Walbertsweiler

Walbertsweiler community forest
Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 14 "  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 46"  E
Height :	648 m
Area :	8.4 km²
Residents :	643  (December 31, 2014)
Population density :	77 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	88639
Area code :	07578
West view of Walbertsweiler

Walbertsweiler is a suburb of the municipality of Wald in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

geography

Geographical location

The village of Walbertsweiler is about eight kilometers south of Meßkirch .

Expansion of the area

The total area of ​​the Walbertsweiler district is 839.57 hectares (as of December 31, 2014).

history

The village was first mentioned as Waldrameswilare in 854 in documents from the St. Gallen monastery . The place was originally in the area of Goldineshuntare , then in Gau Ratoldesbuch and later in the county of Sigmaringen .

In the second half of the 13th century, the Wald monastery received most of the town from the possession of a Lord von Kallenberg . Another part was acquired by the monastery from the Lords of Reischach with the consent of the abbot of Reichenau monastery as feudal lord . The owners of the count's rights changed with the owners of the Grafschaft Sigmaringen until the rights were transferred to Austria in 1783 with the patronage of Kloster Wald von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen .

The monastery remained local ruler until 1806. Then the village, like the entire forest territory, fell to the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as a result of the monastery secularization due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and in 1850 to Prussia as the Hohenzollern country . From 1806 Walbertsweiler belonged to the princely and from 1850 to 1862 Prussian Oberamt Wald , since then to the Oberamt and, since 1925, the Sigmaringen district . In the 13th century, lords of Bußmann, von Eberhardsweiler, von Henneberg, von Homburg, von Schnerkingen, vonzimmer and in the 12th and 13th centuries the Monastery of Salem had ownership and rights in the village .

On January 1, 1975 Walbertsweiler was incorporated into Wald.

Population development

was standing	Residents
June 18, 2008	643
Dec 31, 2010	639
Dec 31, 2014	643

politics

Mayor

• 1999–2009: Franz Bosch

coat of arms

Blazon : In a shield in black split twice by black, gold and blue, a double-rowed red and silver sloping bar .

The Cistercian bar expresses the former affiliation to the Wald monastery. The Lords of Kallenberg used a shield split in gold and blue as their coat of arms. They were the predecessors of the Wald monastery in Walbertsweiler.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Parish Church of St. Gallus

• Today's Catholic parish church St. Gallus probably had a medieval predecessor church. This was replaced by a new building completed on July 14, 1869 in the neo-Gothic style under the princely-Hohenzollern state master builder Josef Laur (1817–1886). This church had a facade tower with a height of 45 meters and was 33 meters long, 10 meters wide and had an internal height of 10.50 meters, plus side buttresses. On November 15, 1959, a day of national mourning, the tower collapsed at 8.15 p.m. In doing so he fell lengthways across the village street into the parish garden, with his helmet still grazing the parsonage, the tower cross smacking the parsonage door. 15 minutes earlier, the rosary prayer to commemorate the war victims had ended. The vibrations of the bells are likely to have been the last trigger for the collapse. The cause was defects in the building material used: For the foundation of the church building, an unstable coarse sandstone from the upper sea ​​molasse from a quarry near Rengetsweiler was used, and tuff stones were walled in on the top floor of the tower. After the construction of the church could not be released again, the Archbishop's Ordinariate Freiburg initially commissioned the Archbishop's Building Authority of Constance under Max Schätzle to design a church without a tower. A cheaper alternative design with a tower came from the architect A. Seiler. Four years after the church tower collapsed, today's parish church was consecrated in the practical style of the 1960s by the Freiburg auxiliary bishop Karl Gnädinger. The equipment includes a late Gothic enthroned Mary with the baby Jesus on her right knee (around 1520), a crucifixion group on the front wall of the choir and below it seven paintings of the apostles, as well as a baroque St. Gallus with the bear. The ringing includes three bells that remained undamaged when it collapsed, a smaller one, cast in the 13th or 14th century, and two larger ones, including the Regina bell, in the 16th century. They rang the bell in the previous church.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Walbertsweiler on the website of the community of Wald
2. ↑ Falko Hahn (fah): It was once called Waldrameswilare . In: Südkurier from June 14, 2005
3. ^ 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. 550 .
4. ^ ^{A b} Sandra Häusler: The phone keeps ringing . In: Südkurier of June 18, 2008
5. ↑ Information from Werner Müller, Mayor of the Wald community, dated January 11, 2011.
6. ↑ Siegfried Volk (siv): Nine local councils adopted . In: Südkurier from June 20, 2009
7. ↑ St. Gallus Church in Walbertsweiler  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   on the website of the pastoral care unit forest
8. ↑ Falko Hahn (fah): When the church tower in Walbertsweiler fell over 55 years ago . In: Südkurier from November 15, 2014
9. ↑ Manfred Hermann: 150 years Eulogius-Ritt Aftholderberg - churches of the pastoral care unit forest . ed. from the pastoral care unit forest, 2006

literature

• Wald community (ed.): 800 years of forest . Meßkirch 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023978-6 .
• Walther Genzmer (Ed.): The art monuments of Hohenzollern . tape 2 : Sigmaringen district. W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.

Web links

• www.walbertsweiler.de
• Walbertsweiler on the website of the community of Wald