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Adelsheim
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region	Karlsruhe
District	Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
Population	5,540 (31/12/2004)
Area	43.84 km²
Population density	126 /km²
Elevation	226 m
Coordinates	49°24′ N 09°23′ E
Postal code	74737 - 74740
Area code	06291
Licence plate code	MOS
Mayor	Klaus Gramlich
Website	Stadt Adelsheim

Adelsheim [ˈaːdəlshaɪm] is a small town in northern Baden-Württemberg, about 30 km north of Heilbronn. The state-recognized resort of Adelsheim in the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis looks back on a 1,200-year heritage. Image File history File links Wappen_Adelsheim. ... Image File history File links Adelsheim. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ... Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in southwestern Germany to the east of the Upper Rhine. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Karlsruhe is one of the four Regierungsbezirke of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the north-west of the country. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a district (Kreis) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre, or meter (US), is a measure of length. ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. ... see also Telephone numbering plan of Germany for further codes including service numbers, cell phones etc. ... German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in southwestern Germany to the east of the Upper Rhine. ... Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart. ... Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a district (Kreis) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

Geography

Adelsheim lies at the mouth of the river Kirnau which comes from the west, emptying into the river Seckach coming from the north. The combined stream was used in building the town fortifications. Farther downstream, the Seckach flows by Möckmühl into the Jagst, thence into the Neckar, and thence into the Rhine. Möckmühl is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... The Jagst is a right tributary of the Neckar in northern Baden-Württemberg. ... The Neckar is a river in Germany, a major tributary of the River Rhine, which it joins at Mannheim. ... Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...

The Adelsheim area is part of the greater geographical region known as the Bauland, a mountain range stretching from the Odenwald in the northwest to the Jagst valley in the south as well as to the Tauber valley in the east. Part of the municipality's area lies within the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park. A mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountain ranges by passes or rivers. ... The Odenwald is a mountain chain in southern Hessen, northern Bavaria and northern Baden-Württemberg. ... Tauber is a river in Franconia, Germany. ...

Communities within the town

Sennfeld (Baden)

Sennfeld lies about 3 km southwest along the Seckach valley and has about 1,250 inhabitants. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1110. In 1615, Margaretha von Carben, who was Götz von Berlichingen's granddaughter, endowed the Evangelical parish church. The Sennfeld Schloss (stately home), formerly owned by kin of the Barons of Berlichingen, was built in 1713 in a countrified Baroque style. An 18th Century engraving of Götz von Berlichingen. ... The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD) is a federation of 23 Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in their respective regions. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ...

Leibenstadt

Leibenstadt, a former knightly village with about 320 inhabitants lying south of Adelsheim was first mentioned in a document in 1293, and has been part of Adelsheim since 1971. Website: http://www.leibenstadt.de

Wemmershof

The hamlet of Wemmershof, lying 3 km west of Adelsheim, saw the beginning of its village history in 1423. In the Middle Ages, the landlords relinquished the property to the farmers who lived there at the time. Today Wemmershof is now, as then, a community shaped by agriculture, and it has about 50 inhabitants. A hamlet is (usually — see below) a small settlement, too small or unimportant to be considered a village. ... Events July 31 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

Hergenstadt

Hergenstadt lies to the southeast. It is a hamlet with about 50 people, founded in 1500.

Adelsheim Business Park

The Adelsheim Business Park (called Business-Park Adelsheim in German) is located 1 km to the west, outside the Adelsheim municipal centre and 8 km from Autobahn A81, right on Federal Highway B 292. The B 292 connects the towns of Adelsheim and Schefflenz and leads to Osterburken. Schefflenz is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Osterburken is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

History

In 1374, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor raised Adelsheim to town. The landlords were the Imperial Knights (Reichsritter) of the same name. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. ...

Adelsheim was already home to some Jews in the Middle Ages. In 1338, Kaiser Ludwig of the Bavarians had allowed the brothers Poppo and Berlinger from Adelsheim to "keep" four Jewish families in their lands. Also in 1690, there were four Jewish families resident in Adelsheim. The establishment of an actual community can be traced back to the seventeenth century. The highest number of Jewish inhabitants was reached in 1885 when the count was 70. Under an ordinance from 1690, the Jewish community yearly had to pay the Barons of Adelsheim four gulden for "school", that is to say, to be allowed to hold their religious services. The prayer room used at that time, according to oral tradition, was set up on the second floor of the house built by Melchior Keller in 1418 in the Torgasse ("Gate Lane"). This house was dismantled in 1952. Later, there was a prayer room in a likewise no longer standing building in the yard of the Oberschloss. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

From the middle of the nineteenth century until 1889, a synagogue stood at Turmgasse 27. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lesko synagogue, Poland A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ...

A ritual bath and a Jewish school were housed at the old synagogue in the nineteenth century at Turmgasse 27, and as of 1889 at the new synagogue (Untere Austraße 1). When the new synagogue was being torn down in 1977, the ritual bath was rediscovered. Burials were performed in Buchen-Bödigheim and after 1884 in Sennfeld. Pool of a medieval mikvah in Speyer, dating back to 1128 First room in the medieval mikvah in Speyer Mikvah (or mikveh) (Hebrew: מִקְוָה; Tiberian Miqwāh, Standard Hebrew Miqva) (plural, mikvaot) is a ritual bath used for immersion in a purification ceremony within Judaism. ... Cheders (also known as Heders, Hebrew: room) are traditional elementary schools or classes teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language. ... Buchen is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

After the deportations during the Third Reich, at least ten of the 35 Jews living in town in 1933 lost their lives. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

As a result of the Reformation, the people became Evangelical. Until 2000, Adelsheim was the seat of a deaconate (Evangelical church region) of the Baden State Church. In the course of deaconate reform, the deaconate moved to Hirschlanden in Rosenberg. The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...

Catholics are a minority. After 1945 a rough balance between the two faiths was reached through the arrival of refugees from the east. After 1960, a further Catholic church was established, St. Mary's.

Only in 1945 did the Adelsheimers send their landlords into exile.

• The forerunner to the folk festival (Volksfest) was the Homeland Days (Heimattage) in 1948. The occasion for Adelsheim's second folk festival in 1949 was the celebration of the dedication of the new Kirnau Bridge, which replaced one destroyed in 1945.
• On 11 November 1948, the Adelsheim District Agricultural School (Kreislandwirtschaftschule Adelsheim) opened its doors under Dr. Leopold Wiswesser's leadership. In the years that were to come, Adelsheim's history was shaped by its schools: the Volksschule moved onto the Eckenberg in 1958, and farther into the forest a few years later, the Gymnasium with its boarding school was established.

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Politics

Mayors (Bürgermeister)

• Klaus Gramlich (current)
• Walter Muth
• Peter Hütt
• Günter Bauer
• Friedrich Gerner

Municipal council (after 2004 municipal election):

• CDU 8 seats
• SPD 6 seats
• FWV (citizens' coalition) 3 seats
• BLA 3 seats

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Coat of arms and flag

The coat of arms, which might be described as "in argent an alpine ibex's horn sable", was bestowed upon the town by Kaiser Sigismund in 1422. Adelsheim's town colours are black and white. The town colours are to be seen at the Schildmännchen – an emblem depicting a little man behind an heraldic shield – near the centre of town at the Oberschloss-Erker (stately home). A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Sigismund (February 14/15, 1368 - December 9, 1437) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 to 1437. ...

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Adelsheim lies on the Frankenbahn railway (Adelsheim Ost or Sennfeld station) and the Neckartalbahn railway, and thereby also on the S-Bahn RheinNeckar (Adelsheim Nord station). Since December 2003 both hourly trains on S-Bahn line S1 (Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Osterburken) and RegionalExpress trains every two hours (Mannheim - Eberbach - Heilbronn) run on this line. Goods trains run mainly evenings or nights. While line S2 ends in Eberbach, or every two hours in Mosbach-Neckarelz, S1 goes hourly through to Osterburken, giving Adelsheim optimal integration into the Frankenbahn (Stuttgart-Würzburg) timetable. (Translated from the German wikipedia article) The S-Bahn is a suburban metro railway network in Germany. ... This is the article about the city, for the district see Kaiserslautern (district)   is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rheinland-Pfalz at the edge of the Palatine Forest (Pfälzer Wald). ... Mannheim is a city in Germany. ... Osterburken is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Eberbach can refer to: Eberbach-Seltz , a commune of the Bas-Rhin département in France. ... Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart. ... Mosbach and the other cities on the Neckar River Watershed of the Rhine River Mosbach is the capital of the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany about 58 km east of Heidelberg. ... Stuttgart [], a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 (as of September 2005) in the city and around 3 million in the metropolitan area. ... Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. ...

The town has a connection with Autobahn A 81 (Stuttgart - Würzburg) through an interchange lying only 8 km from the centre of town. Federal Highway B 292 also runs through Adelsheim (Sinsheim - Mosbach - Adelsheim - Osterburken - Lauda-Königshofen). Bundesautobahn 81 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 81, short form Autobahn 81, abbreviated as BAB 81 or A 81) is an Autobahn in Germany. ... Sinsheim is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state Baden-Württemberg in the district Rhein-Neckar between Heidelberg and Heilbronn. ... Lauda-Königshofen is a town in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

Court and institutions

Adelsheim, owing to the large nearby youth penal institution, still has at its disposal a small local court, which belongs to the state court region of Mosbach and the higher state court region of Karlsruhe. Mosbach and the other cities on the Neckar River Watershed of the Rhine River Mosbach is the capital of the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany about 58 km east of Heidelberg. ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ...

Educational institutions

• Evangelical and Catholic kindergartens
• Primary school and Hauptschule with Werkrealschule
• Eckenberg-Gymnasium with boarding school and the State School Centre for Environmental Education
• Volkshochschule Adelsheim

Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... A Hauptschule (German: general school) is a German secondary school, starting after 4 years of elementary schooling. ... In Germany, the Realschule was an outgrowth of the rationalism and empiricism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... A gymnasium (pronounced /gim-/ as opposed to /jim-/) is a type of school of secondary education in parts of Europe. ... Folk high schools are institutions of adult and continuing education. ...

Leisure

• Heated swimming pool, opening times: May-September 9-20 h
• Miniature golf
• Jugendhaus Adelsheim (youth centre), opening times: Thu-Sat 19-22:30 h (beyond the weekly opening times the centre also regularly organizes live band performances involving all kinds of musical styles, and various themed parties)
• Live-Factory

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Culture and sightseeing

• Gothic (old) Jakobskirche (church), built 1489 with many tombs on the inner and outer walls; great plague grave.
• Ober- and Unterschloss (stately homes)
• Town hall with fine half-timbering, 1619, completed and preserved by new building in contemporary style (about 1990).
• Evangelical town church, late Baroque.
• reconstructed town tower.
• Town garden with waterfall lit at night.
• Former synagogue in Sennfeld, built 1836.
• Old mill
• Bauländer Heimatmuseum Adelsheim – open May-September Sundays 14-16 h or by telephoning to make arrangements.
• For railway enthusiasts: Ostbahnhof (station) with outlying buildings, Nordbahnhof in late Gothic style with two waiting rooms.
• "Lookout Bench" at Alt-Stadtrat Schmitt (especially for lovers).
• Grand-Ducal Local Court with adjoining prison.
• Jugendhaus Adelsheim, inaugurated about 1969, earlier housed on a nineteenth-century estate, now in a renovated railway station building.
• Youth prison (block or box design from the early 1970s with distinctive "town wall"), built in a side valley off the Seckach valley.
• Kirnau valley with remains of the Grand-Ducal irrigation works for ambitious agricultural projects.
• Transmission tower at 49° 24' 38" N, 9° 23' 29" E (freestanding steel lattice construction, bearing until 1993 an SWR MW transmission antenna in the form of a long-wire antenna)

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Clubs

Adelsheim: Since the war, there have been four clubs – a singing club, a sport club, a youth club, and the fire brigade – but a few others have come into being since then, although this traditional core is much the same as it always has been. Sennfeld: In Sennfeld many clubs were founded, or refounded, after the war. The clubs with the most members are the TV 1897 Sennfeld e.V. (athletic club with fistball, gymnastics), the SV Germania Adelsheim (sport club) and the VfB Sennfeld 1923 e.V. (football, table tennis, badminton). There are furthermore many smaller clubs catering to all interests. Leibenstadt: a sport club, SV Leibenstadt 1946 e.V. (http://www.sv-leibenstadt.de). Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ... Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, and forward rolls. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Jan-Ove Waldner at the 2004 Olympics Table tennis is one of the most popular sports in the world in terms of player numbers,[1] as well as being one of the newest of the major sports. ... The Danish Olympic badminton player Peter Gade Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles). ...

Regular events

• Fasenacht, a German carnival held in the leadup to Lent, with various events.
• Since 2005: "Adelsheim leuchtet" ("Adelsheim glows").
• The Volksfest (instituted after 1945) always on the first Sunday in July.
• The Sennfelder Dorffest (village festival held every three years in Sennfeld)
• The Adelsheimer Weihnachtsmarkt ("Christmas Market", held by various local clubs and coördinated by the Youth Centre)

Swabian-Alemannic carnival clowns in Wolfach, Germany A carnival is a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season. ... In Western Christianity, Lent is the period from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. ...

Personalities

• Peter Hauk, Member of the Landtag for the Neckar-Odenwald electoral district, since 2005 Baden-Württemberg's minister for food and agriculture in the Öttinger cabinet, member of the CDU.

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External links

• Adelsheim webseite
• [Adelsheim-Kunstsommer: the lights at the castle]

Cities and towns in Neckar-Odenwald (district)

Adelsheim | Aglasterhausen | Billigheim | Binau | Buchen (Odenwald) | Elztal | Fahrenbach | Hardheim | Haßmersheim | Höpfingen | Hüffenhardt | Limbach (Neckar-Odenwald) | Mosbach | Mudau | Neckargerach | Neckarzimmern | Neunkirchen bei Mosbach | Obrigheim | Osterburken | Ravenstein | Rosenberg (Baden) | Schefflenz | Schwarzach (Neckar-Odenwald) | Seckach | Waldbrunn | Walldürn | Zwingenberg (Baden) Image File history File links De_neckarodenwald_coat. ... Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a district (Kreis) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Aglasterhausen is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Billigheim is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Binau is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Buchen is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Elztal is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Fahrenbach is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Hardheim is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Haßmersheim is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Höpfingen is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Hüffenhardt is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Limbach (Neckar-Odenwald) is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Mosbach and the other cities on the Neckar River Watershed of the Rhine River Mosbach is the capital of the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany about 58 km east of Heidelberg. ... Mudau is a municipality in the Neckar Odenwald circle with 5107 inhabitants. ... Neckargerach is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Neckarzimmern is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Neunkirchen bei Mosbach is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Obrigheim is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Osterburken is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Ravenstein is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Rosenberg (Baden) is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Schefflenz is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Schwarzach (Neckar-Odenwald) is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Seckach is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Waldbrunn is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Walldürn is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Zwingenberg (Baden) is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...