Wilflingen (Langenenslingen)
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Wilflingen
community Langenenslingen
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| Height : | 580 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 408 (2011) |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 |
| Postal code : | 88515 |
| Area code : | 07376 |
Wilflingen is a district of the municipality of Langenenslingen in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia .
Community structure
The hamlet of Enhofen and the Eisighof farmstead belong to Wilflingen.
Early history
In the area of the district there are 10 to 14 burial mounds from the Bronze Age burial mounds (16th – 14th centuries BC), further earth burial mounds from the Hallstatt culture (8th – 5th centuries BC), a Celtic square hill with a side length of around 100 m and remains of Roman walls are said to have been found in the hamlet of Enhofen.
In connection with the founding history of the St. Georgen Monastery , Wilflingen was first mentioned in a document in 1086. In the context of the Alemannic conquest in southwest Germany, the name ending in "-ingen", ie a head of the Alemanni , here "" Wulfilo "", a settlement can be assumed between the 6th and 7th centuries. Finds of Alemannic row graves in the district, which are typical for the period around the 5th to 6th centuries, help to support the assumption.
Lordship
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First mentioned in a document around 1086, Wilflingen once belonged to the Counts of Veringen and the Counts of Grüningen-Landau . Many of the goods there were bought or donated to the Heiligkreuztal monastery . In 1437, the Counts of Hornstein sold their Wilflingen Castle and the towns of Groß- and Klein-Wilflingen to the head chef Hans von Bichishausen. By marrying his daughter in 1454 Werner Schenk von Stauffenberg came into possession.
The ensemble of buildings, consisting of a castle with a walled castle garden, church, parsonage, head forester's office , rent office and Gasthaus zum Löwen, characterize the place to this day. From January to April 1945 part of the Vichy government , including Prime Minister Pierre Laval and 13 ministers, was interned in Wilflinger Castle and monitored by the Gestapo there . At the beginning of September 1944, the entire French puppet government under Marshal Petain, and thus initially Laval, was quartered in Sigmaringen Castle because of the advance of the Allied troops in France . Allied troops reached Wilflingen in May 1945. The castle estate is still managed today by Barons Schenk von Stauffenberg.
20th century
In 1912 Wilfingen received its first water pipe and in 1914 it was connected to the power grid. In 1936 Wilflingen was assigned to the now dissolved district of Saulgau .
In 1999 the Stauffenberg'sche Forsthaus was redesigned into a Jünger Museum . The writer Ernst Jünger lived in this house from 1951 until his death in 1998. There was a disciple a. Visited by Federal President Theodor Heuss , Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl , French President François Mitterrand , Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González , Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges , Württemberg Prime Minister Erwin Teufel as well as Albert Hofmann and Heiner Müller .
On January 1, 1975, Wilflingen was incorporated into the municipality of Langenenslingen.
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. 545 .
coat of arms
The coat of arms dates from 1970. It includes a standing, red-tongued blue wolf, which stands over a rooted green linden pole with two green leaves on a silver background. The wolf refers to the place name Wilflingen and the former patron of the parish church St. Lupus .
literature
- Country descriptions of the Sigmaringen State Archive: The district of Biberach . Ed .: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Biberach. tape I . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1987, ISBN 3-7995-6185-4 .
- Country descriptions of the Sigmaringen State Archive: The district of Biberach . Ed .: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Biberach. tape II . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-6186-2 .
- Hans-Peter Biege, among others: wayside shrines and biotech, churches and cranes: the Biberach district . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2011, ISBN 978-3-933614-93-3 .
