Wiesloch

Coordinates: 49°17′39″N 08°41′54″E / 49.29417°N 8.69833°E / 49.29417; 8.69833
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Wiesloch
Town
Town hall
Town hall
Coat of arms of Wiesloch
Coat of arms
Location of Wiesloch within Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district
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Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
SubdivisionsKernstadt, 4 Stadtteile
Government
 • Lord mayor (2015–23) Dirk Elkemann[1] (Ind.)
Area
 • Total30.262 km2 (11.684 sq mi)
Elevation
130 m (430 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total27,049
 • Density890/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
69168
Dialling codes06222
Vehicle registrationHD
Websitewww.wiesloch.de

Wiesloch (German:

Rauenberg and Sankt Leon-Rot
.

Wiesloch's population grew to more than 20,000 when the administration of the area was reorganised in the 1970s. Wiesloch became a Große Kreisstadt on 1 January 1973, when Altwiesloch, Baiertal, Frauenweiler and Schatthausen were amalgamated with Wiesloch to form the present municipality.

History

The settlement that is now Wiesloch town centre originated during the expansion of silver mining in the vicinity in the 10th century.[3]

Fossil site

The fossil remains of the oldest

mya), when the area had a humid, subtropical climate similar to the northern Caribbean today.[4]

Emperor Henry IV

In 1077,

Protestant church (Stadtkirche) and burnt the building down.[5]

Battles

Battle of Wiesloch (1632)

There were three battles near Wiesloch, the Battle of Mingolsheim on 27 April 1622 (during the Thirty Years' War), the 1632 Battle of Wiesloch on 16 August 1632, (during the same war) and the 1799 Battle of Wiesloch on 3 December 1799 (during the War of the Second Coalition).

Wiesloch was attacked on 28 January 1689 by French troops under Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac, during the Nine Years' War, and was almost completely burnt down and destroyed.

First "filling station" in the world

Bertha Benz

The city pharmacy in Wiesloch was the first "

Karl Benz had invented. She was supplied with ligroin by the apothecary
Willi Ockel.

In 2008, the Bertha Benz Memorial Route was officially designated an industrial heritage route, following Bertha Benz's route on the world's first long-distance journey by automobile. It is a 194 km signposted circuit from Mannheim via Heidelberg and Wiesloch to Pforzheim in the Black Forest, and back.

The Minnesinger von Wissenlo, from the Codex Manesse

The Minnesinger von Wissenlo

The Codex Manesse includes four sophisticated Middle High German lyrics in the tagelied genre ascribed to the Minnesinger von Wissenlo (meaning "minnesang poet from Wiesloch").[6][7] The identity of the Minnesinger von Wissenlo is not known, but the poet is conjectured to be Heinrich Swendinger von Wissenloch, who lived in the second half of the 13th century.[8] An illustration titled von Wissenlo in the Codex Manesse shows a lady, a child, and a knight, and includes an escutcheon which does not match that of the Von Wissenloch family.[9]

There are two statues of the Minnesinger von Wissenlo in Wiesloch town centre: one, by Hatto Zeidler from 1978, is in the square by the united Protestant church (Stadtkirche) and shows the poet playing the lyre;[10] the other, an equestrian statue on a tall column, is part of a group by Karel Fron that was erected in the market square near the town hall in 1988.[11]

Geography

Wiesloch is situated partly on the southern foothills of the Odenwald, partly in the Rhine Valley, and partly in the Kraichgau. Five brooks flow through Wiesloch: the

Leimbach, the Gauangelbach, the Waldangelbach
, the Ochsenbach, and the Maisbach.

Economy

SAP SE
.

"MetropolPark Wiesloch-Walldorf" is the brand name for the commercial and industrial business park surrounding Wiesloch-Walldorf railway station.

Leisure

The open-air Leimbach Park and Wiesloch Feldbahn and Industrial Museum are in the region surrounding the joint railway station.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Wiesloch is twinned with:[13]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 14 September 2021.
  2. Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg
    . June 2023.
  3. ^ Ludwig H. Hildebrandt: Mittelalterliche Urkunden über Wiesloch und Walldorf, Ubstadt-Weiher 2001, p 110 (in German)
  4. ^ World's oldest hummingbirds
  5. ^ Ludwig H. Hildebrandt: Mittelalterliche Urkunden über Wiesloch und Walldorf, Ubstadt-Weiher 2001, p 114, no. W20 (in German)
  6. ^ Nu wol ûf, ritter, ez ist tac! – Die Tagelieder des von Wissenlo booklet accompanying a music CD (same title) by Freiburger Spielleyt, distributed by Verlag der Spielleute. (The booklet includes full texts of the four known lyrics by Von Wissenlo) (in German)
  7. ^ Carl von Kraus: Deutsche Liederdichter des 13. Jahrhunderts, Part I Text, pp 593ff, and Part II Commentary, pp 644ff, Tübingen 1978 (in German)
  8. ^ der Minnesänger von Wissenlo on the official civic site for Wiesloch (in German)
  9. ^ Karl Zangemeister: Die Wappen, Helmzierden und Standarten der Grossen Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Manesse-Codex), p. 18, Görlitz 1892; available to download from Heidelberg University Library at http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/Zangemeister1892 (in German)
  10. ^ Article about the statue, with photograph, on the official civic site for Wiesloch (in German)
  11. ^ Article about the group, with photographs, on the official civic site for Wiesloch (in German)
  12. ^ Heidelberger Druckmaschinen annual report 2006/2007, p. F-5 Archived 11 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Wieslochs Partnerstädte". wiesloch.de (in German). Wiesloch. Retrieved 17 February 2021.

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