Wiechs (Schopfheim)
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Wiechs
City of Schopfheim
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| Height : | 442 m |
| Area : | 6.58 km² |
| Residents : | 1435 (Dec. 31, 1990) |
| Population density : | 218 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 |
| Postal code : | 79650 |
The village of Wiechs in the southern Black Forest is now part of the city of Schopfheim . Wiechs is located in the south of Schopfheim on the northern slope of the Dinkelberg .
history
Wiechs was first mentioned in a document in 807 as Wechsa . "Wechsa" "comes from the Celtic and means: Cold water Here possessions were the. Monastery of St. Gall The corridor designations Upper rings and Niederenningen in the district Wiechs point to another, sunken in the Middle Ages as Enikon known village, called. Wüstung In the 14th century Wiechs belonged under the names Wiehs and Wiechs to the possession and sphere of influence of the monastery of St. Blasien . Wiechs became an independent municipality in 1809. As part of the municipal territorial reform, the place came to Schopfheim on January 1st, 1975.
In 1989 the forest "Auf den Heidengräbern" was partially devastated by a storm. Quarry stones from burial chambers and skeletons were found in erect root stocks. It turned out that around a large, already destroyed Stone Age burial mound from the 3rd millennium BC, there was a group of Merovingian stone slab graves from the 7th century AD. While the Alemanni received weapons and jewelry as gifts for the afterlife, flint arrowheads, jewelry beads, rubble hammers and pierced animal teeth were found in the Stone Age burial mound. a. of brown bear and wild cat.
coat of arms
In blue a silver three-mountain . On the tops of each a golden ear of corn, the middle one with two leaves, the outer one with one leaf each. The coat of arms designed by the Generallandesarchiv in 1902 probably indicates the landscape / agricultural environment (ears of grain = spelled = spelled mountain).
Infrastructure and traffic
In contrast to the Schopfheimer district of Eichen , which is still characterized by a purely agricultural and village character , Wiechs is primarily a residential area, in which agriculture, however, still has a certain importance.
The federal highway 317 touches the place Wiechs on the northern outskirts. The place is connected to the local public transport network via a bus connection to the Schopfheim train station .
The Markus-Pflüger -Heim care home is located in the Wiechs district . There is a primary school at Silberrankstraße 20.
To the south of the settlement area, the Wiechser Höhe provides a pass crossing at 516 m above sea level. NHN . The Dinkelberg Pass runs on the district road K 6336 and connects the village of Wiechs with the suburb of Northern Swabia, which belongs to the neighboring town of Rheinfelden . A few hundred meters west of the top of the pass is the Hohe Flum , the highest point on the Dinkelberg.
literature
- Friedrich Disch: Studies on the cultural geography of the Dinkelberg (= research on German regional studies. Vol. 192, ISSN 0375-6343 ). Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1971 (also: Basel, University, dissertation, 1967).
- Wolfgang Löhlein: Monumental graves, Schopfheim-Wiechs . In: Preservation of monuments in Baden Württemberg , issue 3/2011, p. 161 f.
Web links
- Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (LeoBW): Wiechs - archive material
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 522 .
- ↑ quaeldich.de: Wiechs (516 m) , accessed on November 17, 2019
