Schriesheim

History

* 1480: ~ 900-1.000 * 1565: ~ 1.000-1.100 * 1610: ~ 1.100-1.250 * 1630: ~ 500-600 (huge loss by the Thirty Years' War) * 1644: 0 (village abandoned in the Thirty Years' War) * 1650: ~ 150 (village resettled after the war) * 1698: 832 (influx of immigrants after the war) * 1727: 1.172 * 1783: 1.764 * 1809: 2.051 * 1830: 2.831 * 1852: 2.796 (mass emigration to the US) * 1858: 2.707 (mass emigration to the US) * 1871: 2.690 (mass emigration to the US) * 1890: 2.654 (mass emigration to the US) * 1900: 2.990 (emigration mostly over) * 1919: 3.383 * 1925: 3.815 * 1932: 4.128 * 1939: 4.289 * 1945: 5.220 (December, influx of German refugees from the East) * 1946: 5.782 (June, influx of German refugees from the East) * 1955: 6.169 * 1963: 7.811 * 27 May 1970: 10.386 (population census, expansion of the area) * 1 February 1974: 11.605 * 25 May 1987: 12.913 (population census) * 31 December 1999: 13.977 * 31 December 2002: 14.285 * 31 December 2006: 14.647 * 31 December 2018: 15.081

Geography

Schriesheim lies on the Bergstraße, at the western edge of the Odenwald, on the small river Kanzelbach. It is 4 km east of Ladenburg, 14 km east of Mannheim and 8 km north of Heidelberg. The subdivision of Altenbach includes the village of Altenbach, the hamlet of Kohlhof and the Röschbach homestead. The subdivision of Schriesheim includes the town of Schriesheim, the site of the Stam(m)berg retirement community and the houses of the Schriesheim farm. Ursenbach consists of the village of Ursenbach and the Ursenbach farm. In Altenbach, the villages of Ringes und Hohenöd have recently sprung up.[3] Altenbach is located 7 km east of the main town of Schriesheim in the Odenwald, right at the headwaters of the Kanzelbach stream, which there is called the Altenbach, the same name as the town (Alten Bach means "old stream"). Similarly, Ursenbach, which is located 3 km northwest of Altenbach and is also in the Odenwald, is named after a stream of the same name which flows into the Altenbach before the latter turns into the Kanzelbach and flows through Schriesheim. The town of Schriesheim consists of three districts: Schriesheim itself, Altenbach and Ursenbach. These districts are geographically identical to the former municipalities of the same name. The latter two parts are located in the Odenwald. With the exception of Schriesheim itself, the official designations are "Schriesheim, Teilort von ...". At the same time, these districts are residential districts in the sense of the municipal code of Baden-Württemberg. This means that each part of the village has its own municipal council and its own head of the village to regulate its affairs.[2] The Altenbach district comprises the village of Altenbach, the hamlet of Kohlhof and the farmstead of…

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,797
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,110
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,104
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,076
• Zoropsid spider

  Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour, 1820) · Arachnida
  5,542
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,493
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  4,557
• Rose-ringed Parakeet

  Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) · Aves
  4,462

Most recent

• M 3.6 — 2014-05-17
  2 km ESE of Pfungstadt, Germany
• M 3.4 — 2010-12-23
  4 km WNW of Mainz, Germany
• M 3.4 — 2010-06-29
  3 km NW of Hochheim am Main, Germany
• M 2.8 — 2008-11-25
  1 km S of Steinmauern, Germany
• M 2.8 — 2008-04-16
  5 km NNE of Bornich, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-03-07
  1 km N of Simmersfeld, Germany