Westheim (rose garden)
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Westheim
Municipality Rosengarten
Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 7 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 17 ″ E
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| Height : | 316 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 2628 |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 74538 |
| Area code : | 0791 |
 Rosengarten-Westheim, cemetery chapel next to Martinskirche
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Westheim is the oldest and now the largest village in the Rosengarten community, which was newly created in 1972 as part of the community reform in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
Westheim is close to the confluence of the beaver, which flows southeast here, into the Kocher am, which flows here northeast, at about 310 m above sea level. NHN up to 380 m above sea level. NHN elevating spur slope. Two very small old settlement cores are located at the foot of the slope towards the Kocher and the Bibers, the settlement extensions have meanwhile grown up to the plateau. The village is traversed by Bundesstraße 19 from Schwäbisch Hall in the north to Gaildorf in the south, and it is roughly halfway between the two cities.
In the area of the old community of Westheim, in addition to the eponymous village, there is also the hamlet of Berghof auf dem Sporn, which has grown together with Westheim today, as well as the hamlets of Ziegelmühle and Vohenstein, close to each other beyond the lowest beaver.
The district extends over the populated and open locations on valley, valley slopes and on the hills also to forests, southeast up to the 466.9 m above sea level. NHN high Mattelberg on the western edge of the Limpurger Mountains and particularly far southwest over the Steinbühl ( 484.4 m above sea level ) to the foot of the Suhlbühl in the south-eastern Mainhardt Forest , where the with a little over 495 m above sea level. NHN is the highest point of the district. The minimum sea level is about 305 m above sea level. NHN the Kocher flowing out in the far north.
history
On the occasion of the donation of goods in Oberrot "in Kochergau in Westheimer district" by the Abbess Hiltisnot from the monastery tree Erlenbach to the Lorsch Abbey West home is 788 in the Lorsch codex first mentioned. In 1054, King Heinrich III. the royal estate at Westheim to the Murrhardt monastery . The lords of Westheim are documented from 1112 to 1378 and died out at the end of the 14th century. The Counts of Westheim were descendants of the Kochergaugrafen Maorlach and were the founders of the saltworks and founders of the Church of St. Katharina and the Jakobskirche and the monastery of Schwäbisch Hall .
On January 1, 1972, Westheim, Uttenhofen and Rieden were merged to form the new municipality of Rosengarten due to the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ to the location on the community website of Rosengarten
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 13, June 7, 788 - Reg. 2037. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 69 , accessed on September 19, 2018 .
- ^ 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. 456 .
literature
- Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6924 Gaildorf
- Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 217 ( archive.org ).
