Ingelfingen

The city Ingelfingen is a nationally recognized resort in the Hohenlohe district, in Baden - Württemberg, situated on the lower boiler, over 35 kilometers northeast of Heilbronn and about three kilometers west-northwest of Künzelsau (each crow flies).

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms and Flag
• 3.4 Town twinning

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Established businesses

• 5.1 Structures

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

The core city Ingelfingens lies at the shallow northern arc between Künzelsau and Forchtenberg in here about 190 m deep valley of the digester. The scarf Klingenbachstrasse moves into a south-southeast direction through the old town and then flows right into the river; half way up the mouth of spur lies the ruins Lichteneck. The old settlement of parts of the village are in almost 300 meters distance from the river's northern bank at the junction of the right foot of the slope and pull Kocheraue to be a good piece to Klingental high; newer fill up the river the entire width of the floodplain under the Hohenberg or lie south of the river on the rise for Miihlberg.

The district Criesbach is a mile down the river in a situation analogous to the old town in front of a smaller blade inlet from the north and the beginning of a big right valley widening, which still continues beyond the city limits of Lower Hall. South of the stove as well as two small yards across from Künzelsau Nail mountain belongs to the plateau of the place Lipfersberg to Ingelfingen, in the valley or on its left slope.

However, most of the urban area lies on the jointed flat Talverläufen plateau north of the digester. On this plateau, a number of smaller farms and hamlets are scattered, the more important settlements are there but in side valleys of the digester and the Jagst: Hermuthausen is about 6 km east-northeast of Ingelfingen at the top Austrian stream that drained via the Deubach into the cooker, beyond a lobe Künzelsauer territory. Weldingsfelden is located about a mile north of it on the slope to the trout stream that aims straight north to Dörzbach - Hohenbach to Jagst. Stachenhausen, Dörrenzimmern and Eberstal follow each other west of it in the valley of the towing for Jagst at Schoental - Marlach Sindelbachs. Diebach is located a short distance from Eberstal also at the western city limits, but in the upper valley of Long creek, which flows south to the digester near Weissbach.

The southern plateau around Lipfersberg reached at the southern city limits a height of 412.7 m above sea level. NN, the much larger northern Weldingsfelden even at 429.3 m above sea level. NN. The stove is the depth axis of the metropolitan area, it flows at about 207 m above sea level. NN and leaves Ingelfingen a little less than 200.6 m above sea level. NN.

Boroughs

Ingelfingen, in addition to the core city seven districts: Criesbach, Diebach, Dörrenzimmern, Eberstal, Hermuthausen, Stachenhausen and Weldingsfelden.

History

Ingelfingen was first mentioned in the year 1080th Already in 1302 Ingelfingen is called oppidum, was thus a fortified place with all the associated rights of a city. 1323 King Ludwig gives the place the market rights. In the Thirty Years' War the city had suffered greatly from many diseases and troop pull-throughs. Between 1701 and 1805, and the Count of Hohenlohe had his residence, giving the town brought by the settlement of craftsmen economic prosperity. 1892 promoted the establishment of Weingärtnergenossenschaft Ingelfingen, forerunner of today's Kochertalkellerei, viticulture. In the 19th century, were found in the search for coal salt water with great medicinal properties, which can not use for cures.

Incorporations

Policy

Parish council

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

Mayor

On 7 May 2006, elected to succeed Wolfgang J. Schneider for Mayor Michael Jürgen Bauer with a majority of 55.94 % of the votes in the first ballot.

1948-1978: Henry Ehrmann 1978-2006: Wolfgang J. Schneider since 2006: Michael Jürgen Bauer

Coat of arms and flag

The blazon of the coat of arms Ingelfinger is: Azure, a silver crosier. The city flag is white and blue.

The crook is already contained in the first known seal of the city, which has survived from the 16th century, but probably dates from the 15th century. The rod is understood as a reference to St. Nicholas as the patron saint of the town church, but should also point out connections to the pin Comburg. The crookedness of the rod was shown in the 19th century and until about 1920 with the opening to the left. A decision taken on April 10, 1956 confirmed the present form of the emblem.

Twinning

Ingelfingen has since 1991 been twinned with the French town of Saint - Héand ( Loire ) near Saint- Étienne.

Economy and infrastructure

Ingelfingen is a wine-growing town whose documents are Großlage cooker mountain in the area Kocher-Jagst Tauber. It is up to the Württemberg wine road. The vineyards are partly managed by members of the Kochertalkellerei well as self- marketers. A larger untapped area in the immediate vicinity of the ruins Lichteneck was recently recreated under the initiative and financing of local entrepreneur Fritz Müller.

Traffic

Most important transport connection to the city Ingelfingen is the kettle valley road (L 1045), they coming to the east crossed by low Hall in the west direction Künzelsau. Leads to cross this axis just east of the city center the main road 19 from Bad Mergentheim, in the north via Künzelsau south to Schwäbisch Hall. These two roads junction copper cell of A 6 Heilbronn- Nuremberg is 14 km away and the nearest railway connection in Waldenburg 15 km away.

The former Kettle Valley Railway by Ingelfingen (from Waldenburg to Forchtenberg ) has been decommissioned and largely dismantled the route. The passenger was discontinued on May 30, 1981 in favor of the transport model Hohenlohe ( a pilot project for bus networks in rural areas ); the setting of freight traffic on May 15, 1991.

Some bus routes of transport Hohenlohe ( NVH) since then connect the city with the neighboring villages as well as its centers Künzelsau, Öhringen and Bad Mergentheim.

In the district of Ingelfingen the special landing sites Ingelfingen - Bühlhof are (private) and Ingelfingen - Hermuthausen ( club - flying site ); the next airfields Niederstetten and Schwäbisch Hall Hessental are both around 30 miles away.

Established businesses

Ingelfingen has today several significant industrial plants ( control engineering, manufacturing and sales of assembly parts )

• BTI fastening technology, one belonging to Albert Berner Holding company with around 1000 employees.
• Bürkert Fluid Control Systems, with approximately 2,400 employees worldwide.
• Reisser screws technique that belongs to the Würth Group, with around 220 employees.
• Vegetable group, with some 1,270 employees worldwide, including about 680 in Germany.

Culture and sights

Structures

Built featured 1701 Castle of the Counts of Hohenlohe located since 1962 in the possession of the city and since the refurbishment 1984/1985 serves as City Hall.

In November 2013, built in 1630 Old Castle of the monument Baden- Württemberg was honored as a "monument of the month".

Visit Worthy are the black courtyard, a remarkable city noble house and the Muschelkalk Museum Hagdorn.

The Protestant church of St. Nicholas was built around 1500. My choir has an elaborate Gothic tracery vault.

The ruins Lichteneck is the resulting residue of which was built around 1250 by force of Boxberg Castle, which was destroyed in the 15th century.

The Ingelfinger barrel is considered the second biggest wooden barrel in Europe and houses a wine museum.

The old house was built Schmiedgasse 15, according to a dendrochronological investigation in 1295, making it one of the oldest surviving houses in Germany.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen (1747-1818), Prussian general and Prince Hohenlohe
• Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen (1752-1815), Field Marshal - Lieutenant, Prince of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen
• Karl Mögling (1868-1920), born in Dörrenzimmern, Württemberg Rollmaus
• George Fahrbach (1903-1976), officer in the German, later European hiking and conservation movement. A native of Criesbach whose honorary citizen he was at his 60th birthday on April 6, 1963.
• Eugen Egner (* 1951), German writer, artist and musician