Königheim

King Home is a municipality in Tauberfranken, located in the Main- Tauber district in northeastern Baden- Württemberg. The inhabitants are predominantly Catholic.

• 2.1 religions
• 2.2 Amalgamations
• 2.3 districts 2.3.1 Brehmen
• 2.3.2 Gissigheim
• 2.3.3 Pülfringen
• 2.3.4 Weikerstetten

• 3.1 Mayor
• 3.2 municipal
• 3.3 Coat of Arms
• 3.4 community partnerships

• 4.1 Structures

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education
• 5.3 energy

• 6.1 freeman
• 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is situated about 6 km west of Tauberbischofsheim in the catchment area of about 18 km long Brehm Bach.

Community structure

To Königheim include the formerly independent communities Brehmen, Gissigheim and Pülfringen. For the former municipality Brehmen part of the village Brehmen. For the former municipality Gissigheim include the village Gissigheim, the hamlet Essel Brunn ( courtyard) and the houses chain mill, oil and Sagmuhle and Lower Mill. The municipality Königheim within the limits from 31 December 1971, the village and the hamlet of King Home Weikerstetten and Outbound village Langenfeld belong (?). For the former municipality Pülfringen include the village and the hamlets Pülfringen Hoffeld and Birkenfeld.

History

Königheim was first documented in 1149. 1422 received the community market rights. Until 1585 it belonged to the Bishopric of Würzburg, they transferred this year to Electoral Mainz. In the context of secularization because of Reichsdeputationshauptschluss circuit, the first place in 1803 became part of the Principality of Leiningen and then by the Act of Confederation in 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Baden. There Königheim belonged first to the district office Tauberbischofsheim, from 1938, the same district was created. When it was dissolved in 1973, King was home to the newly formed Tauber district, which was renamed a year later in Main- Tauber-Kreis.

In the pogrom of November 1938, the synagogue of the Jewish Community of SA men was desecrated; the cult objects were publicly burned on the star space. A plaque at the post office building in the Muenzgasse 2 refers to this event.

On June 21, 1984 King was home after heavy rains, the Brehm Bach brought to overflowing, heavily affected. The rain began in the afternoon; just half an hour later, the retention basin Gissigheim ran over with about 54 m³ / s. The flood reached 17 against clock with a flow rate of about 100 to 120 m³ / s its highest level; then was triggered an emergency alert from the district office. In use were Bundeswehr, DLRG, fire brigades and Technical Relief. The flooding caused damage amounting to around 39 million euros; there were nine injured, 30 destroyed and 130 damaged buildings and 80 damaged vehicles. 55 head of cattle and 700 pigs died.

Religions

The inhabitants of the district Königheim are mainly that the districts Gissigheim and Pülfringen almost exclusively Roman Catholic, while the Brehmer are predominantly Protestant.

The districts Königheim and Gissigheim also had Jewish communities and in each case a Jewish cemetery. The last Jewish citizen Gissigheims 1927 was buried in the Jewish cemetery Gissigheim. The last burial in the Jewish cemetery Königheim took place in 1935. While part of the King Heimer Jewish citizens in the early days of the Nazi dictatorship Germany could still leave the remaining were first deported along with the other Baden's Jews in the Camp de Gurs and arrived there or in concentration camps, in which they were spent after that, killed.

Incorporations

Districts

Brehmen

Brehmen was first mentioned in documents in 1239. It first belonged to Boxberg. About the Lords of Rosenberg and the Count of Hatzfeld came to the place in 1730 to the County of Löwenstein -Wertheim, who belonged to it until 1806. The provisions of the Act of Confederation, then led to membership in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Gissigheim

The first documented mention was Gissigheim 1013 in a document of the monastery Amorbach. However Keltenschanze the border of the districts Brehmen and Gissigheim indicates a settlement already in pre-Christian times. After various other landlords of the place belonged in the 18th century the barons of Bettendorff before he fell in 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Pülfringen

Already 788 Pülfringen was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex. It is the oldest part of today's places. From about 1050 it was under the local noble of the Knights of Bilversheim or Pülfringen, through which it came to the diocese of Würzburg. A remarkable career for this Ministerialengeschlecht succeeded Henry I of Bilversheim by the election as Bishop of Bamberg ( 1242-1257 ). From 1287 to 1597 Pülfringen was under the Counts of Wertheim and then fell back to Würzburg. As part of the secularization of the place came in 1803 to the Principality of Leiningen, and finally in 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Weikerstetten

The village Weikerstetten, located on the B 27, has about 50 inhabitants, of which a large part operates agriculture. In the center there is a small chapel in which services are held regularly.

Population Development

Policy

Mayor

Until 1806 stood at the head of the municipality Königheim each a council and a mayor common ( in the 15th century, also referred to as home castles ) and a mayor. In the Grand Duchy of Baden, the community leaders initially bore the title of bailiff and mayor in 1831.

Mayor Ewald Wolpert was elected on 21 September 2008 for a third term.

Parish council

The municipal elections on 7 June 2009 was as follows:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality Königheim shows a golden pot on a red background, which goes back to " Can home " than previous name King home. The coat of arms of the district Gissigheim shows a silver ring on a red background.

Community partnerships

Since 1971 Königheim connects a community partnership with the communities Scheifling and Sankt Lorenzen in Styria.

Culture and sights

Structures

In the center of Königheim the baroque church of St. Martin, the. According to the plans of the engineer captain and architect Michael Anton Muller, a pupil of Balthasar Neumann, was built in 1755/1756 is Müller used to this, the plans for the Neumann Church St. Paulin in Trier, which is visible on the design of the facade as well as in the construction of the sanctuary, especially in the ciborium over the high altar. The church was carefully restored in recent times. At the church there is a stone the Mount of Olives from the workshop of Tilman Riemenschneider. Gissigheim has a baroque palace and a baroque chapel ( Chapel of the Guardian Angels ). In the district, there are many shrines, many also from the Baroque period. The cemetery of Gissigheim is encompassed by a wall from the Baroque period. In Gissigheim and in Königheim is in each case a Jewish cemetery.

Economy and infrastructure

King Home is a wine-growing village with about 100 hectares of vineyards.

Traffic

Since 1914, King home was connected by a rail line to Tauberbischofsheim to the national rail network. The line was closed in 1968.

Education

With the Kirchberg school in the capital of King home has a primary and secondary school. There is a communal and three Roman Catholic kindergartens.

Energy

• Wind farm Pülfringen with 7 wind turbines of the type AN Bonus 1.3 MW / 62 with 80 m hub height, 62 m rotor diameter and 1.3 MW power ( start: 2002 )

Personalities

Freeman

Sons and daughters of the town

• Born November 14, 1765 in King Home: Lorenz cape ( p ) ler, education professor at the universities of Ingolstadt and Landshut.
• Born November 11, 1819 in Brehmen: Carl Hoefer, the leading campaigner of Friedrich Hecker in the Baden Revolution of 1848 / 49th Executed on August 16, 1849.
• * In Gissigheim: Gottfried Bauer, Baden revolutionary, shot in Rastatt on 4 October 1849.
• Born March 13, 1862 in Gissigheim: Wilhelm Weigand, writer and art professor.
• * November 30, 1871 Gissigheim: Albert Schmitt, SJ, professor of theology in Innsbruck, 15. January 1948
• Born June 28, 1897 in Pülfringen: John Künzig, folklorist and founder of the John Künzig Institute for East German folklore in Freiburg.