Willstätt 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 east of
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...
'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,
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 campaign of the 1672-1678
Franco-Dutch War, a French army under
Comte de Lorges and an Imperial force led by
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Raimondo Montecuccoli (; 21 February 1609 – 16 October 1680) was an Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy.
Experiencing the Thirty Years' War from scratch as a simple footsoldier ...
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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