Schiltach

Schiltach is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden- Württemberg. It is located in the Black Forest on the rivers Kinzig and Schiltach.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 2.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 twinning
  • 4.1 Industrial and Commercial
  • 4.2 Geoscience Community Observatory
  • 4.3 educational institutions
  • 4.4 traffic
  • 5.1 Museums
  • 5.2 Structures
  • 5.3 ruins
  • 5.4 Regular events
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Schiltach is situated in 295-842 meters altitude in the Middle Black Forest at the mouth of the river Schiltach in the Kinzig, at the narrowest point of the Kinzig valley, between Offenburg, Freudenstadt and Schramberg.

Neighboring municipalities are starting clockwise from the northeast: Schenkenzell, Aichhalten, Schramberg, Lauterbach and Wolfach. The city is located in Wolfach Ortenaukreis, the city Schramberg and the other municipalities in the district of Rottweil.

Boroughs

The town of Schiltach consists of the districts of Schiltach and Lehengericht. The two neighborhoods are physically identical to the previously independent municipalities of the same name.

For Schiltach district includes the town of Schiltach, the tines Grumpenbächle and front Heubach and the living spaces on the Staig sheet houses meadow, Grumpen and Kuhbacherhof (pre Kuhbach ). In Schiltach district lies the ruins Willburg.

The district Lehengericht is a village within the meaning of Baden-Württemberg municipal code with private Ortschaftsrat, a mayor as its chairman and its own village administration.

Lehengericht consists of the districts Vorderlehengericht (west of Schiltach ) and Hinterlehengericht (southeast of Schiltach ). District default, both districts over mountains are interconnected in Talverlauf they are separated through the center Schiltach. Vorderlehengericht has residential projects before Euler Bach and Buhl, Hinterlehengericht has the settlement centers Welsh village and Herdweg. Furthermore Lehengericht has numerous residential courses, tines and courtyards.

Etymology

In the Kinzig valley, there are a striking number of places ending in- ach. Places with this extension are each located on rivers villages. - oh goes back to the Old High German aha, gothic awa, in latin aqua = water. Thus Schiltach means something like " sign on the water." Place-names ending in- ach can be found alongside other especially in southern Germany. These places have already emerged very early by deforestation.

District

The district area of the town of Schiltach, even without the district Lehengericht is very small. It covers only 585.1 ha in 1979 was still the area "Before Heubach " of the city Wolfach be gained with 94.8 ha. The district of the district Lehengericht is much larger, it comprises 2742 ha Before giving the exclave Sulzbächle to Wolfach (244 ha), there were 2986 ha total, the total town of Schiltach remains a district of approximately 3422 ha on the district Lehengericht are extended forest areas, over 80 % of the total municipal area is wooded.

Through acquisitions of the Schiltach Mayer shaft, today's feudal court, the so-called sub ​​denunciation of the truce enlarged. The Haberershof and Kuhbacherhof were transferred to the town of Schiltach of the community Kinzig 1934 or 1936. In 1973, the Schiltach district had reached 585.0643 ha. Added to this was in 1974, the district court feud with 2986 ha in 1978 the exclave Sulzbächle the district Lehengericht with 244 ha to Wolfach yet. In 1979, the area before Heubach with 94.8 ha of the town of Schiltach. For district Lehengericht the rod Reichenbächle with the Hunersbach and the Stammelbach of Lauterbach (Black Forest) was delivered in 1956 yet.

Larger and smaller rivers in the district

The Kinzig is the largest and most important river in the city area Schiltach, in the Schiltach opens as the namesake for the city river. The Heubach also opens into the Kinzig, while only four and a half kilometers long Reichenbächle of Schiltach flows.

History

The road through the Kinzig valley was already in Roman times, the connection through the Black Forest from the Strasbourg area in the direction of Rottweil.

Schiltach began in the 11th century as the parish church for the surrounding farms, which are older than Schiltach itself in the surrounding area of today's evangelical church city, in the area of ​​today's Vorstädtle, was a settlement, which is the origin of Schiltach, which after the river Schiltach was named. Probably the mid-13th century founded the Dukes of Teck to secure their territories the town of Schiltach (first mentioned in 1275 ), a walled city with gates and the overlying Castle Schiltach in their defense. A church was not built in the city, because this was before the city was founded in the settlement available.

The city should accommodate travelers passing through and be a service center before the rise of the road in the direction of Rottweil. The castle and the town of Schiltach plant thus took over about 1250 the function of Willburg that had taken the supply on the street in front of the founding of the town of Schiltach.

In 1371 the town of Schiltach came to the Dukes of Urslingen. The impoverished Urslinger sold in 1381 the castle and town to the Counts of Württemberg. Except for the years 1519-1534, in which the city was at first, then occupied by the Imperial City of Rottweil front of Austria, ( like the whole Duchy of Württemberg), Schiltach remained until 1810 in Württemberg.

By 1810 Schiltach belonged to Württemberg. In " Gränzvertrag between the Kingdom of Wurtemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden ", which was completed on October 2, 1810 in Paris, several " bars " of the Upper Office Hornberg, so next Schiltach the town of Horn Mountain and the communities Gutach and Kirn Bach came to the Grand Duchy of Baden. Wolfach was official city of Schiltach, later county seat. The surrounding farms were in 1817 as Lehengericht own community.

In 1952, Schiltach the Land Baden-Württemberg. 1973, the district was dissolved Wolfach, Schiltach was assigned to the district of Rottweil. The municipality was created in 1974 Lehengericht reintegrated the city of Schiltach. In 1979, the exclave Sulzbächle / Fischbach to the city Wolfach, in return, the area came "Before Heubach " to Schiltach.

Religions

During the Reformation Schiltach was part of Württemberg and therefore as the rulers became Lutheran. This changed in the 19th century, when treat injuries sustained by industrialization, more and more Catholics. Today, in addition to a Protestant and a Catholic community there also exist an Apostolic congregation and several smaller denominations.

  • The Evangelical Church was built in the Neo-Byzantine style 1839-1843, after the old Gothic church was burned down.
  • The Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist was consecrated in 1966 as the successor of the old Catholic church of 1899, which had to be replaced because they had become too small.
  • The New Apostolic Church on the main street dates from the 1980s. The Old Apostolic Church in the Present Zeller road is still visible on a roof turret with a cross; it is used, despite its scope as a residence.

Incorporations

Coat of arms

The current coat of arms was adopted by the Dukes of Urslingen. With the extinction of the last Urslingers, Duke Reinhold VI. of Urslingen in 1442 the coat of arms was free. Presumably, by Count Ludwig von Württemberg ( Urach line 1409-1450 ), who was a patron of the city, the emblem conveys.

The coat of arms shows three red shields in a white coat of arms field. Almost the same coat of arms can be found in Alsace during the dynasty of Rappoltstein whose castle above Rappoltsweiler ( Ribeauville ) stood. A Urslinger had married there, then his descendants called themselves gentlemen Rappoltstein.

Policy

Parish council

The council has 14 members in addition to the mayor, including three women. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 was as follows:

For the district court, there is a fief Ortschaftsrat with eight members.

Twinning

Founded in 1990 a partnership with the City Geising in Saxony. This was on January 1, 2011 in the neighboring town of Altenberg ( Erzgebirge) incorporated, with the continued existence of twinning with Schiltach was enshrined in the integration agreement.

Economy and infrastructure

Industrial and commercial

Schiltach is, despite its rural location, an industrial site with several international famous companies. Even in the age of industrialization, there were industrial companies. For example, there were several textile mills, which, favored by the soft water of two rivers, had ideal working conditions. The same was true for the tanneries, of which there were several in Schiltach. Likewise, there were several sawmills and especially the rafting, which came to a standstill until the construction of the Kinzig Valley Railway. The wood from Schiltach and the surrounding area was partially floated on the Rhine to Holland, where it was used for shipbuilding. Today, this type of acquisition Trautwein and some smaller sawmills almost disappeared except for the well-known tannery. The formerly privileged rafting will still get a rain rafter group alive, not to let this be forgotten once the most important economic factor Schiltach.

There are companies that are already developed around the turn of the century such as Hans Grohe (1901 ), other (BBS International GmbH, VEGA Grieshaber KG, etc.) came later.

The Schiltach companies offer approximately 3350 people a job at the place, which is certainly exceptionally with a population of 4000 inhabitants, especially when you consider that the city is located at the narrowest point of the Kinzig valley, topographic due to not have optimal conditions for industrial estates and the motorways A 81 and A 5 are a few kilometers away.

Geoscience Community Observatory

In the disused pit Anton in Heubach is the Geoscience Observatory Schiltach ( BFO ), an inter-university institute of the University of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ( KIT). There, in a wide range of vibrations and deformations of the earth be gathered and analyzed. To protect the BFO as a research institution of international standing against harmful effects caused by wind turbines, a protection radius of three kilometers was fixed to the studs with the measuring devices in December 2012 by the competent national ministries, within which no wind turbines may also be approved. Wind turbines in the vicinity of the BFO lead by unbalance and air displacement to disturbances in the observation operation. Previously, the distance range was in 2004 at ten kilometers to the BFO, which checked again because of the new importance of wind power as part of the energy revolution in a report by scientists at the University of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT ) of 13 September 2012, and been adjusted accordingly. Although possibly operated at a distance range of three to ten kilometers, wind turbines may cause adverse effects on the quality of short-period records. However, this can be compensated at least partially by installing an array of seismometers around the central station at the BFO.

Educational institutions

The town of Schiltach has a primary school and since the school year 2010/2011 a branch of the Werkrealschule "Upper Kinzig Valley " (WRS ). Before that was located in the premises of the WRS the neighborhood high school Schiltach / Schenkenzell. Secondary schools can be found in nearby cities, such as in Schramberg, Wolfach and Hausach. A Protestant and a Catholic kindergarten, a Waldorf kindergarten and a nursery with two groups ( since 2011 ) are also available. The folk high school Schiltach / Schenkenzell is a branch of the community college Schramberg.

Traffic

Schiltach is tied to the federal highways 294 and 462, which over Schiltach a Querspange form from the Rhine to the Neckar is 5 through traffic from the motorway A 81 to A Schiltach is through a bypass road. The two federal roads lead since the early 1990s by the 1830m long Kirchbergtunnel (B 294 ) and the 830 m long Schloßbergtunnel (B 294 and B 462 ) with three runs to the town of Schiltach around.

You can reach weekdays Freudenstadt and Offenburg every hour over the Kinzig Valley Railway. On weekends, ride single trains via Offenburg addition to Strasbourg. Apart from the actual station Schiltach there is the closer to the center located breakpoint " Schiltach center ", also adhere to all scheduled passenger trains Ortenau S-Bahn. The railway line Schiltach - Schramberg ( opened in 1892 ) in 1959 for passenger shut down in 1989 for freight. Meanwhile, the track system has been removed. The route is now a cycle path from Schiltach to Schramberg. Further, there are now almost through the whole Kinzig a bike path from Freudenstadt to Offenburg. Various bus services in Offenburg and Freudenstadt and links by bus to the city of Rottweil complete the offer. In addition, you can reach in and 1/2-Stundentakt with the city traffic, an accessible minibus of SüdbadenBus GmbH, almost all inner-city districts.

Culture and sights

The old town since 1971 as an ensemble under monumental protection is well worth seeing, especially the Schiltach square with the town hall, built by the plans of the Duke of Württemberg master Heinrich Schickhardt, and the Gerberngasse in Vorstädtle. In Schiltach to find half-timbered houses from the 16th and 19th centuries in rare unity. The city is a member of the Cultural Route Heinrich Schickhardt and on the German Framework Road.

As a long-distance path of the middle way on the lead can be crossed from north to south of the Black Forest ( between Pforzheim and Waldshut ), by Schiltach, which is on the way milestone. In addition, the Talroute the Kinzig Valley section of James pathway leads through the historic old town and the former medieval street Schiltach walkways.

New Year's Train: The New Year's Train is a kind of Protestant procession on New Year's Eve and was first mentioned in 1853. The custom therefore probably dates back to the 18th century and is still used today to thank God for the running year and to ask his blessing for the New Year. The population draws with lanterns according to traditional rituals from the Market Square to the town church and sing songs of thanksgiving, which are pietistic origin. To illuminate the city are torches. The electric lighting is switched off while the train. Also on the windows should be to recognize only the burning Christmas trees. The Protestant minister holds out a speech from the rectory window. Subsequently, the citizens gather in front of the town hall, where the mayor gives a speech and the town band and the glee club perform ceremonial ways.

Museums

  • Pharmacy Museum, former Biedermeier pharmacy at the market place, function rooms, equipment, etc.
  • Museum on the market, urban history, industrialization, craft
  • Schüttesäge Museum, timber and forest management, timber rafting, old saw with unterschlächtigem waterwheel and transmissions, tannery
  • Museum of Water-Bath- Design, private museum from Hansgrohe to the emergence of the bath and the bath culture

Structures

  • City Hall from 1593 with stepped gable from 1906
  • Gasthaus zum Adler 1604
  • Marketplace
  • Evangelical City Church 1839 - 1843
  • Gerberngasse with Outer mill ( 1557)
  • Schlossbergstraße
  • Städtlebrunnen on the marketplace
  • Jagerhausle (1590)

Castle ruins

  • Schiltach ruins on the Schlossberg
  • Will castle, castle ruins above the Staighöfe on the Schlossle mountain.
  • Klingenburg, castle ruins in Hinterlehengericht on the Burbachfelsen.

Regular events

  • Swabian- Alemannic Fastnacht
  • New Year's Train and New Year wishes by the Schiltach night watchman
  • Weekly market every Thursday in the Gerberngasse
  • Joseph Market on March 19
  • Peter- and -Paul- market on June 29
  • Andreas market on the Friday before the 2nd Advent (formerly on 8 December)
  • Farmers' market on the third Sunday in October
  • Arts and crafts market on the last Sunday in April
  • Flea market in the Gerberngasse ( mid-June )
  • Schiltach Advent on Friday before the 2nd Advent
  • Town festival every five years ( next time: 2015)

Personalities

Freeman

  • Heinrich Baumgartner, contractor ( born August 25, 1936 in Schiltach ), honorary citizen of the town of Schiltach, since 1 March 2002, see BBS International GmbH
  • Hermann Fautz, commercial school teacher and local historian ( born November 14, 1898 in Gengenbach / Kinzig, † October 20, 1979 in Lingen ), honorary citizen of the town of Schiltach since February 16, 1973
  • Bruno Grieshaber, contractor ( born September 16, 1919 in Triberg, † October 7, 2005 in Schiltach ), honorary citizen of the town of Schiltach, since 1 March 2002, see VEGA Grieshaber and Grieshaber GmbH & Co KG.
  • Friedrich Grohe, contractor ( born August 28, 1904 in Schiltach, † March 29, 1983 in Schiltach ), honorary citizen of the town of Schiltach, since 16 February 1973 see Friedrich Grohe faucets
  • Klaus Grohe, contractor ( born April 3, 1937 in Aachen ), honorary citizen of the town of Schiltach, since 1 March 2002, see Hans Grohe AG with headquarters in Schiltach
  • Gustav Kramer, 1965-1974 Mayor of Lehengericht; thereafter to 1983 mayor of the district Lehengericht, ( born February 22, 1922 in Lehengericht ), honorary citizen of the town of Schiltach since December 21, 1983
  • Peter Rottenburg, 1970-2002 Mayor of the town of Schiltach, born June 16, 1939 in Freudenstadt, honorary citizen of the town of Schiltach, since 25 October 2002

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Horst neugart (* 1940), German educator and theologian. He is since 2002 President of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg.

Awards

Freiburg (region) Rottweil (district) Kinzig (Rhine) Schiltach (river) Aichhalden Lauterbach, Baden-Württemberg Hectare Heubach (Kinzig) Protestant Reformation Gothic art Rainald of Urslingen Altenberg, Saxony Nursery school Adult high school Dunningen Epfendorf Eschbronn Hardt, Baden-Württemberg Villingendorf Wellendingen Integrated Authority File
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