Mettingen (Esslingen am Neckar)

Mettingen City of Esslingen am Neckar Coordinates: 48 ° 44'59 " N , 9 ° 16'34" E
Height :	232 m
Residents :	5080 (June 30, 2016)
Postal code :	73733
Area code :	0711
	Location of Mettingen in Esslingen am Neckar

View of Mettingen (bottom right) and the Mercedes-Benz Mettingen plant (center)

View from the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Bridge to Mettingen

Liebfrauenkirche, Faivegrädler church tower

Mettingen is a district of Esslingen am Neckar . It is located in the west of the city on the Neckar and has merged with Obertürkheim .

geography

In the north of Mettingen are the Esslingen vineyards Röder, Halberg, Altenberg and Brunnhalde. In the east of the Schenkenberg. In the south, the district is bounded by the Neckar. The Esslingen districts of Weil and Brühl in the south can be reached via the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Bridge.

history

Mettingen 1685, forest inventory book by Andreas Kieser

Mettingen is first mentioned in a document in 1229. From 1399 Mettingen belongs to the city of Esslingen as a branch.

In 1519, Duke Ulrich burned Mettingen after trying in vain to conquer Esslingen.

In 1913, Maschinenfabrik Esslingen , then a manufacturer of locomotives , trams , railroad cars , railway equipment ( turntables , transfer platforms ), bridges , high-rise steel structures, pumps and boilers on Mettinger Markung under the direction of Hermann Maier-Leibnitz, built their new factory. Today the area is used by Daimler AG .

1927 of August Häussermann the "Company L amellen- u nd K upplungsbau August Häussermann founded". During the Second World War , the place was badly hit by bombs.

The steeple of the Mettinger Church is particularly worth mentioning. This is called Faivegrädler because (allegedly) only four of the five turrets are visible from any point in Mettingen. There are five in total (one in the middle and four on the outside). Therefore, five is an even number in Mettingen.

At that time, money was also collected in areas around Lake Constance for the construction of the church tower. Around the church tower was the old cemetery. Today only a grave slab is left in the outer wall of the church.

politics

The contact person for the issues of the district for the city administration and the municipal council of Esslingen is the citizens' committee Mettingen Brühl Weil . At the district level, the citizens' committee helps shape community life. He is a member of the working group of citizens 'committees , which exists to exchange experiences and coordinate the individual citizens' committees of the city. The basis for the working method and the structure of the citizens' committee and the working group is the status adopted by the working group on February 21, 1991 . An agreement was reached as the basis for the cooperation between the citizens' committee, the municipal council and the administration . This was approved by the working group on July 17, 1990 and approved by the municipal council on December 10, 1990 and February 28, 2011. In June 2000, both the status and the agreement were editorially revised.

The citizens 'committee is elected for 3 years in a public citizens' meeting held by the city of Esslingen .

traffic

Via the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Brücke there is direct access to Bundesstraße 10 , which has four lanes from Stuttgart to Süßen .

The S-Bahn S1, which runs between Herrenberg , Stuttgart , Esslingen, Plochingen and Kirchheim / Teck , stops in Mettinger Bahnhof , built by architect Paul Bonatz .

From 1912 Mettingen was served by the Esslingen am Neckar tram. This was operated by the company Eßlinger Städtische Straßenbahn (ESS) - the company exists under the name Städtischer Verkehrsbetrieb Esslingen am Neckar (SVE) to this day - and was replaced in 1944 by the trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar .

schools

Sports school in Mettingen
Elementary school Mettingen
Free Evangelical School

Attractions

The Evangelical Church of Our Lady (built in the 14th century, called Faivegrädler)
The big house (built around 1550)
Wine press
Melac tower on the Ailenberg near Obertürkheim (built 1575)
See also Württemberg (wine-growing region) and Württemberg Wine Route .