Kiebingen is a suburban district of

Rottenburg am Neckar Rottenburg am Neckar (; until 10 July 1964 only ''Rottenburg''; Swabian: ''Raodaburg'') is a medium-sized town in the administrative district (''Landkreis'') of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies about 50 kilometres (31 miles) s ...

in the administrative district of Tübingen in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

(

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Geography

Kiebingen is located 3 km (1.9 mi) eastern from Rottenburg and 8 km (5 mi) western from

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...

in the valley of the

Neckar river The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenn ...

Extent

The area of the district is 514

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

s. Thereof fall 60.1% upon agriculturally used area, 21.7% upon forest area, 14.7% upon settlement area and roads, 2.7% upon water extent and 0.8% upon other.

Neighbour localities

The territories of the following localities adjoin to Kiebingen, they are called clockwise beginning in the north:

Wurmlingen Wurmlingen is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen (district), Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. References External links

* Tuttlingen (district) Württemberg {{Tuttlingen-geo-stub ...

Hirschau Hirschau () is a municipality in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. Geography Hirschau lies directly on the Bundesstraße 14 (Nuremberg - Rozvadov), 13 km northeast of Amberg and about 65 km east of Nur ...

, Bühl and Rottenburg (town), (all in the admin. district of Tübingen). Wurmlingen is also a suburb of Rottenburg, Hirschau and Bühl are suburbs of

. Wurmlingen and Hirschau are situated northern, Kiebingen and Bühl southern of the Neckar.

Population

Kiebingen has 2007 residents (31/01/08). It is the third largest suburb of Rottenburg. At an area of 5.14 km² (2 sq mi) this corresponds to a population density of 390 people per km², or 1011 per sq mi.

Faiths

The population of the village is predominantly Roman Catholic.

Politics

Sister Village

Lion-sur-Mer Lion-sur-Mer (, literally ''Lion on Sea'') is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Geography Lion-sur-Mer is located on the edge of the English Channel, more precisely on the '' Côte de Nacre'' ...

(France) since 1988

Personalities

Honorary Citizens

Persons, who got the honorary citizenship by the former Municipality of Kiebingen: * 1938: Karl Franz Ferdinand Viktor Osterwald, (operator of the local power station)

References

External links

Official Webpage (German)
{{Authority control Rottenburg am Neckar