Zuzenhausen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '  N , 8 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Rhein-Neckar district
Height :	148 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.64 km 2
Residents:	2217 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	190 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74939
Area code :	06226
License plate :	HD
Community key :	08 2 26 101
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 25 74939 Zuzenhausen
Website :	www.zuzenhausen.de
Mayor :	Hagen Zuber
Location of the community Zuzenhausen in the Rhein-Neckar district

Zuzenhausen is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the Rhein-Neckar district .

geography

Location and natural space

Zuzenhausen is located in the northern Kraichgau about 8 km from Sinsheim in the Elsenz Valley . The castle and the historic town center are to the east of Elsenz, which crosses the town. An extensive quarry forms the natural eastern boundary of the settlement, which has recently expanded considerably to the north and west. The northern boundary of the municipality is partly formed by the Schwarzbach .

The district extends over 1164 hectares. Of this, 13.4 percent is settlement and traffic area, 60.2 percent is used for agriculture and 24.6 percent is forested.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Meckesheim , in the east on Eschelbronn and Waibstadt , in the south on the city of Sinsheim and in the west on Dielheim .

Community structure

The community of Zuzenhausen includes the village of Zuzenhausen and the farmstead Schloß (manor).

history

Zuzenhausen was probably founded in the 6th or 7th century by Frankish settlers who settled there after the victory against the Alemanni .

The place was first mentioned in 769 as Zozenhusen , later also occasionally called Zuzanheim , and belonged to the monasteries Lorsch and Hirsau . Together with the Meckesheimer Zent , Zuzenhausen came under Palatinate sovereignty in 1330 .

The local rulership , however, was held by the Speyer Monastery , which they gave as a fief to the Lords of Venningen . The Venningers had owned parts of the place since the 14th century, from 1637 they owned the whole place. During the Thirty Years War , Zuzenhausen was sacked in 1622 by passing Bavarian troops and in 1634 by Swedish troops. After a battle, Bavarian troops again destroyed the remains of the town and castle in 1643, which is why only 9 families lived in the village after the end of the war. Zuzenhausen burned down again in 1689 because of the wars of conquest of Louis XIV , the plague of which only ended after the time of Napoleon . In 1803 the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved and Zuzenhausen fell to Baden , where it initially belonged to the Neckargemünd district office and from 1813 to the Sinsheim office . In the 19th century, many Zuzenhausen residents emigrated to America because of price increases and famine . During the Second World War, Zuzenhausen, after Eppingen , was one of the communities in the former Sinsheim district most severely affected by the effects of the war.

In 1939 there were 921 inhabitants, at the end of 1945 there were 1095. During the Baden-Württemberg municipal reform , Zuzenhausen was able to keep its independence and since 1974 has formed an administrative community with Sinsheim and Angelbachtal . During the district reform in 1973 , the district of Sinsheim was dissolved and the community was incorporated into the newly founded Rhein-Neckar district. In 1999 Zuzenhausen had more than 2000 inhabitants for the first time.

Population development

year	1871	1900	1933	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	987	1020	895	1468	1500	1715	1905	1919	1947	2036	2135	2182	2153

politics

Town hall of Zuzenhausen

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 10 elected, honorary councilors and the mayor as chairman with voting rights.

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

Community of Independent Voters (GUW)	49.0% (+5.2)	5 seats (+1)
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	27.2% (−3.3)	3 seats (± 0)
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	23.8% (−1.9)	2 seats (−1)

The turnout was 67.8% (+10.9).

mayor

On July 1, 2018, Mayor Hagen Zuber was elected for a term of eight years with a majority of 98.8 percent of the votes cast.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In silver, a red house with an open gate and two red lilies crossed diagonally in front of the roof turret.

The coat of arms goes back to a court seal from 1748. It was designed in 1905 by the Baden General State Archives based on this seal. The house refers to the place name by talking . The lily staffs are taken from the coat of arms of the Lords of Venningen , who ruled Zuzenhausen for centuries.

The flag is red and white and was awarded by the Interior Ministry in 1963.

Partnerships

Zuzenhausen maintains partnership relationships with the city of La Colle-sur-Loup on the Côte d'Azur in France and the municipality of Crostau in Upper Lusatia in Saxony .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Zuzenhausen Castle

Zuzenhausen Castle, already mentioned in the 13th century, can only be made out as an overgrown ruin. After several extensions in the middle of the 16th century, the castle was the seat of the Lords of Venningen . After the War of the Palatinate Succession , the building fell into disrepair. The ruin cannot be entered due to its dilapidation.

Agnestal Castle

Agnestal Castle

To the west of the village, on the road to Horrenberg in the Seebach valley, is Agnestal Castle (also Seehilder Castle ), a three-story Baroque building with tower-like side wings, a mighty hipped roof and associated farm buildings, built from 1716 by Major General Johann Hermann von Freudenberg from the Palatinate 1780 owned and completed by Carl Philipp von Venningen and his wife Anna Maria geb. von Hutten, whose alliance coat of arms adorns the building.

At the beginning of the 19th century the castle was converted into a farm. The management was given up after the Second World War, and the castle has recently served as a discotheque. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim has been using the castle grounds as a training center since the second half of the 2009/10 Bundesliga . In 2008/09 the castle was renovated and expanded for around 14 million euros. A training center with five sports fields was created.

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  Protestant church

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  Catholic Church

Churches

The Catholic Church was built in 1826. The nave is classicistic while the tower is still medieval. The interior of the church was completely renovated in 2008. The organ comes from Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell .

The Protestant church was built in 1831 in the classicist Weinbrenner style . In 2009, the old were steel Notglocken by a new bells replaced bronze bells.

Other buildings

The old school house dates from 1897/98. In 2002, the Häusel primary school was moved into. Since then, the building has been used as the club's house.

There are numerous well-preserved historic half-timbered houses in the village.

The town hall is a modern functional building from 1967 and was renovated in 1998. It replaced a baroque building in the 1960s, because back then there were grants for a new building, but not for renovation. A fire station is integrated in the building .

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  Old school

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  Half-timbered house

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  Dachsenfranz Brewery

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  Town hall on the Elsenz

Sports

In 2001 the Dietmar Hopp youth development center was opened in Zuzenhausen to promote youth work by the soccer clubs FC Zuzenhausen and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .

Regular events

Dachsenfranz

The Dachsenfranzfest takes place every two years . This festival commemorates Francesco Regali alias Dachsenfranz , an original of Italian origin who stayed in the region in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1866 he took part in the war of the Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi , but had to flee because he struck down a despotic superior. His years of escape also led him to the forests of the Kraichgau. He lived in caves, was a master at trapping and sold furs and badger fat as the basis of his special ointment.

At the Dachsenfranzfest, the place is set back to the time around 1900 by depicting old handicrafts and customs and the story of this trapper is recreated. There are several plays about the Dachsenfranz that are performed in the open-air theater. The initiator of this event is the local Adler brewery, which has been successfully selling its beers under the brand name "Dachsenfranz" for several years.

Every year there is also a village kerwe followed by a kerwe parade. This annual campaign was launched by the Briggehossler Kerweverein .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Zuzenhausen stop is on the Elsenz Valley Railway . It is served by the S5 (Heidelberg - Sinsheim - Eppingen) of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn . There are also bus connections to Sinsheim and Heidelberg. Zuzenhausen belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association .

The federal highway 45 (Neckargemünd – Sinsheim) runs through the village and offers a connection to the federal highway 6 running south .

The Kraichgau-Stromberg Castle Tour runs through Zuzenhausen , an approximately 52-kilometer regional bike route that connects the town with the surrounding towns of Hoffenheim and Eschelbronn.

education

There are two primary schools and a community library in Zuzenhausen. The Free Active Montessori School LernWerk eV has existed in Zuzenhausen since January 1st, 2010. It moved into the former kindergarten and was previously located in Neckargemünd. It covers the 1st to 10th school year. Secondary schools are located in the surrounding communities and cities.

Movies

The 1949 American screwball comedy I was a male war bride by director Howard Hawks was filmed in Zuzenhausen, among others.

literature

• Ernst Boy: Zuzenhausen: picture of a village; a home book for the 1200th anniversary . Zuzenhausen 1978
• Adolf M. Hirn, Gabriele Süskind (ed.), Jürgen Schütz (ed.): The Rhein-Neckar district . Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0597-3

Web links

Commons : Zuzenhausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Zuzenhausen  - travel guide

• Zuzenhausen community
• Zuzenhausen , description and illustration of the historical Zuzenhausen on the website of badischewanderungen.de
• Reconstruction drawing Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg, status: December 31, 2004
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . P. 415
4. ↑ http://daten2.verwaltungsportal.de/daten/seitengenerator/geschichte_zuzenhausen.pdf History of Zuzenhausen (PDF file)
5. ↑ Communications from the Württ. And Bad. State Statistical Office No. 2: Results of the population census on December 31, 1945 in North Baden
6. ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg, as of 1991 as of December 31.
7. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office: Municipal elections 2019, Zuzenhausen ; Zuzenhausen municipality : municipal council election 2019 ; accessed May 31, 2019.
8. ^ Community Zuzenhausen - election result of the mayoral election on July 1st, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018 . 
9. ^ Herwig John, Gabriele Wüst: Wappenbuch Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, ISBN 3-929366-27-4 , p. 136
10. ↑ Kraichgau-Stromberg: Castle Tour | Vacation country Baden-Wuerttemberg. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .