Langenau () is a town in the district of

Alb-Donau Alb-Donau-Kreis is a (district) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Biberach, Reutlingen, Göppingen and Heidenheim, the two Bavarian districts Günzburg and Neu-Ulm, and the city o ...

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. It is situated 14 km northeast of

Ulm Ulm () is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city. Ulm is located on the eastern edges of the Swabian Jura mountain range, on the up ...

History

Today‘s Langenau was created in 1972 by merging the historical villages of Albeck,

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

and Hövelsingen into the village of Langenau. Today, the four villages function as the town‘s Ortsteile.

Religious Buildings

The Protestant Martinskirche with Baroque altar comes from the 14th century to 18 century. Langenau St

The likewise Protestant St. Leonhardskirche dates back to the 17th-18th century.

Statistics

As of 31 December 2023, the total population is 16,045, on an area of 7,500 Hectares, and is distributed amongst the four villages as follows: The population is aged 43,6 years on average and immigrants from other countries make up 16.3 percent of the population.

Transport

Langenau is located directly on the

Autobahn The (; German , ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. Much of t ...

A7 and near the A8 Public transport is provided by the

Donau-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund The Donau-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund (German for ''Danube-Iller Local Transport Association'', abbreviated DING, the German word for ''thing'') is a regional transport cooperative that coordinates tickets and fares among all transport operators in ...

(DING). Langenau is connected to the national rail network via the

Brenz Railway Brenz may refer to: *Brenz (river), a river in southern Germany *Brenz an der Brenz Brenz an der Brenz is a borough of the village of Sontheim in the Heidenheim District of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Brenz an der Brenz was an independent ...

''(Brenzbahn)'' from

Aalen Aalen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Oole'') is a town located in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, about east of Stuttgart and north of Ulm. It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district and is its largest town. It is ...

Mayors

*-2016: Wolfgang Mangold *2016-2024: Daniel Salemi *since 2024: Daria Henning

International relations

Langenau is twinned with: * Albeck in Carinthia, Austria, since 1994 * Brand-Erbisdorf, Germany, since 1991 *

Bridgend Bridgend (; or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge over the River Og ...

, Wales, since 1972 *

Somberek Somberek (, ) is a village in Baranya county, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to ...

, Hungary, since 1990

Media

The newspaper ''Südwest-Presse'' is distributed in Langenau, and includes a weekly local edition "Langenau aktuell
Media Langenau date
(PDF ; 507 kB)

Education

Langenau has three

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

s, a special education school, a

Werkrealschule Werkrealschule is a relatively young branch of German secondary education (e.g. in Baden-Württemberg), which offers pupils additional lessons in grades 8 and 9 and allows them to qualify after ten years with a final exam which is equal to graduatio ...

, a

Realschule Real school (, ) is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), F ...

and the Robert Bosch school.

Parks

At Langenau town Wörth is a park with a water wheel, a lake and a playground.

Celebrations

Every year on the last weekend before the summer holidays, the traditional children's festival is held with a parade of schools.

Notable people

* Albrecht Besserer von Thalfingen (1787–1839), the acting Bavarian war minister under

Ludwig I of Bavaria Ludwig I or Louis I (; 25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868) was King of Bavaria from 1825 until the German revolutions of 1848–49, 1848 revolutions in the German states. When he was crown prince, he was involved in the Napoleonic Wars. As ki ...

1838/9 *

Robert Bosch Robert Bosch (23 September 1861 – 12 March 1942) was a German business magnate, engineer and inventor, founder of Bosch (company), Bosch. Biography Bosch was born in Langenau, Albeck, in the Swabia, Swabian Highlands near Ulm. He was one of t ...

(1861-1942), founder of the

Robert Bosch GmbH Robert Bosch GmbH (; ), commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 188 ...

, born in Albeck *

Gottlob Honold 220px, Gottlob Honold 1910 Gottlob Honold (26 August 1876 – 17 March 1923) was a leading engineer in the workshop of Robert Bosch, where he invented a practical ignition magneto, practical automobile headlights, and a practical vehicle horn. ...

(1876–1923), engineer and inventor * Wulf Konold (1946–2010),

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg (from Ancient Greek δραματουργός – dramatourgós) is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and pr ...

and

theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

. * Hansjörg Schlager (1948–2004),

alpine skier Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...

* Thure Riefenstein (born 1965), actor, director, writer and producer.

References

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