Seckach
The community Seckach part of the Neckar -Odenwald district, in Baden -Württemberg.
- 2.1 districts 2.1.1 Großeicholzheim
- 2.1.2 rooms
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 3.4 Town twinning
- 4.1 Art
- 4.2 Sport and Leisure
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 educational institutions
- 6.1 freeman
Geography
The community is located at the junction of the Odenwald and land between Adelsheim and book online. The municipality is located in the Neckar -Odenwald Nature Park and is traversed by the eponymous Seckach, a tributary of the Jagst.
Community structure
The municipality Seckach include the former municipalities Großeicholzheim and rooms. For the former municipality Großeicholzheim include the village Großeicholzheim and the house Hagemühle. For the former municipality Seckach the village Seckach and the place Jugenddorf include blade. For the former municipality rooms include the village rooms, the hamlet Waidachshof and the places station ( Federal Railways) Adelsheim North and Hammerhof. In the territory of the former municipality rooms are the waste places Dürrenzimmern, Krawenwinkel, Schallberg and lower rooms.
History
Seckach was first mentioned in 788 in the Lorsch Codex. The monastery Seligental acquired the place 1236. Seckach After its demise came in 1568 at Kurmainz. There it remained until 1803 due to the secularization within the realm deputation main conclusion came to the Principality of Leiningen. After its dissolution by the Act of Confederation, only three years later Seckach 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Baden. On January 1, 1972, Seckach united with Großeicholzheim and rooms for new community Seckach.
Districts
Großeicholzheim
Already 775 Großeicholzheim was mentioned in the Lorsch Codex. 1561 was the place to Electoral Palatinate. About the Principality of Leiningen also Großeicholzheim In 1806 the Grand Duchy of Baden.
Rooms
782 rooms, was mentioned in the Lorsch Codex for the first time. In 1236, came into the possession of the monastery rooms Seligental. He followed in the other the historical fate of Seckach.
Religions
While in Großeicholzheim in the first half of the 16th century, the Reformation was introduced Seckach and rooms remained Roman Catholic.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal elections on 13 June 2004 was as follows:
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 was as follows:
The turnout was 51.1 %, which was 6.4 percentage points lower than in the local elections of 2004. The council consists of 12 men and two women.
Mayor
Since 2002, Thomas Ludwig is the mayor of Seckach. He was born on Sunday, March 7, 2010, re-elected on a turnout of 41.8 percent with 97.7 percent of the valid votes cast for the second term.
Coat of arms
In silver ( white) a bent- red top, covered with a five-spoke silver ( white ) wheel, accompanied in front of a black stone Bockhorn ( Grind right), rear from a pale -looking black Streitbeil asked. The coat of arms motifs point to the previous local nobility and the territorial sovereignty before 1803: The ibex horn is the coat of arms of the lords of Seckach, the Streitbeil the coat of arms of the lords of Stetten removed while the five-spoke wheel at the crest of the younger branch of the lords of Eicholzheim and with the tincture of the archbishopric of Mainz to remember.
Twinning
- Reichenbach / O.L.
- Schüttwa / Bohemian Forest
- Gazzada Anno, Italy
There is also a sponsorship for the Logistics Battalion 461 in Wallduern.
Culture and sights
Art
- Seckach is a "village of the sculptures ," there are seven bronze sculptures, 5 sandstone sculptures and 10 concrete sculptures.
- In the community forest since 1987 created a sculpture park with 82 works in sandstone, concrete or wood. The Berlin sculptor couple Marianne and Paul August Wagner invites since 1987 befriended fellow colleagues for a sculptor meeting. The resulting sculptures remain in park. The community has asked the forest (about 2 ha ) and created paved paths. Part of the sculpture park is the " arena of insanity ". Is regularly used for outdoor concerts.
- Cultural moated castle Großeicholzheim
Sport and Leisure
- With the SC blade Seckach comes the end of the 20th century a very successful women's football club from the municipality. Overall, the club played eight years in the Bundesliga.
- Seckach has a year-round indoor pool with sauna and steam bath
Economy and infrastructure
The municipality ( district Seckach ) and the Children and Youth Village is one blade, which, founded in 1946 in the turmoil of the post-war period by the Rev. Henry Magnani, without family offers a new home children and adolescents. Today, up to 180 children and young people are cared for, who can no longer remain in their families of origin.
Traffic
The Seckach train station, the breakpoint in rooms located on the railway line Neckarelz - Osterburken. They are hourly served by the S1 S-Bahn Rhein Neckar.
At the railway junction Seckach there is also to transfer to the railway line Seckach - Miltenberg Miltenberg. Seckach is involved in the transport association Rhein- Neckar.
Educational institutions
- Primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule Seckach
- Primary school Großeicholzheim