Albstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈalpʃtat] (listen)) is the largest city in the district of Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the Swabian Jura mountains, about halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance.

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Albstadt
Town
A view of Ebingen.
Coat of arms
Location of Albstadt within Zollernalbkreis district
Albstadt Show map of Germany Albstadt Show map of Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48°12′43″N 09°01′26″E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Tübingen
District	Zollernalbkreis
Government
• Lord mayor (2015–23)	Klaus Konzelmann[1] (FW)
Area
• Total	134.41 km2 (51.90 sq mi)
Elevation	731 m (2,398 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[2]
• Total	45,472
• Density	340/km2 (880/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	72421–72461
Dialling codes	07431, 07432, 07435
Vehicle registration	BL
Website	www.albstadt.de

Geography

Albstadt is spread across a variety of hills and valleys, its elevation ranges between 614 m (2,014 ft) above sea level and 966 m (3,169 ft). One valley is the river Schmiecha, a left-hand tributary of the Danube, a second valley is the river of upper Eyach, a tributary of the Neckar.

To Albstadt belongs also the Raichberg hill in the north, on which there is the Raichberg Transmitter and an observation tower located. South of Albstadt is the Heuberg Military Training Area.

History

Settlement in the region dates back to at least the Iron Age. A Hallstatt cemetery in Albstadt was excavated by amateur archaeologists in the late nineteenth century and revealed a wide range of pottery and metal artefacts. Known as the 'Degerfeld Barrow' cemetery, a substantial collection was built up by the local antiquary Hyronimus Edelmann that was eventually deposited in the British Museum.[3][4]

Economy

Most of the textiles industry (among them Hasana J. Hakenmüller) is gone today, leaving some monuments, like Villa Haux. However, one of the world's biggest makers of industrial needles, Groz-Beckert, is still based in the town. Other prominent local companies include Mey (knitwear), Mettler Toledo (weighing systems) and a major part of Assa Abloy security systems (Eff-Eff Brand). Ebingen also hosts the technical and computer science faculties of Albstadt-Sigmaringen University with about 3,000 students (2014).

Mining

In former times iron ore was produced in Albstadt. Fidel Eppler was the name of the mine-inspector. The buttress wood was bought in Truchtelfingen and used from Lautlinger Knappen at the Hörnle area .[5] From an old 3,5 km mine in a Doggererzflöz in Weilheim is wood in the Tuttlinger Fruchtkasten .[6] Steel was produced in Tuttlingen by the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke in Ludwigstal, today iron brakes.

Districts

The districts Ebingen, Laufen, Lautlingen, Pfeffingen und Tailfingen were first mentioned in 793 in a document of the abbey St. Gallen. Ebingen received city rights around 1250 from the Hohenberg ducal family.

Albstadt consists of the following urban districts, which had been independent towns and merged to form Albstadt in 1975:

Coat of Arms
District	Ebingen	Tailfingen (Albstadt)	Onstmettingen	Truchtelfingen	Pfeffingen (Albstadt)	Lautlingen (Albstadt)	Laufen (Albstadt)	Margrethausen	Burgfelden
Population (2006)	19,618	12,234	5,384	3,229	2,168	1,998	1,753	1,084	345
Population (2007)	19,339	12,091	5,314	3,223	2,131	1,987	1,753	1,087	338
Population (2008)	19,265	12,072	5,260	3,189	2,147	1,988	1,777	1,069	346
Population (2009)	19,196	11,895	5,194	3,210	2,074	1,942	1,764	1,046	382
Population (2010)	18,718	11,522	5,006	3,101	2,144	1,833	1,709	1,023	364
Population (2011)	18,584	11,500	4,957	3,108	2,048	1,821	1,699	1,025	361
Population (2012)	18,478	11,329	4,900	3,028	1,993	1,771	1,699	0997	314
Population (2014)[7]	18,675	11,208	4,903	3,035	1,982	1,808	1,664	0967	336

Population

• 1975: 50,772
• 1987: 46,369
• 1995: 49,463
• 2005: 46,505
• 2015: 44,431

Lord Mayors of Albstadt

• 1975–1991: Hans Pfarr (CDU)
• 1991–1999: Hans-Martin Haller (SPD)
• 1999–2015: Jürgen Gneveckow (CDU)
• since 2015: Klaus Konzelmann (Free voters Baden-Württemberg)

Notable people

• Walther Groz (1903–2000), producer, mayor of Ebingen
• Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988), lawyer and politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (1958–1966) and Chancellor (1966–1969)
• Gregor Dorfmeister (also known as Manfred Gregor; born 1929), journalist and writer
• Jürgen Gneveckow (born 1952), mayor of Albstadt in 1999–2015
• Klaus Konzelmann (born 1963), police official and mayor of Albstadt
• Monika Herzig (born 1964), jazz musician and musicologist

Personalities who have worked on the ground

• Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739–1790), pastor, designer and inventor, lived in Onstmettingen in 1764–1770
• Ignaz Anton Demeter (1773–1842), 1802–1808 first Parish Councilor in Lautlingen, 1836–1842 Archbishop of Freiburg.
• Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist, nuclear scientist, Nobel laureate. After the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute was bombed out in Berlin in the spring of 1944, he researched from June 1944 to April 1945 in Tailfingen.
• Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905–1944), jurist, participant in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler; spent parts of his youth in Lautlingen
• Claus von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), officer, assassin on Adolf Hitler; spent parts of his youth in Lautlingen
• Martin Schaudt (born 1958), dressage rider

Twin towns – sister cities

Albstadt is twinned with:[8]

• Chambéry, France

See also

• Kern & Sohn (1844)

References

External links

Media related to Albstadt at Wikimedia Commons

• Sammlung Hieronymus Edelmann (1853–1921), Hyronimus Edelmann British Museum

На других языках

[es] Albstadt

[ru] Альбштадт