Waldmühlbach

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Waldmühlbach
Municipality Billigheim
Waldmühlbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '38 "  N , 9 ° 16' 55"  E
Height : 265 m
Area : 9.47 km²
Residents : 655  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 69 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1973
Postal code : 74842
Area code : 06265

Waldmühlbach is a district of the community Billigheim in the north of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Waldmühlbach is the easternmost part of the community of Billigheim and lies between Billigheim and Roigheim .

history

The first documentary mention of Waldmühlbach comes from the year 1108. The provost of the Würzburg Neumünsterstift transferred his property in Waldmühlbach to the Comburg monastery . Waldmühlbach developed around a single courtyard. 1305 sold the Waldmühlbach monastery to the Julianenstift in Mosbach . In 1358 Waldmühlbach came to Kurmainz and has since been part of the Allfeld winery .

In the Thirty Years War , the Waldmühlbach district was also largely devastated. Around 1700, the headquarters of the winery moved from Allfeld to Billigheim. Kurmainz was sovereign. The central sovereignty in the place, however, lay with the Duchy of Württemberg . Waldmühlbach belonged to the Zent Möckmühl .

In 1803, in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the County of Leiningen-Billigheim was formed from the cheap home of the Electorate of Mainz . The county came to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806 . However, the count kept as Standesherr some privileges. Up until 1830 the peasants were liable to the civil servant and until the revolution of 1848/1849 also taxable.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the historically shaped local structures were lost. In the Grand Duchy of Baden, open spaces developed and Waldmühlbach became a self-governing municipality.

In 1952 the place was completely connected to a public water supply.

On December 31, 1973, Waldmühlbach was incorporated into the community of Billigheim.

Religions

Due to the long affiliation to Kurmainz, Waldmühlbach is largely Catholic . Today 70% of the population are Catholic and 15% Protestant . There is a Catholic parish on site. Katzental has been a branch municipality since the middle of the 17th century . The parish is now part of the pastoral care unit Billigheim-Schefflenz.

Population development

year population
1894 674
1933 609
1939 586
1945 651
1961 681
1970 671
2007 633

coat of arms

Coat of arms Waldmuehlbach.png

The blazon reads: In a half-split and split shield at the top in front in gold a four-spoke black mill wheel, in the back in silver a blue sloping bar, below in blue a red-armored, red-tongued silver eagle.

Attractions

The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus in the center of the village was built in 1886 according to plans by Ludwig Maier as a three-aisled basilica in the style of historicism with echoes of Gothic and Romanesque. The school and town hall opposite the church dates from 1837. It was the town's schoolhouse until 1965. Until 1881, the town hall was also located in the building.

  • Former school and town hall

  • Catholic Church of St. Nicholas

literature

  • Working group Heimatbuch Waldmühlbach (ed.): Mein Waldmühlbach - Heimatbuch 2008 . ISBN 3-88260-080-2 .

Web links

Commons : Waldmühlbach  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Württemberger Urkundenbuch Volume I., No. A13, pages 400–401
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 484 .
  3. ↑ Neumanns Orts-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de  
  4. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. mosbach.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ↑ Communications from the Württ. And Bad. State Statistical Office No. 2: Results of the population census on December 31, 1945 in North Baden
  6. ↑ http://www.billigheim.de