Mahlberg

Mahlberg is a small city in southwestern Baden- Wuerttemberg and part of the Ortenaukreis.

3.1 municipal
3.2 Coat of Arms
3.3 partnerships

4.1 Museums

5.1 traffic
5.2 Renewable Energies
5.3 Formation

6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
6.2 Other famous residents

Geography

Geographical Location

Mahlberg lies between the foothills of the Black Forest and the Rhine in the Upper Rhine Plain between the cities of Freiburg im Breisgau in the south (about 40 km) and Offenburg in the north ( about 26 miles).

Neighboring communities

Immediate neighboring towns are tipping home in the north ( behind follows Lahr ), Grafenhausen to the west across the motorway and 5 Ettenheim in the southeast ( with the district of Altdorf ).

Boroughs

Mahlberg to include the formerly independent municipality Orschweier, in which about one-third of the total population lives. To town Mahlberg within the limits of September 30, 1973 include the city Mahlberg and the homestead Allmendfeld courtyards. For the former municipality Orschweier that belongs south of Mahlberg situated village Orschweier and the living space station Orschweier. In Mahlberg district was the leavened in Mahlberg village Altenmahlberg.

A few years ago an intercommunal industrial area called " DYN A5" was also with the neighboring community Ettenheim recognized and developed.

History

Mahlberg was first documented in 1215. Already in 1223 the place of Emperor Frederick II was granted the city rights. Mahlberg was at this time imperial castle and the seat of an imperial mayor. At this time the village belonged to the dominion of the Lords of Geroldseck. After they died mid-15th century, the city came to the Margraviate of Baden, a common rule of the Counts of Nassau -Saarbrücken was agreed. After dissolution of the joint ownership of Baden and Nassau in 1629, the city was the center of Baden- Baden same rule.

After Reichsdeputationshauptschluss Mahlberg was first seat of the eponymous Upper Office, which belonged to the bailiwick of Hochberg. 1806 was then directly to the Office of the province wonderful country Middle Rhine. When re- reorganization in 1809 it was assumed as an official Mahlberg the Kinzig district based in Offenburg. Finally, the Mahlberg Office 1813 was combined with the Office Ettenheim. The new office took his seat in Ettenheim From that point on had Mahlberg as a city no more importance in the administrative history of Baden. In 1900 lived in Mahlberg 962 mostly Catholic population. Since 1924, the town belonged to the district of Lahr, was from the 1939 County Lahr.

1935 Mahlberg lost during the Nazi central administrative " streamlining " its charter, but got this back in 1950 after the then Prime Minister of Baden Leo Wohleb had used (even before the founding of Baden-Württemberg ) for it. With the dissolution of the district Lahr Mahlberg fell to the new Ortenaukreis.

The formerly independent municipality Orschweier was incorporated on October 1, 1973 on the city Mahlberg in the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg. The went - ultimately fruitless - negotiations with neighboring communities Ettenheim and Kippenheim advance.

Policy

Mahlberg is one of the smallest towns in Baden -Württemberg and still own. With the larger neighboring town of Ettenheim it combines a water and waste water association, in addition a common " Intercommunal industrial area DYN A 5 ".

The mayor is in his third term Dietmar Benz since 2010.

Parish council

The council is composed of three city councils and eleven councilors. In the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, there came with a voter turnout of 47.3 % ( - 2.5 ) the following result:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms Mahlberg is: " Azure, a six- mountain, about two floating silver stars. "

Partnerships

Mahlberg maintains partnership relations with the French town of Malaucène in Provence. Malaucène is located on the western foothills of the Maritime Alps and about 40 km north-east of the situated in the Rhone Valley town of Avignon.

Culture and sights

Worth seeing are:

The highly visible, built in 1630 by the margrave of Baden castle (today: Barons of Türckheim - Bohl ) as a symbol of the southern Ortenau,
The Protestant parish church of 1687 in the old town with a largely derived from the 18th century interiors,
The Chapel of St. Catherine with her still preserved octagonal plan,
The Radbrunnenhof,
Various sources, including a fuse in begriffener from Roman times.

Museums

Since 1992 is in an old cigar factory the Upper Rhine Tobacco Museum, where the tradition and importance of tobacco production in their individual operations is shown. The cultivation of tobacco was 200 years, an important branch of agriculture in the Upper Rhine Plain.

Economy and infrastructure

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Traffic

Mahlberg is via the motorway exit Ettenheim / Mahlberg at the A 5 ( Basel - Karlsruhe, Germany) to reach. Through the municipal area of Mahlberg the highway 3 runs ( Buxtehude - Weil am Rhein). In the district Orschweier a regional train station is ( Rhine Valley Railway from Mannheim to Basel). From December 22 1893 to August 31, 1966 Orschweier had another railway connection through the local railway Rhine Ettenheimmünster.

Renewable Energies

Mahlberg has on the roof of a private school solar power plant with a capacity of 33 kWp. As the first municipality in Ortenaukreis she was awarded by the German Environmental Aid entitled " solar community ". In addition, two of the then largest and most powerful wind turbines mass-produced in the world were installed, each with 2.5 megawatts of power to the district since June 2002. But one of them is out of service for years. Meanwhile Mahlberg has numerous private subsidized solar systems, more private roof surfaces (such as the fire station and tobacco drying mop of the Tobacco Museum ) leased for solar systems.

Education

In Mahlberg the existing elementary school was in favor of a jointly operated with the neighboring municipality of tipping home " work and junior high school " resolved in order to avoid being threatened by the Baden-Württemberg state government resolution of the two main schools of 2010. The four-year Mahlberg primary school with two first " branch " classes in the district Orschweier was maintained under self- management. In addition, Mahlberg Schulträger the " Hans Jakob special school " for the Ortenauer Southern District, which is housed in the school building with Orschweierer and is financed in part by the neighboring communities Südbezirks Ettenheim, ring home, Rust and Grafenhausen with.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Friedrich Karl von Landolin Blittersdorf (1792-1861), Baden official
Fidel Binz (1850-1920), sculptor Baden
Karl Kromer (1865-1939), composer and musician

Other famous residents

Johann Heinrich David Henn Hofer ( * 1793), Baden diplomat, lived retired temporarily in Mahlberg.
Wolfram Siebeck (* 1928), columnist and food critic, has since the late 1980s, one of his residences in Mahlberg Castle. Made by criticism of local gastronomy sometimes not popular, although the thought was only abroad for publication.
Christina Obergföll (* 1981), javelin thrower, world champion World Athletics Championships 2013 in Moscow, a European record in the javelin

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