Neidlingen

History

In 1807, Neidlingen, formerly a possession of the Kingdom of Bavaria, was assigned to the district of Wiesensteig in the Kingdom of Württemberg. The town was reassigned in 1810 to . The Nazi Party was a political non-entity in Neidlingen until the federal elections of 1930, but only secured local plurality in the 1932 state election. A local Nazi Party affiliate was formed that year under Wilhelm Aysslinger, the party district manager. In the March 1933 German federal election, the Nazis received 80.6% of the vote in Nedilingen, and that May three Nazis were elected to the six-member municipal council. Oberamt Kirchheim was dissolved in 1938 and Neidlingen was assigned to Landkreis Nürtingen. 29 forced laborers from Poland, Russia, and Ukraine arrived at Neidlingen in 1941 to work on local farms. The US Army occupied the town on 21 April 1945 after a short fight with units of the German Army and German-aligned Russian Liberation Army. Neidlingen experienced a period of industrial growth in the 1950s. In 1973, following of Baden-Württemberg, the town was assigned to the district of Esslingen.

Geography

The municipality (Gemeinde) of Neidlingen covers of the Esslingen district of Baden-Württemberg, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located from the district capital, Esslingen am Neckar, on the district's south-east tip and along the border with the district of Göppingen. Inside Esslingen's district, Neidlingen shares a border with Weilheim an der Teck, Bissingen an der Teck and Lenningen. The municipality is physically located along the northern edge of the of the Swabian Jura, and stretches form the heights of the upper valley of the Lindach to the albtrauf of the Fils. 46% of the municipal area is covered in forest. Another 45% is used for agriculture, primarily for orchards. Its boundaries generally decided by the lay of the albtrauf, which sits atop the Brown and White Jurassic formations. Neidlingen itself is sits upon the confluence of the Lindach and the Seebach, above the . The Lindach and its valley begins to the southwest of the town in a plateau of the Jura that averages an elevation above sea level of Normalnull (NN). The highest elevation in the municipality, NN, is found here in the Drittelwald. The Lindach valley continues through Neidlingen to the northwest, widening until being narrowed by the Erkenberg and the Burz. Upon these limestone bluffs are juniper groves and sheep pastures that have been placed under Federal protection as the and nature reserves. Beyond this, the Lindach continues and marks the lowest elevation above sea level in the municipal area, NN. The slopes of the valley are formed by the . Near the Erkenberg and the Burz are springs that turn the edges of the Linbach's basin into marshland that have been named a and was connected to the in 2002. Neidlingen is east of the Randecker Maar (a former volcanic…

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,287
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,253
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,199
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,195
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,015
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  986
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  871
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  855

Most recent

• M 3.4 — 2022-10-16
  Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
• M 4 — 2022-07-09
  2 km NNE of Grosselfingen, Germany
• M 3.1 — 2008-12-25
  3 km NNW of Saulgau, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-12-12
  2 km ESE of Nehren, Germany
• M 2.7 — 2008-07-09
  1 km WSW of Dußlingen, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-07-03
  2 km W of Dußlingen, Germany