Winterlings

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Winterlingen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Zollernalb district
Height :	789 m above sea level NHN
Area :	50.64 km 2
Residents:	6351 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	72474
Primaries :	07434, 07577
License plate :	BL, HCH
Community key :	08 4 17 075
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktstrasse 7 72474 Winterlingen
Website :	www.winterlingen.de
Mayor :	Michael Maier
Location of the municipality of Winterlingen in the Zollernalb district

Winterlingen is a municipality in the Zollernalb district , about ten kilometers southeast of Albstadt . It has existed in its current form since January 1, 1975, when the previously independent communities Benzingen with the hamlet Blättringen (211 hectares district area) and Harthausen auf der Scher were incorporated into Winterlingen.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located on the plateau belonging to the western Swabian Alb . There are neither prominent mountains nor big differences in altitude or, because of the karstification of the Alb, flowing water. The marked areas of the three districts, located between 730 and 820 m high, are: Winterlingen 16.88 km², Benzingen 17.09 km², Harthausen 16.67 km².

Neighboring communities

The following cities and municipalities border the municipality of Winterlingen:

• west of Straßberg
• north of Bitz
• east of Veringenstadt and Hettingen
• south of Stetten am kalten Markt and Sigmaringen

Community structure

The community consists of the former communities Benzingen , Harthausen auf der Scher and Winterlingen. The village of Benzingen and the hamlet of Blättringen belong to the former municipality of Benzingen . The village of Harthausen belongs to the former municipality of Harthausen. The village Winterlingen and the houses Sonnenhalden and Weiden belonged to the municipality of Winterlingen within the borders of December 31, 1974. In the municipality are the abandoned , no longer existing villages Deutenbronn, Bierendorf, Nettendorf, Glashart and Weinstetten. Deutenbronn is located in the south of the former municipality of Benzingen. The field name has been mentioned since the 17th century. In the area of ​​the former municipality and north of the village in a forest area are the corridors Bierendorf, Nettendorf and Glassert (deserted place Glashart), which are to be regarded as deserted areas. The Weinstetten desert lies in the southwest of the former municipality of Benzingen and in the southeast of the former municipality of Winterlingen.

geology

Limestone of the upper White Jura ( Quenstedt W δ / ε, Kimmeridgian 2–3) characterizes most of the municipality. Between Harthausen and Bitz, W ζ 2–3 (Lower Tithonium ) has been preserved in the Zollerngraben . Deposits of upper sea molasses near Harthausen and coral limestone near Winterlingen formed in the Miocene Molasse Sea , the coastline (cliff) of which marks the boundary between the Kuppenalb and flat alb.

The ridge between Benzingen and Blättringen consists of Juranagelfluh .

Surface waters are the exception on the karstified Alb plateau. Although several small springs arise along the ridge near Benzingen , their water seeps into the porous subsoil after a short run. Only the arid valleys, some of which are up to 100 m deep, are reminiscent of eras of geological history that are richer in water. Until the construction of the Alb water supply , the population was dependent on the Hülben . Only east of Winterlingen, where weathered clay blocks the runoff, there are two ponds and formerly a mill. The seeping water comes to light again in karst springs, for example in Büttnau on the eastern edge of the municipality .

history

Prehistory and early history

Archaeological finds show that the Winterlingen area has been continuously inhabited at least since the Bronze Age Barrows (around 1500 BC). The bronze axes and sickles , which were discovered in 1609 and can be seen today in the Württemberg State Museum, date from the late Urnfield Period (around 900 BC) . Several groups of burial mounds from the Hallstatt period (around 800 to 500 BC) are in the municipality, and four chalices from the late Celtic La Tène period were found. In ancient times, a road built by the Romans , the so-called Hochstraße , led from the upper Neckar via the Lautlingen castle through the municipality to the Donaufurt near Laiz . It branches off in today's municipal area to Bitz and further via Hermannsdorf to the Burladingen fort on the so-called Alblimes .

middle Ages

The place names Winterl ingen and Benz ingen attest to the establishment of these settlements in the phase of the Alemannic conquest. Harthausen is assigned to the expansion period. In 793 Winterlingen was mentioned in a deed of donation from Count Berthold to the St. Gallen monastery . In the 8th century the municipality belonged to the Gaugrafschaft Scherra , whose name is derived from an Old High German scorra (meaning rock , cf. Swedish archipelago ) and has been preserved in the Harthausen suffix to this day. It extended along the upper Danube from Sigmaringen to Tuttlingen and northwest of it about to the Albtrauf .

In the late Middle Ages , new forms of rule developed, and the lines of development of the three sub-towns separated.

Württemberg Winterlingen

The village of Winterlingen came into the possession of the Counts of Württemberg in 1367 . In 1403 they also acquired the rule of Schalksburg and thus rounded off their area on the western Alb. From now on Winterlingen belonged to the Balingen office . In 1534, the Reformation was introduced under Duke Ulrich .

During the First Coalition War , when the revolutionary army was in retreat in October 1796, troops of the French general Jean-Victor Moreau marched through the village on October 4th. When the administrative affiliation in the Kingdom of Württemberg, which had existed since 1806, was reformed in the course of 1810, Winterlingen came back to the Oberamt Balingen after a brief interlude at the Oberamt Ebingen. The administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg led to membership in the Balingen district in 1938 . In 1945 Winterlingen (as well as Harthausen, Benzingen with leaf rings) became part of the French occupation zone and was thus assigned to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

On January 1, 1973, Winterlingen, as well as Harthausen, and Benzingen with leaf rings, which until then belonged to the Sigmaringen district , became part of the newly founded Zollernalb district.

Hohenzollern places

The history of the villages Benzingen and Harthausen, which were mentioned in documents in 1220 and 1275, was much more restless. Both were acquired in the 12th and 13th centuries by the Counts of Veringen , who sold their possessions to Rudolf von Habsburg in 1291 . The county of Veringen passed through different hands as a pledge until it came to the Counts, later princes, of Hohenzollern in 1535 . With the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , the two municipalities assigned to the Oberamt Gammertingen , later the district of Sigmaringen , became Prussian in 1850 as part of the Hohenzollern Lands .

Between Winterlingen on the one hand, Benzingen and Harthausen on the other, a territorial border ran for centuries, which has also separated the denominations since the 16th century, Winterlingen in Württemberg became Protestant, the Hohenzollern villages remained Catholic.

Fürstenberg place

The Blättringen, which has belonged to Benzingen since around 1930, fared differently again, which became Fürstenberg in 1534 and only in Hohenzollern in 1806.

Incorporations

As part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , Benzingen and Harthausen were incorporated into Winterlingen on January 1, 1975. The communities decided against participating in the then newly formed large district town of Albstadt. There is an agreed administrative community with the neighboring community of Straßberg .

Landscapes and development of the population

	Winterlings	Benzingen	Harthausen
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surface		1436 ha	609 ha
year	Residents
1820	1604
1836		717	794
1950	2932	728	818
1961	3636	843	928
1970	4022	942	1166
1976	4166	963	1230
1991	6680
1995	6801
2005	6664
2010	6583
2015	6386

politics

mayor

On May 2, 2010, Michael Maier was elected Mayor of Winterlingen with 94 percent of the vote and a turnout of 49 percent. Before that he was mayor of the Schischemtalgemeinde Hausen am Tann / Ratshausen . He replaced Gabriele Schlee in her office because she had not started for health reasons.

• 1941–1946: Hermann Frey
• 1946–1948: Wilhelm Beck
• 1948–1958: Hermann Frey
• 1958–1986: Fritz Wizemann
• 1986–2002: Klaus Weihing
• 2002–2010: Gabriele Schlee
• since 2010: Michael Maier

Former mayor of Benzingen:

• Josef Hospach (CDU)
• Paul Hepp (CDU)

Former mayors of Harthausen:

• Xaver Blue (FWV)

coat of arms

Blazon : Split; in front divided by silver and red, behind in gold three lying black deer poles .

Winterlingen already had this coat of arms before 1975.

Blazon of the coat of arms of the municipality of Benzingen, which was used before 1975 : divided by red and gold; above a golden open flight, below three red deer poles lying down. Benzingen came into the possession of the Counts of Veringen at the end of the 13th century. The three red deer poles lying on a golden background bear witness to this time.

Blazon of the coat of arms of the municipality of Harthausen auf der Scher, which was used before 1975 : in gold, the head of the pointed red shield The main element symbolizes sharp-edged rock spikes (Scheer). The colors correspond to the coat of arms of the Counts of Veringen, the oldest known owners in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Town twinning

Winterlingen has had a community partnership with Izbica in Poland since August 24, 2008 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Commercial development began around 1860, with textile and metalworking industries in particular settling here.

Agriculture

Agriculture , which has dominated for centuries, was disadvantaged by the scarcity of water and the climate of the Alb plateau. In addition to agriculture and cattle breeding, fruit is also grown in Winterlingen. In 1878 there were 535 tall pear trees, 1059 apple trees, 577 plum and plum trees and 24 cherry trees in Winterlingen. There were pome fruit in 1888 Reinetten, Luiken, Lederäpfel; Pin pears, roast pears, honey pears and barrel pears. Three tree attendants, including one trained, are employed by the community. This also has a nursery. The fruit is usually eaten green, rarely dried or musted. The tall fruit trees were planted by the roadside and on private land. In the higher places, late blooming rough varieties. In the land register, the use of the hard shoulder in Württemberg was regulated by easements . In addition to King Wilhelm , the Brethren also gave away fruit trees. The orchards are not only so valuable because of their landscape-defining importance, but also because of their ecological wealth. They offer a habitat for many endangered animal and plant species and serve as a local recreation area. Above all, the old varieties, which are now almost unknown, turn out to be special aromatic carriers when they are further processed into fruit specialties. Today 77 varieties thrive in Winterlingen.

traffic

Winterlingen is on the federal highway 463 between Albstadt and Sigmaringen. From the main town, roads lead to Bitz (L 449), via Harthausen to Veringenstadt and Neufra (L 415), via Benzingen (K 7174) to Veringendorf, and to Kaiseringen (K 7173) which joins Landstrasse 453.

Two bus routes run to Albstadt-Ebingen as part of the Neckar-Alb-Donau transport association. Winterlingen lies in comb 337.

Winterlingen is connected to the Zollernalbbahn Tübingen – Balingen – Albstadt – Sigmaringen via the Straßberg-Winterlingen stop .

education

• Kindergartens in all three suburbs; Elementary, secondary and secondary school in Winterlingen
• There is another primary school in Harthausen.
• There has also been an integrative day-care center in Winterlingen since 2012.
• Branch of the youth music school Zollernalb

Culture and sights

Evangelical Church Winterlingen

Buildings

Winterlings

• Catholic Church of St. Gertrud
• The Protestant parish church with a wooden ceiling from the 18th century.

Benzingen

Benzingen parish church

• Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul . The choir dates from the Romanesque period, the nave was built in 1629 and 1733, the tower with a stepped gable in 1688. The baptismal font and sacrament house made of sandstone are late Gothic, around 1500. In 1732 Johann Joseph Christian carved the figural pulpit.
• In the rectory was from 1917 to 1924 several times Albert Einstein with his friend Camillo fire Huber to visit. A memorial plaque reminds of this.
• The water tower built in 1923 can be visited on request . When the weather is clear, it offers a view of the Alps.
• The Dorotheenkapelle , built around 1600, is located in the hamlet of Blättringen .

Harthausen

14th Helper Chapel in Harthausen

• In Harthausen auf der Scher is the Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius , built in 1740 by master builder Christian Gosser. The older tower was rebuilt in 1873. In the middle of the 18th century, Andreas Meinrad von Ow painted the ceiling fresco and two altar leaves .
• The 14th Helper Chapel was not used every day for a sacred building by Gregor Haag, who lives in Vienna, not assigned to the parish, but to the bourgeois community. Regardless of this fact, the sacred building was renovated by the political community, the church community and the support association in a joint effort on the outside and finally on the inside in a contemporary design and completed after two years for the Feast of Corpus Christi 2009. The chapel has a high altar, old paintings and votive tablets from the 19th century. The chapel is maintained with the support of the Harthaus seniors.

Natural monuments

• The three Kühstellenhöhlen ( Enge , Kleine and Große Kühstelle ; 7720 / 11-13), also called Kuhstall, Höhle Kuhstelle, Grotten bei Winterlingen, Höhle Kühbuchen or Höhle Winterlingen, are a natural and soil monument not far from the road from Winterlingen to Bitz.
• In several places, particularly beautiful in the Heutal near Harthausen, you can find the lime-lime lawns , juniper heaths and mighty willow beeches typical of the Alb .
• The Büttnau valley is under landscape protection.

Sports

• The natural outdoor pool in Winterlingen is open in the summer months. With around 10,000 m² of water, it is one of the largest outdoor pools in the area. From mid-September it will be wintered and the indoor pool will open.
• With the Dickeloch ski lift, Winterlingen has 300 meters of winter sports facilities and floodlights. The ski hut hosted by the winter sports club was renovated in a rustic style for the 2009/2010 season.
• The local group Winterlingen of the Swabian Alb Association , founded in 1894, was awarded the Eichendorff plaque in 1994.

Museums

• The Post Museum has been housed in the former post office since 2001. In its basement and upper floor it shows numerous exhibits such as a post office counter, a stamp table with a stamp, a coin collection, boards, vehicles, letter boxes, uniforms, field post and postcards. A collection of historical telephones is housed in the basement, as is a switching center.
• Harthausen local history museum

Planet path

• The Planet Path Winterlingen includes our solar system in the “Space Path”, scaled down to exactly 1 to 1 billion.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Franz Hopf (1807–1877), pastor and member of the state parliament
• Rudolf Scholder (1896–1973), chemist, university professor in Karlsruhe
• Ingeborg Grolle (* 1931), historian
• Manfred Kuhn (1931–2011), chemist and university professor
• Manfred Mai (* 1949), teacher and writer

Personalities who have worked on site

• Camillo Brandhuber (1860–1931), Prussian member of the state parliament in Berlin, president of the Hohenzollern municipal council, 1917–1924 pastor in Benzingen, friend of Albert Einstein

literature

• Walther Genzmer (Ed.): The art monuments of Hohenzollern . tape 2 ; Sigmaringen district. W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.

Web links

Commons : Winterlingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wikisource: Winterlingen in the description of the Oberamt Balingen from 1880
• Official website of the municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 . Pp. 250-251
3. ↑ Scheu: Ortschronik von Bitz. Oberamt Balingen . 1910
4. ^ Karl Theodor Zingeler : Find reports from Hohenzollern. B. Barrows. 3. Barrows near Hermannsdorf. In: Messages from the Association for History and Age Certification in Hohenzollern. 26th year 1892/93 . Liehnersche Hofdruckerei. Sigmaringen 1893. pp. 62–75, here p. 69.
5. ^ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): When the pastor feared for his life . In: Südkurier from January 2, 2015
6. ^ 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. 540 .
7. ↑ Volker Schweizer: Winterlingen voted: 94 percent for Michael Maier . In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier from May 3, 2010
8. ↑ Izbica & Winterlingen ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Fruit growing table on page 171, description of the Balingen District Office
10. ↑ apfelgut.de: A Württemberg apple story
11. ↑ Orchard conception
12. ↑ 77 types of fruit  ( 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.  
13. ↑ Local directory in LEO-BW - regional information system for Baden-Württemberg: http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail-gis/-/Detail/details/ORT/labw_ortslexikon/16548/Blättringen+%5BWohnplatz% 5D
14. ↑ Klaus Böhme: Inauguration. A gem has emerged . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from June 15, 2009
15. ↑ Klaus Böhme: Seniors contribute to the renovation of the 14th Helper Chapel . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of January 22, 2009
16. ↑ Jürgen Scheff: Cave archaeological research on the Southwest Alb: 6th cave: Kühstellenhöhlen . In: Heimatkundliche Blätter Balingen, Volume 44, February 28, 1997, No. 2 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Pp. 1063f.
17. ↑ Winterlingen natural swimming pool ends its season . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of September 7, 2011
18. ↑ Ski areas in our region . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from December 4, 2010
19. ↑ Ignaz Stösser (is): Winter sports enthusiasts cavort on the slopes of the Alb . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 15, 2010
20. ↑ Vera Romeu (from right): Quaint: In a stagecoach it goes through the place. Postal Museum is celebrating its anniversary - children and adults alike admire the many exhibits. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of May 31, 2011
21. ↑ Winterlingen Planet Trail