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Encyclopedia Britannica



WEINSBERG

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 496 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WEINSBERG , a small town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, pleasantly situated on the Sulm, 5 M. E. from Heilbronn by the railway to Crailsheim. Pop. (1905) 3097. It has an ancient Romanesque church, a
monument
  to the re-former
Oecolampadius
  (q.v.), and a school of viticulture, which is the
chief
  occupation of the inhabitants. On the Schlossberg above the town lie the ruins of the castle of Weibertreu, and atits foot is the
house
  once inhabited by Justinus Kerner (q.v.), with a public
garden
  and a
monument
  to the poet.
The German king
Conrad
  III. defeated
Count
  Well VI. of Bavaria near Weinsberg in December 1140, and took the town, which later became a free imperial city. In 1331 it joined the league of the Swabian cities, but was taken by the nobles in 1440 and sold to the elector palatine, thus losing its liberties. It was burnt in 1525 as a
punishment
  for the atrocities committed by the revolted peasants. The famous legend of Weibertreu (" women's faithfulness "), immortalized in a ballad by
Chamisso
 , is connected with the siege of 1140, although the story is told of other places. It is said that
Conrad
  III. allowed the women to leave the town with whatever they could carry, where-upon they came out with their husbands on their backs.
See Bernheim, " Die Sage von den treuen Weibern zu Weinsberg " (in the Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, vol. xv., Gottingen, 1875) ; Merk, Geschichte der Stadt Weinsberg and ihrer Burg Weibertreu (Heilbronn, i88o).


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