Willstätt

{{Infobox German location

|image_coa = DEU Willstätt COA.svg

|coordinates = {{coord|48|32|30|N|07|53|47|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|image_plan = Willstätt in OG.svg

|state = Baden-Württemberg

|region = Freiburg

|district = Ortenaukreis

|elevation = 142

|area = 55.28

|postal_code = 77731

|area_code = 07852

|licence = OG, BH, KEL, LR, WOL

|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 3 17 141

|website = [http://www.willstaett.de/ www.willstaett.de]

|mayor = Christian Huber[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse], Staatsanzeiger, accessed 13 September 2021.

|leader_term = 2019–27

}}

Willstätt ({{IPA|de|ˈvɪlˌʃtɛt}}) 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 {{convert|12|km}} east of Strasbourg's city centre.

Demographics

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9,787

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History

===Medieval===

The earliest known mention to the town is from 1232.Leo BW.

=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 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

Category:Ortenaukreis