Gschwend

Gschwend is a municipality in Baden -Württemberg and is part of the Ostalb.

• 2.1 religions
• 2.2 Amalgamations

• 3.1 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 Natural Monuments

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Established businesses
• 5.3 Formation

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 Other local personalities

• 7.1 Sheaf Cart
• 7.2 Cattle Market

Geography

Geographical Location

Gschwend has a share in the three natural areas Eastern Albvorland, virgin forest and Welzheimer Forest and the Swabian- Franconian Forest, all of which are part of the Swabian Keuper- Lias country. The community is located between Welzheimer forest and Frick Hofer height, in the Swabian -Franconian Forest on the " Gschwender " Red, a left tributary of the flax.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the northwest by Spruce Mountain, in the north of the city Gaildorf, to the east by Sulzbach-Laufen, all three in the district of Schwäbisch Hall; on the southeast by Eschach, to the south Ruppertshofen and Spraitbach, both Ostalb; on the southwest by Alfdorf and to the city Welzheim, on the west by Kaiser Bach and Murr Hardt, all four Rems -Murr -Kreis.

Community structure

The municipality Gschwend with the formerly independent communities Altersberg and Frickhofen includes 85 villages, hamlets, farms and houses.

For the former town of Altenberg, the village Horlachen belong ( the seat of the municipal administration of the former town of Altenberg ), the hamlet Altersberg, Brandhof, Oak Kirn Mountain, Hagkling, Dog Mountain, Lämmershof, Pritschenhof, Sturmhof, Front Breitenfeld and water court, the courts Felgenhof, Gläserhof, Haghöfle, Haghof, Hengstenberg, Rear width box, Hugenbeckenreute, Chandler mountain, Neumühlestrasse, Pfeiferhof, Schierhof, Seehöfle and brick hut and the disposed villages elderly Gleyssern, Gauchs or Jauch Hausen, Krebenhaus ( Krämershof ) Talheim and Hundsberger Sagmuhle.

For the former municipality Frickhofen include the village Frickhofen, the hamlet Dietenhof, High Reusch, Joosenhof, Linde Reute ( Linde Hoefle ) Linsenhof, Metzlenshof, Mittelbronn (1322 first mentioned ), Ottenried, Rotenhar, Spittelhof, hamlets, Wild Hoefle and Wimberg, the courtyards Kellershof, Schöllhof stone Hoefle, stone Reute and the houses Brecht Halden, Bruckhaus, Hohenohl, Joosenhofer Sagmuhle, Käshöfle, Rappenbühl, Rappenhof and Wolfsmühle and dialed villages bay Mayrhofen, Small Erkertshof, Gerbertshofen, Engert Weiler (? ) Hagenseesägmühle, Joosenhofer Sagmuhle, Käshofer Sagmuhle and Scherach.

The municipality Gschwend before the municipal reform of the 1970s include the village Gschwend, the hamlet Birkhof, Book House, Dinglesmad, rabbits Hoefle, Hetzenhof, deer creek, Hohenreut, Honkling ( on April 1, 1972 umgemeindet of Unterrot by Gschwend ) Humbach, Humberg, Mühläckerle, Nardenheim, Schlechtbach ( 1395 documentary mentioned ), Schmid bracket, Seelach, forest house and Wild Garden ( April 1, 1972 by Unterrot by Gschwend umgemeindet ), the courtyards Hetschenhof, Holle Hoefle, Hollenhof, Marzellenhof, Oppen country and Lower Hugenhof and the houses Ernst, Gschwender mill, stockpile Häusle, High Hugenhof, tearing Hoefle, Roßsumpf, Bad Bacher Sagmuhle, stone forest and road house as well as the disposed places » bathhouse ," Gestösseln or tappets, Kirchberg, Latvians Häusle, Mühlrain, Rough Mitre, Salinhütte on Badsee, Stone at stone Forest, Tauber Weiler, Tiergarten and Wegstetten.

History

Frickhofen, which was first mentioned in a document from 1293, is the oldest documented place in the community. However, it is believed that there was a settlement Gschwend since the mid-12th century. Not much later the forest will have been cleared by Gschwend. A special kind of grubbing was the Schwenden that Gschwend has given his name. Here, the bark of the trees was peeled off, and she withered and then either died off or could be easily infected and made ​​to disappear by burning. The flame in Gschwender crest indicates this burning.

Gschwend was initially a rather insignificant settlement, but developed through its convenient location at the intersection of roads from Schwäbisch Hall on Gaildorf to Gmünd ( Salt Road from Hall to the south, today's federal highway 298) and Welzheim to Aalen ( Cannstatt road ) to a center of the rural trade. In the 16th century, the court was moved to Seelach by Gschwend. There were great cattle markets and fairs were held since 1760. The current municipal area of ​​Gschwend was long the chief official Gaildorf and from 1938 to the district Backnang. When it was dissolved by the district reform in 1973, came alone Altersberg, Frickhofen and Gschwend on today's municipality to Ostalb.

Religions

Gschwend is predominantly Protestant since the Reformation. In addition to four Protestant communities, there are also a Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Incorporations

On August 1, 1971, until then independent municipality Frickhofen was incorporated into Gschwend, on 1 January 1972 was followed by the incorporation of age mountain. Honkling and wild garden were umgemeindet on 1 April 1972 by Unterrot by Gschwend.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: In gold a red flame with three tongues, accompanied on the top right and bottom left of each a green fir tree.

As canting arms the crest refers to the place name. " Gschwendeter " means " by fire of cleared forest ."

The municipality flag is red and yellow.

Around 1820 a seal was used by the office of mayor, which showed a cancer in a highly oval shield. A meaning of the seal image is not recorded, the seal was forgotten later. 1926 proposed the Archives Directorate Stuttgart before a burning branch as canting arms. The office of mayor then attended the current coat of arms.

On May 26, 1956, the municipality were granted by the Interior Ministry of Baden -Württemberg today valid coat of arms and the flag.

Attractions

• Gschwend is located on the idyllic road that leads past many sights.
• The forest experience is far way on the road from Rotenhar to Schönberg. He is a combination of art and meditation trail with ten stations.

Museums

In the former school and town hall of Horlachen is the local history museum.

Structures

• St. Andrew's Church in Schlechtbach. Built in 1447 Gothic Church is probably the oldest building in the municipality. The high altar with a statue of the Virgin of 1430 is a special gem.
• Hagbergturm. The lookout on the Hagberg, with 585.2 m above sea level. NN is the second highest mountain in the Welzheimer forest, is a landmark Gschwend and orientation point in the wider area. Open he is on all Sundays and public holidays between Easter Sunday and the end of October.
• Ev. Parish Church (formerly St. Nicholas) in Frickhofen. Built in 1743 in place of a Gothic predecessor church that was burned down in 1634. At the church near the entrance plaque on the minister Wolfgang Kirsch biter.
• Stone cross ( atonement cross) in Frickhofen. This is at the end of the smith street ( on the trail Frick Hofer height). According to legend, a man was killed here in dispute. To avoid endless family feuds ( vendetta ), an atonement contract was concluded with the help of the authorities. The stone cross was erected as a memorial in the vicinity of the crime scene on a busy route. It probably dates from the 15th or 16th century and is probably the oldest cultural monument of the district Frickhofen.

Natural Monuments

• Devil's Kitchen in Gschwend, on the southern slope of the mountain community
• Teufelskanzel 500 m east of Rotenhar

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Gschwend is connected by the federal highway 298 ( Gaildorf - Schwäbisch Gmünd ) to the national road.

Established businesses

Pfleiderer AG has a plant in Gschwend. The plant has been closed since October 2010, after previously over thirteen months has been already rested.

Education

In Gschwend the Heinrich- Prescher - school, primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule is. In the district Frickhofen, another primary school, which is based on the Montessori method. There are also three local and three church nurseries.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• John Lämmerer (1763-1831), German poet of the people
• Philipp Gottlieb Osiander (1803-1876), born in Frickhofen, Bailiff and Member of Parliament
• Friedrich von Schmidt (1825-1891), born in Frickhofen, architect of many churches and town halls in neo-Gothic style
• Christian Dietrich (1844-1919), Swabian Altpietist
• Peter Jacob Schober (1897-1983), German painter
• Lina Haag (1907-2012) resistance fighter
• Erich Schneider ( born 1933), German politician ( CDU), President of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1982 to 1992

Other local personalities

• Heinrich Prescher (1749-1827) was for many years a pastor in Gschwend. He is named after the local primary and secondary school.

Customs

Sheaf cart

Every year at the beginning of the harvest season, usually on the first weekend in August, a decorated sheaf car with the first sheaves in the festive escort of children and the ringing of bells, of horses, the church is drawn on the marketplace. This custom dates back to the year 1817. At that time, after the great famine of 1816, it was decided to escort the first harvest wagon solemnly to the church.

Is Gschwend, next Essingen, one of the few communities that maintains this tradition to this day among the population with great participation.

Cattle market

After the great fire of 1857, the Gschwender made ​​of necessity a virtue, they designed their village to completely. They paved a large square at the intersection of major thoroughfares and put on a new, spacious market place, because since then the state was not ideal for the cattle market. The " justice zweyen fairs " the place had already received in 1760, 1776 was the third to do so. This was after the " appointment " to the administrative center in the 16th century, another milestone in the development of today's center community. The markets made Gschwend for agricultural center and promoted trade and commerce. They were well known and well attended. 500 to 1000 head of cattle were then distended, in February 1887 there were even 1425 pieces. If the Gschwender markets can come up with those numbers in the course of motorization and mechanization no longer, they are included but still with the most important in northern Württemberg.