Zaberfeld

Zaberfeld is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in the north of Baden -Württemberg.

  • 2.1 Origin of today's community at a glance
  • 2.2 religions
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms and Flag
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Sport and Leisure
  • 5.1 Viticulture
  • 5.2 traffic
  • 5.3 Media
  • 5.4 Education

Geography

Geographical location

Zaberfeld is located in Zabergäu in the southwestern part of the district Heilbronn on the river Zaber, which rises in the south of the district Zaberfeld located Stromberg.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring cities and municipalities Zaberfelds are ( clockwise from the north): Epping, Oberpfaffenhofen (both in Heilbronn), Saxony home ( district of Ludwigsburg ), rock star ( Enz ), Kürnbach and Sulzfeld (both in Karlsruhe). Together with Güglingen and Oberpfaffenhofen forms Zaberfeld the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband "Upper Zabergäu " based in Güglingen.

Community structure

Zaberfeld consists of the districts Zaberfeld, Leonbronn, Michel Bach and Ochsenburg. Still belongs to the living space travel mill to Ochsenburg the hamlet Riesenhof to Zaberfeld. On the Mountian Zaberfeld the dialed, no longer existing places murderer Hausen, Muttersbach and Ramsbach were.

History

Zaberfeld was probably founded around the year 1000. 1321 was the place of the men of gastric home to bathe. 1355 came under Zaberfeld Württemberg supremacy and final part of Württemberg in 1749. 1390-1749 were the lords of rock star held the place as a fief of Württemberg. From 1807 to 1810 it belonged to the upper office Güglingen, from 1810 to 1938 for Oberamt brackish home, then after its resolution to the district of Heilbronn. 1939 counted 830 inhabitants, the end of 1945 there were 926

Michel Bach was first mentioned in 1276 in a document. In 1356 it came under the suzerainty of Württemberg in 1749 and finally to Württemberg. 1970 Michel Bach united with Zaberfeld.

Ochsenburg 1231 first mentioned in a document originated as a settlement to a medieval castle, and had until 1807 a city. After the demolition of the castle at the beginning of the 19th century, the village name was briefly changed to Ochsenberg. The name change was requested by the community but reversed.

Leonbronn is first mentioned as " Lincbrunnen " in 1289. 1971 made ​​it together with Ochsenburg the new community Burgbronn, but in 1975 went up in Zaberfeld.

Since 1993, extensive transformation and restructuring measures took place in the town center of Zaberfeld that accompanied the trains running in the retirement since 1901 and the place passing through Zabergäubahn in 1995. The new center is located below the 1993 church and castle Löweneck with public institutions, businesses and homes. In 1996, a restoration program for the town center, as a result in 2001 the Town Hall and 2004, the station road were rehabilitated.

Emergence of the church today at a Glance

  • On 1 July 1970, Zaberfeld united with Michel Bach on Heuchelberg the new community Zaberfeld.
  • On January 1, 1971, and Leonbronn Ochsenburg united to form the new municipality Burgbronn.
  • On January 1, 1975, Zaberfeld united with Burgbronn the new community Zaberfeld.

Religions

In each of the four districts has its own evangelical church. For Catholics, the Catholic church Holy Trinity Güglingen is responsible.

Jewish Community Zaberfeld: Jews were first recorded in Zaberfeld 1745 by the Sternenfelsische local rule: By the influx of sons and away the number of Jewish households increased in Württemberg time to 1770 to eight with a total of 44 people, which in spite of a corresponding still same year published Württemberg decree was not reported, the number of which, however, due to the limitation of the family number to 1818 with 47 people and no longer significantly increased. Thereafter, the municipality took by depopulation and emigration gradually. 1873 there were 33 Jews, 1900, 24, 1933, 13, who came in the course of deportations 1940-42 largely to death.

Policy

Parish council

The council Zaberfelds has 14 seats. Another member of the council and its chairman is the mayor.

Mayor

The mayor is directly elected for eight years.

  • 2000-2009: Thilo Michler
  • 2009: Thomas Csaszar

Coat of arms and flag

The blazon of the coat of arms Zaberfelder reads: Coming up in blue from the bottom edge on both sides provided with a flank walls golden crenellated tower (castle ) coated with a sinking siebenstrahligen red star on a two-stage blue rock. The municipal flag is yellow-blue.

Coat of arms until 1970

Coat of Arms 1970-1974

Coat of Arms Burgbronns 1972-1974 (reconstruction )

The original coat of arms of Zaberfeld is the family coat of arms of star -talking rock that to 1749 owned the place as a fief of Württemberg. Its blazon is: In red on a three-tier wall-like golden rocks siebenstrahliger a golden star. The soft colors for the purpose of distinction from the family coat of arms and go back to a proposal of the Directorate of Archives Württemberg in 1938. This coat of arms and the flag colors of yellow - red were the municipality awarded by the Baden-Wuerttemberg Interior Ministry on 22 February 1963.

After the union with Michel Bach on Heuchelberg on 1 July 1970 Zaberfeld received a new coat of arms, which combined the rocks and the star from the old Zaberfelder coat of arms with two silver moons from the arms Michel Bach. The blazon of the new coat of arms was, in red on a two-stage, wall-like golden rocks a sinking siebenstrahliger gold star, also on both sides of each abgekehrter a silver moon. The flag colors were yellow and red.

Today's Zaberfelder districts Leonbronn and Ochsenburg formed from 1 January 1971 until 1 January 1975, the municipality Burgbronn. This resulted in a coat of arms with the following Blazon: Azure, from the lower edge of growing, both sides provided with side walls golden crenellated tower (castle ), topped with a green upward-facing lime leaf. The castle Bronner flag colors were yellow and blue.

After the unification Zaberfelds with Burgbronn the new (third) church Zaberfeld the community on August 15, 1977, awarded by the District Office of the district Heilbronn together with the flag colors yellow-blue their current coat of arms that the place names Burgbronn symbolizing " castle " from the castle Bronner Coat of arms with the coat of arms symbol of the lords of rock star combined who had had possession of fiefs in all Zaberfelder districts.

Culture and sights

Zaberfeld is due to the Württemberg wine road that leads past many sights.

Structures

  • The Protestant parish church of St. Mauritius in Zaberfeld goes back to a building from the 13th century. The east-facing choir was added in 1505 by architect Hans Wunderer.
  • The castle was built as a Renaissance building in Zaberfeld 1587-1619 with curved north gable, received in 1712 a Baroque portal on the east side and served temporarily as a rectory before it was converted in 2000 into a residential house. Between the castle and the church is the historic town hall.

Chorus of Hans Wunderer

Hall Zaberfeld

  • The middle is on a main street of Zaberfeld since 2005, the plastic on the edge of the sculptor Darko Gol of Corten steel with a stainless steel disc. The four upper peaks symbolize the four districts of Zaberfeld, the three bottom corners the three adjacent counties. Other sculptures of living in Zaberfeld Gol are situated on the edge direction and on the Leonbronn Ehmetsklinge. In Löweneck is a sculpture Fountain of Güglinger artist Ursula floor, at the Town Hall, a group of figures is seen.

Fountain in Löweneck

Group of figures at the Town Hall

Sport and Leisure

The entire municipality is located in the Natural Park Stromberg -Heuchelberg. A popular destination is the built for the purpose of flood control, completed in 1969 and 2000/2001 Advanced Zaber Reservoir Ehmetsklinge which serves as a lake in the summer. Another lake is the Katzenbachsee, which strictly speaking already on Pfaffenhofener district is located (or on the boundary of the hamlet on the Zaber ), but is Zaberfeld attributed.

Economy and infrastructure

The largest employer is Zaberfelds (2009), the automotive supplier Magna, its subsidiaries Magna Donnelly Zaberfeld GmbH (formerly Zipperle ) with approximately 230 employees manufactures solar panels in an existing plant since 1965. In November 2009 it was announced that Magna wants because of high losses close the Zaberfelder work. The plant has since been closed.

Viniculture

In Zaberfeld is operated on about 50 hectares of vineyards. The layers are Großlage Heuchelberg in the field Württembergisch lowlands of the Württemberg wine region. At the Ehmetsklinge a wine trail is created.

Traffic

Connections to the national road network consist in Lauffen and Kirchheim am Neckar (B 27). The public transport system in the traffic group H3NV is guaranteed by buses. Connection to the rail network is also in Lauffen and Kirchheim am Neckar (Franconia train).

1901 reached emanating from Lauffen Zabergäubahn Zaberfeld and the terminus Leonbronn. The Royal Württemberg State Railways built the two station building as a unit train stations of type IIa. The line was shut down in 1986 for passenger and freight transport in 1995. Plans to reactivate the route as part of the Heilbronn city rail network by 2011, have not been followed up since 2006 due to lack of funding.

Media

About the events in Zaberfeld reports the daily newspaper in its issue Heilbronner Stimme SW, South West.

Education

For all four districts there are in Zaberfeld a common elementary school.

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