Krautheim

Krautheim is a city in Hohenlohe at the Jagst.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms and Flag
• 3.3 community partnership

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Established businesses
• 4.3 Museums
• 4.4 Natural Monuments
• 4.5 Sports

• 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Herb home is located at the northernmost point of the Jagst to 210-420 meters. The Jagst has there buried 130 to 150 meters deep into the limestone landscape of Hohenlohe plain. Characteristic of herb home is to look at the visible from afar, the same Castle, which offers an impressive sight with up to 17 meters high and up to 2.70 meters thick shield wall. The mighty donjon, with its height of about 30 meters, a glimpse into the Jagsttal and the surrounding countryside.

Boroughs

The present city herb home is the result of the administrative reform in 1972 / 1973. At that time, the formerly independent municipalities of Baden herb home, Gommersdorf, Horrenbach, Klepsau, Neunstetten, Oberndorf and the Württemberg towns Altkrautheim, top and Unterginsbach joined together and gave their name to the city Krautheim. The villages have between 60 and 700 inhabitants; Krautheim itself as a central place to live about 2000 inhabitants.

Among the former municipalities Altkrautheim, Gommersdorf, Horrenbach, Klepsau, herb home, Oberginsbach and Unterginsbach each include only the villages of the same name. For the former municipality Neunstetten include the village Neunstetten, the oil mill and the Lower Mill, the former municipality of Oberndorf Oberndorf the village and the houses Knock ( Chapel Hill) and Stockbrunnen meadows. In the urban area of Krautheim the disposed villages Stone, Wind Mountain and rooms Bach in the former municipality Gommersdorf, Covered in the territory of the former municipality Horrenbach, Nydelingen, Pichintal and shaft village Remenweiler lie within the territory herb home before the municipal reform, Upper Erlenbach in the territory of the former municipality Neunstetten, in the area the former rural community Oberginsbach and caps Brunn in the territory of the former municipality of Oberndorf.

History

Incorporations

Policy

Parish council

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 resulted in a turnout of 56.6 % ( - 4.5 ), the following distribution of seats:

Coat of arms and flag

The blazon of the coat of arms Krautheimer reads: " In eleven of black and silver shield split top right a red crossing, is a sechsspeichiges silver wheel " The city flag is black and white.

The oldest known seal herb home of 1473 shows only the Mainz wheel After herb home was in 1806 became Baden, a town seal initially a shamrock from 1898 showed but again the Mainz wheel in 1950, the city introduced the Wheel of Mainz in a split of red and green shield. The current eleven of black and silver split shield goes back to the coat of arms of the former local nobility; of him also the flag colors are derived. The current coat of arms, which connects the Wheel of Mainz with the arms of the local nobility, was awarded the City on November 5, 1955 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, the flag on 14 October 1971.

Community partnership

Partner Municipality of herb home is the Saxon church Ebersbach in the former county Großenhain, today the district of Meißen.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Herb was home to 1988 by the Jagsttal train ( Moeckmuehl - Dörzbach ) connected to the national rail network. Today there are the nearest railway stations in Moeckmuehl, Schwäbisch Hall Hessental, Bad Mergentheim and Osterburken. The nearest motorway is the A81 (exit Osterburken ). The next federal highway is the B19, which runs through the neighboring Dörzbach.

Established businesses

Based in the near Künzelsau Würth Group is also home herb of great importance. In Krautheim itself the firms Woehrle (metal goods factory) and Dometic Seitz ( supplier of caravan and motorhome manufacturers ), and institutions of the Association of self-help are physically disabled eV is the largest employer.

Museums

Castle and St. John's Museum are open from May to September weekends and holidays. Outside of opening times, interested parties register with the city administration.

Natural Monuments

The Krautheimer Kuharsch is a stone trough. It was created by a source whose very hard water has formed by sintering a channel whose bizarre form of the name of this natural phenomenon reflects vividly. The Kuharsch is a station on the paths of silence in and around Dörzbach and is under protection. It is located about 600 meters after leaving the village of Krautheim towards Klepsau on the L 1025.

Sports

In the herb home district there are, among others, a football (TSV Krautheim ), tennis court (TSC herb home ) and a volleyball club (ASC herb home ). In Gommersdorf the football club VfR Gommersdorf (Association League North Baden) is established.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Franz Konrad Macke (1756-1844), Mayor of Mainz
• Franz Anton Keller (1772-1838), Baden bailiff
• Otto Beck (1846-1908), Mayor of Mannheim
• Ralph Weber ( * 1960 ), legal scholars