Ettenheim ( Low Alemannic : Äddene ) is a city in the Ortenaukreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany .
11-698: Ettenheim was founded in the 8th century by Eddo, bishop of Strasbourg , and the Benedictine abbey of Ettenheimmünster [ de ] was founded at about that time. Ettenheim received town rights in the 13th century from the Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg , whose territory on the right bank of the Rhine Ettenheim would form the center of until 1803, when it was mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Baden . Karlsruhe assigned Ettenheim to
22-541: A field of white . This pattern was designed in 1901 by the Karlsruhe General State Archives [ de ] after a seal from 1545, though the tincture was decided in 1973. Since 1370, local town seals had depicted a Gothic structure with three towers and a crenelated wall, a reference to Ettenheim's defenses. Ettenheim is connected to Germany's network of roadways by Bundesautobahn 5 and Bundesstraße 3 , which pass through
33-530: Is " Cfb " (Marine West Coast Climate/ Oceanic climate ), though it is close to being " humid subtropical climate " due to the mean temperatures in July and August just under 22 °C. Ettenheim has five boroughs ( Stadtteile ): Altdorf, Ettenheim, Ettenheimmünster [ de ] , Münchweier, and Wallburg [ de ] . The coat of arms of Ettenheim displays a castle in red , with an open gate and three towers (one domed) topped with crosses, upon
44-649: Is a district in the west of Karlsruhe between the city center and the older district of Mühlburg . The most famous part of the district is the avenue Kaiserallee . The area south of the Kaiserallee was an industrial area from the Gründerzeit era, where the first gasworks and the beer cellars of the Karlsruhe breweries were located, which then also moved their increasingly industrial production facilities here. The dense Art Nouveau residential development that
55-557: Is physically located in the Middle Upper Rhineland Lowlands [ de ] . The main watercourse in the municipal area is the Ettenbach , which, at the municipality's western border, marks its lowest elevation above sea level at 165 meters (541 ft) Normalnull (NN). The highest elevation, 543 meters (1,781 ft) NN, is found in the municipality's northeast, in the buntsandstein mountains of
66-654: The Central Black Forest around Lahr . In the foothills of those mountains that fall within Ettenheim's municipal area are the wetlands of the Seltenbach , which are protected as the Saure Matten [ de ] nature reserve . Ettenheim's climate has mild differences between its highs and lows, with adequate year-round rainfall. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate
77-775: The Rathaus West (city hall), followed by the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (state archive), the Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe (court), the Justizvollzugsanstalt Karlsruhe (prison, designed by Josef Durm in 1897 in the style of an Italian palazzo with consideration for the surroundings), the municipal psychiatry and the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe . The northern part is crossed by
88-473: The city. The Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway passes through the municipality to the west of Ettenheim itself. The next train station Orschweier is about 1 mile away. Bishop of Strasbourg These persons were bishop , archbishop or prince-bishop of the Archdiocese of Strasbourg (including historically Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg ): Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe Weststadt
99-405: The district of Mahlberg , but then in 1809 made it the seat of its own district until 1824. In 1939, Ettenheim was assigned to Landkreis Lahr [ de ] , which was replaced by the 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform [ de ] with the district of Ortenau . Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien took refuge here in 1801 after he was suspected in a plot against Napoleon . He
110-399: Was added later has shaped this area to this day, even after the industry moved away. On the site of today's Gutenbergplatz there was initially an execution site until 1829, then a shooting range for the military from 1867 to 1898. The northern part was a government and residential area from the beginning and has remained so to this day. The striking beginning at Mühlburger-Tor-Platz is
121-594: Was arrested on 15 March 1804 and later executed in Paris . Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné , Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg, also lived here from 1790 and plotted a counter-revolution from the city. He is buried in the local Catholic church. The township ( Stadt ) of Ettenheim lies on the southern edge of the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg , along the former's border with the Emmendingen district . Ettenheim
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