Wendlingen

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Wendlingen
Town
Town hall
Town hall
Coat of arms of Wendlingen
Coat of arms
Location of Wendlingen within Esslingen district
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Wendlingen is located in Germany
Wendlingen
Wendlingen
Wendlingen is located in Baden-Württemberg
Wendlingen
Wendlingen
Coordinates: 48°40′29″N 9°22′54″E / 48.67472°N 9.38167°E / 48.67472; 9.38167
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionStuttgart
DistrictEsslingen
Subdivisions3
Government
 • Mayor (2019–27) Steffen Weigel[1] (SPD)
Area
 • Total
12.15 km2 (4.69 sq mi)
Elevation
294 m (965 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total
16,258
 • Density1,300/km2 (3,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
73240
Dialling codes07024
Vehicle registrationES
Websitewww.wendlingen.de

Wendlingen is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the Neckar and Lauter rivers, 27 km southeast of Stuttgart.

The town grew in size, officially, on 1 April 1940, when three separate communities of Wendlingen, Unterboihingen and Bodelshofen merged.

The town also is the headquarters of the tool company Festool.

Mayors

  • 1940–1944: Andreas Bauer
  • 1944–1945: Emil Hartung
  • 1945–1945: Karl Strohmaier (commissarial)
  • 1945–1946: Rudolf Bisterfeld (commissarial)
  • 1946–1978: Helmut Kaiser
  • 1978–1992: Hans Köhler
  • 1992–2003: Andreas Hesky
  • 2003–2011: Frank Ziegler[3]
  • 2011-2019: Steffen Weigel[1]
  • Since 2019: Steffen Weigel[4]

Local council

The local council in Wendlingen has 22 members. The mayor is the president of the local council and has one vote. Communal elections in Baden-Württemberg 2014 had the following official results.[5]

Political parties and community voters %
2014 		Sitze
2014 		%
2009 		Sitze
2009
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 34,75 8 29,0 6
Greens Alliance '90/The Greens 23,39 5 23,2 5
FW Free voters Baden-Württemberg 22,83 5 25,5 6
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 19,03 4 22,3 5
Total 100,0 22 100,0 22
Voter turnout 47,16% 49,3%

Notable people

  • Marianne Erdrich-Sommer (born 1952), German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), former member of Landtag, Kreistagsabgeordnete, lives in Wendlingen
  • Matthias Landfried (born 1975), German national table-tennis trainer
  • Andrea Barth (born 1972), World champion, Europe champion, German champion in one wheel art cycling
  • Werner Utter (1921–2006), chef-pilot of Lufthansa
  • Erwin Behr (1857–1931),[6] entrepreneur for furniture, first producer of wall units
  • Robert Otto, manager of Heinrich Otto & Söhne company in Unterboihingen, first cotton spinning in Württemberg
  • Alfred Kleefeldt, (born 1933), German athlete, competing in 5000 meters

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Wendlingen is twinned with:

References

  1. ^ a b Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 12 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
  3. ^ Endgültige Ergebnisse der Bürgermeisterwahl vom 3. Juli 2011
  4. ^ "Steffen Weigel | Mit voller Kraft für WEndlingen am Neckar | Unser Bürgermeister". steffenweigel.de. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
  5. ^ Election information of communal data center
  6. ^ "Behr Erwin - Detailseite - LEO-BW".


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