Ahorn, Baden-Württemberg
Maple is a municipality in the Main-Tauber district, in Baden -Württemberg.
- 2.1 districts 2.1.1 Berolzheim
- 2.1.2 on Maple
- 2.1.3 Eubigheim
- 2.1.4 High City
- 2.1.5 Schillingstadt
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 traffic
- 4.2 Education
- 5.1 partnership
- 5.2 Museums
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical Location
Maple is located about 400 m above sea level. NN height on one of the highest points in the Main- Tauber district in the eastern land.
In the district of Maple book on the Erfa springs.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are the communities Hard home in the Neckar - Odenwald-Kreis and Königheim and the city Lauda- Königshofen, in the east of the city Boxberg, in the south of the town of Ravenstein and the west by the municipality Rosenberg, the latter two again in the Neckar - Odenwald district in the north.
Community structure
The community of Maple consists of the formerly independent communities Berolzheim, book on maple, Eubigheim, city and Hohen Schillingstadt. For the former municipality Berolzheim part of the village Berolzheim. For the former town book on the village include maple book on maple and the hamlet Schwarzenbrunn and dialed villages Arnoldesfelden, Habihetal, Osternach and Rumphsthusen. For the former municipality Eubigheim include the village ( sub) Eubigheim and the hamlet Obereubigheim. For the former municipality chief city is the village chief city.
History
On 1 December 1971, the municipality of Maple was founded through the merger of the former municipalities Eubigheim (including Obereubigheim ), book on Maple and High City. After section 1936 Schwarzenbrunn had already been incorporated. It was named after the 2,000 -acre maple forest. 1973, the hamlet was incorporated Neidelsbach after a vote of the population. 1 January 1975 maple was united by the municipal reform law with the community Berolzheim, at the same time Schilling city was incorporated into the new church.
Since its foundation in 1973 the church belongs to the Main- Tauber-Kreis at ( 1973-1974 Tauber circle). Previously, the individual municipalities were allocated to the defunct county book and should be connected with this also the newly formed Neckar- Odenwald-Kreis. The distance to the city of Mosbach of about 40 kilometers and the separation associated with an orientation towards Neckar of the maple forest, from which parts of the city Lauda- Königshofen belong, however, argued against this step and for the traffic- favorable Tauberbischofsheim as the new county seat.
Districts
The main towns of the former municipalities have their own administrations.
Berolzheim
Berolzheim was first mentioned in documents in 1050. First royal estate belonged Berolzheim from the 15th century to the Electorate of Mainz, where it belonged to the district of Tauberbischofsheim. As part of the mediatization of the place was due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss circuit beginning in 1803 initially with the Principality of Leiningen and after its dissolution in 1806 the Grand Duchy of Baden.
Book on Maple
Book on maple was first mentioned in documents in 1101. For the 13th century, the basic rule of the nobles of home herb is proven. Later, the town belonged to the monks of Rosenberg.
Eubigheim
In the year 850 Eubigheim was first mentioned.
High city
High town was first mentioned in documents in 1242. The local nobility of the knights of the High Staden long dominated the place.
Schillingstadt
The Lorsch Codex mentioned Schillingstadt those for the year 773
Religions
For 1557, the introduction of the Reformation in today's busy district book by Albrecht von Rosenberg. Book and chief city are characterized evangelical today. In Eubigheim, Berolzheim and Schilling city are Roman Catholic churches, and Eubigheim Schillingstadt each have a Protestant church.
Policy
Parish council
In the local elections of 7 June 2009, the civil list and the volunteers came to constituency association. All 13 council members belong to the civil list. The two candidates in the constituency association volunteers accounted for only 3.67 % and 2.86% of the vote.
The turnout was 63.6 %, which was 3.3 percentage points lower than in the local elections of 2004. The council consists of 12 men and a woman at.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms of maple reads: " In an oblique red silver maple leaf. "
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Maple has the same connection point to the Federal Highway 81 (Würzburg -Stuttgart ), for the northern districts and another with the name Boxberg in Berolzheim. In the district Berolzheim the federal highway 292 ( Mosbach- Lauda- Königshofen ) crosses the municipality and combines it with Tauberfranken and the Odenwald.
The train station in Eubigheim is located on the franc train (Stuttgart -Würzburg ) with the connection to the regional traffic.
Education
Maple has since the mid- 1970s on a common primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule in the district Eubigheim, the " learning style maple ". The Learning House is one of 34 starters schools that will be starting in the school year 2012/ 2013, the first joint Baden-Württemberg schools. Previously Berolzheim, book and Schillingstadt had also their own primary schools. The community has organized ecclesiastically four kindergartens, two Protestant and Roman Catholic.
Culture and sights
Partnership
The municipality maintains partnership relations with Plesder in France. For this was in the 1990s, the association Friends of Maple - founded Plesder.
Museums
In the district of Berolzheim vHeimatverein Zehntweghütte operates a local history museum, dedicated to the craft and the everyday life in the 19th century.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Oskar Wacker (1898-1972), politician ( Centre Party, later CDU)
- Rudolf Müller (1915-2011), politician ( FDP), Member of Parliament
- Harald Sommer (1930-2010), German painter and copyist
- Klaus Engelhardt ( born 1932 in the district Schillingstadt ), Protestant theologian, former bishop of the Evangelical Church in Baden