- Source: Wendlingen
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
2011-2019: Steffen Weigel
Since 2019: Steffen Weigel
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.
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), 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
Wendlingen is twinned with:
– Dorog, Hungary
– Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, France
– Millstatt, Austria
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar kota di Jerman
- Deggenhausertal
- Neckar
- Porr
- Esslingen (distrik)
- Daftar kode pos di Jerman
- Wendlingen
- Stuttgart–Wendlingen high-speed railway
- Winnenden school shooting
- Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed railway
- Festool
- Wendlingen (Neckar) station
- Stuttgart 21
- Esslingen (district)
- High-speed rail in Germany
- Main Line for Europe
