Leinfelden-Echterdingen

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Leinfelden-Echterdingen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 '  N , 9 ° 9'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Esslingen
Height : 432 m above sea level NHN
Area : 29.89 km 2
Residents: 40,092 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 1341 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 70771, 71144
Area code : 0711
License plate : ES, NT
Community key : 08 1 16 078
City structure: 4 districts

City administration address :
Marktplatz 1
70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Website : www.leinfelden-echterdingen.de
Lord Mayor : Roland Klenk ( CDU )
Location of the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen in the Esslingen district
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City structure
Cooking mill, one of various half-timbered mills in Siebenmühlental

Leinfelden-Echterdingen is a city in Baden-Württemberg , directly south of the state capital Stuttgart . It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

The city, which was newly formed in 1975 as part of the municipal reform , already had more than 20,000 inhabitants when it was founded. Therefore it became a major district town with effect from July 1, 1976 . Today it is the fifth largest city in the Esslingen district after Esslingen am Neckar , Filderstadt , Nürtingen and Kirchheim unter Teck and belongs to the central area of Stuttgart within the regional center of the same name .

geography

Geographical location

Leinfelden-Echterdingen is located on the Filder plain at an altitude of 342 to 495 meters and borders the city of Stuttgart in the north. The extensive forest area of ​​the Schönbuch and the Siebenmühlental adjoin to the west and south .

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Starting in the north, clockwise, they are named: Stuttgart ( urban district ), Filderstadt (Esslingen district) and Waldenbuch , Steinenbronn , Böblingen and Sindelfingen (all Böblingen district )

City structure

View from Oberaichen towards Stuttgart

The urban area of ​​Leinfelden-Echterdingen consists of the four districts of Leinfelden, Echterdingen, Musberg and Stetten. The districts are identical to the former municipalities of this name. The official designation of the districts is given by the preceding word "district", the name of the city and, connected by a hyphen, followed by the name of the districts.

The district of Leinfelden (13,514 inhabitants) includes the former town of Leinfelden, the districts of Oberaichen and Unteraichen, the Schlechtsmühle and Schlösslesmühle farms and the Seebruckenmühle house, as well as the village of Mittelaichen, which has been abandoned.

The district Echterdingen (13,946 inhabitants) includes the place Echterdingen as well as the abandoned villages Hagenbuchhof or Hegnach, Hofstetten, Kleinaichen, Nenckersweiler, Niederbechbach, Schemeler or Staudach as well as a settlement with an unknown name.

The Musberg district (5102 inhabitants) includes the village of Musberg and the houses Eselsmühle , Mäulesmühle and Obere Mühle as well as the abandoned village of Niederweiler.

The Stetten district (5704 inhabitants) includes the village of Stetten auf den Fildern and the houses Kochmühle and Walzenmühle as well as the abandoned villages Hohenegerten, Lutzenhausen and Neumühle. In addition, there are the residential areas Hof and Weidach in Stetten , which emerged from old hamlets.

Division of space

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

history

Until the parish merger

The city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen was created on January 1st, 1975 through the merger of the city of Leinfelden and the communities of Echterdingen, Musberg and Stetten auf den Fildern. However, the four parishes have a long history.

The place name Echterdingen is mentioned for the first time in 1185, Stetten and Musberg in 1229, Leinfelden in 1269 and Oberaichen in 1287. A Leinfelder Ämtlein, to which Musberg and Stetten (with Hof and Weidach) belonged, is mentioned for the first time in 1524. Since 1557 the places belonged to Württemberg . In the course of the implementation of the new administrative structure in the Kingdom of Württemberg , Stetten broke away in 1810 and Musberg in 1819 from the Leinfelder Ämtlein, which was then dissolved. From then on, there were four municipalities, together with Echterdingen, all of which belonged to the Stuttgart office or administrative superior office .

On August 5, 1908, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin landed on a test drive with the airship LZ 4 on a meadow near Echterdingen due to an engine failure . (This was the first landing of an airship on solid ground.) However, LZ 4 was completely destroyed there in the afternoon of the same day during a thunderstorm.

In 1926 Leinfelden, Oberaichen and Unteraichen merged to form a community.

In 1938 the state airport Echterdingen was inaugurated. In the same year, the Stuttgart District Office was dissolved. Echterdingen and Stetten auf den Fildern came to the district of Esslingen , Leinfelden and Musberg to the district of Böblingen . In 1942 the Fasanenhof residential area was separated from the community of Echterdingen and incorporated into the city of Stuttgart.

At the airport (then airbase) was from November 1944 to January / February 1945 the KZ Echterdingen as one of the many branches of the Alsace located Natzweiler concentration camp . This external command was planned and set up by the Organization Todt (OT), for example to repair the damage caused by attacks by Allied bombers. The white hangar (“Eskimo Hall”), in which around 600 Jewish prisoners were locked up during their forced labor there, still exists today in the US Army airfield called “South Airfield”. The emaciated men, guarded by air force soldiers, dragged themselves to the quarries (for example in Emerland near Bernhausen ) and back again. Sometimes they could not even walk and were dragged along by two prisoners or pulled back on a two-wheeled cart. Mass graves of the concentration camp prisoners who perished as a result of these murderous conditions were found almost by chance near the Ramsklinge and near the hangar at the airport. In autumn 2005, the remains of 34 prisoners were discovered about 100 meters from the hangar and, after exhumation, buried at the site according to a Jewish ritual. On Sunday, April 15, 2007, the gravestones for the 34 victims of the concentration camp were placed. In order to keep the airport in operation, several thousand foreign and forced laborers were probably used during the war years, but their exact fates are difficult to reconstruct.

In 1945, all the places in what is now the district of Leinfelden-Echterdingen became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which became part of the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

On April 26, 1965, the community of Leinfelden was raised to town.

In the course of the community reform , the city of Leinfelden and the community of Musberg (district of Böblingen) as well as the communities of Echterdingen and Stetten auf den Fildern (district of Esslingen) were combined to form the new city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen on January 1, 1975. The new municipality has been part of the Esslingen district since then.

Religions

The population of the four former parishes of today's city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen originally belonged to the diocese of Constance . Since the places belonged to Württemberg politically early on, the Reformation was introduced here by Duke Ulrich from 1535 , so they were predominantly Protestant for centuries. In the places there are also Protestant parishes with their own churches.

The Protestant parish church in Echterdingen is the oldest church in the city. The villages of Weidach , Leinfelden, Ober- and Unteraichen originally belonged to their district . In 1563, Leinfelden with Oberaichen and Unteraichen became a branch of Musberg. In 1896/97, however, a separate church (Peter and Paul) was built in Leinfelden. Unteraichen then also belonged to the community of Leinfelden, although there was a separate branch parish council there. In 1957, Leinfelden and Unteraichen became their own parish. A parish hall was built in Unteraichen in 1962 and the Church of the Resurrection in 1974. Oberaichen remained a subsidiary of Musberg until 1964, when it became an independent parish with its own church (Friedenskirche, built 1962–64).

The Musberg community belonged to Möhringen until 1563 , temporarily also to Vaihingen , then it became independent. Rohr (until 1857), Leinfelden and Ober- and Unteraichen also belonged to their district . After the parishes of Leinfelden-Unteraichen and Oberaichen were separated, Musberg has been a single parish since 1964. It celebrates its services in the second oldest church in today's urban area from 1563 with changes from 1682.

The parishioners in Stetten auf den Fildern belonged to different parishes. As early as 1304 there was a chapel on site. Later the place came ecclesiastically to Bernhausen, in 1819 to Echterdingen, to which Weidach had belonged since 1296. Hof also initially belonged to Bernhausen, then to Musberg and from 1816 also to Echterdingen. A separate parish for Stetten was only established in 1957. However, the community had already built a church in 1935. The predecessor was the chapel mentioned in the 14th century, which was a pilgrimage chapel in Weidach in the Middle Ages .

All six parishes in the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen used to belong to the church district of Degerloch . In 1981 Bernhausen (city of Filderstadt) became the seat of its own church district within the Evangelical Church in Württemberg , to which all parishes in Leinfelden-Echterdingen today belong. The old Pietist community , the Liebenzeller community and the Michael Hahn community are also represented in Echterdingen .

Catholics have only been around in Leinfelden-Echterdingen since the 20th century. Catholic churches were built in almost all parts of the city. The Church of St. Raphael was built in Echterdingen in 1956 and was raised to a parish in 1968 after a pastoral care center had been set up in 1946. Stetten also belongs to the parish. The Church of St. Petrus and Paulus was built in Leinfelden in 1964. Musberg also belongs to the parish, but has had its own church at the Holy Cross since 1976. Both parishes (Echterdingen and Leinfelden) form pastoral care unit 1 within the Esslingen-Nürtingen deanery of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .

In addition to the Evangelical Regional Church and the Roman Catholic Church, there are also free churches and parishes in Leinfelden-Echterdingen , including the Evangelical Methodist Church .

There is also a mosque in the Echterdingen district. The New Apostolic Church has one congregation each in the Leinfelden district and in the Echterdingen district .

Population development

Population development of Leinfelden-Echterdingen from 1961 to 2016

The figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ). The figures from 1961 and 1970 refer to the combined population of the four predecessor communities.

year Population numbers
June 6, 1961¹ 18,859
May 27, 1970¹ 29,557
December 31, 1975 34,195
December 31, 1980 35,263
December 31, 1985 35,031
May 25, 1987¹ 33,694
year Population numbers
December 31, 1990 34,940
December 31, 1995 35.114
December 31, 2000 36,026
December 31, 2005 37,035
December 31, 2015 39,071
December 31, 2017 39,826

¹ census result

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The community council in Leinfelden-Echterdingen has 26 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following official result:

Parties and constituencies %
2019
Seats
2019
%
2014
Seats
2014
%
2009
Seats
2009
Local elections 2019
 %
30th
20th
10
0
23.22%
23.13%
18.02%
11.87%
9.11%
8.89%
2.97%
2.79%
n. k.
n. k.
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+ 4.08  % p
+ 0.71  % p
-5.24  % p
-4.27  % p.p.
+1.24  % p
+ 0.96  % p.p.
+ 2.97  % p
+ 2.79  % p.p.
-2.19  % p
-1.05  % p
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 23.22 6th 19.14 5 19.63 5
FW Free voters Leinfelden-Echterdingen e. V. 23.13 6th 22.42 6th 24.23 7th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 18.02 5 23.26 6th 21.92 6th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 11.87 3 16.14 4th 16.23 4th
FDP Free Democratic Party 9.11 2 7.87 2 10.37 2
LE citizens List of Engagierte Bürger eV 8.89 2 7.93 2 7.62 2
THE LEFT THE LEFT 2.97 1 - - - -
DiB DEMOCRACY ON THE MOVE 2.79 1 - - - -
total 100.0 26th 100.0 26th 100.0 26th
voter turnout 61.75% 51.28% 53.34%

The next local election will take place in 2024.

mayor

At the head of the city is the mayor , who is elected by the population for eight years . He is also chairman of the local council, which is also elected by the population for a five-year term . As a general deputy, he has a first alderman with the official title of “First Mayor” and another alderman with the official title of “Mayor”.

City leaders since the city was founded in 1975:

Youth Council

The youth council was founded on November 17th, 2016. 16 young people between the ages of 14 and 21 are elected for two years in order to be able to express and represent the opinions, ideas and interests of their peers to the city administration, the municipal council and the mayor.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold a blue ring, divided by a blue bar, split at the top by a blue stake ( sester )."

The city flag is blue-yellow. The coat of arms and flag were awarded by the Stuttgart Regional Council on March 22, 1978. The coat of arms symbol is the old Echterdinger stain sign , the "Sester" (a grain measure). The blazon was taken from the old coat of arms of Leinfelder.

Town twinning

The town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen maintains the following cities twinning :

  • FranceFrance Manosque (France), since 1973 - the town twinning of Leinfelden with Manosque in Provence was extended to the new town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen after the merger in 1975
  • UkraineUkraine Poltava (Ukraine), since 1988 - the partnership with Poltava, together with the neighboring towns of Filderstadt and Ostfildern closed
  • United StatesUnited States York / Pennsylvania (United States), since 1989
  • ItalyItaly Voghera (Italy), since 2000 - since Voghera was already a twin town of Manosque, these three cities now form a trilateral partnership

Culture, sports and sights

theatre

  • Komede-Scheuer Mäulesmühle : Swabian dialect theater, known for the series " Hannes and the Mayor "
  • TheaterLE: Swabian dialect theater (closed in 2008)
  • Theater under the domes: musicals, children's theater, dialect, drama

Museums

The German Playing Card Museum is located in Leinfelden, and the City Museum Leinfelden-Echterdingen (formerly the Heimatmuseum) in Echterdingen.

Memorials

A memorial in the Echterdingen cemetery commemorates the more than 100 concentration camp inmates who were victims of forced labor in the construction of the airport.

Zeppelin stone in Echterdingen

The zeppelin stone is reminiscent of the landing of LZ 4

music

Leinfelden-Echterdingen is the home of the "Vielharmoniker", a symphony orchestra that prepares concert programs with literature from the late classical to late romantic periods. The gospel choir "Children of Joy", founded in 2003 and now known and operating across the region, rehearses in the Musberg district.

There are also music associations in all four parts of the city (Musikverein Stadtkapelle Leinfelden, Musikverein Echterdingen, Musikverein Musberg and Musikverein Stetten / Filder e.V.). On the occasion of the opening of the New Stuttgart Trade Fair Center in October 2007, the LE Marching Band, an initiative of the Musikverein Stadtkapelle Leinfelden together with the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, appeared for the first time.

Since 1959 the Echterdingen music association has been cultivating the tradition of Bohemian-Moravian brass music with the formation “Die Echterdinger Musikanten” and is thus successful far beyond the city and national borders.

The LE Bigband under the direction of Albi Hefele belongs to the city music school. She is known nationwide for her successful performances and has performed at the Jazz Open in Stuttgart in 2006, among others.

Sports

The most important sports clubs in the city are TSV Leinfelden 1900 e. V., the TV Echterdingen 1892 e. V., TSV Musberg and SpVgg Stetten / Filder 1900 e. V. Sports such as athletics, tennis, gymnastics, table tennis, badminton, volleyball and soccer are also offered. The wrestlers of TSV Musberg are 2010/11 participants in the wrestling Bundesliga .

Former ski lift

The mountain station of the disused ski lift at Hauberg, Musberg in the background

South of Musberg there is a ski lift from Siebenmühlental to Hauberg, the so-called Pizmus , derived from the Rhaeto-Romanic word Piz for summit and the village of Musberg. Between the valley station at 397 meters and the mountain station at 445 meters, it overcomes a height difference of 48 meters. The 270 meter long system was built in 1965 by the Austrian company Doppelmayr and has three pillars, all of which are equipped with floodlights . The travel speed is two meters per second, the travel time is around two and a half minutes and the transport capacity is 800 people per hour. However, due to inheritance disputes, winters with little snow and upcoming investments, the drag lift or pommel lift has been out of service since 1995. There was also a ski jumping hill nearby , which was opened in February 1955 and where competitions were also held.

Buildings

Echterdingen, view of the church from the east, washed drawing by General Eduard v. Kallee , 1878

Significant buildings in Leinfelden-Echterdingen are the Leinfelder House from 1570, the Protestant Stephanus Church (formerly "To our dear woman") in Echterdingen with a 52 meter high tower (construction started in 1439), the Protestant Peter and Paul Church in Leinfelden ( built 1896/97), the Protestant Trinity Church in Musberg (built in 1563 with ribbed vaults and medieval east tower, modified in 1682) and the Protestant Church in Stetten (built in 1935). In the city center of Echterdingen, in addition to the church, the old town hall (built around 1500), the Zehntscheuer, the rectory and the Philipp-Matthäus-Hahn-Uhr are to be mentioned. Outside of Echterdingen, the Zeppelin Stone is located in memory of the first landing of an airship on firm ground. After a long process of unification, construction of the Baden-Württemberg State Fair began in the Echterdingen district at the end of 2004. There is also an old town hall in Musberg, which was built in 1920.

The Filderhalle congress and conference center was initially built as a multi-purpose hall in 1958 and expanded in 1979.

Regional culinary specialties

  • Filderkraut : A special type of white cabbage that is only grown on the Fildern. The cabbage head is not round, but rather tapers at the top. This is why the name "pointed cabbage" is also common. There are still three cabbage factories in the region that process Filderkraut into a particularly fine sauerkraut.
  • Deie: A thin dough base with a cream topping and herbs. For example, the Deie is freshly baked at the Krautfest in the Echterdinger Backhaus.

Regular events

On the third weekend in October, the Filderkraut Festival has been taking place in all parts of the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen since 1979 and is organized by the local associations and institutions. With around 40,000 visitors, this is the largest herb event in Germany.

On May 1st and on Ascension Day (Father's Day) the Maihocketse Mühlentrubel has been taking place in the Mäulesmühle for over 30 years .

On the third weekend in July, shortly before the summer holidays, the open-air festival "Uff dr Wies" takes place in the Stetten district, where rock and pop bands from the region also perform. The Stetten / Filder music association offers brass music on Sundays.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Airport

The approach radar of the airport is in Stetten.

The Stuttgart airport , including the associated S-Bahn -Station and the planned Filderstadt station is situated in the east of the urban area of Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Most of the apron, the runway and taxiways, however, are located in the districts of Stuttgart and the neighboring town of Filderstadt to the east, where the control tower is also located.

Road traffic

Since 1936, Leinfelden-Echterdingen has been on the Federal Motorway 8 ( Karlsruhe –Stuttgart– Ulm - Munich ) and on the Federal Road 27 (Stuttgart– Tübingen ). Their intersection (junction Stuttgart- Degerloch , also called Echterdinger Ei ) is the busiest intersection in Baden-Württemberg. In addition to Stuttgart-Degerloch, the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen can also be reached via the Stuttgart-Möhringen and Stuttgart-Airport / Messe connections.

Rail transport

The city was connected to the rail network in 1897 by the narrow-gauge Filderbahn from Möhringen to Neuhausen on the Fildern . The Echterdingen station building corresponded to a Württemberg unit train station of type IIIa. The line was expanded to standard gauge in 1902 .

In 1928 a railway line from Vaihingen on the Fildern via Leinfelden and Musberg to Waldenbuch was inaugurated under the name Schönbuchbahn (also called Siebenmühlentalbahn ). The section from Musberg to Waldenbuch was closed again in 1956, the remaining section from Leinfelden – Musberg followed in 1972. This route is not identical to today's Schönbuchbahn from Böblingen to Dettenhausen . With this measure, the standard-gauge line of the Filderbahn from Neuhausen to Vaihingen adF was connected and instead a narrow-gauge line of the electric Filderbahn from Möhringen via Leinfelden to Echterdingen was set up.

Tram in Echterdingen, turning from Hauptstraße into Hirschstraße (1990)

In 1934 this branch was integrated into the network and the tariff structure of the Stuttgart trams (SSB), from May 19, 1964, the continuous connection from Stuttgart to Echterdingen with articulated multiple units of the type GT4 followed . After the completion of the Stuttgart S-Bahn to Oberaichen in 1989, the section from Leinfelden to Echterdingen was canceled on November 3, 1990; the new tram only runs from Stuttgart to Leinfelden. In the meantime, however, there are plans to rebuild the route, which is hastily decommissioned from today's perspective.

The remaining goods traffic on the Filderbahn was given up in 1983, but the route is now partially used for the S-Bahn, which has been running via Oberaichen to the airport since 1993.

Public transportation

The local public transport ( ÖPNV ) Leinfelden-Echterdingens today mainly serve the lines S2 (Filderstadt – Stuttgart– Schorndorf ) and S3 (Airport – Stuttgart– Backnang ) of the S-Bahn Stuttgart (stops in the city area: Oberaichen, Leinfelden, Echterdingen and airport) as well as the underground line U5 (Leinfelden - Hauptbahnhof - Killesberg ) of the SSB (stops in the city area: Leinfelden Frank, Unteraichen and Leinfelden). The bus lines 76 and 77 of the SSB as well as 812/813, 814, 818, 819, 826 and 828 of the FMO also operate in the city area . All lines can be used at uniform prices within the Stuttgart Transport and Tariff Association (VVS).

Established businesses

  • The terminals of Stuttgart Airport are located in the Echterdingen district.
  • The Stuttgart Exhibition Center at the airport is part of the urban area .
  • The power tools division of Robert Bosch GmbH has been based in Leinfelden since 1955 . Around 1500 people are employed at the site.
  • The current branch of T-Systems GmbH in Leinfelden was the headquarters of the predecessor company debis Systemhaus until 2000 .
  • The Roto Frank AG is one of the largest manufacturers of window fittings and roof windows worldwide. The company employs around 3800 people in its twelve plants.
  • The company EUCHNER GmbH + Co. KG, manufacturer of industrial safety technology, employs around 500 people at its headquarters in Leinfelden.
  • Carus publishing house
  • Flight design
  • The software and consulting company Msg life employs almost 450 people at its headquarters in Echterdingen.
  • The Logica Germany GmbH & Co. KG is an IT and consulting services company with 2,200 employees.
  • Konradin media group
  • Until 1985, Echterdingen was the seat of the Weigle organ building workshop .
  • Until 2001 the Ehapa publishing house was located in Stetten.
  • The DRW-Verlag has as editor of several wood-specific journals headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen.
  • Paradise , brothel

media

The daily newspapers of the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Stuttgarter Nachrichten report on the events of the day in Leinfelden-Echterdingen with the common local section Filder-Zeitung , whose editorial office is based in Echterdingen. There are also several advertising journals such as the Filder Wochenblatt , the Filder-Extra or the Stadtanzeiger . The official bulletin of the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen is the official gazette distributed free of charge to all households .

Public facilities

Leinfelden-Echterdingen has an indoor swimming pool, city libraries, numerous sports facilities and halls, a police station and a notary's office . There is a city library in each of the four districts. The branch offices in the districts of Musberg and Stetten are run on a voluntary basis after they were initially threatened with closure as a result of necessary austerity measures by the city. After being supported by members of the community library of Leinfelden-Echterdingen e. V. were largely voluntary, but still operated as part of the Leinfelden-Echterdingen city library, after moving to the Eichbergschule in Musberg, the Musberg library has been operated entirely on a voluntary basis by the friends' association since May 2009. After the closure of the old location in May 2010, the Stetten library was reopened in a temporary room in the Lindach School in October 2010 under completely voluntary management. Both voluntarily operated libraries now mainly offer media for children and young people according to the age levels of the pupils of the Eichberg or Lindach School and the special needs school in Stetten, as well as a small stock of magazines and media for adults.

In October 2007, the new Stuttgart Exhibition Center was opened on the outskirts of the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen.

Volunteer firefighter

The volunteer fire brigade in Leinfelden-Echterdingen is still a fairly young fire brigade. It was only founded after the merger of Stetten, Musberg, Leinfelden and Echterdingen in the course of the municipal reform to the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen on September 5, 1975 in the festival hall in Stetten. There is a fire department in each of the four districts. In addition to the four active departments, there is also the marching band, the youth fire brigade and the age department.

Over the past few years, the total fire brigade has deployed around 250 per year.

Stuttgart Airport, Roto Frank AG and Robert Bosch GmbH also have their own fire brigades. Since April 2007, another plant fire brigade has been added, the "Messe Stuttgart plant fire brigade", which ensures fire protection at the New State Trade Fair (Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH).

education

In Leinfelden-Echterdingen there are two high schools ( Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium Leinfelden and Philipp-Matthäus-Hahn-Gymnasium Echterdingen), a secondary school (Immanuel-Kant-Realschule Leinfelden), a special school (Lindach special school in Stetten), a primary and Werkrealschule (Ludwig-Uhland-Schule Leinfelden) as well as five independent primary schools (Eichbergschule Musberg, Goldwiesenschule Echterdingen, Zeppelinschule Echterdingen, Lindachschule Stetten and Schönbuchschule Leinfelden).

Since 1979 the music school has been a center for musical education and training in the city. The school offers classes in classical, jazz and pop, as well as singing and instrumental lessons.

Supply and disposal

The city is a member of the Filderwasserversorgung association . The two sewage treatment plants Fleinsbach and Reichenbach are operated to purify the wastewater, and partial quantities are also fed to the Stuttgart sewage treatment plants in Plieningen and Möhringen.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen has awarded the following people honorary citizenship:

  • 1985: Walter Schweizer (1919–2011), Mayor of Echterdingen 1966–1974, Lord Mayor of Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1975–1985
  • 1997: Eberhard Breitling, Mayor of Stetten 1966–1974, First Mayor of Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1975–1998
  • 1998: Rainer Häußler, Mayor of Musberg 1966–1974, Mayor of Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1975–1999
  • 2019: Dr. Hans Huber, member of the municipal council 1962–2018

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

literature

  • Rudolf Schwarz (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Leinfelden-Echterdingen Schwarz, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2003 .
  • Uwe J. Reinhard u. a .: Leinfelden-Echterdingen. A city in the picture. DRW, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1991, ISBN 3-87181-266-8 .
  • Bernd Klagholz: The day of real things. Zeppelin LZ 4 on the Filder. Disaster and a new start in airship travel. City archives Filderstadt and Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-934760-10-3 .
  • Manuel Werner: Power and powerlessness of young air force helpers. An example from the Echterdingen / Filder air base and concentration camp. In: State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg / Educators Committee of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Stuttgart (ed.): Through fascination for power - the fascination of power. Building blocks for the relationship between power and manipulation. Handouts for teaching. Stuttgart 2003.
  • Thomas Faltin u. a .: In the face of death. The Echterdingen subcamp in 1944/45 and the ordeal of the 600 prisoners. City Archives Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 1998, ISBN 978-3-00-002898-4 ( Publications of the City Archives Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Volume 5).
  • The Esslingen district. - Edited by the State Archives Baden-Württemberg i. V. with the district of Esslingen, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0842-1 , Volume 2, p. 109.

Web links

ditto from Echterdingen and Musberg

Commons : Leinfelden-Echterdingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. Main statute of the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen from March 14, 2006, last amended on July 27, 2010 (PDF)
  3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume III: Stuttgart District, Middle Neckar Regional Association. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 , pp. 194-199.
  4. State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Leinfelden-Echterdingen.
  5. von-zeit-zu-zeit.de ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.von-zeit-zu-zeit.de
  6. ^ 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. 461 .
  7. Official election result 2019
  8. Ulrike Puvogel, Martin Stankowski: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, vol. 1. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 55.
  9. Skilift im Siebenmühlental on lost-ropeways.de, accessed on September 23, 2019
  10. Pizmus on sevenmuehlental.com, accessed on September 23, 2019
  11. Skilift Musberg on skiresort.de, accessed on 23 September 2019
  12. ^ Rainer Stein: The Württemberg standard station on branch lines . In: Eisenbahn-Journal Württemberg-Report . tape 1 , no. V / 96 . Merker, Fürstenfeldbruck 1996, ISBN 3-922404-96-0 , p. 80-83 .
  13. For more photos with trams in Echterdingen see ( Tram Forum )
  14. Leinfelden-Echterdingen: honorary citizen. Retrieved December 11, 2011 .
  15. am. Y. at the IKG | Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium. In: ikg-le.de. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .