Zell im Wiesental is a town in the district of Lörrach in

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, Germany. It is situated in the

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, on the river Wiese, 26 km northeast of

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), ...

, and 32 km south of

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. The town is famous for being the birthplace of Constanze Weber, wife of

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Gallery

File:Zell im Wiesental, straatzicht met katholische Stadtpfarrkirche foto3 2013-07-26 13.00.jpg, Zell im Wiesental, church (Stadtpfarrkirche) in the street File:Mambach, geit met Maria Frieden Kapelle foto1 2013-07-26 12.27.jpg, Mambach, goat with chapel (die Maria Frieden Kapelle) File:Atzenbach, straatzicht foto1 2013-07-26 12.46.jpg, Atzenbach, view to a street File:Silbersau, wegpanorama foto4 2013-07-26 12.06.jpg, Silbersau, road panorama

Personalities

Franz Fridolin Weber (1733-1779), was born as the son of an official in Zell. In 1754, at the age of 21, he was also appointed an official by Freiherr Ignaz Ludwig von Schönau, and in 1756 he married the Cäcilia Stamm from Mannheim. On January 5, 1762, Weber's daughter

Constanze Mozart Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart (née Weber; 5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a trained Austrian singer. She was married twice, first to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; then to Georg Nikolaus von Nissen. She and Mozart had si ...

(died 1842), was born in Zell, who later married

. Another daughter of Weber, also born in Zell, was the singer and vocal pedagogue

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, (died 1839), who was born in the city between 1759 and 1761. Johann Faller was born in Todtnau, but he worked in the Zell textile industry and was responsible for social issues in Zell, including the founding of a reading society and the Zell fire brigade, As a deputy of the Second Chamber of the Badische Standesgemeinschaft, he also managed the construction of several streets in the Upper Wiesenental. Severin Kern (1900-1986) was from 1950 to 1972 lord mayor of Villingen. In 1903 Karl Müller was born as the son of a textile worker in Zell. He was persecuted, imprisoned and forced to serve in the

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during the National Socialism. As a trade unionist and member of the Communist, he became after the war a member of the

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(SED) and editor of the

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'' 5. Ausgabe. Band 2, Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, . Gerhard Jung (1926-1998) was born on 10 August 1926 in Zell. He became known as a dialect poet and writer in the Wiesental and beyond, he received in 1973 the

Johann-Peter-Hebel-Plakette Johann-Peter-Hebel-Plakette is a literary prize, awarded annually since 1960, by the community of Hausen im Wiesental in Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germa ...

of the municipality of Hausen, 1974 the

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of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1997, Jung was awarded the Federal Cross, since 1986 he was an honorary citizen of his hometown. Also Markus's son Markus Manfred Jung was born in Zell. Like his father, he is known as a dialect poet and writer. Also from Zell is the bank manager and art collector Manfred Meier-Preschany (1929-2014).

Transport

The municipality has a railway station, . It is the northern terminus of the

Wiese Valley Railway The Wiese Valley Railway (german: Wiesentalbahn) is a 27.2 km long, electrified main line in German Baden-Württemberg in the tri-national area of Germany, Switzerland and France near the Swiss city of Basel. It is part of the Basel trinatio ...

Other sons and daughters of the town

* Josepha Hofer (1761-1819), soprano * Rudolf Vogel (1882-1972), material researcher and metallographer

References

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