Stuttgart metropolitan region

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Cooperation area metropolitan region Stuttgart (in light green) in Germany
Basic data of the metropolitan region (Cooperation area metropolitan region Stuttgart)
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Area :	15,400 km²
Residents :	5.3 million (2015)
Population density :	338 inhabitants per km²
Structure:	5 regions
Cooperation area metropolitan region Stuttgart (highlighted in color) in Baden-Württemberg with population density according to municipalities

The European metropolitan region of Stuttgart  - not to be confused with the Stuttgart region  - is one of currently eleven metropolitan regions in Germany . It was established as such by the German Ministerial Conference for Spatial Planning (MKRO) in 1995. There are different spatial delimitations of the metropolitan region.

Around 5.3 million people live in the largest design, which is referred to as the cooperation area of ​​the Stuttgart metropolitan region . It includes the regions of Stuttgart , Heilbronn-Franconia , Northern Black Forest , East Wuerttemberg and Neckar-Alb and has an area of ​​15,400 km².

After the 2002 state development plan for Baden-Württemberg was updated, the delimitation of the Stuttgart metropolitan region is deliberately left out of focus, but is based on the area in Baden-Württemberg previously known as the Stuttgart metropolitan area . This includes almost all municipalities in the Stuttgart region , as well as the two regional centers Heilbronn in the north and Tübingen / Reutlingen in the south, the central center Schwäbisch Gmünd in the east and the eastern edge of the northern Black Forest region in the west as well as the densification areas between these parts. About 3.5 million people live in this area. According to the State Development Plan 2002, the minimum extent corresponds to the agglomeration with its peripheral zone. In addition, the state development plan 2002 gives the task of working towards the future allocation of the rural conurbation Albstadt / Balingen / Hechingen to the metropolitan region of Stuttgart.

Area of ​​the Stuttgart metropolitan region

The following cities and municipalities belong to the Stuttgart metropolitan region :

• from the Stuttgart region ( Stuttgart administrative district )
  • City district of Stuttgart
  • from the district of Böblingen all municipalities, whereby the municipalities Bondorf , ceilingpfronn , Jettingen , Mötzingen and Weissach belong to the peripheral zone
  • Esslingen district includes all communities with the exception of Neidlingen , whereby the communities of Beuren , Bissingen an der Teck , Erkenbrechtsweiler , Lenningen , Neuffen and Ohmden belong to the peripheral zone
  • from the district of Göppingen all communities with the exception of the communities Bad Ditzenbach , Böhmenkirch , Deggingen , Drackenstein , Gruibingen , Hohenstadt , Lauterstein , Mühlhausen im Täle and Wiesensteig , whereby the communities Adelberg , Aichelberg , Bad Überkingen , Birenbach , Börtlingen , Bad Boll , Donzdorf , Dürnau , Eschenbach (Württemberg) , Gammelshausen , Hattenhofen , Heiningen , Ottenbach , Rechberghausen , Schlat , Schlierbach , Wäschenbeuren , Wangen and Zell unter Aichelberg belong to the peripheral zone.
  • from the district of Ludwigsburg, all communities, with the communities Eberdingen , Großbottwar , Oberriexingen , Oberstenfeld and Sachsenheim belonging to the peripheral zone
  • from the Rems-Murr-Kreis the communities Backnang , Fellbach , Kernen im Remstal , Korb , Leutenbach , Murrhardt , Oppenweiler , Plüderhausen , Remshalden , Schorndorf , Schwaikheim , Sulzbach an der Murr , Urbach , Waiblingen , Weinstadt , Weissach im Tal , Winnenden and Winterbach as well as the communities of the peripheral zone Allmersbach im Tal , Burgstetten and Kirchberg an der Murr
• from the Heilbronn-Franken region ( Stuttgart administrative region )
  • Heilbronn district
  • from the district of Heilbronn all communities with the exception of Eppingen , Gemmingen , Hardthausen am Kocher , Ittlingen , Jagsthausen , Langenbrettach , Löwenstein , Möckmühl , Pfaffenhofen , Roigheim , Widdern , Wüstenrot and Zaberfeld , whereby the communities Abstatt , Bad Rappenau , Beilstein , Brackenheim , Cleebronn , Eberstadt , Güglingen , Gundelsheim , Ilsfeld , Kirchardt , Lehrensteinsfeld , Massenbachhausen , Neckarwestheim , Neudenau , Neuenstadt am Kocher , Obersulm , Oedheim , Offenau , Schwaigern , Siegelsbach , Talheim , Untergruppenbach belong to the peripheral zone.
• from the Northern Black Forest region ( administrative district Karlsruhe )
  • from the district of Calw the communities Althengstett , Bad Liebenzell , Calw , Gechingen , Nagold , Ostelsheim , Simmozheim and Wildberg , which all belong to the peripheral zone
  • from the Enzkreis the town of Heimsheim and the communities of Friolzheim and Mönsheim belonging to the peripheral zone
  • from the Freudenstadt district , the municipality of Eutingen im Gäu, which is part of the peripheral zone
• from the Neckar-Alb region ( Tübingen administrative region )
  • from the district of Reutlingen the communities Eningen under Achalm , Grafenberg , Metzingen , Pfullingen , Pliezhausen , Reutlingen , Riederich , Walddorfhäslach and Wannweil as well as the communities of Bad Urach , Dettingen an der Erms , Hülben and Lichtenstein belonging to the peripheral zone
  • from the Tübingen district the communities Dettenhausen , Kirchentellinsfurt , Kusterdingen and Tübingen as well as the communities of Ammerbuch , Bodelshausen , Dußlingen , Gomaringen , Mössingen , Nehren , Neustetten , Ofterdingen and Rottenburg am Neckar belonging to the peripheral zone
• from the East Wuerttemberg region ( Stuttgart administrative district )
  • from the Ostalbkreis the communities of Böbingen an der Rems , Heubach , Iggingen , Leinzell , Lorch , Mögglingen , Mutlangen , Schwäbisch Gmünd and Waldstetten, which belong to the peripheral zone

Upper and middle centers

The Stuttgart metropolitan region has three main centers : Stuttgart, Heilbronn and the twin center Tübingen-Reutlingen.

Associated medium-sized centers within the Stuttgart metropolitan region are:

• in the area of ​​the Stuttgart regional center:
  • Backnang, Bietigheim-Bissingen / Besigheim, Böblingen / Sindelfingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Geislingen an der Steige, Göppingen, Herrenberg, Kirchheim unter Teck, Leonberg, Ludwigsburg / Kornwestheim, Nürtingen, Schorndorf, Vaihingen an der Enz and Waiblingen / Fellbach
• in the area of ​​the Heilbronn regional center
  • Neckarsulm
• in the area of ​​the dual center Tübingen-Reutlingen
  • Metzingen and Rottenburg am Neckar
  • (Albstadt, Balingen and Hechingen)
• in the area of ​​the regional center Pforzheim (does not belong to the Stuttgart metropolitan region)
  • Calw and Nagold
• in the area of the East Wuerttemberg region (this does not have an officially designated regional center; the four medium-sized centers Aalen, Ellwangen, Heidenheim and Schwäbisch Gmünd perform the upper central functions "in functional coordination and supplementation")
  • Schwäbisch Gmünd

Bigger cities

In the inner metropolitan region of Stuttgart

The inner metropolitan region of Stuttgart essentially corresponds to the area of the Stuttgart region . It has an area of ​​3654 square kilometers and has about 2.7 million inhabitants (as of March 31, 2005). Individual communities in the Rems-Murr district , Esslingen district and Göppingen district belong to the Stuttgart region, but not to the Stuttgart metropolitan region.

The largest cities (over 20,000 inhabitants) in the inner metropolitan region of Stuttgart are (as of December 31, 2016):

Stuttgart	628,000 inhabitants
Ludwigsburg	93,000 inhabitants
Esslingen am Neckar	92,000 inhabitants
Sindelfingen	64,000 inhabitants
Goeppingen	56,000 inhabitants
Waiblingen	55,000 inhabitants
Boeblingen	50,000 inhabitants
Leonberg	48,000 inhabitants
Fellbach	45,000 inhabitants
Filderstadt	45,000 inhabitants
Bietigheim-Bissingen	43,000 inhabitants
Nürtingen	41,000 inhabitants
Kirchheim unter Teck	40,000 inhabitants
Leinfelden-Echterdingen	40,000 inhabitants
Schorndorf	40,000 inhabitants
Ostfildern	39,000 inhabitants
Backnang	37,000 inhabitants
Herrenberg	31,000 inhabitants
Kornwestheim	34,000 inhabitants
Vaihingen an der Enz	29,000 inhabitants
Geislingen an der Steige	28,000 inhabitants
Winnenden	28,000 inhabitants
Wine town	27,000 inhabitants
Remseck am Neckar	26,000 inhabitants
Ditzingen	25,000 inhabitants
Eislingen / Fils	20,000 inhabitants

Outer metropolitan region of Stuttgart

The largest cities (over 20,000 inhabitants) in the outer metropolitan region of Stuttgart are:

Heilbronn	121,000 inhabitants	Stuttgart administrative district
Reutlingen	112,000 inhabitants	Administrative region of Tübingen
Tübingen	86,000 inhabitants	Administrative region of Tübingen
Schwäbisch Gmünd	61,000 inhabitants	Stuttgart administrative district
Rottenburg am Neckar	42,000 inhabitants	Administrative region of Tübingen
Neckarsulm	27,000 inhabitants	Stuttgart administrative district
Calw	23,000 inhabitants	Karlsruhe district
Nagold	22,000 inhabitants	Karlsruhe district
Metzingen	21,000 inhabitants	Administrative region of Tübingen
Bad Rappenau	20,000 inhabitants	Stuttgart administrative district
Mössingen	20,000 inhabitants	Administrative region of Tübingen

Rural area in the cooperation area of ​​the Stuttgart metropolitan region

The cooperation area of ​​the Stuttgart metropolitan region encompasses a rural area including the densely populated areas. About 1.8 million people live there. This rural area with its densified areas is included in the consideration of the metropolitan region, for example in the initiative group European metropolitan regions in Germany. The entire cooperation area completely covers the regions of Stuttgart , Heilbronn-Franconia , Northern Black Forest , East Württemberg and Neckar-Alb .

The largest cities (over 20,000 inhabitants) of this rural area in the cooperation area of ​​the metropolitan region of Stuttgart are

in the Northern Black Forest region :

Pforzheim	119,423 inhabitants
Horb am Neckar	26,142 inhabitants
Mühlacker	25,863 inhabitants
Freudenstadt	23,776 inhabitants

in the Heilbronn-Franconia region :

Schwäbisch Hall	36,668 inhabitants
Crailsheim	32,957 inhabitants
Wertheim	24,101 inhabitants
Öhringen	22,766 inhabitants
Bad Mergentheim	22,455 inhabitants
Eppingen	21,479 inhabitants

in the East Wuerttemberg region :

Bask	66,580 inhabitants
Heidenheim an der Brenz	48,995 inhabitants
Ellwangen	24,891 inhabitants

in the Neckar-Alb region :

Albstadt	45,888 inhabitants
Balingen	34,200 inhabitants

(Future allocation of the Albstadt / Balingen / Hechingen agglomeration to the Stuttgart metropolitan region desired according to the 2002 regional development plan)

Web links

• The European metropolitan region of Stuttgart
• Literature on the Stuttgart metropolitan region in the catalog of the German National Library
• deutsche-metropolregionen.org
• metropolticket.de
• State Development Plan 2002 (PDF file; 8.05 MB)
• Calculation of the inhabitants of the Stuttgart metropolitan region , Stuttgart Journal
• Business location metropolitan region Stuttgart , European Business Network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stuttgart. Initiative Group European Metropolitan Regions in Germany, accessed on September 6, 2015 . 
2. ↑ German metropolitan regions
3. ↑ http://www.stuttgart-journal.de/tp/index.php?id=82 (calculation of the population of the metropolitan region)
4. ^ Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation : Basic information on politics and organization. In: www.region-stuttgart.de. Retrieved April 15, 2016 . 
5. ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Population level