Wimsheim

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Wimsheim
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '  N , 8 ° 50'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Karlsruhe
County : Enzkreis
Height : 415 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.06 km 2
Residents: 2837 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 352 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 71299
Area code : 07044
License plate : PF
Community key : 08 2 36 067
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 1
71299 Wimsheim
Website : www.wimsheim.de
Mayor : Mario Weisbrich
Location of the municipality of Wimsheim in the Enzkreis
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Wimsheim is a municipality in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg , about 12 kilometers southeast of Pforzheim and 15 kilometers west of Leonberg .

geography

Geographical location

Wimsheim is between 390 and 496 meters high, embedded in the upper Grenzbach valley in the Heckengäu . The Grenzbach rises in Wimsheim.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of Wimsheim are Wurmberg , Mönsheim , Friolzheim , Tiefenbronn and Pforzheim .

structure

Apart from the village of the same name, no other localities belong to the municipality of Wimsheim. The Ütingen or Itingen desert lies in the municipality .

history

Wimsheim in the forest inventory book of 1682 Andreas Kieser

Wimsheim was first mentioned in a document in 1229 as an estate of the Bebenhausen monastery under the names Winoldishen , Winmotesheim , Wimesheim and Wimitesheim . In 1232 it was sold to Maulbronn Monastery . After the War of the Bavarian-Palatinate Succession, the monastery came to Württemberg in 1504 . In 1634, during the Thirty Years' War , the place was burned down. Most of the residents, except about a dozen, died from plague and starvation during that time.

From 1809 Wimsheim belonged to the Oberamt Leonberg , which in 1938 became the district of Leonberg . Since the dissolution of this district on January 1, 1973, the place belongs to the Enzkreis and thus to the administrative district of Karlsruhe.

Religions

There is a Protestant parish in Wimsheim .

The Catholic parish is called Heilig Geist and is an amalgamation of the parishes of Wimsheim, Friolzheim and Heimsheim. The Catholic Church in Wimsheim was built in 1962. In 2006 the church organ was renewed.

Population development

  • 1648: approx 0012 inhabitants as a result of the Thirty Years War
  • 1654: approx 0067 inhabitants
  • 1945: approx. 0850 inhabitants
  • 1950: approx. 1100 inhabitants
  • 1961: approx. 1370 inhabitants
  • 1970: approx. 1815 inhabitants
  • 1978: approx. 1850 inhabitants
  • 1982: approx. 2000 inhabitants
  • 1991: approx. 2295 inhabitants
  • 1995: approx. 2445 inhabitants
  • 2005: approx. 2688 inhabitants
  • 2006: approx. 2644 inhabitants
  • 2007: approx. 2669 inhabitants
  • 2008: approx. 2657 inhabitants
  • 2009: approx. 2677 inhabitants
  • 2010: approx. 2687 inhabitants
  • 2011: approx. 2609 inhabitants
  • 2012: approx. 2585 ​​inhabitants
  • 2013: approx. 2655 inhabitants
  • 2014: approx. 2726 inhabitants
  • 2015: approx. 2815 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

The local elections on May 25, 2014 in Wimsheim led to the following official final result. The turnout was 72.7% (2009: 59.0%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Political party be right Seats Result 2009
Free voters 34.5% 4th 61.8%, 8 seats
List of citizens' initiative (BI) 24.3% 3 0.0%, 0 seats
Citizens for Wimsheim (BfW) 21.1% 3 38.2%, 4 seats
Wimsheim, together (WM) 20.1% 2 0.0%, 0 seats

mayor

Term of office mayor Term of office
1930 - approx. 1941 Hans Sautter 11 years
approx. 1941-1948 no democratically elected mayor

(due to the war and the occupation)

1948-1966 Hans Sautter 18 years
1966-1978 Wilfried Reichert 12 years
1978-2010 Karlheinz Schühle 32 years
from 2010 Mario Weisbrich 9 years Status: 2019

In April 2010, the Kämpfelbach building authority manager Mario Weisbrich was elected as the new mayor.

Economy and Infrastructure

The plan was for Wimsheim to have a junction on the planned federal highway 82 ( Karlsruhe - Stuttgart ). However, this motorway connection was never built.

With C. Hafner , a large German processor and processor of precious metals has its headquarters in Wimsheim.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Wimsheim asparagus

Cell tower

The Wimsheimer asparagus is a 76 meter high cell phone tower built in 1992 in reinforced concrete on the Leimenbuckel at 8 ° 49'52 "east longitude and 48 ° 50'53" north latitude.

Wimsheim Cathedral

Michaelskirche, south side

The St. Michael's Church in 1883, at the old location and using the late medieval tower from 1514, historicizing rebuilt in neo-Romanesque forms. The architect was Professor Robert Reinhart , who also designed the Brenz Church in Weil der Stadt . The red sandstone from the local area was used as building material .

The organ, built by Viktor Gruol at the beginning of the 19th century, comes from Mönsheim . It has already been acquired for the previous church and taken over in the new building. It has a manual and ten stops . The prospectus is a listed building.

Interior view of the Michaelskirche

A special feature is the ornamental wall painting in Art Nouveau. It complements the architecture with edging or suggested ashlar stones, and it contains elements of Christian symbolism such as palm fronds , grapevines or the fish symbol.

The church is 30 m long, the choir is 21 m wide, the tower without a cock is 34 m high. Because of its imposing appearance, the church is called Wimsheimer Dom by the population .

Regular events

  • Farmer's market: on the last Saturday in February or first Saturday in March, in the Hagenschießhalle.
  • May celebration: On May 1st at the cycling hall on Christian-Jentner-Platz.
  • Göckelesessen: Whit Saturday and Whit Sunday, at the Schützenhaus.
  • Sports festival: Corpus Christi weekend from Wednesday to Sunday, on the sports grounds on Mühlweg.
  • Radish Festival: On the last Sunday in June or the first Sunday in July, festival area at the sports hall on Christian-Jentner-Platz.
  • Street festival: weekend on the 3rd Sunday of July, in the center of the village.

Sons and daughters of the church

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Karl Ehmann: Gone out settlements in the Pforzheim area. In: Pforzheimer Geschichtsblätter V. Self-published by the city of Pforzheim, Pforzheim 1980. pp. 153-184
  3. ↑ Local election data 2014 of the State Statistical Office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de  
  4. ↑ https://www.pz-news.de/region_artikel,-Mario-Weisbrich-wird-Buergermeister-in-Wimsheim-_arid,187125.html

Web links

Commons : Wimsheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Wimsheim in the description of the Oberamt Leonberg from 1852  - sources and full texts