Wimsheim
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 8 ° 50' E |
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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 |
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Mayor : | Mario Weisbrich | |
Location of the municipality of Wimsheim in the Enzkreis | ||
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
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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: 12 inhabitants as a result of the Thirty Years War
- 1654: 67 inhabitants
- 1945: approx. 850 inhabitants
- 1950: approx. 1100 inhabitants
- 1961: 1370 inhabitants
- 1970: 1815 inhabitants
- 1978: approx. 1850 inhabitants
- 1982: approx. 2000 inhabitants
- 1991: 2295 inhabitants
- 1995: 2445 inhabitants
- 2005: 2688 inhabitants
- 2006: 2644 inhabitants
- 2007: 2669 inhabitants
- 2008: 2657 inhabitants
- 2009: 2677 inhabitants
- 2010: 2687 inhabitants
- 2011: 2609 inhabitants
- 2012: 2585 inhabitants
- 2013: 2655 inhabitants
- 2014: 2726 inhabitants
- 2015: 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 | |
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1930 - approx. 1941 | Hans Sautter | 11 years | |
approx. 1941-1948 | no democratically elected mayor
(due to the war and the occupation) |
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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
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
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.
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
- Christian Friedrich Spittler (1782–1867), secretary of the Basel Christianity Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ https://www.pz-news.de/region_artikel,-Mario-Weisbrich-wird-Buergermeister-in-Wimsheim-_arid,187125.html