Winterlingen


Winterlingen is a municipality in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

History

Winterlingen was first documented around 1264 as a possession of the County of Hohenberg. It was purchased by the County of Württemberg around 1387. After 1469, Winterlingen was permanently a possession of Württemberg. It was assigned to, though it was briefly reassigned in 1810 to. In 1938, the Oberamt of Balingen was reorganized as. Some residential and commercial expansion of Winterlingen took place before World War II, and it slowly expanded after the war starting in the 1950s to the north and southwest. There was additional development in the 1970s, and the reassignment of Winterlingen in 1973, following the, to the newly-created Zollernalb district.

Geography

Winterlingen is a municipality of the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg, one of the 16 States of the Federal Republic of Germany. It lies along the south-eastern edge of the district and borders the district of Sigmaringen to the east. Winterlingen is physically located in the, between the valleys of the Schmiech and Lauchert rivers. A small portion of the municipal area is located in the Baar region to the west. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of Normalnull to a low of NN.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms for Winterlingen displays two general areas, divided vertically into two halves. The left half has two fields: an upper white and a lower red, and the right half has a yellow half with three stag antlers. These are, respectively, the coats of arms for the County of Hohenberg, impaled with that of Württemberg. This pattern is from a seal that began usage in Winterlingen's town hall in 1930 and replaced an earlier seal, used by the local Schultheiß. This coat of arms was approved by the post-WWII provisional Württemberg-Hohenzollern government on 13 July 1951.