Königsfeld im Schwarzwald

King in the Black Forest is a municipality in the Schwarzwald- Baar-Kreis in Baden- Württemberg. The spa is one of the centers of the Moravian Church.

• 2.1 religions

• 3.1 municipal

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Music

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education
• 5.3 Attractions and leisure

• 6.1 freeman
• 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.3 personalities connected with the community

Geography

Geographical location

The eponymous town is located on the eastern edge of the Black Forest, about 11 km from Villingen -Schwenningen near the federal road 33

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north by Hardt and Eschbronn in the district of Rottweil, in the east of rooms ob Rottweil and Niedereschach, to the south of Villingen- Schwenningen and Mönchweiler and to the west by the town of St. Georgen.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Book Mountain, Castle Hill, Erdmann Hamlet, King Field, Neuhausen and hamlets with a total of 40 officially designated districts ( residential places). These are spatially identical to the previously independent municipalities of the same name. The official designation of the districts is done by preceding the name of the community and by a hyphen adjusted separately the name of each hamlet. Except in the district of King Field villages are established in terms of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with its own mayor and Ortschaftsrat as its chairman in the districts.

The hamlet book accommodation include the village carrying a mountain, the tines Bregnitz, Brogen, glass dump, dumps, Lochbronn, Martin Weiler, Gols, Mucke hole Mühllehen, Nägelesee, Siehdichfür and Waldau and residential places Fürndel, children's sanatorium ( Donishof ), Linde hole Litzelbronn and Rain houses. For the district of Castle Hill are the village of Castle Hill, the tines Däplisberg, foxhole, Hutzelberg, nuns mountain and Winterberg ( with castle mountain grown together ), the homestead farmer fields and the living spaces Rear Hutzelberg, nuns stockpile, nuns mill and restoring forest. The hamlet hamlet Erdmann Erdmann part of the village hamlet. For the district of the village king king field field belongs in the Black Forest. For the district of Neuhausen Neuhausen include the village and the residential places at the King Street fields, in moss and Katzenbühl. For Weiler include the village hamlets and residential places Dörnen, Gaisbrunnen, Church moss and Lerch field. In the district of King box was the leavened in King Field in the Black Forest Farm of Hörnlishof.

History

Scheduled settlement founding of the Moravian Church on the basis of the Royal Württemberg Regulation from 1 September 1806.

Today's church was built as part of the Baden-Württemberg district reform on 1 January 1975. Already on 1 January 1973, until then independent municipality hamlet was incorporated. On January 1, 1974, the incorporation of Castle Hill and Erdmann hamlet followed. On January 1, 1975, the municipalities king box combined in the Black Forest, Book Mountain and Neuhausen near Villingen to the municipality King in the Black Forest.

On a spur of the Hutzelbergs are the remains of the castle Bear Mountain from the 11th century.

Coat of arms of the former municipalities

Hamlet

Castle Hill

Erdmann Weiler

Book mountain

Neuhausen

Religions

With the total community consisting of the cooperation of the Moravian Church and Parish of the Baden State Church King field is predominantly Protestant. In addition to the three regional church evangelical churches but also the United Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Apostolic Church are represented in King Field.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal elections on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Culture and sights

King Field is located on the Swabian poet street, East Way, the Black Forest - Querweg Rottweil - Lahr and the German Clock Route, which passes by many sights.

Museums

In King field is the Albert Schweitzer Museum in Schweitzer 's former residence and a museum in the church building, which deals with the history of the place and the Moravian Church. In the district of book mountain there is a village museum.

Music

The Lutheran Brethren has a very extensive Blastradition and brass choir of the Evangelical congregation Total plays regularly at church festivals in the nucleus in the church, in the square, in the streets and even at funerals. From King field comes the brass ensemble Brass Euro. There are also two music clubs in the community: the music and Trachtenverein Neuhausen eV and the Trachtenkapelle book mountain eV Both have a long tradition. Accompany you in their districts ecclesiastical and secular celebrations with their brass band.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The community is accessible by a number of regional bus lines and heard the traffic group Schwarzwald- Baar at. The nearest railway stations are Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald ( 8 km) and Villingen in the Black Forest (11 km), both of which lie at the Baden Black Forest Railway. Until 1981 there was also the station cell Peter King Field with Peter Zell. The nearest motorway connections are AS Rottweil (A81 Stuttgart-Singen ) and AS Donaueschingen (A 864 ) or motorway junction Bad Durrheim (A 81). In the immediate vicinity of the B 33 passes.

Education

With the private Zinzendorfschulen - junior high school, high school, vocational high schools and technical schools for educators and child care - primary and secondary school royal box with Werkrealschule and the Friedrich von Schiller primary school in the village of Castle Hill and primary school Neuhausen King field offers a broad training program. In addition to an evangelical kindergarten in the nucleus exist municipal kindergartens in the districts Neuhausen, book mountain, Erdmann hamlets and mountain book. The Association Nature Kindergarten Magic Forest King Field eV operates similar to the concept of the forest kindergarten, since 2008 a nature kindergarten. The starting points are two kindergarten own Bauwägen in the garb Gaienbühl on the district Neuhausen.

Attractions and leisure

The place is located right on the German Clock Road.

• Albert - Schweitzer-Haus
• Farms and mill trails
• Village Museum (Book Berg) with region-specific clocks and their painting and Black Forest clocks of two centuries
• Sun- experience path
• Heated outdoor pool " Solara "
• The Grade II listed, historic St. Nicholas Church in the village of Berg book dates from the 11th century. In January 2013, two minors from the Schwarzwald- Baar-Kreis destroyed several valuable windows and their stained glass. The resulting property damage amounts to several 10,000 euros.
• Ruin Waldau

Famous people

Freeman

Albert Schweitzer; he built in 1923 in the district of King field house, which was occupied by his wife and their daughter until 1933 during his stays in Lambaréné. 1949, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Albert Schweitzer was awarded honorary citizenship of King field. The Albert -Schweizer - house since 2001 as a forum for information and communication.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Uttendörfer Otto (1870-1954), theologian and ornithologist
• Werner Besch (* 1928), German scholar and university professor
• Tonio Hölscher (* 1940), archaeologist and university professor
• Peter Heinrich ( * 1941 ), Professor of Social Psychology and former rector of a university of applied sciences
• Alexander Heisler ( born 1949 ), physician, concert manager, founder of the Freiburg Zelt-Musik - Festival and support the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg

Persons who are connected with the community

• Gerhard Domagk (1895-1964), pathologist, bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, died in King field; in the district of Castle Hill, a street is named after him
• Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), director and photographer, lived temporarily in King Field