Korntal-Münchingen is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg (district)

Ludwigsburg is a district in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Heilbronn, Rems-Murr, the district-free city Stuttgart, and the districts Böblingen and Enz.-History:...

, Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

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, Germany. It is situated at the northwestern border of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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 and 8 km of its centre, and 10 km southwest of Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg urban district with about 87,000 inhabitants...

. Korntal was begun in the 19th Century when King Wilhelm of Württemberg

Württemberg

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 permitted a group of Württemberg Pietists to erect a settlement based on the settlement congregations of the Herrnhut

Herrnhut

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er Bruedergemeine or Moravian Church.

Location

Korntal-Münchingen is in the Strohgäu, at elevations between 285 and 405 meters. It lies directly on the northwestern border of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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Constituent communities

Korntal-Münchingen was created from the merger of the city Korntal and the community Münchingen. It is divided into three districts: Korntal, Münchingen, and Kallenberg. The official designation of the districts is Korntal-Münchingen, area Korntal; Korntal-Münchingen, area Münchingen;
Korntal-Münchingen, area Kallenberg. Area Korntal consists of the former city of Korntal, and area Münchingen consists of the former village of Münchingen. Area Kallenberg consists of the former settlements of Birkach, Leinfelden, Rugelberc, and Glemsmühle.

History

The present city was founded on 1 January 1975, in the course of district reform in Baden-Württemberg, when the city of Korntal and the community of Münchingen were combined.

Korntal

The district Korntal was first documented in 1297 in the records of Sindelfingen. Korntal was an estate until 1819. In 1819 the town of Korntal was founded as a civic-religious community on the model of the communities established in Germany by the Moravian Church. In connection with the construction of the Great Hall of Württemberg, William I

William I

-Kings:* William I of Bimbia * William I of England , known as William the Conqueror* William I, German Emperor * William I of Scotland , known as William the Lion* William I of Sicily...

 of Wuerttemberg granted certain special rights to the community. These were lost in 1919 with the Weimar constitution

Weimar constitution

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; at this time the community was no longer connected to the Moravian Church. In 1868 a connection was made to the railway network (Black Forest railway between Zuffenhausen and Calw). On 30 June 1958, the community of Korntal gained the status of a city.

Münchingen

Münchingen was first documented in 1130 in the "Zwiefalter Chronicle", and was ceded in 1336 by the sons of Ulrich von Asperg to Count Ulrich of Württemberg. St. Catharine's Hospital was built in 1278 and a mill was built in 1381. In 1558 the "old" Münchinger Castle was built; the "new" castle was built in 1735. During the Thirty Years' War

Thirty Years' War

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, a large part of the village was destroyed. The first courthouse was built in 1599 and was rebuilt in 1687. The St. John's Lutheran Church was newly built from 1645 to 1650. A new school was built in 1645, and then rebuilt in 1743-1744. In 1906, Münchingen received a rail connection (Strohgäubahn), a single-track regional train from Feuerbach

Stuttgart-Feuerbach

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 to Weissach

Weissach

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International relations

Korntal-Münchingen is twinned

Town twinning

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 with:: Mirande

Mirande

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 (Toulouse): Tubize

Tubize

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(Waterloo)