Böhmenkirch
Boehmenkirch is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden- Württemberg.
- 2.1 Amalgamations 2.1.1 Coat of arms of several incorporated municipalities
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 community partnerships
- 4.1 traffic
- 4.2 Education
- 5.1 Structures
- 5.2 Natural Monuments
- 5.3 energy
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical location
Boehmenkirch lies between the county town of Göppingen (25 km) and Heidenheim an der Brenz (17 km) in the Swabian Alb in 495-746 meters altitude.
Community structure
To Boehmenkirch include the formerly independent communities Schnittlingen, Steinenkirch and Treffelhausen. The municipality Boehmenkirch within the frontiers of December 31, 1972 include the village Boehmenkirch and the hamlet Heidhöfe and dialed villages Schönberg, Neuhausen, Boxweiler, Hoebert and Siggenweiler. For the former municipality Schnittlingen the village Schnittlingen and the houses belong mountain ( radio station ) and brick hut and the disposed villages Wintereswanc and winter Reute. For the former municipality Steinenkirch include the village stone church, the hamlet Trasenberg, the homestead Lindenhof and the houses Upper rye mill and Ravenstein. For the former municipality Treffelhausen include the village Treffelhausen.
History
Boehmenkirch was first mentioned in 1225 in a Vatican register for the first time as Bominwirche. 1302 is Boehmenkirch as a pledge of the kingdom belonged to the counts of Helfenstein. Count Ulrich III. von Helfenstein 1307 forced due to its debt areas, including Boehmenkirch to pledge to Albert I. Rechenberg. Boehmenkirch was imperial and enjoyed special rights, which played a role in the well-known Boehm Kircher peasant uprising from 1580 to 1582 against Haug ( Hugo) by Rechenberg. The ritterschaftliche rule Rechenberg lost in the Napoleonic period their imperial immediacy. This Boehmenkirch fell in 1806 to the Kingdom of Württemberg.
On April 14, 1910, a catastrophic fire destroyed 74 houses in and 372 people were left homeless occurred.
Incorporations
In the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg 1974 stone church were incorporated on 1 January 1973 Treffelhausen and Schnittlingen and January 1st.
Coat of arms of several incorporated municipalities
Population Development
The population development of the village just between 1837 and 2010.
Policy
Parish council
Since the last municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the council has 20 members. The turnout was 57.05 %. The choice was as follows:
The council consists of the elected honorary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the local council.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms of Boehmenkirch is: In red a golden wooden church.
For the year 1924 a tree is occupied as a seal image for Boehmenkirch. Later changed it to a church. Following a proposal from the Archives Directorate in Stuttgart, the municipality took 1957 today's " Coat -talking " to: The place name derives from Boehmenkirch tree church from what is symbolized by a tree consisting of wooden church. The colors of yellow and red indicates that the rule of Rechenberg. The coat of arms and the yellow- red flag was presented by the Home Office on 4 September 1958.
Community partnerships
Boehmenkirch maintains partnership relations with the market town of Boeheimkirchen Mostviertel in Lower Austria.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Boehmenkirch is connected by the federal highway 466 ( Sweet - Heidenheim ) to the national road network. In public transport, the community is a crossing point of the bus connections between Göppingen, Geislingen and Heidenheim.
Education
In Boehmenkirch there is a primary and secondary school and in the district Treffelhausen a pure primary school.
Culture and sights
Boehmenkirch is located on the Swabian Alb Route, which passes by many sights. Just is Boehmenkirch on Frankish - Swabian St. James, a pilgrimage route to Ulm and on to Spain.
Structures
- Telecommunications tower Schnittlingen
- Wind farm in the telecommunications tower
- Upper rye mill
- St. Patriz Chapel
- St. Vitus Church in Treffelhausen
- Lourdes Grotto in Treffelhausen
- Castle Rest Ravenstein in Steinenkirch
Center Boehmenkirch, drawing by Margret Hofheinz - Döring, 1977
Schnittlingen, drawing by M. Hofheinz - Döring, 1982
Treffelhausen, drawing by M. Hofheinz - Döring, 1981
Natural Monuments
- Murder hole in Roggental, with 4.3 km, the third longest cave in the Swabian Alb
- Magentäle with the rocks rye and rye stone needle
- Eybquelle below Treffelhausen
Energy
Northeast of Boehmenkirch there is a wind farm in the four wind turbines of 1.5 MW class are installed.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bernhard Heinzmann, Catholic priest and opponent of the Nazi regime ( born August 20, 1903 † 1942 in the Nazi killing center Hart Home )