Wahlwies

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Wahlwies
City of Stockach
Former coat of arms of the municipality of Wahlwies
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 424 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9 km²
Residents : 2160
Population density : 240 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 78333
Area code : 07771
Location in the city area
Location in the city area

Wahlwies is a district of Stockach in the Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

geography

location

The formerly independent municipality of Wahlwies is located around five and a half kilometers southwest of Stockach town center. The Stockacher Aach , which flows into the Krebsbach here, flows through the village to Lake Constance ; in the west it rises up to 634.8  m above sea level. NHN high Roßberg .

Neighboring places

To the north-east of Wahlwies is the main town of Stockach, to the east the Espasingen district , to the south the Radolfzell district of Stahringen , to the southwest the municipality of Steißlingen and to the northwest the municipality of Orsingen-Nenzingen .

Protected areas

In Wahlwies, the FFH area Westlicher Hegau (protection area number DE-8218-341), the nature reserve Schanderied (3.117), the landscape protection area Schanderied (3.35.013) and various biotopes are designated.

history

Wahlwies on a map from the mid-18th century

The oldest evidence of settlement in the area in Wahlwies are Neolithic finds from the third millennium BC: In the Bogental , north of today's center, ten burial mounds were examined during excavations at the beginning of the 20th century and a human skeleton with accessories (arm protection plate and bell beaker) was discovered .

Between 1926 and 1953 several graves from the Urnfield and Hallstatt times were discovered northeast of the old village center of Wahlwies in Gewann Hafenäcker .

In the years 2006 to 2009, the foundations of a Roman building, probably a Roman manor, were uncovered and examined: The uncovered double-shell walls are the approximately one meter wide and one meter deep foundation of an approximately 16.5 m long and 13, 8 m wide building. In addition to pieces of ledge bricks, a few ceramic shards could also be recovered. The discovery of a bronze coin with the presumed portrait of the Roman emperor Marc Aurel (161–180 AD) allows the assumption that the house was built during the second century AD.

Wahlwies was founded by Frankish colonists around the middle of the 8th century after Alemannia was subjugated by the Franks.

The first mention took place in a on April 21, 839 in Bodman by Ludwig the Pious (778-840) drafted as Walahwis . From this document it can be seen that the place came from Franconian possession to the Reichenau.

In 915 the Swabian counts Erchanger and Berthold fought against the supporters of King Konrad I at Wahlwies to restore the Swabian duchy .

Wahlwies was owned by the Alemannic dukes, later owned by numerous noble families and the monasteries of St. Georgen in the Black Forest and St. Blasien. Diets of the Swabian Duke were held in Wahlwies. Perhaps local lower nobility in the 13th / 14th centuries. Century Lower court rule since the 15th century in the hands of the Lords of Bodman, previously the Lords of Homburg . Headed for knighthood, Bodman's blood spell as a Nellenburg fiefdom and Nellenburg itself each had half.

In 1806 Wahlwies came to the Kingdom of Württemberg , in 1810 to the Grand Duchy of Baden .

On January 1, 1975 Wahlwies was incorporated into Stockach. With 2160 inhabitants, Wahlwies is now Stockach's largest district.

Place name

The place name cannot be interpreted with certainty, possibly a derivation from Old High German walah = Romane, Welscher; 839 "Vvalahvis", 946 "Vvalavvis", 1247 "Walewis".

Economy and Infrastructure

Social facilities

Aerial view of the Pestalozzi Children's and Youth Village

Founded in 1947 by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi named Pestalozzi Children and Youth Village in Wahlwies, the oldest children's village in Germany, is an educationally designed living place for children and young people . The establishment of child and youth welfare should generally create favorable living and development conditions and help to deal with, cope with and overcome the consequences of individual and / or social problems of the children and young people in care.

Educational institutions

In addition to a primary school and a free Waldorf school , the Dr. Erich Fischer School of the Pestalozzi Children's Village is home to two types of school: the state-recognized school for educational assistance (SfE) with the courses of primary, secondary and special needs schools, and the one-year special vocational school .

Postal services

Stockach was already an important post office in the 16th century. For centuries, large, interstate equestrian and postal courses on the Ulm - Basel , Stuttgart - Zurich and Vienna - Paris routes converged here. In 1845 the local post office still had 60 horses.

Before 1821, private individuals had to hand in their mail at the Stockach post office themselves. Then the establishment of an official messenger establishment made it possible for private individuals to hand over their mail to an official messenger. Initially, he brought the post to the Stockacher Post Expedition twice, later three times a week. In the 1850s, due to the steadily increasing correspondence, the Amtbotenanstalt was abolished, its services were transferred to the post office and on May 1, 1859 the rural postal authority was brought into being. Among other things, the following messenger district was set up in the Stockach district:

Items of mail that had been thrown into the respective letter tray on site were given a clock wheel stamp by the postman , in Wahlwies with the  21st , before being forwarded .

On May 21, 1985 the philatelic associations granted the Wahlwieser post office the right to call themselves a philatelic post office .

traffic

Zeppelin NT in Wahlwies (2017)

Wahlwies is about two and a half kilometers southwest of the intersection of the federal motorway 98 / junction Stockach-West ( motorway junction Hegau → Überlingen ) with the federal road 313 ( Plochingen → Espasingen). The district roads 6117 ( Orsinger- / Stahringer Straße ), 6118 ( Espasinger Straße ) and 6165 ( Leonhardstraße ) run through Wahlwies .

The Radolfzell-Stahringen airfield is located south of Wahlwies . The special landing site is approved for gliders , motor gliders , ultralight aircraft and powered aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of up to two tons.

Transportation

Wahlwies is connected to the railway network through its stop on the Radolfzell – Mengen railway line , on which the so-called Seehäsle runs between Stockach and Radolfzell. Freight and goods traffic had already been stopped in mid-May 1961 by a resolution of the German Federal Railroad.

Lines 7363 and 7369 of the Hegau-Bodensee transport association offer bus connections to Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Eigeltingen, Singen and Stockach from three stops in Wahlwies.

Hiking trails

In addition to some (supra) regionally designated hiking trails through Wahlwies, the place is also a station on the Revolutionary Path, which follows the Hecker parade of the revolutionaries of 1848/49. Information boards at the memorial and at the Zum Adler inn remember the Wahlwieser doctor and revolutionary Dr. Johann Gegauf and the meeting place for the revolutionaries in Wahlwies.

Wahlwies / Stockacher Aach gauge

Above the Leonhardstraße , at river kilometer 8,482, is the level Wahlwies / Stockacher Aach the flood forecasting center Baden-Württemberg and the State Institute for Environment, Measurements and natural Baden-Württemberg (LUBW); The operator is the regional council of Freiburg , the level zero point is 417.88  m above sea level. NHN .

Statistical values
Stand / drain m m³ / s
Lowest discharge between 1987 and 2003; November 10, 1987 0.03
Mean value of lowest annual discharge 0.45
Average runoff 1.28
Historical high; May 19, 1994 1.70

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • The Catholic Church of St. Germanus and Vedastus was built around 1882.
  • The St. Leonhard Chapel, built after 1400, is the oldest building in Wahlwies.
  • The Protestant Johanneskirche was consecrated in 1955 and completely renovated in 1994.
  • Wahlwies Castle

Personalities

  • Richard Stocker (1832–1918), born in Wahlwies, was a “grand ducal administrative officer” in Waldshut and a famous tenor (known as the “Hegausänger”) of his time
  • Karl Friedrich Fritz I. Gegauf (1860–1926), born in Wahlwies, invented and built the world's first hemstitch sewing machine, thereby laying the foundation for the Bernina sewing machine factory
  • Erich Fischer (1887–1977) founded the Pestalozzi Children's and Youth Village in Wahlwies in 1947

Web links

Commons : Wahlwies  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Protected area directory / selection of profiles of the State Agency for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW); accessed on November 6, 2018
  2. ↑ Jürgen Hald: Roman settlement remains in the "Hafenäcker" corridor near Wahlwies. In: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 2009 . Stuttgart, 2010, pp. 187ff.
  3. ↑ Fredy Meyer: Wahlwies - a short overview of the local history ; accessed on November 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Jürgen C. Tesdorpf: On the question of the Celto-Roman remains of the population and the Franconian Eiflußführung in Hegau. In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance. Self-published by the Hegau history association Singen e. V., Issue 1 (25), Singen (Hohentwiel) , 1968, pp. 7-63.
  5. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Volume VI. P. 782f
  6. ↑ List of care facilities in Stockach ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stockach.de
  7. ↑ Information board at today's Stockach post office in Schillerstraße
  8. ^ Edwin Fecker: The rural postal district of Stockach in circular no. 140 of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baden" in the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten eV (BDPh), autumn 2004; Page 1713ff
  9. ^ Home chronicle of the city of Stockach and its districts. In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance . Self-published by the Hegau history association Singen e. V. Yearbook 1992/93, p. 380.
  10. ↑ AIP VFR, Deutsche Flugsicherung, 2018
  11. ↑ Home chronicle . In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance . Self-published by the Hegau history association Singen e. V., Issue 1/2 (11/12) 1961, p. 196.
  12. ↑ Timetables of the Hegau-Bodensee transport association , accessed on November 6, 2018.
  13. ↑ The Hecker train at the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg , accessed on November 6, 2018.
  14. ↑ Information on the website of the flood forecast center Baden-Württemberg , accessed on November 6, 2018.