Weier (Offenburg)

Weier City of Offenburg
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 9 ″  E
Area :	4.15 km²
Residents :	1650
Population density :	398 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st December 1971
Postal code :	77656

Weier is a district of Offenburg in Baden-Württemberg in the Ortenau district with around 1,650 inhabitants.

Naming

In old scripts the village is called Wilre . This name comes from the Roman villare and changed over time to today's name Weier . The name also has the same meaning in the word hamlet . Places with this name are mostly in areas that were once occupied by the Romans. The name Weier has nothing to do with a water point ( pond ). The name changed its spelling several times: 1347 Weyr , 1424 Wilar , 1561 Weyler , 1633 Weyhr , 1657 Weier and later again Weyhr for short .

history

The place probably evolved from a Roman homestead. So far, however, no documents have been found with which the exact foundation of the town can be determined. More recent finds (on April 12, 1956 during excavation work near the children's school) even suggest that settlements must have existed here in the early Stone Age (4000–1800 BC).

It can no longer be historically proven when the place or the parish of Weier was founded, but based on the town register it can be said that Weier used to be a purely farming village, but has developed into a purely residential area until today. It was not until 1347 that the name “Weier” appeared for the first time in documents. In the annals of the Allerheiligen monastery one can read that, according to a letter of purchase, Burkhard Schalle von Weier , a serf , has to pay ten pfennigs interest annually for his garden “By der Kirchen” . From this time on, the development of the village of Weier can be followed on the basis of documents and reports.

A population of 150 souls is given as early as 1350. The relatively strong and rapid development of the population in the last ten years is due to the increase in residential construction. From a bird's eye view, you can clearly distinguish the new residential areas from the old village center. On December 1, 1971, after a public hearing in May 1971, as part of the administrative reform, the municipality was incorporated into the city of Offenburg on a voluntary basis.

History of the parish

In 1391 Weier came to the Order of St. John in Strasbourg. In 1531 there is talk of the parish church of St. Johann zu Weyhr by Offenburg . In the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War the parish could not survive. According to an episcopal Strasbourg church visitation notice from 1699, the Weier church was incorporated into the Bühl parish church, and Weier was elevated to a parish in 1755. 1733 erected the parish grounds. As Weier to Jung-St. Peter belonged, there was probably a church or chapel on the site of today's church. Built towards the end of the 15th century as the predecessor of today's church. The churches used to be built in a west-east direction. Today's neo-Gothic parish church was built between 1880 and 1882 . The length of the old church was taken as the width of the new church (construction now north-south direction). A massive tower was erected above the choir of the old church (previously it was a roof turret). The choir of the old church is now the baptistery .

In 1880 the present church was completely renovated. It is known that from 1949 pastor Wilhelm Wacker performed his work there and was replaced by pastor Norbert Hertweck in 1965.

coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms of the community shows a Maltese cross , covered in the middle with a shield with three rings.

The parish of Weier belonged to the Order of St. John in Strasbourg from 1391 . This means that the community was also under the rule of the Johanniter, with the Maltese cross presumably being adopted as the community's coat of arms.

Education and culture

With the growth of the district at the end of the 1960s, the urgency of building a new schoolhouse and a gym came to the fore. The old schoolhouse was built around the turn of the century and contained two classrooms. In 1967 the community expanded the kindergarten, with one of the new rooms being made available for the school. This enabled a third teacher to be employed and thus the combined classes to be separated. The number of students had risen to 126 in 1971, and the brisk construction activity in Weier indicated that further growth could be expected. As early as 1962, the community was worried about a new classroom due to this increase, but these plans had to be canceled for the first time in the course of the school's development.

It was not until 1969 that the community received the order again to put out an architectural competition for the construction of a neighborhood school for the four Gottswald communities. In spring 1972 the construction of the new school finally began. So on June 2, 1973, the new school and the gymnasium and festival hall could be inaugurated.

societies

Wierer frog

Despite the proximity of Offenburg with its cultural institutions, there has always been a lively association activity in Weier.

• the men's choir Eintracht Weier was founded in 1877,
• The Edelweiß cycling club can also look back on a long club history, which it was founded in 1902,
• the football club Weier has existed since 1929,
• the Musikverein Weier , was founded in 1953,
• The Weier tennis club was founded in 1979 with its own playground.

Weier has also been active for a number of years during the carnival season.

• the Weier witch group has existed since 1966
• and the guild of fools Wierer Frösch was founded in 1979.
• The musical offspring of the Weier fool's guild is the Knallfrosch-Combo , which was launched in 1995

Regular events

• Carnival
• Easter concert of the music associations - on the weekend before the Easter holidays
• traditional May March of the Musikverein on May 1st since 1953
• Knallfrosch-Combo Night - the first weekend in October

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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. 500 .

Web links

• Homepage of the community