Schelklingen

Schelkingen is a town in the Alb -Donau-Kreis in Baden- Württemberg, about 20 km west of Ulm. Schelkingen is a large part of his district ( 82.2 %) part of the biosphere area Swabian Alb.

2.1 Pawn Men
2.2 Major feudal lords
2.3 19th and 20th centuries
2.4 Spatial development of the urban area
2.5 religions 2.5.1 Catholic parish priest at Sacred Heart

3.1 Mayor
3.2 municipal
3.3 Coat of Arms

4.1 traffic
4.2 Established businesses
4.3 Education

5.1 library
5.2 theater
5.3 Museums
5.4 chapels and clubs
5.5 Structures 5.5.1 Castles
5.5.2 Ecclesiastical Buildings
5.5.3 Parish and Kaplaneihäuser
5.5.4 noble residences
5.5.5 Urban Buildings
5.5.6 townhouses

6.1 freeman
6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
6.3 Other personalities

Geography

Geographical Location

The core city Schelkingen is 547 meters above sea level. NN in Urdonautal through which the Schmiech flows at the foot of the Swabian Alb, about 20 kilometers west of Ulm. The districts Hausen ob Steingädele, Justingen and Ingstetten are located on the Swabian Alb. In Schmiech are the districts Schmiechen, cottages, Gundershofen, Sondernach and residential places Teuringshofen, Talsteußlingen and jumping.

On both sides of the valley and about 200 meters higher lying undulating plateaus - in the southwest Ehinger Alb and Lutheran mountains, in the north- east, the Blue Mountains, and to the east Beurer ( Ulm ), the loosely populated Hochsträß. West of the city at Steingädele monastery rises in a bluish swelling pot ( similar to the blue in the near Blaubeuren ) the Schelklinger Oh that follows the Urdonautal north, where it unites with Blaubeuren with the blue.

Neighboring communities

The city is bordered to the north by Herold Instead, in the east on the town Blaubeuren, in the southeast on the town Erbach (Donau), to the south by Altheim and Allmendingen the west by Mehrstetten and the city Münsingen ( Landkreis Reutlingen) and in the northwest of the unincorporated area Gutsbezirk Münsingen ( Landkreis Reutlingen).

Boroughs

The town consists of the quarters Schmiechen, Hausen ob Steingädele, Justingen, Ingstetten, cottages, Gundershofen and Sondernach. There are other individual farms, mills, smaller hamlets, castles and a former monastery belonging to the districts of: courtyard Muschenwang ( to Hausen ob Steingädele ), courtyard Oberschelklingen ( to Schelkingen ), Weiler Sotzenhausen ( former cement factory to Schelkingen, is not was to be confused with the hamlet Sotzenhausen, which in 1835 Pappelau, City Blaubeuren, incorporated ), mill hamlet Jumping ( to Gundershofen ) Riedmühle ( to Sondernach ), Weiler Talsteußlingen and lock Neusteußlingen ( for cottages), Weiler Teuringshofen ( for cottages) and former Monastery Steingädele ( to Schelkingen ).

Rivers and Lakes

The Steingädele rises in Steingädele and flows about 500 m in the Ah
The Oh arises between Steingädele and Schelkingen and flows in Blaubeuren in the Blue
The Schmiech arises from jumping and flows into the Danube in Ehingen
The rises in Sondernach But Acher Valley and flows in the Riedmühle in the Schmiech

History

The original owner of the village and the castle Schelkingen were free men of Schelkingen, probably related to the Lords of Steußlingen, Justingen etc.; 1127 gave three brothers, called by Schelkingen, goods of the monastery Steingädele. By purchase, marriage or inheritance rule Schelkingen came in 1200 to the Counts of Berg, who later Count of Berg - Schelkingen called themselves. Schelkingen was first mentioned in 1234 city ( civitas, city law). The last Count of Berg- Schelkingen sold the rule in 1343 to the House of Austria and received it back as a fief. When the last Count of Berg- Schelkingen died in 1346, the rule Schelkingen fell to Austria.

Schelkingen was administratively allocated later front and Austria remained Austrian until 1806. By the Peace of Pressburg 1805 Schelkingen fell to the Grand Duchy Württemberg in gratitude for the work done Napoleon Württemberg military aid.

Financial difficulties of the Dukes of Austria and the associated with owning a own rule prestige on the part of the nobility led to frequent pledging ceremony and the rule Schelkingen (along with mountain and Ehingen ).

Pawn Men

1568, the city Ehingen could ransom of a new pledge and simultaneously acquire the mortgage rule over Schelkingen. From 1568 to 1680 town and estate were managed by Austrian Gubernatoren. 1680 brought Imperial Count and Bishop of Eichstätt Marquard Schenk von Castell his services to the emperor in memory. Thanks to him the reigns mountain and Schelkingen were initially pledged and left in 1732 as a fief. The feudal rule of the Schenk von Castell lasted until the mid 19th century.

Significant lords

Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell

The transition to Württemberg ended in principle the aristocratic rule over Schelkingen in the course of mediatization. The Counts Schenk von Castell successively divested their ownership in Schelkingen.

19th and 20th centuries

In the 19th century Schelkingen developed by a craftsman and farming town to an industrial city. The dissolution of the monastery Steingädele 1806 made the system is free for any other use. 1832 sold the Württemberg State the former monastery to the manufacturer Georg Reichenbach, with the condition that the town set up a cotton factory. The subsequent mechanical weaving mill Steingädele ( MWU ) was moved in 1907 to a new building at the Ehinger street in Schelkingen. Most factory building in Steingädele were canceled. The MWU was in the 1950s, bankrupt and was closed.

1912, a new flour mill was in Steingädele after the Epiphany mill had been converted to the city's electricity and water plant at Achtopf, built, which is now used as a school. From 1907 to 1930, the building Ursprings stood up to an inn in the essentially empty. Not until 1930 that found the former monastery a new use by establishing the Urspringschule, a Protestant country upbringing home and school.

A second branch of industry that emerged in the 1830s, was the match manufacture. This was based on the invention of the phosphorus Zündhölzchens. It developed three factories that employed many women and children in their homes. Most of these factories were closed at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the late 19th century developed in the blues, Oh and Schmiech after the Portland cement was invented, the new branch of industry, the cement industry. 1889, the first Barbey'sche, later Hammerstein'sche cement factory in Schelkingen was built, and shortly after 1900, the large complex of the Stuttgart real estate and construction business, which closed down the Hammerstein'sche cement plant and there einrichtete cement workers' dwellings. The new factory attracted many foreign workers, especially many Italian workers, some of whom were resident. Later, the cement plant was today HeidelbergCement acquired by the Portland Cement -Fabrik AG Heidelberg and Mannheim AG.

In the 1870s, a Catholic institution for boys Rescue was founded in Schelkingen, the St. Konradihaus house.

1941 St. Konradihaus house was confiscated by government agencies and set up in 1945 a resettlement camp ( SS camp ). It should serve to re-education of violent force as " racially pure" internees from Alsace and the examination of the " Eindeutschungsfähigkeit " Another Zwangsdeportierter.

Spatial development of the urban area

In the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg, the following communities were incorporated to Schelkingen or combined with Schelkingen:

Schelkingen, Hausen ob Steingädele and Schmiechen included, in its resolution to the district Ehingen, the remaining municipalities to the district Münsingen.

In the course of municipal ownership of any municipality Gutsbezirks Münsingen ( district of Reutlingen ) on January 1, 2011, the 56.3 -acre, uninhabited former ammunition depot Ingstetten was the city Schelkingen slammed.

Religions

Schelkingen was because of the affiliation of the former manor Schelkingen (city Schelkingen, Hausen ob Steingädele and Schmiechen ) and the monastic rule marked Steingädele to Further Austria until 1806 predominantly Catholic. The locations of the former imperial rule Justingen ( Justingen, Ingstetten, Gundershofen and huts) were from the mid-16th century until after the end of the Thirty Years' War among the barons of Freiberg reformed according to the teaching Schwenckfeld, but were after the surrender of sovereignty by the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, Johann Christoph von Freiberg (1665-1690) re-Catholicised. Sondernach as part of the rule Neusteußlingen was Catholic under the Barons of Freiberg Neusteußlingen; after the devolution of power to the Duchy of Württemberg in the late 16th century, the Reformation was introduced there but.

Today in Schelkingen consist, a Roman Catholic, Protestant and Apostolic church.

There is also a Muslim population. Most Muslims are followers of Sunni Islam. The Muslim citizens have settled since the early 1960s due to immigration, especially from Turkey. For several years there is also a small Schelklingener outskirts worship for the Muslim population.

Catholic parish priest at Sacred Heart

September 25, 1844 to September 1, 1851 Philipp Frank (* Löffelstelzen March 26, 1803, † June 9, 1866 in Oedheim ) Wuerttemberg, December 1, 1849 to 1851 Member of Parliament
1906-1920 Eugene pride ( born November 11, 1874 in Rottenburg am Neckar, † May 5, 1936 in Tübingen), an associate since 1923 professor of pastoral theology at the University of Tübingen

Policy

Mayor

In the Austrian time, the city administration was in the hands of the reigning mayor's office and its predecessor, the sub- mayor. They were supported by the inner and outer council of four members ( councilors, deputies ). The city offices ( such as city computers, church wardens, hospital nurses, etc. ) were divided among the councilors. The term seems to have been one year; but elections were possible, as evidenced by the sometimes long terms of office of the mayor. After 1806, the office of elected mayor for life was introduced and later changed the title of city mayor through Württemberg. In 1930, we led in Württemberg the official title mayors who still valid. The mayor is being elected for a term of eight years.

Haintz Pfortzer 1433
Ulrich Gyger 1446
Hans Sienese 1481

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Hans reducer 1560

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Franz Bischof 1800
Franz Joseph Eberle 1800-1823
Johann Nikolaus Heyschmid 1823-1825
Johann Baptist 1826-1835 peasant
Georg Martin Betz 1836-1847
Philipp Scheitenberger 1847-1873
Anton Fischer, from Justingen 1873-1906
Anton Fischer, son of the previous 1906-1946
Karl Osswald 1946-1960
Hans -Joachim Bäuchle (SPD ) 1961-1974
Rudolf Stuetzle (CDU ) from 1975 to 2000
Michael Knapp ( Independent) 2000 -present 1st Deputy: Jürgen Haas ( SPD)
2nd Substitute: Reiner Blumentritt (CDU )

Parish council

The local elections of 7 June 2009 resulted in a turnout of 60.9 % ( - 1.2 ) the following result:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the city Schelkingen shows a white-red diagonally striped shield ( coat of arms of the Counts of Schelkingen Mountain). The city colors are white and red.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Schelkingen is a small regional railway junction. This is where the Danube Valley Railway from Ulm to Donaueschingen, in the Swabian Albbahn that leads from Kleinengstingen about Münsingen after Schelkingen. During transport on the Swabian Albbahn is very thin, Schelkingen has on the Donautalbahn a good range. Schelkingen is both regional express and regional trains stop. Thus, at least two trains per hour to Ulm. After Sigmaringen there is a hour clock, in the distant Neustadt (Black Forest) is a two -hour intervals. Bound by regional trains are offered to Memmingen Hourly about Ulm addition. In addition to the Schelkingen station, the city also has two breakpoints in Schmiechen district, and in each case a breakpoint in cabins and in Sondernach. Schelkingen belongs to the Danube -Iller - Nahverkehrsverbund.

Schelkingen is connected via the federal highway 492 ( Blue Beuren Ehingen ) to the national road network and accessible via the exits Merklingen and Ulm-West A 8.

Established businesses

In the city there are greater works of HeidelbergCement AG and Cooper Standard Automotive.

Education

In Schelkingen there with the Heinrich Kaim school a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule and four other primary schools in the sub- urban locations in ownership.

In addition Schelkingen has the Urspringschule about a high school with boarding by the Protestant Church. In addition to the High School you can also complete an education.

The St. Konradihaus is a youth care facility with boarding, receive a school education and vocational training in adolescents 12 years.

These are four Roman Catholic, a Protestant and two urban kindergartens throughout the city.

Culture and sights

Library

The City Library is housed in the old Town Hall.

Theater

There is a theater club which lists the popular pieces. A theater no longer exists.

Museums

City Museum Schelkingen in the Old Hospital

Chapels and clubs

Musikverein Stadtkapelle Schelkingen
Musikverein Schmiechen
Brass Band
TSV Schelkingen
Liederkranz Schelkingen
Friends of pool Schelkingen

Structures

Castles

In the urban area, the ruins of the castle Hohenschelklingen, the castles and Muschenwang Studach, the castle Justingen and the castle and the castle are Neusteußlingen ( predecessors of today's historicist castle Neusteußlingen from 1897 ).

Church Buildings

Steingädele monastery, founded in 1127, existing buildings from the period around 1500 ( two guest building and east wing of the exam ), otherwise mostly 17th century
Parish Church of the Sacred Heart, new construction from 1934, the late-Gothic former sacristy, today side chapel, and the church tower remained Romanesque with rough stone, preserved in its lower floors; the upper part of the steeple and the onion dome was built in 1905 by Joseph Cades
St. Afra 's Chapel ( built in the 14th century)
Sacred Heart Chapel (built 1708-1709 )

Parish and Kaplaneihäuser

Old Vicarage, magnificent half-timbered house from around 1600 ( Maximilian Kottmann Square)
New rectory, formerly Westernach'sches Kaplaneihaus the monastery Steingädele, later Stadtkanzlei
Wernau'sches Kaplaneihaus, residence of Wernauer chaplain; Baroque French style, built in 1756 ( Kanzleigasse )
Roth'sches Kaplaneihaus, residence of the chaplain of the noble family of Rodt Bußmannshausen; Baroque building from 1750 with Madonna niche and formerly hip roof, now greatly changed (city Add Reist race)

Noble residences

Hospital of the Holy Spirit, formerly the residence of the lords of Wernau (built in 14th century ) to the hospital fountain
Bemelberger Schlossle, residence of Konrad von Boyneburg ( built in 1550 )
Gasthaus zum Rössle, formerly home of the Hanß Reuss of Reußenstein (built in second half of 16th century)
Stauffenberg'sches castle, residence of the Schenk von Stauffenberg (built around 1600) ( Castle Street)
Rennhof, residence of the family of the Renner Allmendingen (built in 2nd half of 16th century ) ( Castle Street)

Urban buildings

The old town hall (built in 1450 ) ( Market Street )
The city wall: original parts in exterior walls of houses; get up to full height when Bemelberger Schlossle; a piece reconstructs the Hospital of the Holy Spirit
The rear wells: Public Stadtbrunnen

Town houses

Town house with beautifully restored timber-framed at the Maximilian - Kottmann Square ( with unresolved inscription on the southeast stand bar " RCIR 1544 ").
Ackerbürgerhaus including Stadel at the former Rear Gate, inspired by the city wall, in the town clerk's road, with restored timber-framed (dated 1705) (city Add Reist race)
New house, Baroque residence of Franz Xaver Schalch steward of the monastery Steingädele (built 1717 ) ( Bemmelbergergasse )
Gasthaus zur Sonne, former Gasthaus zur Gilded Sun, oldest tavern and inn ( heavily remodeled or newly built 1724) ( Market Street )

Sports

Outdoor swimming pool
Skating facility
Football ground and sports facilities in Längental

Regular events

Swabian- Alemannic carnival parade groups
Nicholas Market on the first Saturday in December
Farmers and weekly market on Wednesdays mornings

Specialty

Typical Swabian dishes (such as dumplings, sour tripe, braised beef, etc.) are offered by various Schelklinger inns.

Natural Monuments

The Hohle Fels, a limestone Stotzen with an inhabited in the Stone Age large cave ( open to visitors)
Schmiechener the sea or lake Schmiecher ( d'r Sai ) today protected area
The blue Quelltopf (round karst spring ) Steingädele the west of the city.

Personalities

Freeman

The city has Schelkingen following people granted honorary citizenship:

June 23, 1879: Robert Rall ( 1841-1935 ), manufacturer of cotton fabrics; Reason: " because he is a much better, gentler and fairer treatment let the workers be given, as common practice "
March 9, 1923: Heinrich Günter ( 1870-1951 ), historian
November 22, 1946: Max Kottmann ( 1867-1948 ), Prelate and Vicar General
April 11, 1956: Anton Fischer ( 1876-1956 ), the city mayor and mayor
2000: Rudolf Stuetzle, Mayor
Year: Erich Karl (1924-2009), Managing Director and local politicians
April 4, 2014: Pure Blumentritt ( born 1944 ), Chairman of the Museum Society Schelkingen and local politicians

Sons and daughters of the town

The following chart contains significant, born in Schelkingen personalities, listed by year of birth. For the nomination, it is irrelevant whether the people had their future spheres in Schelkingen or not.

Salome von Berg - Schelkingen (* around 1099 in the Danube Circle, Württemberg, † July 27, 1144 ), mother now famous children
Christoph von Stadion ( * March 1478; † Nuremberg April 15, 1543 ), Bishop of Augsburg from 1517 to 1543 (see list of the bishops of Augsburg)
Matthias Wolcker, ( born in Schelkingen, baptized on 22 February 1704 † October 10, 1742 in Dillingen an der Donau), was a painter of the High Baroque
John Bumüller (* December 29, 1811, † September 13, 1890 in Ravensburg ), high school professor, editor and Catholic writer
Ludwig Lutz (* August 27, 1820; † Ellwangen / Jagst 1889), Flaschnermeister, producer of tin toys in Ellwangen / Jagst; 1891 the company went on in the toy factory Marklin
Adolf Kaim ( born May 15, 1825; † Biberach an der Riss August 4, 1887 ), musician
Franz Sales Günter (* November 9, 1830; † September 1, 1901 in Oberndorf am Neckar ), administration of the actuary Oberamts Oberndorf am Neckar since 1855, city mayor of Oberndorf am Neckar 1870-1899; Support of civil Golden Medal of Merit, the Silver Jubilee Medal, awarded by the King of Württemberg and the Osmanje - Order 4th class of the Turkish sultan
Sebastian Luz ( born March 7, 1836 † May 2, 1898 in Freiburg / Breisgau), painter of religious subjects, historical, portrait and landscape painter
Franz Josef Werner ( * February 2, 1847, † June 5, 1908 ) was an editor and publisher of Lauchert newspaper and director of the Ulm newspaper
Josef poppy ( * October 20, 1866, † December 25, 1931 ), Flaschnermeister and inventor
Max Kottmann ( born June 16, 1867 in Sotzenhausen at Schelkingen, † March 22, 1948 in Rottenburg am Neckar), Vicar General of the Diocese of Rottenburg, 1946 freedom of the city Schelkingen 1947 Honorary Citizen of Rottenburg am Neckar and honorary senator of the University of Tübingen
Heinrich Günter (* February 15, 1870, † May 13, 1951 in Munich), a historian at the universities of Tübingen and Munich, 1923 Honorary Citizen of Schelkingen
Emil Kaim (* January 23, 1871; † Untermarchtal May 9, 1949 ), ordained priest on July 17, 1894 pastor in Stuttgart, canon in Rottenburg am Neckar from 17 September 1927, Member of Parliament
Heribert Jone ( born January 30, 1885 † December 25, 1967 in Stühlingen / Baden), Catholic priest, canonist and moral theologian

Other personalities

Here celebrities are listed, who have stayed in Schelkingen part of their lives or died in Schelkingen.

Johann Georg Wolcker the Elder ( * Burgau, ∞ 1700 or the earlier; † Augsburg? ): Baroque painter in Schelkingen
Friedrich List (* no later than August 6, 1789 in Reutlingen, † November 30, 1846 in Kufstein): 1809-1810 Württemberg Steuerrenovator in Schelkingen, author of Schelklinger tax book of 1810 (2 volumes)
Johann Georg Friedrich Reichenbach (* Montbéliard June 22, 1791, the son of Kammerchirurgus Wilhelm Heinrich Reichenbach; † Stuttgart 1873): Founder and owner of the cotton mill Steingädele from 1832 to 1852, politicians of the pre-March
Henry Kaim (* Steinbach in Esslingen / Neckar October 2, 1792; † Schelkingen March 31, 1874 ), sample teacher in Schelkingen, founder of Schelklinger Liederkranz
Jakob Friedrich Sprandel (* Ulm retired January 24, 1828; † Schelkingen January 2, 1895 ) was a German surgeon and obstetrician
Robert Rall (* Eningen under Achalm June 3, 1841; † Ulm / Donau March 2, 1935 ): owner and director of mechanical weaving mill Steingädele ( MWU ) from 1870 to 1930
Otto Merz (* Esslingen am Neckar June 12, 1889, Berlin † May 18, 1933 ): driver, race car driver, test driver and mechanic
Joseph Klarl (* Straubing October 1, 1909; † Schelkingen January 16, 1987 ), painter and artist, lived in Schelkingen since 1945
Franz Beyer (* Weingarten February 26, 1922, the son of Otto Paul Beyer, music conductor in Weingarten ( born September 12, 1885 † Weingarten November 22, 1973 ) and the Anna Günter (* Schelkingen July 16, 1895; † Weingarten January 7 1992)): violist at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich; spent his youth in Schelkingen with his relatives
Erich Karl ( * 1924 Ulm, † Schelkingen 2009), Managing Director and local politicians
Marie -Louise Roth- Zimmermann ( born August 1, 1926 in Haguenau, Alsace ), literary scholar

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