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Heimsheim
Baden-Württembergtown
Heimsheim
Total population
5,233
Demographic figures from Destatis. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Heimsheim is a town in the Enz district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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History
Heimsheim was given the official status of a township by the County Palatine of Tübingen at the start of the 14th century. Early in the 16th century, the town came into the possession of the Duchy of Württemberg. Heimsheim was assigned to the district of Weil der Stadt in 1803, and then to in 1807–08. The town remained under Leonberg when the district was recreated on 1 October 1938. After World War II, the town became part of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region and expanded to the north and east, in the direction of the Bundesautobahn 8. On 1 January 1973, Heimsheim the Enz district.
Geography
The township (Stadt) Heimsheim covers an area of at the very southeastern tip of the Enz district. It is physically located in the foothills of the Black Forest, in the Heckengäu, a region geology is characterized by karstified and wooded muschelkalk hills. Because the Heckengäu is home to a number of protected species of fauna, Heimsheim borders the , , , and Federal nature reserves. The primary watercourse in Heimsheim is the Kotzenbach (also called the Zieselbach), which drains into the Würm to the southwest. The river flows through a shallow valley carved into the Upper Buntsandstein near Heimsheim's center, and along Enz district's western edge. The Kotzenbach is also the location of Heimsheim's lowest elevation, NN. The highest elevation, , is the top of a hill on the border with Renningen, in the Böblingen district. The southwest portion of Heimsheim lies in the while the northern and eastern portion is made up by and the west of and .
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Geography
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Nearby places in Baden-Württemberg
Geography & sun
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Gallery
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Official Identifiers
Destatis — German Federal Statistical Office
- AGS
- 08236025
- Population (Wikidata)
- 5,608
- Wikidata
- Q80675
Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikimedia Commons
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Destatis — German Federal Statistical Office — Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439