Kuppenheim

The height differences in the Kuppenheimer district ranges from 118 m in Won "Lower Eichel Plan" to 127 m in the city center to 297 meters in the Hirschacker.

In the hills of Kuppenheim you can see the cooling towers of the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Station, 50 km away, when the weather conditions are clear.

At that time it was the most important place in the Ufgau, a historical county of the Duchy of Franconia between the southern Ortenau and the northern Kraichgau.

In 1283, the city was sold to the Margraves of Baden by the Counts of Eberstein, whose power was declining, in order to address financial debts.

At that time, the pastor was Rector Franz Joseph Herr in Kuppenheim, an important clergyman who had both the city church and the Antonius chapel renovated or rebuilt.

Herr, presumably an illegitimate descendant of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, is an honorary citizen of the city of Kuppenheim.

The Prussian military was stationed in Kuppenheim as part of the siege against the federal fortress seized by revolutionaries at Rastatt.

According to legend, Kuppenheim was besieged at the time by the Swedes and, as the food supplies were slowly running out, a decision was made to execute a deception: everyone should collect all the flour and eggs in order to cook "Knöpfle", a kind of Spätzle.

As is customary for Jewish cemeteries, this too had to be set up at a distance from the town, in this case on the Mergelberg, directly above today's Schützenhaus.

Interesting or striking buildings of the city are: Favorite Castle and its park are only a few hundred meters from the edge of Kuppenheim, but it is owned by the District of Rastatt.

The city forest with its valleys and hills can be hiked on numerous paths, including up to the Alt-Eberstein castle ruin.

The most significant sports clubs in the city: An old Oberndorf legend exists of a forest woman named Riedelwiebel.

Riedelwiebel was a witch in the Riedel Valley (forest between Oberndorf and Kuppenheim) who allegedly guarded a golden calf buried at the highest elevation, called "Heidenburg".

The ferns are collected by the so-called dividers, made up of boys who took part in the Pentecostal ritual in the previous year.

The community evolved from a farming village to a modern city through various medium-sized companies: For example, until the post-war period, Kuppenheim was known as the "Badenese Suitcase-City" because of the Schaeuble suitcase factory, which no longer exists today.

Being situated in the technology region of Karlsruhe, between the automobile cities of Rastatt and Gaggenau and the Baden-Baden spa, was a significant factor to this.

Kuppenheim has a train station on the double-track section of the Kuppenheim–Bad Rotenfels section of the Murgtalbahn, on which, after electrification from 2000 to 2004, the S8 and S81 lines of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn operated by the AVG operates and connects to Rastatt without changing trains, Karlsruhe, Bruchsal, Menzingen, Odenheim, Gaggenau, Gernsbach, Forbach (Black Forest), Freudenstadt and Eutingen im Gäu station.

From the end of July to mid-October, the "Murgtäler" Radexpress stops in Kuppenheim on its journey from Ludwigshafen via Mannheim, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe to Freudenstadt.

From the Kuppenheim train station, buses of line 243, which are operated by Südwestbus, run directly to Baden-Baden and Augustaplatz.

There he was drafted into a military battalion in Indiana to fight in the American Civil War; he was discharged in 1862 due to injuries.

In 1865, Jonas left Bernhard to manage the Terre Haute operations and opened a new site Chicago, Illinois, where he eventually moved the corporate headquarters.

His wife Theresa Roos served as a nurse in various hospitals in both world wars and headed the DRK Sisters in Kuppenheim from 1935 to 1974.

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Remains of the city walls
Old town hall, built in 1730. View from the north
The new town hall on Friedensplatz (Peace Plaza)
Oxen path along the city wall
Mill Canal along Friedrichstrasse (Friedrich Street)
Oberndorf
St. Sebastian City Church
Holy Cross Church in the Oberndorf district
Event in front of the city wall at Oberen Torplatz
Pentecostal
Julius Kahn