Hamlet (Obersulm)

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hamlet
municipality Obersulm
Coat of arms of the hamlet
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : approx. 210–240 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : May 1, 1972
Postal code : 74182
Area code : 07130
View of the hamlet with the Breitenauer See in the background
View of the hamlet with the Breitenauer See in the background

Weiler is a district of the municipality Obersulm in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg .

history

Weiler was probably created as an extension of the town of Neidlingen that was once adjacent to the south . The place was first mentioned in 1037 and was the ancestral seat of the barons von Weiler , an old noble family from Württemberg. Due to the medieval castle, the predecessor of Weiler Castle , Weiler soon gained more importance than Neidlingen, which sank around 1400. In 1805 the place came to Württemberg. On May 1, 1972, the new municipality of Obersulm was created through the merger of the municipalities of Affaltrach, Eichelberg, Eschenau, Weiler bei Weinsberg and Willsbach. On January 1, 1975, Sülzbach was incorporated.

coat of arms

  • Coat of arms of the hamlet

The blazon of the coat of arms of Weiler reads: A red inclined bar in silver, accompanied on both sides by a black stag pole pointing downwards after the figure.

The coat of arms goes back to a proposal by the archives directorate from 1959 and combines elements of the coat of arms of the Lords of Weiler (a red sloping bar in silver) and Württemberg (the stag bars ). It was awarded to the community on July 13, 1960 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior.

Culture and sights

Museums

There has been a school museum in Weiler since 1995 (the largest of its kind in Baden-Württemberg), to which a toy museum has been attached since 2010.

Buildings

Weiler Castle
  • Weiler Castle probably goes back to a medieval moated castle and was rebuilt from 1588. One of the largest horse chestnuts in Germany is located in the palace gardens.
  • The former Rentamt with decorative truss and Renaissance - Portal of 1558 is located in adjacent to the castle former manor, where there are also historic outbuildings.
  • The Evangelical Church “Our Lady of Hamlet” is a choir tower from 1399 and was expanded in 1758. The ship had to be rebuilt in 1931 because of damp subsoil and masonry. The architect was probably Emil Weippert from Stuttgart. A sacristy was also added to the east and a small stained glass tower choir window decorated with Christian symbols: Alpha and Omega, the Christ initials Chi and Rho and the Eye of God. The church contains two bells from the 15th century and grave monuments of the Lords of Weiler and belongs to the Protestant parish of Weiler-Eichelberg in the church district of Weinsberg-Neuenstadt of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . Up until the 1930s there was a winged altar in the church, originally in the castle chapel of Lichtenberg Castle , which was then sold and has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Cloisters Collection, Acc. No. 53.21) since 1953 .
  • In the center there are several late medieval and Renaissance half-timbered houses .
  • The school museum is housed in the old school house. The new school and town hall was built in 1875. The bakery dates from the 19th century.
  • In the cemetery there is the family crypt of the Barons von Weiler , which was established around 1850 in an old pilgrimage church.

  • Rent office at Weiler Castle

  • church

  • Freiherrengruft, former pilgrimage church

  • Bakehouse

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. 451 .
  2. ^ 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. 465 .
  3. ↑ Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 148
  4. ↑ Otto Friedrich: Evangelical churches in the deanery Weinsberg - picture reading book ; ed. Ev. Deanery Weinsberg, 2003
  5. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community of Weiler-Eichelberg
  6. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Weinsberg-Neuenstadt
  7. ↑ triptych from Weiler at metmuseum.org

literature

  • Obersulm. Six villages - one municipality . Obersulm municipality, Obersulm 1997.
  • Weiler In: Description of the Oberamt Weinsberg , 1861 ( Wikisource )

Web links

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