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1602: The Maientag, a famous folklore procession and celebration, was first recorded
1634: Half of the population died in theThirty Years' War and of the plague
1750: 133 buildings were burned down in the great fire
1783/1784:Friedrich Hölderlin andFriedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling were pupils of theLatin school (German: Lateinschule). They are still commemorated in the town by the street nameSchellingstraße and the name of a high schoolHölderlin-Gymnasium.
The Amt Nürtingen, anOberamt (district) since 1758, was expanded in 1807, one year after the founding of theKingdom of Württemberg, to include the Oberamt Neuffen as part of the new administrative structure of Württemberg. In 1859, Nürtingen was connected to the network of theRoyal Württemberg State Railways via the Plochingen–Immendingen railway line. Thus, the Oberamt town of Nürtingen developed into an industrial town towards the end of the 19th century. Initially, the textile industry predominated, which later changed towards the metalworking industry. Nürtingen was long known as the "City of Grey Roofs" because cement was produced in Nürtingen from 1872 to 1975. Since 1900, the "Portlandzementwerke Heidelberg" owned the Nürtingen cement works.[3] The “Tälesbahn”, which opened in June 1900 for passenger traffic between Nürtingen and Neuffen, was also used for freight traffic from June 21st to transport the limestone for cement from the “Hörnle” quarry to the factory.
During theNazi era there were in today's urban area 17 forced labor camps and accommodations with "Eastern workers", prisoners of war and "foreign workers", who had to work in the local companies, such as Maschinenfabrik Gebrüder Heller.[4] At the present location of the secondary schools was the Mühlwiesenlager with "Eastern workers". Eleven names of victims of the "euthanasia" murders are known; they were killed inGrafeneck orHadamar.[5] They also caused[clarification needed] that all in so-called "mixed marriages" living men were brought to concentration camps and murdered there.[6][7]
ASinti child born in Nürtingen, Anton Köhler, was with most of his siblings brought in 1944 from the Catholic orphanage St. Josephpflege inMulfingen to Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed after his parents had been murdered.[8]
1945 : A few bombs hit Nürtingen. The Tiefenbachtal (a valley south of Nürtingen) was an escape route for German soldiers.[clarification needed]
Nürtingen is home toNürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science, also known as the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen. The school hosts undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration,finance, real estate, and landscape architecture. Programs are taught in English and German, with a Master of Science in International Finance being taught through its growing European School of Finance, which partners with the German Institute for Corporate Finance, the European Derivatives Institute, theDeutsche Börse, and theEurex exchange.
Neckarhausen (3,768 inhabitants, as of 2012) is about 2 km from Nürtingen. Neckarhausen was first mentioned in the year 1284. The site is largely dominated by the church and the town hall.
Raidwangen (2,115 inhabitants, as of 2014) is about 3 km southwest of Nürtingen and about 1 km from the Neckar. Raidwangen was first mentioned in 1236 in documents.
Zizishausen (3,222 inhabitants, as of 2012) is to the left and right of the Neckar and borders to the north directly to the core city of Nürtingen. Zizishausen was first mentioned in 1296.
Roßdorf lies south of Nürtingen. The district was created in the early 1960s as a model construction project for modern urban planning on the drawing board. Today Roßdorf has around 4,500 inhabitants.
The local council in Nürtingen has 32 members (until 2014 it had 39 members). The last local elections on 9 June 2024 had following results. The Oberbürgermeister (Mayor) is the president of the council and has one vote.
^Vgl. Eberhard Sieber: „'Wir müssen es machen wie Gandhi.' Der Widerstand gegen den Abbau des Dettinger Hörnles“, in: Schwäbischer Heimatbund (Hrsg.): Schwäbische Heimat 4/2007, p. 406–418.
^Steffen Seischab (2011): "Ausländische Zwangsarbeiter", in: Reinhard Tietzen (Hrsg.): Nürtingen 1918–1950. Nürtingen/Frickenhausen: Sindlinger-Burchartz 2011, S. 301 und 317