Wendlingen

Wendlingen
Wendlingen
Town
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Wendlingen within Esslingen district
	Wendlingen Wendlingen
	Coordinates: 48°40′29″N 9°22′54″E / 48.67472°N 9.38167°E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Esslingen
Subdivisions	3
Government
• Mayor (2019–27)	Steffen Weigel (SPD)
Area
• Total	12.15 km2 (4.69 sq mi)
Elevation	294 m (965 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	16,258
• 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

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

Wendlingen is twinned with:

References

^ ^a ^b Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 12 September 2021.
^ "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.
^ Endgültige Ergebnisse der Bürgermeisterwahl vom 3. Juli 2011
^ "Steffen Weigel | Mit voller Kraft für WEndlingen am Neckar | Unser Bürgermeister". steffenweigel.de. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
^ Election information of communal data center
^ "Behr Erwin - Detailseite - LEO-BW".

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[mayor-1] 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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