Neidenstein
Neidenstein is a municipality in the Rhein- Neckar-Kreis in Baden- Württemberg. It belongs to the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Waibstadt and the tourist region of fountain region.
- 2.1 religions
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 3.4 partnerships
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 Sport
- 4.3 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical location
Envy stone situated in valley of the Schwarzbach between the Kraichgauer hill country and the Kleiner Odenwald in the Neckartal -Odenwald. The nearest major cities are Sinsheim (9 km) and Heidelberg (27 km).
The Neidenstein castle is situated on a north sloping down towards the mountain ridge a few hundred meters west of the Black Bach. The place has been formed as a castle hamlet north of it. The spread of the place was the topography following to the northwest. The train station is located just to the north offset on the eastern shore of the Black Bach. Here, all industrialized of the place has settled. Next to the northeast, another residential area was established on Epfenbacher mountain as well. The Altort with its directly adjacent residential areas is spatially separated from the residential area on Epfenbacher mountain by the Schwarzenbach, the Schwarzbach Valley Railway and the industrial area.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities are Epfenbach in the northeast, helmet city barges in the East, Waibstadt the southeast, Eschelbronn in the West and - with no common Gemarkungsgrenze - Spechbach in the north.
History
The oldest settlement finds in Neidenstein date back to Roman times, then probably was a Frankish peasant settlement on the site. In early medieval times was built on the mountain ridge above the modern town, the castle Neidenstein, which was expanded in the 13th century to defend the castle and was first mentioned in 1319 as an imperial fief of the lords of Venningen. To the castle, the town developed as a castle hamlet. Until the beginning of the 19th century Neidenstein belonged to the tribe belonged to the lords of Venningen and thus knighted Canton Kraichgau. The envy Steiner line of Venningen presented with Seyfried († 1395 ) and Jobst († 1410), two members of the Teutonic Order and with Hans († 1478) a bishop of Basel and the founder of the university there. 1611 died from the envy Steiner line of the Lords of Venningen with Otto Heinrich von Venningen and was occupied by the Hilsbachs line. The Protestant church was built around 1700, the town hall in 1773. The village was after 1750 expanded by deforestation on the High Buhl.
In 1806, the mediatization of the imperial knights economic principalities and Neidenstein came as an independent municipality of the Grand Duchy of Baden. There they first belonged to the upper office Waibstadt and from 1810 to the district office Sinsheim. The castle remained still owned by the family of Venningen that made her 1897-1903 renovate. 1862 was the port of the town to the railway, 1902, the village was electrified.
1938, the synagogue of the town was destroyed. On October 22, 1940, as part of the " Wagner- Bürckel action" picked up the last 19 living in Neidenstein Jews of officials of the Gestapo and taken to a concentration camp to Heidelberg.
1939 Neidenstein 749 inhabitants, the end of 1945 lived through the inclusion of numerous refugees and displaced 980 people at the site. In the late 1950s, several medium-sized enterprises settled in the town, later large-scale construction sites have been designated. In 1973, the district Sinsheim was dissolved, was the place to the new Rhein- Neckar-Kreis.
In December 1993 and in June 1994, the lower-lying parts of the town were hit and destroyed by each flood of the Black Bach.
Religions
In Neidenstein there is an evangelical rectory. For Roman Catholics the parish in Waibstadt is responsible.
Policy
Parish council
Be the envy of Steiner council has ten seats and is elected for a term of five years. The 2009 election was as follows:
Mayor
The mayor is directly elected for eight years:
- From 2013 Frank Gobernatz
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: Argent, three red lilies crossed rods, the average fell.
The coat of arms is based on the family coat of arms of the lords of Venningen showing two crossed bars lilies. To avoid confusion, the third toppled rod was added to the envy Steiner Coat of Arms and designed in this form in 1901 by the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.
Partnerships
Neidenstein is 1976, a community partnership with the French community Vaucouleurs (Meuse ) received.
Attractions
Structures
- Castle Neidenstein, built on a mountain spur, with medieval keep and moat and Vorburgbereich with gate towers (outer gate tower in 1569 ) and two representative half-timbered buildings from the 16th century. In one of the half-timbered building in the outer ward is a local history museum is set up, the other has a Renaissance octagonal tower from 1538 on. The residential building of the castle is inhabited.
- In the area below the castle, the Catholic Church was erected in 1880 in place of an earlier building dating from the 15th century.
- The Baroque Protestant church was built in its present form in 1700 ( tower completed in 1770), is at the core but probably as old as the castle. Inside the church there numerous grave stones and epitaphs of the 15th received to the 18th century, including the spruce with an alabaster relief epitaph of Otto Heinrich of Venningen († 1611) and the large Barockepitaph of the Imperial General Sergeant Eberhard Friedrich von Venningen († 1710). The discovered in 1914 in memory of the church envy Steiner Madonna is a basswood work from the workshop of Peter Parler and is now in the Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe. The church was renovated in 1976.
- Baroque Town Hall from 1773, renovated in 1991
- Altortbereich with historic timber-framed buildings
- Villa rustica in Won Buchfeld
Interior of the Catholic. church
City Hall from 1773
Ev. Baroque church in 1700
Sports
The region around Neidenstein has a hiking and biking trail network.
Regular events
- Altortfest with illumination of the castle and fireworks (every 2 years in mid-August )
- Kerwe Neidenstein (every year in mid-October )
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Neidenstein is located on the Schwarzbach Valley Railway (Baden) ( Mecke Home Aglasterhausen ), which is incorporated with the line S 51 in the network of S- Bahn Rhein Neckar. Trains S-Bahn run in rush hour in 30 - minute intervals, otherwise every 60 minutes between Meckenheim and Aglasterhausen. In addition, there are several daily direct flights to Heidelberg and Mannheim and a pair of trains to / from Mainz.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Esaias Meyer (1684-1771), mayor of Heilbronn.
- Helmut Beck ( born 1939 ), First Mayor of the major district town of Sinsheim, agencies of the Federal Cross of Merit