Willsbach
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Willsbach
municipality Obersulm
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| Height : | approx. 185–220 m |
| Residents : | 3700 |
| Incorporation : | May 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 74182 |
| Area code : | 07134 |
Willsbach is a part of the municipality Obersulm in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg .
geography
Geographical location
Willsbach is located on both sides of the Sulm and is bordered on the north side by the Crailsheim-Heilbronn railway line . It is structurally grown together with the Obersulm suburbs of Sülzbach and Affaltrach . The Hambach, Seebächle and Mäusebach streams flow into the Sulm in the Willsbach districts.
With the connection to the S4 from Öhringen to Karlsruhe and the federal highway 39 , Willsbach is the traffic junction of Obersulm.
history
Willsbach must have existed as early as the 7th century, according to the findings of a row graveyard. The place was owned by the Counts of Löwenstein until 1441 , went to the Palatinate in 1441 and to Württemberg in 1504. It was mentioned in 1254 as Wilerspach and 1292 as Wilrespach. The hamlet of Neuhaus, which belongs to Willsbach, was first mentioned in 1799 as "the new house". On May 1, 1972, the new municipality of Obersulm was created through the merger of the municipalities of Affaltrach, Eichelberg, Eschenau, Weiler bei Weinsberg and Willsbach. On January 1, 1975, Sülzbach was incorporated.
religion
Willsbach is predominantly Protestant. Today's Protestant parish of Willsbach is part of the Weinsberg-Neuenstadt church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . In addition to the Protestant Church of St. George, which was built in 1486, there is the Catholic Our Father Church from the 1960s and a Wat Buddha temple of Wat Phra Dhammakaya in the area of the Obersulm suburb.
politics
Local council
The local council in Willsbach consists of 6 seats. The distribution of seats resulted from the local election on May 25, 2014 .
| Political party | be right | in % | Seats |
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| FW | 2,833 | 33.80 | 2 |
| Alliance 90 / The Greens | 2,372 | 28.30 | 2 |
| CDU | 1,824 | 21.76 | 1 |
| SPD | 1,353 | 16.14 | 1 |
The turnout was 50.16%. Mayor is Armin Waldbüßer from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.
coat of arms
The blazon of the Willsbach coat of arms reads: In red the overturned golden letter W. The flag of the community was yellow-red.
An imprint of an old Willsbach seal from 1504 contained in the seal collection of the Stuttgart State Archives shows the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon, with the baby Jesus on her arms , with a no longer recognizable figure floating above it. It was probably created by the Lichtenstern monastery , which owned goods in Willsbach.
The later, from 1834 to 1873, Willsbach's mayor's office seals show instead of the Mother of God in the coat of arms the inverted W, as a shield holder a lion and a stag (obviously taken from the Württemberg state coat of arms ) and a nobility crown above the shield. In 1930, on the recommendation of the archives department, this coat of arms was resumed without shield holder and crown. 1954 to 1956 the community considered the introduction of a new coat of arms, as the population was dissatisfied with the overturned W, the meaning of which was not satisfactorily clarified. The archives management was also of the opinion that letter coats of arms were only an embarrassing solution for young communities without a long history and, for historical and artistic reasons, recommended that the Virgin Mary coat of arms from the seal of 1504 be reinstated.The Willsbach municipal council could not make up its mind on this , because the reintroduction of a coat of arms based on the Catholic faith did not seem right to him with an 85% Protestant community population. In the absence of a satisfactory alternative, Willsbach stayed with the letter coat of arms.
Culture and sights
Attractions
- The Protestant St. George's Church reached its present size in 1486, among other things by expanding an older chapel to the south. It has baroque furnishings from 1683 (font, pulpit) and has a characteristic onion dome built in 1732. During the major interior renovation in 1962/63, the side galleries and a few rows of seats below were dismantled, the pulpit was moved from the right to the left to the choir arch, thereby creating space for the Bornefeld organ from 1973. Nine wooden panel paintings are attributed to the Prague painter Johannes Stiegler, who was active in some churches in the region around 1750. The eight colored glass image fields in the large pulpit window were designed by the artist Lydia Jost-Schäfer in 1928. The choir window from 1970 comes from the artist Wolf-Dieter Kohler and illustrates the mission command Mt 28: 18-29 Lut . In the center sits the risen Christ in his glory ( Majestas Domini ), surrounded by angels. His commission for mission, which he gives to the disciples, is expressed in the lower part of the window through baptism, the sermon and Holy Communion.
- The Catholic Our Father Church was built in the 1960s.
- The old town hall is a classicist building from 1845, which originally also housed a wine press.
- The old school house was built in 1875.
- The town's sights also include the ensemble of the train station, built in 1861, and the half-timbered neighboring building, which used to be the post office .
- A historical commemorative plaque from the 18th century at Löwensteiner Strasse 41 commemorates the famine of 1771 and the construction of the tithe barn that once stood there. Another memorial plaque at Steinackerweg 6 commemorates the taxation of 1817 as a result of the year without a summer .
- Former moated castle
Ev. George's Church
Old school house
Our Father Church
societies
The TSV Willsbach 1907 eV, the largest club in Obersulm, is based in Willsbach. With football, handball, athletics, chess, table tennis, gymnastics and volleyball, it offers its almost 1,100 members (as of 2016) a wide range of sports. TC Obersulm is also based in the Willsbach suburb.
The community foundation Wir-Obersulm eV has its seat in Willsbach.
Personalities
- Albert Barth (1856–1914), German farmer and politician
- Emanuel Richter (* 1953), German political scientist and university professor
- Gottlob Vollert (1868–1938), German farmer and politician (WBWB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoportal BW - Geodata Viewer. (No longer available online.) In: www.geoportal-bw.de. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ agency flumoto, corporate communication: picture gallery: Willsbach | Obersulm community. In: www.obersulm.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Willsbach (old community part of town) - detail page - LEO-BW. In: www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ agency flumoto, corporate communication: picture gallery: Willsbach | Obersulm community. In: www.obersulm.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ https://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail-gis/-/Detail/details/ORT/labw_ortslexikon/2313/Neuhaus+-+Wohnplatz
- ^ 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. 451 .
- ^ 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. 465 .
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Willsbach
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Weinsberg-Neuenstadt
- ^ Buddhist temple in Germany. (No longer available online.) In: www.thaiembassy.de. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Election result of the Obersulm Willsbach local council. May 26, 2014, accessed May 14, 2016 .
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↑ Sources for the section coat of arms and flag Willsbach:
Eberhard Gönner: Wappenbuch des Stadt- und Landkreises Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 152.
Bettina Christ: The municipality coat of arms of Obersulm . In: Obersulm. Six villages - one municipality . Pp. 432-436. - ↑ Jost-Schäfer, Lydia . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
- ↑ Frank Buchali: Encyclopedia of castles in the lowlands . Heilbronn 2008, ISBN 3-00-007056-7 , p. 277 ff.
- ↑ TSV Willsbach eV - Welcome. In: www.tsv-willsbach.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ We-Obersulm. In: www.wir-obersulm.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
literature
- Obersulm. Six villages - one municipality . Obersulm municipality, Obersulm 1997.
