Neuweier

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Neuweier
City of Baden-Baden
Neuweier coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 17 ″  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 182 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.06 km²
Residents : 2135  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 352 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 76534
Area code : 07223
Neuweier - looking towards the Rhine
Neuweier - looking towards the Rhine
View of Neuweier

Neuweier is a district of Baden-Baden .

Geographical location

The village, located at 182 m above sea level in the foothills of the Black Forest , has 2135 inhabitants and an area of ​​606 hectares. Of this, 334 hectares are forest and 124 hectares are vineyards.

history

The oldest surviving mention of Neuweier comes from 1297. Older than the eponymous core town is the formerly spatially separated hamlet Schneckenbach , which today has grown together with Neuweier. The oldest surviving mention of Schneckenbach comes from the year 1253. In 1549 Neuweier came to the von Dalberg family of knights . On July 1, 1972, the place was incorporated into Baden-Baden. Neuweier has been a state-approved resort since 2011 .

Viticulture

Alongside Varnhalt and Steinbach, Neuweier is one of the Baden-Baden Rebland communities. The three wine villages, which are all on the Ortenauer Weinpfad, are the only places in Germany outside Franconia to have the right to fill their wine in Bocksbeuteln . They received this right from the Bishop of Würzburg in the 18th century. The vineyard area cultivated by the three municipalities is one of the largest closed wine-growing areas in Germany with around 250 hectares, with Neuweier being one of the largest wine-growing communities in the Ortenau region .

Attractions

At the entrance to the in is 12th century as Wasserburg built lower castle Neuweier . Repeated destruction in different wars and the subsequent rebuilding have meant that various stylistic elements, u. a. the Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque styles shape the building.

The upper Neuweier Castle, a low castle, was demolished in the 18th century. It stood near today's parish church of St. Michael.

The landmark of Neuweier is the Yburg , which is located northeast of the town on the 520  m high Black Forest elevation Yberg .

literature

  • Ursula Schäfer, Karin Rogge, Heinz Bischof: The Baden-Baden Rebland under the Yburg . Baden-Baden, 1989, p. 149

Web links

Commons : Neuweier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Andermann : The rise of the chamberlain of Worms in the late Middle Ages . In: Kurt Andermann (Hrsg.): Ritteradel in the Old Kingdom. Die Kämmerer von Worms named by Dalberg = work of the Hessian Historical Commission, NF Bd. 31. Darmstadt 2009. ISBN 978-3-88443-054-5 , pp. 13-34 (24).
  2. ^ 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. 493 .
  3. ↑ Karl Reinfried: The lower castle at Neuweier, Office Bühl. In addition to a regesta appendix about the former upper castle there . In: The Ortenau, Journal of the Historical Society for Mittelbaden , No. 3 (1912), pp 1-23, Digitalisat of UB Freiburg .