Ostalbkreis
The Ostalb is measured on its surface, after Ortenaukreis and the district of Ravensburg, the third largest district in Baden- Württemberg. He, together with the district of Heidenheim Ostwürttemberg region in the Region of Stuttgart. The Ostalb bordered to the north by the district of Schwäbisch Hall, on the east by the Bavarian districts of Ansbach, Donau-Ries, on the south by the districts of Heidenheim and Göppingen and to the west by the Rems -Murr -Kreis. County seat is Aalen; the second largest city of Schwäbisch Gmünd.
- 3.1 Kreistag
- 3.2 District Administrators
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 3.4 District Partnerships
- 4.1 traffic 4.1.1 Railways
- 4.1.2 roads
Geography
The Ostalb has mainly share in the eastern Swabian Alb ( hence its name Ostalb ) and on the eastern Welzheimer forest, which is part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest, as well as the Ellwanger mountains in the north of the circle. In the south of the circle, the Rems flows in a westerly direction, it opens at Remseck into the Neckar. In the eastern district area flow two more right tributaries of the Neckar, the Jagst and the cooker, first in the north, and later also to the west. In the extreme east of the district area extends even into the Ries. The three centers of the circle, Aalen, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Ellwangen lie on the three rivers (Jagst ).
The highest point of the circle area is 781 m when walking home Franz- basement house on the cold box, the lowest 277 m at the outlet of the Rems out of the circle area in Lorch - Waldhausen.
The list of places in Ostalb contains about 920 places ( towns, villages, hamlets, farms, residential places) the Alb circle in a geographical sense.
History
The Ostalb was formed by the district reform on 1 January 1973. At that time, the district Aalen with the greater part of the district of Schwäbisch Gmünd ( License Plate GD) was pooled for new Ostalb. County seat was Aalen. The two Altkreise Aalen and Schwäbisch Gmünd go back to the same old Württemberg top offices, which were built after the transfer of the territory to Württemberg to 1803 and transferred to the districts of Aalen and Schwäbisch Gmünd 1938. At that time, the district Aalen took the upper office Gmünd and parts of the upper offices Gaildorf and Welzheim on the upper offices Aalen, Ellwangen and Neresheim, the district of Schwäbisch Gmünd. After completion of the municipal reform of Ostalb includes still 42 municipalities, including cities and 9 hereof turn 3 " large district towns " ( Aalen, Ellwangen ( Jagst) and Schwäbisch Gmünd ). Largest city is Aalen, smallest municipality is Obergröningen.
License Plate
With the merger of the counties Aalen and Schwäbisch Gmünd was decided to phase out the license plate GD. However, the discussions on the license plate of the Ostalbkreis not broke off. Were discussed in addition to AA and the outgoing DG also OK. In 2012 it was decided at the suggestion divereser citizens' initiatives to liberalize the admissibility of license plates at the federal level. In Ostalb here especially the initiative pro GD with signature collections, sticker campaigns, etc. was active. In February 2013, the license plate DG was released for reallocation by the Federal Ministry of Transport.
Population Development
The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates by the State Statistical Office of Baden- Württemberg ( only primary residences ).
Policy
The district is administered by the county council and the district administration.
Council
The district council is elected by the voters in the district for 5 years. The district council election on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats (76 seats, 73 so far ):
District administrators
The District Administrator is elected by the council for a term of 8 years. This is the legal representative and the representative of the district as well as Chairman of the County Council and its committees. He directs the district office and is an official of the circle. His area of responsibility includes the preparation of the district council meetings and its committees. He shall convene meetings, directs this and implements the decisions taken there. In the bodies he has no voting rights. His deputy is the first state officials.
The district councils of the district Aalen 1945-1972:
The district councils of the district of Schwäbisch Gmünd 1945-1972:
The district administrators of the Alb circle since 1973:
Coat of arms
Description: In gold, a red pole, topped with a golden Abtsstab; forward a black lion, behind a half black eagle at the gap
(Coat of Arms Awards: November 5, 1975)
Meaning: The Hohenstaufen lion stands for the family possessions of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, which played a part in the district. Later, some free imperial cities ( Aalen, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Bopfingen ) emerged, which is why the imperial eagle depicted in the crest. The Abtsstab to symbolize the former ecclesiastical territories (prince provost Ellwangen, Neresheim convent and others).
District partnerships
The Ostalb maintains since 1992 a partnership with the Province of Ravenna in Italy.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
In urban public transport has existed since the 9th December 2007, the circular -wide transport network Ostalb mobile, in which all bus and rail transport are involved.
Railways
The two largest cities of the circle, Aalen and Schwäbisch Gmünd, are on the 1861 built by the Württemberg State Railways railway line Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt eels, also called Rems Railway, which in 1863 continued into the Bavarian Nördlingen. The latter section is now called the Ries Railway.
The north - south distance of Brenz Railway Aalen- Heidenheim -Ulm was added in 1864 and 1866 - branching in Goldshöfe - taken as Upper Jagst Railway to Crailsheim in operation.
The Swabian Alb of Härtsfeldes 1901 was tapped by the Baden Local Railway Company with the Härtsfeldbahn, a narrow-gauge railway from Aalen to Neresheim and on into the Danube Valley to Dillingen.
Meet or met in Aalen Bahnhof The railways said.
The Hohenstaufen railway connected from 1912 Gmünd Göppingen. The town of Heubach received her connection to the main railway Unterböbingen in 1920 by the Heubach web.
In Kochertal Untergröningen was since 1903 the Upper Kettle Valley Railway endpoint of Gaildorf, which built the Württemberg railway company and has operated until its closure.
From the broad maximum of 151 km rail network the main routes (105 km) have been preserved. The branch lines (46 km) have been shut down:
Through the eastern district area into south-north direction, the Federal Highway 7 Ulm and Würzburg, the section was opened wet cheek Heidenheim 1987. In addition, several federal, state and county roads open up the district, including the B 29 Stuttgart- Aalen, which was until 1985 widened to four lanes to Schwäbisch Gmünd, and the B - 19 Ulm Schwäbisch Hall.
Institutions in the county
The Ostalb is Schulträger following professional schools:
- Technical Sciences in Aalen with ( branches: information technology, engineering, and design and media technology (UTC ) )
- Commercial Sciences in Aalen
- Justus-von -Liebig- school Aalen ( Home Economics and Agricultural School; includes, among other things, a biotechnology high school and a senior high school nutrition )
- Circle Berufsschulzentrum Ellwangen ( Commercial, Commercial and Domestic school)
- Commercial School Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Commercial School Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Agnes von Hohenstaufen School Schwäbisch Gmünd ( home economics school)
In addition, there are the following special schools:
- Mountain monastery school Schwäbisch Gmünd ( school for mentally and physically handicapped with school kindergarten)
- Konrad Biesalski school Wört ( private sponsorship; school for physically and severe multiple disabilities with boarding and school nurseries )
- Jagsttal School West Hausen ( school for mentally handicapped with school kindergarten)
- Castle School Wasseralfingen ( school for children with speech defects with Schulkindergärten)
- School for Patients in prolonged hospital treatment Aalen
- Heath Mutlangen school ( school for speech impaired)
In addition, the Ostalb belongs to the Association of Schools of the grammar school for gifted Schwäbisch Gmünd, carrying the country's school for gifted Schwäbisch Gmünd with the connected center of excellence for gifted students.
The Ostalb is the recipient of Alb -Klinikum Aalen, which is organized in the form of a self- operation and which also includes the clinic at Ipf Bopfingen. Furthermore, the Staufer Klinikum Schwäbisch Gmünd in Mutlangen and the St. Anne's Virngrund Clinic Ellwangen are managed as municipal enterprises of Ostalb circle.
The Catholic Church is the bearer of the Stiftung Haus Lindenhof, which operates facilities for people with disabilities, dependent people and the unemployed in the area of the district. The seat is in the same courtyard in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Cities
Agreed administrative communities and local government associations
Communities
Nature Reserves
The Ostalb has the following nature reserves with a total area of 1898.5 ha: