Biberach (Baden)

Biberach is a municipality in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg.

• 2.1 Name
• 2.2 Coat of Arms and Logo
• 2.3 domination story
• 2.4 History Prince Bach
• 2.5 The crest prince Bach
• 2.6 rafting on the Kinzig
• 2.7 Churches and Parish Offices
• 2.8 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 administration

• 4.1 Fasent
• 4.2 Museums
• 4.3 Structures
• 4.4 parks
• 4.5 Art, Music and Recreation
• 4.6 Regular events

• 5.1 Development in Construction
• 5.2 Tourism
• 5.3 Facilities
• 5.4 educational institutions
• 5.5 traffic

• 6.1 freeman

Geography

Location

The small spa resort Biberach is situated in the Middle Black Forest at the confluence of several rivers. Dexter flows of Erlenbach, flow from the left side Prinzbach, Emmer Bach, Erzbach and Haubach in the Kinzig. The place itself is 188 m above sea level. NN. In a valley of the district Prinzbach is.

Neighboring communities

The following community bordering the municipality of Biberach: The city of Gengenbach in the north, Gengenbach in the east, Steinach in the south and in the west of Seelbach.

Community structure

The community Biberach divided into two districts Biberach and Prinzbach which are physically identical to the former municipalities of the same name. In the district Prinzbach a village is set in the sense of Baden-Württemberg municipal code with private Ortschaftsrat and mayor as its chairman. The village has its own administrative body under the name " local government Prinzbach ". For the district of Biberach are Biberach the village, the hamlet break and Fröschbach, the tines Rebhalde and the courts Erzbach, Haubach, vineyard and forest heron. The hamlet Prinzbach include the village Dörfle and the courts Bergle, Emersbach, tile mountain, Sopra and Untertal.

Geological and pedological Basics

On the valley slopes and on the mountains around Biberach can watch upcoming gneisses, these form the oldest part of the Black Forest, the basement. In this basement are the veins of the area around Biberach. From the plant deposits in the Carboniferous (coal time) formed in hollows of the now worn to a plateau basement coal deposits in the back Emmer Bach. Material that was deposited in the subsequent Perm, got by iron-containing minerals a red color. At the Schoenberg - pass this red soil can be seen on the agricultural land yet. The current face of Biberach began in the Ice Age ( Pleistocene ) and postglacial form. The meltwater created their valleys, at the edges piled up the boulders. Thus was created by the interaction of the components ( basement ) with natural forces ( erosion, embankment ) the natural landscape in which lies the community Biberach today.

History

Name

The origin of the place name " Biberach " is not understood. The interpretations go in several directions. Hans Jacob in "peasant blood " and Ludwig Heizmann in his home study by the Office District Offenburg run the place names back to the many beavers in the Kinzig. Other linguists believe that the name was of Celtic origin Biberach. This is suggested that other Celtic places with the name " Bibrax " and " Bibracte " are known. But there is still no solid evidence that the Celts who lived in Biberach. Another interpretation is derived from the position of Biberach between two watercourses. The oldest recorded spelling of Biberach " Biberaha ", mentioned in documents in 1222, could be composed of bi = two and aha = water.

Coat of Arms and Logo

By the end of the 19th century Biberach had a different coat of arms used than today. In older seals, a coat of arms with green fir, black trunk and roots on a blue background was used. At the main entrance of the town hall was built in 1913 but is already a different logo to see, which was awarded after decades of use of the community Biberach on 3 October 1969, the Interior Ministry of Baden- Wuerttemberg state. In the deed the coat of arms is described as follows: "In a green rooted silver (white ) Linde, before their master, a silver (white ) crouching beaver holding a silver (white ) piece of wood in his front paws ." The community Biberach later developed a city logo, it shows the text " Biberach - A beautiful piece of Black Forest " spanned by the silhouette of a beaver.

Domination story

Biberach was as a staff community from the late 13th / mid 14th century until 1802, an imperial town Gengenbach. The Empire Pen Monastery Gengenbach survived numerous rights in Biberach, Biberach so had to pay an annual tithe. With the abolition of the imperial pen in 1803, the Baden State rule tithe Lord of Biberach was. By replacing the large and small tithe from 1838 split at the growing requirement for the fruits of the large tithe, the free development of land was possible. From 1504 Biberach practiced for the Free Imperial City of Gengenbach the water and road customs legislation from. These revenues constitute an important source of finance for Zeller, to the imperial city was incorporated into the newly formed Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803. On June 15, 1803 Biberach was freed from all oaths and obligations towards the town of Zell and fired in self-employment. Prinzbach belonged to the county Hohengeroldseck until 1819 it finally was also Baden. Biberach belonged to the district of Wolfach while Prinzbach belonged to the district of Lahr. With the district reform in 1973 were both Biberach and Prinzbach communities of Ortenau circle merger to a total municipality took place in 1974 with the incorporation Prince Bach.

History Prince Bach

The district Prinzbach has a checkered past. Possible establishment period for the mountain village are the years 1100-1200, already at that time the first church was built. In 1257, Prince Bach was first mentioned in the annals of the Dominican monastery in Colmar in connection with large silver discoveries, the amount found silver ore was said to be very large and profitable. The Prince Bacher citizens could even give the bishop of Strasbourg a loan. The former mining village is rapidly becoming a so-called mountain town, built on its own infrastructure and began to protect against attackers even with the construction of a up to 10 meter high city wall. Portions of this city walls were restored and can be visited in Prinzbach today. After a heyday with multiple documentary mention wealthy nobleman Prince Bacher the yield of silver mining goes back considerably. Prinzbach is destroyed and only reached by a known nascent in 1493 spa again a certain celebrity. 1560, the parish Prinzbach is occupied by the Lords of Geroldseck with Protestant clergy. From 1600 Prinzbach is a purely farming village again, occasional digs for silver remain unsuccessful. After the extinction of the family Geroldseck 1634 Prinzbach came to the front and Austria as a fief to the family von der Leyen. 1819 was the place with the Principality of Leyen to Baden. Biberach belonged there to the district office Wolfach, later county Wolfach which came up in 1973 in the Ortenaukreis. Prinzbach contrast, first belonged to the district of Lahr, then in 1939 moved but in the county Wolfach, from which it was reclassified in 1945 in the district of Lahr. Since 1973, this district is also part of Ortenaukreis. From the beginning of the fifties Prinzbach was chosen for its quiet, scenic location for a loved to visit and relaxing holiday.

The coat of arms prince Bach

The Prince Bacher Coat of Arms is dominated by the former rule of the Geroldsecker about Prinzbach and mining. The coat of arms has the following description: " In gold, a red cross bar, accompanied by three black hammers ( 2 in the upper and in the lower half coat of arms ). The hammers represent so-called Mountain Iron

Rafting on the Kinzig

Biberach was due to its location at the confluence of Erlenbach and Kinzig essential for Kinzigflößerei. It was the connection to the wooded Nordrach-/Harmersbachtal ago. Because the roads were in a disastrous state, arrived for the transport of wood only the waterway in question. The rafting grew rapidly, in Wolfach a raft and customs order and in 1527 a boatman order was issued in 1470. After a second highlight of the rafting mid-19th century the timber trade ended on the water end of the 19th century with the introduction of the railway. In 1895, the last raft rides on the river Kinzig.

Churches and Parish Offices

• Catholic Church of St. Blaise in Biberach
• Catholic Church of St. Mauritius in Prinzbach
• Catholic sister's house in Prinzbach

Incorporations

Today's Biberach arose in the course of the municipality and administrative reform in Baden- Württemberg from 1970 to 1975. The approximately 400 inhabitants, the district Prinzbach was incorporated on the basis of incorporation agreement of 29 April 1974 on 1 July 1974 in the town of Biberach.

Policy

Parish council

The local elections of 7 June 2009 resulted in a turnout of 58.5 % ( 0.3 ) to the following result:

Management

Biberach is part of the agreed administrative community Zell am Harmersbach to which also belong nor the municipalities cell, Nordrach and Oberharmersbach.

Culture and sights

Fasent

The Biberach Fasend is designed by Narrenrat (11 members), the witches, the Beavers and the mine spirits. Opening and first highlight is the " Witches Ball". On "Dirty Dunnschdig " are first in school the teachers discontinued and out into the hall. There, the dismissal of the mayor and the assumption of authority by the fools, an event which is then celebrated in Bürgersaal due. With the " guild evening " the beaver on Dirty Thursday in the gymnasium and festival hall Biberach Fasend reached another climax. Saturday brings the big Fasendumzug with themed cars and guest guilds from near and far, then fools and bustle of the town center, on Monday is the " price purr " instead, and on Tuesday the children's parade with subsequent edition of the " Upper villagers fools soup " whose ingredients (chicken, eggs u. etc.) will be collected immediately before the Fasend of foolish "Upper villagers " in the population.

Museums

• Kettererhaus

The " Kettererhaus " named after its last private owner, " Kettererschmied ", is probably one of the oldest buildings in Biberach. In the opinion of eminent experts, the half-timbered building on design features of the 17th century. The exact year of construction, however, can not the building itself, nor recognize in the files of Biberach community archive. Today is housed in the building called "home museum Kettererhaus " will be exhibited in the valuable native heritage in the fields of Rural working, living, tradition and the Voluntary Sector.

• City chamber Prinzbach

In the town hall Prinzbach is the "city chamber " in which some remarkable finds and treasures from the history of the former mining town Prinzbach are housed.

Structures

• Hall Biberach

The Town Hall was built in Biberach two phases in 1913 and 1925. It was for that time in a very stately building, a partial renovation of the façade and the roof was carried out in 1978 /80. The historic City Hall was extensively renovated and modernized in 2002.

• Hall Prinzbach

The Town Hall in Prinzbach was built in the year 1880. After the incorporation Prince Bach 1974, the town hall is used for administrative purposes only sporadically, the ground floor housed " Prince Bacher city chamber ".

• City wall Prinzbach

After the silver find in Prinzbach the settlement was now no longer inhabited only by farmers but also by miners, artisans and merchants. These have other rights, which was to protect it as much as the large silver finds. The awarding of municipal law and the construction of a city wall were the result. The city was completely surrounded by an elliptical wall with an upstream ditch. This oval wall had a circumference of 800m, it was only by the " Untertor " in the north and the " Riesentor " interrupted in the south. Today parts of the historic city walls are visible.

• Castle Geroldseck

The Geroldseck castle was first mentioned in 1139 in a screen letter by Pope Innocent II for the monastery Gengenbach. At that time, the castle stood on the rough box. In 1250, the seat of power of the Geroldsecker was moved to Schoenberg and completed the castle. 1689, the Geroldseck was destroyed by the French. Initial work on the restoration began at the end of the 19th century, more sustaining measures at the ruin followed from 1951.

Parks

• Green area between the railway line and station road
• Green area at the old church tower
• Green area on the main road / Strandbadweg

Art, Music and Recreation

• Tavern evenings around the Kettererhaus in the new town center
• Regular spa concerts and traditional events

Regular events

• Fasent with various crazy dances and processions (spring)
• Spring concert Musikverein Biberach e.V.
• Easter Market of the trade association WSB / community Biberach in the new town center (spring)
• Road / fun run, organized by the Turnverein Biberach eV (spring)
• Maypole dancing by the football club Biberach front of City Hall
• Kinzig hard; depending on the water level of the Kinzig and the return to Hohengeroldseck place -find folk festival (every 7 years)
• UNIMOG and tractor meeting at City Hall as part of the summer party of the MGV " Liederkranz Biberach 1867 " eV (Summer)
• Village Festival in the Park, organized by the Musikverein Biberach eV in the green area next to the station (summer)
• Motorcycle rally, biker- cult, organized by the curve spirits with participants from all over Germany (Summer)
• Highland Games, Scottish sports betting games, organized by the Prince Bach Highlanders eV at the church in Prinzbach (Summer)
• Floodlit swimming in Waldterrassenbad Biberach, organized by the DLRG local group (summer)
• Local show of the Small Animal Breeding Association C12 Biberach eV (autumn)
• Annual Concert at the Musikverein Prinzbach -Schönberg eV (winter)

Economy and infrastructure

Structural development

In the commercial area Ahfeld melting farms are currently around 5 hectares inhabited by plants, approximately 8,500 m² open space are still available. In zoning 13 acres of commercial space in the medium term is also shown, with the town of Zell considerations are made, in addition to developing an intercommunal industrial area .. Biberach has a broad mix of industries, from packaging and advertising materials, office furniture, aerospace hoists, road and building construction, therapy equipment to to metal processing.

Tourism

The district Prinzbach was relatively early after the Second World War was a well-attended and relaxing holiday, this trend continued in Biberach a later date. Due to the use of municipal and private forces, tourism has developed in the overall community Biberach an extremely important economic factor. In 1981 Biberach was awarded the "State- recognized resort " award.

The focus of tourism activities in Biberach is on sports activities in the great outdoors. Tourists can investigate on the circular routes around Biberach their hobby, the best known track is probably the "Seven Valleys path ". Also available is the mountain bike " on the castle Geroldseck ". Other attractions in Biberach is the heated outdoor pool with the longest giant slide southern Baden, and in 2005 opened Agil Park, can be climbed in on a rock climbing and a high ropes course.

Facilities

• Technical Relief Biberach
• Volunteer Fire Biberach
• Volunteer Fire Prinzbach (Department of FF Biberach in the incorporation )

Educational institutions

• Primary and secondary school in Biberach

The primary and secondary school in Biberach was built in 1963 and is being renovated in several phases since 2005. Currently about 300 students attend the GHS Biberach.

• School Prinzbach

This school was built in 1929 and is now co-used depending on pupil numbers and space requirements of the GHS Biberach.

Traffic

Biberach is through the Black Forest Railway ( Offenburg - Singen ( Hohentwiel ) ) connected to the national rail network. In the village the Harmersbachtalbahn branches to Oberharmersbach of the Black Forest Railway. About the B 33 ( Kehl - Ravensburg ) and B 415 to Lahr / Schwarzwald Biberach is also connected road transport links.

Personalities

Freeman

• Dentist Herbert Erwin Riehle (1904-1978), the first honorary citizen of Biberach
• Agricultural School Board Emeritus Josef Bühler (1898-1981), has acquired special merits in the study of Biberach history.
• Manufacturer Karl Knauer (1907-1995), construction of the largest industrial plant in Biberach
• Pastor I.R. Karl Biemer (* 1912), special merit as a Catholic chaplain and pastor in Biberach.
• Ludwig Dilger (* 1932)
• Wolfgang Bösinger (1944 ) Mayor of the Municipality of 1974-1998