Wildberg, Baden-Württemberg
Wild Mountain is a town in the district of Calw in Baden- Württemberg.
- 2.1 religions
- 2.2 Population development
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 traffic
- 4.2 Educational facilities
- 5.1 Museums
- 5.2 associations
- 5.3 Structures
- 5.4 Regular events
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical location
Wild Mountain is located in the Nagoldtal in 350-630 meters altitude. The old town nestles in a Ω -shaped loop of the river.
Boroughs
To town Wildenberg the boroughs Effringen, Gültlingen, Schönbronn and Sulz am Eck belong. To Effringen heard the village Effringen, the homestead Trölleshof and the houses brick cottage, which form a structural unit with Effringen. To Gültlingen heard the village Gültlingen, the homestead hazel stable and the houses Lerchenberg, Upper paper mill, paper mill and Lower Lower sawmill. For the following parts of Schönbronn and Sulz am Eck each include only the villages of the same name. To town Wildenberg in the borders of 1970 is one of the city Wildenberg, the former monastery Reutin and the courts Käpfleshöfe and Kengelhöfe. In the territory of the former municipality Gültlingen are the deserted villages and hamlets Berfeldingen and Outbound castle Gaisburg and in the former municipality Sulz am Eck is the deserted hamlet.
History
In Gültlingen the grave of the Alemanni nobleman was found from the Migration Period ( dating to about 460-480 AD). Among the grave goods was a magnificent Spangenhelm and a Goldgriffspatha. The finds are now housed in the Landesmuseum Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. Such weapons were reserved for the elite, which indicates a significant position of the place in this early period.
Wildenberg was mentioned in a document in 1237 for the first time when it came to the Counts of Hohenberg of the rule of the Count Palatine of Tübingen. 1364 Wildenberg was kurpfälzisch and 1440 to Württemberg. It was until 1807 the seat of a Württemberg Office. 1618, the castle was after a fire that broke out as a result of a lightning strike destroyed. It was only in 1698 rebuilt as a castle and destroyed during an air raid on 22 February 1945.
Founded in 1838, originally from Simmozheim pastor Karl Georg Haldenwang ( 1803-1862 ) in wild mountain with the "rescue home for feeble-minded children," the first handicapped educational facility in southern Germany.
The present city was formed on 1 January 1975 by combining the city and the wild mountain communities Effringen, Gültlingen and Sulz am Eck new. Already on 1 April 1971 Schönbronn was incorporated into wild mountain.
Religions
Wild Mountain is dominated Protestant since the Reformation. The Protestant churches of wild mountain and the districts Effringen, Schönbronn, Gültlingen and Sulz am Eck belong to the church district Nagold. The Catholic Church Wildenberg belongs to the parish of St. Peter and Paul Nagold and thus to Seelsorgeeinheit Upper Nagoldtal and deanery Calw.
Population Development
¹ According to Statistical Office of Baden -Württemberg; to 1970 census results, from 1975 updates as of December 31 of the year.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " In a divided shield up in a lying black silver deer bar below in red, the silver Latin capital letter W. "
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Wild Mountain is the Nagold Valley Railway ( Pforzheim - Tübingen - Horb am Neckar) connected to the national rail network.
Buses to Gaertringen and Herrenberg leave every hour, so there is connection to the S -Bahn Stuttgart and Ammertalbahn direction Tübingen and Reutlingen.
The main thoroughfare is the also the course of the following Nagoldtal Federal Highway 463 is reached via the lead to Deckenpfronn and Gaertringen past highway L357 and L358 on the Sulz am Eck and Mr. Berg is the A81 in a few minutes.
On 4 May 2009, launched on preliminary three years, especially for the elderly and handicapped people designed, pilot project city bus. A mini low- sources, Israeli connects all parts of Wild Mountain in the period of 7 bis 18 clock clock together. On certain stretches of maintenance is possible on request. The city bus is collectively involved in the transport company baths Calw district by train and local buses.
Educational institutions
Wild Mountain has an elementary and secondary school, which are summarized in the "Education Center Wildenberg ". There is also in the core city and the districts Effringen, Sulz am Eck and Gültlingen each primary school.
Culture and sights
Museums
The urban history museum located in the former convent Reuthin.
Clubs
- Liederkranz Schönbronn: Mixed Choir, founded in 1899, about 35 active singers.
- Stadtkapelle Wildenberg: Approx. 40 active musicians founded, 1884
Structures
- Castles in ruins
- Remains of the wall with witches tower and tower arrest. The Witches' Tower was designated a monument Baden- Württemberg to the " Monument of the Month February 2007".
- Church ( built in 1464 )
- City Hall (1480 built )
- Marktbrunnen
- Hirschbrücke
- Church in Effringen
- Lützen gorge
- Monastery Reuthin
On the Lerchenberg, at the district border to Deckenpfronn, is the radio station of the National Police Directorate Lerchenberg Karlsruhe. It includes a 81 meter high telecommunications tower and an underground bunker.
Regular events
The former Mansion Duke Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg, built in 1723 for the procurement profession constant concern of the shepherd called a side load to the main charge in Markgroningen. Since that time, the Schäferlauf always takes place on the third weekend in July in even-numbered years in wild mountain place, a customs and heritage festival around the sheep. Will open the shepherd running with the home game " The Shepherd Convent and the Devil Puppeteer " by Eugen Memminger. This piece was premiered in 1954 by the amateur theater crowd.
Personalities
In the 16th century Württemberg reformer Andreas Cellarius worked in Wildenberg as pastor.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Albert Kappis (1836-1914), painter and lithographer
- Georg Jacob Roller (1774-1857), educator and founder of a deaf and dumb school in Friedberg ( Hessen)
- Dieter Dengler (1938-2001), American fighter pilot
- Nestle Werner (* 1939 in the district Gültlingen ), special educator and professor at the universities of teacher education Reutlingen and Ludwigsburg
Others
After the city Wildenberg the asteroid wild mountain is named, was discovered at the observatory Wildenberg 2005.
The most prominent citizens of the city are the actor couple Walter Schultheiss and Trudel Smudge.