Wimsheim is a municipality in the Enz district of

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History

Wimsheim became a possession of

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in 1232. When the monastery was annexed by the

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, 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

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was made a protected landscape.

Geography

The municipality (''

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'') of Wimsheim covers of the Enz district of

, a state of the

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. Wimsheim is located in the metropolitan areas of

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and

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and on the edge of the

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, 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

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hills, while the east is made up by Black Forest buntsandstein. Elevation above sea level in the municipality ranges from a low of

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(NN) on the Grenzbach to a high of NN in the Brenntenhau.

Coat of arms

Wimsheim's

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shows a

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above a

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upon a

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. The oldest coat of arms associated with Wimsheim comes from the 19th century and was used by the office of its sheriff. The

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was decided around 1947.

Citations

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