Stuttgart-Feuerbach

Coordinates: 48°49′N 9°9′E / 48.817°N 9.150°E / 48.817; 9.150
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Feuerbach
Borough of Stuttgart
Coat of arms of Feuerbach
Coat of arms
Location of Feuerbach within Stuttgart
Urban district
CityStuttgart
Area
 • Total2.439 km2 (0.942 sq mi)
Elevation
292 m (958 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31)[1]
 • Total29,929
 • Density12,000/km2 (32,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
70469, 70499
Dialling codes0711
Vehicle registrationS
Websitewww.stuttgart.de

Feuerbach is a borough (Stadtbezirk) of the city of

Weilimdorf
.

History

Main article: History of Stuttgart

The remains of a prehistoric settlement were uncovered in 1904, when the pastor of Feuerbach,

Alemannic sandstone tombs and cists
. [2] [3] Together with his helpers he took great care to recover 760 artifacts 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 then 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

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 neighboring 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.

Economy and infrastructure

Besides industry, there still are vineyards

Feuerbach has played a central role in the development of Stuttgart as a major German center 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 organizational materials" in Feuerbach. His company, now Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, subsequently became known in Germany as the inventor of the ring binder.
  • In 1910
    Robert Bosch GmbH
    moved its headquarters from neighboring Stuttgart to Feuerbach.
  • Akzo Nobel
    Coatings GmbH
  • Coperion [de] (originally Werner & Pfleiderer)
  • Behr GmbH & Co. KG
  • Thieme Publishing Group

Local transport

Feuerbach's railway station at night

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,

underground lines of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn
and a variety of local bus services.

Schools

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.

Churches and religious organizations

Feuerbach hosts a large multi-cultural community also reflected in the religious landscape which includes:
3

Greek Orthodox
church, a Turkish Muslim mosque and an Albanian Muslim mosque.

People

Honorary citizens include:

  • 1908: August Happold, Industrialist (1846–1922)
  • 1909: Dr Oswald Hesse, Privy Councillor and chemist
  • 1917: Robert Bosch, Industrialist (1861–1942)
Panorama of Stuttgart-Feuerbach

References

  1. ^ "Aktuelle Einwohnerzahlen nach Stadtbezirken und Stadtteilen". Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. ISBN 3-87181-016-9
    .
  3. ^ Was die alten Steine in Feuerbach erzählen, in German, 1923.

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