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.
Wendlingen | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Wendlingen within Esslingen district  | |
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| Coordinates: 48°40′29″N 9°22′54″E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Stuttgart |
| District | Esslingen |
| Subdivisions | 3 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Steffen Weigel |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12.15 km2 (4.69 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 294 m (965 ft) |
| Population (2019-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 16,227 |
| • Density | 1,300/km2 (3,500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 73240 |
| Dialling codes | 07024 |
| Vehicle registration | ES |
| Website | www.wendlingen.de |
The town grew in size, officially, on 1 April 1940, when three separate communities of Wendlingen, Unterboihingen and Bodelshofen merged.
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[2]
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.[3]
| 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),[4] 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:
References
- "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2019". Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (in German). September 2020.
- Endgültige Ergebnisse der Bürgermeisterwahl vom 3. Juli 2011
- Election information of communal data center
- http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/wlbblb_personen/101217607X/Behr+Erwin
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