Heuweiler

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Heuweiler

Location of Heuweiler within Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district

Coordinates: 48°3′6″N 7°54′11″E / 48.05167°N 7.90306°ECoordinates: 48°3′6″N 7°54′11″E / 48.05167°N 7.90306°E

Country

Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald

Government

• Mayor

Reinhard Bentler

Area

• Total

4.03 km² (1.56 sq mi)

Elevation

268 m (879 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

1,143

• Density

280/km² (730/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

79194

07666

Website

Heuweiler is a village in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg near Freiburg in southern Germany.

The village has to a large extent retained its rural character. Whereas many communities in the vicinity of Freiburg have grown rapidly in recent decades a slow, organic change occurred in Heuweiler.

Heuweiler is located at the mouth of the Glotter valley in the Rhine Valley. The municipality consists of the village Vorderheuweiler, the hamlet Hinterheuweiler, the tine Neuhäuser and the farms and Berghäusle and Litzelstahlerhof.

In the west Gundelfingen borders on Heuweiler, in the east the village Glottertal, both in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, the neighboring municipality in the north, Denzlingen, is located in the district Emmendingen.

Since its beginnings, the history of the village was connected that of the city of Freiburg. For instance, the farmers of Heuweiler had to perform socage and transport the sandstone of Tennenbach which was used for building the Minster. When Freiburg was ruled by the Habsburgs it became part of Further Austria. Heuweiler became part of the bailiwick Kastelburg-Schwarzenberg. Still today old border stones remind of the district boundaries of that time.

The parish church was mentioned for the first time in documents in 1275. It is dedicated to Saint Remigius. Heuweiler remained until very recently a predominantly catholic village. Only since the population influx in recent decades also inhabitants of other confessions and faiths reside in the village.

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