Fellbach
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Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ' N , 9 ° 17' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Stuttgart | |
| County : | Rems-Murr district | |
| Height : | 287 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 27.7 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 45,671 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 1649 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 70734, 70736 | |
| Area code : | 0711 | |
| License plate : | WN, BK | |
| Community key : | 08 1 19 020 | |
| LOCODE : | DE FBH | |
| City structure: | Core city and two districts | |
City administration address : |
Marktplatz 1 70734 Fellbach |
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| Lord Mayor : | Gabriele Zull (independent) | |
| Location of the town of Fellbach in the Rems-Murr district | ||
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Fellbach is a city in Baden-Württemberg on the northeastern city limits of Stuttgart . It belongs to the Stuttgart region and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart . After the district town of Waiblingen, it is the second largest town in the Rems-Murr district and, together with Waiblingen, forms a central center for the surrounding communities.
Fellbach's population exceeded 20,000 at the beginning of the 1950s, so that the city was given the status of a major district town when the Baden-Württemberg municipal code came into force on April 1, 1956 . The city currently has more than 46,000 inhabitants.
geography
Geographical location
Fellbach is located in the south of the Neckar basin on a plateau between the Neckar and Remstal on the northern foothills of the Schurwald , whose elevations here are the Kappelberg ( 469 m ) and the Kernen ( 512.7 m ). The urban area extends north into the so-called "Schmidener Feld".
Neighboring communities
The following cities and communities border the city of Fellbach. They are named in a clockwise direction starting in the east:
Waiblingen and Kernen im Remstal (both Rems-Murr-Kreis ), Stuttgart ( urban district ) and Remseck am Neckar ( Ludwigsburg district )
City structure
The urban area of Fellbach consists of the core city and the two districts Schmiden (incorporated on January 1, 1973) and Oeffingen (incorporated on April 1, 1974), which were previously independent municipalities and now merge almost seamlessly. Within the individual city districts, residential areas with special names are sometimes differentiated, which, however, can usually not be precisely defined.
In the area of the city of Fellbach there are five separately located villages. The town of Fellbach and the town of Lindle belong to Fellbach. The place Oeffingen and the homestead Tennhof belong to Oeffingen and the place Schmiden belongs to Schmiden. Furthermore, in the urban area of Fellbach are the abandoned villages of Erbach, Immenrot and Gretenbach.
Spatial planning
Together with the neighboring town of Waiblingen, Fellbach forms a middle center within the Stuttgart region , the regional center of which is Stuttgart . The central area Waiblingen / Fellbach also includes the towns and communities in the southwest of the Rems-Murr district, namely Berglen , Kernen im Remstal, Korb , Leutenbach , Schwaikheim , Weinstadt and Winnenden .
Division of space
According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.
history
Fellbach
Fellbach was first mentioned in a document in 1121 as "Velbach". In 1357 the name "Velebach" and around 1800 "Fehlbach" appeared. The meaning of the name is not entirely clear, but it could come from the "Felbe" = willow tree. Via the inheritance with Cannstatt, the place came to the Welfs , in 1191 to the Staufer and probably already in 1199 to the Counts of Grüningen, who were replaced by the Counts of Württemberg in 1291 . Several landlords had property in Fellbach, which the House of Württemberg bought step by step. Towards the end of the Thirty Years War , the place had only 556 inhabitants due to the effects of the war. In 1811 Fellbach received market rights. With the construction of the Remsbahn in 1861, it was connected to the Württemberg railways network . This and the proximity to Stuttgart , the capital of the Kingdom of Württemberg , promoted industrialization . As a result, Fellbach grew to over 10,000 inhabitants by 1931 and was at that time the largest rural community in Württemberg. At first the community belonged to the Cannstatt Oberamt . After its dissolution in 1923 Fellbach came to Oberamt Waiblingen , out of the 1,938 in the course of district reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg the district Waiblingen emerged. On October 14, 1933, the rural community Fellbach was raised to town. After the Second World War Fellbach, 8% of which had been destroyed by air raids, fell into the American occupation zone and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden . In 1952 Fellbach came to what is now the state of Baden-Württemberg. In the 1950s, the population exceeded the 20,000 mark. Therefore Fellbach was named a major district town in the Waiblingen district on April 1, 1956.
During the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , Fellbach came to the Rems-Murr district on January 1, 1973.
Districts
 Schmiden |
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 Oeffingen |
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Incorporations
The following communities were incorporated into Fellbach:
- January 1, 1973 Schmiden
- April 1, 1974 Oeffingen
Population development
The population figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).
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Religions
Christianity
Fellbach belonged to Württemberg early on and was originally looked after from the Uffkirche in Cannstatt. In 1534 the Reformation was introduced with Württemberg . Fellbach became its own parish in the Middle Ages. The church was originally dedicated to St. Mary and later St. Gallus. The current church in the city is the Luther Church, which was essentially built in the 15th century. In addition to the Luther Church, there is also the Pauluskirche (built in 1927) and the Melanchthon Church (built in 1964) as well as the Johannes Brenz Church in the Lindle district. The Reformation was also introduced in the Schmiden district by Württemberg. There is also an old Protestant church here. Oeffingen has only had its own Protestant church and parish since 1970. All Protestants in the city of Fellbach initially belonged to the deanery or church district of Cannstatt , today to the deanery or church district of Waiblingen of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
Before the Reformation, the Catholics (old) Fellbach belonged to the diocese of Constance and were assigned to the archdeacon "ante nemus", chapter Grunbach. After the Reformation there were no more Catholics. Only in the 19th century did Catholics move in again, and from 1923 they built their own church ( St. John ). It was rebuilt in 1949. In 1967 a second church, the Maria Regina Church, was built.
In 1958, as a result of the arrival of Catholics, a separate Catholic church (To the Most Holy Trinity) was built in Schmiden. Schmiden has been its own parish since 1961.
Oeffingen was a Catholic enclave in the Protestant Württemberg. It was first owned by the Knights of Neuhausen and was sold to the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter in 1619. Around 1800 there was also a Franciscan monastery in Oeffingen for a short time. In Oeffingen there was an old Catholic church on the outskirts, which was badly damaged by an air raid during World War II. The current church of Christ the King was built in 1968. All three parishes of the city of Fellbach together with the Italian-speaking community Maria Regina, founded in 2003, form the Fellbach pastoral care unit within the Rems-Murr dean's office of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .
The New Apostolic Church had a central church built in Fellbach in 1983 for the Stuttgart Apostle District with 1,400 seats. It is frequently visited by the Chief Apostle , the spiritual head, and other high officials of the New Apostolic Church. At Pentecost 2005, the current Chief Apostle Wilhelm Leber was introduced to his office there.
In addition to the two large churches in Fellbach, there is also a Greek Orthodox congregation and some free churches , including the United Methodist Church , a Mennonite congregation , the Seventh-day Adventist Community and Jehovah's Witnesses are represented in Fellbach.
Others
Since 1997 the Fatih Mosque in the Schmiden district has been offering a place of prayer for citizens of Islamic faith.
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 33.3% of the population were Protestant , 28.3% Roman Catholic and 38.4% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Catholics, and especially Protestants, has fallen since then. At the end of 2019 Fellbach had 46,216 inhabitants, of which 27.4% (12,695) Protestants and 25.6% (11,825) Catholics. 21,696 (46.9%) either had another religion or no religion at all.
politics
Municipal council
The local council in Fellbach has 32 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.
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| FW-FD | Free Voters / Free Democrats | 34.82 | 11 | 26.31 | 8th | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 24.33 | 8th | 31.56 | 10 | |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 20.93 | 7th | 13.67 | 4th | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 16.81 | 5 | 20.86 | 7th | |
| LEFT | The left | 1.65 | 1 | 2.31 | 1 | |
| F2 | F2-for Fellbach | 1.45 | 0 | - | - | |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | - | - | 5.30 | 2 | |
| total | 100.0 | 32 | 100.0 | 32 | ||
| voter turnout | 56.10% | 47.03% | ||||
Youth Council
Since 1999, Fellbach's young people have been able to help shape local events through the. The youth council sees itself as a local political mouthpiece for young people and as a mediator between young people and the institutions of the city.
mayor
At the head of the municipality of Fellbach was a mayor , who since 1930 the official title of Mayor and since the survey on the district town the name on April 1, 1956 Mayor leads. This is elected directly by the electorate for eight years. He is chairman of the municipal council. His general deputies are the 1st alderman with the official title of First Mayor and the 2nd alderman with the official title of mayor.
Community and city leaders since 1800:
- 1800–1845: Philipp Heinrich Friz, bailiff and clerk
- 1845–1849: Johannes Sayler, Schultheiß
- 1850–1877: Jakob Friedrich Lipp, mayor
- 1878–1908: Ernst Albert Friz, Schultheiß
- 1908–1931: August Brändle , Schultheiß
- 1932–1937: Max Graser
- 1938–1945: Emil Adelhelm
- 1945: Alfons Meyer
- 1945–1948: Heinrich Schnaitmann
- 1948–1966: Max Graser
- 1966–1976: Guntram Palm ( FDP )
- 1976–2000: Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel (FDP)
- 2000–2016: Christoph Palm (CDU)
- since November 7, 2016: Gabriele Zull (independent)
coat of arms
Blazon : “Three silver wolf rods placed in red in stakes ” (only their anchors to which the actual wolf rods were attached). - The city flag is white and red. The coat of arms shows the symbol of the Fellbach local nobility. It was awarded to the city on March 13, 1956 by the Baden-Württemberg state government.
Before that, Fellbach had a coat of arms until 1933 that showed the initial F as a landmark of the village of Fellbach. Then it received a coat of arms with a blue grape as a symbol of viticulture with the silver F, before adopting today's coat of arms in 1956.
Town twinning
Fellbach is twinned with the following cities:
- Tain-l'Hermitage ( France ), since 1964
- Tournon-sur-Rhône ( France ), since 1973
- Erba ( Italy ), since 1978
- Pécs ( Hungary ), since 1986
- Meißen ( Saxony ), since 1987
In addition, Fellbach has had a project partnership with Suharekë in Kosovo since 2000 to build and support a youth and educational facility that has since been named Fellbach House.
Economy and Infrastructure
Viticulture and Agriculture
Before industrialization, Fellbach was primarily a wine-growing town . Viticulture on the Kappelberg was first mentioned in a document in 1245. Today 182 hectares of vineyards are cultivated. In addition to the Fellbacher wineries, there are a number of private wineries, of which the VDP wineries Aldinger and Schnaitmann deserve special mention. In the fields around Fellbach, Schmiden and Oeffingen, grain and maize are preferably grown. The Schmidener Feld is one of the most fertile arable soils in Germany. The nurseries, for which Fellbach was known nationwide, were once of great importance.
retail trade
Up until the 1990s, commercial life was dominated by retail, especially in the Bahnhofstrasse and Cannstatter Strasse areas. With the structural change, a profound change occurred here. Many of the long-established retail stores were closed due to competitive pressure and changed buyer behavior. In their place were catering establishments or tanning studios.
commuter
Later, today's districts developed primarily into commuter residential communities. However, there are now a large number of small and medium-sized businesses, especially in the metal sector.
traffic
The B 14 ( Schwäbisch Hall –Stuttgart) ran through the city until the 1,600 m long Kappelberg tunnel was opened in 1992 , which diverts through traffic around the southern city area. Since a north-east ring Stuttgart has not yet been built due to resistance from Fellbach, the B 29 (Waiblingen / Fellbach - Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen ) begins on the eastern edge of Fellbach am Teiler with the B14. In addition, Fellbach is tunnelled by a second tunnel, the Fellbach City Tunnel, which opened in 1997 (see also below under structures ). This tunnel directs the traffic of the old B 14, which was not picked up by the Kappelberg tunnel, under the city in the direction of Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt / Fellbach Höhenstraße area or in the direction of Waiblingen / Fellbach Bühlstraße area.
Fellbach is part of the Stuttgart Transport and Tariff Association and is therefore well connected to local public transport . The city is a stop on the S-Bahn lines S2 ( Schorndorf - Stuttgart - Airport - Filderstadt ) and S3 ( Backnang - Stuttgart - Airport) of the Stuttgart S-Bahn . The Fellbach station is a station of the category 3. At the Fellbacher Luther Church is the terminus of the rail line U1 (Fellbach Lutherkirche - Bad Cannstatt - Vaihingen Bf ) and the rail line U16 (Fellbach Lutherkirche - Bad Cannstatt - Feuerbach - Gable) of the Stuttgart streetcars AG . The city area is also served by bus routes 58 (( Sommerrain -) Obere Ziegelei - Schmiden Rathaus), 60 ( Untertürkheim - Luginsland - Fellbach - Schmiden - Oeffingen), 67 (Fellbach Altenheim - Fellbach Bf), 207 (Fellbach Alte Kelter - Waiblingen Bf –Korber Höhe) and 212 ( Stetten - Rommelshausen - Fellbach Bf).
In the Schmiden district there is a park railway that runs between three stations. It is located at the clay pit adventure playground.
media
In Fellbach (and in Kernen im Remstal) the Fellbacher Zeitung appears as a daily newspaper that is nationally identical to the Stuttgarter Nachrichten . The sheet also contains a special local section for Fellbach. This usually consists of six pages and contains politics and urban events as well as its own sports section.
The Stuttgarter Zeitung published by the same publisher is also published in Fellbach and Kernen im Remstal with this specially produced local section.
The city of Fellbach publishes the Fellbacher Stadtanzeiger weekly in cooperation with the Wochenblatt.
Public facilities
The State Office for Salary and Supply Baden-Württemberg and the Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office (CVUA) Stuttgart are located in Fellbach .
In the industrial area near the Sommerrain there is a building of the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg , which is not accessible to the public and which deals with extremist and radical groups.
education
Fellbach has two grammar schools (Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium and Gustav-Stresemann-Gymnasium Schmiden), two secondary schools (Auberlen secondary school and Hermann Hesse secondary school Schmiden), two community schools (Zeppelin school and Albert Schweitzer school Schmiden), four elementary schools ( Maicklerschule, Silcherschule, Anne-Frank-Schule Schmiden, Schillerschule Oeffingen) and a special needs school (Wichernschule). In Fellbach there is also one of three schools for the mentally and physically handicapped in the Rems-Murr district, the Froebel school with a school kindergarten. There is also a municipal music school, an art school and a youth technology school.
The Helmut von Kügelgen School ( Waldorf Education ) and the SIS Swiss International School Germany are privately owned .
The Volkshochschule Unteres Remstal is a community college of the cities and communities Waiblingen, Fellbach, Weinstadt, Kernen and Korb.
Culture and sights
theatre
The Schwabenlandhalle has been the culture and congress center of the town of Fellbach, which calls itself the town of wines and congresses , since 1976 . In 2003 the number of visitors was 125,951 for a total of 372 events. There are also regular theater events from touring stages.
Fellbach is also home to the “Theater im Polygon”, which is located in the Fellbach youth center, where it performs plays. Once a year in November, the so-called "Colorful Stage" takes place, an international youth theater festival where groups from all over the world come together.
Furthermore, the located in the district Schmiden cinema "Orfeo" in the vaulted cellar of the historic "Big House". In addition to film performances, cabaret and cabaret evenings, the Fellbach Jazz Weekend and theater events for children and young people take place there.
Museums
city Museum
In the Fellbach City Museum, which was opened in 1977, the city's history is clearly shown. The museum is located in a half-timbered building from 1680. The Fellbach archive is also housed here. In 2014 the museum was the only city museum to be nominated for the EMYA , the European Museum of the Year Award (a total of 36 nominations). This means that it can already carry the European Museum of the Year Nominee 2014 seal of approval .
Rotkreuz radio and telecommunications museum
On almost 100 m², this museum offers a foray through the almost complete range of radio systems that were used by the Red Cross and by the police, fire brigade, rescue service and technical aid organization from the Second World War to this day.
gallery
The Fellbach City Gallery was opened in 1997 in the town hall complex.
Buildings
Cityscape
Fellbach's structural appearance is shaped on the one hand by its past as a vineyard village, on the other hand by the stormy industrial development since the beginning of the 20th century, with which the place spread along the former country road between Fellbach and Schmiden, today's Bahnhofstrasse. In Alt-Fellbach, the former vineyard village at the foot of the Kappelberg , half-timbered houses from the 16th to 18th centuries still dominate the overall picture. In the lower town, especially in the Bahnhofstrasse and Cannstatter Strasse area, bourgeois townhouses from the early 20th century in historicism and art nouveau predominate. Examples of this are the Evangelical Club House, the former “Wolfsangel” inn (now an Italian restaurant) and various residential and commercial buildings. The industrial architecture in Fellbach is also noteworthy , such as the former Wüst metal factory with its brick factory and the neighboring entrepreneur's villa.
The historically grown building structures have been disrupted more and more as a result of careless modernizations in the last few decades, so that Fellbach no longer has a uniform cityscape today. More and more modern, functional new buildings are being pushed between the historical buildings , which impair the overall picture, such as the so-called “City”, an oversized building complex made of exposed concrete that was squeezed between Bahnhofstrasse and Cannstatter Strasse. Other construction projects, such as the Schwabenlandhalle congress center and the neighboring congress hotel, which were built outside of the historic building sites, have no architectural relationship to the core city. Several half-timbered houses have also fallen victim to the most recent urban redevelopment measures, including in the area of the newly built Fellbacher Markthalle and currently on Hinteren Strasse. In the 1950s, several high-rise buildings and numerous residential areas interspersed with green spaces in the lower town were built on the outskirts.
With the eastern bypass built in 1989, the settlement boundary was pushed further into the Schmidener Feld . Previously arable land was sealed on a large scale. In contrast, the western outskirts of the city, which were oriented towards Stuttgart, remained untouched for a long time, also to counteract a possible incorporation by the state capital . It was only recently that this principle of Fellbach urban planning was abandoned when a combined indoor and outdoor pool was built here. The previous bathrooms were given up after completion. With the settlement of supermarkets and hardware stores on Stuttgarter Straße, the former business center has shifted to the west, which means that Bahnhofstraße has largely lost its previous character as the main shopping street. In place of the long-established retail trade, gastronomic establishments have largely emerged.
Luther Church
The most important sight and a landmark of the city is the Evangelical Luther Church (originally St. Gallus Church), which was built as part of a fortified church and was located within a defensive wall surrounded by a moat. At the beginning of the 19th century the defensive walls were removed. Only the former gatehouse remained and was used as a schoolhouse and teacher's apartment. A model in the Fellbach City Museum shows the earlier construction as a fortified church. The tower and choir of the church go back to the new building from 1519/24. The nave dates from 1779. The tower is crowned by a gable roof with stepped gables and turrets. When the neighboring New Town Hall was built in 1986, remnants of the medieval defensive wall were found in the ground. The ground plan of the south-eastern defense tower was then marked in color in the pavement. A doorway halfway up the church tower used to connect to the battlement and still shows the height of the former defensive wall. With the demolition of the old school house, the last remaining part of the former fortified church fell.
Other churches
The Catholic town church St. Johannes was built in 1923. The evangelical Pauluskirche was built in 1927. Its mighty tower with the curved copper roof crowned by a rooster is characteristic of the cityscape. In 1967 the Maria Regina church was built , which was called “the most modern church in Europe” when it was inaugurated. During the renovation of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Schmiden in 1994, the interior was artistically redesigned by Prof. Gerlinde Beck .
Old rectory
The rectory built in 1509 (renewed in 1680/81) was the residence of the Fellbach pastors. A memorial plaque at the entrance commemorates the former residents, including the pastor and poet Georg Conrad Maickler , the industrial pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Kohler and the pastor and writer Karl Friedrich Werner . Most recently the house was used as a pastry shop and café. It is currently being rebuilt and will be converted into living space. The historical ensemble was permanently damaged during the construction work, including the partial demolition of the old parish barn.
Old Town Hall
The town hall from the 16th century was the seat of the Fellbacher Schultheisses for centuries . The building was expanded again and again with the development of the city and the increase in administrative tasks, most recently in 1912 with a side wing in Art Nouveau style . The arcade on the ground floor with allegorical putti figures on the pillars and the council chamber with its elaborate stucco work and colored glass windows in a bay window are noteworthy. Today the building houses the local police station.
Old wine press
The wine press, built in 1906 (today used as an exhibition and event hall), is a unique, imposing structure in terms of its dimensions and shape. As the largest communal wine press building in Baden-Württemberg, traditional half-timbered construction is combined here with the size ideas of functional industrial buildings. The filigree roof construction made of wood, which arches over 3000 square meters of floor space, is worth seeing.
Other structures
The so-called “Waldschlössle” on the Kappelberg, the Kernenturm on the summit of the Kernen and the New Schoolhouse in Art Nouveau style. Among the half-timbered buildings stand out: the Sayler-Haus (bookstore Lack), the inn “Zum Hirschen”, the former Konstanzer Pflegehof behind the old town hall and the Irion-Haus (today the seat of the Fellbacher Stadtmuseum). Among the more recent architecture, the New Town Hall from 1986 should be highlighted.
Old graveyard
In the old cemetery by the new town hall there are historical graves of Fellbach personalities. With the establishment of the new Kleinfeldfriedhof, the old cemetery was converted into a green area. The brick enclosure is the last remnant of the old village wall, with which unwanted intruders (beggars and peddlers) should be kept out of the place. Noteworthy is a hole through which the mail was passed. In addition, the former bell tower on the southwest corner of the cemetery has been preserved.
Ventilation towers
The construction of the road tunnel of the old federal highway 14 through the city center in 1997 made two ventilation towers a controversial building by Fellbach. These twin towers tower over most of the other buildings in the city and can be seen from afar at night by their green lighting. After the former mayor of Fellbach, Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel , the towers are popularly called "Friedrich" and "Wilhelm".
Buildings in Schmiden
In the Schmiden district, the local Protestant church dedicated to Saints Dionysius and Barbara was originally built as a choir tower church. The modified choir tower from the 12th century has been preserved. The choir and nave date from the 15th century. There are wall paintings in the choir from 1470/80. The church historian Ferdinand Christian Baur was born in the neighboring rectory (memorial plaque).
Buildings in Oeffingen
The Schlössle Oeffingen was named " Monument of the Month July 2007" by the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg .
Fellbach Landing Bridge
The Fellbach district includes a few hundred meters of the banks of the Neckar at the end of the Weidach Valley. As part of the Neckar Landscape Park project, the renaturation of the section and the installation of the accessible work of art “Landungsbrücke Fellbach” were funded in 2008 and 2009. The 24-meter-long steel sculpture designed by Claus Bury ends six meters above the surface of the water.
Fellbach reflection trail
On the Besinnungsweg Fellbach are nature , art , religion and philosophy merged. 7 of the planned 12 places of reflection have already been designed.
F.3 Fellbach family and leisure pool
The F.3 Family and Leisure Pool Fellbach (outdoor pool with sports pool, adventure pool, sauna) is located on Esslinger Straße next to the Max-Graser-Stadion . The first groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 3, 2011. The pool was opened on September 15, 2013.
SLT 107 Schwabenlandtower
Under the name Fellbach Tower (also 5to1-Tower or Gewa-Tower ) a 107 meter high, 34-story high-rise with apartments, shops and a hotel was planned on the eastern outskirts of Fellbach. The municipal council gave its approval on November 27, 2007. In July 2008, work began with the demolition of several building ruins on the future building site. The skyscraper is to be the tallest building in Baden-Württemberg and the third tallest residential building in Germany.
Even four years later, at the beginning of 2012, the new building had not yet started. Financing problems were given as the reason. The local council gave the green light on July 10, 2012, and the property developer announced that the project would be implemented on the same day. After several delays, construction of the high-rise began in May 2014, but shortly after the topping-out ceremony on September 9, 2016, a construction freeze was imposed due to the insolvency of the client, GEWA 5 to 1 GmbH & Co. KG. Since September 28, 2018, the tower has been under the new name SLT 107 Schwabenlandtower by the new owner, the CG Group , and should be completed in 2020.
Opponents of the project formed a citizens' initiative .
Remstal Garden Show 2019
From May 10 to October 20, 2019, a green project of the state of Baden-Württemberg took place in Remstal , in which Fellbach is also participating. This Remstal garden show 2019 is one of the "small" garden shows that alternate annually with the state garden shows.
In this context, the park at the Schwabenlandhalle was redesigned. Fellbach took part in the “16 stations”, the garden show's architectural project, with a “Belvedere”, a pergola on a vineyard in the east of the city that is to be overgrown by vines.
Regular events
- Every three years in March, on the occasion of the awarding of the Mörike Prize, literary days take place, which deal with the namesake of the prize and the respective sponsors.
- Political Ash Wednesday of the CDU Baden-Württemberg has been held annually in the old wine press since 2003 .
- Every spring since 1998, the Weinstadt reporting agency Zeitenspiegel has awarded the Hansel Mieth Prize for committed reports in Fellbach's town hall. The award is reminiscent of the photographer Hansel Mieth, who grew up in Fellbach .
- The annual Boy Scout Camp Hocketse (Pfalaho) takes place around May 1st.
- On April 30th, the “Fellbacher Hopf” takes place, in which many pubs and restaurants take part. The Fellbach mayor traditionally roasts fried and scrambled eggs for the last party guests at 5 a.m. at the Neue Kelter.
- The cockchafer festival is celebrated on the first weekend in May .
- Every three years in summer, the Small Sculpture Triennial takes place in the Alte Kelter . Founded in 1980, it is one of the most important international forums for contemporary sculpture in small format.
Fellbach autumn 2005 - The "European Cultural Summer" has also been held every three years since 2001. On the basis of selected artistic contributions, the culture of one Western and one Eastern European guest country will be presented (most recently Italy - Greece in 2017).
- In July, the “Fellbacher Open Air Cinema” traditionally takes place in the inner courtyard of the town hall.
- On the weekend around the first Sunday in September, the Lyra music association organizes the Schmidener Kirbe with an amusement park and KirbeKrämermarkt.
- The Rebstock Festival, an open-air music festival organized on a voluntary basis by the Fellbach youth center, has been taking place since 1976. Most recently every two years on the first weekend after the school summer vacation in the Langen Tal / Oeffingen.
- The Fellbacher Herbst (wine festival) always takes place on the second weekend in October , during which, unlike many other folk festivals , no beer is served.
- A Christmas market opens around the town hall in Advent.
tourism
- Fellbach is located in the Württemberg wine- growing region and directly on the Württemberg Wine Route .
- Popular destinations for excursions are the Kappelberg and the Kernenturm on the Kernen mountain
- In the Schmiden district there is the Lehmgrube leisure area with playgrounds for different age groups, a park railway , fitness trail, sunbathing lawns, skateboarding hills, model freeway, barbecue areas and a lake.
societies
There are 29 different sports clubs in Fellbach (as of 2003), with TSV Schmiden having the largest number of members, closely followed by SV Fellbach . There are also seven music associations, five singing associations, nine charitable associations and four traditional carnival associations. The WorldSkills Germany association , a non-profit association for national and international professional competitions, is also based in Fellbach.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Fellbach has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1928: August Brändle , mayor
- 1966: Max Graser , Lord Mayor
- 1991: Guntram Palm , Lord Mayor
- 2000: Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel , Lord Mayor
The former community of Schmiden has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1958: Theodor Bürkle , farmer, councilor
- 1962: Gotthilf Bayh , Mayor and MdL
sons and daughters of the town
- Reinhard Gaißer (* around 1474; † after 1533), also called "Gaißlin", theologian at the University of Tübingen, who moved to the post of dean at the Grüninger Bartholomäuskirche around 1513 and here in the wake of poor Konrad to resist early capitalist grievances under Duke Ulrich called.
- Samuel Gottlob Auberlen (1758–1829), musician and song composer.
- Johannes Schnaitmann (1767–1847), Pietist, head of what was then the largest Pietist community in Germany.
- Jakob Gauermann (1773–1843), born in Oeffingen, painter, draftsman and engraver
- Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860), born in Schmiden, theologian and church historian, founder of the so-called Tübingen School
- Karl Ludwig Baur (1794–1838), born in Schmiden, Oberamtmann in Württemberg
- Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen (1798–1874), teacher, musician and composer, made an outstanding contribution to singing lessons at the Württemberg elementary schools.
- Karl August Auberlen (1824–1864), theologian, professor in Basel, first son of Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen .
- Oskar Kapp (1912–1943), football player
- Albert Pfander (1912–1988), vineyard manager and vine guard
- Rolf Kurz (1935–2018), entrepreneur, honorary consul of the Republic of Hungary and member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament (CDU)
- Albert Gollhofer (* 1954), sports scientist and university professor
- Matthias Klink (* 1969), concert, opera and operetta singer
- Sami Khedira (* 1987), soccer player (grew up in the district of Oeffingen)
- Kevin Sessa (* 2000), German-Argentine soccer player (born and raised in Fellbach)
Personalities who worked in Fellbach
- Georg Conrad Maickler (1574–1647), pastor and poet, served as pastor in Fellbach during the Thirty Years' War. The Fellbacher Maicklerschule and a street are named after him.
- Georg Daniel Auberlen (1728–1784), musician and composer, founder of the Fellbach Music School
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kohler (1754–1811), pastor in Fellbach, introduced industrial schools in Württemberg where children and young people learned manual skills.
- Nikolaus Ferdinand Auberlen (1755–1828), musician and composer, teacher of Friedrich Silcher
- Friedrich Silcher (1789–1860), composer, lived in Fellbach from 1803 to 1806.
- Rosine Weimer (1791–1853), founded the first village kindergarten in Württemberg in 1841 with the Fellbacher Toddler School. Her grave is in the old cemetery next to the Luther Church. A street in Fellbach is named after her.
- Friedrich Glück (1793–1840), pastor and composer, was a vicar in Fellbach, known for setting Joseph von Eichendorff's poem In a cool valley, there goes a mill wheel .
- Karl Friedrich Werner (1804–1872), pastor and author, a street in Fellbach is named after him.
- Eduard Mörike lived with his sister in Fellbach in 1873. The house he lived in at the time has since been torn down. Only the “Mörike cellar” on a piece of land acquired in 1909 from the then mayor August Brändle remained .
- Georg Karl Pfahler (1926–2002), painter, artist and art professor, lived and worked in Fellbach.
- Gerhard Ertl (* 1936), Nobel Prize winner 2007, grew up in Fellbach-Schmiden.
- Joschka Fischer (* 1948), lived in Fellbach in 1965.
- Peter Lehmann (* 1950), author and book publisher in Berlin , honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( Greece ) and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit , lived in Fellbach from 1955 to 1970
- Magdalena Brzeska (* 1978), German gymnast, spent six years with TSV Schmiden, the sports club in the district of the same name. Olympian Atlanta 1996.
- Lisa Ingildeeva , gymnast, TSV Schmiden, Olympic participant in Athens 2004.
- Reinhard Gröper (pseudonym for Egbert-Hans Müller) (* 1929), writer, spent his primary school years in Fellbach from 1935 to 1938.
- Rio Reiser (1950–1996), lived in Fellbach-Schmiden from 1957 to 1961.
literature
- Otto Borst : Fellbach. A Swabian city history. Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0594-9 .
- Georg Eppinger: Fellbach. Description, history and guide. Fellbach 1908 ( online )
- Hans-Volkmar Findeisen: Pietism in Fellbach 1750-1820 between social protest and bourgeois adaptation. On the historical-social development dynamics of a millenarian crisis cult. Dissertation. University of Tübingen 1985
- Erich Keyser (Ed.): Württembergisches Städtebuch. (= German city book. Handbook of urban history. Volume 4.2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962.
- City of Fellbach (ed.): Fellbach. Home book of the large district town at the gates of Stuttgart. City administration, Fellbach 1958 ( online )
- City of Fellbach (Hrsg.): Stories on Fellbach history. Reprint of studies on the history of Fellbach, Oeffingen and Schmiden by Georg Eppinger, Anton Plappert and Adolf Kofink. City administration, Fellbach 1993.
- City of Fellbach (Hrsg.): Fellbach insights. A city introduces itself. State Gazette, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-929981-15-7 .
- Günther Willmann, Peter D. Hartung: Fellbach. Silberburg, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-87407-640-7 . (Illustrated book)
Web links
- Internet presence of the city of Fellbach
- Mariola Dreilich shows her Fellbach ( Memento from January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Thomas Scharnowski: Fellbach then and now.
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- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ 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. 521-524.
- ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Fellbach.
- ↑ leo-bw.de
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 1, 2017 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. History of Fellbach
- ^ 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. 459 .
- ^ 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. 463 .
- ^ City of Fellbach Religion , 2011 census
- ↑ City of Fellbach Statistics 2019 , accessed on July 14, 2020
- ↑ Election information for the municipal data center
- ^ City of Fellbach: Website of the city of Fellbach - Lord Mayor. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 21, 2013 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.
- ↑ Station data (valid from March 12, 2018). DB Station & Service AG, March 12, 2018, accessed on May 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Alexander Beck: Parkbahn Schmiden. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Self-presentation of the VHS Unteres Remstal
- ↑ Stuttgarter-zeitung.de of January 10, 2014 Fellbach: Nominated for European Museum Prize , accessed on February 8, 2014.
- ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: The Illenau - a German fate. (Illenau Arkaden Museum) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 2, Southern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-7776-2511-9 , pp. 36-37.
- ↑ kathiken-fellbach.de
- ^ Fellbach is finally also on the Neckar , Stuttgarter Nachrichten of September 26, 2009.
- ↑ besinnungsweg-fellbach.de
- ↑ f3-bad.de
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 13, 2012 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.
- ↑ sites.google.com
- ↑ 48 ° 48 '59.9 " N , 9 ° 16'55.3" E
- ↑ Gewa-5to1 Tower on Structurae.
- ↑ The GEWA Tower - the flagship of a region. Project homepage. (No longer available online.) In: GEWA 5 to 1 GmbH & Co. KG. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 .
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: press release of the developer, July 10, 2012 )
- ↑ Gewa Tower in Fellbach under the microscope: The tower is now being checked for defects . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
- ^ Gewa in Fellbach: The tower builder is broke . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed on August 24, 2017]).
- ↑ Waiblinger Kreiszeitung, Waiblingen, Germany: Gewa Tower sold for 15 million and with a new name . In: zvw.de . ( zvw.de [accessed on January 20, 2019]).
- ↑ Homepage. (No longer available online.) Citizens' initiative “Fellbach is not Manhattan”, archived from the original on May 28, 2009 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Claudia Bell: Feeling strengthened for Fellbach and the Rems Valley. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. October 21, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Architecture with 16 stations on remstal.de. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
- ^ City of Fellbach: Website of the city of Fellbach - cultural summer. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 24, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Detail page - LEO-BW. Retrieved on March 24, 2018 (German).
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