Wutöschingen

Wutoeschingen is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ).

Wutoeschingen is called in the local dialect " Öschingä ".

• 2.1 Amalgamations
• 2.2 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Structures 4.1.1 churches
• 4.1.2 Other Structures

• 5.2 Established businesses
• 5.3 energy
• 5.4 Media
• 5.5 Education
• 5.6 Public bodies

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 associated with the community personalities

Geography

Geographical location

Wutoeschingen is located on the southeastern edge of the Black Forest in 365-583 meters above sea level, only a few kilometers from the district town of Waldshut- Tiengen. In the east Wutoeschingen borders the Unterklettgau and thus to Switzerland ( Canton of Schaffhausen ). Guideline for the villages and inter-regional traffic is, as the name suggests, the valley of Wutach that flows towards south-southwest to the Rhine. From the bird's eye view results in a marked change between the valley with the villages, orchards and commercial space, a fairly steep rise and the plateaus with fields, farms and forests.

Community structure

The municipality Wutoeschingen with the former municipalities Degernau, Horheim, Ofteringen and Schwerzen includes 15 villages, hamlets, tine, farms and houses.

For the former municipality Degernau the village Degernau, the homestead Vogelhof include ( Vogelhöf ) and the living space Schattenmühle. For the former municipality Horheim the village Horheim, the tine farms ( Horheimerhöfe ) and the courtyards Hölzlehof include ( Linsenbodenhof ) and Löchlehof ( Hofgut Dornach ). For the former municipality Ofteringen the village Ofteringen and the living space Rewental include ( Reuental ). For the former municipality includes the villages Schwerzen Schwerzen and Willmendingen and the homestead Bohlhof. The municipality Wutoeschingen within the limits from 31 December 1974, the village Wutoeschingen, the settlement Silberwiese and the living space include houses on the main road.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are in the north, so Wutach upward Eggingen, in the east Unterklettgau, to the south and west Lauchringen Waldshut- Tiengen and Uhlingen birch village.

History

Like the Upper Rhine area and the Unterklettgau includes the lower Wutachtal due to the favorable climate to the populated since prehistoric periods. Stone axes of the Stone Age and smaller artifacts were found here. The dolmen of Degernau on the road between Degernau and Erzingen are also testimony such as that in the immediate vicinity of Menhir Degernau. In December 1933, a Roman bronze plaque was discovered in the center, probably a votive inscription containing a 70 to 100 AD in Vindonissa ( Windisch AG) stationed Legion. Of the Alemanni stone cist tombs date from around 600 to 700 AD, which have been found several times.

Wutoeschingen is the first time documented in a letter from the monastery to Detzeln, in 1110 as "Villa Essinun ". Schwerzen is in Rotulus Sanpetrinus (certificates from the monastery of St. Peter ) called for the first time in 1122 with a Adelbertus de Swerce. Willmendingen first mentioned in a cartulary of the monastery of St. Blaise in 1285 as Wilmundengen.

Incorporations

Today's Wutoeschingen was 1 January 1975 by the Municipality Reform Act by the Association of Municipalities Wutoeschingen, Horheim and Schwerzen. Also 1 January 1975 Degernau was incorporated. Ofteringen was incorporated on January 1, 1971.

Population Development

Wutoeschingen has 6611 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).

Policy

Wutoeschingen has teamed up with the neighboring community Eggingen to an Agreed administrative matters.

Parish council

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 resulted in a turnout of 43.4 % ( 1.2 ) to the following result:

Mayor

Mayor of Wutoeschingen is George Eble.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In gold over a lowered blue wave bar a fünfspeichiges black mill wheel. "

The new coat of arms, which was approved on 1 January 1977 by the county, accesses the Mühlradmotiv the Altgemeinde Wutoeschingen, but his statement is now made to the former existence of mills based in all five districts ( five spokes ). The wave beam brings the location of the municipality at the Wutach expressed.

The flag is striped blue and yellow.

The coat of arms of the former municipality Wutoeschingen shows in shared sign up in silver half black spoked water wheel at the division below in red toppled a golden plow. The Wutöschinger coat of arms took the place in 1906. This image ( probably a Mill Arms) found himself on a Coat of Arms Stein of 1611 at the village chapel.

Culture and sights

Structures

Churches

• In the Schwerzen in the style of the late - Baroque Roman Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist stands It was probably built in the years 1781-1791 according to a design by the Baroque architect Peter Thumb instead of a previous building including the former tower. Was foreman George Schutzger of St. Blaise. The equipment at the end of the Baroque period was not to exceed even by the year ending Rococo - it go here already the new elements of classicism. Kept quite yet in the Baroque style is the main altarpiece of the Kurtrierischen court painter Januarius Zick (1730-1797) with the theme " The baptism of Jesus by John in the Jordan ." There is an epitaph which of Beck on the side wall. The acquisition of Johann Balthasar Ferdinand step fur - Organ is the merit of Franz Sales Kirn, who was pastor of the parish church, 1952-1972 St. John the Baptist to Schwerzen.
• In 2002 was built on the Semberg near the castle a small chapel. Therein lies the alabaster coat of arms of the von Beck, which was acquired by antipendium the former castle chapel.
• In the capital Wutoeschingen is right in the center of the Catholic Church of St. Magdalene, which was completed in 1955. In the former center of the capital was the one used until 1959, Village Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene and James the Elder. , Inaugurated already in 1591. It was sold by the municipality to private, agricultural land and demolished in 1990. You would now be the oldest church in Wutachtal!
• In the district Horheim is consecrated in 1695 Antonius chapel. Every year on January 17, will be held a pilgrimage - church for the Feast of St. Anthony. A previous church stood at the " farms", in the former village Lütisloh and was dedicated to Saint Margaret. It was removed. Furthermore, there is the built in 1805 by the forester Johann Baptist Vogelsang small Dorneckkapelle. It was completely restored in 1988.
• In the district Ofteringen there is the monastery of Marienburg, which is a Benedictine monastery.
• In Degernau is located on Mount Maria- Himmelfahrtskirche.Jedoch thought you two predecessors. The parish itself is one of the oldest in the lower Wutachtal. Also located in the church a pilgrimage Madonna and one of the oldest bells in the area, which was cast in the year 1300 in Schaffhausen.

Other monuments

• In Schwerzen stands the castle Willmendingen, built in 1609 by Johann Jakob von Beck, bailiff in Unterklettgau, Imperial notary and land clerk of Vaduz. Franz Xaver von Beck sold the castle in 1801 or 1803 to Prince Joseph II of Schwarzenberg, the princes of Schwarzenberg turn 1812 Baden. In 1923 it was bought by the municipality. Today it is privately owned, modern apartments have been furnished in a vaulted cellar restaurant.
• In Ofteringen Ofteringen the castle ( the present monastery Marienburg)
• Also in Ofteringen is repentance Thaler mill.
• In the main street of Wutoschingen is the former wine press dating back to 1566.

Economy and infrastructure

The community is home to the Wutoeschingen aluminum works Wutoeschingen and origin of the aluminum industry in the Upper Rhine landscape, which began with the establishment of an aluminum rolling mill in 1902. Today, go out of the " heart of the aluminum region" numerous products of this material in the world. Wutoeschingen is a small center.

Traffic

Wutoeschingen is located on the Wutachtalbahn of Waldshut to Immendingen. Currently, the place but is only served by occasional services that serve as a connection to the heritage railway Wutachtalbahn from wheat.

To the northeast of the district lies the Schwerzen Segelfluggelände Bohlhof (! 547.6516675508.387500547 ° 39 ' N, 008 ° 23' O47.6516666666678.3875702 ) to 568 m above sea level. NN. The gliding site has a 650 -meter-long airstrip of grass, the path direction is 04 / 22nd

Established businesses

The largest employers are the aluminum plants Wutoeschingen ( AWW ) with 600 employees. Measured by the number of employees include the AWW so that the five largest employers in the district of Waldshut. The annual turnover is around 180 million euros.

Energy

The hydro power generation has a longstanding Tradition.Bei Wutoeschingen to a former weir Wutach built the church in 2000, a modern small power plant. It provides a year about 2 million kilowatt hours of green electricity.

Media

In Wutoeschingen the monopoly newspaper Südkurier is represented by its offshoot Alb- Bote. For this, the display sheets " WOM " and " Anzeigerhochhaus Rhine " come.

Education

In Wutoeschingen is a secondary school, which is also a community school since the school year 2012/2013.

Public institutions

In Wutoeschingen is the sports field and the multipurpose hall community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Michael Saurbeck, called Father Stanislaus (* 1595, † October 5, 1647 in Feldkirch ), buried in the crypt of the Capuchin monastery Feldkirch, co-founder of the Stella Matutina, monastery founder and Capuchins, saved Überlingen and Bregenz from destruction

Associated with the community personalities

• Johann Jakob von Beck (1566-1629), Baron of Willmendingen, bailiff in Unterklettgau
• Karl Junker of Ofteringen (* 1620, † February 9, 1678 in Ofteringen ), the last descendant of those of Ofteringen, Captain of the Landgraviate Stühlingen
• Sabina Schneider ( born November 1, 1831 in Sinzheim, † December 1891 in Ofteringen ), nun and Klosterbegründerin
• Fritz Burr (* before 1900, † 1949 in Degernau ), engineer, founder (1902 ) of the aluminum works Wutoeschingen ( AWW )
• Georg Giulini ( born December 31, 1858 in Mannheim, † February 24, 1954 in Como), chemist and entrepreneur
• Karl Albiker (* 1878 in Uhlingen, † 1961), sculptor
• Wigand of Salmuth ( born January 22, 1931 in Leipzig, † December 10, 2006 in Heidelberg), entrepreneur