Waltershofen (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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Coat of arms Freiburg
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Waltershofen
Freiburg im Breisgau
City district Freiburg (FR)
Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Location in the urban district of Freiburg
Basic data
District with local administration of Freiburg
District number: 56
Structure: 1 district (560)
incorporated on: July 1, 1972
Geographic location : 48 ° 1 '26 "  N , 7 ° 43' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '26 "  N , 7 ° 43' 17"  E
Height : 200  m above sea level NN
Area : 6.29  km²
Residents : 2,169 (January 1, 2018)
Population density : 345 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : 6%
Postal code : 79112
Area code : 07665

Administration address : 		Local administration Waltershofen
Schulhalde 12
79112 Freiburg
Internet presence: Freiburg-Waltershofen
politics
Mayor : Petra Zimmermann
Dialect: Alemannic
Main variant: Lower Alemannic
Regional variant: Upper Rhine Manish
Local variant: Breisgau

Waltershofen is a district with its own local administration of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau . It is located approx. 15 km west of the city on the Tuniberg in the vicinity of the independent communities of Gottenheim , Merdingen and Umkirch in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district and the village of Opfingen to the south , also a district of Freiburg.

2169 people live in Waltershofen (Jan. 2018). The area of ​​the district is 629.10 ha (as of December 31, 2010).

The partner town is Waltershofen in the Allgäu .

history

Waltershofen was first mentioned in a document in 1139. During the Middle Ages, the village belonged to the St. Märgen monastery . Various noble families from Breisgau, such as the Schnewlin and the Dachswangen, were the local lords. Due to impoverishment, the St. Märgen Monastery had to sell this property at the end of the 15th century. Alternating aristocratic families continued to rule over the place, which fell to the state of Baden in 1806 and with this became part of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. On July 1, 1972, the village was incorporated into Freiburg. Petra Zimmermann has been the mayor since 2015.

landscape

In the southeast of the Waltershofen district, bordering the Rieselfeld nature reserve and the Mundenhof , lies the Mooswald nature reserve . It is cut in north-south direction by the federal highway 5 . To the west of it lies the Waltershofener See. It was created from 1967 to 1969 through gravel mining for the Freiburg-Mitte motorway access road and is the most nutrient-polluted lake in Baden-Württemberg. These were entered through the groundwater from the Freiburg Rieselfeld until the early 1980s. The result was algae blooms and fish deaths, as oxygen was no longer available from a water depth of two meters. Since 2010, the water has been circulated using solar power, so oxygen also reaches deeper layers.

Buildings

The center of the village is the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul , which was built by Christoph Arnold in the Weinbrenner style between 1816 and 1819 , after the parish of Wippertskirch, which was also the church of the Schuttern monastery since 1136, moved to Waltershofen in 1815 was relocated. The church was built in Waltershofen on the site of a St. Margareten chapel, which had stood there since around 1270.

  • St. Peter and Paul main entrance

  • Catholic Church of
    St. Peter and Paul

  • Grave tablets on
    St. Peter and Paul

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 .
  2. ^ Hermann Brommer : Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul Freiburg-Waltershofen . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1987.
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View over Waltershofen towards Freiburg and the Black Forest