Ittlingen () is a town in the district of

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History

From 1355, Ittlingen was a possession of the . Their rule ended in 1806, when the Gemmingens' properties were mediatized to the

Grand Duchy of Baden The Grand Duchy of Baden () was a German polity on the east bank of the Rhine. It originally existed as a sovereign state from 1806 to 1871 and later as part of the German Empire until 1918. The duchy's 12th-century origins were as a Margravia ...

. Ittlingen was assigned on 22 June 1807 to , the only such district in Baden. On 24 July 1813, Ittlingen was assigned to the district of

Eppingen Eppingen () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The town has the second-largest population in the district. Eppingen lies in the Kraichgau, a hilly region in southwestern Germany, close to the conf ...

. Following the abolition of that district on 1 April 1924, the town was assigned to the district of Sinsheim, which was reorganized on 25 June 1939 as . Ittlingen expanded after

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to its west. On 31 December 1972, Sinsheim's district was dissolved and Ittlingen was placed under the jurisdiction of

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Ittlingen covers of the district of Heilbronn, in German state of

. Ittlingen lies along the northwest edge of Heilbronn's district, on its border with the Rhine-Neckar district to the north. The municipal area is physically located in the Kraichgau, specifically in the valley of the river Elsenz, which flows through the municipality from south to north. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

Normalnull ("standard zero") or (short N. N. or NN) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked (“meters above standard zero”). has been replaced by (NHN). History In 187 ...

(NN) on the Lochberg, to the west, to a low of NN at the municipal border with Sinsheim.

Coat of arms

Ittlingen's municipal

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displays a field of

blue Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB color model, RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB color model, RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between Violet (color), violet and cyan on the optical spe ...

crossed by two yellow bars. At the center of the

blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...

is another, with a

yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In t ...

plowshare upon a field of red. This pattern was created by the in 1910 by taking the arms of the House of Gemmingen and placing the plowshare blazon at its center to distinguish it. This pattern was accepted and a municipal flag issued by the Heilbronn district office on 1 October 1980.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Heilbronn (district)