Eppingen - Eppingen

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Eppingen
federal stateBaden-Wuerttemberg
Residents
21.819 (2019)
height
199 m
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Eppingen

Eppingen is a city in Kraichgau in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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Market square and town hall Eppingen

Eppingen

Eppingen was first mentioned in a document in 985 and was probably made a town as early as 1192. In 1462 it came to the Electoral Palatinate. After a heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries, the 17th century brought hardship and misery with the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the Palatinate War of Succession (1688-1697). From 1693 on, the imperial troops were here under the margrave Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden, the Türkenlouis. The Eppinger Lines, a line of defense from Pforzheim via Eppingen to Neckargemünd, still bear witness to this today.

From 1803 Eppingen came to Baden, in 1879 there was a connection to the railway network to Karlsruhe, 1880 to Heilbronn and from 1899 via Sinsheim to Heidelberg. The district reform of 1973 assigned Eppingen to the district of Heilbronn, the formerly independent communities Adelshofen, Elsenz, Kleingartach, Mühlbach, Richen and Rohrbach were incorporated. Today Eppingen is a major district town with around 22,000 inhabitants, almost half of whom live in the central town.

Districts

  • Mühlbach: In the 14th century, Eppingen acquired the hamlets of Ober- and Untermühlbach, which were still separate at the time. It wasn't until 1810 that Mühlbach, which had now grown together, became an independent municipality again. In the following decades sandstones were quarried and hewn in numerous quarries, Mühlbach became widely known as a stone carving village, as the stone carving museum in the old town hall attests to. Even today there are still a few stonemasons in Mühlbach. The place was incorporated by Eppingen in 1972.
  • Allotment roof: The place is on the Lein, it once belonged to Baden and came to Württemberg in 1380. Kleingartach is a wine-growing place, it belongs to the Heuchelberg area and thus to the Württemberg wine-growing region.

getting there

Neighboring places
Oestringen 22 kmSinsheim 17 kmBad Rappenau 22 km
Kraichtal 18 kmCardinal points.pngSchwaigern 12 km
Kürnbach 10 kmGüglingen 14 kmBrackenheim 17 km
Former St. Catherine's Chapel

By plane

The nearest airports are the Stuttgart AirportWebsite of this institutionStuttgart Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaStuttgart Airport in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsStuttgart Airport (Q158732) in the Wikidata database(IATA: STR) and the airport FrankfurtWebsite of this institutionFrankfurt Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaFrankfurt Airport in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsFrankfurt Airport (Q46033) in the Wikidata database(IATA: FRA).

By train

The 1 Eppingen station is on the railway line between Karlsruhe (approx. 1 hour) and Heilbronn (approx. 1/2 hour travel time), the line belongs as S4 to the Karlsruhe Transport Association.To Sinsheim there is also a train connection, journey time approx. 25 minutes. The line has been part of the rail link since December 13, 2009 S5 the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn.

In the street

  • The federal highway B293 leads in a northerly direction around Eppingen and connects the city with Karlsruhe and Boards in the west and Heilbronn in the East.
  • The next motorway entrances are at the A6 the Symbol: AS 33 Sinsheim (16 km), the Symbol: AS 34 Sinsheim rows (12 km), or the Symbol: AS 35 Bad Rappenau (18 km).

Eppingen is on the German half-timbered street

mobility

Map of Eppingen
Baumann's house

Tourist Attractions

Buildings

  • The 1 Pfeifferturm, 22 m high, formerly an official prison, is a landmark of the city
  • The is just a few meters away 2 Old University , during the plague years of 1564/65 a part of the Heidelberg University was relocated here.
  • The 3 Baumann's house, a very beautiful half-timbered building at the old town hotel "Wilde Rose"
  • 4 Kath city churchOur Lady
  • The ex Catherine Chapel with a 10 m long mural Dance of death right next to the parish church
  • 5 Town hall with market square
  • In total there are well over 100 half-timbered buildings in the city
  • 6 Evangelical town church
  • The 7 Pilgrimage chapel on the Ottilienberg
  • The old 8 Town hall in Mühlbach, The stones of the defiant-looking Art Nouveau building bear witness to the transition from Kraichgau to Stromberg and Hypocritical mountain.

Museums

  • City and half-timbered museum in the old university, open daily 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., closed Mon, Tue, free admission, exhibitions: prehistory and early history, pre-industrial living and working, on the history of beer, history of the fire brigade, lapidarium with the work of local stonemasons: coats of arms, boundary stones etc.
  • Steinhauermuseum Mühlbach, main street in the Mühlbach district, open May-October on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., free admission. The work of the local stone carvers is conveyed in the former town hall. A sandstone path with numerous stone carvings begins directly at the town hall square.
Pfeifferturm
  • 9 Richen Farm Museum , Hintere Gasse in the Richen district, open May-October on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., free admission. In a former barn is a collection of agricultural equipment, kitchen, living room and bedroom from pre-industrial times are shown.
  • 10 Local history and tobacco museum Elsenz in the old town hall in the Elsenz district, open from May to October on the 1st Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., admission is free.
  • 11 Weinbaustube Kleingartach in the wine-growing town of Kleingartach, Heuchelberg area
  • The 12  Raußmühle, Sulzfelder Weg 40, 75031 Eppingen.

various

  • The 13 Truss path. Typical examples of half-timbered buildings such as the Franconian male or the Alemannic woman.
  • The 14 Charter of the Eppinger Lines, replica of a fortification tower.

activities

  • 1 Jägersee on the Eppinger Waldfühlpfad
  • 2 Mühlbacher See , used as a bathing lake
  • 15 Elsenzer See

shop

kitchen

Old University

accommodation

health

Practical advice

Half-timbered educational trail
  • Tourist information: City administration, market square, Tel. 07262 / 920-116

75031 is the postcode for all parts of the city

The phone code is

  • 07262 for Eppingen, Adelshofen, Mühlbach, Richen, Rohrbach a.G.
  • 07260 for Elsenz
  • 07138 for small garden roof

trips

literature

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