Notzingen is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the district of Esslingen in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, 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 i ...

in southern

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Geography

Notzingen is east of the district of Esslingen, in a valley between

Kirchheim unter Teck Kirchheim unter Teck (, ; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Kircha'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Esslingen (district), district of Esslingen. It is located on the small river Lauter (Neckar), Lauter, a tributary of the Neckar. It i ...

and Hochdorf. The town is southeast from

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

and from

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 ...

Nearby municipalities

* Wernau (Neckar) * Hochdorf (Plochingen) * Rosswälden * Schlierbach *

History

Prehistory

Archaeological findings from the

Neolithic period The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wid ...

have been discovered in the territory of Notzingen, including a longsword and a burial ground of the Alamanni.

Middle Ages

Notzingen was first mentioned in written records in 1077/1078. King Henry IV confiscated Notzingen from Count Luitold von Achalm due to his support for

Rudolf of Rheinfelden Rudolf of Rheinfelden ( – 15 October 1080) was Duke of Swabia from 1057 to 1079. Initially a follower of his brother-in-law, the Salian emperor Henry IV, his election as German anti-king in 1077 marked the outbreak of the Great Saxon Revolt a ...

. (It is not certain whether this refers to present-day Notzingen; it could also pertain to Orsingen-Nenzingen, near which there was a vanished settlement named Bächlingen.) Sovereignty over Notzingen passed to the Zähringen family and later to the Dukes of Teck. Around 1270, the Alwer family from Kirchheim acquired estates in Notzingen and began calling themselves after their ancestral castle of Tumnau ("Dummenowe") from 1274 onwards. In the 14th century, Notzingen came under the jurisdiction of Württemberg along with the town of Kirchheim unter Teck, to which it has belonged since then. In 1360, a chapel was first mentioned in the area.

Modern Era

Duke Ulrich of Württemberg implemented the Reformation in Notzingen in 1534. The chapel was expanded into a church around 1620. In 1821, the church parish became independent. Even after the introduction of the new administrative division in the Kingdom of Württemberg, founded in 1806, Notzingen remained under the jurisdiction of the Oberamt Kirchheim, to which it had already been subject during the time of Old Württemberg. During the

Nazi era Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

in Württemberg, the district of Wellingen was incorporated into Notzingen in 1934, and in 1938, the municipality of Notzingen was assigned to the new district of Nürtingen. From 1945 to 1952, the municipality was part of the post-war state of Württemberg-Baden, which was established in 1945 in the American Occupation Zone, and from 1952 onwards, it belonged to the new state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1972, during a citizens' hearing, 70.5% voted against the incorporation into

. As a result, the municipality remained independent. Since the administrative reform of 1973, Notzingen has been part of the Esslingen district.

Population Development

1834: 1,035 inhabitants
1861: 1,121 inhabitants
1900: 1,048 inhabitants
1939: 1,130 inhabitants
1946: 1,623 inhabitants
1950: 1,637 inhabitants
1961: 1,892 inhabitants
1970: 2,215 inhabitants
1990: 3,277 inhabitants
1995: 3,512 inhabitants
2000: 3,525 inhabitants
2005: 3,494 inhabitants
2010: 3,552 inhabitants
2015: 3,631 inhabitants
2020: 3,623 inhabitants
2022: 3,631 inhabitants

Politics

Mayor

* 1952 - 1987 Helmut Maier (independent) * 1987 – 2011 Jochen Flogaus (independent) * from 2011 Sven Haumacher (CDU)

Municipal council

The results of the local government elections in May 2014:

Religions

*Protestant: 1941 *Roman Catholic: 815

Demographics

Population development:

Economy and infrastructure

Companies

*Eloxal Barz GmbH und Co. KG. *Le Creuset GmbH

Education

* Notzingen has one basic school and three kindergartens.

Notable peoples from Notzingen

*Werner Niefer (1928–1993), Manager of Mercedes-Benz AG; lived in Notzingen * Hans Ettmayer (born 1946), former Austrian football player lives in Notzingen *Johannes Muehlhaeuser (1804-1868), founder and first President of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod was from Notzingen.

References

External links

Official Internet website of Notzingen
(German) Esslingen (district) {{Esslingen-geo-stub