Wiesensteig

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 (1524-1570) and his brother Sebastian († 1564) 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 (Swabia). Through a land swap the town came in 1806 to the Kingdom of Württemberg and became the seat of Oberamt Wiesensteig. The number of inhabitants between 1837 and 2010. {| class="wikitable" ! Date ! Inhabitants |- | 1837 || align="center" | 1.496 |- | 1907 || align="center" | 1.327 |- | 17 May 1939 || align="center" | 1.683 |- | 13 September 1950 || align="center" | 2.063 |- | 27 May 1970 || align="center" | 2.632 |- | 31 December 1983 || align="center" | 2.490 |- | 31 December 2005 || align="center" | 2.312 |- | 31 December 2010 || align="center" | 2.138 |}

Geography

Wiesensteig is located in the upper Fils valley in 575–750 meters altitude in Göppingen (district). At the edge of the town passes Bundesautobahn 8 to Ulm. 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 Adjacent municipalities are Gruibingen in the north, Mühlhausen im Täle in the northeast, Drackenstein in the east, Hohenstadt in the south east, Westerheim (Alb-Donau-Kreis) in the south, Römerstein (Reutlingen (district)) in the southwest, Lenningen in the west, and Neidlingen (both Esslingen (district)) in the northwest.

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,176
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,133
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,088
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,042
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  911
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  901
• Red Kite

  Milvus milvus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  842
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  808

Most recent

• M 3.4 — 2022-10-16
  Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
• M 4 — 2022-07-09
  2 km NNE of Grosselfingen, Germany
• M 3.1 — 2008-12-25
  3 km NNW of Saulgau, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-12-12
  2 km ESE of Nehren, Germany
• M 2.7 — 2008-07-09
  1 km WSW of Dußlingen, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-07-03
  2 km W of Dußlingen, Germany