DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk: Stuttgart
Landkreis: Ostalbkreis

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Waldhausen is situated at an elevation of 275 m in the Rems valley in the east of the district Ostalbkreis of Baden-Württemberg. The village has a population of about 2,700 (2012). Until 1971 it was an independent municipality and since 1972 is part of the municipality Lorch.

The village may have been founded already in the 7th century. The earliest written mention of a castrum Walthusin dates from 1188. Provided that this mention refers to the ruins of the castle on the Elisabethenberg this would be the first known mention of Waldhausen. Around 1250 the castle came into possession of the counts of Württemberg. The Reformation was introduced in Waldhausen in 1535. The railway line from Bad Cannstadt (today part of Stuttgart) to Wasseralfingen as part of the Rems railroad opened in 1861; however, the station at Waldhausen was only opened later. On 1 January 1972, Waldhausen was incorporated into the municipality of Lorch.

The top left picture on glass no. 3935 [left] shows a chapel, according to the label built in 1696 (maybe the church of St. Elisabeth?).

The bottom left picture shows the railway station and the Restaurant Lang.

The bottom left picture shows the sanatorium on Elisabethenberg, opened in 1939 by the Reichsbahn­versicherungs­anstalt (Insurance Company of the German Reich Railway) and dedicated to the treatent of children with tuberculosis. After 1948 it was taken over by the insurance company of the German National Railway (legal successor of the Reichsbahn). Sold in 1968 it since then is used as home and workshops for handicapped people.

Another glass in this collection shows a view of Waldhausen im Strudengau, Upper Austria, Austria.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldhausen_(Lorch)]