Fellbach

Fellbach (German pronunciation: [ˈfɛlbax] ⓘ) is a mid-sized town on the north-east edge of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

After World War II it reached a population of more than 20,000 in 1950 and therefore received the status "Große Kreisstadt".

The town Fellbach was expanded with the former municipality Schmiden on 1 January 1973,[3] and Oeffingen on 1 April 1974.

Furthermore, there are in the urban area Fellbach the dialed villages Erbach, Immenrot and Gretenbach.

After Fellbach had grown to the largest Württemberg village, the community was named October 14, 1933 for city.

In Oeffingen was an old Catholic church in the outskirts, which was heavily damaged by an air raid during World War II.

The following municipalities were amalgamated to Fellbach: The population figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates of the State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg (only primary residences).

Then she received a coat of arms with a blue grape as a symbol of viticulture with the silver F before they took 1956 today's crest.

Many of the long-established retail stores were closed by competitive pressure and a changing consumer behavior.

The Bundesstraße 14 (Schwäbisch Hall -Stuttgart) led through the city until 1992, then the 1600m long Kappelberg Tunnel was opened.

The Stuttgarter Zeitung appears in Fellbach and Kernen im Remstal also with this self-produced local section.

[6] The Volkshochschule Unteres Remstal is a collaborative community college of Waiblingen, Fellbach, Weinstadt and Korb.

This museum offers to nearly 100 m² a journey through the almost complete series of devices of all radio equipment, which was used after the Second World War until now by the Red Cross, the police, firefighters, emergency services and technical relief.

[8] Fellbach architectural appearance is on the one hand by his past as a wine village marked, on the other by the stormy industrial development since the early 20th century.

In Old-Fellbach, former wine village at the foot of Kappel Berg, still dominate rural timbered houses from the 16th to the 18th century the big picture.

By ill modernization in recent decades the historically grown building structures were ever broken, so that Fellbach has no longer a uniform cityscape today.

Even the recent urban redevelopment measure are again several half-timbered houses like by demolition victims, including in the area of newly built Fellbacher market and currently in the rear street.

In the 1950s, emerged on the outskirts several skyscrapers and numerous interspersed with green areas living quarters in the lower town.

With the eastern ring road, built in 1989, the population threshold was further postponed into Schmidenen field.

In contrast, the Western, aligned against Stuttgart suburbs long remained untouched, even to a possible annexation by the state capital counteract.

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