Type: | Stadt |
Image Coa: | Wappen Wendlingen am Neckar.svg |
Coordinates: | 48.6747°N 9.3817°W |
Image Plan: | Wendlingen am Neckar in ES.svg |
State: | Baden-Württemberg |
Region: | Stuttgart |
District: | Esslingen |
Elevation: | 294 |
Area: | 12.15 |
Postal Code: | 73240 |
Area Code: | 07024 |
Licence: | ES |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 08 1 16 071 |
Divisions: | 3 |
Website: | www.wendlingen.de |
Mayor: | Steffen Weigel[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 27 |
Party: | SPD |
Wendlingen is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the Neckar and Lauter rivers, 27 km southeast of Stuttgart.
The town grew in size, officially, on 1 April 1940, when three separate communities of Wendlingen, Unterboihingen and Bodelshofen merged.
The town also is the headquarters of the tool company Festool.
The local council in Wendlingen has 22 members. The mayor is the president of the local council and has one vote. Communal elections in Baden-Württemberg 2014 had the following official results.[4]
Political parties and community voters | % 2014 | Sitze 2014 | % 2009 | Sitze 2009 | --> | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | align=right | 34,75 | align=right | 8 | align=right | 29,0 | align=right | 6 |
Greens | Alliance '90/The Greens | align=right | 23,39 | align=right | 5 | align=right | 23,2 | align=right | 5 |
FW | Free voters Baden-Württemberg | align=right | 22,83 | align=right | 5 | align=right | 25,5 | align=right | 6 |
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | align=right | 19,03 | align=right | 4 | align=right | 22,3 | align=right | 5 |
Total | align=right | 100,0 | align=right | 22 | align=right | 100,0 | align=right | 22 | |
Voter turnout | 47,16% | 49,3% |
See main article: article and List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany.
Wendlingen is twinned with: