Willstätt

Willstätt

Willstätt

Municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Willstätt (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlˌʃtɛt]) is a town in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, with a population of 9,787 as at December 31, 2017. It is around 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) east of Strasbourg's city centre.

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Demographics

Willstätt's population 2005-2017
2005 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017
9,787 9172 9088 9096 9213 9352 9569 9680 9787

History

Medieval

The earliest known mention to the town is from 1232.[3]

Early Modern

In September 1634, three weeks after their biggest victory of the war at Nördlingen, Willstätt was burned as a result of a skirmish between Catholics under Jan von Werth and Swedes under Rheingrave Otto Louis.
In August 1643 Imperialist forces took the town's castle.[4] On 1 August 1675, during the Rhineland campaign of the 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War, a French army under Comte de Lorges and an Imperial force led by Raimondo Montecuccoli fought a battle nearby at Altenheim, Neuried.

On October 30, 1754, the tower of the Lutheran church, which was to be planned to be inaugurated on this day collapsed and destroyed many parts of the church as result of a bad foundation. It was later rebuilt with a foundation consisting of oak pillars and the inauguration of the church took then place on November 11, 1756.

References

  1. [1]
    Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 13 September 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
  3. [3]
    Leo BW.
  4. [4]
    Helfferich, Tryntje, The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History (Cambridge, 2009), p. 298.


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