Würmersheim
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Würmersheim
municipality Durmersheim
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| Height : | 109 m |
| Area : | 2.2 km² |
| Residents : | 2548 (2011) |
| Population density : | 1,158 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 76448 |
| Area code : | 07245 |
Würmersheim , also called "Würmersche" in the local dialect, is part of the municipality of Durmersheim .
geography
location
Würmersheim lies in the approx. 40 km wide Rhine plain and is approx. 8 km away from the Rhine . The district is almost 2.2 km² and covered with little forest. The old Federbach forms the border to the southern part of Durmersheim, the Gießengraben forms the border to Au am Rhein.
Borderline
The old Federbach forms the southern border of Würmersheim. The border then passes the sports fields in the east. Then the border between the building areas TG I and TG II follows further east of the youngest building area TG III, leads west past the northwest industrial area belonging to Durmersheim and merges into the northern border, which is formed by the Kunzenbach .
Neighboring places
In the immediate vicinity are the places Durmersheim (main town to which Würmersheim belongs), Bietigheim , Elchesheim-Illingen and Au am Rhein .
Townscape
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is located in the center of the Würmersheim district , on an important district road in the town. It is noticeable that Badener Strasse and Auer Strasse are 'directly' built on. From these two streets construction areas and local extensions of all kinds were carried out.
The historic core of Würmersheim lies on these two streets, including Pfalzstraße and Ziegeleistraße. As a result, Würmersheim had a maximum of 500 inhabitants before the Second World War .
After the Second World War, the areas west of Auer Strasse were primarily developed. The population grew due to displaced persons, primarily from Silesia and the Sudetenland.
In the 1970s, the industrial area Würmersheim, consisting of three streets, was opened up in the north. There are various companies and a supermarket.
In the 1990s, the construction area Tiefgestade I was developed, this is located north of Badener Straße and is a classic residential area with a small bank branch on its access road. The Tiefgestade I is indirectly connected to Auer Straße. The cemetery is located northwest of this quarter.
Also in the 1990s, the old primary school on Auer Straße was given up and a new building was built next to the cemetery. In the 2000s, two more building areas were developed. Tiefgestade II is located east of Tiefgestade I, can only be reached via this, but administratively belongs to Durmersheim. The boundary line runs along a footpath and an approximately 10 m wide green strip with trees that separates the two residential areas.
Tiefgestade III is located entirely in the Würmersheim area, north of Tiefgestade I, but cannot be reached from there. In between there is a long footpath with an avenue, which begins roughly at the cemetery and ends at the Durmersheimer Gymnasium. Historically, it was primarily a dirt road that was gradually "upgraded" to an important promenade. TG III can only be reached by car via a traffic roundabout that leads away from the Durmersheim - Au am Rhein road.
Center square
The center square is located in the center of the Tiefgestade III district. This was built in 2016 and inaugurated on October 7th of the same year. In addition to the fire brigade forecourt, it will be the second largest publicly accessible square in Würmersheim in future.
history
At what was then the western end of Würmersheim, some Roman coins and a skeleton were discovered in 1896, but these finds hardly have any reference to the later village. This is likely to have been founded in connection with other neighboring towns sometime between 750 and 1000; perhaps as a development from Elchesheim.
Würmersheim was first mentioned in a document in 1156 as "Wirmeresheim"; at that time the Maulbronn Monastery , later the Herrenalb Monastery , owned land here. Also in Alsace located Weissenburg Abbey was well off in Würmersheim and gave his property in 1291 the Margrave of Baden fief. Margrave Hermann VIII pledged the place to Johann von Vrigestein until 1334. Since the middle of the 15th century, the place belonged permanently to the margraviate of Baden with all official rights and was subordinate to the office of Kuppenheim in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern times, later to the office of Rastatt. The one-time mention of a "castle" in Würmersheim (1388) is probably due to an error, as there is no other indication of a fortification.
Since the municipality always had only a small number of inhabitants, there has always been cooperation across municipal boundaries in order to carry out the most important administrative tasks. In the early modern period, Würmersheim therefore formed a “staff community” together with the two neighboring towns of Elchesheim and Steinmauern , which means that the communities shared certain communal tasks and offices, especially the lower jurisdiction. Würmersheim participated in the common court with 2, in the 18th century with 4 “judges”. The three parishes of Würmersheim, Elchesheim and Steinmauern probably initially formed a single ecclesiastical unit, because in 1510 the pastor of Elchesheim had a right to share in the Würmersheimer Zehnt (and Steinmauern was ecclesiastically a branch of Elchesheim anyway ). Only in the 16./17. In the 18th century, Würmersheim seems to have merged with Durmersheim in church (and thus also in school) ; However, it retained its communal independence until 1972, when it was completely incorporated into Durmersheim.
A separate church building was first erected in 1777 and was dedicated to St. Jacob the Elder. Ä. consecrated; the chapel stood where the Würmersheim town hall is today. After the Sacred Heart Church was rebuilt, the old chapel was converted into apartments in 1913 and later demolished. The altar, made in 1778 by the Rastatt carpenter Martin Eigler (1756–1806), was transferred to the new church and is located there as the right side altar. Margrave Karl Friedrich took over a grant of 75 guilders towards the cost of the artistically appealing work . A bell from 1805 was also transferred from the old to the new church. It measures 43 cm in diameter and, according to the inscription, was donated by Franz Joseph Kassel; it also bears the names of the then Würmersheimer Schultheißen Eichler as well as the former "judges", that is, local councilors, Altmaier, Oberle, Heck, Kassel and Kary.
In the case of Würmersheim, the political unit as a municipality was mentioned in a document as early as 1278; the names of the most important community officials are of course very incomplete. In 1510 "Hans Ytemann" and "Andres Ludwig" are named as members of the staff court (with Elchesheim and stone walls ), in 1579 the mayor Wendel Ittemann and the "judge" Diebold Fritz. For 1704 Dionys Schorpp († 1710) can be documented as mayor, he was followed in 1716/17 by his son Johann Martin Schorpp (1682–1750), who in turn was the son of Lorenz Schorpp (1722–1789). In the 19th were mayors Leopold Kary (1799-1859), Sebastian Fritz (1832-1906), Melchior Heck (1839-1899) and Carl Schäfer (1839-1916). The community had its own coat of arms early on, which is first documented in 1553. On the (heraldic) right side it showed the Baden state colors yellow-red-yellow, on the left a worm, so it was a so-called speaking coat of arms (even if the place name "Würmersheim" is actually not from a worm, but the Middle High German name Werinher (Werner) originates).
In 1683 Würmersheim had 13 families, i. H. about 60 inhabitants, in 1765 the population was about 125, around 1800 about 160, in 1852 already 314, whereupon the population increase stopped, in 1886 the population was 319, practically unchanged compared to 1852. After the Second World War there were 616 inhabitants In 1954, due to the allocation of displaced persons, already 779 and in 1964 the place reached the 1000 inhabitant limit. In the incorporation to Durmersheim in 1973, the population was 1253. At the fallen during the last war Würmersheim had in World War I to complain 32 and in World War II 43rd
Long-established Würmersheim family names are Altmaier (immigrated from the Diocese of Mainz in 1722), Dunz (1711 from Gaggenau), Eichler (1700 from Engen), Fritz (first mentioned in 1579), Gent (1853 extinct) ,antengiesser (1770 extinct), Kary (earlier also written Karg and Karius, first mentioned in 1584 with Dionis Carge), Kessel (1707 from Au a. Rh.), Oberle (1679 from Lauterburg / Alsace) and Stürmlinger (1807 from Reichenbach / Württemberg).
The low population and the fact that the people of Würmersheim stayed among themselves for a longer period of time resulted in a comparatively low number of family names. As in other places in the Karlsruhe district, the villagers in Würmersheim often gave each other nicknames, which were mostly based on character traits, relationships, craftsmanship or appearance. As a result, people knew Dick-Oberle, Metzgers-Annchen, Frech-Marja, Glaser-Karl, or Grummen-Nicklaus, for example.
On January 1, 1974, Würmersheim was incorporated into Durmersheim.
societies
The Germania football club (FVW) was founded in 1919 and had 28 members at the time. The association was awarded the Sepp Herberger Prize in 2003 for its youth work. The sports facility has two grass pitches, a hard court, a small artificial turf pitch and a mini artificial turf pitch, as well as a club home and a fully equipped youth home built in 2003.
On June 1, 1904, the choral society friendship Würmersheim was founded. In 1974 the administration decided to found a mixed choir to counteract the decline in the number of active members. The next big change was the founding of another choir, Ton Ab , in 1997 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 483 .
literature
- The art monuments of Baden Volume 12: Landkreis Rastatt. Edited by Peter Hirschfeld, with the assistance of E. Lacroix and H. Niester, with contributions by A. Dauber and O. Linde, revised and supplemented by Hans Huth. Karlsruhe 1963. pp. 374-378
- Johannes Werner: Würmersheim. A village in Baden through the ages, regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-542-2 .
- Willi Coerdt: Nicknames and Scheltnames from Durmersheim and Würmersheim or Dormerscher and Wermerscher Iwwernome. Attempt at an interpretation and assignment . Durmersheim 2007.
- Martin Burkart: Durmersheim: the history of the village and its inhabitants; from the beginning to the early 20th century . Durmersheim, 2002