Gaildorf

Gaildorf is a city on the river Kocher in Baden- Württemberg. It has about 12,000 inhabitants.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.3 twinning
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 parks
  • 5.3 Cinema
  • 5.4 Recreation and Sports
  • 5.5 Regular events
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Established businesses
  • 6.3 Media
  • 6.4 Facilities
  • 6.5 schools
  • 6.6 Energy
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 7.2 Other personalities

Geography

Geographical location

Gaildorf is considered the center of the Limpurger country that stretches south of Schwäbisch Hall. The metropolitan area is crossed from south to north from the digester, which forms a broad valley here. Shortly before Gaildorf opens the red at Unterrot from the left in the river. Westward the Mainhardter forest and to the east the mountains Limpurger: On both sides of the Kocher rise wooded heights rise. Gaildorf has a share in the natural areas Swabian- Franconian Forest and Hohenlohe -Haller level.

The 49th parallel runs right through the city - in North America, this forms the border between the U.S. and Canada.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities of Gaildorf are, clockwise starting in the west, Spruce Mountain, Oberrotweil, Rose Garden, Michel Bach at the Bilz, Obersontheim, Sulzbach -Laufen and Gschwend ( Ostalb ). Except Gschwend all belong to the district of Schwäbisch Hall.

Boroughs

To town Gaildorf addition to the core city Gaildorf include 25 more villages, hamlets, farms and houses. Gaildorf divided into four districts Eutendorf, Gaildorf, Ottendorf and Unterrot, which are identical to the four former municipalities. The official designation of the districts is done by preceding the name of the city and by a hyphen adjusted the name of the district. In the territorial limits of the district Eutendorf a village is also set up for the purposes of Baden-Württemberg municipal code with private Ortschaftsrat.

For district Eutendorf include the hamlet Adelsbach (also district Ottendorf ) Großaltdorf, Small Altdorf and Winzenheim hamlet, the courtyards Schweizerhof and climbing house and the houses Rein and Steppach and dialed villages Aschenhütte, Beylstein, Bulmer, Gesundbad, Güssel, Hagerbach, Hagestadelshusen, reel Hausen, hunter House, Neuwiese, rye country grinding Rain, Swiss heap Staighäusle, West Halden, " Sagmuhle " in Rein. For district Gaildorf include the disposed villages alder, hackers Bach, Rudolf mill and Vitriolbergwerk. For Ottendorf district includes the hamlet Adelsbach (also district Eutendorf ) Hägenau, Lower Village and Spöck and the houses kettle dump and rail dump and dialed villages Eulenhaus and wasteland. For district Unterrot include the hamlet Bröckingen, Münster, Reippersberg and Schoenberg, the courtyards Münster mill and Reutfeld and the houses Chausseehaus, Kieselberg and oil mill and the dialed villages Braunbach, Dietenberg, Dretenweiler, Mettelberg, Reippersberger Sagmuhle and Steiger Bach.

History

Gaildorf 1255 was mentioned for the first time and received in 1404 the city and market rights by King Ruprecht. It was the residence of one of the two main lines of the taverns of Limpurg, later the Counts of Waldeck- Limpurg. From 1500 the town was in the Frankish Empire circle. Since 1806 it belonged to Württemberg and became an official city and seat of the Oberamts Gaildorf. see also Castle Ottendorf

Gaildorf formerly belonged to the county Backnang and was incorporated as part of the district reform in 1973, in the district of Schwäbisch Hall.

Incorporations

  • July 1, 1971: Ottendorf
  • January 1, 1972: Unterrot
  • January 1, 1974: Eutendorf

Confessions

In addition to the Protestant and the Roman Catholic Church following communities are represented in Gaildorf: the Turkish-Islamic Religious & Cultural Union ( Unterrot ), the New Apostolic Church, an Orthodox church ( Ottendorf ), Seventh- day Adventists, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Policy

Parish council

In the 2009 election, there were the following result:

  • FWV 36.2 % - 8 seats
  • CDU 29.7 % - 7 seats
  • SPD / active citizens 23.8 % - 5 seats
  • Open list of 10.3% - 2 seats

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: ". In two red saltire Argent rafter hook, covered by a silver raft "

The coat of arms is reminiscent of the long Gaildorfer rafter tradition, so the rafter hook and the raft ( Previously, namely rafted from the woods around Gaildorf annually up to 130,000 cubic meters of wood on the stove according to Hall. There was this used for salt production as fuel for the Saline ).

Twinning

Gaildorf maintains partnership relations with Budajenö in Hungary, about 20 kilometers west of Budapest. This partnership has existed since 1993. The celebrations for 20 years of partnership found in 2013 Budajenö instead.

Culture and sights

Structures

In the center of Gaildorf are the Old Palace, which served the taverns of Limpurg and the Counts of Waldeck- Limpurg as a residence that used today as the town hall and erected by the Countess Amalie von Waldeck- Limpurg New Castle, the Protestant church and the remains of former city wall.

Parks

Am Rathaus is located the castle park. At the junction with the B298 in the B19 is the Schiller Park.

Cinema

The Gaildorfer solar light play house is run by a non-profit organization.

Recreation and Sports

The TSV Gaildorf with about 1,500 members in seven departments offering sports such as aerobics, swimming, football, table tennis and gymnastics. The Gaildorfer mineral pool on the pebble mountain is situated on a nearly seven -acre site with extensive lawns.

Regular events

  • Motocross: Very well known are the national and international motocross race " on guard ". Here you can find, for example, the ADAC MX Masters ( the Int. Motocross Championship German ) instead.
  • Blues Fest: The Gaildorfer Blues Festival is held every two years instead of every first weekend in July.
  • Euro Youth Cup: International indoor soccer tournament U17 teams in the Gaildorfer sports hall.
  • Horse Market: Every year on the second Monday meeting in February in Gaildorf the Friends of horses, carriages and trailer combinations. The Gaildorfer horse market is the largest and oldest traditional festival in Limpurger country with an annual 20,000 to 30,000 visitors.
  • Raft Festival: The Raft Festival held every two years, alternating with the Bluesfest instead. It commemorates the rafters tradition of the city. Between the two hard courts at the stove, one located directly in Gaildorfs downtown on Kocherwiesen and a Gaildorfs in the suburb of Munster, runs a raft.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Gaildorf is crossed by the national road 19, in this there opens the federal highway 298 The Gaildorf West Station is on the railway line Waiblingen- Schwäbisch Hall Hessental here branched from the Upper Kettle Valley Railway. Their breakpoint Gaildorf city was closer to the city center, operating on the route was discontinued in late 2005 and the tracks in 2009 mostly removed.

The bus line 16 connects the city to Schwäbisch Hall; there are also other local and regional bus lines. The city belongs to the transport network KreisVerkehr Schwäbisch Hall.

Established businesses

The wood-processing enterprises Save Meier operation here until 1 January 2013, a factory. This was taken over by specialized construction timber companies Junginger GmbH together with natural wood power plant.

Media

The output Rundschau for the Swabian Forest - The Kocherbote Südwestpresse appears daily with a circulation of 5,300 copies.

Facilities

Gaildorf is the seat of the church district Gaildorf the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg.

The city also had a small hospital with the areas of internal medicine, surgery and gynecology, which belonged since January 1, 2009 to Diakonia -Klinikum Schwäbisch Hall, but was closed on 1 July 2012.

There are also in Gaildorf a volunteer fire department. There are following departments with magazines in the part places:

  • Gaildorf
  • Unterrot
  • Eutendorf
  • Ottendorf

In Gaildorf there is also a youth fire brigade.

The police have in Gaildorf on a police post. This is subordinate to the police headquarters eels.

Train

Gaildorf has several schools. In the town itself form the Park School (primary and secondary school ), the lock -Realschule and the Schenk von Limpurg High School a school center. In the suburb of Eutendorf there is a primary school as well as the Peter Härtling School ( special school ), in Ottendorf Unterrot and one elementary school.

Energy

In Gaildorf time is discussed to build a pumped storage power plant in connection with four wind turbines to. When natural electricity storage Gaildorf the water should not be stored as usual in an upper reservoir, but in the towers of the wind turbines.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Philipp Heinrich Hasenmeyer (1700-1783), an organ builder
  • Kausler Friedrich (1806-1883), Württemberg Landtag
  • Emil Walther (1807-1857), Württemberg Rollmaus
  • Theobald Kerner (1817-1907), physician and poet ( Justinus Kerner's son )
  • Wilhelm August Breitling (1835-1914), Württemberg Minister President
  • Karl Nicolai (1839-1892), magistrate and politician
  • Georg Schuster (1896-1973), farmer and politician (FDP / DVP ), Member of Parliament
  • Reinhold Kissling ( born 1926 ), agronomist
  • Horst Hübner (1936-2009), author of novels, magazine, journalist, translator and editor
  • Sweet Ulrich ( born 1944 ), composer
  • Stefan Heucke (* 1959 ), Composer
  • Hartmut Holzwarth ( b. 1969 ), politician ( CDU)
  • Funda Vanroy ( b. 1977 ), TV presenter and reporter

Other personalities

  • Philipp Christoph Hartung (1706-1776), 1739 Deacon and preceptor in Gaildorf, 1764 pastor in Eutendorf as " P. C. Humano " Author of the important music theory and piano teaching writing Musicus theoretico - practicus (Nuremberg, 1749)
  • Georg Friedrich Karl ( Waldeck- Limpurg ) ( 1785-1826 ), Count of Waldeck- Limpurg, bailiff of Heilbronn and Stuttgart, spokesman of the lords during the constitutional struggle Württemberg 1815-1819
  • Amalie Wirths (1785-1852), Countess of Waldeck- Limpurg, builder of the New Palace
  • Justinus Kerner (1786-1862), writer
  • Karl Roesch (1807-1866), physician and social reformer, was from 1850 to 1853 district doctor in Gaildorf ( forcibly transferred because of " revolutionary activities " ), previously in 1847, founder of the Salvation and Sanatorium Maria Berg ( today Mariaberg eV)
  • Gottlieb Rau (1816-1854), businessman and revolutionary
  • Hermann Frasch (1851-1914), German / American oil chemist, born in Oberrotweil at Gaildorf, son of the mayor Johann Gaildorfer Frasch
  • Eugene Heller (1862-1939), entrepreneur and founder of Heller Prize
  • Hans Thierfelder (1913-1987), Hosiery Manufacturer
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