Korb is a municipality in the

Rems-Murr Rems-Murr is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall, Ostalbkreis, Göppingen, Esslingen, the district-free city Stuttgart and the distr ...

district, 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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. It is located 3 km east of

Waiblingen Waiblingen (; Swabian: ''Woeblinge'') is a town in the southwest of Germany, located in the center of the densely populated Stuttgart region, directly neighboring Stuttgart. It is the capital and largest city of the Rems-Murr district. , Waibli ...

, and 15 km northeast of

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

. Korb is known for the wines produced in the area.

History

Older History

The first known written mention dates from the year 1270. In an Esslingen document from the year 1270 is testified that the hospital in Esslingen has acquired land in Korb from the convent in Steinheim (Murr).

Middle Ages

Only in 1270 Korb will appear in the said document again. During the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...

1618-1648 there was great distress, and Korb was partially totally uninhabited (1636-38). Peasant uprising (1514 "

Poor Conrad The Poor Conrad (german: Armer Konrad, also ''Armer Kunz'') was the name of several secret peasants' leagues, which in 1514 revolted against the rule of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg. The rebels adopted the term used by the nobility to mock them, me ...

") and the French invasion (1797) made also great suffer for Korb. Over the centuries the wine played a major role in the predominantly rural population. He made practically the main source of income. KorbWürttembergRathaus

Family History

During the Thirty Years' War the city suffered severe population losses. A few families were able to escape through temporary escape, including the Singer family.

Modern History/Modern Times

Only the industrialization around the turn of the century made the change for Korb to the today residential community. Before had been a catastrophic

phylloxera Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. Grape phylloxera (''Daktulosphaira vitifoliae'' (Fitch 1855) belong to the family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs ...

infestation, all the vine yards in the Remstal had to be burned. Herbst in Korb

Traffic

Korb is connected through the

Bundesstraße 14 {{Infobox road , country = DEU , type = B , route = 14 , map = B014 Verlauf.svg , map_notes = , length_km = 464 , direction_a = West , terminus_a = , direction_b = East , terminus_b = , states = ...

to the national road network. Coming from the north Korb is mostly connected about the exit

Mundelsheim Mundelsheim is a municipality in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. It is located in the Ludwigsburg district, about 30 km north of Stuttgart and 20 km south of Heilbronn, on the Neckar river. It belongs to the Stuttgart Met ...

of the

Bundesautobahn 81 is a motorway in Germany. It branches off the A 3 at the Würzburg-West triangle and ends near the border with Switzerland. The oldest part of the A 81 between the Weinsberg intersection ( A 6) near Heilbronn and Dreieck Leonberg ...

Buses that run frequently connect Korb with the Waiblingen station, as well as over Kleinheppach with Endersbach station to

Weinstadt Weinstadt (meaning "Wine City") is a town in the Rems-Murr district, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Rems Valley approximately 15 km east of Stuttgart. Its population in 2012 was 25,998. The town is composed ...

Notable peoples from Korb

*Jakob Friedrich Weishaar (1775–1834), president of the chamber of deputies of the Württemberg Landtag *Alfred Leikam (1915–1992),

Righteous among the Nations Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to sav ...

and mayor of Korb 1945 *Marco Fritz (born 1977), Football Bundesliga referee *Yvonne Englich (born 1979), international successful wrestler

Literature

* Ernst, Gottlob: ''Korb Steinreinach, Die Geschichte zweier Weinbausiedlungen.'' Korb 1970 * Heinrich, Jörg: ''Kirchenbuch Korb, 1662 bis 1807.'' Abschrift, Karlsruhe 2010

References

Rems-Murr-Kreis {{RemsMurr-geo-stub