Berglen

Berglen is a municipality in the Rems -Murr district, in Baden -Württemberg. The administrative center is Oppelsbohm.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Bügermeiser
  • 3.2 municipal
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 partnerships
  • 4.1 Education
  • 5.1 Museums
  • 5.2 Regular events
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.3 People who worked in the community

Geography

Geographical location

A large village Berglen, approximately 25 kilometers east of Stuttgart in 300 to 450 meters above sea level in the Keuper hills Berglen, a western foothills of the Welzheimer forest between Schorndorf, Winnenden and Backnang. Most districts are located in the valley of the brook book or on the valley slopes.

Community structure

The community Berglen with the districts Bretz Acker, Hößlinswart, desolate, Hardt, Oeschelbronn, Oppelsbohm, Reichenbach in Winnenden, savior castle, Steinach, Front White Paper consists of the following villages, hamlets and residential places. At Bretz Bretz arable farmland, the village and the living space includes people hard mill. To Hößlinswart include the village Hößlinswart. At Barren Barren Hardt Hardt include the village and the hamlet Erlenhof. To Oeschelbronn include the village and the hamlet Oeschelbronn Stöckenhof. To Oppelsbohm the village Oppelsbohm include ( Seat of the municipality ) and the hamlet of Upper Hamlet. To Reichenbach in Winnenden include the village of Reichenbach and the hamlets Lehnenberg and Spechtshof. For savior castle include the castle and the village savior hamlet Drexelhof, Kieselhof and Linsenhof. Steinach Steinach to include the village and the hamlet Kottweil. At the front the White Paper include the village Front White Paper and the hamlets of Birch White Paper and String.

History

The community Berglen became the 1 April 1972 by the merger of previously politically independent communities Bretz Acker, desolate, Hardt, Oeschelbronn ( with Stöckenhof, for the most part to the neighboring municipality guarantees that 1972 is part of the town of Winnenden since 1 December to 31 December 1971, was one ), Oppelsbohm, Reichenbach in Winnenden, savior castle, Steinach and front White Paper established under the name of book mountain. Already on December 27, 1972, the name was changed in Berglen. Hößlinswart was incorporated into Berglen on 1 January 1975.

Oeschelbronn, savior castle, Oppelsbohm, Bretz arable and Steinach were first mentioned in 1293 in a charter of the monastery of Lorch. These places came in 1325 with the reign of Winnenden in Württemberg. The other villages belonging to the monastery Office Adelberg fell during the Reformation in 1534 also to Württemberg.

Religions

Since the Reformation, the area now Berglen is predominantly Lutheran. In Oppelsbohm Hößlinswart and there are Protestant churches, for some part places the community in Buoch is responsible. The few Catholics are spiritually sustained by Winnenden from. Besides the two large mainstream churches but there are also an Evangelical Free Church in the Baptist Federation of Protestant congregations and in Steinach a New Apostolic Church.

Incorporations

Policy

Bügermeiser

  • Gerhard beak, 1964-1972 Mayor of the former municipalities Front White Paper and Oppelsbohm. From 1972 to 1996 he was mayor in Berglen
  • Wolfgang Schillebeeckx, mayor from 1996 to 2012
  • Maximilian Frederick 's mayor since September 13, 2012

Parish council

After the last municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the council has 20 members. The turnout was 58.93 %. The choice was as follows:

Chairman of the council is the mayor.

Coat of arms

Blazon: In gold on green Dreienberg a green cherry tree with nine leaves. It symbolically represents one sheet for a part of the community overall community Berglen.

Partnerships

Berglen maintains since October 3, 1993 partnerships with Krögis, today part of Käbschütztal in Saxony.

Economy and infrastructure

Education

With the neighborhood school in the Berglen there is a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule. In addition, Steinach and front White Paper have their own primary schools. Secondary schools can be visited in the neighboring towns. For the youngest members of the community there besides six municipal kindergartens also is a private forest kindergarten.

Culture and sights

Museums

In the district Oppelsbohm there is a local history museum.

Regular events

  • In the district Erlenhof annually takes place the topping out ceremony, hosted by the home club was founded in 1992 Berglesbond.
  • Street festival by local clubs in the district Hößlinswart
  • Christmas Market on Saturday before the 3rd week of Advent in the district Birch White Paper
  • The Linde festival is held annually usually in the first week end in the village of Birch White Paper, organized by the Musikverein White Paper
  • The donkey race on the sports field Hößlinswarter is held annually on Pentecost Sunday from KTSV Hößlinswart

Personalities

Freeman

  • Werner Hofmann is the only honorary citizen Mountain Lens. The former rector of the neighborhood school in the Berglen is the author of the local chronicle and several native history books.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Georg Hildt (1785-1863), foreman and architect

Those who worked in the community

  • Moerike Otto (1897-1978), a resistance fighter against the Nazis, was a Lutheran pastor in Oppelsbohm
  • Manfred angle Hock (1951-1985), racing driver, lived until his death in the community
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