Göppingen (district)

The district is a district of Göppingen in Baden- Württemberg. It belongs to the Stuttgart Region in the Region of Stuttgart and extends from north to south of Adelberg to High City, in east-west direction of Ebersbach an der Fils to Boehmenkirch. The Göppingen district is bordered to the north by the Rems -Murr-Kreis and the Ostalb, on the east by the Heidenheim district, in the south of the Alb- Donau district, in the southwest with a very short border with the district of Reutlingen, and to the west by the district of Esslingen.

• 4.1 Kreistag
• 4.2 District
• 4.3 Coat of Arms
• 4.4 partnerships

• 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 Railway
• 5.1.2 bus
• 5.1.3 haulage

• 6.1 Cities and Towns before the district reform

Geography

The Göppingen district lies on the edge of the Swabian Alb. By the district flows the Fils, a right tributary of the Neckar, which flows near Plochingen. The river is about Geislingen Wiesensteig ( Filsursprung ) and flows through the circuit area in east-west direction to Ebersbach an der Fils, where it leaves the county to then open in Plochingen ( district of Esslingen ) into the Neckar. The district area covers an altitude of 266 m above sea level. NN in Ebersbach an der Fils to 824 m above sea level. NN in High Town on the Swabian Alb.

The list of places in the Göppingen district includes approximately 255 locations (towns, villages, hamlets, farms and residential places) of the district of Göppingen in a geographical sense.

Nature

In the district of Göppingen there are the following protected areas:

History

The Göppingen district is also called Stauferkreis. From the castle Hohenstaufen, the princely family took in 1070 its start and rose to the imperial throne. After the extinction of the Hohenstaufen Göppinger space largely fell to the Counts of Württemberg. Here Göppingen soon became the seat of a high office. After 1810 and the formerly belonging to the Free Imperial City of Ulm area around Geislingen was part of Württemberg and it was the chief official Geislingen. Both upper offices belonged from 1810 to bailiwick to Rems and Fils and from 1818 to the Danube Circle, which was dissolved in 1924. In 1934 she was renamed in circles and 1938 were both united to the district of Göppingen. Some places of the circle Geislingen also came to the district of Ulm. The Göppingen district also received some places the dissolved circles Kirchheim, Schorndorf, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Welzheim.

In the district reform on January 1, 1973, the district of Göppingen was not changed. He had, however, previously by the municipality reform already two places of the district of Ulm ( Türk home and Waldhausen ) and a municipality of the district of Schwäbisch Gmünd ( Maitis ) get added. Türk home and Waldhausen were namely 1971 and incorporated in 1972 in the city Geislingen and Maitis 1972 in the town of Göppingen. After completion of the municipal reform of the Göppingen district comprises only 38 municipalities, including nine cities and of these, in turn, three " large district towns " ( Eislingen / Fils, Geislingen and Göppingen). The largest town of the district Göppingen, smallest municipality is Drackenstein.

Population Development

The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates by the State Statistical Office of Baden- Württemberg ( only primary residences ).

Policy

The district is administered by the county council and the district administration.

Council

The district council is elected by the voters in the district for five years. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats (65 seats):

District

The council elects the District for a term of 8 years. The District 's legal representative and a representative of the district as well as Chairman of the County Council and its committees, but has no vote in the committees. He directs the district office and is an official of the circle.

His area of ​​responsibility includes the preparation of the district council meetings and its committees. He shall convene meetings, directs this and implements the decisions taken there. His deputy is the first state officials.

On 3 April 2009 the council chose Edgar Wolff ( FW ), which was supported by the liberal voters, the SPD and the Greens, in the 3rd round of voting with 33 votes for the district. The supported by the CDU Gerhard Ueding came in the 3rd round of voting on 31 votes. Andreas Hollatz (FDP) withdrew his candidacy after the second ballot.

The chief official of the former men Oberamts Göppingen is presented in the article Oberamt Göppingen.

The district councils of the district Göppingen from 1936:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the district of Göppingen shows in gold under a lying black deer rod reinforced and a red red tongue black lion. The coat of arms was adopted by the then chief official Göppingen 1928. An official ceremony was not required by law at that time. In the district reform in the district of Göppingen remained, so that a Neuverleihung was not necessary.

The lion is the heraldic image of the Hohenstaufen, who had their possessions in the district. This is called the district of Göppingen also " Stauferkreis ". The deer rod is the heraldic symbol of Württemberg, which dominated the vast circular area after the fall of the Hohenstaufen.

See also: List of coats of arms in the district of Göppingen

Partnerships

The Göppingen district maintains since 1990 a partnership to the district Lobau -Zittau in Saxony.

Economy and infrastructure

In the district of Göppingen, inter alia, the well-known company WMF, Märklin and Schuler have their headquarters.

Traffic

Railway

In Göppingen District 1847 crosses from Stuttgart to sweeten, 1849 to Geislingen and 1850 to Ulm opened Filstalbahn, a main route of the Württemberg State Railways, the Swabian Alb.

Only after the end of the 19th century, some branch lines were ushered into the side valleys:

1926, there was the Voralbbahn Göppingen -Boll added by the German Reichsbahn.

Only the village of Waldhausen contacted by the local railway opened in 1906 Amstetten - Gerstetten the Württemberg Railway Company.

In all these branch lines passenger services were shut down:

Thus, only 35 km from once be traveled nearly 100 km on a regular basis.

An extension of the Stuttgart S-Bahn on the Filstalbahn into the district will be discussed again and again for years. The county decided in January 2007 to participate in the preparation of a feasibility study for it. The topic is controversial, among other things, because it is feared that a train would lead to restrictions in the Regional Express links. In the past, was called as a condition of the construction of the new Wendlingen -Ulm, because this would relieve the Filstalbahn from long-distance passenger traffic.

Bus

The bus routes in the district operate at standard rates within the Filsland mobility network.

Outside the rates of Filsland and VVS wrong 2007 to 2008 an express bus, the Fairliner that Geislingen, Göppingen and six other municipalities in the district with the Stuttgart Airport and Stuttgart Exhibition Association. The line was operated by the bus company bus transport Göppingen and Sihler. Due to low ridership, the company stopped the operation on 19 October 2008.

Road transport

The district territory is in the southwest of the Federal Highway 8 Stuttgart -Ulm. Furthermore, the circuit is opened by federal, state and county roads. The most important are the B 10 Stuttgart- Ulm, the B - 297 Göppingen Schwäbisch Gmünd and the B 466 Mulhouse Heidenheim.

County facilities

The district of Göppingen is Schulträger following Vocational Schools: Building School in Göppingen, Commercial School in Göppingen, Justus-von -Liebig -Schule ( Home Economics and Agricultural School ) Göppingen, Commercial School Geislingen, Commercial School Geislingen, Emil -von- Behring school ( home economics school) Geislingen and Paul Kerschensteinerschule School Bad Ueberkingen (Business School for Hotel and restaurant services ), also the Bodelschwinghschule for mentally and physically handicapped Göppingen, the Bodelschwinghschule for mentally handicapped Geislingen and the Wilhelm -Busch School of speech-Impaired and School for Patients in prolonged hospital treatment with Schulkindergarten Göppingen.

The district of Göppingen is a carrier of the clinic at Eichert in Göppingen, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Ulm, and the Helfensteinklinik Geislingen.

Other non-profit and private clinics in the district of Göppingen are the rehab clinic in Bad Boll, the Christophsbad Göppingen Vincent and the Department of Prevention and rehabilitation Bad Ditzenbach.

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Cities

Agreed administrative communities and local government associations

Communities

Cities and Towns before the district reform

Before the district reform in 1973 or before the municipal reform were part of the district of Göppingen in 1938 a total of 65 municipalities, including 5 cities. 1939 wood home was, 1956 Bart Bach and 1957 Bezgenriet in the city of Göppingen and 1966 Weiler whether Helfenstein incorporated into the city Geislingen. Thus, there were only 61 municipalities.

On March 7, 1968, the parliament of Baden -Württemberg has paved the way for a church reform. The Act to Strengthen the administrative force smaller municipalities, it was possible that smaller communities could voluntarily unite to form larger communities. The first in the district of Göppingen made ​​on 1 July 1971, the municipalities Hausen an der Fils and Oberwälden that have been incorporated into the municipality of Bad Ueberkingen or in the community cheeks. In the following years the number of municipalities decreased steadily. All remaining villages of the district Göppingen were transferred to the new district of Göppingen on 1 January 1973, but declined in the following years the number of municipalities on.

Largest parish of the district of Göppingen in front of the district reform was the county town of Göppingen, which in 1956 was large district since April 1, smallest municipality was Oberwälden. The district of Göppingen included before the district reform in an area of 610 km ² and had at the 1970 census, a total of 225 987 inhabitants. After the district reform in 1973 other communities were collected into towns, namely Ebersbach an der Fils 1975 Donzdorf 1976 Sweet Uhingen 1996 and 1997.

Population development of the old district of Göppingen until 1970. All population figures are census results.

The villages of the district Göppingen before the community - or district reform (without the prior 1966 incorporated municipalities in Göppingen wood home, Bart Bach, Jebenhausen and Bezgenriet ): All municipalities are still the district of Göppingen.