Lauchheim

Leek home is just under 5000 inhabitants, the smallest city in Ostalb in Baden-Württemberg.

• 2.1 religions 2.1.1 Jewish Community

• 3.1 municipal

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Leek home is located in the eaves of the Jagsttal Härtsfelds that forms the easternmost part of the Swabian Alb, at about 500 meters above sea level. Stuttgart is located approximately 80 kilometers to the west, 50 km south-southeast of Ulm leek home; to Augsburg in the southeast there are around 70 kilometers.

Neighboring communities

The boundaries of the city Lauchheim bordered to the west and north west living, to the east by the city Bopfingen and on the south by the county town of Aalen.

Boroughs

To town Leek home with the formerly independent communities Hülen and Rottingen include not only Lauchheim twelve other villages, hamlets, farms and houses. For the former municipality Hülen include the village Hülen and state domain, castle and hamlet Kapfenburg. To town Leek home in fron front of the local government reform in the 1970s, encompasses the City of leek home, the hamlet Gromberg, Hettelsberg and Stetten, the, yards Banzenmühle, Fox Mill, Mohr Stetten and Schoenberg, the house breakpoint Rottingen and the disposed villages deeds hole Königsbühl, Neusselbuch Niederhofen and Central Mayrhofen. For the former municipality Rottingen the village Rottingen, the homestead Kahl farms and villages of the disposed Hausen belong (?) And farm to Waidland.

Coat of arms of districts

Rottingen

History

Lauchheim ( = leeks limit mark, probably related to the Swabian- Franconian border) lies on an ancient trade route that ran in Jagsttal, this left knee in the Jagst leek home and led by the ream to Donauwörth. North of the city a Celtic Viereckschanze was detected. West of the city were later archaeological excavations capture almost entirely an early to high medieval settlement and the associated burial ground Merovingian - Germany far a unique situation; the excavated finds are in Alamannenmuseum Ellwangen.

1235-1485 has witnessed a noble family, which was named after the castle Gromberg and first lord of the first -mentioned place in 1248. In addition to the lords of Gromberg also had the gift giving of Schenkenstein and the monastery Ellwangen property in Leek home.

Since the second half of the 14th century, the German Order of areas acquired in the area of the upper Jagsttal and built leeks from home to the center, which was founded in 1400 to come. This Coming belonged to Deutschordensballei francs. 1397 has been started by the city with the construction of the fixture, 1398, the high court 1431, eventually acquired in 1402 the market rights and freedoms under the municipal law with Bopfinger model, with leek home still remained under the rule of the Order. In the Thirty Years' War the city was burned down in 1645 largely by French troops. 1806 the German Order of Napoléon was lifted and the city as well as the Kapfenburg were part of Württemberg.

While Hülen (formerly the German Order - Coming to belong ) and Rottingen ( previously the princely House of Oettingen ) since 1810 belonged to the upper office Neresheim that came up in 1938 in the district of Aalen, the core city was in 1806 the top Office Ellwangen slammed, the rose also in 1938 in the district of Aalen. Due to the district reform of 1973, the entire territory of the present-day city was the new Ostalb. On December 31, 1974 Hülen was incorporated into leek home. The present city was formed by connecting the town Leek home with the community Rottingen on 1 January 1975.

The city holiday is celebrated every year on July 4th.

Religions

Already in 1248 the parish was in 1363 testified to the German Order Coming Mergentheim, was incorporated into this and released in 1538 on the Lauchheimer Coming.

Add leeks home both the Roman Catholic and the Protestant church has a rectory. The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul was built by Georg Morlok and consecrated in 1868. The Protestant church leek Home Westhausen uses the late medieval core Barbara Chapel as a church.

Jewish Community

1658 granted leek home against the protests of the Catholic priest six from the dominion of the Oettinger expelled Jews asylum. 1788 already lived 18 families with 88 people in the place. Leek home was initially self seat of the rabbinate, then Ellingen ( until 1806 ), Wallerstein ( until 1832 ) and Oberndorf assigned. After 176 people with the highest number of Jewish residents had been reached about 1858, emigrated from many Jews. 1900 1910 32 Jewish Lauchheimer were only 47 counted. In 1922 the congregation was dissolved, the remaining Jews were part of the municipality of Oberndorf. Of the seven Jews who lived in 1933 on the spot, lost six by the Nazi persecution their lives.

The 1686 mentioned synagogue burned in 1743 by negligence, the Jewish community was punished because of it. 1768-1770 a new synagogue was built, which renovated the church 1856/1857 with a government grant and extended. Beginning of the 20th century, it became increasingly difficult to achieve the necessary for the service number ten; no later than 1920, the synagogue was closed and the building sold in 1921. Nevertheless, the no longer used for ritual purposes house was set in November 1938 pogroms in fire. But the fire could be extinguished. After the war, used as a barn, the building was demolished in 1965.

A Jewish parochial school was first mentioned in 1829, 1849/1850 the municipality bought a new building and converted it to school with the community hall to; in the basement of a mikveh was established. The building is still preserved ( Bienne road 15, corner priest - Bestlin Street).

The cemetery of the Jewish community leek home was in Aufhausen.

Policy

The municipality is a member of Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Kapfenburg based in West Hausen.

Parish council

The council are after the local elections of 7 June 2009, in addition to the mayor as chairman, 20 members. The choice was as follows:

Culture and sights

Museums

The local museum is in 1621 built the Upper Gate, a landmark of the city, housed. However, the nationally significant early medieval finds from Lauchheim are not there but in Alamannenmuseum Ellwangen and see in the Archaeological National Museum in Konstanz.

Structures

• Kapfenburg stands on a promontory about 130 meters above the city. It was rebuilt over the centuries from a castle to castle and never destroyed. Thus, the architectural styles of very different eras to a idiosyncratic ensemble are united. Today, an International Music School Academy is housed in the castle.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Leek home is connected to the trunk road network with about six kilometers distant point Aalen / Westhausen the Federal Highway 7. The Federal Highway 29 ( Waiblingen- Nördlingen ) used to lead through the city and bypasses this today in a loop.

In leek home station on the railway Ries ( Aalen- Donauwörth ) hold regional trains.

Education

The German religious school in Leek home is a composite school. Under a school management are spread over several buildings, primary, and junior high school together. Secondary schools are located in Aalen, Bopfingen and Ellwangen. There are also two urban and two Roman Catholic kindergartens.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wilhelm Biener (before 1590-1651 ), Tyrolean Chancellor.
• Johann Baptist Benz (1807-1880) was a German composer and Director of Music in Speyer. Add leeks home a street is named after him.