Holzmaden is a town in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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that lies between

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Sw ...

and Ulm. Holzmaden is 4 km south-east from Kirchheim unter Teck and 19 km south-east of Esslingen am Neckar. The A 8 runs south from Holzmaden. The town and surrounding area are well known as the source of exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the

Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...

period.

Demographics

1=census results

Mayors

* Christian Burkhardt (1945–1952) * Otto Vogt (1952–1982) * Jürgen Berner (1982–1998) * Jürgen Riehle (1998–2014) * Susanne Jakob (2014–2021)''Würdiger Abschied und Neubeginn''

Der Teckbote Der Teckbote is a German daily newspaper for the Swabian town of Kirchheim unter Teck. History The Teckbote was founded in 1832 under the title ''Wochenblatt für den Oberamtsbezirk Kirchheim unter Teck'' (''Weekly Newspaper for the district of K ...

, 7. April 2014. * Florian Schepp (since 2021) Holzmaden-rathaus

Infrastructure and facilities

The community is located north of the

Bundesautobahn 8 is an autobahn in southern Germany that runs 497 km (309 mi) from the Luxembourg A13 motorway at Schengen via Neunkirchen, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich to the Austrian West Autobahn near Sa ...

, halfway between Ulm and Stuttgart; the next junction is Aichelberg. The railway Kirchheim (Teck) Süd-Weilheim (Teck) connected Holzmaden to the railway network. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1982 and freight in 1995. Holzmaden also has a primary school, two kindergartens, a community hall with integrally joined forming gym and a sports and leisure facility.

Associations and Organizations

The association's work is an essential factor in the social life in Holzmaden.

Notable people from Holzmaden

* Bernhard Hauff (1866–1950), founder of museum Hauff * Heinz Kälberer (born 1942), former Lord mayor of Vaihingen an der Enz

Fossils

The ground in and around the city contains rich layers of well-preserved fossils (or Lagerstätten) of the

period. The fossils are found in the 180-million-year-old Posidonia Shale and displayed in the local Museum Hauff as well as museums around the world. This locale is important for its frequent preservation of soft tissue, a rarity in fossils. Examples from this site include: * Ichthyosaurs * Plesiosaurs * '' Steneosaurus'' * '' Platysuchus'' * Lepidotus * Dapedius * Ammonite * Pentacrinus colony (Sea Lily)

References

Mesozoic paleontological sites of Europe Esslingen (district) Jurassic paleontological sites {{Esslingen-geo-stub