Kernen

Name

The name "Kernen im Remstal" was decided by the inhabitants of the municipality and refers to the Kernen, the highest point in the municipality. The previous name, used since the formation of the municipality, was "Stetten-Rommelshausen".

History

Stetten im Remstal and Rommelshausen joined into a single municipality on 20 September 1975 as part of the .

Rommelshausen

Rommelshausen was connected to European railways in 1861 via the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt–Aalen railway, and this connection has greatly enabled the town's growth. It began a period of urban sprawl after from 1945 and into the 1970s to the northwest and southeast. Further developments in the 1990s spread Rommelshausen even further to the south.

Stetten

Stetten also enjoyed a period of growth after World War II and spread to the north and west.

Geography

The municipality (Gemeinde) of Kernen im Remstal is found in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Kernen is lies at the southern edge of the district, along its border with Stuttgart and the district of Esslingen am Neckar. The municipality is physically located in the . Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of 493 m Normalnull (NN) to a low of 239 m NN.

Demographics

Population development:

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Politics

Kernen has two boroughs (Ortsteile): Rommelshausen and Stetten.

Coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms for Kernen shows six diamonds, the upper three blue and the lower three black, upon a field of yellow. The diamonds are holdovers from the coat of arms of the municipality of Stetten im Remstal, which was itself derived from the arms of the House of Teck, which had been used outright by Rommelshausen. This coat of arms, and an accompanying municipal flag, were awarded to Kernen by the Rems-Murr district office on 3 January 1977.

Transportation

Kernen is connected to Germany's system of roadways by and to its system of railways by the Stuttgart S-Bahn railway's S2 line, which has a station in the municipality at Rommelshausen. Local public transportation is provided by the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart.

People

• Karl Mauch (1837-1875), German explorer
• Otto Pfleiderer (1839-1908), German protestant theologian
• Jörg Schlaich (1934-2001), German engineer
• Wolfgang Dietrich (born 1948), German businessman
• Dorothee Schlegel (born 1959), German politician

References

References

1. "Kernen im Remstal". [[Baden-Württemberg]].
2. "Kernen (Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland) - Einwohnerzahlen, Grafiken, Karte, Lage, Wetter und Web-Informationen".