Because on the Rhine
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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ' N , 7 ° 37' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Freiburg | |
| County : | Loerrach | |
| Height : | 279 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 19.47 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 30,175 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 1550 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 79576 | |
| Area code : | 07621 | |
| License plate : | LÖ | |
| Community key : | 08 3 36 091 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WLR | |
| City structure: | Core city and 5 districts | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 1 79576 Weil am Rhein |
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| Lord Mayor : | Wolfgang Dietz ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Weil am Rhein in the district of Lörrach | ||
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Weil am Rhein (Alemannic Wiil am Rhii ) is a southern Baden city in the extreme southwest of Germany, right in the triangle of Germany, Switzerland and France . Together with the neighboring town of Lörrach , it forms a regional center . After Lörrach and Rheinfelden (Baden) , Weil am Rhein is the third largest city in the Lörrach district . Since January 1, 1972 it has been a major district town . Weil am Rhein is a typical customs, border and railroad town . It is a directly adjacent suburb of the Swiss city of Basel and thus part of the trinational agglomeration of Basel with around 830,000 inhabitants and part of the Basel metropolitan region with around 1.3 million inhabitants.
geography
location
Weil am Rhein lies in the Rhine plain on the edge of the Tüllinger Berg in the east and extends to the Rhine in the west . The special location between the Rhine and the foothills of the Black Forest favors u. a. also due to the proximity to the Burgundian Gate an exceptionally southern climate and offers excellent conditions for viticulture . The Vosges and the Alps are within sight. The highest point in the city is just below the summit of the Tüllinger Berg at an altitude of 455 meters.
climate
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Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Weil am Rhein *
Source: mean values for the period 1961 to 1990. In: dwd.de. German Weather Service, accessed on April 2, 2015 .
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* Temperature: neighboring municipality of Eimeldingen, precipitation: Haltingen district
The mean annual precipitation is comparatively high at 879 mm / a and falls in the upper quarter of the values recorded in Germany by the German Weather Service (DWD). Lower values are registered at 75% of the DWD's measuring stations. The driest month is February. Most precipitation falls in August, it corresponds to 1.7 times the precipitation in February. The monthly precipitation levels vary greatly. Higher seasonal fluctuations are registered at only 22% of the DWD's measuring stations.
Neighboring communities
Starting in the north and listed in clockwise order, the following municipalities border the city of Weil am Rhein: the municipalities of Efringen-Kirchen , Eimeldingen , Binzen and the city of Lörrach in the district of Lörrach , the municipality of Riehen and the city of Basel in the canton of Basel-Stadt / Switzerland as well the municipalities of Huningue (Hüningen) and Village-Neuf (Neudorf) in the Haut-Rhin / France .
City structure
The urban area consists of the core town , which extends from the Swiss border near Riehen in the east via Alt-Weil as a long structure along the main road and across the Leopoldshöhe to the west (east, Alt-Weil, Gartenstadt, Leopoldshöhe) and the south the city center district of Otterbach and the district of Friedlingen west of the Rhine. Furthermore, in the course of the community reform in the 1970s, the formerly independent communities Haltingen , the largest district, Ötlingen and Märkt , which are all located north of the city center. In the area of the town hall east of the Weil am Rhein train station , the city administration has been trying for years to create a kind of center through extensive design measures.
The districts of Haltingen, Märkt and Ötlingen are also localities within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . As a result, they have a local council , which is re-elected by the voters in local elections . The chairman of the local council is the mayor . Furthermore, there is a local administration in every village, a town hall on site.
Some parts of the city have additional residential areas with their own names and mostly small numbers of residents, such as the “Luisenhof” in Ötlingen or “Hupfer” in Haltingen.
Spatial planning
Weil am Rhein is located on the western edge of the Hochrhein-Bodensee region and, together with its neighboring town Lörrach, forms one of the 14 regional centers in Baden-Württemberg. The regional center takes on the tasks of a central center for the surrounding communities of Binzen , Efringen-Kirchen , Eimeldingen , Fischingen , Inzlingen , Kandern , Malsburg-Marzell , Rümmingen , Schallbach , Steinen and Wittlingen . In addition, there are cross-border links with the Swiss cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, as well as with the Saint-Louis Agglomération municipal association in Alsace , which are coordinated in the trinational Eurodistrict Basel .
history
Because on the Rhine
Weil was first mentioned in a document on February 27, 786 under the name Willa . This name is believed to be of Roman origin. A certain Ercanpert donated his share of the church in Willa (Weil) to the St. Gallen monastery . The monasteries of St. Blasien and Weitenau also had possessions on site. The Basel cathedral monastery also owned land here and the cathedral courtyard, which was used to collect church taxes and which, with its new building from 1569, represented the economic center and the place of jurisdiction for Weil. In 1361 and 1368, Weil came to the Margraviate of Hachberg-Sausenberg and was a Röttelner fief . With Rötteln, the place came to the margraviate of Baden in 1503 and was assigned to the office of Rötteln . After its dissolution in 1809, Weil came to the Oberamt Lörrach , from which the district of Lörrach emerged in 1939 .
For a long time, Weil was shaped by agriculture and especially viticulture. Due to the favorable traffic situation, Weil developed into a town from the middle of the 19th century . With the settlement of the railway , the commissioning of the Basel-Weil marshalling yard in 1913 and brisk construction activity, the population grew and new parts of the city emerged, such as the "Garden City". Textile companies from Switzerland also settled in the Friedlingen district . On August 16, 1929, Weil, with its former districts Friedlingen, Leopoldshöhe and Otterbach, was elevated to the status of town and given the name "Weil am Rhein". The Rheinhafen was built from 1934 . After the Second World War , the population grew again rapidly due to the settlement of displaced persons and refugees. At that time the city belonged to the district of Lörrach in the state of Baden and from 1952 to the administrative district of southern Baden of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1971 the neighboring municipality of Ötlingen was incorporated. As early as 1970, the population had exceeded the limit of 20,000, so that at the request of the city administration, the state government of Baden-Württemberg raised Weil am Rhein to a major district town with effect from January 1, 1972 . Since the district reform of 1973, Weil am Rhein and the district of Lörrach have been part of the Freiburg administrative district and at the same time became part of the newly established Upper Rhine-Bodensee regional association . In 1975 the communities of Haltingen and Märkt were incorporated. The urban area thus reached its present size.
In 1986, an extensive cultural and festival program was organized on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the first documentary mention.
In 1999, Weil am Rhein hosted the Baden-Württemberg State Horticultural Show " Green 99 ".
Haltingen
Haltingen was first mentioned in 767 as Haholtinga . In the 10th / 11th century the place came to the bishops of Basel . On April 14, 1139, the Pope confirmed ownership of “the court of Haltingen with the church” to the Basel bishop Ortlieb . Later the place was given to the monastery of St. Blasien. The lords of Rötteln had the place as a fief, and so the place came to the Margraviate of Hachberg-Sausenberg and thus in 1503 to Baden. Haltingen, like Weil, belonged to the Rötteln Oberamt and from 1809 to the Lörrach Oberamt. During the Second World War, the village was almost completely destroyed.
Markets
Märkt was first mentioned in 1169 as Matro . As a fiefdom of the Basel bishops, it belonged to the Lords of Rötteln and came to Baden via the margraviate of Hachberg-Sausenberg. Märkt also belonged to the Rötteln Oberamt and from 1809 to the Lörrach Oberamt.
Ötlingen
The village of Ötlingen lies on the Rechberg or Käferholzberg side bar of the Tüllinger Berg . The settlement was first mentioned in 1064 as Ottlinchoven . The closely spaced houses and courtyards clearly show the complex as a fortified village . Ötlingen was mainly a property of the Lords of Rötteln and their heirs. There were also property and rights of small nobles and various monasteries. In 1971 Ötlingen was incorporated into Weil am Rhein as part of the community reform. On the south and south-west side, Ötlingen is lined with vineyards. To the north and east are arable land and orchards.
Friedlingen and Otterbach
Friedlingen and Otterbach are now districts of Weil am Rhein. The district was named Friedlingen in 1650 by Margrave Friedrich V in memory of the Peace of Westphalia . Before that, the place, first mentioned in 1280, was called "Ötlikon". However, Ötlikon should not be confused with the “Ötlingen” district. Both Friedlingen and Otterbach probably always belonged to Weil. In later Friedlingen there was a pond castle, which was originally called Ötlikon Castle and later Friedlingen Castle and was owned by the Lords of Rötteln . It was probably destroyed in the Basel earthquake of 1356 and rebuilt by the Münch von Münchenstein . They sold it to the Margraves of Hachberg-Sausenberg in 1368 . These in turn sold it as pledge to the "von Bärenfels ", the "Rappenberger" (1579–1613) and the " von Rotberg " (from 1620). The new masters gave it to different lords as fiefs. In 1445 the castle was set on fire by the confederates , badly damaged in the Thirty Years War and rebuilt by the margrave in 1640 in exchange for the town of Hertingen . In 1678 the castle was badly damaged by the French in the Dutch War and so damaged in the Battle of Friedlingen in 1702 that it had to be demolished. Only a few houses remained from the village of Friedlingen. The margrave sold the Friedlingen chamber property in 1750/1753 to hamlet farmers and the community. The Friedlinger and the Weiler Bann were combined.
From 1680 to 1815 Friedlingen suffered badly from the neighborhood of the fortress in Hüningen , which is now French , and its outwork on the Schusterinsel and the bridgehead on the right bank of the Rhine .
It was not until the 19th century that Friedlingen gained importance again through the settlement of industry and the newly emerging district.
From 1488 Otterbach was a marshland between Weil and Kleinbasel , which in 1640 partly came to Kleinbasel. On the part that remained near Baden stood the Basel Otterbachgut, which belonged to Friedlingen. In the 1930s, a workers' settlement was built in Otterbach, which was given the old name Otterbach.
Friedlingen is now considered a social hotspot. The district gained international attention when, following the sexual assaults by migrants on New Year's Eve 2015/16 in Germany, it became known that minors had also been raped there.
Incorporations
The following communities were incorporated into the city of Weil am Rhein:
- December 1, 1971: Ötlingen
- January 1, 1975: Haltingen and Märkt
- Coats of arms of the earlier municipalities
Haltingen
Markets
Ötlingen
Population development
Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).
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¹ census result
Religions
Weil initially belonged to the Diocese of Constance and was subordinate to the Archdeaconate of Breisgau. In 1556, Margrave Charles II introduced the Reformation in Weil . After that, Weil was a predominantly Protestant community. She belongs to the dean's office in Lörrach of the Evangelical Church in Baden . As a result of the strong growth of the community, the Protestant parish Weil was divided in 1937. The western parish was created, which has since been called Johannes parish. In 1956 this received its own church with the Johanneskirche . Friedlingen has formed its own Protestant parish since 1957. The "Friedenskirche", which gave the parish its name, was built in 1963 as the youngest Protestant church in Weil am Rhein. Another Catholic parish was founded in 1957, the Friedlingen Curate with the church “consecrated to the Good Shepherd”. The curate was elevated to a parish in 1964.
There is also a Protestant parish and an old church in the districts of Haltingen, Märkt and Ötlingen. These parishes also belong to the Deanery of Lörrach.
In the 19th century, Catholics moved to Weil again. They were initially supplied from Stetten and were given their own church in 1904/05 with Peter and Paul , which was elevated to a parish in 1937. A Catholic parish was established in Haltingen in 1964, after a parish curate had already been established in 1936/38 after the construction of St. Mary's Church . The Catholics in Märkt and Ötlingen also belong to the community. The Catholic parishes in the hamlet of the city are now part of the Wiesental deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
In addition to the two large churches, there are also parishes in Weil am Rhein that belong to free churches , including two Baptist , evangelical-free church parishes. The New Apostolic Church is also represented in Weil am Rhein.
Islam is also represented in Weil am Rhein, primarily through immigration from Muslim countries, especially from Turkey . In the Tullastraße in the industrial area Friedlingen is the DİTİB - Mosque Eyup Sultan Camii .
politics
As a major district town , Weil am Rhein is subject to the technical and legal supervision of the Freiburg Regional Council .
Municipal council
Since the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the Weil am Rhein municipal council has consisted of 26 councilors. The choice led to the following result:
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Local elections 2019
Turnout: 49.3% (2014: 39.1%)
% 30th 20th 10
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26.3%
25.5%
19.4%
16.8%
12.1%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
% p 12 10 8th 6th 4th 2
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-2 -4 -6 + 0.4 % p
+ 10.2 % p
-3.4 % p
-4.8 % p
+ 0.8 % p
Remarks:
a Independent Free Voters
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mayor
In earlier times, the lordly Vogt was at the head of the community of Weil . He was supported by a staff holder attested from 1560 to 1822. The villages Friedlingen, Tüllingen and Klein-Hüningen also belonged to the bailiwick of Weil. Since 1715 there have also been four to six assessors and four jurors. A mayor has been at the head of the community since 1833 . The local council has been at his side ever since. Since it was elevated to the status of a major district town in 1972, the mayor has been named mayor . This is now directly elected by the electorate for a term of eight years. He is chairman of the municipal council. His general deputy is the first alderman with the official title of mayor.
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| 1782-1804 | Hans Georg Lienin | Vogt |
| 1804-1814 | Hans Georg Ziegler | Vogt |
| 1814-1818 | Hans Georg Lienin | Vogt |
| 1818-1822 | Hans Georg Ziegler | Vogt |
| 1822-1833 | Martin Reinert | Vogt |
| 1833-1835 | Georg Friedrich Ziegler | mayor |
| 1835-1840 | Johann Mehlin | mayor |
| 1840-1841 | Johann Sütterlin | mayor |
| 1842-1847 | Johann Jakob Glattacker | mayor |
| 1847-1848 | Fridlin Ziegler | mayor |
| 1848-1849 | Fridlin Frey | mayor |
| 1849 | Georg Friedrich Ziegler | mayor |
| 1849-1856 | Johann Jakob Glattacker | mayor |
| 1856-1861 | Max Hodel | mayor |
| 1862-1864 | Georg Friedrich Ziegler | mayor |
| 1864-1870 | Johann Jakob Fingerlin | mayor |
| 1870-1876 | Johann Hauser | mayor |
| 1876-1904 | Georg Friedrich Lienin | mayor |
| 1904-1918 | Philipp Johann Bertsch | mayor |
| 1919-1933 | Rudolf Kraus | mayor |
| 1933-1936 | Walter Hennes | mayor |
| 1936-1945 | Wilhelm Schellenberg | mayor |
| 1945-1946 | Rudolf Kraus | mayor |
| 1946-1957 | Peter Hartmann | mayor |
| 1957-1965 | Wilhelm Schellenberg | mayor |
| 1965-1984 | Otto Boll | Mayor Mayor from 1972 |
| 1984-2000 | Dr. Peter Willmann | Lord Mayor |
| since 2000 | Wolfgang Dietz | Lord Mayor |
coat of arms
The coat of arms of Weil am Rhein shows in silver a stylized blue bunch of grapes with eight visible berries and green leaves above a lowered blue wavy bar. The city flag is blue and white. The coat of arms and flag were awarded by the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg on August 6, 1962.
Until the 18th century , the community of Weil wore a vine knife and the initial "W" in its seal. The vine knife was replaced by a grape in 1811. After the town was raised in 1929, the grape was placed on a coat of arms. From 1952 the city tried to establish an official coat of arms, which in 1962 led to the award of the coat of arms. In addition to the viticulture symbol, the wavy bar was chosen as a reference to the Rhine. The coats of arms of the municipalities incorporated in the 1970s also had viticulture symbols or symbols relating to the Rhine, and so the hamlet coat of arms, awarded in 1962, also represents a connection to today's districts.
Town twinning
With the Swiss cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft as well as Alsace , the city connects numerous institutions of cross-border cooperation. The so-called RegioTriRhena connects the common history and the dialect that is spoken in different variants. The neighboring district town of Lörrach is still the traditional competitor, but there has recently been a meaningful cooperation on many levels.
National and international twin cities have been the neighboring Huningue (Hüningen) in France since 1962 , the seaside resort Bognor Regis since 1987 , now District Arun in Great Britain and since 1990 Trebbin in Brandenburg .
Culture and sights
The Baden Wine Route begins in Weil am Rhein and leads past many sights. The hamlet Weinweg leads from the city center to the Ötlingen district , with a view of the Rhine Valley.
The cultural center with its 20 artist studios offers u. a. Constantly changing cultural events such as theater, cinema and concerts.
The Kieswerk art space is an industrial monument that is used today as a gallery and studio.
Museums
The museum on Lindenplatz is located in a classical building from 1845. Here, changing exhibitions on cultural-historical topics, including urban archeology, applied arts, literature and music, are presented.
A museum train now runs on the Kandertal Railway from the Haltingen district to Kandern .
The Vitra Design Museum designed by Frank Gehry is one of the most important institutions of its kind in Europe. There are various architecturally unusual buildings on the site there. Among other things, the 31 meter high Vitra slide tower designed by Carsten Höller in June 2014 . There is also an agricultural museum and the Hamlet Textile History Museum in the city . The Ötlingen district has its own museum, the Dorfstube .
Events
Weil am Rhein has an extensive range of events that have resonated far beyond the city limits. Here are some examples:
- Markgräfler Musikzauber - folk music festival in the three-country garden
- Kieswerk open air, cinema and culture in the three-country garden
- MPS Medieval Spectaculum - three-day medieval festival in the three-country garden
- International Walter Waibel tournament for E and D juniors of the youth department of SV Weil
- Altwiler Stroßefäscht
- Wind festival
- Hamlet Blues Night
- Buurefasnacht
- Kind of village of Ötlingen
- Boundless Festival
Buildings
One of the oldest buildings in the city and one of its landmarks is the so-called Stapflehuus , a former mansion built around the middle of the 16th century with relay tins, which was the seat of a Röttler Obervogte . It also served as the official seat with reception and office rooms. Today it is used as a municipal gallery and for receptions.
The town hall was inaugurated on June 5, 1964. It should represent the beginning of a new city center. A clock tower was erected in front of the town hall, symbolizing Germany, France and Switzerland, which meet in the triangle.
The Protestant church Alt-Weil was built in 1791 and received a higher tower in 1906. Before that, there was a much smaller predecessor building in the same location, which was owned by the St. Gallen Monastery in 786. In 1956, the Johanneskirche for the Leopoldshöhe and Otterbach was built in the west of Weil. In 1963 the Friedenskirche was built in Friedlingen. The first Catholic St. Peter and Paul Church was built on Leopoldshöhe in 1904/05 , which was replaced by a new building at the end of the 1980s. In 1957 the church Zum Guten Hirten was built in Friedlingen , a modern hall building with a free-standing tower.
The old Protestant St. George's Church in Haltingen was rebuilt in 1718, the older tower was retained. The local Catholics received the Marienkirche in 1936. The church in Märkt dates back to the 14th century . In the choir there are wall paintings from the 15th century , which were restored in 1959. The Ötlinger church was built between 1410 and 1420, but goes back to an even earlier church. Late Gothic frescoes can also be admired in this church .
With the building of the Vitra plant fire brigade, which has since been closed, and the Landscape Formation One by Zaha Hadid and the pavilion by Tadao Ando , the city offers additional points of contact for those interested in architecture. Weil am Rhein describes itself as the “city of chairs” and thus attracts numerous visitors. These oversized chairs are exhibited on the grounds of the Vitra Design Museum and in many other places in the city.
As part of the construction work for the State Horticultural Show in 1999, a steel spiral staircase was built, which is called the Schlaichturm after the planning engineer group sbp . It gives pedestrians access to sports facilities, the Laguna adventure pool and the grounds of the State Garden Show.
The three-country bridge between Weil am Rhein and Huningue, built in 2006/2007 and designed by the architect Dietmar Feichtinger , is the longest cantilevered pedestrian and cyclist bridge in the world at 229.40 meters. The only connection between the Leopold height and Friedlingen is on the railway tracks of Deutsche Bahn AG 's leading peace bridge , built in 1908, during World War II exploded in 1950 and restored the traffic was handed back.
The weir Märkt directly southwest of the same name located district lock the Rhine to its entire width, and forms the starting point of Rhein side channel ( French Grand Canal d'Alsace ), which over a length of 50 kilometers parallel to Altrhein north to Breisach leads. The weir was built from 1928 to 1932 by France, which, according to the Versailles Treaty of 1919, had the right to discharge any water from the Rhine and to use the water power of the Rhine. A small part of the water is channeled into the bed of the Old Rhine through openings in the weir connected to a fish ladder . The Märkt weir and the Kembs power plant regulate the level of the Rhine, the backwater of which extends into the Basel port area. The weir, operated by the French energy supplier Électricité de France , is opened during high water. Pedestrians and cyclists can pass the weir via a narrow path. On the Alsatian side is the six-kilometer-long Rhine island Île du Rhin, flanked by the canal and the Old Rhine .
On October 7, 1944, the weir was destroyed by British Tallboy bombs .
The Friedlingen water tower is located in the district of the same name in Weil am Rhein and was built in 1908.
Parks
The Rheinpark is located directly on the Rhine in the Friedlingen district. It offers large lawns with fountains, a pond, play equipment for children and numerous trees and benches. 200 years ago, parts of the bridgehead of the Hüningen fortress were located on the grounds of the Rheinpark . On the outskirts of Alt-Weil you will find the small Läublin-Park, which - similar to an English castle park - gives its visitors peace and tranquility between the surrounding main traffic arteries.
The "Grün 99" was a state horticultural show that Weil am Rhein made a regional attraction in 1999. Since then, the park on the border with Basel and a bus stop on line 55 have been named after her.
Wiiler Buurefasnacht
A typical regional specialty is the Wiiler Buurefasnacht , which traditionally takes place on the Sunday after the "normal (Rhenish) carnival". It was revived after the Second World War from 1958. One week after the hamlet carnival parade with parody wagons there is a spectacular slamming of the windows in the evening on Tüllinger Berg , during which glowed wooden disks on long sticks like shooting stars are thrown over bunks down into the valley in magnificent carnival fires, each accompanied by good or bad wishes according to the motto: Schibi , schibo, wäm should the slide go? ( Who should the disc be for? )
“Going through the night” has been a local and tourist attraction for decades and then admires the start of the carnival , the Morgestraich , in neighboring Basel. Easily reached by bus and tram, you can experience how the city is completely darkened at the stroke of four in the morning and the actors come from every corner with large picture lanterns, loud drum beats and piccolo flutes and march through the city.
With the development of the Leopoldshöhe district and the influx of railway employees from the Rhineland , the image of the hamlet of Fasnacht changed for a short time, because they wanted to celebrate “their carnival” during the carnival season.
As the city grew, so did the fools' guild. Clique after clique joined them, so that today it numbers twenty-two groups.
Sports
The soccer club SV Weil currently plays in the national soccer league and has 660 members, 330 of whom are young people. It has the largest youth department in the Hochrhein district and one of the largest in the South Baden football association .
The RSV Weil am Rhein played for many years in the roller hockey Bundesliga and was able to win several national titles, among others. a. German roller hockey champions (men) in 1993, 1995, 2000 and 2004, German cup winners (men) in 1995, 1998, 2000 and German youth champions in 1979 and 1982. Since 2004 he has been playing very successfully in the highest Swiss roller hockey league, National League A (NLA) , equipped with a special game license . In the 2008/2009 season, the RSV was the first foreign team to win a national championship title in Switzerland. In addition to the Swiss championship, the Swiss Cup was also brought to Weil in the same season. With RHC Friedlingen International , which was newly founded in 2009, there was a second hamlet roller hockey team from the 2009/2010 season, which became Swiss champions in 2012, but dissolved again immediately afterwards.
The RSV Weil am Rhein has a roller hockey team as well as a figure skating department.
The second largest sports club in the city is the ESV Weil am Rhein with the departments badminton, handball, bowling, athletics, shooting, gymnastics and table tennis. The sport shooting department of the ESV is one of the most successful shooting sports clubs in Germany and has been shooting air pistols in the Bundesliga since 1999. In addition to a large number of individual and team championship titles in various pistol disciplines at the federal level, medals at European and World Championships and the sending of an Olympic participant in 2004, the club was able to achieve the German team championship title in the Bundesliga air pistol in 2007. The table tennis department of the ESV has been playing in the table tennis Regionalliga-Süd since 2007.
The association with the largest number of members in the city is TV Weil 1884 e. V. It is a popular sports club with more than 1200 members. He mainly appears through his fistball and basketball departments. The "headquarters" of the TV is the Jahnhalle, which also serves as a "replacement town hall".
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Weil am Rhein is by the federal autobahn 5 (A 5; Europastraße 35 ) via Karlsruhe to the north and in the south by the Swiss autobahns 2 and 3 via the Gotthard to Chiasso ( Europastraße 35 ) or via Zurich to St. Gallen ( Europastraße) 60 ) connected to the European trunk road network. North of Weil am Rhein, the Weil am Rhein motorway triangle connects the A 5 with the federal motorway 98 ( Europastraße 54 ) via Waldshut , Stockach and Munich to the east. The about 1979 opened Palmrainbrücke leading national highway 532 connects Weil am Rhein with the French Huningue and the Autoroute A 35 ( European route E25 ) towards Strasbourg and the A36 autoroute towards Lyon and Paris . In addition, the city is connected to the federal highways 3 to Freiburg and 317 to Titisee-Neustadt . Since 2013, Weil am Rhein has been connected to the neighboring town of Lörrach via a duty-free road, which partly runs on Swiss territory.
The city is connected to Lörrach and the Wiesental by the S5 S-Bahn line on the Weil am Rhein – Lörrach line, and to the Basel SBB station and Mannheim Hbf via the Rhine Valley Railway . Since 2015, an Intercity has stopped in Weil mornings on the way from Basel to Stuttgart and Munich Hbf, among others . In addition, some local and regional operate bus routes of SWEG . Weil belongs to the Lörrach regional transport association. The Weil am Rhein marshalling yard , which is located in front of the passenger station as part of the Badischer Bahnhof in Basel and is now closed , has been converted into a container transshipment station. Since the timetable change on 14 December 2014, the drives tram line 8 of the BVB on a new line on their previous endpoint Kleinhüningen in Basel also by Friedlingen to station Weil am Rhein Train Station / center on the station Weil am Rhein .
In addition to the railroad, the Rheinhafen Weil am Rhein , the last before the Swiss border, is an important economic factor. Over 800 people work for the port company or the forwarding agents there. The operator is the Rheinhafengesellschaft Weil am Rhein. Containers, general cargo and heavy cargo as well as bulk cargo such as gravel, sand and coal are handled. The handling of goods doubled between 1995 and 2005. In 2005, 1.061 million tons of goods were handled, of which 599,879 tons were handled by ships. The Rhine canal is of particular importance for this.
Authorities and resident companies
One of the best-known companies is the manufacturer of home and office furniture Vitra AG, which attracts numerous visitors with its special architectural features. The city's advertising in the tourism sector also frequently highlights the oversized reproductions of various Vitra designer chairs. The Conductix-Wampfler GmbH has its headquarters in Weil am Rhein.
A federal police station , which belongs to the federal police department Stuttgart, has its seat in Weil am Rhein.
The Claus Schneider winery cultivates an area of 12 hectares.
media
The daily newspaper “Weiler Zeitung” , published by the Jaumann publishing house in Lörrach, appears in Weil am Rhein . She gets her coat from the " Black Forest Messenger ". The " Badische Zeitung " from Freiburg im Breisgau also reports on local events with a local supplement and the weekly newspaper "Wochenblatt".
Educational institutions
In Weil am Rhein there are two grammar schools , the Kant grammar school and the Oberrhein grammar school , the Realschule Dreiländereck, the pure community school Weil am Rhein, a special school Leopold school and five elementary schools ( Hermann-Daur- Grundschule Märkt, Hans-Thoma -Schule Haltingen , Karl Tschamber elementary school, Leopold elementary school and Rhine school).
The district of Lörrach is responsible for the school kindergarten for the mentally handicapped.
The private evening grammar school in Weil am Rhein, the private evening secondary school, the private Emma Fackler school kindergarten for the physically handicapped and the language handicapped, as well as the private vocational college for obtaining the technical college entrance qualification round off the school offer.
The city has a city library , which has been located in the former Peter and Paul Church since 1994 . The adult education center, which has its office in the Haus der Volksbildung, offers a wide range of offers in the field of adult education. The focus is on languages, integration work and health and exercise courses.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Weil am Rhein has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1946: Rudolf Kraus, retired mayor D.
- 1982: Charles Muller, former mayor of the twin town Huningue
- 1984: Otto Boll, retired Lord Mayor D.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gottlieb August Bauer (1828–1913), landscape and portrait painter
- Enjott Schneider (actually Norbert Jürgen Schneider ; * 1950), composer and writer
- Patrik Köbele (* 1962), politician, federal chairman of the German Communist Party (DKP)
- Christian Streich (* 1965), former German Bundesliga soccer player and current head coach at SC Freiburg
- Markus Baltensperger (* 1970), musician and music producer
Persons connected to Weil am Rhein
- Erich Bowien . First director of the hamlet of Rheinhafen.
- Erwin Bowien (1899-1972). Author and painter, died on December 3, 1972 in Weil am Rhein in his parents' house.
- Hubert Schardin (1902–1965), physicist who lived in Weil am Rhein and was honored there in 1965 with a state funeral.
- Martin Beneke (* 1966), physicist, completed his school days at the Kant high school. In 2007 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his research in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics .
- Rainer Stickelberger (* 1951), politician (SPD) who lives in the Haltingen district . From 1984 to 1992 he was mayor of Weil and from 2011 to 2016 Minister of Justice of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
- The thrash metal band Destruction was founded in 1982 in Weil am Rhein.
- Ernst Arendt (* 1949), with numerous prizes, a. a. the Grimme Prize for his animal film series “ Animals in front of the camera ” , an animal filmmaker who lives in the Ötlingen district.
literature
- Fred Ludwig Sepaintner: Because on the Rhine . 1st edition. Badenia Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Weil am Rhein 1986, ISBN 3-9801291-0-1 .
- Erich Keyser: Badisches Städtebuch (= German city book. Vol. 4: Southwest Germany. 2: State of Baden-Württemberg. Partial: Baden ) . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1959.
- Bettina Heinen-Ayech and Ulrike Friedrichs: Erwin Bowien (1899–1972). Catalog of works - Catalog Raisonné - waiver of works. U-Form Verlag, Solingen 1999, ISBN 388234-103-3 .
- Erwin Bowien: The beautiful game between spirit and world. My painter life. Edited by Bettina Heinen-Ayech. U-Form Verlag, Solingen 1995, ISBN 3-88234-101-7 .
Web links
- Internet presence of the city of Weil am Rhein
- Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (LeoBW): Weil am Rhein - archive material
- http://www.erwin-bowien.com
- http://www.bettina-heinen-ayech.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ Department of State Description of the State Archives Freiburg im Breisgau: Der Landkreis Lörrach. Volume 2: B. Community descriptions Kandern to Zell im Wiesental. Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Directorate in conjunction with the Lörrach district. Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen 1994, ISBN 3-7995-1354-X , p. 742.
- ^ The climate in Baden-Württemberg. Medium: 1961-1990. In: klimadiagramme.de. Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
- ↑ 1999 State Horticultural Show Weil am Rhein. Green 99 - The first trinational garden show in Baden-Württemberg. (No longer available online.) In: bwgruen.de. Promotion company for the Baden-Württembergische Landesgartenschauen mbH, archived from the original on April 8, 2015 ; Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
- ^ Pius tail: 850 years of Istein. Hiesten 1139 - Istein 1989 . Istein 1989, p. 20 .
- ↑ "Friedlingen (Ötlikon) - Rise". In: Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg State Archives, accessed on November 16, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.kirchenrecht-ekiba.de/kabl/20016.pdf (PDF; p. 16).
- ^ Hannes Lauber, Karl Heidegger: A group of four raped two girls on New Year's Eve. Badische Zeitung , January 7, 2016, accessed on January 20, 2017.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 498 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 522 .
- ↑ Eyüp Sultan Camii - Weil am Rhein. In: moscheesuche.de. Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
- ^ City of Weil am Rhein: Final election result. Local council election 2019. In: weil-am-rhein.de. May 31, 2015, accessed September 8, 2019 .
- ^ Fred Ludwig Sepaintner: Because on the Rhine . 1st edition. Badenia Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Weil am Rhein 1986, ISBN 3-9801291-0-1 .
- ^ Bridge Weil am Rhein. In: Steeldoc . No. 4, 2008, ISSN 0255-3104 , p. 30, digitized version ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), key words on the content: Bridge construction; Footbridge; Arch bridge; Tied arch bridge; Steel bridge; Steel arch; Elbow; Span.
- ^ Anne Bull: Munitions investigation on the Upper Rhine in the Kembs dam. (PDF) In: wsv.de. Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, accessed on April 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Museum Weiler Textile History. In: museen-weil-am-rhein.de. Kulturamt Stadt Weil am Rhein, accessed on May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Verena Gutwein: The prize money was quickly wasted. In: badische-zeitung.de. Badische Zeitung , February 25, 2012, accessed on April 2, 2015 .
- ^ RHC Basel: Roller hockey is returning to Basel
- ↑ Why the TV overtook the ESV. In: badische-zeitung.de. Badische Zeitung , accessed on December 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Basel: Extended tram 8 starts on December 14th. In: badische-zeitung.de. Badische Zeitung , accessed on May 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Adult Education Center. In: vhs-weil-am-rhein.de. Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
- ^ Hans-Karl Pesch: Erwin Bowien . Ed .: Bettina Heinen-Ayech and Freundeskreis Erwin Bowien. eV 1st edition. Solingen 1980.
- ^ Hans-Karl Pesch: Erwin Bowien . Ed .: Bettina Heinen-Ayech and Freundeskreis Erwin Bowien eV 1st edition. Solingen 1980, p. 11 .
- ↑ http://www.tierevorderkamera.de/40251.html
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