Weilheim, Baden-Württemberg
Weilheim is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden- Württemberg.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 partnerships
- 5.1 Attractions
- 5.2 Sports
- 5.3 personalities
- 5.4 Education
Geography
Location
Weilheim ( Baden) is located in southern Baden- Württemberg on the southern edge of the forest landscape Hotze / Hotze of the forest. The municipality is bordered to the south by the district of Waldshut -Tiengen. Here flows the High Rhine, a section of the Rhine, which forms the border with Switzerland.
Other neighboring municipalities are Albbruck, Höchenschwand and Uhlingen birch village.
Community structure
The municipality Weilheim include the former municipalities Bannholz, Bierbronnen, Nöggenschwiel and Remetschwiel.
For the former municipality Bannholz include the village Bannholz, the hamlet Aisperg and Ay, Ay addition of the tines and the homestead on the farm. For the former municipality Bierbronnen includes the villages Bierbronnen ( upper and lower ) and pipe, the hamlet Heubach and the homestead Löchlemühle. For the former municipality Nöggenschwiel the village Nöggenschwiel and the house Fohrenbach include (s) mill, the former municipality Remetschwiel the villages Remetschwiel and Brunnadern and the living space Waldhaus. The municipality Weilheim in the borders of 1974, the villages Weilheim, Bourguillon and Dietlingen and the hamlet Schnörringen.
In the territory of the former municipality Bierbronnen is the deserted village Wislangen. In the territory of the former municipality in 1279, there are two mentioned Outbound castles and deserted Oberwihl. The 1276 first mentioned locality Haselbach has risen the villages Weilheim and Indlekofen, further lie in the municipality of Weilheim in the borders of 1974, the disposed castles Gutkrenkingen and Isnegg.
To the north of the district Nöggenschwiel is the castle Leinegg.
History
Weilheim, as witness to and protohistoric finds an ancient settlement land.
The first mention of Aisperg place in the year 890, Weilheim itself was first mentioned in 929 as Wilhaim documented. Older still is the 871 testified in a document of the monastery Rheinau district Bannholz, which was the seat of the bailiff in the middle ages. From the 780 meter high Gupfen the Alps can be seen. The village Weilheim- Remetschwiel to have been built on the foundations of still older and a Roman settlement.
Until the last century was a large surface area of wine to Weilheim grown. The now set viticulture reached far back into the Middle Ages. In 1351 the monks of St. Blaise had alone in Weilheim four vineyards. 1383 a cloister in Nöggenschwiel is mentioned, which included an extensive Rebgarten.
Today, however, the rose is the focal point of the community. Since 1970, the 1279 villa Noecherswiler first mentioned district Nöggenschwiel leads with over 20,000 rose bushes the title "Rose village in the Black Forest " and won the 1965 nationwide competition Our village is beautiful. This led to a boom in tourism.
In the 18th century there was a wave of emigration to Hungary in the 19th century in the United States. Today's church was re- formed on 1 January 1975 by the Association of Municipalities Weilheim, Bannholz, Bierbronnen, Nöggenschwiel and Remetschwiel.
Near the municipality of Weilheim are the remains of the castle Well - Krenkingen, a motte castle from the 12th century.
Policy
Parish council
The local elections of 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
Partnerships
Weilheim maintains since 1992 a community partnership with the municipality of Baden (Morbihan ), Brittany.
Economy
In the district of Waldhaus the private brewery Waldhaus is located.
Culture
Attractions
Weilheim benefited with its position on the wave to the Upper Rhine in the south abdachenden plateau of Hotze forest on the one hand by the Alps and on the other by the scenic contrast to the large canyons Schwarza and Schlücht.
The upper waterfall of Haselbaches east of Indlekofen (see waterfalls in Germany ) crashes at the bottom of a small ravine with a compact beam twelve feet deep in a nearly circular rock pools. ( Not to be confused with the hazel pool)
With the Lower waterfall of Haselbach crashes through a short gorge -like gap nine feet deep in the devil boiler just before the confluence with the Schlücht.
The Hohfluhfelsen east Nöggenschwiel provides a barrier-free accessible depth look at the Schwarzatal with the Bannwald the Berauer heap (municipality Uhlingen birch village) and the reservoir Witznau up to Schlüchttal.
When construction work at a brewery that took place between 1988 and 1990 at Waldhaus, (early Middle Triassic) were discovered several bones in the upcoming multi layers of the Upper Buntsandstein, which were spent for the purpose of scientific treatment in the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. Among the remains found belong to different species of fish and a reptile specimen, which was first held antiquus for a young animal of the species Tanystropheus. Later studies revealed, however, that this piece can only be classified as unspecified finite representatives of Tanystropheidae family due to an unfavorable conservation. Furthermore, there were bones of a purely land-living ancestors of today's crocodiles, a so-called " Rauisuchiers " to light. They are very similar to those of the " Rauisuchiers " Ctenosauriscus koeneni. The latter is as a producer of a special, large variation of Ichnospezies Chirotherium sickleri, as found for example in hardware Home, suspected.
Sports
Trails and bike paths connect the various hamlets.
Personalities
- August Peifer SJ ( born October 29, 1877 in Ay, † May 28, 1919 ), priest, theologian and philosopher
Education
The Gustav- Siewerth Academy was a 1988 state-recognized institution of higher education in private. In June 2013, the college was removed by the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Science, Theresia Bauer state recognition because she was with her part-time academic staff, annually 12000-26000 euros would be spent on this, not a sustainable university structure vorzuhalten able. It was founded by Alma von Stockhausen, which is still Dean of the Academy. The Academy teaches in the fields of philosophy, sociology, journalism, philosophy of science, Catholic theology and education.