Hailfingen

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Hailfingen
Former coat of arms of Hailfingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 42 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 430  (391-468)  m
Area : 7.51 km²
Residents : 1677  (Jul 31, 2018)
Population density : 223 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 72108
Area code : 07457

Hailfingen is a district of Rottenburg am Neckar in the Tübingen district in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).

geography

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View of Hailfingen from the west

Hailfingen is 9 km south of Herrenberg , 9 km northwest of Rottenburg am Neckar . The village is the northernmost Rottenburg district.

expansion

The total area of the village of Hailfingen is 751  ha . Of this, 75.0% is accounted for by agricultural land , 11.2% by settlement and traffic areas , 13.1% by forest area and 0.7% by other uses.

Neighboring places

The following places border on Hailfingen, they are named starting in the north in a clockwise direction : Tailfingen ( district Böblingen ), Reusten , Oberndorf , Seebronn ( district Tübingen ) and Bondorf (district Böblingen).

population

In Hailfingen, 1597 inhabitants (as of the end of June 2013) live on an area of ​​7.51  km² . The population density of Hailfingen is 211 inhabitants per square kilometer.

religion

Hailfingen (Rottenburg deanery, Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese ) is Catholic. About 50% of the population belong to the Roman Catholic Church . The Catholic parish of St. Laurentius is connected to the cathedral parish of St. Martin in Rottenburg and the parish of St. Jakobus in Seebronn in a pastoral care unit.

Population development

  • 1915: 0234 inhabitants
  • 1930: 0376 inhabitants
  • 1945: 0471 inhabitants
  • 1960: 0797 inhabitants
  • 1961: 0662 inhabitants
  • 1970: 0754 inhabitants
  • 1975: 1004 inhabitants
  • 1990: 1361 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1695 inhabitants
  • 2008: 1597 inhabitants
  • 2013: 1597 inhabitants
  • 2015: 1672 inhabitants

history

Hailfingen is located in the old settled landscape of the Upper Gäus . Since the research by Hermann Stoll in the 1930s, Hailfingen has been known as the site of an Alemannic burial ground. It was one of the first burial grounds of the Merovingian period that was almost completely uncovered. In addition, there are also finds of linear ceramics and the Hallstatt period from the area.

Family coat of arms of those of Hailfingen

Hailfingen was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Hailfingen , one of the most widely branched Swabian noble families with further locations in Hohenentringen , Müneck and Hagelloch .

A night fighter airfield existed north of Hailfingen from 1937 to 1945 (see subsection below) and from 1944 to 1945 the Hailfingen-Tailfingen satellite camp .

On January 1, 1972, Hailfingen was incorporated into the city of Rottenburg am Neckar.

On June 6, 2010, a memorial and an exhibition and documentation center were inaugurated as the Hailfingen-Tailfingen concentration camp memorial .

Hailfingen airfield

In the years 1938/42 a military airfield of the Luftwaffe, classified as a first-order port of operations, was built to the northwest of the village, in the border area to the neighboring towns of Tailfingen and Bondorf, east of the L1184 . In the years that followed, it served as an alternative place and as a sailing flight school site. Its expansion in the further course of the war was carried out, among other things, by forced laborers from the Hailfingen-Tailfingen satellite camp. By relocating parts of the I. Group of Night Fighter Squadron 6 (I./NJG 6), the field was given a more important role in the area of ​​air defense. The night fighters of the types Bf 110 and Ju 88G used the port of operation until the beginning of April 1945 when the aircraft, which were still clear to fly , were transferred to Schleissheim .

The airfield, partially destroyed by explosions by the retreating German troops, was occupied by French troops in mid-April. After repairs, fighter-bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) used Airfield R.49 , its Allied code designation, from the end of April until mid-July 1945, when flight operations were suspended.

A plan envisaged at the end of the 1950s and again at the beginning of the 1970s to reactivate it and expand it into a commercial airport "Stuttgart II" failed not least because of local resistance and its implementation was not implemented.

  • town hall

  • St. Laurence

  • primary school


literature

  • Karlheinz Geppert (Ed.): Hailfingen 1093 - 1993. A Gäudorf and more than 900 years of history , Rottenburg am Neckar 1993.

Web links

Commons : Hailfingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hailfingen-Tailfingen night fighter airfield
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 535 .