Wiesensteig


Wiesensteig is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located on the river Fils, 16 km south of Göppingen.

Geography

Geographical location

Wiesensteig is located in the upper Fils valley in 575–750 meters altitude in Göppingen. At the edge of the town passes Bundesautobahn 8 to Ulm.

Constituent communities

To Wiesensteig belongs the town of Wiesensteig, the courtyards Bläsiberg, Eckhöfe, Heidental, Reußenstein and Ziegelhof and the houses Lämmerbuckel, Papiermühle and the dialed towns Michelnbuch and Schafhaus

Neighbouring communities

Adjacent municipalities are Gruibingen in the north, Mühlhausen im Täle in the northeast, Drackenstein in the east, Hohenstadt in the south east, Westerheim in the south, Römerstein in the southwest and Lenningen in the west and Neidlingen in the northwest.

History

Wiesensteig was first mentioned in 861 in a document, as there was founded a Benedictine monastery.
The town has the town privileges since 1356. It was then under the House of Helfenstein. Since 1512 the rule Wiesensteig was assigned to the Swabian Circle within the Holy Roman Empire.
Count Ulrich XVII of Helfenstein and his brother Sebastian introduced in 1555 the Lutheran confession in Wiesensteig. 1562/63 in the rule Wiesensteig a great witch-hunt took place in which at least 63 women and men were executed.
After the extinction of the House of Helfenstein in 1627 the Reich County Wiesensteig fell about two-thirds in 1642 by purchase to Altbayern and one third to the House of Fürstenberg. Through a land swap the town came in 1806 to the Kingdom of Württemberg and became the seat of Oberamt Wiesensteig.

Population development

The number of inhabitants between 1837 and 2010.
DateInhabitants
18371.496
19071.327
17 May 19391.683
13 September 19502.063
27 May 19702.632
31 December 19832.490
31 December 20052.312
31 December 20102.138

Politics

Council and mayor

The local council of Wiesensteig has since the local elections in Baden-Württemberg May 25, 2014 12 members, including two women.
The mayor Gebhard Tritschler was elected in 2010.

Traffic

About the Landesstraße 1200 Wiesensteig has connection to the Bundesstraße B 466 and to the Bundesautobahn A 8. Wiesensteig is located on the Swabian Jura Route.
From 1903 to 1968 Wiesensteig was connected by the "Tälesbahn" to the national rail network.

Education

With the Franz Xaver Messerschmidt School Wiesensteig has a primary and a high school with Werkrealschule.

Things

Buildings

Natural Monuments

Ski

Wiesensteig has with the ski area Bläsiberg the largest ski resort in the Swabian Jura. It includes three tows and about 5 km slopes with different levels of difficulty.

Other Sports

The TSV Obere Fils was founded on June 24, 1972 by the merger of the two clubs TSV Wiesensteig and TSV Mühlhausen.

Personality

Sons and daughters of the town