Filderstadt

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Town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Filderstadt within Esslingen district

(2015–23) Christoph Traub^[1] (CDU)Area

• Total38.54 km² (14.88 sq mi)Elevation

371 m (1,217 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total46,188 • Density1,200/km² (3,100/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

70794

Dialling codes0711 and 07158Vehicle registrationESWebsitewww.filderstadt.de

Filderstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈfɪldɐˌʃtat] ^ⓘ; Swabian: Fildorsdadd) is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located approximately 13 km south of Stuttgart.

Filderstadt is located next to the Stuttgart Airport and the new Trade Fair. Line S2 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn terminates at Filderstadt station.

Filderstadt was created as a town in 1975 from five smaller villages called Bernhausen, Bonlanden, Plattenhardt, Sielmingen and Harthausen.

From 1978 to 2005, it played host to the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, a WTA Tier II event.

Princess Claire of Luxembourg was born here on 21 March 1985.

German writer Michael Ende, author of The Neverending Story, died in Filderstadt in 1995.

Economy

Contact Air once had its headquarters in Filderstadt.^[3]

Notable people

Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), Swabian poet, held in Bernhäuser Jakobuskirche his first sermon and lived during his time as a vicar in 1829 a few months in the Plattenhardt rectory
Michael Ende (1929–1995), writer of books for children, (Die unendliche Geschichte, Momo), died in Bonlanden (Filderklinik)
Roman Herzog (1934–2017), politician (CDU), former German President, lived during his tenure as interior minister of Baden-Württemberg (1980–1983) from 1978 five years in the Ludwigstraße (Ludwig street) in Bernhausen
Paul Maar (born 1937), writer and illustrator, taught in the 1970s for several years as an art teacher at the Eduard-Spranger-Gymnasium in Bernhausen
Laura Siegemund (born 1988), tennis player
Helen Grobert (born 1992), cyclist
Marvin Plattenhardt (born 1992), soccer player at Hertha BSC
Leonie Adam (born 1993), trampoline gymnast

Politics

The most recent mayoral election was held on 5 Juli 2015, and the results were as follows:


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Christoph Traub	Christian Democratic Union	6,826	51.0
	Gabriele Dönig-Poppensieker	Independent	4,403	32.9
	Georg Müller	Christian Democratic Union	1,867	13.9
	Joachim Thier-Ueltzen	Alternative for Germany	247	1.84
Other			50	0.37
Valid votes			13,393	99.2
Invalid votes			113	0.8
Total			13,506	100.0
Electorate/voter turnout			34,785	38.83
Sources: [1] [2]

The most recent municipal election result, of 2019, was as follows:


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Free Voters Baden-Württemberg (FW)	167,411	29.4	9
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	125,390	22.0	7
	Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)	125,080	22.0	7
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	84,767	14.9	5
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	45,748	8.0	3
	The Left (Die Linke)	20,821	3.7	1
Valid votes		19,826	96.3
Invalid votes		762	3.7
Total		20,588	100.0	32
Electorate/voter turnout		34,687	59.4
Source: [3]

Twin towns – sister cities

Filderstadt is twinned with:^[4]

Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, France
Oschatz, Germany
Poltava, Ukraine
Selby, England, United Kingdom
La Souterraine, France

References

^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 12 September 2021.
^ "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.
^ "Impressum." Contact Air. 17 July 2012. Retrieved on 7 January 2015. "Contact Air Flugdienst GmbH + Co. Gottlieb-Manz-Straße 2 70794 Filderstadt"
^ "Partnerstädte". filderstadt.de (in German). Filderstadt. Retrieved 2019-11-30.