Wittlingen

Wittlingen ( Alemannic Witt Lige ) is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden- Württemberg. The municipality Wittlingen except the homonymous village There are no other villages. The town is a member of Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Front Kander based in Binzen.

  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 municipal
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Economics

Geography

Geographical location

Whiting in the lower Kander in Markgraeflerland north of Lörrach. The municipality is located on the eastern edge of the Bamlach sound Bacher Lösshügellandes. The highest point of the municipality is located in the Gemarkungsexklave in Röttler forest with 571 meters above sea level. NN Won in the high state.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north by the district Wollbach the city Kandern, on the east by the county town of Lörrach, to the south and to the west by Rümmingen Schallbach.

Historical Geography

Within the area are the deserted village Crensheim and Outbound St. Martin's Church.

History

Archaeological finds suggest a first colonization by Alemanni, before the village came to 600 in Frankish hands.

Wittlingen was mentioned in 874 in a document of the monastery of St. Gall as Witringhove first time. In other documents appeared the names Witelichon and Wittlikeim before asserted itself today place name in the 16th century. The monastery had large landholdings in Wittlingen and the entire region, which was, however, lost in the Middle Ages as a result of the fighting with the Habsburgs to the bishopric of Basel and other lordships.

1503 came the village to the Margraviate of Baden and with this in 1806 to the newly founded Grand Duchy of Baden.

Fact that it was the pumpkin had to serve for the naming of the Carnival clique, is no accident. Because of this thick round greenhouse was preferably grown in the community a long time ago. In the famous manuscript of Röttler Oberamt man of Leutrum, that superior description of the Margraviate of the early 18th century, whiting is described as a village with many arms that feed puny and everything "grows to the fields, mats and vines to own highest call of nature " need. Literally wrote the margrave top managers: " The Wittlinger are called Chürbsenfresser, probably because of poverty and because they are particularly able to plant no better fruit."

Policy

Demographics

End of the 17th century, the population stood at around 160 inhabitants, by the end of the 18th century, it rose to about 240. The population development of Wittlingen the last 200 years is as follows:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a split front plate in gold ( yellow) a red oblique beams and thus refers to the membership of the state of Baden; behind a golden (yellow ) plowshare is shown on a blue background, symbolizing agriculture. The community leads the coat of arms since 1906 on the proposal of Baden General State Archives.

Parish council

The Wittlinger council consists of eight elected representatives of a constituency association, the last election was held on June 7, 2009. 100 % of the valid votes went to the constituency association; the voter turnout was 61.2 %. The council is faced with the Mayor Michael Herr.

Clubs

  • FC Wittlingen 1954 e.V.
  • Chürbse clique Wittlingen 1978 e.V.

Culture and sights

In the village center Witt Lingens the St Michael's Church, which was created 1772 to 1774 after plans by Wilhelm Jeremias Müller on the foundations of a Gothic hall church. She is considered the precursor of the little church in Karlsruhe. East of the church is the cemetery.

North of the church is the almost square, two-storey rectory. The Town Hall is from the 1930s at the intersection of Church and Town Hall Street.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

By 1983 Wittlingen was connected via the Kandertalbahn Haltingen to Kandern to the national rail network. Today it operates only a heritage railway, Chanderli called. The place is bus stop in public transport the SWEG.

Through the village runs along the Kander Valley the highway 134 connecting them with Binzen Kandern. From Rümmingen from the place on the highway 141 is connected to the A 98 on the junction Kandern to the national road network.

From the village branches off from the road the county road 6344 over a small mountain pass, called Wittliger Buck ( 437 meters above sea level. NN. ) Toward Haagen and front meadow valley from. In the settlement area of ​​the heap village-like situation, the streets form a quadrangle.

Economy

Until well into the mid 20th century Wittlingen was a strong dominantly agricultural village. The agricultural area of 163 hectares in 1895 grew it to 180 hectares in 1930 until it leveled off after a few swings to 142 hectares in 1985. The grassland area was which 44 hectares and 83 hectares of arable land. Most important branches of agriculture were the cultivation of grain, the cultivation of root crops and fruit growing. In the second half of the 19th century, especially the livestock expanded.

To date, Wittlingen has no industry and few craft shops. 1895 was organized in seven commercial establishments twelve people. Biggest commercial steel construction company established in 1961 was a company that went bankrupt in 1993. Also, the service and tourism sector is only weakly pronounced in Wittlingen. Markets have never formed in Wittlingen.

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