HERRENBERG

'Herrenberg' is a town in the middle of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, about 30km
south of Stuttgart and 20km from Tübingen. After Sindelfingen, Böblingen and Leonberg, it is the fourth largest town in the district of Böblingen. The number of inhabitants of 'Herrenberg' exceeded 20,000 in 1972 due to the community reform in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

★ In 1965 Affstätt amalgamated with 'Herrenberg'

★ In 1971 Haslach, Kayh, Kuppingen, Mönchberg amalgamated with 'Herrenberg'

★ In 1972 Oberjesingen amalgamated with 'Herrenberg'

★ In 1975 Gueltstein amalgamated with 'Herrenberg'

Contents

Location

City Arrangement

Population

Politics

Local Council

Business

Tourism

References

Location

'Herrenberg' is situated on the western edge of the Schonbuch forest and is a central town within the Gäu region. The Stiftskirche, which houses the Glockenmuseum, is a visible tourist attraction in the main square.
'Herrenberg' is at the southern end of the S1 S-Bahn train line. It also has connections, via the A81, to Stuttgart and the rest of northern Germany. To the south the A81 provides access to Switzerland, Austria and Italy. 'Herrenberg' is also close to Strasbourg, which is only about 110km[1] to the west
The following towns and municipalities border 'Herrenberg'. They are listed in clockwise direction beginning in the north:
Deckenpfronn, Gärtringen, Nufringen, Hildrizhausen and Altdorf (all Böblingen district), Ammerbuch (Tübingen district), Gäufelden and Jettingen (both Böblingen district) as well as Wildberg (Calw district).

City Arrangement

'Herrenberg' consists of the town center and the 7 additional towns which were merged in the regional reorganization of the 1960s and 1970s. This includes Affstätt, Gültstein, Haslach, Kayh, Kuppingen, Mönchberg and Oberjesingen. In each different area of 'Herrenberg' there is an office for the district and a town clerk.

Population

The population of 'Herrenberg', numbers are either estimates, Census results(¹) or numbers from the town hall where available·

Year Population 1622 ca. 1,800 1652 1,006 1771 1,570 1803 1,796 1825 1,985 1843 2,140 1861 2,015 1. December 1871 2,127 1. December 1880 ¹ 2,646 1. December 1890 ¹ 2,614 1. December 1900 ¹ 2,557 1. December 1910 ¹ 2,705 16. June 1925 ¹ 3,021

Year Population 16. June 1933 ¹ 3,395 17. May 1939 ¹ 3,689 1946 5,605 13. September 1950 ¹ 6,292 6. June 1961 ¹ 9,539 27. May 1970 ¹ 12,573 31. December 1975 24,389 31. December 1980 25,422 27. May 1987 ¹ 26,001 31. December 1990 27,344 31. December 1995 28,839 31. December 2000 30,377 30. September 2004 31,195 23. November 2006² 31,235

★ ¹ Census results

★ ² Herrenberg Amtsblatt 23 November 2006

Politics

Local Council

The Local Council has, since the last election on 13. June 2004, a total of 40 Seats.
The distribution of the different parties and groups are as follows: (in German)

★ CDU 30,6% (-2,4) - 13 Seats (-1)

★ FW 21,8% (-2,3) - 9 Seats (-1)

★ SPD 21,9% (+0,4) - 9 Seats (=)

★ Grüne 16,3% (+5,6) - 6 Seats (+2)

★ Frauenliste 9,4% (+2,4) - 3 Seats (+1)

★ Others 0,0% (-3,7) - 0 Seats (-1)

Business

Various small, medium and large businesses are located in Herrenberg. Some examples of internationally known businesses are:

★ Feinmetall (electronic test pins)

★ Frog Design (industrial design)

★ GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals)

★ Hewlett-Packard (computer manufacturing)

★ IBM (IT training and sales)

★ Solectron (printed-circuit manufacturing)

★ Walter Knoll (furniture)

Tourism

'Herrenberg' has lots of tourist attractions that bring many people to the town.
'Herrenbergs' Old Town has many restaurants with a large range of meals available. These include Italian, Chinese, Indian, Greek and German restaurants. It also has many icecream shops and cafes [2].
Many of these restaurants sell food when the Stadtfest (town festival) occurs (normally in July). 25,000 people turn up for the town festival to drink and listen to the live music in the squares. [3]

References