Haigerloch – Wikipedia

Haigerloch is a city in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).

Geographical location [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Haigerloch is located northwest of the Swabian Alb in 430 to 550 meters in the valley of the Eyach, a steep mussel limestone, which forms two loops here. Haigerloch is therefore called The rock town . Due to the wild -growing lilac, the term “lilac town” is also common.

Neighboring communities [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The municipalities are listed clockwise from the north and belong to the Zollernalbkreis, unless otherwise stated.

Starzach ¹, Rangendingen, Grosselfingen, Balingen, Geislingen, Rosenfeld, Sulz am Neckar ², received ³ and Horb am Neckar ³.
¹ Tübingen district
² Rottweil district
³ Freudenstadt district

City structure [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Haigerloch consists of the nine districts of Bad Imnau, Bittelbronn, Gruol, Haigerloch, Hart, Owingen, Stetten, Trillfingen and Weildorf, which are spatially identical to the former communities of the same name. The official designation of the districts takes place in the form “Haigerloch- …”.

The village of Bittelbronn and the hamlet of Henstetten belong to the Bittelbronn district. The Gruol district includes the village of Gruol, the Haldenhof farm and the houses in Kroppenhofen, Niederhofen, Schlößle, Stocken and Lower Mühle. The city of Haigerloch, the Höfe Hospach and Seehof, the courtyards of Kirchlesäcker and the houses in Kirchenstal belong to the Haigerloch district. The Stetten village and the houses of Salzwerk belong to the Stetten district. The Trillfingen district includes the village of Trillfingen, the princely domain Salenhof, the Höfe Kremensee and the houses for the Sägenwerk, Talmühle, economy to the Karlstal and carpentry. Owingen includes the Höfe Birkenhof, Bühlerhof, Dietenbachhof, Weiherhof and “Gipsmühle”. The Höfe Birkhof and Tannenburg belong to Weildorf. The districts of Bad Imnau and Hart only include the villages of the same name.

In the city area of ​​Haigerloch, there are several departed towns that are no longer existing. In the Gruol district, probably in the Hauser valley, the village of Holzhausen was located on the hall mentioned in 1460 Hiltzhusen indicates. The Weiler Oberowingen, which was left in the 16th century and also in the Stetten district, was the town of Gailhofen in the Owingen district. Gailhofen left in the 15th century. In the districts of Stetten and Trillfingen, the 1387 was Gislingen mentioned village of Geislingen, which probably left in the 14th century. Not well located, but possibly in the district of Weildorf was the village of Arzingen, which was a hallway Artzinger Hard 1460 mentioned. ^[2]

Inhabitants of the districts ^[3]

District	Resident
	31. Dec. 2022	31. Dec. 2019	31. Dec. 2018
Haigerloch core city	2.292	2.262	2.179
Gruol	1.671	1.658	1.654
Stetten	1.656	1.649	1.649
Owingen	1.590	1.465	1.447
Trill	1.342	1.346	1.349
Weildorf	766	771	770
Bad Imnau	597	572	575
Tiny	643	626	622
Hart	535	537	532
Entire city	11.092	10.886	10.777

Protected areas [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In Haigerloch in particular, the Eyachtal has a special nature conservation value, where the nature reserves Owinger Bühl and Stettener vineyard are also located. Other nature reserves in Haigerloch are the Warrenberg, the Salenhofweiher and the Breilried.

The Eyachtal is also protected as a landscape protection area Eyachtal in the area of ​​the former district of Hechingen. The Weindorf Weildorf and the Gruol vineyard shaft are also under landscape protection. Haigerloch also has a share in the FFH area with eight sub-areas between Bisingen, Haigerloch and Rosenfeld.

middle Ages [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Haigerloch was first mentioned in 1095 on the occasion of a donation carried out in the castle there. This castle is probably the system in the Upper Town , Haigerloch Castle, of which the Römerturm is preserved. Around 1200 the Counts of Hohenberg appeared as local men and build a new castle on the Schlossberg, around which the Lower town developed as market spots.

Rudolf I., a brother-in-law II of Hohenberg-Haigerloch, awarded city rights to Haigerloch before 1231. ^[4] In 1268 a battle between Zollern and Hohenbergers raged at the gates of the city, in 1291 the city was besieged by Count Eberhard I of Württemberg, and the city was besieged again in 1347. From 1356 of the Oberstadt and Unterstadt were separated from each other in terms of administrative terms, but were reunited when Haigerloch’s rule was sold to Austria in 1381. The Habsburgs pledged the property in various ways, including the Counts of Württemberg.

In 1497 the city and the rule fell from Habsburg to the Hohenzollern, by exchange with the rule of Rhäzüns. Under Christoph von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch, the area around Haigerloch in 1576 as Hohenzollern-Haigerloch became an independent territory in the area of ​​the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. During this period, today’s palace complex was created on the Schlossberg, which replaced the high medieval facility and was the residence of the Counts of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch. In 1634, the city and rule fell on the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen line, whose residence city of Haigerloch was from 1737 to 1769.

Modern era [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

After the assignment to Prussia in 1849, Haigerloch in 1854 became Prussian Oberamtsstadt in the area called Hohenzollerisches. In 1925 the Hohenzollerische Oberamt Haigerloch was dissolved and Haigerloch came to the Hechingen district.

From the 18th century to 1941 there was a large Jewish community in Haigerloch, with its own synagogue. By the end of the 19th century, the Jews provided about 25% of the city population, the highest level was reached in 1858 with 397 Jews. From 1940 to August 1942, numerous Jews from Stuttgart and other larger Württemberg cities were relocated to Haigerloch; From here they were deported together with the Jews from Haigerloch. At least 84 Jews from Haigerloch died during the Nazi persecution. After the end of the war, eleven deported Jews returned to Haigerloch. In 1993 a memorial stone was set up. At the end of 1999 the city of Haigerloch was able to acquire the former synagogue building; After several years of restoration work, it was inaugurated in November 2003 as a “house of encounter”. ^{[5] [6]}

In 1903, the Africa mission (white fathers) built a mission house at the Ausnahle 17, in which they trained their offspring until 1963. Today the mission house is a point of contact for everyone who is interested in Africa. Brothers live in the house who worked in different countries in Africa. ^[7]

Second World War and research reactor [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

During the last months of the Second World War, Haigerloch was a location of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics as part of the so-called uranium project, which aimed to use the technical use of the nuclear fission. According to today’s view, the atomic bomb was not a direct goal of this work, but initially only the construction of the Haigerloch research reactor, which was created in a beer cellar below the castle church in Haigerloch. Through courageous negotiations of the pastor Marquard Gulde after recovering the reactor system through an American command on April 24, 1945, he escaped his explosion and today contains the nuclear cellar museum with a replica of the reactor.

Municipal reform [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In the course of the municipal area reform in Baden-Württemberg, the city was rebuilt on January 1, 1975 by the union of the city of Haigerloch with the municipalities of Gruol and Owingen. The municipalities of Stetten near Haigerloch (on December 1, 1971), Hieldorf (on January 1, 1972), Hart (on April 1, 1972), Bittelbronn and Trillfingen (on January 1, 1973) and Bad Imnau (on 1 . August 1973) incorporates to Haigerloch. ^[8] Haigerloch himself and all incorporated places went to the Zollernalbkreis with the Hechingen district.

Municipal council [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The municipal council of the city of Haigerloch is chosen according to the system of the fake partial location, accordingly the municipality is divided into constituencies, which are identical to the districts and according to the Baden-Württemberg municipal code Residential districts are designated. The number of municipal councils can change through overhang mandates. In addition to the Haigerloch district, districts in all districts in the sense of the Baden-Württemberg municipal regulations, each with their own local council and local mayor, are set up as its chairman. The towns have their own administrative offices of the mayor’s office. ^[9]

In July 2018, the local council already decided to introduce the local constitution for the district of Kernstadt Haigerloch, which means the formation of a local council and the appointment of a local mayor. In Haigerloch, not only the local council was elected in the local elections in May 2019, but also a local council for the first time. The committee consists of eleven members, from the middle of which the mayor is ordered.

The municipal council consists of the elected volunteer municipal councils and the mayor as chair. The mayor is entitled to vote in the local council.

The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following official end result: ^[ten]

Parties and electoral communities		2019		2014		2009
		%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats
CDU	Christian Democratic Union	35.30	9	53.25	15	50.42	15
Government	Free voters’ association Haigerloch	43.34	twelfth	30.43	9	32.64	9
SUN	Social-ecological list	19.22	5	16.32	5	16.94	5
Agbh	Active City of Haigerloch	0 2.14	first	–	–	–	–
In total		100	27	100	29	100	29
voter turnout		59.1%		52.0%		53.5%

mayor [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• 1850–1855: Georg Back
• 1855–1856: Johann Baptist Mock
• 1856–1890: Stephan Stehle
• 1890–1902: Max Münzer
• 1903–1926: Karl Albrecht
• 1926–1927: Hans Scheuermann
• 1927–1932: Leopold Bausinger
• 1932–1937: Heinrich Rettich
• 1937–1939: Wilhelm Winter, (as an administrator)
• 1939–1945: Heinrich Rein
• 1945 –0000 : Josef Dadel
• 1945 –0000 : Josef Zubilaut
• 1946–1951: Rudolf Weltin
• 1951–1961: Hans-Joachim Baühchle (SPD)
• 1961–1970: Manfred List (CDU)
• 1970–2006: Roland Trojan
• 2007–2023: Heinrich Götz
• since 2023: Heiko Lebherz

Heiko Lebherz (CDU) has been the mayor since February 1, 2023. ^[11] He was previously mayor of Ratshausen and was elected in the mayoral election on October 16, 2022 with 72.6 percent of the vote. Incumbent Götz no longer started.

coat of arms [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

	Blasonation: “Divided by silver and red.”
	Coat of arms: The coat of arms was last awarded on May 11, 1976, but is much older. The oldest seals date from the late 13th century and show the coat of arms of the city founders, the Counts of Hohenberg, a shield divided by silver and red. Since then, the coat of arms has not been changed.

Town partnerships [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

A partnership has been maintained with Noyal-sur-Vilaine in France since 1973.

Spatial planning [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Haigerloch belongs together with Hechingen, Burladingen, Bisingen, Rangendingen, Grosselfingen and Jungingen as part of the spatial order and planning region Neckar-Alb for the Medium area Hechingen .

Haigerloch is located on the Hohenzollernstraße holiday road.

Buildings [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• Schloss Haigerloch : Around 1580 instead of an older predecessor structure. The main building received its current shape in 1662 by Michael Beer, the New building was created around 1700.
• Schlosskirche Haigerloch : Built 1584 to 1607 under Count Christoph von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch, baroque in 1784 under Joseph Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch. The high altar consecrated in 1609 is considered the most important work of the Renaissance plastic in Hohenzollern and has over 60 wood sculptures.
• Römerturm : Bergfried the former Upper castle , who received today’s structure with a guardian room and hood in 1746. The Roman tower is considered the symbol of Haigerloch and the oldest surviving monument of the Hohenzollern.
• Thumbsches Schlösschen : Unknown origin, received its current shape in the 16th century. It got its name from a family of owners in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the castle brewery, which existed from 1723 to 2003, was recently settled there.
• Unterstadtkirche St. Nicholas : The oldest church in the city, their oldest components go back to the 12th century.
• Pilgrimage church St. Anna : was created in 1753 to 1755 and contains rich baroque jewelry from the time of its construction, and the organ also dates from the 18th century.
• Jewish cemetery in Hedge : Reminded of the Jewish community of the place once consisting of over 200 people, the members of which were sold in the period of National Socialism or murdered in the Holocaust.
• Weilerkirche in the Owingen district
• Evangelical Church: built from 1860 to 1863 in a neo -Gothic style. In the sanctuary of the church there is a faithful replica of Leonardo’s sacrament, which the Haigerloch artist Friedrich Schüz created 1952–1953. ^[twelfth]

Museums [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

regional customs [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Regular carnival parades can be demonstrated in Haigerloch until 1606. The traditional bridging has been taking place on the marketplace every four years since 1860.

Haigerloch’s fool’s guild has been a member of the Association of Swabian-Alemannic Fool’s Functioning, the oldest and most important fool’s association in southwest Germany since 1930. According to its regional division, it forms the Neckar-Alb’s Fasnetslands together with eleven other traditional guilds. The mask figures of the Haigerlocher Fasnet include: the Stadtbutz (Single figure), Rottweiler and Bishop , Weißnarren , Bats and Bridal . At the “Ausiga Dauschdig” there are still the characters of the Domino . ^[13]

Art [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• In the Evangelical Supper Church there is a copy of the Holy Lord’s Supper by Leonardo da Vinci in original dimensions. The painter Friedrich Schüz created it over a period of about 22 months. It was inaugurated on Maundy Thursday 1954 and handed over to the public.

Traffic [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

State road 410 connects the city to the east with Rangendingen. The L 360 runs northerly via Bad Imnau to the Neckar Valley and in a southern direction together with federal road 463 the feeder to the federal highway 81.

Public transport is guaranteed by the Neckar-Alb-Donau (Naldo) transport association. The city is located in the honeycomb 229.

The rail connection to Hechingen was abandoned in 1973 for scheduled passenger traffic and was mainly used for freight traffic until 2009. Since 2009, the Eyachtäler has once again been a tidy train of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn (HZL) across the Eyach – Higerloch – Hechingen route. ^[14]

These are tourism trains from railcars that run on weekends in the summer. The start and end points of these trains are Hechingen and Eyach. The plans for an integral clock traffic in Haigerloch from the fully node station in Hechingen from large -scale considerations require. ^[15]

New timetable calculations enable a thirty-minute cycle via Horb to Stuttgart. ^[16]

Established businesses [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The Stetten district belongs to one of the few salt mines, which are still active in Germany, the Stetten salt mine. Salt has been funded there since 1854, today the mine is owned by Wacker Chemie AG.

The Schwörerhaus KG also maintains a work in Stetten to produce basements, ceilings, garages, concrete-preferred parts and steel construction.

Thebes AG is also located in Haigerloch.

• Albert von Haigerloch (1239–1311), monk in the Oberalteich monastery, worshiped as a blessed
• Salomon Schweigger (1551–1622), Protestant preacher and orienter traveler
• Christoph von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1552–1592), First Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
• Johann Christoph von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1586–1620), second count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
• Karl von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1588-1634), third Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
• Franz Christoph Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1699–1767), canon, first minister of the Electorate of Cologne
• Christian Großbayer (1718–1782), master builder of the late baroque
• Edmunda von Kolb (1734–1799), abbess of the Cistercian inner monastery forest
• Simon Anton Zimmermann (1807–1876), conductor, choir director and composer
• Father Desiderius Lenz, born Peter Lenz (1832–1928), painter and founder of the Beuron art school
• Hermann Eger (1877-1944), politician (center), Reichstag MP, born in Leitdorf
• Karl Widmaier (1886–1931), writer
• Karl Hurm (1930–2019), painter; Born in Weildorf

1. ↑ Statistical State Office Baden-Württemberg -Population after nationality and gender on December 31, 2021 (CSV file) (help).
2. ↑ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description according to circles and communities. Volume VII: District of Tübingen. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4. Pp. 216–222.
3. ↑ Haigerloch residents statistics 2017. Stadt Haigerloch. @first @2 Template: dead link/www.haigerloch.de (Page no longer available, found in February 2023. Search in web archives .)
4. ↑ Ludwig Egler’s Chronicle of the City of Hechingen, Hechingen 1980, p. 14, note.
5. ↑ Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German -speaking area, entry Haigerloch .
6. ↑ Gotthard Deutsch, Siegmund Salfeld: Hohenzollern. In: Isidore Singer (ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901–1906.
7. ↑ Haigerloch – Africa missionaries white fathers. In: Afrikamissionare.de. Accessed in January 1st 1
8. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipal directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, circles and government districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart/ Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1, S. 528 f. And 540 .
9. ↑ Main statute of the city of Haigerloch from May 8, 1984, most recently changed on September 25, 2018. City of Haigerloch, accessed November 21, 2018.
10. ↑ City of Haigerloch- Results of the European and Local Elections 2019. City of Haigerloch, accessed on May 23, 2020.
11. ↑ Andrea Spatzal: Heiko Lebherz takes over on February 1st: everything ready for changing the office in Haigerloch. In: zak.de. January 12, 2022, accessed on December 1, 2022 .
12. ↑ City of Haigerloch – historic city tour. In: haigerloch.de. Accessed in January 1st 1
13. ↑ narrenzunft-hermoloch.com
14. ↑ Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in Internet Archive )
15. ↑ D-Bonn: Research and Development Services and associated advice. Document 2013/S 078-131485 of April 20, 2013 in the supplement to the electronic official gazette of the European Union.
16. ↑ Dietmar Schindler: Timetable. Black Forest messenger, January 16, 2014.

• Helmut Gabeli: Haigerloch. Jewish residential area “Haag”, synagogue, Jewish cemeteries . In: Possibilities of remembering. Places of Jewish life and National Socialist injustice in the Zollernalb district and in the Rottweil district . Landratsamt Zollernalbkreis, Hechingen 1997, ISBN 3-927249-10-6, pp. 11–14.
• Utz Jeggle (ed.): Memories of the Haigerloch Jews . Tübingen Association for Folklore (TVV), Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-932512-10-3.
• Klaus Schubert: Jewish Haigerloch. Invitations to a tour . 2nd Edition. Media and Dialogue, Haigerloch 2004, ISBN 3-933231-00-0.
• Werner Gaus: Haigerloch – Ond his lead – poems in Swabian dialect . Mayer, Münsingen 1988, ISBN 3-924013-05-5 (Swabian dialect poems and stories from Haigerloch, about customs and traditions as well as its unforgettable originals, illustrated by Wolfgang Stütz).
• Andreas Zekorn: Haigerloch – structures of a small residence city in the early modern period . In: “Journal of Hohenzollerische History” (ZHG). Vol. 46, 2010, pp. 81–121 ( PDF of the entire volume; 9 MB ).