Westerstetten
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Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ' N , 9 ° 57' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Tübingen | |
| County : | Alb-Danube district | |
| Height : | 544 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 13.09 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2190 (December 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 167 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 89198 | |
| Primaries : | 0731, 07348, 07336 | |
| License plate : | UL | |
| Community key : | 08 4 25 135 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Kirchstrasse 3 89198 Westerstetten |
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| Mayor : | Alexander Bourke | |
| Location of the municipality of Westerstetten in the Alb-Danube district | ||
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Westerstetten is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg .
geography
Westerstetten is located in the Lone Valley on the Swabian Alb approx. 10 km north of Ulm .
Neighboring communities
The community borders in the north on Weidenstetten , in the east on Holzkirch and Breitingen , in the south on Beimerstetten , in the south-west on Dornstadt and in the north-west on Lonsee .
structure
In addition to the main town, Westerstetten also includes the districts of Birkhof, Hinterdenkental and Vorderdenkental .
history
Prehistory and early history
The Lone Valley with its karst caves was a popular settlement area as early as the Stone Age . Since there are no caves in the municipality of Westerstetter, no significant finds have been made here.
Roman times
From 75 AD a Roman road connected the forts Ad Lunam near Lonsee-Urspring and Aquilea near Heidenheim. As the Alblimes , this road temporarily formed the outer border of the Roman Empire . The course of the Römerstraße can still be seen in Westerstetter municipality today: along the Lone it led roughly in the area of today's main street through the town. At the end of the village it split into two routes, one of which follows the Lone towards Breitingen, while the other leaves the Lone Valley and roughly corresponds to today's district road to Bernstadt. A Roman settlement has not been proven in the Westerstetter area.
Alemannic-Franconian time
After the Great Migration, the Alemanni settled in the Swabian Alb. Numerous localities in the vicinity of Westerstetten are clearly characterized by the suffix -ingen as Alemannic foundations (e.g. Tomerdingen ). In contrast, the suffix -stadt or -stetten originally only denotes an uninhabited site, e.g. B. a pasture or drinking trough. The first part of the place name indicates a direction. The counterpart to Westerstetten, the small hamlet of Osterstetten , is eight kilometers to the east.
The exact origins are unknown. In any case, when the church was rebuilt from 1717 to 1721, Alemannic row graves were found - a form of burial that was increasingly replaced after 800. The patronage of the Franconian national saint St. Martin also suggests a church foundation at that time and an associated settlement.
High and late Middle Ages
The place Westerstetten was first mentioned in a document in 1225, but the Lords of Westerstetten were first mentioned as early as 1094. The knight nobles of the place were probably feudal takers of the Lords of Helfenstein . Since several of those from Westerstetten occupied higher positions in monasteries and courts between the 11th and 14th centuries, it can be assumed that the respected family existed long before that.
The Lords of Westerstetten resided in a castle near today's Birkhof. As a result of armed conflicts between Ulrich von Württemberg , in whose service the Lords of Westerstetten stood, and the Swabian League of Cities under the leadership of Ulm, the castle was destroyed in 1378 and only rebuilt to a limited extent. In 1414, the Lords of Westerstetten sold their ancestral home and town to the Elchingen monastery . The castle was finally destroyed in 1525. Its appearance was reconstructed in the middle of the 20th century, but no reconstruction was undertaken.
In the 14th century, the von Westerstetten family split into several lines that settled in different places. The best-known offspring is the Eichstätt Bishop Johann Christoph von Westerstetten from the Altenburg line. The family died out in 1649.
After 1414
From 1414 to 1803 Westerstetten was owned by the Elchingen Monastery . Together with Tomerdingen and Dornstadt, the place formed the Tomerdingen Care Office. When the ecclesiastical rule of the monastery ended with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the place with Elchingen became part of Bavaria . The course of the border between Bavaria and Württemberg was finally determined in a treaty in 1810 and Westerstetten became part of Württemberg.
At the end of the Second World War , Westerstetten was liberated by American troops in April 1945 after some “unteachable” had tried to stop the Allies at the railway underpass at the entrance to the town. In the - popularly known - Jewish grave in the cemetery lie eight concentration camp prisoners who were murdered shortly before the end of the war and initially buried in the "Gurgelhau" forest .
During the regional reform of Baden-Württemberg in 1975, Westerstetten was able to maintain its independence. Due to the designation of new building areas and the proximity to Ulm, the place has since grown to a size of over 2000 inhabitants.
mayor
In November 2011, Alexander Bourke (independent) was elected as the new mayor with 68.4 percent of the vote.
Culture, economy and infrastructure
Buildings and sights
- Parish Church of St. Martin
St. Martin's Church in the center of the village is the jewel of the community. The important late baroque building was built between 1717 and 1721, presumably according to plans by the Elchingen monastery master builder Christian Wiedemann. The substructure of the tower comes from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century, the onion dome top was put on in 1710. The furnishings are inconsistent and thus reflect the path taken by the parish. The high altar , pulpit and stalls date from the time it was built, the two side altars are older and probably originally stood in the Elchingen monastery church. In 1892 the church was painted in a baroque style: the main ceiling painting shows the Assumption of Mary into heaven, the ceiling painting of the ship shows the church patron St. Martin dividing the mantle. Saint Martin is also shown in two other pictures, in the rearmost ceiling painting (covered by the organ) as a hermit and in the upper picture of the main altar as a bishop in Westerstetten. In 1983 the church got a new ring with four bells. Since July 2008 a new organ has been installed on the two rear galleries.
- Kreuzberg with Stations of the Cross
The Way of the Cross on the Kreuzberg was laid out in 1868 and inaugurated in February 1869. In 1947, today's Kreuzberg Chapel was built to replace a previous building.
- new town hall
The new town hall was inaugurated in 1984. A sgraffito by the Westerstetter plasterer and plasterer master Adolf Wengemeyer in the stairwell is worth seeing , showing the Westerstetter coat of arms and a view of the former castle.
- Railway museum in the old station
After the construction of a new station in 2005, the old station was acquired by the municipality and renovated by Modellbahnfreunde Westerstetten eV until 2007 . A small railway museum documents the regional history of the station and railway operations.
traffic
Westerstetten is located on the Stuttgart-Ulm railway line ( Filstalbahn ) and has had a newly built station since August 2005, which replaces the previous station. Regional trains run to Ulm and Geislingen every hour .
There are only four ways to cross the railway line in the Westerstetter district: The railway bridge between the Birkhof and Vorderdenkental; the underpass at the entrance to the village, which was renovated in 1994; the original from 1848, well worth seeing, but only open to agricultural traffic, cyclists and pedestrians; as well as the pedestrian underpass with stairs, also from 1848, called the night dolphin .
Westerstetten is well connected to the supraregional road network by federal highway 10 , which runs through the Westerstetten district near Hinterdenkental.
economy
Westerstetten was dominated by agriculture until well into the 20th century. Today there are a few full-time farms in Westerstetten and the suburbs . A large part of the workforce works in other areas and benefits as commuters from the good road and rail connections between the town and Ulm.
Westerstetten has numerous long-established as well as newly established craft and service companies. The Häuslesäcker industrial area has been designated for new company buildings . The most visible company is the quarry near the old train station, where Jura limestone has been mined and processed into crushed stone and lime for decades .
The real law existing in Westerstetten is a special forestry feature . There is no private forest in the municipality . Instead, resident families are entitled to a certain amount of solid wood and a piece of brushwood from the community forest every year . The wood felled by the community's forest workers is distributed to the entitled persons in a real lot over the course of the winter.
societies
Westerstetten has a lively club life. With the exception of the denominational musical associations (church choir and trombone choir) and motorcycle enthusiasts , all clubs are organized in the Westerstetter Vereinsring and jointly organize the village festival that takes place every year in and in front of the Lonetalhalle.
The clubs in detail:
- musical associations
- Gesangverein Vorderdenkental eV (mixed choir)
- Liederkranz Westerstetten eV (mixed choir)
- Musikverein Westerstetten eV (youth band and wind orchestra)
- Protestant trombone choir
- Catholic church choir St. Martin (youth choir and mixed choir)
- Clubs with sporting activities
- Rifle club Westerstetten
- Swabian Alb Association
- TSV Westerstetten
- other clubs
- BUND local group Westerstetten
- Westerstetten volunteer fire department
- Country women's association Westerstetten
- Model train enthusiasts Westerstetten
- Motorbike friends Westerstetten
Sports
Westerstetten has several sports facilities that are operated or used by clubs or are available to the public.
- Lonetalhalle (multi-purpose hall and at the same time sports hall of the primary school)
- Sports field with club house of TSV Westerstetten and various outdoor sports facilities, u. a. Soccer field, triple fistball court, tennis courts, beach volleyball field and mini golf course
- Rifle house of the Westerstetten rifle club
- Bowling alley in the Lonetalhalle
In addition, the varied landscape in the Lone Valley and the adjacent heights offers an ideal environment for hiking, cycling, jogging, Nordic walking and, if there is enough snow in winter, even cross-country skiing.
education
In Westerstetten there is a kindergarten , which was run by the Catholic parish of St. Martin until the 1980s and since then by the civil parish, as well as a primary school . Secondary schools are located in Dornstadt (secondary and secondary schools) and in Ulm (all types of schools).
Religious Associations
Because it belongs to the Elchingen Monastery, Westerstetten is traditionally predominantly Catholic , while the three districts of Birkhof, Vorder- and Hinterdenkental are predominantly Protestant .
The Catholics belong to the parish of St. Martin Westerstetten. In addition to Westerstetten, this parish also includes the predominantly Protestant communities of Altheim (Alb) , Weidenstetten , Holzkirch , Breitingen and Neenstetten as subsidiary communities. This makes it the largest parish in terms of area in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . The parish forms a pastoral care unit together with the parish of Mary Queen of Lonsee .
The Protestant Christians in Vorderdenkental and Westerstetten belong to the parish of Beimerstetten-Vorderdenkental. The Evangelical Gustav Adolf Church exists in Vorderdenkental. In Westerstetten they enjoy hospitality for church services in the Catholic St Martins Church.
The Protestant Christians from Hinterdenkental belong to the Luizhausen parish.
As a result of immigration and conversion, members of other denominations and religious communities can now also be found in Westerstetten, who, however, have no opportunities for worship in Westerstetten.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Monsignor Ernst Tatarko (Catholic parish priest 1958–2001); died on August 5, 2013
- Hermann Krieger (Mayor 1987–2011)
Sons and daughters of the church
- Heinrich von Westerstetten (around 1355), nobleman from Württemberg
- Benedikt Denzel OSB, (1692–1767), abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen
Others
Named after Westerstetten ( Westerstetten pattern ), a geological structure of unclear origin was established.
literature
- Eugen Heisler: Westerstetten - Chronicle of a village in the Ulmer Alb . 2nd Edition. Published by the Catholic parish of Westerstetten, 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 104f.
- ↑ Sound recording of the full bells in the parish church of St. Martin
- ↑ Church music Westerstetten - Our Church
- ↑ http://www.westerstetten.de/verzeichnis/index.php?mandat Typ= 2
- ↑ http://www.kirchengemeinde-westerstetten.de
- ↑ http://www.swp.de/ulm/lokales/alb_donau/Trauer-um-Pfarrer-Ernst-Tatarko;art4299,2143560
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