Filderstadt

Coordinates: 48°40′49″N 9°13′6″E / 48.68028°N 9.21833°E / 48.68028; 9.21833
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Filderstadt
Town
Coat of arms of Filderstadt
Coat of arms
Location of Filderstadt within Esslingen district
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Filderstadt is located in Germany
Filderstadt
Filderstadt
Filderstadt is located in Baden-Württemberg
Filderstadt
Filderstadt
Coordinates: 48°40′49″N 9°13′6″E / 48.68028°N 9.21833°E / 48.68028; 9.21833
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionStuttgart
DistrictEsslingen
Government
 • MayorChristoph Traub[1] (CDU)
Area
 • Total38.54 km2 (14.88 sq mi)
Elevation
371 m (1,217 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total46,188
 • Density1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
70794
Dialling codes0711 and 07158
Vehicle registrationES
Websitewww.filderstadt.de

Filderstadt is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located approximately 13 km south of Stuttgart.

Filderstadt is located next to the Stuttgart Airport and the new Trade Fair. Line S2 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn terminates at Filderstadt station.

Filderstadt was created as a town in 1975 from five smaller villages called Bernhausen, Bonlanden, Plattenhardt, Sielmingen and Harthausen.

From 1978-2005, it played host to the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, a WTA Tier II event.

Princess Claire of Luxembourg was born here on March 21, 1985.

German writer Michael Ende, author of the Neverending Story, died in Filderstadt in 1995.

Economy

Contact Air once had its headquarters in Filderstadt.[3]

Sons and daughters of the town

Other people related to the city people

Eduard Mörike
  • Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), Swabian poet, held in Bernhäuser Jakobuskirche his first sermon and lived during his time as a vicar in 1829 a few months in the Plattenhardt rectory
  • Michael Ende, (1929–1995), writer of books for children, (Die unendliche Geschichte, Momo), died in Bonlanden (Filderklinik)
  • Roman Herzog, (born 1934), politician (CDU), former German President, lived during his tenure as interior minister of Baden-Württemberg (1980–1983) from 1978 five years in the Ludwigstraße (Ludwig street) in Bernhausen
  • Paul Maar, (born 1937), writer and illustrator, taught in the 1970s for several years as an art teacher at the Eduard-Spranger-Gymnasium in Bernhausen

Partnership towns

References

  1. ^ http://www.filderstadt.de/,Lde/start/service/Oberbuergermeister.html
  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. ^ "Impressum." Contact Air. 17 July 2012. Retrieved on 7 January 2015. "Contact Air Flugdienst GmbH + Co. Gottlieb-Manz-Straße 2 70794 Filderstadt"
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