Holzmaden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that lies between Stuttgart 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 period.

Demographics

Date Population
1671 43
1750 219
3 December 1834¹ 488
3 December 1861¹ 557
1 December 1900¹ 564
17 May 1939¹ 697
29 October 1946¹ 988
13 September 1950¹ 1,063
Date Population
6 June 1961¹ 1,290
27 May 1970¹ 1,520
25 May 1987¹ 1,646
31 December 1990 1,765
31 December 1995 1,909
31 December 2000 2,068
31 December 2005 2,145
31 December 2010 2,131

1=census results

Mayors

  • Christian Burkhardt (1945–1952)
  • Otto Vogt (1952–1982)
  • Jürgen Berner (1982–1998)
  • Jürgen Riehle (1998–2014)
  • Susanne Jakob (2014–2021)[3]
  • Florian Schepp (since 2021)[1]
Holzmaden-Town hall

Infrastructure and facilities

The community is located north of the Bundesautobahn 8, 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

Harpoceras falcifer from the Holzmaden Lagerstätte

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

References

  1. ^ a b Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 12 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
  3. ^ Würdiger Abschied und Neubeginn, Der Teckbote, 7. April 2014.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzmaden
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