Zwingenberg (Baden)

Zwingenberg is the Neckar - Odenwald-Kreis belonging municipality in Baden- Württemberg. Become nationally known, it is through the open-air theater in Zwingenberger castle.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 cycle paths

• 5.1 theater
• 5.2 Buildings and landmarks

Geography

Zwingenberg located in the Neckar valley about 40 km east of Heidelberg Neckar -Odenwald Nature Park in 130-420 meters altitude.

Community structure

The municipality includes the village Zwingenberg Zwingenberg, the castle "Schloss Berg Force " and the homestead Zwingenberger yard.

The village is situated in a small right dilation of the Neckar valley, the castle on the same page about a kilometer down the valley it on the mouth of the spur running to the river Wolf Gorge, the farm a little further down the valley on the opposite bank.

History

The story Zwingenbergs is closely linked to the story of the eponymous castle, the present castle forcing castle. Above the forcing castle there are still remains of the castle Fürstenstein. The place forcing castle was probably built in the 14th century from a small fishing village at the foot of the erected in the 13th century the first castle. The earliest written mention of the name Zwingenberg dated from the year 1326.

Town and castle Zwingenberg changed in the late Middle Ages and in modern times often the owner, the status of an autonomous community was the village until the beginning of the 19th century. 1939 were counted 230 inhabitants, the end of 1945 there were 281

Policy

Parish council

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 was as follows:

The turnout was 70.5 %, which was 4.2 percentage points lower than in the local elections of 2004. The council consists of six men and two women.

Mayor

From 1978 to 2013, Peter was Kirchesch Mayor of forcing mountain. On 9 June 2013 were elected as the new honorary mayor Norman Link with 336 votes ( 97.7 %).

Coat of arms

Blazon: Azure, three ( 2:1) silver (white ) swan necks with gold ( yellow ) beaks. The three goosenecks were taken from the arms of the nobles of forcing mountain.

Economy and infrastructure

However, most of today's residents live above in the two development areas and below the railway line in the south Zwingenbergs. In the local companies still find a few of the labor force work, most have to travel daily as a commuter partly long distances.

Traffic

Forcing mountain is located on the Neckar Valley Railway (Heidelberg bath Friedrich -Jagstfeld ), which is served every half hour since 2003 by the S- Bahn Rhein Neckar.

Cycle paths

Along the Neckar river and through the urban area perform the following cycle routes:

• The Neckar Valley Cycle runs more than 410 miles from the origin Neckar in Villingen -Schwenningen along the Neckar river to its mouth in the Rhine at Mannheim.
• The 225 km long 3-country bike path as a trail through the tri-border region of Hesse, Baden- Württemberg and Bavaria. Along Mümling, Neckar and Main explores the Odenwald route.
• The Castle Road Bike Trail is about 1,200 kilometers, parallel to Tourist Route Castle Road between Mannheim and Prague.
• The Odenwald- Madonna - cycle path leads over 135-160 kilometers through the Odenwald, the Neckar and the Rhine valley.

Culture and sights

Theater

A special attraction is the annual open-air festival in Zwingenberger castle, the core of which the romantic opera " Der Freischütz" by Carl Maria von Weber. Besides changing, often rarely proffered pieces and operas are performed repeatedly.

Buildings and monuments

• The inhabited and well preserved castle - today Zwingenberg Castle - was built in the 13th century, razed in 1364 and later rebuilt. Above Zwingenberg Castle (also currently still inhabited ) can be found in the forest, the foundations of the castle ruins " Fürstenstein ", which was built for a short time by the then Bishop of Mainz, in the years 1338 to 1340 - this is in the context of disputes between the nobles of forcing mountain and the bishop. Probably Fürstenstein also had a Blidenstellung. After a subsequent arbitration award Castle Fürstenstein had already in 1344 be looped and then was largely forgotten. The castle was a few hundred meters northwest of the present castle, and about a hundred meters higher.
• Half-timbered houses in the narrow winding streets and steep stairs of the old village.
• The Zwingenberger Neckar bridge was opened in 2011 and replaced the old ferry. It is a 216 meter long driving and pedestrian bridge made ​​of steel about the Neckar. 2010, the 150 -ton middle bridge portion of the cable-stayed bridge Lindachstraße was floated out and with so-called strand jacks completed in the already feed, fitted shore -side driveways that are suspended on two ypsilonförmige placed along the shore pylons.
• The Wolf Canyon, which is said to have inspired Carl Maria von Weber 's opera Der Freischütz, is a wild and romantic gorge, which was cut by the waves of the Neckar flowing brook in the sandstone blocks of the valley behind the forcing castle.

Wolfschlucht