Nürtingen () is a town on the river
Neckar
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 ...
in the district of
Esslingen in the state of
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 ...
in southern
Germany
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.
History
The following events occurred, by year:
*1046: First mention of ''Niuritingin'' in the document of
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
. Heinrich III gave Nürtingen as a gift to the chapter of Speyer
*around 1335: Nürtingen received city rights
*1421: From this date, Nürtingen was the domicile of the
Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...
widows of former sovereigns.
*1602: The Maientag, a famous folklore procession and celebration, was first recorded
*1634: Half of the population died in 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 ...
and of the plague
*1750: 133 buildings were burned down in the great fire
*1783/1784:
Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Part ...
and
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (; 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854), later (after 1812) von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him be ...
were pupils of the
Latin
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school (German: Lateinschule). They are still commemorated in the town by the street name ''Schellingstraße'' and the name of a high school ''Hölderlin-Gymnasium''.
20th century
During the
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
era there were in today's urban area 17 forced labor camps and accommodations with "Eastern workers", prisoners of war and "foreign workers", who had to work in the local companies, such as Maschinenfabrik Gebrüder Heller. At the present location of the secondary schools was the Mühlwiesenlager with "Eastern workers". Eleven names of victims of the "euthanasia" murders are known; they were killed in
Grafeneck
Grafeneck is a small rural village in the German municipality of Gomadingen, south of Stuttgart.
World War II history
Grafeneck Castle, which had previously been an asylum for crippled people, was turned by the Nazis into an extermination fa ...
or
Hadamar
Hadamar is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Hadamar is known for its Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry/Centre for Social Psychiatry, lying at the edge of town, in whose outlying buildings is also found the Hadamar Memo ...
. They also caused that all in so-called "mixed marriages" living men were brought to concentration camps and murdered there.
[Manuel Werner: "''Die Erinnerung braucht uns, und die Zukunft auch!''". ''Rede von Manuel Werner bei der Übergabe des "Eis der Heckschnärre"''](_blank)
in: Nürtinger STATTzeitung
A
Sinti
The Sinti (also ''Sinta'' or ''Sinte''; masc. sing. ''Sinto''; fem. sing. ''Sintesa'') are a subgroup of Romani people mostly found in Germany and Central Europe that number around 200,000 people. They were traditionally itinerant, but today o ...
child born in Nürtingen, Anton Köhler, was with most of his siblings brought in 1944 from the Catholic orphanage St. Josephpflege in
Mulfingen
Mulfingen is a town in the district of Hohenlohe in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Friedrich Wohnsiedler Friedrich Wohnsiedler (23 November 1879 – 10 February 1958) was a New Zealand butcher, orchardist, viticulturist and wine-maker. He was b ...
to Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed after his parents had been murdered.
*1945 : A few bombs hit Nürtingen. The Tiefenbachtal (a valley south of Nürtingen) was an escape route for German soldiers.
*1948 : The population increased from 10,000 to 17,000 due to refugees and displaced persons from
East Germany
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*1973 : The district of Nürtingen was merged into the
district of Esslingen
Esslingen is a Districts of Germany, ''Landkreis'' (district) in the centre of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rems-Murr, Göppingen (district), Göppingen, Reutlingen (district), Reutlingen, Böblinge ...
Education
Nürtingen is home to
Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science
The Nürtingen-Geislingen University (German: ''Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen'') is a public university of applied sciences based in Nürtingen and Geislingen an der Steige, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
History
T ...
, also known as the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen. The school hosts undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration,
finance
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, real estate, and landscape architecture. Programs are taught in English and German, with a Master of Science in International Finance being taught through its growing European School of Finance, which partners with the German Institute for Corporate Finance, the European Derivatives Institute, the
Deutsche Börse
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, and the
Eurex
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exchange.
Mayors since 1819
* 1819–1828: Gottlob Friedrich Schickhardt
* 1828–1846: Heinrich Schickhardt
* 1846–1868: Karl Friedrich Eßig
* 1868–1896: Ferdinand Wilhelm Schmid (1829–1896)
* 1896–1930: Matthäus Baur
* 1930–1939: Hermann Weilenmann
* 1939–1943: Walter Klemm (
NSDAP
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
)
* 1943–1945: August Pfänder, temporary (NSDAP) (1891–1971)
* 1945–1948: Hermann Weilenmann
* 1948–1959: August Pfänder
* 1959–1979: Karl Gonser (1914–1991)
* 1979–2004: Alfred Bachofer (
Free Voters
Free Voters (german: Freie Wähler, FW or FWG) in Germany may belong to an association of people which participates in an election without having the status of a registered political party. Usually it involves a locally organized group of voters ...
) (born 1942)
* since 2004: Otmar Heirich (
SPD
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
Saskia Esken has been t ...
) (born 1951)
Districts
Hardt
Hardt (929 inhabitants, as of 2012) is the smallest district of Nürtingen. Hardt was first mentioned in 1366 in documents.
Neckarhausen
Neckarhausen (3,768 inhabitants, as of 2012) is about 2 km from Nürtingen. Neckarhausen was first mentioned in the year 1284. The site is largely dominated by the church and the town hall.
Raidwangen
Raidwangen (2,115 inhabitants, as of 2014) is about 3 km southwest of Nürtingen and about 1 km from the Neckar. Raidwangen was first mentioned in 1236 in documents.
Reudern
Reudern (2,707 inhabitants, as of 2012) is located on a hill approximately 3 km east of Nürtingen and was first mentioned in the year 1338.
Zizishausen
Zizishausen (3,222 inhabitants, as of 2012) is to the left and right of the Neckar and borders to the north directly to the core city of Nürtingen. Zizishausen was first mentioned in 1296.
Oberensingen
Oberensingen (4,060 inhabitants, 2006) closes immediately northwest of the central city of Nürtingen. The first mention dates back to 1344.
Roßdorf
Roßdorf lies south of Nürtingen. The district was created in the early 1960s as a model construction project for modern urban planning on the drawing board. Today Roßdorf has around 4,500 inhabitants.
Local council
The local council in Nürtingen has 32 members. Until 2014, the local council had 39 members. The Baden-Württemberg elections in 2014 had the following results. The Oberbürgermeister (Mayor) is the president of the council and has one vote.
Twin towns - sister cities
Nürtingen is
twinned with:
*
Oullins
Oullins () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.
It is a suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to it on the southwest.
Population
Transport
*Several Buses (C7, C10, 8, 12, 14, 17, 63, ...
, France
*
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Rhondda Cynon Taf (; RCT; also spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff (Welsh: ''Taf'') and Ely valleys, plus a number of towns and vil ...
, Wales, United Kingdom
*
Soroksár (Budapest), Hungary
*
Zerbst
Zerbst () is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until an administrative reform in 2007, Zerbst was the capital of the former Anhalt-Zerbst district.
Geography
Zerbst is situated in the Anhalt-Wittenberg regio ...
, Germany
Notable people
![Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim (1848-1923)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Robert_Ernst_Eduard_Wiedersheim_%281848-1923%29.JPG)
*Christian Friedrich Duttenhofer (1742–1814), theologian
*
Gottlieb Jakob Planck
Gottlieb Jakob Planck (15 November 1751 – 31 August 1833) was a German theologian and church historian. He was the great-grandfather of physicist Max Planck.
Biography
Planck was born at Nürtingen in Württemberg, where his father was a nota ...
(1751–1833), theologian and church historian, great-grandfather of Max Planck
*
Albert Schäffle Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle (24 February 183125 December 1903) was a German sociologist, political economist, and newspaper editor.
Biography
Early years
Albert Schäffle was born at Nürtingen in Württemberg on 24 February 1831. In 18 ...
(1831–1903), scientist and statesman
*
Robert Wiedersheim
Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim (21 April 1848 in Nürtingen – 12 July 1923 in Schachen (Lindau)) was a German anatomist who is famous for publishing a list of 86 "vestigial organs" in his book ''The Structure of Man: An Index to His Past Histor ...
(1848–1923), physician
*
Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch (born 10 December 1890in Nürtingen, Württemberg, died 10 October 1974 in Köln) was a German film director.
Selected filmography
* '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935)
* ''Boccaccio'' (1936)
* '' Love's Awakening'' (1936)
* '' Men Witho ...
(1890–1974), theatre director, stage and film director
*Gotthilf Kurz (1923–2010), bookbinder, book artist and graphic artist
*
Erwin Waldner (1933–2015), footballer
*
Bernd Hoss
Bernd Hoss (19 June 1939 – 6 April 2016) was a German football manager.
Hoss managed 34 games for SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin in the Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga ( ...
(1939–2016), football manager
*
Klaus Just
Klaus Just (born 29 March 1964 in Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a retired West German sprinter.
His personal best time was 45.52 seconds, achieved in August 1985 in Stuttgart.
Just represented the sports club SV Salamander Kornwestheim
SV, ...
(born 1964), sprinter
*
Alois Schwartz
Alois Schwartz (born 28 March 1967) is a German football manager and former player, who manages Hansa Rostock.
Managerial career
Schwartz was manager of Rot-Weiß Erfurt between 11 April 2003 and 30 June 2003 where he won one out of 10 matches ...
(born 1967), football player and manager
*
Markus P. Peters (born 1972), inventor, entrepreneur
*
Thomas Brdaric
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
(born 1975), footballer
*
Wolf Henzler
Wolfgang Henzler (born 5 April 1975) is a former German Porsche factory racing driver. He began racing in 1991 with a win in the German Junior Kart championship.
Born in Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg, he won one time the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2 ...
(born 1975), race car driver
*
Christian Gentner
Christian Gentner (born 14 August 1985) is a German professional football official and a former player who played as a midfielder. He works as a head of the professional player department at VfB Stuttgart. He won the Bundesliga twice, with VfB ...
(born 1985), footballer
*
Dominic Maroh (born 1987), Slovenian footballer
*
Matthias Jaissle
Matthias Jaissle (born 5 April 1988) is a German football manager, and former player who played as a defender. He was previously the assistant manager of Brøndby IF, and in 2021 became the manager of FC Liefering, then subsequently of Austria ...
(born 1988), footballer
*
Thomas Gentner
Thomas Gentner (born 4 October 1988) is a retired professional association football, footballer who played as a left-sided defender (association football), defender and midfielder.
Career history
Thomas came through the youth system at VfB St ...
(born 1988), footballer
*
Daniel Didavi
Daniel Didavi (born 21 February 1990) is a German professional footballer.
Club career
Didavi started his career with SpV 05 Nürtingen. He was scouted in summer 2003 by VfB Stuttgart, and he was promoted to the first team in July 2009.
In Ju ...
(born 1990), footballer
*
Pascal Breier (born 1992), footballer
References
External links
*
Official Website of University(German & English)
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Towns in Baden-Württemberg
Esslingen (district)
Populated places on the Neckar basin
Populated riverside places in Germany
Württemberg