Stuttgart-Feuerbach
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Feuerbach is a district of the city of Stuttgart
. Its name is derived from the small river of the same name that flows from the neighbouring district of Botnang
through Feuerbach. Feuerbach is home to one of Germany's biggest industrial giants and is surrounded by the districts of Zuffenhausen, Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart-North, Stuttgart-West, Botnang
and Weilimdorf
.
excavated, archeologically documented and published a total of 102 Alemannic
sandstone tomb
s and cists
.
Together with his helpers he took great care to recover 760 artefacts from these Alemannic graves: skulls and bones, coins, pottery shards, combs, necklaces, belts, locks, swords, spears, arrows and spores, which he researched and published to the end of his life. These are now exhibited in the foyer of the district town hall of Feuerbach.
The first recorded mention of Feuerbach was in the annals of Hirsau Abbey
in 1075 although the name used at the time was Biberbach. This name translates literally as 'beaver-brook', a reference to beavers in Feuerbach valley. The beaver still features on the town's coat of arms today - alongside a cog representing its modern industrial nature and the large number of factories in the area. Later the community was called Fürbach which developed by the end of the 16th century into the name used today.
Until 1860 Feuerbach was mainly a rural community outside the larger city of Stuttgart
. As well as traditional farming, the area housed a large number of vineyards. The Killesberg area included a number of stone quarries - with many of the sheer rock faces in this area still visible to this day. In 1848 the first railway tunnel was built between Stuttgart and Feuerbach marking the advent of rapid industrial development in the area. Among others this involved the Robert Bosch
company which built a major factory in the town.
On 15 March 1907 Feuerbach was officially raised to the status of a town in its own right. In 1929 Feuerbach merged voluntarily with the neighbouring community of modern-day Stuttgart-Weilimdorf
.
On 1 May 1933 Feuerbach was engulfed by the expanding city of Stuttgart and given the status of "Feuerbach district".
During the division of Stuttgart into Stadtbezirke
(city districts) in 1956, Feuerbach was officially named Feuerbach Stadtbezirk. City district changes on 1 January 2001 resulted in the division of Feuerbach into the neighbourhoods of An der Burg, Bahnhof Feuerbach, Feuerbach-Mitte, Feuerbach-Ost, Feuerbacher Tal, Hohe Warte, Lemberg/Föhrich and Siegelberg.
Feuerbach lies directly on the B10 dual carriageway between Karlsruhe
and Ulm
, the B27 between Heilbronn
and Tübingen
) and the B295 between Calw
and Stuttgart), not far from the A81 Autobahn running north-south to the west of Stuttgart.
As an outlying district of Stuttgart is it served by the S4, S5 and S6 lines of the Stuttgart S-Bahn
suburban railway as well as the U6 and U13 underground lines of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn
and a variety of local bus services.
Feuerbach is also home to a vocational school for paint and design, another for woodworking technology, the
Leitz
business administration school and the Kerschensteinerschule for business technology
3 Catholic
churches, 4 Protestant churches, one Free Protestant church, a United Methodist church, a New Apostolic Church
, a free church of the Biblische Glaubens-Gemeinde (with 2200 seats, Stuttgart's largest church), a Greek Orthodox church, a Turkish Muslim mosque and an Albanian Muslim mosque.
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
. Its name is derived from the small river of the same name that flows from the neighbouring district of Botnang
Botnang
Botnang is a district of the City of Stuttgart and lies between Feuerbach, Stuttgart-West and Vaihingen.-Geography:Botnang is almost entirely surrounded by woodland and lies in the hills to the west of Stuttgart. The centre of Botnang lies 316 metres above sea level...
through Feuerbach. Feuerbach is home to one of Germany's biggest industrial giants and is surrounded by the districts of Zuffenhausen, Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart-North, Stuttgart-West, Botnang
Botnang
Botnang is a district of the City of Stuttgart and lies between Feuerbach, Stuttgart-West and Vaihingen.-Geography:Botnang is almost entirely surrounded by woodland and lies in the hills to the west of Stuttgart. The centre of Botnang lies 316 metres above sea level...
and Weilimdorf
Stuttgart-Weilimdorf
Weilimdorf is a north-western municipality of the German city of Stuttgart and covers an area of 12,6 km² with a population of around 30,0001 . It first became part of Stuttgart in 1933 and until that time was a separate entity with its own administration which was then subsumed into the city...
.
History
The remains of a prehistoric settlement were uncovered in 1904, when the pastor of Feuerbach, Richard KalleeRichard Kallee
Richard Kallee was a German Protestant pastor.-Life and work:On 7 October 1877 Richard Kallee was ordained in the church of Böblingen and worked then at the parishes of Willsbach, Michelbach am Wald and of the Collegiate Church of Oehringen...
excavated, archeologically documented and published a total of 102 Alemannic
Alamanni
The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic tribes located around the upper Rhine river . One of the earliest references to them is the cognomen Alamannicus assumed by Roman Emperor Caracalla, who ruled the Roman Empire from 211 to 217 and claimed thereby to be...
sandstone tomb
Tomb
A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes...
s and cists
Cist
A cist from ) is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples can be found across Europe and in the Middle East....
.
Together with his helpers he took great care to recover 760 artefacts from these Alemannic graves: skulls and bones, coins, pottery shards, combs, necklaces, belts, locks, swords, spears, arrows and spores, which he researched and published to the end of his life. These are now exhibited in the foyer of the district town hall of Feuerbach.
The first recorded mention of Feuerbach was in the annals of Hirsau Abbey
Hirsau Abbey
Hirsau Abbey, formerly known as Hirschau Abbey, was once one of the most prominent Benedictine abbeys of Germany. It was located in the town of Hirsau, in the Diocese of Speyer, near Calw in the present Baden-Württemberg.-History:...
in 1075 although the name used at the time was Biberbach. This name translates literally as 'beaver-brook', a reference to beavers in Feuerbach valley. The beaver still features on the town's coat of arms today - alongside a cog representing its modern industrial nature and the large number of factories in the area. Later the community was called Fürbach which developed by the end of the 16th century into the name used today.
Until 1860 Feuerbach was mainly a rural community outside the larger city of Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
. As well as traditional farming, the area housed a large number of vineyards. The Killesberg area included a number of stone quarries - with many of the sheer rock faces in this area still visible to this day. In 1848 the first railway tunnel was built between Stuttgart and Feuerbach marking the advent of rapid industrial development in the area. Among others this involved the Robert Bosch
Robert Bosch
Robert Bosch was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.-Biography:...
company which built a major factory in the town.
On 15 March 1907 Feuerbach was officially raised to the status of a town in its own right. In 1929 Feuerbach merged voluntarily with the neighbouring community of modern-day Stuttgart-Weilimdorf
Stuttgart-Weilimdorf
Weilimdorf is a north-western municipality of the German city of Stuttgart and covers an area of 12,6 km² with a population of around 30,0001 . It first became part of Stuttgart in 1933 and until that time was a separate entity with its own administration which was then subsumed into the city...
.
On 1 May 1933 Feuerbach was engulfed by the expanding city of Stuttgart and given the status of "Feuerbach district".
During the division of Stuttgart into Stadtbezirke
Stadtbezirk
A Stadtbezirk is a form of German city district, an administrative unit within a larger city. In Germany Stadtbezirke usually only exist in a metropolis with more than 150,000 inhabitants....
(city districts) in 1956, Feuerbach was officially named Feuerbach Stadtbezirk. City district changes on 1 January 2001 resulted in the division of Feuerbach into the neighbourhoods of An der Burg, Bahnhof Feuerbach, Feuerbach-Mitte, Feuerbach-Ost, Feuerbacher Tal, Hohe Warte, Lemberg/Föhrich and Siegelberg.
Economy and infrastructure
Feuerbach has played a central role in the development of Stuttgart as a major German centre of industry. As a result it is still home to a large number of companies, including major internationals and small and medium-sized automotive suppliers.Local companies
- In 1864 the first industrial producer of quinine came to Feuerbach establishing the foundations for the German chemical industry.
- In 1871 the engineer and 'receipt-book maker' Louis Leitz founded the "Workshop for the manufacture of metal parts for organisational materials" in Feuerbach. His company, LeitzLeitzThe Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, also Leitz, is a German manufacturer of office products. The company, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, is owned by Esselte since 1998. Today the brand Leitz is used by Esselte mainly for filing and workspace products....
subsequently became known in Germany as the inventor of the ring binderRing binderRing binders are folders in which punched pieces of paper may be held by means of clamps running through the holes in the paper...
. - In 1910 Robert Bosch GmbHRobert Bosch GmbHRobert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
moved its headquarters from neighbouring Stuttgart to Feuerbach. - Akzo NobelAkzo NobelAkzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has activities in more than 80 countries, and employs approximately 55,000 people. Sales in 2010 were EUR...
Coatings GmbH - Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer
- Behr GmbH & Co. KGBehr GmbH & Co. KGBehr GmbH & Co. KG is a German corporation active in the automobile industry, headquartered in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. It is a specialist for automotive air conditioning and engine cooling systems. In 2006 group sales was €3.2 billion and it employed 18,600 staff....
- Thieme Publishing Group
Local transport
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
and Ulm
Ulm
Ulm is a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and...
, the B27 between Heilbronn
Heilbronn
Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....
and Tübingen
Tübingen
Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...
) and the B295 between Calw
Calw
Calw is a municipality in the middle of Baden-Württemberg in the south of Germany, capital of the district Calw. It is located in the northern Black Forest.-History:...
and Stuttgart), not far from the A81 Autobahn running north-south to the west of Stuttgart.
As an outlying district of Stuttgart is it served by the S4, S5 and S6 lines of the Stuttgart S-Bahn
Stuttgart S-Bahn
The Stuttgart S-Bahn is a suburban railway system serving the Stuttgart Region, an agglomeration of around 2.6 million people, consisting of the city of Stuttgart and the adjacent districts of Esslingen, Böblingen, Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr. It consists of seven lines numbered S1 through S6 and...
suburban railway as well as the U6 and U13 underground lines of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn
Stuttgart Stadtbahn
The Stuttgart Stadtbahn is a light rail system in Stuttgart, Germany. It is operated by the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG , which also operates the bus systems in that city...
and a variety of local bus services.
Schools in Feuerbach
- Bachschule (Grundschule)
- Hattenbühlschule (Grundschule)
- Bismarckschule (HauptschuleHauptschuleA Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany and Austria, starting after 4 years of elementary schooling, which offers Lower Secondary Education according to the International Standard Classification of Education...
and WerkrealschuleWerkrealschuleWerkrealschule is a relatively young branch of German secondary education , which offers pupils additional lessons in grades 8 and 9 and allows them to qualify after ten years with a final exam which is equal to graduation from Realschule....
) - Hohewartschule (Grundschule)
- RealschuleRealschuleThe Realschule is a type of secondary school in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia , Denmark , Sweden , Hungary and in the Russian Empire .-History:The Realschule was an outgrowth of the rationalism and empiricism of the seventeenth and...
Feuerbach (part of Hohewartschule) - Leibniz-GymnasiumGymnasium (school)A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
- Neues Gymnasium
Feuerbach is also home to a vocational school for paint and design, another for woodworking technology, the
Leitz
Leitz
The Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, also Leitz, is a German manufacturer of office products. The company, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, is owned by Esselte since 1998. Today the brand Leitz is used by Esselte mainly for filing and workspace products....
business administration school and the Kerschensteinerschule for business technology
Churches and religious organisations
Feuerbach hosts a large multi-cultural community also reflected in the religious landscape which includes:3 Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
churches, 4 Protestant churches, one Free Protestant church, a United Methodist church, a New Apostolic Church
New Apostolic Church
The New Apostolic Church is a chiliastic church, converted to Protestantism as a free church from the Catholic Apostolic Church. The church has existed since 1879 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands...
, a free church of the Biblische Glaubens-Gemeinde (with 2200 seats, Stuttgart's largest church), a Greek Orthodox church, a Turkish Muslim mosque and an Albanian Muslim mosque.
Honorary citizens
- 1908: August Happold, Industrialist (1846–1922)
- 1909: Dr Oswald Hesse, Privy Councillor and chemist
- 1917: Robert BoschRobert BoschRobert Bosch was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.-Biography:...
, Industrialist (1861–1942)