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The title of this article is ambiguous. See also: Leiv Aalen (1906–1983), Norwegian theologian, or Alen .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '  N , 10 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Ostalbkreis
Height :	430 m above sea level NHN
Area :	146.63 km 2
Residents:	68,456 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	467 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	73430-73434, 73453
Primaries :	07361, 07366, 07367
License plate :	AA, GD
Community key :	08 1 36 088
City structure:	Core city and 7 boroughs
City administration address :	Marktplatz 30 73430 Aalen
Website :	www.aalen.de
Lord Mayor :	Thilo Rentschler ( SPD )
Location of the city of Aalen in the Ostalb district

Historic town hall with market fountain

The city center from the observation tower Aalbäumle seen

Aalen ([ ˈaːlən ], Swabian [ ˈɔ: lɐ̃ ]) is a medium-sized city in the east of Baden-Württemberg , about 70 km east of Stuttgart and 50 km north of Ulm . It is located in the valley of the upper Kocher in the so-called Aalen Bay on the northeastern edge of the Swabian Alb .

Aalen was founded between the years 1241 and 1246, next to the town there was also the Alemannic village of Aalen near a Roman fort . The city of Aalen was made an imperial city in 1360 . After a major fire in 1634, many buildings such as the town hall and the town church had to be rebuilt. In 1803 Aalen became the upper administrative city of Württemberg . Today Aalen is a district town and forms a medium-sized center . In addition to mechanical engineering , the optical , paper , IT and textiles industries are important carriers of the economic structure. Aalen is also a university town with the Aalen University of Technology and Business, where around 6,000 students are enrolled.

With an area of ​​146.63 km², Aalen is the seventh largest city in Baden-Württemberg and the second largest in the Stuttgart administrative region after Stuttgart . With a population of over 68,000, Aalen is the largest city in the Ostalb district as well as in the entire East Württemberg region and is in 15th place in the table of the most populous cities in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Aerial view of the district of Unterkochen (the city center partially covered in the background) with the Aalen Bay clearly visible (behind)

Aalen is located in the valley of the upper Kocher at its exit from the eastern Swabian Alb, which rises south and east of the city, in the so-called Aalen Bay . North of the city is the landscape of the Ellwang Mountains . To the northwest lies the Welland .

The urban area of ​​Aalen has a share in the natural areas of the Eastern Alb foreland (western urban area) and the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains (north and northwest), both of which belong to the Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land , as well as the Albuch (southwest) and the Härtsfeld (east), the each represent a sub-area of ​​the Swabian Alb .

Coming from Oberkochen in the south, the Kocher flows into the urban area, flows through the district of Unterkochen in a northerly direction , then the core town - where the Aal flows out - and the district of Wasseralfingen , and leaves it in the north towards Hüttlingen . The rivers Rems (near Essingen , west of Aalen) and Jagst (near Unterschneidheim , east of Aalen), both of which, like the Kocher, are tributaries of the Neckar, have their source near Aalen .

The market square in the city center is 430 m above sea level. NHN . The lowest point in the urban area is the Lein near Rodamsdörfle at 375 m above sea level. NHN, the highest point of the summit of the Grünenberg near Himmlingen at 733 m above sea level. NHN.

City structure

Map of the individual city districts

Unterrombach from the air from the south, 1984

Hofherrnweiler from the air from the southwest, 1984, with Unterrombach in the background

The urban area of ​​Aalen consists of the core city and the municipalities that were incorporated between 1938 (Unterrombach) and 1975 (Wasseralfingen) (see the section on incorporations ). The municipalities that were only incorporated during the most recent regional reform in the 1970s are also referred to as city ​​districts and are also localities within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . They each have a local council , who is elected in local elections and whose chairman is the mayor .

The core city of Aalen and the integrated municipalities include a large number of mostly spatially separated sub-locations . Most have a long history of their own; others were created as new building areas, which were then given their own name, but often no defined boundaries. The following sub-locations exist:

Locality	Coat of arms 1	Area in km²	Population (December 31, 2019)	Sub-locations
Aalen (city center)		20.858	26,851	Himmlingen , Hirschhof
Dewangen		16,533	03,256	Aushof, Bernhardsdorf, Bronnenhäusle, Bubenrain, Degenhof, Dreherhof, Faulherrnhof, Freudenhöfle, Gobühl, Großdölzerhof, Haldenhaus, Hüttenhöfe, Kleindölzerhof, Kohlhöfle, Langenhalde, Lusthof, Neuhof, Rauburriaf, Reichenbach , Riegelithhöfle, Rodamsdörßen, Schulthöfle, Rotshof Tannenhof, Trübenreute
Ebnat		21,161	03,306	Affalterwang , Diepertsbuch , Niesitz
Subject field		3,950	03,600	Bodenbach, Frankeneich, Hangendenbuch, Himmlingsweiler, Mühlhäusle, Sanzenbach, Scherrenmühle, Spitzschafhaus, Steinfurt, Waiblingen
Hofen		12,583	02.011	Attenhofen, Fürsitz, Goldshöfe , Heimatsmühle, Kellerhaus, Oberalfingen, Wagenrain
Undercooking		21,444	05,073	Birkhof, Glashütte , Klause, Neukochen, Neuziegelhütte, Pulvermühle, Stefansweilermühle
Unterrombach / Hofherrnweiler		9.757	09,163	Hahnenberg, Hammerstadt, Hofherrnweiler, Lauchhof, Mädle, Mantelhof, Neßlau, Oberrombach, Pompelhof, Rauental, Sandberg, Sauerbachhof, Schwalbenhof, Sofienhof, Vogelsang
Waldhausen		24.375	02,430	Arlesberg, Bernlohe, Beuren , Brastelburg , Geiselwang , Hohenberg, Neubau , Simmisweiler
Wasseralfingen		15.965	11,912	Affalterried, Brausenried, Erzhäusle, Heisenberg, Mäderhof, Onatsfeld , Rötenberg, Röthardt, Treppach, Weidenfeld

¹ Coat of arms of the former municipality

See also : List of places in the Ostalb district

The maximum extension of the Aalen city area is 18 km in north-south and 25 km in east-west direction. As of December 31, 2012, the urban area had an area of ​​14,662.6 hectares. Of this, 41.8% (6,127.4 ha) is agricultural and 37.8% (5,540.8 ha) is forest. 11.7% (1,715.9 ha) are buildings or open spaces, 6.5% (946.1 ha) are traffic areas. The proportion of sports, recreation and green areas is 1.1% (166.7 ha), water areas 0.4% (51.8 ha), industrial areas 0.2% (34.3 ha), other areas Areas 0.5% (79.6 ha).

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

Neighboring communities

The following cities and municipalities border the city of Aalen ( clockwise , starting in the south; in brackets the distance between the respective city center and Aalen city center, as the crow flies):

Oberkochen (6 km), Essingen (6 km), Heuchlingen (11 km), Abtsgmünd (9 km), Neuler (10 km), Hüttlingen (6 km), Rainau (10 km), Westhausen (9 km), Lauchheim ( 12 km), Bopfingen (20 km) and Neresheim (20 km, all Ostalbkreis ) as well as Heidenheim an der Brenz (18 km) and Königsbronn (10 km, both district of Heidenheim ).

Spatial planning

Aalen is a medium-sized center within the East Württemberg region , which does not have its own regional center. The central area of ​​Aalen includes the towns and communities in the central and eastern part of the Ostalb district: Abtsgmünd , Bopfingen , Essingen , Hüttlingen , Kirchheim am Ries , Lauchheim , Neresheim , Oberkochen , Riesbürg and Westhausen . There are interrelationships with the neighboring medium-sized center of Nördlingen in Bavaria, around 30 kilometers to the east .

geology

The urban area of ​​Aalen extends over all three lithostratigraphic groups of the southern German Jura : the south and the Flexner massif lie on the White , the city center on the Brown , and part of Wasseralfingen on the Black Jura . For this reason, the city of Aalen advertises itself as the “Mecca of geologists”.

Most of the urban area of ​​Aalen lies on the Opalinus Clay Formation of the Lower Aalenium, named after the city of Aalen . On the Sandberg, the Schnaitberg and the Schradenberg (all in the west of Aalen) the iron sandstone formation of the Oberaalenium comes to light. On the remaining hills in the urban area, mainly sand and gravel ( Goldshöfer sand ) and residual gravel are deposited. The old town of Aalen and other areas along the course of the Kocher (including Wasseralfingen) are completely based on a valley filling made of alluvial clay and river gravel.

Most of Dewangen and Fachsenfeld lie on the Jurensis marl , Posidonia schist , Amaltheenton , Numismalis marl and Obtususton formations, which are part of the Jura and are rich in fossils. The marl layer, which already belongs to the Keuper, forms the end .

Iron ore was mined on the Braunenberg until 1939 (see section Deep Tunnels ).

climate

Since the urban area of ​​Aalen extends over the Alb foreland , the Voralb , the Albuch and the Härtsfeld and overcomes a total of 355 meters difference in altitude between the lowest and highest point, the climate differs from district to district.

The measuring station, from which the following data originate, is located between the core city of Aalen and Wasseralfingen at approximately 48 ° 51 ′ 2 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 44 ″  E and has been providing values ​​since 1991.

The number of hours of sunshine is around 1,800 per year, which corresponds to an average daily sunshine duration of around 4.93 hours. Aalen is thus nationwide above the average (1550 hours per year). But also in terms of the number of rainy days per year, the region is 167 above the nationwide average of 138 days per year and with an annual rainfall of around 807 mm, it is also in the moderate mean of Baden-Württemberg. The annual mean temperature is 9.9 ° C. Here, too, Aalen is above the national average of 8.2 ° C and the state average of Baden-Württemberg of 8.1 ° C.

history

City history

First settlement

Firestone tools and traces of human resting places from the Mesolithic between the 8th and 5th millennium BC were found in several places on the edge of the valley of Kocher and Jagst. The bronze time the core is attributed to a height settlement on the 650 by 350 meter plateau lock construction site behind the Unterkochener Kocherburg . In the Wasseralfinger Wald Appenwang , in Goldshöfe and Ebnat, burial mounds from the Hallstatt period are known. The Celts left gold and silver coins that were found in Aalen and Wasseralfingen. They fortified the settlement on the castle building site with section walls and a stone wall. At Wasseralfingen-Heisenberg there is a Celtic Viereckschanze , no longer visible on the surface .

Roman times

Uncovered foundation walls of the Roman fort

After the abandonment of the Alblimes , the area of ​​the city of Aalen became part of the Roman Empire around 150 AD and was located directly on the then newly founded Upper German-Raetian Limes . The Romans built a fort for the cavalry unit Ala II Flavia Milliaria , the remains of which are known as Aalen Castle . It was located west of today's city center below the Schillerhöhe and, with over a thousand horsemen and almost as many grooms, was the largest camp of auxiliary troops on the entire Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes. Civil settlements attached to the south and east. Around 260 the Romans gave up the fort when they withdrew their border against the unoccupied Germania behind the rivers Rhine and Danube. Then the Alemanni took over the region. After coin finds that can be assigned to the late 3rd and 4th centuries, the camp settlement initially continued to exist. There is no evidence of any further continuous settlement between Roman times and the Middle Ages.

City foundation

Dig around the Aalen castle stable

Barbarossa fountain below the Aalen castle stable, modeled on a seal of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa. The inscription reads: IMPERATOR FREDERIC [US] DEI GRATIA ROMANORU [M] (German: Friedrich by God's grace, Emperor of the Romans ).

Archaeologists consider finds of the Alemanni graves from the 7th century as the nucleus of the village of Aalen . Roman stones were used in the north and west walls of St. John's Church , which is located directly in front of the east gate of the Roman fort ; the current building probably dates from the 9th century.

In the Middle Ages , a place that now belongs to Aalen was first mentioned in 839, when Emperor Ludwig the Pious allowed the Fulda Monastery to exchange goods in the hamlet of Hammerstadt (Hamarstat). Aalen itself was mentioned for the first time in a property register of the Ellwangen monastery in 1136 as the village of Alon and a local nobleman named Konrad von Aalen. This noble family probably had its ancestral castle in the castle stables south of the city center and was probably first in the service of the Ellwangen monastery, later the Staufer , then the Oettinger . In honor of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , who, according to a story from the 16th century, is said to have held a court day here, a Barbarossa fountain was built below the castle stables . In 1426 a member of the family was last recorded in connection with Aalen. Medieval documents indicate that the town of Aalen was founded by the Staufers between 1241 and 1246 at a different location than the village of Aalen and that it was destroyed in the town war in 1388 . Later the Counts of Oettingen were attested city lords, which is first documented for 1340. They pledged the city in 1358 or 1359 for a sum of money to Count Eberhard II and thus to the County of Württemberg.

Time as an imperial city

Appointment to the imperial city

Emperor Karl IV took the city of Aalen in the Imperial War against Württemberg after a siege without a fight. On December 3, 1360, he declared it an imperial city (often incorrectly: free imperial city ), and it retained the title until 1803. In 1377, Aalen became a member of the Swabian Association of Cities , and from 1500 of the Swabian Imperial Circle . In 1385 the name civitas appeared for the first time in the city seal. In 1398 the place received market rights , in 1401 jurisdiction. However, Aalen was unable to acquire a large territory: apart from the actual city, only a few nearby hamlets belonged to the "sovereign territory".

City view from 1528

The oldest preserved view of the city dates from 1528. It was drawn as the basis of a legal dispute between the city and the Counts of Oettingen before the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer and shows Aalen surrounded by walls, towers and double moats. The course of the moats, between which a ring wall was located, can be recognized by the current street names Nördlicher, Ostlicher, Südlicher and Westlicher Stadtgraben. The approximately 6 meter high wall was 1518 paces (990 meters) long, the walled city area was 5.3 hectares in size. When it was founded, the city had two gates : the Obere or Ellwanger Gate in the east and the Martinstor in the south. Due to frequent floods, the Martinstor was walled up in the 14th century and replaced by the Untere or Gmünder Tor built shortly before 1400 in the west . Several smaller side gates were built later. The central street market was held at the today 's marketplace called bet alley and Reichsstätter road instead and thus proceeded, as was customary, bent from a city gate to another, in Aalen, however, L-shaped between southern (St. Martin's) and eastern (Ellwanger) gate.

Around 1500 the cemetery was moved from the town church to the Johanneskirche. In 1514 an assembly formed from the citizens met for the first time with the twenty-four .

reformation

Commissioned by the Duke of Württemberg Ludwig came on June 28, 1575, almost thirty years after Martin Luther's death, the University of Tubingen professor and chancellor of the university, Jakob Andreae , in Aalen. His sermon the next day convinced the mayor, city council and citizens to introduce the Reformation in Aalen; he stayed in town for four weeks to help with the initiation. This brought enormous changes; for example, the Catholic pastor was forbidden from holding mass and preaching by the city ​​council . Mayor Kaspar Voss (1512–1589) signed the Lutheran concord formula of 1577 for the city council in 1579. After the victories of the imperial family at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War , the prince provosty of Ellwangen , which was still Aalen's patroness, was able to temporarily enforce Catholicism again in 1628 . After the successes of the Evangelical Union in 1632, however, the Protestant church regiment was restored.

City fire in 1634

On the night of September 5th to 6th, 1634, two ensigns of the army of Bernhard of Saxony, which was retreating after the battle of Nördlingen and fighting for Sweden, set fire to two powder wagons in order not to take the war material from the enemy in view of Croatian soldiers who had already entered the city to leave and to hinder its advance. The result was a city fire, the extent of which is assessed differently. According to the 17th century illustration, the church and all of the town's buildings except the oath tower fell victim to the fire, and only nine families survived. Research by Hermann Bauer from the 19th century consider this inconclusive and exaggerated; There is no doubt, however, that the town church and “perhaps a fairly wide circle of houses around it” perished. The fire also destroyed the city archive with all documents housed in an extension of the city church. After the fire, looting soldiers from the two armies marched through the city. Only after almost a hundred years was the old population of almost 2000 reached again.

French troops passed through Aalen in 1688 in the Palatinate War of Succession , but without leaving any serious damage as elsewhere, as well as in 1702 in the Spanish War of Succession and in 1741 in the Austrian War of Succession , in which imperial troops also passed through the city in 1743 .

The tower of the town church collapsed in 1765, presumably because insufficient attention was paid to the statics during the reconstruction after the town fire in 1634. The collapsing tower caught two of the tower watcher's children who died of their injuries. The town church was destroyed, only the altar cross remained. The damage was so great that the church ruins had to be torn down; In the same year, work began on building the church in its current form.

On November 22nd, 1749, the Aalen Protocol was signed between the Duchy of Württemberg and the Prince Provost of Ellwangen in the neutral imperial city of Aalen, which was supposed to regulate the coexistence of Protestants and Catholics in Oberkochen.

Napoleonic period

French attack on Aalen of 1796

In the War of the First Coalition Aalen in 1796 was heavily looted. The Second War of the Coalition ended in 1801 with the Peace of Lunéville , which in 1803 led to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , with which most of the imperial cities were assigned to the neighboring principalities. Aalen came to the electorate (later the kingdom) of Württemberg and became the seat of the upper office of Aalen . During the Third Coalition War , Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Aalen on October 6, 1805 , leading an army of 40,000 soldiers. According to the town clerk, this and the Bavarian and Austrian troops that moved in a few days later led to hardships that “cannot be described with a pen”.

The municipality of Unterrombach was formed in 1811 from a few hamlets , some of which belonged to Aalen, but some also belonged to the Wöllwarth rulership . The eastern hamlets of Aalen came to the municipality of Unterkochen.

In the era of the Napoleonic Wars, the city ​​walls were no longer militarily useful. The maintenance of walls, gates and towers had been neglected more and more in the 18th century, so that more and more structures of the wall became dilapidated. There was not enough money for a general renovation, also in view of the considerable war expenditure. From 1800 most of the towers were demolished, the other structures followed a little later, so that the fortifications have almost completely disappeared today.

Industrial revolution

Station and town after 1861

Before the Industrial Revolution , Aalen's economic structure was shaped by its rural environment. As arable citizens, many townspeople ran an agricultural business alongside their craft. A trade often practiced was that of the tanner ; In the middle of the 19th century there were twelve tanneries in Aalen, and Ulm was an important market. Other handicrafts were weaving mills, which made wool and linen products, as well as confectionery and gingerbread .

The first high point of industrialization came in the 1840s, when three wire pin factories and several other factories were established in Aalen . It was not until the connection to the railway network in 1861 with the opening of the Remsbahn from Cannstatt to Wasseralfingen that the city flourished , together with the royal ironworks (later Swabian ironworks ) in Wasseralfingen, the industry in Aalen flourished. The extension of the Remsbahn to Nördlingen in 1863, the opening of the Brenzbahn in 1864 and the Upper Jagstbahn in 1866 made the Aalen station a railway junction. In addition, from 1901 until its closure in 1972, the Härtsfeldbahn ran via Neresheim to Dillingen an der Donau . An operations workshop , the large locomotive shed , an operations office , two railway maintenance depots and a freight station with an urban industrial railway to develop factories in the southern part of the city and the Eger shaped the cityscape so that Aalen was also referred to as a railway town by local historians during this period . In 1866 the Aalen gasworks was opened and gas lighting was introduced. In 1870 the city got a modern water supply and in 1912 the first electricity lines . Finally, in 1935, the first electric street lighting was installed.

In order to counteract the housing shortage during and after the First World War , the city of Aalen set up barrack settlements in the hose and at the old gymnasium . Despite the industry paralyzed by the global economic crisis after 1929, the bathing establishment at Hirschbach was converted into a modern open-air pool with an enlarged swimming area in 1931 .

time of the nationalsocialism

In the Reichstag elections on November 6, 1932, the NSDAP performed below average in Aalen; there it received 25.8 percent of the vote (compared to 33.1 percent in the Reich) and was therefore only the second strongest party in Aalen after the Center Party , which received 26.6 percent (in the Reich 11.9 percent), and ahead of the SPD with 19.8 percent (20.4 percent). The picture had changed by the time the Reichstag elections on March 5, 1933 , the first after Hitler came to power ; The NSDAP still performed below average at 34.1 percent (43.9 percent in the Reich), but was now by far the strongest party in Aalen. It was followed by the center, which received an unchanged 26.6 percent (Reich: 11.3) of the vote, and by the SPD with 18.6 percent (Reich: 18.3).

At the beginning of the Nazi era , the democratically elected mayor Friedrich Schwarz remained in office until the National Socialists disempowered him in 1934 and replaced him initially with the chairman of the NSDAP council faction and brewery owner Karl Barth as administrator and later with the lawyer Karl Schübel . In August 1934, the Nazi consumer exhibition “ Braune Messe ” took place in Aalen .

In 1936, a riding and driving school for the military district was stationed in the city, an army supplies office and an ancillary equipment office were established and an ancillary army ammunition facility was housed.

In 1935 the incorporation of neighboring towns began. In 1934 the Oberamt Aalen was renamed the Aalen district and in 1938, as part of the administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg, it was transferred to the Aalen district and the Unterrombach community dissolved. Most of the area came to Aalen, but Hammerstadt became part of the municipality of Dewangen. Forst, Rauental and Vogelsang came to Essingen (from 1952 the entire former municipality of Unterrombach belonged to Aalen, with the exception of Forst, which has remained with Essingen to this day).

In the city hospital, the deaconesses who had previously worked there were increasingly being replaced by sisters of the National Socialist People's Welfare . In the course of the Nazi racial hygiene ideology, around 490 people or around 200 people were forcibly sterilized there, depending on the source .

In September 1944 in Wasseralfingen the concentration camp Wiesdorf , a satellite camp of the concentration camp Natzweiler / Alsace, built for 200 to 300 prisoners in industrial companies around forced labor do had. By the time the camp was closed in February 1945, 60 prisoners died. Between 1946 and 1957 the warehouse buildings were demolished; The foundations are still in place in Moltkestrasse 44/46 . In addition, prisoners of war as well as women and men from countries occupied by Germany were concentrated in several labor camps , who had to work for the armaments industry in large companies such as the Swabian ironworks and the Alfing Keßler machine factory .

Aalen was largely spared from the fighting of the Second World War . Only in the last weeks of the war did air strikes destroy or seriously damage parts of the city, the train station and the other railway facilities. A series of air raids lasting more than three weeks culminated on April 17, 1945, when US Air Force bombers bombed the auxiliary armory stationed in Aalen and the railroad facilities. 59 people were killed, over half of them buried, and over 500 were left homeless. 33 residential buildings, 12 other buildings and 2 bridges were destroyed and 163 buildings including 2 churches were damaged. Five days later, the National Socialist rulers in Aalen were deposed by the American armed forces.

post war period

In 1945 Aalen fell into the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden . When Baden-Württemberg was founded in 1952, Aalen became part of this state. When the district reform came into force on January 1, 1973 , the Aalen district became part of the Ostalb district. Aalen became the capital of the new district. In 1975 the urban area reached its present size ( see below ).

The population of the city of Aalen exceeded the limit of 20,000 in 1946, the prerequisite for the status of a large district town . On August 1, 1947, Aalen was declared a direct district town and, when the Baden-Württemberg municipal code came into effect on April 1, 1956, it was declared a major district town .

In 1992 the Baden-Württemberg Home Days took place in Aalen .

The city involuntarily achieved greater notoriety in 2006 when an insect allegedly 50 meters tall was discovered near Aalen on a satellite image from Google Maps . However, this later turned out to be a fringed wing that got onto the picture when the photo was scanned.

The largest urban development project since 2000 is the so-called “Stadtoval”, an industrial wasteland located in the center northeast of Aalen train station . In 2000, a construction steel company stopped its business activities on the approximately four hectare site. After the site was taken over by the real estate company Aurelis in 2003 , negotiations followed with the city administration about future use and in 2010 an urban planning competition. This resulted in the planning of a mixed area with apartments for around 460 people and company branches. At the beginning of 2013, the city of Aurelis bought the area for 2.5 million euros, and the demolition of the former factory building began in February 2014. Shortly afterwards, renovation work began on a former railway building on the site that is to become the "Kulturbahnhof".

Incorporations

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View of Aalen, seen from the thermal bath (December 2014)

Today's city of Aalen was formed on June 21, 1975 by the merger of the cities of Aalen and Wasseralfingen, initially under the name Aalen-Wasseralfingen , which was renamed the city ​​of Aalen on July 1, 1975 . The former city of Aalen had already incorporated the following communities:

• 1938: Unterrombach
• January 1, 1970: Waldhausen
• July 1, 1972: Ebnat
• January 1, 1973: Dewangen, Fachsenfeld (with the hamlet of Hangendenbuch, which was surrounded by Abtsgmünd in 1954) and Unterkochen. With the incorporation of Dewangen, the previous district area of ​​Aalen was almost doubled.

On April 1, 1972, the city of Wasseralfingen incorporated the municipality of Hofen.

Population development and population structure

 

Aalen population development according to the table below. Above from 1634 to 2018. Below an excerpt from 1871

In the Middle Ages and early modern times , Aalen was only a small town with a few hundred inhabitants. The population grew only slowly and fell again and again due to the numerous wars, epidemics and famine. Only with the beginning of industrialization in the 19th century did population growth accelerate. In 1803 only 1,932 people lived in the city, in 1905 there were already 10,442. Even after that, the population continued to grow. In 1939 Aalen had 15,890 inhabitants.

Due to the influx of refugees and displaced persons from the German eastern areas after the Second World War , the city's population rose to 31,814 by 1961. The merger with Wasseralfingen on June 21, 1975 brought an increase from 14,597 people to 65,165 inhabitants. On June 30, 2005, the " official population " for Aalen was 67,125 according to the state statistical office of Baden-Württemberg (only main residences and after comparison with the other state offices).

The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. Until 1823 it is mostly an estimate, then census results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office. Before 1871, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey procedures. From 1871, the information relates to the “local population”, from 1925 to the resident population and since 1987 to the “population at the place of the main residence”.

year Residents 1634 ² 02,000 1803 ² 01.932 1823 ² 02,486 December 3, 1843 ¹ 03,319 December 3, 1855 ¹ 03,720 December 3, 1861 ¹ 04,272 December 1, 1871 ¹ 05,552 December 1, 1880¹ 06,659 December 1, 1890¹ 07.155 December 1, 1900 ¹ 09,058 December 1, 1905 ¹ 10,442 December 1, 1910¹ 11,347 December 1, 1916 ¹ 10,655

year Residents December 5, 1917 ¹ 10,551 October 8, 1919 ¹ 11,978 June 16, 1925 ¹ 12,171 June 16, 1933 ¹ 12,703 May 17, 1939 ¹ 15,890 December 31, 1945 ² 19,552 October 29, 1946 ¹ 21,941 September 13, 1950 ¹ 25,375 September 25, 1956 ¹ 29,360 June 6, 1961 ¹ 31,814 December 31, 1965 ² 34,373 May 27, 1970 ¹ 37,366 December 31, 1975 ² 64,735

year Residents December 31, 1980 63.030 December 31, 1985 63.195 December 31, 1990 64,781 December 31, 1995 66,234 December 31, 2000 66,373 December 31, 2005 67,066 December 31, 2010 66.113 December 31, 2015 67,344 December 31, 2016 67,684 December 31, 2017 67,849 December 31, 2018 68,456

¹ census result

On December 31, 2008, Aalen had exactly 66,058 inhabitants. These included 33,579 women and 32,479 men. The average age of the residents of Aalen rose from 40.5 years on December 31, 2000 by 1.9 years to 42.4 on December 31, 2008. In the entire city area there lived 6,312 people with a nationality other than German, which corresponds to a proportion of foreigners of around Corresponds to 9.56 percent. The majority of them are Turkish citizens at 38 percent. Due to this relatively high proportion, which, however, only corresponds to around 3.6 percent of the total population of Aalen, the partnership between Aalen and the southern Turkish city of Antakya was created (see section on town twinning ). The second largest proportion of foreigners in Aalen is that of the Italians with 13 percent (proportion of the total population: 1.2 percent). 5 and 6 percent of the foreigners in Aalen are Serbs and Croats (total population: 0.5 and 0.6 percent). 3 percent of foreigners are Greeks (0.3 percent of the total population). The remaining 35 percent have a different nationality than those mentioned.

The number of married residents in the entire metropolitan area decreased from 32,948 on December 31, 1996 to 31,357 on December 31, 2007, while the number of divorced residents rose from 2,625 to 3,859 over the same period. The number of single residents also rose slightly between 1996 and 2004 from 25,902 to 26,268, and again to 26,147 by 2007. The number of widowed residents decreased from 5,036 on December 31, 1996 to 4,783 on December 31, 2007.

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  Average age of the residents of Aalen

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  Proportion of married residents compared to unmarried residents

Religions

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 23.5% of the population were Protestant and 49.9% Roman Catholic . 26.6% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and Catholics has decreased since then. Currently (as of December 31, 2019) Aalen has 29,645 (43.8%) Catholics , 13,782 (20.4%) Protestants and the remainder 24,175 (35.8%) have either another religion or no religion.

Protestant church

The population of Aalen originally belonged to the Catholic diocese of Augsburg and was subordinate to the church patronage of the Ellwangen Abbey. With the help of the Duke of Württemberg, the Reformation was introduced in 1575 . Appropriate attempts had already been made before, but the Bishop of Augsburg and the Provost of Ellwangen were able to prevent this at first. After the Reformation, Aalen was a predominantly Protestant city for centuries. Only between 1628 and 1632 was Catholicism temporarily introduced as a result of the Thirty Years' War (see section Reformation ). As an imperial city, the city was able to regulate its church affairs itself. Clergymen, organists and choirmasters were directly subordinate to the city council, which thus exercised episcopal functions, as it were ; there was also a separate hymn book for eels. After the transition to Württemberg, Aalen became the seat of a Württemberg deanery in 1803 (see church district Aalen ), whose deanery church is the city ​​church (today's building was built between 1765 and 1767). The Johanneskirche in the cemetery, which was renovated in 1561, is used as another church .

In the 20th century, Aalen's population increased, so that more communities were founded. The Markusgemeinde (church from 1967) and the Martinsgemeinde (church from 1974) were created. The Reformation was also introduced by Aalen in the Unterrombach district, but the place remained a branch of Aalen. Only in 1912 did the place get its own church with the Christ Church, and in 1947 its own parish was established. Fachsenfeld was reformed by the local rule of the Lords of Wöllwarth and Leinroden. The parish church there was built in 1591, but in the 18th century more and more Catholics moved in, so that the majority of the town was then Catholic. The remaining parts of the city of Aalen today remained predominantly Catholic after the Reformation, but Wasseralfingen was given an Evangelical parish in 1891 and its own church, the Magdalenenkirche, in 1893 . After the Second World War , a parish was also set up in Unterkochen and a church was built in 1960. All four parishes belong to the Aalen deanery within the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . There are also old Pietist communities in Aalen . A youth church, the ZAGG youth church in Aalen (ZAGG stands for believing in God together) in the Markuskirche belongs to the Evangelical parish of Aalen.

Catholic Church

Salvator Church

The few Catholics in today's core city were supplied by the parish of Unterkochen until the 19th century, initially even after the St. Mary's Church planned by Georg Morlok was built in 1868 . In 1872, however, Aalen received its own parish again and in 1913 the second church, St. Salvator . In 1969 the Holy Cross Church was built within the community . The second parish of St. Maria was established as early as 1963, for which a new building was built in 1972 instead of the old St. Mary's Church, which was demolished in 1968. In 1970 she also received the Church of St. Augustine . In 1976 the St. Elisabeth Church was finally built and in 1988 the Church of St. Thomas. The St. Michael pastoral care center has also existed since 1963. In 1904 Hofherrnweiler also had its own Catholic Church of St. Boniface . The districts of Dewangen, Ebnat, Hofen, Waldhausen and Wasseralfingen remained Catholic after the Reformation. So there are old parishes and churches there. The Church of the Assumption of Mary in Dewangen has an early Gothic tower, the nave was rebuilt in 1875. The Church of the Immaculate Conception Ebnat was built between 1720 and 1725 and an extension was added from 1979 to 1981.

St. Maria in Unterkochen

The Hofener parish church St. Georg is a fortified church , the current nave of which was built between 1762 and 1775. Next to the church is the late Gothic Ottilien chapel , above the entrance of which is the year 1462. The foundations of previous buildings were dated to the 11th and 13th centuries.

St. Maria Unterkochen was first mentioned in 1248 and for a long time was also responsible for the Catholics in Aalen. The parish church of St. Nikolaus Waldhausen was built from 1699 to 1716. Wasseralfingen was initially a subsidiary of Hofen, but had a St. Stephen's chapel , which was probably built in 1353 and expanded in 1832. In 1834 the own parish was established. From 1881 to 1883, the St. Stephen's Church was built in neo-Romanesque style, the current landmark of the parish . Since then the chapel has also been known as the Altes Kirchle . Fachsenfeld also got its own church at the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1895 . All Catholic parishes in the city of Aalen are now grouped into four pastoral care units within the Deanery Ostalb of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . However, these pastoral care units also partly include communities outside the city of Aalen. Pastoral care unit two includes the communities of Essingen, Dewangen and Fachsenfeld, pastoral care unit four the communities Hofen and Wasseralfingen, pastoral care unit five the two Aalen communities and Hofherrnweiler, and pastoral care unit six the communities Waldhausen, Ebnat, Oberkochen and Unterkochen.

Other Christian communities

Most of the Christian churches and congregations have joined together to form the ACK (Working Group of Christian Churches). This is called in Aalen AAC (Aalen Christian Working Group). In addition to the Protestant church community, these include: Agape Mission, Christians at Work (FGB MFI), Christian Association of Young People Aalen, the Apis - Ev. Community Association Baden-Württemberg, Evangelical Free Church Congregation (Baptists), Evangelical Methodist Church , Hope for All, Noomie e. V. and the Gospelhouse ( people's mission ).

Other Christian communities in Aalen are the Biblical Mission Congregation, the Free Bible Faithful Congregation , the Free Christian Congregation, the Seventh-day Adventist Church , the YMCA Wasseralfingen, the Protestant and Catholic University Congregation (EKHG Aalen) and the Student Mission (SMD).

There are also the Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Apostolic Church .

Other religions

No Jews are recorded in Aalen until the late 19th century. Only in 1886 did four Jews live in Aalen; their number rose to ten by 1900, decreased to seven by 1905, and remained unchanged until 1925. When the National Socialists seized power in 1933, seven Jews, including two children, lived in Aalen. During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the shop windows of the three Jewish shops in Aalen were smashed and the owners were subsequently imprisoned for several weeks. After their release, most of the Jews in Aalen emigrated. The last Jewish woman from Aalen, Fanny Kahn, after whom a street in the city is named today and who lived at Kocherstraße 18 in 1939, was forcibly relocated to Oberdorf am Ipf in 1941 and later murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp . The Jew Max Pfeffer returned to Aalen from Brussels in 1948 to continue his business, but emigrated to Italy in 1967 . A total of five Aalen residents of Jewish origin were deported and murdered.

In Aalen there is an Islamic Ditib community that maintains the DITIB mosque Aalen ( Merkez Camii ) on Ulmer Strasse , the groundbreaking of which was on August 30, 2008 ( 48 ° 49 ′ 49.19 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 27 , 18 ″  O ). The Islamic Community Millî Görüş maintains the Fatih Mosque , also in Ulmer Strasse . Around 850 believers come here every Friday.

politics

Administrative community

The city ​​of Aalen has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the communities of Essingen and Hüttlingen .

Municipal council

The council was established in the local elections on May 26, 2019 from 49 members whose term of office is five years. The Sainte-Laguë method was used to distribute the seats . The voter turnout increased from 44.8% in 2014 to 56.1% (27,932 valid ballot papers). The seats are distributed among the individual parties and groups as follows:

Allocation of seats in the municipal council from 2019

Local council since the local elections in 2019

Party / list	Election result	+ / -% p.	Seats	+ / -
CDU	28.6%	0- 8.8	14 seats	- 4th
Alliance 90 / The Greens	25.9%	+ 10.3	13 seats	+ 6
SPD	17.9%	0- 5.0	09 seats	- 2nd
Free voters basking	11.4%	0- 0.1	05 seats	± 0
AfD	05.9%	0+ 5.9	03 seats	+ 3
The left	04.2%	0+ 0.1	02 seats	± 0
FDP / Free Voters	03.6%	0+ 0.2	02 seats	± 0
Active citizens	02.5%	0+ 0.6	01 seate	± 0

mayor

The city of Aalen has been headed by the mayor and the council since 1374 . In the 16th century there were two, later three mayors. The council had a total of 13 members in 1552. Later, the top management was reorganized several times. In the time of Württemberg there was initially a mayor, and from 1819 the town councilor headed the town. The mayor has held the title of mayor since 1947 (since 2013: Thilo Rentschler). This is elected directly by the electorate for eight years. He is chairman and member of the municipal council and has voting rights there. His deputies are an alderman with the official title of First Mayor (Wolfgang Steidle) and an alderman with the official title of Mayor (Karl-Heinz Ehrmann).

Mayor of Aalen since 1802

• from 1802: Theodor Betzler
• 1812–1819: Ludwig Hölder
• 1819–1829: Theodor Betzler
• 1829: Palm
• 1829–1848: Philipp Ehmann
• 1848–1873: Gustav Oesterlein
• 1873–1900: Julius Bausch
• 1900–1902: Paul Maier
• 1903–1934: Friedrich Schwarz
• 1935–1945: Karl Schübel ( NSDAP )
• 1945–1950: Otto Balluff
• 1950–1975: Karl Schübel
• 1976-2005: Ulrich Pfeifle ( SPD )
• 2005–2013: Martin Gerlach (independent)
• since 2013: Thilo Rentschler (SPD)

badges and flags

Flag of the city of Aalen

City coat of arms from 1766 with the eagle and the eel

The coat of arms of the city of Aalen shows a red-tongued, black eagle on a gold background, on whose chest is a red shield with a curved silver eel . The eagle and eel are first attested in the city seal of 1385 as heraldic animals, with the eagle as a symbol of the imperial immediacy of Aalen. After the regional reform, it was re-awarded on November 16, 1976 by the Stuttgart Regional Council.

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In gold, the black imperial eagle, covered with a red breast shield, inside a curved silver eel .

The flag of the city of Aalen has red and white stripes and contains the city coat of arms.

The origin of the city name is unclear. Matthäus Merian (1593–1650) suspected that the name came from the location at the cooker, "in which the eels are often caught". Other interpretations cite Aalen as the location of an Ala in Roman times, yet others as a shortening of the Roman name “Aquileia” as a possible name for the Roman fort - a name that the nearby Heidenheim an der Brenz also bore. Another interpretation leads to a Celtic word that includes the meaning "water".

Town twinning

The town twinning association Aalen e. V. promotes "friendly relations" between Aalen and the partner cities, which consist of mutual exchanges between clubs and schools or other municipal institutions. On the occasion of the Reichsstädter Tage the first conference of the twin cities took place from September 11th to 13th, 2009 .

Aalen has a total of six twin cities:

• Saint-Lô (France), since 1978
• Christchurch (UK), since 1981
• Tatabánya (Hungary), since 1987
• Antakya (Turkey), since 1995; This partnership was initiated by Ismail Demirtas, who migrated from Turkey to Aalen in 1962 and who was most recently a social advisor for foreign workers
• Cervia (Italy), since 2011
• Vilankulo (Mozambique), since 2018

Sponsorship

On the occasion of the Reichsstädter Tage 1980, the city of Aalen took over the sponsorship of the more than 3000 displaced Germans from the Wischau language island on September 13, 1980 , of whom 972 had settled in Aalen in 1946. The Wischauer Sprachinsel community organizes regular home meetings in Aalen. The costumes are kept in the rooms of the old town hall .

Community finances

According to the 2007 municipal survey by the Federation of Taxpayers of Baden-Württemberg, municipal tax revenues totaling 54.755 million euros in 2006 and estimated tax revenues for 2007 totaling 62.148 million euros are compared with the following debts of the municipality:

• 2006 a total of 109.6 million euros of debt (64,639,000 of combing budget and 48,508,000 urban Eigenbetriebe / special funds )
• In 2007 a total of 114.5 million euros in debt (69.448 million for the treasury budget and 45.052 million for the city's own operations / special assets).

Culture and sights

theatre

The city operates the theater of the city of Aalen . With the foundation in 1991 and six (2011/12 season) permanent actors, it is not only the youngest, but also the smallest municipal theater in Germany. In addition to normal theater operations, the theater also offers four theater clubs for all age groups. In total, over 23,000 visitors were received at around 500 events in the 2012/2013 season. Tonio Kleinknecht is the artistic director .

In addition, the Spiel- & Theaterwerkstatt Ostalb e. V., an amateur theater under the artistic direction of Siegfried Hopp, is based in Aalen. The non-profit association with three play clubs organizes the Ostalb-Spiel & Theatertage annually.

Art Association

The Aalen Art Association was founded in 1983 to promote the fine arts and is a member of the German Art Association (ADKV). The association, which has over 400 members, is based in the Old Town Hall and is mainly dedicated to promoting contemporary art . The chairman is the Aalen artist and art teacher Artur Elmer .

Schubart Literature Prize

In honor of Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , who spent his childhood and youth in Aalen, the city founded the Schubart Literature Prize in 1955 , which is one of the oldest literary prizes in Baden-Württemberg. It is awarded every two years to German-speaking authors whose works correspond to Schubart's "liberal and enlightening thinking" and is endowed with 20,000 euros.

Museums and memorials

Museums

Limes Museum Aalen

In the Aalen urban core, there are two museums: the Limes Museum stands on the site where before about 1800 years ago at the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes the largest equestrian fort north of the Romans was in the Alps. It shows numerous finds from the time of the Roman occupation. The ruins of the Reiterkastell next to the museum can be visited. The Roman Festival (festival) takes place every second year on the museum grounds ( see below ).

In the Geological - Paleontological Museum (called Urweltmuseum ) in the historic town hall, more than 1500 fossils from the Swabian Alb such as ammonites , ichthyosaurs and silicified corals can be seen. The Urweltmuseum has been the information point of the UNESCO Geopark Swabian Alb since April 2008 .

In the Waldhausen district there is a permanent exhibition on the subjects of agriculture and rural living in the Heimatstüble .

There are two more museums in the Wasseralfingen district : In addition to a local museum, the Wasseralfingen museum also has an art gallery. a. with works by Hermann Plock , Helmut Schuster and Sieger Köder . You can also visit the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke (SHW) stove plate collection in Wasseralfingen . SHW artists and modellers will be presented there, and the production process of a cast plate from the design to the finished product will also be shown.

Memorials

Memorial stone on the Schillerlinde

A memorial stone on the Schillerlinde above the Wasseralfinger ore mine commemorates four prisoners from the satellite camp who were killed there. Also in Wasseralfingen, a memorial in the cemetery with the Polish inscription “The Victims of Hitlerism” commemorates the dead forced laborers who are buried in a Soviet and a Polish cemetery.

In 1954 the city of Aalen erected a bell tower as a memorial on the Schillerhöhe to commemorate the victims of the two world wars and the expulsion from Aalen . Emil Leo drafted the plans . The bell was donated by Carl Schneider. The tower is accessible on request. Every evening at 6:45 p.m. (since 2003, before 7:45 p.m.) the bell of the memorial rings.

music

The Aalen Volunteer Fire Brigade has owned a marching band since 1952, the roots of which go back to 1883. In 1959 the train received its first lyre on the occasion of a TV appearance by Peter Frankenfeld .

The city of Aalen's music school has existed since 1958 , and today around 1,500 students are taught by 27 music teachers in 30 different subjects. Ralf Eisler has been running the city music school since 2009.

A symphony orchestra was founded in Aalen in 1977, which is now known as the Aalen Symphony Orchestra e. V. operates and is made up mainly of students and teachers from the music school. The orchestra's concert activity consists of three concerts a year: the New Year concert in January, the symphony concert in July and a Christmas concert in December.

The Aalen Jazz Festival first took place in 1990 and is now one of the five largest festivals in Germany dedicated to jazz and related musical genres.

In 2018 the “Aalen Early Music Festival” took place for the first time in the “Villa Stützel”.

Buildings

Churches

Johanneskirche

St. Stephanus Church, Wasseralfingen

The city center is dominated by the Protestant town church St. Nicholas in the heart of the pedestrian zone. The church, built in its current form from 1765 to 1767, is the only larger late baroque building in Aalen and the main church of the Evangelical parish in Aalen.

The Johanneskirche is located in the Johannisfriedhof in the west of the city center. Stones from a Roman temple were used in the building; it is one of the oldest churches in Baden-Württemberg. Inside there are frescoes from the early 13th century.

For other churches in Aalen see:

• St. Stephen
• Christ Church
• Salvator Church
• Religions section

Historic town hall with "spy"

"Spy tower"

The historic town hall was originally built in the 14th century. After the city fire of 1634 it was rebuilt from 1636 onwards, for this purpose the city in Lauterburg bought a clock, for which the imperial city of Nuremberg donated a toy. This contained the spy von Aalen and other figures, but since another fire in 1884 only the relief figure of the spy von Aalen has survived. Since then, it has been sitting in the rebuilt tower and has become the city's landmark . The building served the city of Aalen as the town hall until 1907. The Geological-Paleontological Museum has been housed in the historic town hall since 1977.

According to a legend, the citizens of the city owe it to the spy von Aalen that they were once spared from destruction by the emperor's army:

The imperial city of Aalen was at odds with the emperor , and his army was just outside the city gates to take it. The people of Aalen were frightened and sent the smartest man to the enemy camp to find out the strength of the troops. But he went straight into the middle of the enemy's camp, where he was immediately captured and brought before the emperor. When the latter asked him what he was doing here, he replied: “Don't be frightened, your high lords, I just want to see how much cannon and other war gear you have. Namely I ben the spy of Aale ”(free translation: Don't be alarmed, gentlemen, I would just like to see how many cannons and other war material you have. I am the spy of Aalen). The Emperor laughed at so much audacity and played simplicity, let him through the camp lead and then sent him back home. Soon afterwards he withdrew with his army; because he thought that a city in which such clever guys lived deserved sparing.

Old Town Hall

The old town hall was first mentioned in a document in 1575. On its outer wall is the oldest known coat of arms of the city of Aalen from 1664. The Hotel Krone-Post, which was also a station for the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post , was located in the building until 1851 . It went down in history through the inclusion of celebrities; The so -called Napoleon window, painted with an N , is a reminder of the stay of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805, who, according to legend, bumped his head bloodily on this window when he was startled by the noise his soldiers were making over the Eels spy made fun of. From 1907 to 1975 the building served as the town hall of Aalen. Today the building houses the gallery of the Aalen Art Association , the studio stage of the theater of the city of Aalen and a cabaret café. The community of Wischauer Sprachinsel , for which the city has taken over the sponsorship, keeps its costumes in the rooms.

Citizens Hospital

Citizens Hospital

The Bürgerspital is a half-timbered house that was built in 1702 on Spritzenhausplatz . It served as the city hospital until 1873. It was then converted into a retirement home. After extensive restoration, it has been a senior meeting place since 1980.

Limes thermal baths

On a slope of Mount Langert south of the town is the thermal spa Limes Thermal Baths , which was built in Roman antique style and opens 1,985th The recognized healing spring is supplied with 34 to 36 ° C warm water from a depth of around 650 meters.

Marketplace

The market square is the historical center of Aalen and stretches for around 150 meters from the town hall in the south to the historic and old town hall in the north, where it flows into Radgasse. The weekly market has been held there on Wednesdays and Saturdays since 1809. About 10 meters in front of the Reichsstädter Brunnen at the town hall, the coats of arms of Aalen, the twin cities and that of the Wischau language island are paved as a mosaic in the floor.

Market fountain

Statue of Joseph I at the market fountain

In 1705 a well box was built at the northern end of the market square in front of the historic town hall for the water supply of the city of Aalen as a gift from Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg . The fountain carried a statue of Emperor Joseph I , who was enthroned in 1705 and renewed Aalen's privileges as an imperial city in 1707, and was fed by dykes . City streams branched off from the stove were used for sewage disposal. When the Aalen water supply network was expanded at the beginning of the 1870s, the fountain was replaced by a smaller running fountain about 100 meters away. In 1979 the old market fountain was rebuilt in the Baroque style. He carries a copy of the emperor's statue, the original of which is on display in the foyer of the new town hall. The cast iron fountain plates show the coat of arms of the Duchy of Württemberg from 1718, the Aalen city coat of arms and the coats of arms of the incorporated towns.

new town hall

New town hall from the south

The New Town Hall at the southern end of the market square, designed by Reutlingen architect Helmut Schaber, was completed in 1975 after two years of construction. It is a late example of the architectural style of brutalism . The building, which cost 23 million DM, was preceded by a debate in the local council that lasted several years and a competition procedure, in which Schaber was awarded the contract in 1968. The old trade school , built in 1866, was demolished in favor of the new town hall.

Imperial City Fountain

Reichsstädter Brunnen by Fritz Nuss (1977)

The Reichsstädter Brunnen in front of the New Town Hall was created in 1977 by the sculptor Fritz Nuss and is intended to commemorate the time when Aalen was an imperial city (1360–1803). On the surrounding fountain frieze , bronze figures symbolize the city's history.

Radgasse

The oldest house facade in Aalen is in Radgasse. Originally there was a small pond at this point . The buildings were built between 1659 and 1662 as typical arable houses for Aalen and renovated in the mid-1980s. Only the facades are original. The houses themselves are new. The Radgasse was named after the Gasthaus Rad , which was located in what is now Radgasse 15 .

Spitalstrasse

The oldest buildings in the city are on Spitalstrasse. They are the only houses that survived the fire in 1634. They all date from the 14th century and were renovated and stripped of plaster in the 1970s in order to present the framework to the public. Interesting are the wooden beams that still bear the notches today so that the plaster held better.

Deep tunnel

Tiefer Stollen visitor mine

The former Wilhelm am Braunenberg iron ore mine was converted into the Tiefer Stollen visitor mine in 1987 in order to honor the work of the miners of the time and to preserve the mine as a monument to the early industrial culture in the Aalen area. The city of Aalen, a development association and many citizens took thousands of hours of voluntary work to restore the mine so that it can be visited. Everything was left in its original state as much as possible. Since 1989, reclining cures have been offered in the so-called Heilstollen for the treatment of respiratory diseases . The district of Röthardt, in which the tunnel is located, was awarded the title of site with healing cave operation in 2004 .

Aalen observatory

The Aalen observatory was built in 1969 as a school observatory for the Schubart grammar school. In 2001 it was converted into a public observatory and has since been managed by the Aalen Astronomical Working Group . It is on the Schillerhöhe and has two telescopes from Zeiss , which has a factory in Aalen. There are regular guided tours and astronomical lectures.

Waldhausen wind farm

The wind farm in the Waldhausen district was completed in early 2007. It consists of seven wind turbines with a nominal output of 2000  kW each with a hub height of 100 and a rotor diameter of 92 meters.

Aalbäumle

"Aalbäumle"

The 26 m high Aalbäumle observation tower , a popular hiking destination, is located on the Langert mountain south of Aalen . After the first tower with a height of 10 m was erected in 1898, a second tower followed in 1964 with a height of 18.5 m. Today's third tower was built in 1992 as a steel / wood construction and, in good weather, offers a view over Aalen and the Welland to Rosenstein and Ellwangen. Below the tower there is an adventure playground and a hut, the management of which is indicated by a flag hoisted on the tower. The Aalbäumle can be reached on foot in around 20 minutes from the Limes thermal baths' forest car park.

Monuments

Mountain cross from 1944 on the Dreikönigsfelsen near Aalen-Unterkochen as evidence of the resistance

Natural monuments

The State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg has recorded six landscape protection areas for Aalen (the Albtrauf between Lautern and Aalen with adjacent areas , the Albtrauf between Unterkochen and Baiershofen , the hill country around Hofen , the Kugeltal, Ebnater Tal, parts of the Heiligental and adjacent areas , the Laubachtal and the Untere Leintal with side valleys ), two already forests ( Glashütte and Kocherursprung ), 65 extensive natural monuments and 30 natural monuments as individual structures two nature reserves :

The 24.1 hectare Dellenhäule nature reserve between Aalen and Neresheim, which was designated in 1969 and lies between the district of Waldhausen and the Neresheim district of Elchingen, is a sheep pasture with juniper and Hudewald with old willow oaks.

The 46.5 hectare nature reserve Goldshöfer Sande was designated in 2000 and is located between the district of Hofen and the municipality of Hüttlingen. The sands from the Old Pleistocene , lying on a hill, are an important document of geological history; the various woody structures provide habitat for endangered bird species.

See also: List of natural monuments in Aalen

Mountain Cross as a Sign of Resistance (1944)

On the Dreikönigsfelsen west above Unterkochen there is a wooden mountain cross , the original of which was erected on July 1, 1944 by the Catholic youth in Aalen as a symbol of resistance to National Socialism . The rock, also known as “Schwabenliesel”, stands in the middle of the forest and cannot be seen from the valley. It is now the fourth wooden cross from 2000.

Stumbling Blocks (2018)

On February 21, 2018, Gunter Demnig laid eight stumbling blocks in Aalen to commemorate the citizens who were deported, murdered or expelled during the Third Reich .

See also : List of stumbling blocks in Aalen

Sports

Soccer

Ostalb Arena

The football team was founded in 1921 VfR Aalen played from 2012 to 2015 for three seasons in the second Bundesliga and in the season 2019/20 in the Regional Southwest . From 1939 to 1945 VfR played in the Gauliga , the top German division at the time. The team's venue is the Ostalb Arena in the west of the city , which is owned by the city of Aalen and was therefore also known as the Städtisches Waldstadion Aalen until 2008 .

Wrestling

In the Ringer - Bundesliga fights KSV Aalen , the 2005 from the KSV Germania Aalen emerged, and 2010 German Champion was in the team's rings. Before that, he had been Germania champion eight times and runner-up five times as Germania since 1976. Another Aalen club, TSV Dewangen , also fought in the Ringer Bundesliga until 2009.

American football and baseball

Two American sports, American football and baseball , are offered at MTV Aalen . Volleyball has also played an important role in Aalen for years. The first men's team of the DJK Aalen managed to get promoted to the regional league in the 2008/09 season and to the newly founded 3rd league in the 2011/12 season.

ski

The Ostalb ski lifts are located on Langert , south of the city center , on the northern slope of the Swabian Alb . The ski area consists of two drag lifts , one of which overcomes a 30-meter and the other 130-meter difference in altitude, an 800-meter and a 1200-meter long descent and a beginner's descent.

hockey

Hockey has been played by clubs in Aalen since 1981 . Initially organized as the hockey department of VfR Aalen, the Aalen hockey club split off from VfR in 1991 and became the Hockeyclub Suebia Aalen e. V. newly founded.

For the field season, the training pitches are on the urban artificial turf pitches in Bürgle, while training takes place in the Ulrich-Pfeifle-Halle in winter.

After being promoted from the 3rd Association League in 2009 and 2012, the men play in the 2nd Association League Baden-Württemberg; the 2nd men's team of the club plays in the 6th association league. The Aalen women's team currently (2012) plays like the men in the 2nd association league. In addition to these three teams, there are also numerous successful children's and youth teams, which mainly take part in national tournaments.

The Aalen International Indoor Hockey Tournament , which is now known throughout Europe and which took place for the 31st time in autumn 2017, deserves special mention . The 2011 anniversary tournament, which celebrated the 25th edition and at the same time 30 years of hockey in Aalen, was won by the team from Fürth for the women and the team from Plzeň (Czech Republic) for the men .

Regular events

Imperial City Days

Since 1975 the Reichsstädter Days have been celebrated every year on the second weekend in September in downtown Aalen. They are considered the largest city ​​festival in the East Württemberg region. and are associated with a Sunday shopping. Delegations from the twin cities also travel to the city festival. An ecumenical service takes place on the town hall forecourt on the Sunday of the festival.

Roman days

The international Roman Festival are held every two years on the site of the former Roman fort and today Limes museum. The 12th Roman Days in 2014 were attended by around 8,000 guests.

Aalen Jazz Festival

The Aalen Jazz Festival brings annually during the second week of November, known and unknown artists to Aalen. Musicians like Miles Davis , BB King , Ray Charles , David Murray , McCoy Tyner , Al Jarreau , Esbjörn Svensson and Albert Mangelsdorff have already been part of the program . Including the individual concerts in spring and summer, around 25 concerts are given throughout the year, to which around 13,000 visitors are expected annually.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2008 there were 30,008 employees subject to social security contributions in Aalen . With 13,946 or 46.5 percent, most of them were employed in the manufacturing sector . 4,715 people (15.7 percent) were employed in retail, hospitality and transport, and 11,306 people (37.7 percent) were employed in other services. In addition, around 16,000 employees commuted into the city and around 9,000 employees commuted daily in 2008.

Companies

Aalen has a total of around 6,032 businesses, 1,346 of which are entered in the commercial register; the rest are 1,550 small businesses and 754 craft businesses.

Metal processing dominates in Aalen . In addition to mechanical engineering, the optical , paper , IT and textile industries are important carriers of the economic structure.

Important companies are the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke , which can be traced back to a factory in Wasseralfingen that has existed since 1671, the machine factory Alfing Kessler , the tool manufacturer MAPAL Dr. Kress , the chain manufacturer RUD Ketten Rieger & Dietz and its subsidiary Erlau AG , the die forge Schneider , the SDZ Druck und Medien , the paper factory Palm , the alarm system manufacturer Telenot , the paper wholesaler Karl-Heinz Geiger , the telecommunications company sdt.net AG, the laser show Service provider LOBO electronic and the textile finisher Lindenfarb , all of which have their headquarters in Aalen. Carl Zeiss AG, based in neighboring Oberkochen, has a branch in Aalen .

media

The first local newspaper, Der Bote von Aalen , appeared on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1837 . The current local daily newspapers in Aalen are the Schwäbische Post , which gets its national pages from the Südwestpresse in Ulm, as well as the Aalener Nachrichten (formerly Aalener Volkszeitung ), a headline of the Schwäbische Zeitung from Ravensburg .

City magazines that cover eels include Xaver , åla and ålakultur .

The private broadcasters Radio Ton and Radio 7 as well as the TV broadcaster Regio TV Schwaben have studios in Aalen. The public service Südwestrundfunk maintains a correspondents office in Aalen with responsibility for the entire Ostalb district.

Resident of the city who are reading circle Brabandt LZ plus Media GmbH and Lesezirkel Portal GmbH .

Public facilities

Aalen has a local court over which the Ellwangen Regional Court and the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court are superordinate, as well as chambers of the Stuttgart Labor Court , a tax office and an employment agency . The city is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district office, the Aalen parish of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg and the new Ostalb deanery of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese , which consists of the old deaneries of Aalen, Ellwangen, Neresheim and Schwäbisch Gmünd.

The Stuttgart Administrative Court , the Stuttgart Labor Court and the Ulm Social Court are responsible for Aalen .

Aalen owned a municipal hospital, which was housed in the Bürgerspital until 1873, then in a building on Alten Heidenheimer Strasse. In 1942 the hospital was taken over by the district. The district hospital at today's Kälblesrain location, now the Ostalb Clinic , was put into operation in 1955.

education

Schubart high school

A Latin school was first mentioned in Aalen in 1447; it was refurbished in 1616 and later in various buildings, all near the town church, and existed until the 19th century. With the Reformation, a German school was set up as a forerunner of the later elementary schools . In 1860 the knight school was built as a primary school for girls; the Pestalozzi School is located there today . A new building for the Latin school and the Realschule established in 1840 was built in 1866. This building, later known as the old trade school , was demolished in 1975 for the new town hall. In 1912 the park school designed by Paul Bonatz was inaugurated, today's Schubart-Gymnasium .

Logo of the HS Aalen

The largest educational institution in the city is the University of Technology and Economics (formerly: Fachhochschule), which was founded in 1962. There are currently around 5,700 students studying in five different faculties. There are currently 150 professors and 300 other employees working at the university.

The city supports three grammar schools ( Kopernikus-Gymnasium Wasseralfingen , Schubart-Gymnasium - partner school for Europe and Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium ), four secondary schools (Karl-Kessler-Realschule Wasseralfingen, Kocherburg-Realschule Unterkochen, Realschule auf dem Galgenberg and Uhland- Realschule), a special school (Weitbrechtschule), a special school with a school for educational assistance (Hermann-Hesse-Schule), six elementary and secondary schools with Werkrealschule (Braunenbergschule Wasseralfingen, Reinhard-von-Koenig-Schule Fachsenfeld, elementary and secondary school with Werkrealschule Unterkochen , Primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule Hofherrnschule Unterrombach, Schillerschule and Talschule Wasseralfingen), a secondary school with Werkrealschule (Bohlschule) as well as eight independent primary schools (garden school Ebnat, Grauleshofschule, Greutschule, primary school Waldhausen, Kappelbergschule Hofen, Langertschule, Rombachschule Unterrombach and Schwarzfeld).

The Ostalbkreis is responsible for the vocational schools (technical school, commercial school and Justus-von-Liebig school - domestic and agricultural school) as well as the Schloss-Schule Wasseralfingen, school for the speech-impaired and the sick with long hospital treatment.

The private schools Abendgymnasium Ostwuerttemberg, Abendrealschule Aalen, geriatric nursing school of the DAG Arbeiterwohlfahrt, geriatric nursing school of the German Employees Academy, Free Waldorf School Aalen e. V., Private Vocational School Dr. Engel, the Bernd Blindow School and two school kindergartens complete the school offer. On the one hand the inclusive day care center Rosengarten for children with and without disabilities of the Konrad-Biesalski-Schule (operated by Reha-Südwest Ostwürttemberg-Hohenlohe gGmbH) and on the other hand a school kindergarten for educational assistance (des Aufwind eV ).

The German Esperanto Library has been housed in the city library since 1989.

TV and radio tower

The Southwest Broadcasting operates the transmitter Aalen on the Braunsberg since 1956 a basic power station for radio and television. A free-standing, 140 meter high reinforced concrete tower serves as the antenna carrier.

traffic

Aalen Central Station

train

The main train station Aalen is the junction between the Rems Railway from Stuttgart , the Brenz Railway from Ulm , the Upper Jagst Railway from Crailsheim and the Ries Railway of Donauwörth . The train stations Hofen (b Aalen), Unterkochen, Wasseralfingen and the Goldshöfe train station are also in the urban area . The Aalen-Erlau stop in the south is no longer operated . Until 1972 there was also a connection with the Härtsfeldbahn via Neresheim to Dillingen an der Donau .

The InterCity line 61 from Karlsruhe via Stuttgart to Nuremberg , which runs every two hours, connects Aalen to long-distance passenger rail transport . In regional traffic, Aalen station is served by various Interregio-Express , Regional-Express and regional train lines. The city also operated the now disused urban industrial railway in Aalen , which comprised two main industrial tracks and which, shortly after the turn of the millennium, still carries around 250 truckloads a year.

By 2020, the Aalen Weststadt around Hofherrnweiler and the industrial area Dauerwang should also be better developed in terms of transport by a new Aalen-West stop on the Remsbahn.

Street

The Aalen / Westhausen and Aalen / Oberkochen connections lead to the A 7 ( Würzburg - Füssen ). Aalen is connected to the federal road network via the federal highways B 19 (Würzburg - Ulm ), B 29 ( Waiblingen - Nördlingen ) and B 290 ( Tauberbischofsheim - Westhausen). The Schwäbische Dichterstraße , created in 1977/78, runs through Aalen. The B 29, partly together with the B 19, passes west of the city as a two-lane bypass. Due to the high volume of traffic at peak times, for example during rush hour, the route is often heavily congested, but there are currently only efforts to expand it partially.

Several bus routes run public transport in the city. The bus company Omnibus-Verkehr Aalen has also been using double-decker buses since 1966 . Since December 2007, the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund OstalbMobil has been in effect in Aalen , which at that time replaced the tariff of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Aalen (VGA). The latter is still responsible for coordinating the timetable between the various bus companies in the old district of Aalen.

air traffic

Stuttgart International Airport in Leinfelden-Echterdingen is around 90 kilometers away and the journey time by train is around 100 minutes. Aalen-Heidenheim airfield , located around 15 km south-east of Aalen, is approved for small aircraft. For glider pilots there are the Heubach and Bartholomä airfields in the vicinity of Aalen .

bicycle

Several cycle paths lead through the city , via which Aalen is connected to the German long-distance cycle network:

• The German Limes Cycle Route follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .
• The Kocher-Jagst-Radweg is a 340 km long circular cycle path that runs along the Kocher and Jagst rivers in Baden-Württemberg . The two rivers are only a few kilometers apart.
• The Swabian Alb cycle path leads 305 km through Swabia , from Nördlingen to Lake Constance .

Name sponsorships

• The town of Aalen since 2012 namesake of the Airbus A319 D-AIBB of Lufthansa . Until 2011, Lufthansa's Boeing 737-500 D-ABJF was baptized in the name of the city.
• Aalen has been the namesake of the ICE 3 Tz309 of Deutsche Bahn since June 21, 2008 .

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  Boeing 737-500 basking

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  ICE Aalen in the Aalen train station

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Wilhelm Jedele (1810–1872), royal Württemberg district forester
• Moritz Mohl (1802–1888), national economist and economic politician, member of parliament a. a. in the Frankfurt National Assembly, in the Reichstag and the Württemberg Assembly of Estates
• Heinrich Bosch (1831–1902), doctor
• Julius Bausch (1835–1921), Lord Mayor (Stadtschultheiß) of the city from 1873 to 1900
• Wilhelm Jakob Schweiker (1859–1927), founder of the Aalen History and Antiquity Association and namesake of the Wilhelm Jakob Schweiker Prize
• Wilhelm Merz (1849–1922), engineer, cement pioneer and social reformer
• Christian Oesterlein (1845–1936), city architect
• Heinrich Rieger (1856–1935), manufacturer
• Friedrich Schwarz (1871–1942), Lord Mayor (Stadtschultheiß) of the city from 1903 to 1934
• Ruland Ayßlinger (1850–1936), composer
• Johannes Uhlmann (1856–1940)
• Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), Field Marshal General, grew up in Aalen
• Franz Joseph Fischer (1871–1958), auxiliary bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese and titular bishop of Zuri
• Paul Edel
• Carl Schneider
• Karl Schübel (1904–2000), Mayor of the city from 1935 to 1945 and Lord Mayor from 1950 to 1975
• Ulrich Pfeifle (* 1942), Lord Mayor of the city from 1976 to 2005

Born in Aalen

• Bartholomäus Scherrenmüller (around 1450 to after 1493), physician, professor, author and translator
• Johann Christoph von Westerstetten (1563–1637), born in Wasseralfingen, Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt and counter-reformer
• Franz Konrad Allgeyer (1731–?), Born in Wasseralfingen, organ builder
• Joseph Narzissus Allgeyer (1734–1802), born in Wasseralfingen, organ builder
• Joseph Bullinger (1744–1810), theologian, friend of the Mozart family
• Joseph Nikolaus Allgeyer (1775–1843), born in Wasseralfingen, organ builder
• Benedikt Allgeyer (1815–1849), born in Wasseralfingen, organ builder
• Johann Gottfried Pahl (1768–1839), publicist and writer, representative of the Late Enlightenment
• Karl Joseph von Hefele (1809–1893), church historian and bishop
• Christian Plock (1809–1882), iron caster
• Julius Gös (1830–1897), Lord Mayor of Tübingen
• Oskar von Schwarzkopf (1838–1903), general superintendent of Schwäbisch Hall and Heilbronn, and court preacher in Stuttgart
• Otto Stockmayer (1838–1917), pastor and evangelist
• Wilhelm Lang (1839–1915), member of the state parliament
• Karl von Sauter (1839–1902), state building officer and architect
• Ernst Curfeß (1849-1896), sculptor
• Paul Stotz (1850–1899), born in Wasseralfingen, art ore caster
• Hermann Plock (1858–1920), painter of realism
• Franz Joseph Fischer (1871–1958), Catholic theologian, bishop
• Paul Linser (1871–1963), dermatologist and venereologist; University professor in Tübingen
• Gustav Beißwänger (1875–1946), state chairman of the DNVP and member of the state parliament 1919–28
• Heinrich Barth (1881–1956), painter
• Wilhelm Enßlin (1885–1965), ancient historian
• Hermann Schipprak (1885 to after 1955), entrepreneur
• Kurt Göhrum (1891–1953), SS group leader and police chief in Berlin
• Karl Wahl (1892–1981), NSDAP Gauleiter of Swabia, SS-Obergruppenführer
• Walther Flaig (1893–1972), mountaineer, author and editor
• Adolf Kling (1893–1938), born in Unterkochen; Politician (NSDAP), member of the state and Reichstag
• Kurt Jooss (1901–1979), born in Wasseralfingen; Dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
• Albrecht Faber (1903–1986), biologist, founder of bioacoustics
• August Zehender (1903–1945), SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS
• Otto Springer (1905–1991), Germanist, linguist and university lecturer in the USA
• Paul Buck (1911–2006), piano teacher
• Martin Elmar Schmid (1913–1980), born in Dewangen, Catholic priest, Bishop of Mariannhill
• Bruno Heck (1917–1989), politician (CDU), Federal Minister and CDU Secretary General
• Sieger Köder (1925–2015), born in Wasseralfingen; Priests and artists
• Hermann Bausinger (* 1926), Germanist and folklorist
• Walter Ott (1928–2014), local history researcher
• Hans Elsässer (1929–2003), astronomer
• Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937–2003), building researcher and archaeologist
• Ulrich Harsch (* 1938), communication designer
• Artur Elmer (* 1939), art educator, visual artist and founder of the Aalen Art Association
• Helmut Schuster (1939–2010), painter and art professor
• Hans Dieter Köder (* 1940), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament (1980–96)
• Hannes Münz (1940–2018), painter and sculptor
• Alfred Bachofer (* 1942), former Lord Mayor of Nürtingen
• Luise Reddemann (* 1943), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• Helmut Digel (* 1944), handball player, sports scientist and sports official
• Walter Adams (* 1945 in Wasseralfingen), athlete
• Bernhard Villmow (* 1946), lawyer and university professor
• Reinhard Buchholz (* 1947), diplomat, German ambassador to Cameroon (2010-12)
• Ivo Holzinger (* 1948), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Memmingen (1980–2016)
• Werner Fuchs (* 1949), publisher, author, editor, role-playing pioneer
• Manfred Gärtner (* 1949), economist and university professor
• Albrecht E. Melchinger (* 1949), plant breeder and senior professor at the University of Hohenheim
• Jochen Hieber (* 1951), features editor of the FAZ, non-fiction author
• Werner Sobek (* 1953), civil engineer and architect
• Walter Raizner (* 1954), manager, former Telekom board member
• Ricarda Strobel (* 1954), media scientist
• Ludwig Leinhos (* 1956), Lieutenant General in the Air Force
• Bernd Hitzler (* 1957), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
• Patriz Ilg (* 1957), obstacle runner, world champion (1983)
• Martin Haas (1962–2018), journalist, television presenter and news anchor
• Bernd Kolb (* 1962), entrepreneur
• Tommy Steiner (* 1962), pop singer and actor
• Markus Lonardoni (* 1963), film composer, book author
• Harald Franz Ofner (* 1963), educational scientist and journalist
• Christiane Michel-Ostertun (* 1964), organist, university teacher, choir director
• Martin Gerlach (* 1965), politician (independent), Lord Mayor of Aalen (2005–13)
• Zeebee (* 1965 as Eva Engel ), singer, composer, songwriter and producer
• Steffen Schorn (* 1967), jazz musician and university professor
• Carl-Uwe Steeb (* 1967), tennis player
• Thomas Zander (* 1967), wrestler, Olympic silver medalist and world champion (1994)
• Markus Grill (* 1968), investigative journalist
• Frank Forst (* 1969), bassoonist, university professor
• Stefan Track (* 1971), German singer
• Georg Boeßner (* 1972), pianist
• Oliver Jörg (* 1972), politician (CSU), member of the state parliament
• Erol Sabanov (* 1974), soccer goalkeeper
• Hans-Joachim Hof (* 1975), German computer scientist
• Axel Schlosser (* 1976), jazz musician
• Katrin Bauerfeind (* 1982), TV and radio presenter
• Michael Klein (* 1988), racing driver
• Manuel Fischer (* 1989), soccer player
• Patrick Funk (* 1990), soccer player
• Fabio Kaufmann (* 1992), German-Italian soccer player
• Yusuf Çoban (* 1996), German-Turkish soccer player
• Noah Feil (* 1998), soccer player
• Nico Rodewald (* 1998), soccer player
• Eric Hottmann (* 2000), soccer player

Other people associated with Aalen

• Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739–1791), poet, organist, composer and journalist; spent childhood and youth in Aalen
• Georg Wilhelm Zapf (1747–1810), historian and bibliographer, was clerk in Aalen from 1765 to 1770
• Hermann Bauer (1814–1872), pastor and local researcher, was a deacon in Aalen from 1847 to 1854 and published research results on Aalen
• Wilhelm Ganzhorn (1818–1880), lawyer and poet well-known for the song In the Most Beautiful Wiesengrunde , was a senior magistrate in Aalen from 1854 to 1859
• Rudolf Manga Bell (1873–1914), King of the Duala people in Cameroon during the German colonial era; lived in Aalen from 1891 to 1896
• Hugo Theurer (1873–1957), winner of the Great Plaque of Honor in Silver from the city of Aalen and 1st Schubart Prize for Literature
• Georg Elser (1903–1945), resistance fighter against National Socialism, worked in 1923 as a journeyman carpenter at the Paul Rieder furniture factory in Aalen
• Anton Huber (1905–1998), district administrator of the Aalen district from 1946 to 1970, died in Aalen
• Edmund Hoffmann (1907–1974), City Secretary of Aalen, co-founder of the Association of Expellees
• Hans Geiger (1912–1986), trade unionist and politician in the state parliament, later in the Bundestag, was DGB managing director in Aalen in the 1950s
• Walter L. Werner (1933–2020), economic functionary
• Geert Müller-Gerbes (* 1937), press officer for Federal President Heinemann, TV presenter (RTL), grew up in Aalen and graduated from high school
• Michael Kausch (actor) (* 1949), actor, lives in Aalen
• Werner Bickelhaupt (* 1939), international soccer coach, lived in Aalen in 1973 and again since 2004
• Heinz Dieter Paul (* 1943), composer and conductor, grew up in Aalen
• Hans-Peter Braun (* 1950), church musician and composer, was district cantor of Aalen from 1978 to 1981
• Gerhard Thiele (* 1953), former astronaut and physicist; visited u. a. the school in Aalen
• Gunther Martin Göttsche (* 1953), church musician and composer, was Aalen's district cantor from 1981 to 1987
• Petro Pawlidis (* 1955), wrestler, grew up in Aalen and wrestled for KSV throughout his career
• Ulrich Sauerborn (* 1956), museum director and fossil collector
• Berndt-Ulrich Scholz (* 1939), grew up in Aalen, entrepreneur and president of VfR Aalen
• Edgar Mann (* 1961), composer and pianist, grew up in Aalen
• Thomas Haller (* 1966), church musician and organ expert, since 1996 district cantor of Aalen
• Andreas Beck (* 1987), national soccer player, grew up in Wasseralfingen
• Cro (* 1990), rapper, attended school in Aalen
• Moritz Böhringer (* 1993), football player, grew up in Aalen.

literature

• Erich Keyser (Ed.): Württembergisches Städtebuch ; Volume IV Sub-Volume Baden-Württemberg Volume 2 from “German City Book. Handbook of urban history - on behalf of the working group of the historical commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Municipalities ”, Stuttgart 1961.
• Eugen Hafner: Aalen. The city guide. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 2001, ISBN 3-88294-310-6 .
• Karlheinz Bauer: Aalen . Theiss, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8062-0321-0 .

Wikisource: City of Aalen in the description of the Oberamt Aalen from 1854  - sources and full texts

• ditto for the formerly independent communities Dewangen , Fachsenfeld , Hofen , Unterkochen , Unterrombach and Wasseralfingen

Wikisource: Former community Waldhausen in the description of the Oberamt Neresheim from 1872  - sources and full texts

Web links

Commons : Aalen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Aalen  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wikivoyage: Aalen  - travel guide

Wikisource: Aalen  - Sources and full texts

• Internet presence of the city of Aalen
• Link catalog on the subject of eels at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Local history of Aalen and the surrounding area

Individual evidence

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