Weinheim

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Weinheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 8 ° 40'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Karlsruhe
County : Rhein-Neckar district
Height : 135 m above sea level NHN
Area : 58.11 km 2
Residents: 45,284 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 779 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 69469
Area code : 06201
License plate : HD
Community key : 08 2 26 096
City structure: Core city and 10 districts

City administration address :
Obertorstrasse 9
69469 Weinheim
Website : www.weinheim.de
Lord Mayor : Manuel Just
Location of the city of Weinheim in the Rhein-Neckar district
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Weinheim (in Electoral Palatinate : Woinem ) is a medium- sized town in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg . It is located about 18 km north of Heidelberg and about 15 km northeast of Mannheim on the Badische Bergstrasse in the European metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar . Weinheim is the largest city in the Rhein-Neckar district and has been a major district town since April 1, 1956 . Because of its two landmarks, the ruins of Windeck and the Wachenburg , it is nicknamed "Two Castles City". Linguistically, the local dialect of Weinheim, Woinemerisch, is one of the dialects of the Electoral Palatinate .

Because of the beautiful old town, city center and the large palace complex, Weinheim is often called "little Heidelberg".

Aerial view from the west

geography

Marketplace
Roman bridge near Weinheim

Location and natural space

Weinheim is located on the Badische mountain road , in a recess on the western edge of the Upper Rhine Valley abutting Odenwald . The old town center was created at the exit of the Weschnitz and the new town at the valley of the Grundelbach . Newer districts developed over the Schlossberg along the Bergstrasse and out into the Rhine plain .

The 399.5 meter high Wachenberg rises between the Weschnitz and Grundelbach valleys, to the north of it the 345.7 meter high Hirschkopf and the 348.2 meter high Saukopf and south of it the 340 meter high Geiersberg and the 323.8 meter high Goldkopf . A little further south is the 305.5 meter high Bachberg. The highest point is the Eichelberg in the Oberflockenbach district at 524.9 meters . A little west of this is Weinheim's second highest mountain, the Steinberg at 428.5 meters. The deepest point (97 meters) Weinheim is in the Waidsiedlung in the northwest of the district.

Because of its location on the Bergstrasse, Weinheim has a mild climate. Compared to other parts of Germany, the almond tree and other fruit trees bloom much earlier in the year.

The district extends over 5811 hectares. Of this, 24.2 percent are settlement and traffic areas, 42.9 percent are used for agriculture and 30.0 percent are forested.

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border the city of Weinheim. They are called clockwise starting in the east:

Birkenau and Gorxheimertal (both Bergstrasse district in Hesse ), Heiligkreuzsteinach , Wilhelmsfeld (via an exclave ), Schriesheim , Hirschberg an der Bergstrasse and Heddesheim (all Rhein-Neckar district), Viernheim (Bergstrasse district) and Hemsbach (Rhein Neckar district ).

City structure

The city of Weinheim consists of the core city and the ten districts of Hohensachsen , Lützelsachsen , Oberflockenbach, Steinklingen, Wünschmichelbach, Rippenweier, Rittenweier, Heiligkreuz, Ritschweier and Sulzbach . The districts form six localities in the sense of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with its own local council and mayor as its chairman, whereby the districts of Oberflockenbach, Steinklingen and Wünschmichelbach are combined to form the village of Oberflockenbach and the districts of Rippenweier, Rittenweier and Heiligkreuz to form the village of Rippenweier . The entire urban area is also divided into six residential districts in accordance with the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, with the localities of Hohensachsen and Ritschweier together forming one residential district. The remaining localities and the core city each form a residential district.

The settlement in the Ritschweier Valley belongs to the village of Hohensachsen (2,627 inhabitants on December 31, 2016). The house Kinder- u. Belongs to the village of Lützelsachsen (5,417 inhabitants). Youth home pilgrims' house. The hamlet of Steinklingen, the village of Wünschmichelbach and the Daummühle house belong to the village of Oberflockenbach (2,249 inhabitants) . The hamlet of Rittenweier, Heiligkreuz and Hohert (holiday home) and Haus Deisenklinge belong to the village of Rippenweier (1,046 inhabitants). The hamlet of Oberkunzenbach belongs to the village of Ritschweier (305 inhabitants). The Sulzbacherhof homestead belongs to the village of Sulzbach (2,769 inhabitants). The core town of Weinheim (30,761 inhabitants) includes the hamlets of Bertleinsbrücke and Weid and the towns of Nachbarbach, Nextbacher Berg, Ofling and Waid. The Hege desert lies in the area of ​​the village of Lützelsachsen .

Spatial planning

Weinheim is a medium-sized center in the area of ​​the regional centers Mannheim and Heidelberg . In addition to Weinheim, the towns and communities of Hemsbach , Hirschberg an der Bergstrasse and Laudenbach belong to the central area of ​​Weinheim .

View of Weinheim and the surrounding area from Windeck Castle

history

From the origins to the 20th century

Engraving from 1645
Engraving by Johann Jakob Rieger , 1787
Medieval new town called the old town today
Castle, Laurentius Church and former Carmelite monastery

In 755 AD Winenheim was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex , the document book of the Lorsch Monastery . The name Weinheim does not come from the wine that is grown in the area, but from Wino's home .

1000 AD awarded Emperor Otto III. Weinheim the right to market , followed by the right to mint in 1065 . Above the village, Lorsch Abbey built Windeck Castle to secure its possessions . As Lorscher Vogt , Count Palatine Konrad raised claims to Weinheim and the castle. After the Lorsch monastery had been subordinated to the Mainz bishop in 1232 , there were long disputes between Mainz and the Palatinate.

Around 1250, the Count Palatine laid out the Neustadt as a counter-foundation to Mainz. In an arbitration award in 1264, the Palatinate was awarded the Neustadt and Windeck Castle. Here the new town was referred to as a “city” for the first time, the details of the town charter have not been passed down. In 1308 the old town was also transferred to the Palatinate. From 1368 Weinheim belonged to the indivisible core area of ​​the Electoral Palatinate and was subordinate to the Oberamt Heidelberg from the end of the 14th century . In 1454 the areas of the old town and the new town, which had been administratively separate until then, were combined into one town.

In the 17th century, Weinheim was conquered several times by foreign troops during the Thirty Years' War , the Dutch War and the Palatinate War of Succession , and Windeck Castle was destroyed.

In 1698, Elector Johann Wilhelm moved his court, Heidelberg University and the electoral mint and printing works to Weinheim for two years . The plans, which provided for a generous expansion of the Weinheim Castle , were not implemented.

In 1803 the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved and Weinheim came to Baden , where it became the seat of a district office . During the Baden Revolution in 1848, Weinheimer radicals interrupted the Main-Neckar railway line at the current OEG stop at Rosenbrunnen, derailing a train intended to transport troops to put down the Struve Putsch . 33 Weinheimers were then charged.

1900 until the end of the Second World War

Politically, the National Liberals had been the strongest movement since the establishment of the Empire in 1871 , before they were replaced by the Social Democrats at the beginning of the 20th century . In the 1912 Reichstag election , the social democratic candidate scored 49.7 percent in the city.

In the Weimar Republic , the SPD initially remained the strongest party, but soon lost votes: In January 1919, 59.2 percent of the electorate voted for the Social Democrats; in June 1920 it was 33.2 percent. In July 1932 the KPD succeeded in gaining 19.5 percent more votes than the SPD (19.3 percent). In contrast to other places in Weinheim, the KPD was able to build up a continuously working leadership. In 1927 the local cartel of the General German Trade Union Federation was one of the few in Baden that was dominated by communists. A local group of the National Socialists already existed before October 1923. After the temporary ban of the NSDAP, the local group was re-established in June 1925 and developed under the leadership of the later Prime Minister of Baden, Walter Köhler, to the third largest local group in Baden. In 1928, 250 of a good 2,400 National Socialists in Baden belonged to the Weinheim local group. The NSDAP always achieved above-average results in elections and became the strongest party for the first time in the 1929 state elections with 26.7 percent (State of Baden 7 percent). After the National Socialist “ seizure of power ”, the NSDAP received 46.2 percent and the KPD 19.1 percent of the vote in March 1933 .

On May 2, 1933, immediately after “ National Labor Day ”, the union houses in Weinheim were also occupied. Union assets were confiscated and senior union officials were detained. The trade unions were to be transferred to the National Socialist German Labor Front . The office of the German Leather Workers' Association in the Volkshaus in Lindenstrasse, today the Eulenspiegel restaurant, was also occupied by the district manager of the NS factory cell organization Kurt Niceus and the SS. During the occupation, the then managing director of the leather workers' association, Michael Jeck (1882–1933) from Nieder-Liebersbach (Birkenau / Odenwald) hanged himself. The Nazi leadership and with it the Weinheimer Tageblatt tried, among other things, in a report from May 8, 1933, to portray the suicide as the result of the victim's exposure to fraud. Jeck was the first person to be killed by National Socialism in Weinheim. In 1938 the Baden Gymnastics Championships were held here. 1% of Weinheim, which had a population of 18,561 in 1939, was destroyed by air raids in World War II, killing 42 people.

In 1936, the Weinheim District Office was dissolved and merged with the Mannheim District Office, from which the Mannheim district was created in 1938 , before it was dissolved on January 1, 1973 as part of the district reform and became part of the Rhein-Neckar district .

The population of the city of Weinheim exceeded the 20,000 mark in 1943. Therefore, Weinheim was declared a major district town by law when the Baden-Württemberg municipal code came into force on April 1, 1956 .

1945 to the present

In the " economic miracle " years of the post-war period, the face of the city changed through the development of new residential areas, the emergence of new branches of industry and the incorporation of surrounding towns. Politically, the two popular parties, the CDU and the SPD, alternated in dominance; in line with the city's left-wing and social democratic tradition, the SPD was almost always stronger than the Baden-Württemberg average. The FDP , too , often achieved above-average election results.

Incorporations

The following communities were incorporated into Weinheim:

Population development

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Population development of Weinheim. Above from 1439 to 2016. Below an excerpt from 1871

Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).

Year / date Residents
1439 1,780
1774 1,774
1812 4,039
1830 5,000
1858 5,805
1859 5,929
December 1, 1871 6,350
December 1, 1880¹ 7.159
December 1, 1890¹ 8,243
December 1, 1900 ¹ 11,167
December 1, 1910¹ 14,170
October 8, 1919 ¹ 14,550
June 16, 1925 ¹ 15,793
June 16, 1933 ¹ 17,486
May 17, 1939 ¹ 18,561
Year / date Residents
December 1945 ¹ 19,944
September 13, 1950 ¹ 25.199
June 6, 1961 ¹ 27,859
May 27, 1970 ¹ 29,670
December 31, 1975 41.005
December 31, 1980 41,654
May 25, 1987 ¹ 41,934
December 31, 1990 42,241
December 31, 1995 42,812
December 31, 2000 42,520
December 31, 2005 43,417
December 31, 2010 43,682
December 31, 2015 44,797
December 31, 2016 44,954

¹ census result

Religions

Weinheim initially belonged to the diocese of Worms and was the seat of a deanery. As in the entire Electoral Palatinate , the Reformation was also introduced in Weinheim , albeit not until late in 1556 by Elector Ottheinrich; Ottheinrich was a staunch Lutheran. After he died in 1559, his successor Friedrich III turned to Calvinism, so that the Lutheran creed also disappeared very quickly in Weinheim. From 1689 a Lutheran congregation was founded again. Since the Electoral Palatinate had Catholic rulers again from 1685, the Catholics in Weinheim were able to gain a foothold again. Their share in the total population was about two sevenths in 1689.

After the transition to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806, the two Protestant communities were merged into one uniate community in 1821 . Weinheim became the seat of a deanery . Today the associated church district's Ladenburg Weinheim and includes 22 parishes , including the following parishes in the urban area of Weinheim: parish Weinheim (consisting of the parishes Johannis , Luke, Mark and St. Peter's Church ), parish Lützelsachsen, parish Hohensachsen, parish Holy Cross Oberflockenbach and Paul Gerhardt -Community Sulzbach.

The Catholic community initially still belonged to the diocese of Worms , after its dissolution to the general vicariate Bruchsal before it became part of the newly founded archdiocese of Freiburg in 1821/27 . Weinheim again became the seat of a deanery. In 2008 it merged with Heidelberg to form the Deanery Heidelberg-Weinheim. The parishes of Weinheim's St. Laurentius , St. Marien, Herz Jesu (with branch Sulzbach), and St. Jakobus Hohensachsen form together with the parish of St. Johannes Baptist in neighboring Leutershausen (parish of Hirschberg an der Bergstrasse ) with the branch parish of Herz Jesu Oberflockenbach- Rippenweier founded the pastoral care unit Weinheim with the Herz Jesu Kirche .

Since 1298 there have been isolated Jews in Weinheim. In the 19th century, a larger community developed, particularly through the influx of smaller rural communities into the city, which peaked in 1905 with 192 members. The majority of the 168 Jews who lived in Weinheim in 1933 quickly emigrated due to the Nazi persecution, especially to the USA, or moved to large cities. The synagogue was desecrated and demolished by the SA during the November pogroms in 1938, and then blown up. A memorial plaque in Ehret-Strasse commemorates this event. The remaining 47 Jews from Weinheim were deported to Gurs in 1940 as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign . Many died there or were later murdered in Auschwitz . In 2007/2008, the support group of the Museum Weinheim e. V. set up an online database entitled “Jewish Traces in Weinheim” and made it available to the public in November 2008.

In addition to the two large churches, there are also free churches and congregations in Weinheim today , including an Evangelical Free Church congregation ( Baptists ), the Liebenzell congregation in Weinheim, a Seventh-day Adventist congregation (Adventist congregation ). The Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Apostolic Church are also represented in Weinheim. Muslim associations and groups entertain the Türkiyem-Mevlana - mosque , the umbrella organization for DITIB belongs.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of the city of Weinheim normally has 32 members who are directly elected for five years and have the title of “city council”. The choice is based on a false choice of suburbs , whereby the core city (21 seats) and the districts of Lützelsachsen (4), Hohensachsen / Ritschweier (2), Oberflockenbach (2), Sulzbach (2) and Rippenweier (1) are guaranteed a fixed number of seats. In addition, the mayor acts as the voting chairman of the municipal council.

In the 2019 local elections , there were also 4 compensatory seats, so that the council has 36 members by the next election in 2024. Overall, the 2019 election led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):

Party / list percent Seats
Green / alternative list 25.8% (+9.5) 9 (+3)
Free voters 21.5% (+2.3) 8 (± 0)
CDU 21.4% (−2.3) 8 (−1)
SPD 16.3% (−3.3) 6 (−2)
The left 6.8% (+1.9) 2 (± 0)
FDP 6.4% (+1.4) 2 (± 0)
German list 1.8% (+1.8) 1 (+1)

The turnout was 60.4% (+11.2).

Referendums

So far there have been two referendums in Weinheim.

On March 22, 1981, 9,406 eligible voters voted against a hotel construction project at Waidsee. Only 4,315 voted for it. The turnout was 45%. The number of votes required for the decision to be valid was 9,175 votes and was significantly exceeded. The main arguments of the hotel opponents were concerns about the leisure and recreational value of the lake.

On September 22, 2013, the question was: “Are you in favor of not designating commercial space in the“ Breitwiesen ”area, that is, that the previous designation of commercial space in the“ Hammelsbrunnen ”area is retained?” The referendum was one protracted dispute between the local farmers 'association and the citizens' initiative Breitwiesen with the city administration and almost the entire local council. An elaborate citizens' council procedure was carried out by the latter in order to refute the arguments of the broad meadow protectors. But the vote ended surprisingly clearly in favor of the citizens' initiative. 13,144 (38.33%) eligible voters voted yes, 9748 (28.43%) no.

Referendums

On December 10, 1951, the referendum took place on the south-western state . In Weinheim, 70% voted for the unification of Baden with Württemberg. The turnout was 72.2%.

On June 7, 1970 there was a referendum of the population in Baden on whether it should continue to be a federal state with Württemberg or whether it should be independent. With a turnout of 62.5%, 81.9% opted for Baden-Württemberg and only 18.1% for an independent Baden .

On November 27, 2011, the referendum on Stuttgart 21 took place in the state of Baden-Württemberg . The subject of the referendum was the state government's bill "S 21-Kündigungsgesetz", which provided for the withdrawal of the state's participation in project financing. Nationwide, a majority of 58.9 percent voted against the bill and therefore in favor of maintaining state funding for the project. In Weinheim 6045 people (50.65) voted with “Yes” and 5889 (49.35%) with “No”.

mayor

At the top of the city's mayor since April 1, 1956 Mayor , who is elected directly by the people for eight years. His permanent representative is the “First Alderman” with the official title “First Mayor”.

  • 1805–1807: Alexander Büchler
  • 1807–1817: Adam Leist
  • 1817–1829: Johann Gottlieb Leisering
  • 1829–1838: Albert Ludewig Grimm
  • 1838–1844: Philipp Kraft
  • 1844–1870: Friedrich Daniel Weisbrod
  • 1870–1872: Georg Peter Köhler II
  • 1872–1881: Johann Heinrich Fild
  • 1881–1885: Hermann Haas
  • 1885–1912: Heinrich Ehret

Manuel Just (independent) was elected to succeed Heiner Bernhard in June 2018 , and has been mayor of the neighboring community of Hirschberg since 2007 . However, due to an election challenge, he was only able to take up office in Weinheim in May 2019 and remained mayor of Hirschberg until then.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "By a curved golden tip, inside a red wine ladder (notch), divided, in front in black a red armored, red-tongued and red-crowned golden lion turned to the left, at the back roughened diagonally by silver and blue."

The red wine ladder already appears in the oldest city seal, of which an imprint from 1337 has been preserved. The wine ladder alludes to the first part of the place name Weinheim as a so-called speaking image, although the place name is not derived from wine, but from the Franconian personal name Wino, friend. The Palatinate Lion and the Wittelsbacher Rauten remind us of Weinheim's 550-year membership in the Electoral Palatinate . The shape and color of the coat of arms that is common today was determined in 1899.

Town twinning

Weinheim maintains town twinning with the following cities :

In the 1970s, partnerships between French municipalities and two formerly independent districts were established: Lützelsachsen became a partner municipality of Varces-Allières-et-Risset in the Isère department and Hohensachsen became a partner municipality of Anet in the Eure-et-Loir department .

Culture and sights

Coat of arms of Franz Ludwig von der Pfalz-Neuburg on the Teutonic Order
House
Typical alley in the old town of Weinheim
View from Sulzbach to the Weinheim quarry
The so-called Blue Hat, a tower belonging to the former city fortifications from around 1300
Lebanon cedar in the palace gardens from 1720

museum

The Museum of the City of Weinheim in the former official building of the Teutonic Order shows exhibits from Weinheim and the surrounding area: archeology from prehistoric to the Merovingian period with the so-called Nahebach bronze find of 76 everyday objects from the Urnfield period as the highlight, medieval settlement and modern social history of Weinheim as well as contemporary Works by regional artists.

music

Weinheim has a jazz club that is known beyond the region. "Muddy´s Club - Blues and Jazzclub Weinheim" has existed since 1984. The club has its domicile under the city library. In the club u. a. Willie Littlefield , Art Farmer , Silvia Droste , Rose Nabinger and Angela Brown .

Just a few meters away, in an old school building, you will find the “Café Central”, which has been around since 1996. Concerts take place there several times a week, including a newcomer competition every year. Many well-known artists from the fields of rock, heavy metal, hiphop and reggae have also played here, including Die Ärzte , Silbermond , KIZ and Cro (rappers) .

In 1995 the musical Glasnost, composed and written by the Weinheimers Fritz Metz and Werner Wiegand and staged by Hans Todt, premiered in the Weinheim town hall.

Originally conceived for three performances, the musical developed its own dynamic, from which three performances in Moscow in 1996, numerous other performances in Weinheim and a German-Russian student exchange developed. The musical is still present in the city's cultural life today.

Buildings

On the steeply sloping historic market square, the old town hall from 1557, the market fountain and the lion pharmacy from the beginning of the 17th century are particularly worth seeing.

The Protestant town church from 1731 and the Catholic St. Laurentius Church built in 1913 are also located here . The Protestant St. Peter's Church on the Weschnitz from 1912 is built in neo-Romanesque Art Nouveau and replaced a previous building in the same place. The St. Mark's Church from 1957 with large picture glass walls stands in the western part of the city.

From the former city fortifications, even larger parts of the city wall, the upper gate and of the fortification towers the blue hat, the witch tower and the red tower have been preserved.

The two castles, the Windeck castle ruins and the Wachenburg , the latter built by the Weinheim Seniors' Convent (foundation stone laid in 1907, construction period until 1928), are the city's landmarks .

The Palatinate Palace (1537) now houses the town hall, the former office of the Teutonic Order from 1710 the city museum.

The Gerberbachviertel in the Grundelbach valley is a largely closed and carefully restored late medieval craftsmen's quarter, which, with its Franconian half-timbered houses on winding streets, offers numerous romantic corners and interesting architectural and social-historical aspects.

Furthermore, numerous individual buildings are worth seeing, e.g. B. the Ulnersche Chapel , the Büdinger Hof, the Kerwehaus in the Gerberbachviertel and the Molitor'sche Haus.

St. Mark's Church , built in 1957 in brutalist style , has been a listed building since 1998.

In the district of Oberflockenbach is the Herz-Jesu-Kirche , which was built in 1957 by the church architect Albert Boßlet as an octagonal central building with a campanile and which was declared a cultural monument in 2007 . The choir picture and the windows are by the painter Curd Lessig.

In the district of Lützelsachsen there are some half-timbered houses, the oldest of which was built in 1580. The former town hall dates from the 17th century.

GegenDenkmal: memorial for the victims of violence, war and persecution .

The war memorial on Bahnhofstrasse was built during the National Socialist era . The completed in 1999, against monument to the victims of violence, war and persecution is in direct line of sight to the war memorial on the opposite side of the Bahnhofstrasse, at the end of Ehret road. Halfway between the two memorials was the Weinheim synagogue , inaugurated in 1906 , which was blown up by the Nazis during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938.

Parks

Castle Park

It contains one of the largest and oldest cedars in Germany . It is a Lebanon cedar that was planted around 1720 and is now 23 meters high, has a crown diameter of 27 meters and a trunk circumference of about 5.20 meters. Some extremely tall and old ginkgo trees can also be viewed there.

Exotic forest

The exotic forest in Weinheim is an arboretum with an area of ​​around 60 hectares and 170 tree species. It adjoins the palace park to the east and was laid out by Baron Christian von Berckheim from 1860 onwards. Due to the mild climate here u. a. Trees of gods , Japanese crescent firs and Atlas cedars flourish. The exotic forest is particularly known for its population of sequoias , which can reach heights of up to 60 meters.

Six mill valley

Weinheim has the six mill valley with the mills:

  • Carlebachmühle
  • Kinscherf Mill
  • Upper Fuchs mill
  • Lower Fuchs mill
  • Hildebrand's Upper Mill
  • Hildebrand's Lower Mill

More Attractions

Leisure and sports facilities

  • Hector-Sport-Centrum ( children's sports school at TSG Weinheim)
  • Sepp Herberger Stadium
  • Indoor swimming pool Weinheim - HAWEI (Stadtwerke Weinheim GmbH)
  • Forest swimming pool (also TSG Turnerbad)
  • Waidsee lido
  • Miramar leisure pool
  • Sports and exercise center (with indoor pool, TSG hall, beach volleyball)
  • Hohensachsen indoor swimming pool
  • Athletics Club Sports Park
  • Glider airfield in the Altau
  • TSG Waldstadion
  • Riding facility of the RuF Weinheim
  • Shooting range of the sport shooting club Weinheim

Sports

With AC Weinheim and TSG Weinheim , to which the American football team Weinheim Longhorns belongs, the two sports clubs in North Baden with the largest number of members are located. The Weinheim / Bergstrasse section of the German Alpine Club , which was founded in 1906 and operates the DAV climbing center Weinheim, is the third largest club in the city with over 3,000 members. Weinheim is also home to the Bergstrasse cycling team , the TV 1920 Wünschmichelbach fistball club , the MSC Oberflockenbach motorsport club and the Weinheim rifle club. Furthermore, the Luftsportverein Weinheim 1932 e. Is located at the Weinheim glider airfield in the Altau about five kilometers northwest of the city center. V. resident. Weinheim became known nationwide when FV 09 Weinheim threw record champions FC Bayern Munich with a 1-0 victory in the first round of the DFB Cup on August 4, 1990 .

Regular events

Flag decoration during a WSC conference
  • March: summer train
  • May / June (on the Ascension weekend): Meeting of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention
  • June: Ox festival of the Landerlebnis Weinheim e. V.
  • June – August: Weinheim cultural summer
  • June: Scrubbing festival in Ritschweier, “ox festival” on the Großhans farm
  • July: Weinheim evening criterion
  • May – September: Kerwe in Rippenweier, Sulzbach, Lützelsachsen, Oberflockenbach and Hohensachsen
  • August (second weekend in August): Weinheimer Kerwe (Friday to Monday)
  • October: Bergstrasse wine festival in Lützelsachsen

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Weinheim is located in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region , which is the seventh strongest economic region in Germany.

The city is the headquarters of Freudenberg , a supplier to various sectors such as the automotive, mechanical engineering, textile, construction and telecommunications industries. Well-known products are the Vileda cleaning articles and the Simmerring . Other companies whose headquarters are in Weinheim are nora systems , the specialist publisher Wiley-VCH , the internationally active Naturin Viscofan GmbH and the Trans-o-flex Express logistics group .

traffic

Road traffic

Weinheim is conveniently located on the federal autobahn 5 Frankfurt – Karlsruhe, where the A 659 to Viernheim and Mannheim begins at the Weinheimer Kreuz junction . The federal highways 3 and 38 also lead through Weinheim, each of which has bypasses . In 1999 the 2.7 kilometer long Saukopftunnel was inaugurated, which connects Weinheim with Birkenau.

Public transport

Since 1846 Weinheim has had a railway connection to the German mainline network through the Weinheim train station with IC / EC stop on the Main-Neckar Railway . Line 5 of Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (formerly Oberrheinische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft AG ), a narrow-gauge railway developed as a modern light rail , also connects Weinheim with the smaller towns along the Bergstrasse to Heidelberg , as well as Viernheim and Mannheim . Furthermore, Weinheim is the starting point of the Weschnitz Valley Railway to Fürth im Odenwald , from which the Überwald Railway branched off to Wald-Michelbach , as well as the Weinheim – Viernheim railway line (currently without traffic) , which formerly ran to Worms .

With Mannheim, an ICE junction is very close, as is Mannheim City Airport . The international airport Frankfurt am Main can be reached within approx. 40 minutes by train and car. To reach the state capital Stuttgart , it takes about 1.5 hours by car and 55 minutes by InterCity . Karlsruhe can be reached in approx. 50 minutes.

A total of seven city bus routes operate in Weinheim, six of which were operated by Weinheimer Busunternehmen GmbH (WEBU), a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Weinheim. These also open up the northern neighboring communities of Hemsbach and Laudenbach . The "Zweiburgenbus" runs as an excursion line on Sundays to the two Weinheim castles, Windeck and Wachenburg . The main transfer point in the city network is the main train station. The WEBU did not have its own buses, but commissioned vBus GmbH , a subsidiary of Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH , with the mileage. A new line concept was introduced in 2014. The city bus routes have been operated by the BRN since December 2018 . The BRN has acquired 13 new buses for this purpose.

The incorporated Odenwald districts are served by a line operated by the Gersprenztal transport company. In addition, regional bus routes run to the Odenwald valleys starting from Weinheim.

Weinheim belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN). For trips to Darmstadt and Frankfurt, the tariffs of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) also apply . The Hessenticket is also valid in Weinheim, as parts of Hesse such as Viernheim and the Weschnitz Valley are only connected to the rest of Hesse via Weinheim by rail.

media

The Weinheimer Nachrichten and a regional edition of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ( Weinheimer Rundschau ) appear as daily newspapers in Weinheim .

Radio Wachenburg from Weinheim used to broadcast (today, after several restructuring: Radio sunshine live , Mannheim).

Public facilities

Weinheim is the seat of a local court , which belongs to the district court district of Mannheim , and a tax office . Moreover, has Landratsamt Rhein-Neckar-Kreis several branch offices (u. A. With DMV, forestry and Social Office). There is also a police station. The medical service of the health insurance Baden-Württemberg is based in Weinheim and there is a district hospital, today GRN Clinic Weinheim , as well as the GRN care center Weinheim .

The city is the seat of the Ladenburg-Weinheim church district of the Evangelical Church in Baden and the Heidelberg-Weinheim deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

education

Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk Weinheim

Weinheim has three general high schools ( Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium , Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Schule and a private high school), two secondary schools (Friedrich-Realschule and Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Schule), the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Schule (special needs education and advice center with a focus on learning) and several primary and secondary schools, namely Albert Schweitzer primary school, Carl Orff primary school, Friedrich primary school, Lützelsachsen primary school, Rippenweier primary school, Pestalozzi primary school, Sepp Herberger primary school Hohensachsen, Theodor-Heuss- Oberflockenbach primary school, forest primary school, Karrillon secondary school with Werkrealschule and Dietrich Bonhoeffer school.

The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is the sponsor of the three Weinheim vocational schools , the Johann-Philipp-Reis-Schule with a business school (commercial school), the Hans-Freudenberg-Schule with a technical grammar school (commercial school), the Helen-Keller-Schule ( School for home economics, social affairs and educational sciences) as well as the Maria Montessori School (special education and advice center with a focus on intellectual development). In addition, there is the private Peter Koch School (special education and advice center with a focus on emotional and social development).

Since 1938 Weinheim has been the seat of the Academy of German Bakers' Crafts Weinheim (formerly known as the Federal College of the German Bakers' Crafts) as the central advanced training facility for the German bakery trade , supported by all state guild associations and the Central Association of the German Bakers' Trade. Here u. a. developed the Weinheim bread language, which has become widely used as a description of the enjoyment of bread.

The student initiative for children , which offers socially disadvantaged children and young people in children's homes and schools nationwide free tutoring, is also based in Weinheim.

There are also 27 kindergartens , an adult education center , a music school and a city library.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Weinheim has granted the following people honorary citizenship:

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked in the city

  • Prince Friedrich Johann Nepomuk zu Schwarzenberg (1774–1795), died as an Austrian officer in the city and has a tomb in the local St. Laurentius Church
  • Karl Friedrich Bender (1806–1869), theologian, educator, head of the educational institution for boys
  • Moritz Pfälzer (1869–1936), lawyer and chairman of the Jewish community in Weinheim
  • Wilhelm Fabricius (1894–1989), forest scientist and writer, was a forest assessor and supervisor of the exotic forest in Weinheim.
  • Martin Irle (1927–2013), social psychologist
  • Renate Lepsius (1927–2004), 1972–1987 member of the Bundestag (SPD), founder of the Weinheim Art Funding Association
  • Ingrid Noll (* 1935), author (among others of “ Die Apothekerin ”), lives in Weinheim.
  • Günter Deckert (* 1940), NPD functionary , city councilor from 1975 to 1994, again since 2019, lives in Weinheim.
  • Hans Georg Junginger (* 1943), 1996–2009 member of the state parliament (SPD), lives in Weinheim.
  • Peter Bettermann (* 1947), 1997–2012 spokesman for the Freudenberg Group, lives in Weinheim.
  • Jochen Pöhlert (* 1957), jazz guitarist and music teacher, lives and works in Weinheim.
  • Fritz Walter (* 1960), soccer player, played for FV Weinheim in his youth.
  • Anke Helfrich (* 1966), jazz pianist, lives in Weinheim.
  • Markus Kuhn (* 1986), American football player, played for the Weinheim Longhorns

literature

  • Ute gray, Barbara Guttmann: Weinheim - history of a city . Diesbach Medien, Weinheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-936468-40-3 .
  • Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim district: Without the city of Schwetzingen . Munich 1967
  • State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and districts Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description .
    • Vol. 1: General part . Karlsruhe 1966
    • Vol. 3: The city of Mannheim and the municipalities of the Mannheim district . Karlsruhe 1970
  • Josef Fresin: The history of the city of Weinheim . Beltz, Weinheim 1998.
  • Erich Keyser (Ed.): Badisches Städtebuch. Volume IV 2 . Stuttgart 1959 (German city book. Handbook of urban history - on behalf of the working group of historical commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Municipalities)
  • Siegfried Demuth: The flora of Weinheim and the surrounding area . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher, ISBN 978-3-89735-115-8 .
  • Peter Fuchs, Ferdinand Müller, Carsten Lucas: Weinheim . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 1997.
  • Angelika Thieme: Weinheim. The old town as a whole is under monument protection. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 34th year 2005, issue 3, pp. 151–158 ( PDF )
  • Wolfgang Löckel: Weinheim and its railways . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88255-233-1
  • Rudolf Kreutzer: Local family book Hirschberg / Bergstrasse. Leutershausen and Greater Saxony including the Heiligkreuz church branch with the towns of Heiligkreuz, Rippenweier, Ursenbach, Oberflockenbach, Steinklingen, Rittenweier. 1675-1900 . Hirschberg / Bergstraße: Cultural Association 2007 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 125)

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