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Wimsheim
Baden-Württembergvillage
Wimsheim
Total population
2,671
Demographic figures from Destatis. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Wimsheim is a municipality in the Enz district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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History
Wimsheim became a possession of Maulbronn Monastery in 1232. When the monastery was annexed by the Duchy of Württemberg, Wimsheim naturally became a possession of the Duke of Württemberg. The town continued to be governed from Maulbronn via an administrative district, made on 18 March 1806, until the district's dissolution on 1 October 1938. As part of that reorganization, Wimsheim was assigned to . On 1 January 1973, this district too was dissolved by the , and Wimsheim was again reassigned, this time to the newly created Enz district. In 1941, of land along Bundesautobahn 5 was made a protected landscape.
Geography
The municipality (Gemeinde) of Wimsheim covers of the Enz district of Baden-Württemberg, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Wimsheim is located in the metropolitan areas of Pforzheim and Karlsruhe and on the edge of the Black Forest, the , and the Heckengäu. The geology of the municipal area is made up of two distinct regions. The west is described by the Heckengäu's wooded and karstified muschelkalk hills, while the east is made up by Black Forest buntsandstein. Elevation above sea level in the municipality ranges from a low of Normalnull (NN) on the Grenzbach to a high of NN in the Brenntenhau.
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Geography
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Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
Destatis — German Federal Statistical Office
- AGS
- 08236067
- Population (Wikidata)
- 2,866
- Wikidata
- Q80511
Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikimedia Commons
- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Destatis — German Federal Statistical Office — Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439