Wheat (stühlingen)

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wheat
City of Stühlingen
Coat of arms of wheat
Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 513 m
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 79780
Area code : 07744

Wheat is a district of the Baden-Württemberg city ​​of Stühlingen in the Waldshut district .

geography

Wheat lies at 513  m above sea level. NHN in a side valley of the Wutach am Ehrenbach above Stühlingen on the border with the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen .

history

Bronze Age grave goods were discovered during the construction of a barn in 1877, a bronze sword, an ax, a dagger, a 25 cm long needle and a belt buckle as well as a gold ring. Except for the gold ring, the finds came to the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe .

The place is mentioned as Wizia in Alpegauia for the first time in 778 in a document of the St. Gallen monastery . This is also the oldest mention of the Alpgau . A Walter de Wizen is named 1107. At the end of the 12th century, Walter and Gerung von Wizen took up residence in the city of Schaffhausen. In 1275 the monastery of St. Blasien received donations from property in Weizen, in 1353 this also owned the mill. In 1350 the Bishop of Constance, Ulrich Pfefferhard, handed over the patronage rights of the Church of Weizen to the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen , which it remained until it was abolished in 1529. In 1727 the church became a branch of the Schwaningen parish through Bishop Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg .

On January 1, 1975, wheat was incorporated into the city of Stühlingen.

church

St. Konrad Church
The wheat museum station
Stop at the Sto company

The present church was rebuilt in 1838 and is dedicated to St. Conrad .

traffic

STO

Wheat lies on the federal highway 314 and on the Wutachtalbahn . The former train station no longer exists. In 2004, the wheat station was opened for museum railroad visitors . In this context, the station was given a historical roof, which comes from the Freiburg main station .

economy

The Sto company developed from a limestone quarry through various innovations . It has a siding and a stop on the Wutachtalbahn.

literature

  • Helmut Vocke (ed.), Chronicle of the Waldshut District , 1957
  • Norbert Nothelfer (ed.), Der Kreis Waldshut , 1979
  • Waldemar Lutz and Hansjörg Noe (eds.): Identifier WT Heimatkunde for the district of Waldshut , Reinhard Caspers (Mithrsg.), 1989, ISBN 3-12-258330-5
  • City of Tiengen (Upper Rhine): The Klettgau , Franz Schmid (Ed.), 1971; (still an authoritative monograph, with contributions by: Ruth Blum , Eugen Fürstos, Richard Gäng , Josef Hirt-Elmer, Josef Isele, Helmut Maurer , Ludwig Mayer, Emil Müller-Ettikon, Heinrich Münz, Helmut Naumann, Alois Nohl, Alfons Peter, Ernst Rüedi, Franz Schmid, Karel Schwarzenberg , Ignatz Stein, Heinz Voellner, Karl Friedrich-Wernet, Hans Jakob Wörner)

Web links

Commons : Wheat  - Collection of pictures, 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. 523 .
  2. ^ Article in the Südkurier Author: Gernot Suttheimer