Empfingen

Empfingen is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden- Württemberg.

• 2.1 religions
• 2.2 Amalgamations
• 2.3 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 community partnerships

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Educational facilities

• 5.1 Museums
• 5.2 Structures
• 5.3 Natural Monuments
• 5.4 Regular events

Geography

Community structure

The municipality includes the former community Wiesenstetten to the village and the hamlet Wiesenstetten Dommelsberg belonged. The municipality Empfingen in the area as of November 30, 1971 includes the village Empfingen. In the territory of the former municipality Empfingen is not exactly the localized Wüstung Taha.

History

Empfingen 772 was first mentioned in documents in the Lorsch Codex. Until 1341 it was owned by the Counts of Geroldseck before it came to the Counts of Hohenberg. These pledged the place in 1373 to a Volz of Weitingen. 1356 sold the monastery of Reichenau the Kelnhof Empfingen at the Konrad Stahler of Rottenburg, Hofmeister Bishop Albrecht of Freising. Through various other gentlemen, who acquired rights to Empfingen, it came in 1552 to Jos Niklas II of Zollern, since 1576 it belonged to the rule of Hohenzollern - Haigerloch, which was acquired in 1634 by the rule of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen. Since 1806 it was part of the Hohenzollern Oberamts Haigerloch now collected in the Principality of small State which was rising in Prussia after the abdication of Prince 1849.

From 1925 to Empfingen belonged to the district of Hechingen in the Prussian province of Hohenzollern quasi- land. After the Second World War, the city came first to the new state of Württemberg -Hohenzollern, which went up in Baden- Württemberg in 1952. In the course of district reform in 1973 Empfingen came with five other municipalities hechingschen for the district of Freudenstadt. Today the district Wiesenstetten looks back on a front Austrian and Württemberg history; prior to 1971 for the annexation he belonged to the former county Horb.

Religions

As Hohenzollern community Empfingen remained Roman Catholic after the Reformation and today belongs to the deanery Freudenstadt.

Incorporations

Population Development

Policy

Since 1975 Empfingen forms with Horb am Neckar an Agreed administrative matters.

Parish council

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats:

Community partnerships

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Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Empfingen is served by the motorway 81 (Stuttgart - Singen) to the national road network. In addition, the highway passes 463 ( Pforzheim- Sigmaringen ) through the town.

Educational institutions

Empfingen has a primary and secondary school work, which is also responsible for two Horb neighborhoods. For children there are two municipal and one Roman Catholic kindergarten.

Culture and sights

Museums

• Village Smithy Museum
• Local history museum in the Tithe Barn

Structures

• The parish church of St. George in Empfingen was built in 1858 by architect Josef princely Hohenzollern Laur in the Romanesque Revival style.

Natural Monuments

• Stauweiher in the Dales
• Bottomless Lake

Regular events

• In Empfingen the Swabian- Alemannic carnival is celebrated every year. A court record from 1784 for the first time describes the " Masqueren " Go. The native tradition figures come mostly from the rural environment, the Strohbär and Stuffed or Sauigel, which is related to the type forth with the Wuascht or Wuescht the Narrozunft Villingen. A rare Customs are the Rußhexen, the sooty on Thursday ( Schmotziger ) beschwärzen passers in place with furnace black face. Original disguise were fabric curtains, still worn by Rußhexen and Stuffed. Wooden masks held only between 1920 and 1930 with the figure of " Schantle " in Empfingen catchment and were partially carved by local craftsmen themselves. The Narrenzunft Empfingen there since 1951., You took over after its founding, the tradition figures Kneller, Witch, Schantle, Bäuerle, Bajass and Domino from the free, traditional customs of the local village carnival. The whip popping Kneller came from an old carter tradition. The witches wore originally the indigenous women's costume and were stored with oven forks on carnival Sunday - Monday and Tuesday go. The Narrenzunft designed 1952-1955 this old figure in order to save the traditional costumes from ruin, as is the male costume clothes of " Bauerle ". From the " Bauerle " the Osterbach Männle was. Since 2005 when a group Narrenzunft "Alt - Empfinger carnival " in which all historical Empfinger Carnival characters are fully represented.
• Beatparade, the only Techno Parade in Baden -Wuerttemberg and one of the largest yet conducted German techno parades.

Personalities

• Konstantin Hank ( born June 18, 1907 in Wiesenstetten, † March 19, 1977 in Schramberg ), German politician (CDU ), first mayor of Schramberg