Wiblingen

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Wiblingen
City of Ulm
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 487 m above sea level NN
Residents : 16,156  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Incorporation : April 1, 1927
Postal code : 89079
Area code : 0731
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Location of Wiblingen in Ulm

Wiblingen is a district in the south of the city of Ulm , in the east of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

The district is located south of Ulm and west of the Iller , which also forms the border with the Free State of Bavaria . Wiblingen, on the Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse , is the last village on the Iller before it flows into the Danube at the so-called “Illerspitze” shortly before Ulm .

history

The most famous building is the baroque complex of the former Wiblinger Benedictine monastery , which was donated in 1093 by Count Hartmann and Otto von Kirchberg. The monastery church, in which a relic with particles of the cross of Christ is venerated, was elevated to a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1993 .

Until the abolition of the monastery in the course of secularization in 1806, the Wiblingen population served it. The farmers in Wiblingen had to pay taxes to the monastery from the income from agriculture, which gave the villagers the fiefs , the so-called Sölden . The local craftsmen were also "employed" by the monastery and had to help with the construction of the facility. From 1808 to 1822, Duke Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Württemberg served the secularized monastery as his residence. The military crew of 120 cavalry men was also housed there, and Heinrich headed it with the rank of lieutenant general of the cavalry. From the middle of the 19th century until the Second World War , barracks were housed in the former convent buildings of the Benedictine monastery.

The once heavily agricultural village with a few hundred inhabitants was incorporated into Ulm on April 1, 1927. After the Second World War, more social housing was built for refugees and displaced persons . Many guest workers and repatriates from the Soviet Union were later settled in Wiblingen . In the 1970s and 1980s, large blocks of flats and multi-family houses were built, so that the number of inhabitants rose dramatically to 17,500 by 1990 and the village, as a dormitory city, lost its former rural-rural character. After 1990 the number of inhabitants decreased again and is now around 16,000.

politics

Town twinning

Wiblingen is twinned with the French city of Argenton-sur-Creuse .

Wiblinger voter community

The Wiblinger voter community is a free voter community that wants to represent the interests of the district. It has been represented by 3 city councils in the Ulm municipal council since 2009 and forms a parliamentary group there with other constituencies.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

  • Albert Einstein High School . There are partner schools in the twin town of Argenton-sur-Creuse as well as in Sion in Switzerland and in Newtown in the state of Pennsylvania in the USA.
  • Albert Einstein Secondary School (with evening secondary school)

The grammar school and the secondary school are both housed in a common school center.

Culture

The Wiblinger Bach Days have been held once a year since 1985 . The artistic director, Cantor Albrecht Schmid from Wiblingen , has works by Johann Sebastian Bach performed in the series of events .

sons and daughters of the town

People in connection with Wiblingen

  • Margit Eckholt (* 1960), theologian and university professor, spent her childhood and youth in Wiblingen

Web links

Wikisource: Wiblingen in the description of the Oberamt Laupheim from 1856  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwörrede 2009. In: ulm.de .
  2. ↑ Our cantor. In: wiblinger-kantorei.de .
  3. ^ Beate Storz: Theologian Margit Eckholt visits her old parish. In: Südwest Presse , October 10, 2016.