Friolzheim is a municipality of the Enz district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Friolzheimer Riese telecommunications tower was located here.
History
The village of Friolzheim gradually became a possession of the in the 15th century, but then sold the village to
Hirsau Abbey. Friolzheim remained a possession of the monastery until it was dissolved in 1807 following German mediatization. Under the Kingdom of Württemberg, Friolzheim was first assigned to in 1807, then to on 26 April 1808. Following the , Friolzheim was assigned to the
Enzkreis.
Geography
The municipality (
Gemeinde) of Friolzheim covers of the
Enzkreis of Baden-Württemberg, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Friolzheim is physically located at the edge of the
Black Forest and the . Most of the municipal area lies in the Heckengäu, a region characterized by
karstified and forested
muschelkalk hills covered with thin layers of soil.
A portion of the Federally-protected natural reserve is located in the southeast of the municipality.
Coat of arms
Friolzheim's municipal coat of arms is divided vertically between an image of a
stag in gold upon a field of blue on the right, and five bars – three gold and two blue – on the left. The bars on the left are from the coat of arms of the , while the stag is a reference to Hirsau Abbey. This pattern was drafted and accepted on the suggestion of the in 1937, as Friolzheim had had no coat of arms until then. It was officially approved by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on 11 December 1957.
