Kemnat (Ostfildern)

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Kemnat
City of Ostfildern
Kemnat coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '12 "  N , 9 ° 13' 48"  E
Height : 406 m
Residents : 5123  (March 30, 2015)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 73760
Area code : 0711
View of Kemnat from the plane
(Stuttgart-Sillenbuch in the background)

Kemnat (Swabian formerly Kemled ['kemlɐ̃d], today Kemned [' kemnɐ̃d]) is a district of Ostfildern in the Esslingen district , Baden-Württemberg . The place lies between the Ostfildern districts of Ruit and Scharnhausen and the Stuttgart districts of Riedenberg , Hohenheim and Birkach .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1229 as Kemnaten . The name comes from Keminaton , which means something like "heatable living space" . The place was owned by the monasteries Bebenhausen and Denkendorf . Since Württemberg exercised the bailiwick over both monasteries, Württemberg had all official rights over the place in 1451. In 1449, Kemnat was burned down during the city ​​war , but then rebuilt. The community belonged to the Stuttgart office or administrative superior office and came to the Esslingen district in 1938.

On 1 January 1975. Kemnat the course was municipal reform with Ruit auf den Fildern, Nellingen auf den Fildern combined and Scharnhausen to the municipality Ostfildern.

Industry

In the period around 1960, free commercial space attracted many companies, so that the industrial area in Kemnat became an important center for printing and media technology in Baden-Württemberg. Publishers in and around Kemnat are, for example, MairDumont with the Baedeker and Falk publishers , the Deutscher Drucker publishing house, the Schwabenverlag, the J. Fink publishing group and the Thorbecke publishing house. The printing and media association in Baden-Württemberg and the education center for the printing industry are also located here.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Reichardt, Lutz, Ortnamesbuch des Kreises Esslingen, publications of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg, series B 98. Volume, p. 54
  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. 461 .

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