Deizisau
Deizisau is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It belongs to the Stuttgart Region (until 1992 "Region Mittlerer Neckar") and the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region. Deizisau is located between the towns of Plochingen and Esslingen am Neckar, about 20 kilometers southeast of Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg. The river Neckar flows through this town. Geography. Geographical situation. Deizisau is located on the left hillside of the Neckar-valley shortly after the "Neckarknie" in Plochingen where the river changes direction from northeast to northwest. At the western border of Deizisau, the Körsch flows  into the Neckar; in the east a part of the "Plochinger Kopf" above the river knee lies inside the boundary. Town outline. No other villages except for the small town Deizisau belong to the Deizisau municipality. Inside the boundary of the municipality lies the abandoned village Kersch. Neighbouring towns. Adjoining municipalities are in the north Altbach, in the northeast Plochingen, in the southeast Wernau, in the south Köngen, in the southwest Denkendorf and in the northwest Esslingen am Neckar. History. Chronicle. When it was settled in the 8th century, the area belonged to the "Lorsch Abbey an der Bergstraße". The  settlement was mentioned for the first time as "Dizinsowe" in a deed of the monastery Sirnau in the year 1268. Back then there was the medieval castle Körschburg on the boundary of Deizisau. Their robber barons did attack the merchants on the trading road in the Neckar valley regularly. They were banished by Württemberg in 1292 and the castle was destroyed. The town itself belonged to the patrician family "Bürgermeister" from the free imperial city Esslingen since 1296 and did enter into the possession of the Esslinger Katharinenhospitals through purchase in the year 1411. The old church of Deizisau was  broken down because of its unsafe condition in 1495. It was then replaced by today's Protestant church. Thereby the church tower which had been constructed as a fortified tower was taken over from the old church. In 1532 the Reformation was introduced in Deizisau through the Katharinenhospital. In the second half of the 16. century Deizsau became posting house on the first continuously run post line in the Holy Roman Empire, which back then headed from Venice to Antwerp. The first namely known postmaster was in the year 1585 Carlin Taxis, who descended the postal entrepreneurial family Thurn und  Taxis. Some of his descendants still live in Deizisau today which is why Taxis is one of the most common last names. At the beginning of the 17th century it raged at first the black death, killing 31 people in 1608, then the mercenary arms of the Thirty Years' War. Had the town counted 275 inhabitants in 1618, only 140 people were alive in Deizisau at the end of the war. Even the posting house was lost again during this period. Deizisau did belong to the domain of the free imperial city Esslingen since the Middle Ages. Because of the  rearrangement of Germany by Napoleon as a consequence of the German mediatization it became württembergian. In the 19. century Deizisau was on the one hand spared from war destruction but instead, it suffered from severe famine. Only for a short time after the end of the Coalition Wars a worldwide climate disaster happened following the eruption of a volcano in Indonesia in 1816, the so-called Year Without a Summer. In Deizisau it rained for 75 days in a row, hail destroyed the fields and the little harvest left could partly only be brought in after Christmas. The consequence was  one of the most severe famines in the history of Deizisau. More bad harvests followed in the years from 1852 to 1855. In total 135 citizens left the town in those four hunger years to emigrate to the United States. On a rise in the Rotfeld between Deizisau and Köngen the famines are still reminded of through the hunger lime planted in the year 1833. In 1845 the first schoolhouse was built in Deizisau (nowadays a kindergarten), in 1908 a new one was built in Bismarck street. Nowadays the since then enhanced building complex contains the primary and common school . "Sirnau", which till then belonged to Deizisau territory was traded against an annuity payment with Esslingen in 1928. The World War II and thereby the era of Nazism ended in Deizisau on April 22, 1945, with the march-in of the American troops. Following the war a lot of expellees were accepted and integrated. The town developed from a town still heavily shaped by farming to a community with a lot of industry which was able to obtain its independence throughout the local government reorganizations of the seventies. Not least because of the strong communal self-confidence of its citizens . Religion. From the reformation until the end of the Second World War, Deizisau was mostly evangelical. Thereafter, through the settlement of a lot of expellees, an additional Catholic community developed together with the neighboring village Altbach. The Catholic church Klemens-Maria-Hofbauer-Kirche was inaugurated in 1960. Moreover, Deizisau has a United Methodist church community, which has her Christ chapel in the Klingenstraße as house of prayer. The community of the Jehovah's Witnesses gathers itself in their Kingdom Hall in the Sirnauer Straße. Demographics. The number are estimates, from 1850 until 1970 the result from censuses and since 1980  the result of official updates from the Statistical State Office Baden-Württemberg: Politics. Mayors since 1819. The municipal administrators were called Schultheiße in Württemberg until 1930 and only afterwards referred to as Bürgermeister. Until 1898 the municipal administrators of Deizisau were Bauernschultheiße (farmers who additionally worked as municipal administrators). With the exception of the time directly at the end of the Second World War ever since then administration specialists headed the community. Municipal council. The municipal council of Deizisau has 18 members. The communal elections at the 25. May 2014 lead to the following official results:. The municipal council consists  of the elected honorary council members and the mayor as its chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote. Heraldry. Blazoning: In a divided shield, in front in gold a red flag with three bibs, in the back in red a golden duck foot. The from the observers side left part of the herald shows the banner of the County Palatine of Tübingen Tübingen. It is derived from the St. Katharinen-Spital in Esslingen, who not only possessed Deizisau for several centuries but additionally the villages Möhringen and Vaihingen a. d. Fildern taken over from the County Palatine of Tübingen. The  origin of the duck leg on the right half of the herald on the other hand is unknown. The colours of the herald, red and gold, are the colours of the patrician family "Bürgermeister von Deizisau", who owned Deizisau for a time during the Middle Ages. Sister cities. Since 1991 an inner German partnership exists with Neukieritzsch in Saxony. Economy and infrastructure. Transportation. Deizisau has a good Connection to the traffic system through the Bundesstraße 10, the proximity to the Bundesautobahn 8 and direct access to the Stuttgart S-Bahn in the neighbouring towns Altbach and Plochingen. Additionally Plochingen Station  is connected with frequent regional trains as well as several intercity connections. Right after the Station the main line Plochingen–Tübingen railway separates from the main line to Ulm and Munich, called the Fils Valley Railway. die , die Nähe zur und die Neckar-Schifffahrt. The local public transport is covered through the VVS bus lines 143 (to Plochingen) and 104 (to Esslingen). The Neckar river is made navigable to Plochingen Harbour by the Deizisau Barrage. Education. Deizisau has a Primary School on which since School year 2013/2014 a Gemeinschaftsschule (non-denominational school) builds. The Folk high school Esslingen am Neckar  has a branch in Deizisau. Recreational and sports facilities. Small Sports center "Hintere Halde:" Football, Tennis and Outdoor Basketball fields. In an area next to the "Bundesstrasse 10: Hermann-Ertinger" sports hall and Übungshalle, football field, public heated open-air pool (1938: first public open-air pool in the Eßlingen District) Small school gymnasium, several small public football fields and playgrounds spread across the town. Culture and sights. Buildings. Evangelical church. According to an inscription on its gallery the late gothic church was dedicated in 1495. This date is indeed not founded on documents, but a dentochronological research in 1982  showed that the wood used for the truss was cut between 1494 and 1495. The church tower dates back from a predecessor building first mentioned in 1353. Inside the church stands a Winged altarpiece from the last decade of the 15th century. The art historian Hans Rott awards it to the painter "Matthias Ulin-Wolf dem Jüngeren" († 1536) from Esslingen and states that until 1811 it belonged the "Katharinenhospital Esslingen" chapel, which was then torn down. The winged altarpiece shows on the inside the saints Agnes und Saint Christopher, on the outside the motif of the emission of the apostles . Moreover, worth watching are the four church windows designed by "Hans Gotted von Stockhausen". The southern side window was inaugurated in 1961. The three chancel windows are from 1982. Personalities. Personalities who have lived or worked in Deizisau. People who were not born in Deizisau, but lived or live in Deizisau: