Merzhausen
Merzhausen is a municipality in the district of Breisgau in the Black Forest in Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ). The office of the Management Community Hexental located in Merzhausen.
- 5.1 Economics
- 5.2 authorities
- 5.3 Media
- 5.4 Public bodies
- 5.5 Other institutions
- 5.6 traffic
- 6.1 Structures
- 6.2 Sports and recreation
- 6.3 events
- 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 7.2 Other people
Geography
Located between Schoenberg and the Black Forest on the northern end of the Hexentals, Merzhausen belongs to both the so-called foothills and already the Black Forest because by the municipality runs the main fault between the Upper Rhine Valley and Black Forest. The municipality lies at an altitude of 254-538 m. She joins seamlessly to the north and east by the city of Freiburg. To the south it borders the municipality of Au, like it belongs to the administrative community Hexental and in the west on the community Ebringen. Merzhausen is the smallest municipality in the district with the highest population density, which is also higher than that of Freiburg.
The municipality consists of the village Merzhausen and the Jesuit Castle Castle.
History
Merzhausen was first mentioned in 786, when the local landowner Heimo gave away goods to the Abbey of St. Gall. After various Freiburg noble families owned the place, bought it in 1635, the Freiburg Jesuit monastery. After the abolition of the Order in 1773, he went over to the family Schnewlin Bernlapp of Bollschweil and after their extinction in 1838 the Gender Watch Castle ( Oberkirch ). Finally, the place in 1806 became part of the newly built Grand Duchy of Baden (country ) with the entire Breisgau.
Religions
Merzhausen remained Roman Catholic after the Reformation. The parish church is dedicated to St. Gallus. The parish is part of the pastoral care unit Hexental the Dean of Freiburg.
Only through the immigration of displaced persons after the Second World War was a Protestant congregation, St. John community.
In 1980/81 the Schoenstatt Chapel was built on the northern slope of Schoenberg.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 resulted in a turnout of 55.62 % (2004: 62.3 % ), the following distribution of seats:
Coat of arms
The Merzhauser coat of arms shows on a silver ( white ) base a red reinforced right -turned black bear, symbol of belonging to the monastery of St. Gall, who holds the horizontally split in gold and green coat of arms of Schnewlin family before him.
Community partnership
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
The unbound purchasing power per capita in 2005 amounted to € 20,871; there are in Baden-Württemberg only forty communities that have a higher purchasing power. Except for a food discounter in the north and a complete product range in the south, the municipality has a number of smaller retail stores at the witches valley road and in the town center. Every Saturday on the square in front of the Merzhausen Forum 8-13 clock, a weekly market.
In addition to four wineries that grow to approximately 15 acres of the Muller-Thurgau grape varieties, Chasselas, Pinot, gray and white Burgundy and Riesling, offer six catering establishments, including three with rooms, their services.
Otherwise, mostly small and medium-sized businesses in the retail, manufacturing and service companies and professions are represented in Merzhausen.
Authorities
By 2005 there were in Merzhausen its own police station. This has been resolved so that the nearest police station now in honor churches.
Media
The administrative community Hexental are 14 - day out the witches valleys Official Journal, which is distributed free to all households. In addition, every two years seems a free brochure about Verbandsgemeinden Hexental in A K Publishing.
Public institutions
In addition to various kindergartens and crèches Merzhausen has a primary school ( Hexentalschule ) and various private schools. There are a Catholic public library and two senior housing.
The school building, which until 2011 also contained a secondary school, was on private land. In recognition of his donation of the community named the building in 2011 by Alois Rapp. The vacant spaces of the main school based local associations.
Furthermore, there is a post office and a recycling center in town.
Merzhausen is one of the few communities that are not firefighters. Instead, the fire department Freiburg assumes the corresponding tasks. Merzhauser citizens can participate as volunteer firefighters in the department of Lower City firefighters Freiburg.
Other institutions
In Merzhausen is the seat of the headquarters of Instructional Media in the Internet.
Traffic
The L122 combines Merzhausen with the city of Freiburg and the communities in Hexental.
Bus line 12, the Freiburg traffic AG binds Merzhausen of Au Coming to the rail network in Freiburg's Vauban to. In addition, here the wrong bus 7208 of Südbadenbus between Bad Krozingen and Freiburg Main Station via Vauban. Merzhausen belongs to the tariff zone of the Freiburg Regional Transport Network Freiburg.
Culture and sights
Structures
The Church of St. Gallus was first mentioned in 786. The today the townscape formative " Old Church " was built in 1759/60. In addition to this building a new church was built in the years 1976 to 1978. The Old Church, connected with this, was renovated in 1978.
The former Jesuitenschloss of 1666 received its present form in 1727 and in addition to a winery, a restaurant. In the village center is the Old Palace Merzhausen.
The Forum Merzhausen ( official spelling FORUM | Merzhausen ) in the center is a cultural and community center and was completed in November 2012. The glass handling encloses a small hall with about 120 and a separate large hall with 457 seats. Is the new market place between the Forum and the two at the same time resulting residential and commercial buildings.
Sports and Recreation
With the citizens (non-profit ) operated Burgerbad there in the community swimming pool with sauna, garden and outdoor pools.
In the center there is a gymnasium with volleyball court and in the south on the border to the sports grounds of the Au VfR Merzhausen, tennis courts and a sports pub.
Merzhausen is the starting point of the historic path beggar, a day designated as a footpath old -way connection from Freiburg via Staufen im Breisgau and Sulzburg to Badenweiler.
Events
In addition to jazz and classical concerts in the Town Hall there is a summer village Hock and a Christmas market on Saturday before the first Advent and the Art Exhibition at City Hall Merzhausen in December.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Lambert Schill (1888-1976), politician ( center, CDU), Member of Parliament, Baden Agriculture Minister, Member of the Bundestag and an honorary citizen of the community
Other people
- Kurt Heynicke, German writer who lived from 1943 until his death in 1985 in Merzhausen and got 1974, the Medal of Merit of the community. There is also the Kurt Heynicke archive.
- Helmut Schmidt- Vogt, German, forest managers and forest scientists, lived from 1969 until his death in 2008 Merzhausen.
- Hugo Ott, German historian, lives in Merzhausen.
- Eugen Sumser (1930-2013), German horticultural entrepreneurs and since 1995 honorary citizen of Merzhausen