Rutesheim
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Rutesheim is a German town located in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

 in the district of Böblingen
Böblingen (district)
Böblingen is a district in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Calw, Enz, Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart, and the districts Esslingen and Tübingen.- History :...

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Location

Rutesheim is situated directly to the Highway 8 (Bundesautobahn 8
Bundesautobahn 8
is an autobahn in southern Germany that runs 497 km from the Luxembourg A13 motorway at Schengen via Neunkirchen, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich to the Austrian West Autobahn near Salzburg....

), 5 km from the town Leonberg
Leonberg
Leonberg is a town in the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg about 10 miles to the west of Stuttgart, the state capital. Approximately 45,000 people live in Leonberg, making it the third biggest borough in the rural district of Böblingen .Leonberg is most famous for its picturesque market...

, 18 km from the town Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 and just 22 km from Airport Stuttgart and from the new exhibition center, 7 km way west from the town Heimsheim
Heimsheim
Heimsheim is a town in the Enz district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 16 km southeast of Pforzheim, and 24 km west of Stuttgart....


History

Rutesheim was first mentioned in the year 767
767
Year 767 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 767 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.-Africa:* The Kharijite Berbers of Tlemcen and Tiaret...

 in a deed from the convent of Lorsch
Lorsch codex
The Lorsch Codex is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 AD in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany. It consists of 460 pages in large format containing more than 3800 entries...

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The council of Ministers decided on 22. January 2008, to award Rutesheim on 1. July 2008 the designation town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

. Prime minister Oettinger assigned on 26. June 2008 the deed of the town in a ceremonial act.

Mayor

Since 2002 Dieter Hofman is the major of the city. On January 2010 he was reelected for the next eight years with 98, 2 % of the votes.

City Council

The current legislative period lasts until 2014. Distribution of seats after the election of June 2009:
Unabhängige Bürger Rutesheim (UBR) 5 seats
Bürgerliche Wählervereinigung Rutesheim (BWV) 5 seats
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU) 4 seats
Grün-Alternative Bürgerliste (GABL) 3 seats
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) 2 seats

Partnerships

  • Scheibbs
    Scheibbs
    Scheibbs is a town in Austria. It is in the Scheibbs district of Lower Austria.Scheibbs is the birthplace of West Bromwich Albion football player Paul Scharner....

     (Niederösterreich), since 1972
  • Saalburg-Ebersdorf
    Saalburg-Ebersdorf
    Saalburg-Ebersdorf is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, 10 km southwest of Schleiz, and 30 km west of Plauen....

     (Thüringen), since 1989
  • Perosa Argentina
    Perosa Argentina
    Perosa Argentina is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin, in the val Chisone....

     (Italien), friendship treaty since October 2008

Religions

There are three Evangelic, one Evangelic-Methodistic and one Roman Catholic as well as two New-Apostolic churches in Rutesheim.

Sports

The most well-known sports club from Rutesheim is SKV Rutesheim
SKV Rutesheim
The SKV Rutesheim is a German association football club from the city of Rutesheim.- History :The Sport- und Kulturvereinigung Rutesheim was founded on 30 September 1945...

. Its 1st football team is playing in the seven-rated Landesliga Württemberg.
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