Eisingen is a municipality in the district of Enz in

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. It is situated on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route and contains no other villages.

History

Eisingen became a possession of the

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in late 1495. It was governed by the district of

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until 1803, when it was reassigned to the district of Stein. Stein's district was dissolved on 25 May 1821 and Eisingen returned to Pforzheim's jurisdiction. On 25 June 1939 the district was reorganized as the . On 1 March 1985, the Federally-protected nature preserve was created and is mostly located inside Eisingen.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Eisingen covers of the Enz district of the

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and the Federal Republic of Germany. It is physically located on the , on the southern reaches of the Kraichgau. The primary watercourse in Eisingen is the Gennenbach, a tributary of the Kämpfelbach. The lowest elevation above sea level in the municipal area is

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(NN) at the Untere Herrschaftswiesen. The highest elevation is the top of the Heidenkeller, at NN.

Politics

In the , Eisingen had a voter turnout of 47.2% (compared to 50.6% in 2009) that bought the Eisingen Free Voter's Association eight seats with 55.15% of the vote and the CDU six seats with the remainder. The mayor, Roland Bauer since December 2013, is entitled to a vote on the municipal council.

Coat of arms

Eisingen's municipal

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depicts a plowshare in

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above a

silver Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...

-bladed billhook on a field of red. The plowshare and the billhook reference town's history of

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, and were used on local boundary stones. The first municipal coat of arms was granted by the Margraves of Baden in 1497 and featured a plowshare and a billhook. The present pattern was adopted in 1902 with the

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of the

Grand Duchy of Baden The Grand Duchy of Baden () was a German polity on the east bank of the Rhine. It originally existed as a sovereign state from 1806 to 1871 and later as part of the German Empire until 1918. The duchy's 12th-century origins were as a Margravia ...

on the suggestion of the .

References

External links

Official Webpage

Bertha Benz Memorial Route
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