Willstätt is a town in the district of
Ortenau
The Ortenau, originally called Mortenau, is a historic region in the present-day German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the right bank of the river Rhine, stretching from the Upper Rhine Plain to the foothill zone of the Black Fo ...
in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
in Germany, with a population of 9,787 as at December 31, 2017. It is around east of
Strasbourg's city centre.
Demographics
History
Medieval
The earliest known mention to the town is from 1232.
Early Modern
In September 1634, three weeks after their biggest victory of the war at
Nördlingen
Nördlingen (; Swabian: ''Nearle'' or ''Nearleng'') is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 20,674. It is located approximately east of Stuttgart, and northwest of Munich. It was b ...
,
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.
[Helfferich, Tryntje, The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History (Cambridge, 2009), p. 298.] On 1 August 1675, during the
Rhineland
The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
Term
Historically, the Rhinelands ...
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
Ortenaukreis
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