Ruit (Ostfildern)

Ruit City of Ostfildern
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 44 ″  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	411 m
Residents :	7869  (March 30, 2015)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	73760
Area code :	0711

Ruit (1967–1974: Ruit auf den Fildern ) (Swabian spoken Ruid ['ruid]) is a district of the city of Ostfildern in Baden-Württemberg . The place lies between the Ostfildern districts Parksiedlung , Scharnhausen and Kemnat as well as the Stuttgart districts Heumaden and Hedelfingen .

history

Bird's eye view of Ruit (viewed from the south)

Ruit was first mentioned in 1173 as Rutte . The name means something like clearing , this was probably created from Nellingen. With Nellingen, Ruit came to Württemberg in the 13th century and from 1382 belonged to the Bailiwick of Nellingen. The monastery of St. Blasien , however, had some goods in Ruit. In 1519 the place was cremated by the imperial city of Esslingen , but then rebuilt. The community belonged to the Stuttgart office or administrative superior office and came to the Esslingen district in 1938. The municipality name was given the addition “on the Fildern” in 1967. The last mayor was Otto Vatter from 1952 to 1974.

On January 1, 1975, Ruit was merged with Nellingen auf den Fildern , Kemnat and Scharnhausen to form the municipality of Ostfildern as part of the community reform.

In April 1947, Ruit became the location of the German Office for Peace Issues , the most important institutional forerunner of the Federal Foreign Office.

Worth seeing

The protected deer arch is over 5 m high.

The three walls on the outskirts of Ruit in the direction of Kemnat.

• Deer arch with stepped gable from the 16th century ^▼
• Rectory from 1608 ^▼
• The wall. The American artist Sol LeWitt erected white brick walls between the Ostfildern suburbs in 1992: four groups with one to four walls. They are supposed to symbolize the merging of the (then still) four parts of the city. In Ruit, the sculptures, some of which are controversial among the population, can be found at the exits towards Kemnat ^▼ and Scharnhausen ^▼ . The other two are in Nellingen ^▼ and Scharnhausen ^▼ .
• The town hall. Also called the “small state parliament” because of its architecture.

Others

• In Ruit is the seat of the " Sportschule Ruit " founded in 1948 , a sports school run by the state sports association and the football association. Among other things, there is a heated lawn area on the site. ^▼
• Ruit is one of four district hospitals in the Esslingen district ^▼

traffic

In Ruit there are two stops that are served by lines of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn :

• U 7 Mönchfeld - Hauptbahnhof - Ruhbank / TV tower - Heumaden - Ostfildern
• U 8 Vaihingen - Möhringen - Degerloch - Ruhbank / TV tower - Heumaden - Ostfildern

The tram extension from Stuttgart-Heumaden via Ruit and Scharnhauser Park to Nellingen was opened on September 9, 2000.

societies

• Turnerbund Ruit 1892 e. V.
• Singer Association Ruit 1863 e. V.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Reinhold Fritz (1884–1950), chamber singer of the Stuttgart Opera
• Ralph Bergmann (* 1970), national volleyball player
• Anna Katharina Hahn (* 1970), writer
• Marcus Michalski (* 1971), actor and speaker
• Marc Kienle (* 1972), former soccer player and soccer coach
• Michael Dreher (* 1974), film director and screenwriter
• Christine Emmerich (1974–2020), television journalist
• Brigitte Zeh (* 1975), actress
• Danny Fresh (born 1978), rapper
• Cassandra Steen (* 1980), singer
• Stefan Schumacher (* 1981), professional cyclist
• Tobias Rathgeb (* 1982), soccer player
• Manuel Späth (* 1985), national handball player
• Alena Fritz (* 1989), model, actress, presenter
• Erich Berko (* 1994), soccer player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Reichardt, Lutz, Ortnamesbuch des Kreises Esslingen, publications of the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg, series B 98. Volume, p. 92
2. ↑ District archive Esslingen EN 461 Bü. 117
3. ^ 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 .
4. ↑ Heribert Piontkowitz: Beginnings of West German Foreign Policy 1946-1949. The German Office for Peace Issues 1946-1949 . Stuttgart 1978.
5. ↑ Manfred Overesch: All-German Illusion and West German Reality. On the preparations for a German peace treaty for the establishment of the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany 1946-1949 / 51 . Düsseldorf 1978.
6. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/einfueh.php?Stock=4304
7. ↑ http://www.ostfildern.de/multimedia/2013_KW_47-p-10648.pdf ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Page 1: Because of its cubic shape, the Ruiter Rathaus was nicknamed "Little one" when it opened Parliament".

literature

• Local chronicle Ruit 1924-1934 . With an afterword by Jochen Bender: Ruit in the Weimar Republic and in early National Socialism . Edited by the city of Ostfildern (series of publications by the Ostfildern City Archives, vol. 11). Ostfildern 2017.

Web links

Wikisource: Ruith in the description of the Amtsoberamt Stuttgart from 1851  - sources and full texts