Erkenbrechtsweiler

Erkenbrechtsweiler
Erkenbrechtsweiler
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	Erkenbrechtsweiler Location of Erkenbrechtsweiler within Esslingen district
	Coordinates: 48°33′24″N9°25′56″E / 48.55667°N 9.43222°E Coordinates: 48°33′24″N9°25′56″E / 48.55667°N 9.43222°E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Esslingen
Government
• Mayor	Roman Weiß
Area
• Total	6.93 km2 (2.68 sq mi)
Elevation	702 m (2,303 ft)
Population (2015-12-31) [1]
• Total	2,143
• Density	310/km2 (800/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	73268
Dialling codes	07026
Vehicle registration	ES
Website	www.erkenbrechtsweiler.de

Last updated March 30, 2019

Erkenbrechtsweiler is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Esslingen is a Landkreis (district) in the centre of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rems-Murr, Göppingen, Reutlingen, Böblingen and the district-free city Stuttgart.

Baden-Württemberg is a state in southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the border with France. It is Germany’s third-largest state, with an area of 35,751 km² (13,804 sq mi) and 11 million inhabitants. Baden-Württemberg is a parliamentary republic and partly sovereign, federated state which was formed in 1952 by a merger of the states of Württemberg-Baden, Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Karlsruhe and Mannheim. Other cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen and Ulm.

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

Heidengraben is the name given to the remains of a large Celtic fortified settlement (oppidum) dating to the Iron Age, located on the plateau of the Swabian Jura in the districts of Reutlingen and Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The settlement was in use from about the late 2nd century BC to the early 1st century BC. By surface area, Heidengraben is the largest oppidum in all of mainland Europe.

Erkenbrechtsweiler is the only municipality in the district of Esslingen, whose denunciation lies fully on the Jura plateau.

Municipality arrangement

Erkenbrechtsweiler includes the village Erkenbrechtsweiler and the place Burrenhof. In the north of the municipality in the hallway "Burg" is a living space disposed likely from Frankish times.

Neighboring communities

Adjacent community are Neuffen in the West, Beuren in the northwest, Owen in the north, Lenningen in the East (all Esslingen district), Grabenstetten and Hülben the south (both district Reutlingen).

Neuffen is a town in the district of Esslingen, in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Beuren is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is a spa and resort. With the majority of its district (95.2%), Beuren is part of the Swabian Alb biosphere reserve.

Owen is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

History

A grave mound from the Bronze Age proves that already in the Bronze Age people lived in the district. Remains from the Hallstatt culture period have been found. Erkenbrechtsweiler was first documented in 1284 as "Hergenbolswiler" or "Erggenboltswilaer" when Berthold from Neuffen rendered the place to the Bishopric of Speyer. In 1301 the place was sold together with the reign Neuffen to the Counts of Württemberg. The place came in 1938 to the newly formed district Nürtingen and in 1973 to the district of Esslingen.

The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European culture of Late Bronze Age from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC and followed in much of its area by the La Tène culture. It is commonly associated with Proto-Celtic and Celtic populations in the Western Hallstatt zone and with (pre-)Illyrians in the eastern Hallstatt zone.

Religions

Since the Reformation Erkenbrechtsweiler is dominated Protestant. The parish includes the municipality Erkenbrechtsweiler and since 2004 also the district Hochwang of the municipality Lenningen. It has about 1,700 members (as of 2005).^[2]

The Reformation was a movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe. Although the Reformation is usually considered to have started with the publication of the Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther in 1517, there was no schism until the 1521 Edict of Worms. The edicts of the Diet condemned Luther and officially banned citizens of the Holy Roman Empire from defending or propagating his ideas. The end of the Reformation era is disputed, it could be considered to end with the enactment of the confessions of faith which began the Age of Orthodoxy. Other suggested ending years relate to the Counter-Reformation, the Peace of Westphalia, or that it never ended since there are still Protestants today.

In addition, there is now a New Apostolic Church. Roman Catholic Christians, however have to go to church service in Lenningen-Hochwang.

The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a chiliastic Christian church that split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during an 1863 schism in Hamburg, Germany.

Population Development

The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates the State Statistical Office (only primary residences). Deadline Population

December 3, 1834 ¹ 538
December 1, 1871 ¹ 686
December 1, 1900 ¹ 789
May 17, 1939 ¹ 957
September 13, 1950 ¹ 1,246
6 June 1961 ¹ 1,314
May 27, 1970 ¹ 1,446
May 25, 1987 ¹ 1,831
December 31, 1995 2,012
December 31, 2000 2,173
December 31, 2005 2,133

Politics

Council

The council in Erkenbrechtsweiler has 10 members. The council consists of the elected honorary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Crest

Official Blazon : ". About a golden (yellow), with a horizontal black deer rack occupied sign foot a green mountain with silver (white) Pinnacle, behind the rising red sun". The stag rod has the affiliation to Württemberg towards which also marked with this symbol in the coat of arms. The mountain with the rock represents the location on the escarpment. The coat of arms was awarded to Erkenbrechtsweiler by decision of the Provincial Government from 20 September 1954.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transportation

Erkenbrechtsweiler is located in the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart. The bus lines 172 and 179 connect the municipality with the nearest railway stations, namely Lenningen to the Teck Railway to Kirchheim (Teck) and Neuffen to the Nürtingen-Neuffen railway to Nürtingen.

Education

In Erkenbrechtsweiler there is a primary school with a branch office in Hochwang. There is also a kindergarten.

Natural monuments

The Heidengraben, a Celtic oppidum (a heavily fortified city), was built around 100 BC. It is situated on a peninsula-like plateau between the Erms - and Lauter valley and has a total of about 16 square kilometers, the largest facility of its kind in Central Europe. North of Erkenbrechtsweiler is a reconstructed target. Towards the south, the oppidum was secured by two walls, one of which is south of Grabenstetten still well preserved. An archaeological trail with information panels describes the system for the visitors. The biotope Molach lies above a Volcanic pipe of the only in the upper Miocene active volcano ( Swabian volcano ). The Maar-like kettle of Molach is one of the rarities of the Jura. Very many other wet places or ponds (Hülen) led to the settlement.

Sons and daughters of the town

Friedrich von Römer (1794–1864), politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, Member of Parliament (Württemberg), Württembergian Minister of Justice (1848–49)
Karin Roth (born 1949), politician (SPD), Member of Parliament, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (2005–2009), Senator for Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Hamburg (1998–2001).

Personalities who have worked locally

August Laemmle (1876–1962), Swabian dialect poet, worked as an elementary school teacher in Erkenbrechtsweiler.

Literature

Hans Schwenkel: Heimatbuch des Kreises Nürtingen. Band 2. Würzburg 1953, S. 207–222.
Adolf Schicketanz: Die Chronik von Erkenbrechtsweiler. Erkenbrechtsweiler 1961.
Der Landkreis Esslingen. Hrsg. vom Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg i. V. mit dem Landkreis Esslingen, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0842-1, Band 1, Seiten 418–428.
Gemeinde Erkenbrechtsweiler (Hrsg.): Erkenbrechtsweiler: Erkenbodswiler (1359), Erkenboltzwyler (1475) ;Bilder erzählen unsere Geschichte. Geiger-Verlag, Horb 2009. ISBN 978-3-86595-310-0

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References

↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland nach Fläche, Bevölkerung und Postleitzahl am 30.09.2016". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.
↑ Wikipedia: Kirchenbezirk Kirchheim unter Teck

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[1] "Gemeinden in Deutschland nach Fläche, Bevölkerung und Postleitzahl am 30.09.2016". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.

[2] Wikipedia: Kirchenbezirk Kirchheim unter Teck