Ochsenhausen

Ochsenhausen is a town in Upper Swabia, on the main route of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route, known for the former imperial abbey of the Benedictines, today in the State Academy for Music-Making Youth in Baden- Württemberg and the Oechsle. Mainly by a great work of the Liebherr Group, through the Südpack group and more small and medium-sized companies, the city is an important industrial and business center in the district of Biberach.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Town twinning
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Established businesses
  • 4.3 Catholic Church
  • 4.4 educational institutions
  • 5.1 Museums
  • 5.2 Structures
  • 5.3 Sports and other clubs
  • 5.4 Regular events
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Boroughs

To town Ochsenhausen since the local government reform in 1975 also includes the formerly independent communities Reinstetten, Had castle and means book with the districts Wennedach, Laubach, oaks, Goppertshofen, tremor and House wastes.

History

The history of the name there is a fun saga that may contain a grain of truth. Thus, to have existed in the area in the 9th century a nunnery called High Husen. In the 10th century the nuns fled before the invading Hungary to the Austrian. A chest with their treasures and relics buried them. Years later came an ox while plowing on the wooden box. The joy was great at the site was built a little later the monastery Ochsenhausen.

The story Ochs Stockhausen is closely associated with the former Benedictine imperial abbey Ochsenhausen. The first church was consecrated in 1093. 1391 Ochsenhausen, which previously belonged to the monastery of St. Blaise, an independent abbey. The monastery church was built in the years 1489 to 1495 under Abbot Simon Lange Berger, from 1615 to 1618 was carried out under Abbot John Lang, the new building of the convent building, from 1783 to 1789 were the last Abbot Romuald Weltin the Library Hall and the Convention Hall added.

1495 awarded the title of a free imperial abbey. In 1501 raised their tenant-farmers from 38 villages armed against the monastery and reached in 1502 an improvement in their fiefs conditions. That might have been the reason why the peasant wars in 1525 there have not caused major damage. Also succeeded his prelates Gerwick Blarer to prevent the introduction of the Reformation in this field. In the course of secularization taking possession of the place and monastery Ochsenhausen by Imperial Count Franz Georg von Metternich - Winneburg - Beilstein on February 20, 1803 was a patent on all subjects. On June 30, 1803, Emperor Franz II the Imperial Count the personal dignity of Prince and raised Ochsenhausen the Principality. In connection with the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, the area was constitutionally to the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1825 Metternich sold his possessions there for 1.2 million guilders to Württemberg.

1950 Ochsenhausen received city rights. In the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg, the previously independent municipalities Reinstetten were ( on December 1, 1971 ) and incorporated Mittelbuch (1 January 1975) after Ochsenhausen. Since the early 1980s, the city center was renovated and adapted to modern needs. These efforts were recognized in 2005 by the then Minister of Economic Affairs Baden-Württemberg, Ernst Pfister (FDP) as an example.

See also: Castle Ametshausen, castle book mountain, castle Buchhalde, castle Had, Burg means book, castle Oberstetten, castle Reinstetten, castle Rottum

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 21 members since the last municipal election held on 7 June 2009. These are distributed as follows among the various parties and groups ( the changes are related to the previous election on 13 June 2004 ):

Twinning

  • La Fere, France
  • Subiaco, Italy

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Ochsenhausen is located on the main road 312 (Stuttgart, Memmingen ).

The " Oechsle ", the narrow -gauge railway from Biberach an der Riss by Ochsenhausen was opened in 1899. The Royal Württemberg State Railways built the station building of Reinstetten and Ochsenhausen as a unit train stations of type IIa IIIa respectively. The passenger was set in 1964, today employs a tourist heritage railway tracks to the Warthausen.

Established businesses

  • The Liebherr domestic appliances Ochsenhausen GmbH (founded in 1954) with 1,775 employees produce about 900,000 refrigerators and freezers per year.
  • The company Südpack packaging GmbH & Co. with 950 employees, is another big employer ox Stockhausen.
  • Angele blacksmith in the suburb Reinstetten is a manufacturer of forge and workshop equipment for the craftsmanship of forging.
  • Wölfle GmbH builds cabs, controls and cable assemblies including for Liebherr.

Catholic Church

Ochsenhausen was the seat of the former deanery Ochsenhausen. Pastoral care unit of St. Benedict Ochsenhausen has become part of Biberach Deanery of the Diocese of Rottenburg- Stuttgart.

Educational institutions

In the community Ochsenhausen there is general education schools of all types of schools: the School Ochsenhausen, the Realschule Ochsenhausen, the basic and Werkrealschule Reinstetten - Ochsenhausen Reinstetten, primary school Ochsenhausen, primary school means book and with the Rottumtalschule Ochsenhausen a special school.

With the Fürstenwald school there is also a forest educational offer to the kindergartens and schools in the district, as well as interested adult groups. Once a year here and in nearby Fürstenwald the "Forest Youth Games " for the Ochsenhausener schools are held.

In the buildings of the former convent, the State Academy is housed for the music-making youth in Baden -Württemberg. It has set itself the task of " strengthening the musical and cultural forces in the education of youth."

In the field of adult and continuing education work Ochsenhausen offers a wide range of training opportunities.

Culture and sights

Ochsenhausen and the district Reinstetten lie on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route with many attractions. Ochsenhausen is also due to the mill road Upper Swabia.

Museums

With the " Oechsle " railway narrow gauge line Ochsenhausen Warthausen the city has a museum railway. The station Ensemble is a listed building.

The small " museum of the washer women " is located in the northern part of the Oechsle station.

The monastery museum in the castle district informed about the rich history of the former Benedictine imperial abbey Ochsenhausen

Structures

  • Former Imperial Abbey of the Benedictine Order, with the Church of St. George
  • Krummbach, hang -run channel, built as the " Benedictine Klosterwaal ".
  • Town Hall, built in 1606 as a grain house
  • Gasthof zur Post, 1650
  • Monastery Pharmacy, 1736
  • Cemetery chapel of St. Vitus, 1679
  • Scharfrichterhaus
  • Dr. Hans- Liebherr - Gymnasium, 2010

Sports and other clubs

  • The TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen currently play in the first table tennis national league of gentlemen and also in the European Champions League.
  • The sports club Ochsenhausen with its departments football, volleyball, athletics, badminton, floorball and climbing offers a versatile range.
  • The handball club HSV Reinstetten / Ochsenhausen eV supervised youth and Active teams.
  • City Guards on horseback King Dragoon Ochsenhausen.

Regular events

  • When Oechsle Festival ( annually in mid-June ) transforms the entire city into a historical craft market in agricultural vintage vehicles.
  • Since 1980 there is the prince of the forest race, which takes place annually in June. He was among the first people runs at all and had been in the 1980s, an above-average response. It starts in the hop garden Stadium and then performs the Fürstenwald.
  • Since the early 1980s there are the Most celebration in which the best wine will be awarded. The participants come from all over Upper Swabia, from the Swabian Jura, from the Allgäu and Lake Constance area.
  • Every Friday before Ash Wednesday ( Sooty Friday) organized the Kanevalgesellschaft - Narrenzunft Ochsenhausen their night parade with about 5000 participants.

Personalities

Freeman

  • Max Herold, Mayor A.D. 1975 - 1999
  • Alfred Remmele, entrepreneurs

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Joseph Gabler (1700-1771), German organ builder
  • Joseph Ersing (1882-1956), German politician ( center, CDU), MdR, MP (Württemberg -Baden )
  • Joseph Hecht (1882-1956), teacher and conservationist
  • Hans -Karl Riedel (1893-1967), producer and local politician
  • Köstlin Albrecht (1905-1970), an agricultural economist, farm labor researchers and Bautechnologe agriculture
  • Simmling Werner (* 1944), politician ( FDP), MP
  • Hanns -Friedrich Kunz ( b. 1945 ), singer and choir director
  • Gerhard Baur ( b. 1947 ), mountaineer and cameraman
  • Matthias DOL (* 1970), aerobatic pilot
  • Sandro Cortese (* 1990), motorcycle racer
  • Nicole Rolser (* 1992), football player
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