Wilgartswiesen!Isolated German village in the mountains 🏔️ 4k video

Wilgartswiesen is the largest local community in terms of area in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hauenstein, within which it is the third largest local community in terms of population. Wilgartswiesen is a state-recognized resort.
The core town is in the southern Palatinate Forest, the German part of the Wasgau, on its northern edge in the Queich valley. The district of Hermersbergerhof, 5 km north at the foot of the Weißenberg, is the highest settlement in the Palatinate. Another district is the Hofstätten exclave, which is located north of the rest of the municipality and to which the Häusel residential area belongs.
The extensive district north of the core community, which largely belongs to the low mountain range of the Frankenweide, is almost entirely wooded outside of the residential development.
Neighboring communities in a clockwise direction - including exclaves in italics - are Annweiler am Trifels, Rinnthal, Spirkelbach, Hauenstein, Spirkelbach, Hinterweidenthal, Münchweiler an der Rodalb and Merzalben. The Hofstätten exclave borders clockwise on Elmstein, Landau in der Pfalz, Annweiler am Trifels, Merzalben, Leimen and Trippstadt.
Wilgartswiesen was already mentioned in a document in 828, when Countess Wiligarta from the family of the Gaugraves of Bliesgau, the so-called Widonen, donated the Willigarttawisa church and farm to the Hornbach monastery, which from then on pushed forward the reclamation of the area and, among other things, founded the Hermersbergerhof annex. This makes it the oldest community in the Queichtal. Later the place and the extensive area were administered from the nearby Falkenburg. Until the end of the 18th century, the community formed a condominium in which it belonged jointly to Zweibrücken and the Leiningen-Dagsburg line. Under the subsequent French rule, Wilgartswiesen was merged with Hofstätten, further to the northeast, to form a municipality.
From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire, Wilgartswiesen and Hofstätten - as they were called at the time - were incorporated into the canton of Annweiler and the seat of the Mairie Wilgartswiesen, which also owned Rinnthal and Spirkelbach included. In 1815 the municipality was added to Austria, and just one year later the municipality, like the entire Palatinate, moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria. From 1818 to 1862, Wilgartswiesen and Hochstätten were part of the Bergzabern Land Commissioner, which was subsequently converted into a district office. On June 17, 1849, Wilgartswiesen became part of the scene of the battle near Rinnthal; Some of the Prussian associations remained behind the community.
In 1931, the community previously called Wilgartswiesen-Hofstätten was renamed “Wilgartswiesen”. In 1939 it was incorporated into the Bergzabern district. After the Second World War, the community within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. As part of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, the community moved to the Pirmasens district in 1969 (from 1997 the Südwestpfalz district). Three years later it was incorporated into the newly created Hauenstein community.
In 1972, the eastern part of the hamlet of Johanniskreuz was added to the municipality of Trippstadt, to which the western part had already belonged. On January 1, 1976, the hamlet of Kaltenbach, which had previously belonged to the municipality, was transferred to Hinterweidenthal and the towns of Speyerbrunn, Erlenbach and Schwarzbach in the Elmstein Valley were transferred to Elmstein.
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