Schwanau
Schwanau is a municipality in Baden -Württemberg and is part of the Ortenaukreis.
- 2.1 religions
- 2.2 Coat of arms of districts
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 partnerships
- 4.1 traffic
- 4.2 Established businesses
- 4.3 Education
- 5.1 other personalities who are associated with the city
Geography
Geographical Location
Schwanau is 8 km from Lahr in the Upper Rhine Valley and is adjacent to the Rhine, and thus to France.
Neighboring communities
The municipality is bordered to the north by Meissen home, on the east by the city of Lahr, in the southeast to the town of Mahlberg, to the south Grafenhausen and to the west by the Alsatian communities Rhinau and Gerst home.
Community structure
Schwanau consists of the formerly independent communities Allmannsweier, Nonnenweier, Ottenheim and Wittenweier. Among the former municipalities Allmannsweier and Wittenweier each include only the villages of the same name. For the former municipality Nonnenweier part of the village and the houses Nonnenweier power company. For the former municipality Ottenheim the village Ottenheim and the houses belong to the Rhine bridge.
History
The formerly independent municipalities Ottenheim, Allmannsweier and Nonnenweier have joined the new community Schwanau in the course of administrative reform in Baden- Württemberg on 1 July 1972. The community Wittenweier was incorporated into Ottenheim on December 1, 1971. As the first place Nonnenweier was mentioned in the year 845. Nevertheless Ottenheim is the oldest of the four villages, the name suggests an Alemannic foundation. In Wittenweier found in 1636 a battle of the Thirty Years War. see also Castle Schwanau
The districts belonged until 1972 to the district of Lahr and are then merged with this in Ortenaukreis.
Religions
Since the Reformation, the locations of the church today Schwanau are marked Protestant. In all districts there is a Protestant church. In Allmannsweier is a country Ecclesial communion of the Augsburg Confession, while there is an Evangelical Deaconess House in Nonnenweier. But Roman Catholics have settled again and built a church in Ottenheim.
Coat of arms of districts
Allmannsweier
Wittenweier
Nonnenweier
Policy
The community is home to the Agreed administrative fellowship of the church Schwanau with the community Meissen home.
Parish council
The election of the City Council on 7 June 2009 resulted in a turnout of 54.6 % ( - 2.1 ) the following result:
Partnerships
Schwanau maintains partnership relations with Daubensand in Alsace in France and Euba in Saxony, today a district of Chemnitz.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Near the village are the Federal Highway 5 and State Road 36
Established businesses
The largest commercial taxpayers of the municipality is the Herrenknecht AG in Allmannsweier, one of the world's leading manufacturer of tunnel boring machines.
Education
With the Bärbel von Otten home school there is a secondary school in Ottenheim. The Ludwig Frank School is an elementary school. There are five Protestant and a Roman Catholic school.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bärbel von Ottenheim (1430-1484)
- Herrenknecht Wilhelm (1865-1941), professor and founder of dentistry at the University of Freiburg
- Ludwig Frank (1874-1914), politician of the SPD and member of the Reichstag
- Karl Bühler (1904-1984), politician of the CDU and the federal and provincial deputies
- Hans -Michael Bender ( born 1943 ), politician of the CDU and Member of Parliament
Other personalities who are associated with the city
- Regine Jolberg (1800-1870, Nonnenweier ) founder of a deaconess house