Neckartailfingen is a municipality in Germany, located approximately south of Stuttgart. It is located on the river Neckar.

History

Neckartailfingen was first mentioned in 1090 in the Hirsau codex (Codex Hirsaugiensis) as ''Tagelvingen''. Built by order of the

Hirsau abbey Hirsau Abbey, formerly known as Hirschau Abbey, was once one of the most important Benedictine abbeys of Germany. It is located in the Hirsau borough of Calw on the northern slopes of the Black Forest mountain range, in the present-day state of ...

, the Romanesque Martinskirche was probably completed in the year 1111. In 1536, the place became Evangelical together with the office Nürtingen and received in 1541 the first village school of the former district Nürtingen. In the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle ...

Neckartailfingen was destroyed after the

Battle of Nördlingen (1634) The Battle of Nördlingen (german: Schlacht bei Nördlingen; es, Batalla de Nördlingen; sv, Slaget vid Nördlingen) took place on 6 September 1634 during the Thirty Years' War. A combined Imperial-Spanish force inflicted a crushing defeat on ...

by the infamous dragoons of colonel

Walter Butler of Roscrea Walter Butler of Ballinakill Castle, Roscrea (c. 1600 – 25 December 1634) was a military officer, who served as a colonel (''Oberst'') in the Imperial Army under Albrecht von Wallenstein and was involved in Wallenstein's murder in 1634. Ancestry ...

. Only after a few years the fugitive inhabitants returned and slowly re-built their village again.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Neckartailfingen has always been an important transit point. At the time of the stagecoaches Neckartailfingen was an important station for changing horses. Neckartailfinger Postillon 4

Till 1976, the

Deutsche Bundesbahn The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remaine ...

maintained a station at the Plochingen-Tübingen railway, which was about two kilometers away from the place. In 1995, the bypass of the Bundesstraße 297 was completed. This road runs between the municipality and the Neckar in a tunnel. The public transport is operated by the

Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart The ''Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart GmbH'' (VVS; en, Stuttgart Transport and Tariff Association LLC) is a transport association that coordinates the local public transport in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, as well as in th ...

. There are the bus lines 188 (to

Nürtingen Nürtingen () is a town on the river Neckar in the district of Esslingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. History The following events occurred, by year: *1046: First mention of ''Niuritingin'' in the document of Speyer ...

) and 190 (to

Aichtal Aichtal () is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located 18 km south of Stuttgart.It belongs to the Stuttgart Region (until 1992 ''Region Mittlerer Neckar'') and the European Metropolitan ...

). The line 75 (to

Bernshausen Bernshausen is a village in the ''Gemeinde'' Seeburg, Lower Saxony, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and t ...

or Stuttgart-Degerloch stops just on the outskirts.

Education

Neckartailfingen has with the Liebenau school a

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...

. In addition, there are three kindergartens in the place. A

music school A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...

is for the pupils from the village and the surrounding areas. The soprano Lore Wissmann was born in the place.

External links

Website (German)

References

Esslingen (district) Populated places on the Neckar basin Populated riverside places in Germany {{Esslingen-geo-stub