Oberwälden was incorporated on July 1, 1971.
Population development
Source: Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office for data from 1970
| date | Residents |
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| 1837 | 849 |
| 1907 | 1073 |
| May 17, 1939 | 1233 |
| September 13, 1950 | 1863 |
| June 6, 1961 | 2181 |
| May 27, 1970 | 2759 |
| December 31, 1983 | 2976 |
| May 25, 1987 | 3209 |
| December 31, 2005 | 3213 |
| December 31, 2010 | 3165 |
| December 31, 2015 | 3071 |
politics
coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms of Wangen reads: In a shield divided by gold and green, a black stag pole lying on top .
Green is based on the place name for meadow area, yellow symbolizes the high-yield field marking, the stag pole indicates that the place belongs to the Württemberg house. The coat of arms was adopted in 1930, the yellow-green flag was awarded by the Ministry of the Interior on June 3, 1959.
Community partnerships
The municipality of Wangen has a close partnership with the French region de Routot ( Normandy ), which includes the municipalities of Bouquetot , Brestot , Étréville , Eturqueraye , Hauville , La Haye Aubree , Le Landin , Rougemontier and Routot . The rural communities together have over 5,500 inhabitants. The partnership has existed since May 1, 1992 and since then there has not been a year without meetings, which are particularly supported by the associations of the two municipalities.
Municipal council
Traditionally there are no parties or parliamentary groups in the Wangen municipal council. According to the electoral law, it is not possible to put up more candidates than seats to be allocated on a list (election proposal). That is why the Wangen candidates traditionally draw up two lists - Free Voters and Independent Voters' Association - in order to be able to carry out a proper election.
The municipal council in Wangen has 14 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 |
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| FWV | Free electoral association Wangen | 53.20 | 7th | 50.77 | 7th | |
| UWV | Independent voter association Wangen | 46.80 | 7th | 49.23 | 7th | |
| total | 100.0 | 14th | 100.0 | 14th | ||
| voter turnout | 68.2% | 53.8% | ||||
mayor
In 2010, the then incumbent mayor Werner Stöckle (Free Voters) announced that he would not apply for another term of office after 32 years. On February 7, 2010 Daniel Frey (CDU) was elected mayor of Wangen in the 1st ballot with 906 of 1,586 valid votes. The election attracted national attention, as the incumbent - although he was no longer on the ballot paper - was able to win over 29 percent of the votes. In the mayoral election on February 25, 2018, Troy Dutta (independent) prevailed in the second ballot with 59.3% against incumbent Daniel Frey.
Economy and Infrastructure
Business
The municipality of Wangen has - for its size - an above-average industrial area at the exit of the town in the direction of Göppingen-Faurndau, in which primarily small and medium-sized companies in the manufacturing and manufacturing industries are based.
traffic
A bus line runs between the district town of Göppingen and Wangen. There are also school buses to the secondary school in Rechberghausen. Federal road 10, which can be quickly reached from Wangen, runs through the neighboring communities of Göppingen-Faurndau and Uhingen. In addition to the train station in the district town of Göppingen, the nearby train stations include regional train stations in the neighboring communities of Göppingen-Faurndau and Uhingen.
Public facilities
The community of Wangen has a community hall for conferences, celebrations, concerts and cabaret. In the sporting area, the community has the Forstberghalle, a 3-field hall, as well as a soccer field (grass) and a small playing field (hard court).
education
Wangen has its own primary school . Secondary schools must be attended in the neighboring towns. There has been a children's house for the youngest residents since September 2011, right next to the primary school. Before that there were three kindergartens, two of which were run by the community and one by the Catholic Church.
Culture and sights
music
The Musikverein Wangen eV, founded in 1951, is part of the community's musical offering. V., whose wind orchestra plays in the upper school. The association contributes significantly to community life through its involvement in spiritual and secular festivals. The association is also heavily involved in youth work through its own youth bands.
Buildings
In the Oberwälden district there is the Protestant St. Nicholas Church with a square choir tower from the Staufer period around 1200. In the Romanesque choir there is an almost completely preserved cycle of early Gothic wall paintings, which are dated to the first third of the 14th century. The paintings in the base area and on the south wall, where a three-part Renaissance window was broken out in 1450, are no longer preserved. The depiction of the evangelists in the vault is unusual for the time: they have wings, their attributes are depicted in the form of a scroll. At their feet sits a prophet on the left and a pagan seer, a sibyl, on the right . The north wall shows a cycle of Mary with the coronation of Mary. The church patron, St. Nicholas, can also be found here with a scene of rescue from distress at sea. The east wall is the highlight of the choir painting with a representation of Jonah , Christ as the Man of Sorrows and a representation of the Madonna in a protective cloak , who is one of the oldest in Swabia. Opposite the nave, the parable of the clever and foolish virgins is depicted on the mighty choir arch. The program and style of the paintings are called Swabian Sea . After the Reformation, the frescoes were whitewashed by order of Duke Ulrich (around 1540). It was not until 1909 that they were rediscovered during the church renovation by the architect Richard Böklen and restored for the first time.
A Barbara chapel in Wangen was closed in 1535. Today's Evangelical Church in Wangen was built in 1887/88 in the neo-Gothic brick style by the architect Theophil Frey instead of the late-Gothic church, which was expanded in 1682, and has a wooden barrel vault and is richly ornamented. The stained glass in the choir window and rosette (resurrection of Christ, sacrificial lamb, ornaments) comes from the Munich workshop of Franz Xaver Zettler . In 1977 the church was renovated.
Others
Since May 2012 there has been a 15 hectare cemetery in Wangen.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Albert Nothdurft (1905–1997), founder of Alno AG (1927) and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
Sons and daughters of the church
- Theodor Pichler (1835–1887), born in Oberwälden, senior administrator in Württemberg
- Friedrich von Schmidlin (1847–1932), Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Württemberg
Web links
dto. the meanwhile incorporated town of Oberwälden
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ 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. 332-333.
- ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for cheeks.
- ↑ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Wangen-Oberwälden
- ^ 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. 448 .
- ↑ Public announcement of the result of the election of the mayor on February 7th, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12 kB), Wangen municipality, accessed May 15, 2010
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Südwest Presse: Mayor election: Troy Dutta is the new mayor of Wangen . In: swp.de . February 25, 2018 ( swp.de [accessed April 17, 2018]).
- ↑ Heribert Hummel: Wall paintings in the Göppinge district ; Publications of the district archive Göppingen 6, Weißenhorn 1978, p. 116
- ↑ Dieter Fett: Evangelical St. Nicholas Church in Oberwälden ; ed. Ev. Parish of Oberwälden, Saarbrücken 2004
- ↑ Festschrift: 125 Years of the Evangelical Church in Wangen ; ed. Ev. Parishes of Wangen and Oberwälden; Brochure published as no. 1/2013 of the ev. Parishes of Wangen and Oberwälden, Wangen 2013
- ↑ https://www.friedwald.de/standorte/wangen/
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