Berglen is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of

Rems-Murr Rems-Murr is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall, Ostalbkreis, Göppingen, Esslingen, the district-free city Stuttgart and the dis ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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Geography

Geographical location

The community Berglen is located about 25 kilometers east of Stuttgart in 300 to 450 meters altitude in the

Keuper The Keuper is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe. The Keuper consists of dolomite, shales or claystones and evaporites that were deposited during the Middle and Late T ...

hill landscape '' Berglen ''. Berglen im Rems-Murr-Kreis

Constituent communities

The municipality Berglen consists of the following nine districts: Bretzacker, Hößlinswart, Barrenhardt, Öschelbronn, Oppelsbohm, Reichenbach near Winnenden, Rettersburg, Steinach, Vorderweißbuch.

Space division

Total 2587 ha * 879 ha = 34,0 % forest * 1352ha = 52,3 % agriculture * 10 ha = 0,4 % recovery area * 8 ha = 0,3 % water * 162 ha = 6,1 % buildings * 158 ha = 6,1 % traffic area * 17 ha = 0,7 % others .Statistisches Landesamt, Fläche seit 1988 nach tatsächlicher Nutzung
für Berglen.

Religions

Since the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

the area of Berglen has been predominantly

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

. There are Protestant churches in Oppelsbohm and Hößlinswart. The church in

Remshalden Remshalden is a municipality in the Rems-Murr district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Rems, 8 km east of Waiblingen, and 18 km east of Stuttgart. Twin towns The twin towns of Remshalden are: * Gournay-en ...

Buoch, to the south-west of ''Berglen'' is responsible for several districts.

Mayor

* Gerhard Schnabel, Mayor of the former municipalities of Vorderweißbuch and Oppelsbohm from 1964 to 1972, and mayor of Berglen from 1972 to 1996 * Wolfgang Schille, Mayor from 1996 to 2012 * Maximilian Friedrich, Mayor since 2012-09-13

Partnerships

Berglen has been in a partnership with Krögis, today part of

Käbschütztal Käbschütztal is a municipality in the district of Meißen, in Saxony, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, ...

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

since October 3, 1993.

Economy and infrastructure

Education

With the neighborhood school '' In the Berglen '' there is a primary and

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

with

Werkrealschule Werkrealschule is a relatively young branch of German secondary education (e.g. in Baden-Württemberg), which offers pupils additional lessons in grades 8 and 9 and allows them to qualify after ten years with a final exam which is equal to graduatio ...

. Moreover, Steinach and Vorderweißbuch have their own primary schools. Schools can be visited in the neighboring cities. For the youngest members of the community there are six municipal

nursery school A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, or play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary schoo ...

s, and also a private

forest kindergarten Forest kindergarten is a type of preschool education for children between the ages of three and six that is held almost exclusively outdoors. Whatever the weather, children are encouraged to play, explore and learn in a forest environment. The ad ...

Regular events

* The ''Richtfest'' takes place annually in the Erlenhof district, organized by the ''Berglesbond'' association, which was founded in 1992. * There is a Street festival by local clubs in the Hößlinswart district. * There is a Christmas market on the Saturday before the 3rd Sunday in Advent in the Birkenweißbuch district. * The ''Linde Festival'', organized by the Weißbuch Music Club (Musikverein), also takes place every year in the Birkenweißbuch district, usually in the first holiday weekend.

Personality

Freeman

* Werner Hofmann is the only honorary citizen of Berglen. The former school rector is the author of the chronicle and several native history books.

Sons and daughters of the town

* Friedrich von Klett (1781–1869), Württemberg administrative officer and Member of Parliament * Johann Georg Hildt (1785–1863), foreman and architect *

Georg Bernhard Bilfinger Georg Bernhard Bilfinger (23 January 1693 – 18 February 1750), German philosopher, mathematician and statesman, son of a Lutheran minister. Life He was born at Cannstatt in the Duchy of Württemberg. As a boy he showed great aptitude for stu ...

(1798–1872), lawyer and politician *

Hansel Mieth Hansel Mieth (1909–1998) was a German-born photojournalist who worked on the staff of LIFE Magazine. She was best known for her social commentary photography which recorded the lives of working class Americans in the 1930s and 1940s. Biograph ...

(1909–1998), German-American photojournalist * Jörg Hofmann (born 1955), trade unionist, president of

IG Metall IG Metall (; IGM; German: ''Industriegewerkschaft Metall'', "Industrial Union of Metalworkers'") is the dominant metalworkers' union in Germany, making it the country's largest union as well as Europe's largest industrial union. Analysts of Ge ...

Other people

* Otto Mörike (1897–1978), a resistance fighter against Nazism, who was a Lutheran pastor in Oppelsbohm, has been declared a member of

Righteous Among the Nations Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to sa ...

Manfred Winkelhock Manfred Winkelhock (6 October 1951 – 12 August 1985) was a German racing driver. He participated in 56 Formula One Grands Prix (with 47 starts) between 1980 and 1985, driving for Arrows, ATS, Brabham and RAM Racing, with a best finish of fi ...

(1951–1985), race driver, lived in the municipality until his death *

Denis Scheck Denis Scheck (born 15 December 1964) is a German literary critic, journalist, television presenter and former translator. Biography Born in Stuttgart, he studied German studies, contemporary history and political science at the universities o ...

(born 1964), German literary critic, translator and journalist, grew up in Bretzenacker

References

External links

* Rems-Murr-Kreis Württemberg {{RemsMurr-geo-stub