Wurmberg

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Enzkreis
Height :	450 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.35 km 2
Residents:	3190 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	434 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	75449
Area code :	07044
License plate :	PF
Community key :	08 2 36 068
LOCODE :	DE WMG
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Uhlandstrasse 15 ; 75449 Wurmberg
Website :	www.wurmberg.de
Mayor :	Jörg-Michael Teply
Location of the municipality of Wurmberg in the Enzkreis

Wurmberg is a municipality in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg , about ten kilometers east of the city of Pforzheim in Heckengäu .

geography

Geographical location

Wurmberg is located on the so-called Platte, a mountain range in the northern Black Forest.

Local map

The municipality of Wurmberg provides an interactive map on its website, in which information for citizens and tourists, a street search and an aerial photo can be called up.

Community structure

The districts of Wurmberg and Neubärental belong to the municipality of Wurmberg. The Waldensian settlement of Lucerne has risen in Wurmberg .

history

Half-timbered house

Wurmberg was first mentioned in a document in 1221 when a chapel was built there. In the subsequent period the secured Monastery Maulbronn the rule over the town. With the monastery, Wurmberg came to Württemberg after the War of the Bavarian-Palatinate Succession in 1504 . At the end of the 17th century, Protestant Waldensians who had to flee Italy were settled in the place . The foundation of the district Neubärental in 1721 goes back to religious refugees: A theologian from Bärenthal ( Hohenzollern ), who converted from Catholicism to Protestantism with some families, had to leave his home town.

Towards the end of World War II , French soldiers shot at Wurmberg in April 1945, destroying a third of the buildings and killing nine residents. Today all villages with the name Bärent (h) al are amicably connected through a Eurobärenthal meeting and celebrate church service together, e.g. B. in the Feldbergkirche.

Population development

The population figures according to the respective territorial status are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg ( main residences only ).

year	Residents
1654	79
December 1, 1871 ¹	1126
December 1, 1880 ¹	1181
December 1, 1890 ¹	1258
1 December 1900 ¹	1229
December 1, 1910 ¹	1213
June 16, 1925 ¹	1176
June 16, 1933 ¹	1193
May 17, 1939 ¹	1146
September 13, 1950 ¹	1393

year	Residents
June 6, 1961 ¹	1571
May 27, 1970 ¹	2025
December 31, 1980	2191
May 25, 1987 ¹	2241
December 31, 1990	2519
December 31, 1995	2620
December 31, 2000	2826
December 31, 2005	2904
December 31, 2010	3014
December 31, 2015	3105

religion

Evangelical Petruskirche

For a long time, Wurmberg was provided with spiritual care via Wiernsheim . Only long after the construction of a chapel in the 13th century , the place became churchly independent.

Evangelically reformed

Neubärental was built in 1720 by Catholics from Bärenthal in Hohenzollern who converted to the Reformed denomination. In 1720 about 40 people moved from Bärenthal in Hohenzollern to Wurmberg.

Waldenses

The Lucerne settlement was a politically independent municipality from 1699 to 1808 with a Waldensian church and a French-speaking school. In 1725 they formed a joint parish with the Reformed neighbors from Neubärental, which maintained bilingual services and a school until it was incorporated into the Evangelical Church in Württemberg in 1824.

politics

town hall

mayor

1978–2010: Helmut Sickmüller (independent)
since 2010: Jörg-Michael Teply

Municipal council

The local election on May 26, 2019 in Wurmberg led to the following final result. The turnout was 63.05% (2014: 56.9%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Political party	Results 2019	Seats 2019	2014 result	Seats 2014
CDU	30.11%	4th	39.3%	5
New voters' association (NWV)	35.21%	4th	32.0%	4th
Free electoral association	34.68%	4th	28.7%	3

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The nearest long-distance train station is Pforzheim Hbf , about 10 km west of Wurmberg. The Niefern stop on the Pforzheim – Mühlacker line is even closer . The bus routes 739, 761, 763 and 769 of the transport association Pforzheim-Enzkreis connect Wurmberg with Pforzheim.

education

Wurmberg has its own primary school .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Richard Krust (born August 4, 1928), archer

Others

Wurmberg single-blade wind turbine

There is a single-blade wind turbine on a farm south of Wurmberg , possibly the only one in Baden-Württemberg. It has a hub height of 13.7 meters and an output of 5 kW. Your rotor blade is 4 meters long.