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Leimen (Baden)

Field	Value
type	Stadt
name	Leimen
image_photo	Rathaus Leimen.jpg
image_caption	Town hall
image_coa	DEU Leimen (Baden) COA.svg
coordinates
image_plan	Leimen in HD.svg
state	Baden-Württemberg
region	Karlsruhe
district	Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
elevation	118
area	20.64
Gemeindeschlüssel	08226041
postal_code	69181
area_code	06224, 06226
licence	HD
website	www.leimen.de
mayor	John Ehret
leader_term	2024–32
Bürgermeistertitel	Oberbürgermeister

Leimen (; ) is a town in north-west Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is about 7 km south of Heidelberg and the fourth largest town of the Rhein-Neckar district after Weinheim, Sinsheim and Wiesloch. It directly borders the Heidelberg district of Rohrbach. Leimen is also the area's industrial centre.

Leimen is located on the Bergstraße (Mountain Road) and on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

In the context of a communal reform in the 1970s, Leimen was newly created from the villages Leimen, Gauangelloch and Sankt Ilgen. In 1981, the state government of Baden-Württemberg granted Leimen the privilege to be called "town." When Leimen's population exceeded 20,000 in 1990, the city council applied for elevation to a Große Kreisstadt which was granted by the state government on 1 April 1992.

History

The first documentary record of Leimen is from 791, when both the Lorsch Abbey and the Diocese of Worms owned land there. First records of the districts are from 1270 for Gauangelloch (a document supposedly from 1016 was found out to be a fake), 1312 for Lingental, around 1300 for Ochsenbach and 1100 for Sankt Ilgen, then called bruch, an Old High German word for bog.

In 1262, the lords of Bruchsal gave Leimen to the Electorate of the Palatinate as a fiefdom and from 1464 on Leimen was part of the Palatinate. In 1579, Leimen was granted the right to celebrate an annual fair and became a marketplace in 1595. In 1674, Leimen was partially destroyed.

Mayors

Johann Ludwig Waldbauer 1838–1844
Heinrich Seitz 1845–1876
Jakob Rehm III. 1876–1882
Leonhard Schneider 1882–1883
Ludwig Endlich 1883–1896
Christoph Lingg 1883–1923
Jakob Weidemaier 1923–1933
Fritz Wisswesser 1933–1945
Jakob Weidemaier 1945
Georg Appel 1946–1948
Otto Hoog 1948–1976
Herbert Ehrbar 1976–2000 (from 1992 Lord Mayor)

Lord Mayor

Wolfgang Ernst 2000–2016
Hans D. Reinwald 2016–2024
since 2024: John Ehret

People, culture and architecture

Leimen consists of the Leimen (proper), nowadays called "Leimen (Mitte)", and the four boroughs Gauangelloch, Lingental, Ochsenbach and Sankt Ilgen.

Despite its industrial roots, Leimen's downtown has maintained a certain quaintness. It is an active town, with a regular cycle of festivals and activities.

At Ochsenbach, there is the NDB NKR.

Notable people

Joseph von Henikstein (1768–1838), businessman, patron of the arts and friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Anne Spiegel (born 1980), politician Alliance 90/The Greens, born in Leimen

Sport

Michael Peter (1949–1997), field hockey player, died locally, team gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Rainer Zietsch (born 1964), footballer who played 339 games and coach
Ralph Götz (born 1967), rugby player and administrator
Boris Becker (born 1967), former world No. 1 tennis player
Rainer Buhmann (born 1981), chess Grandmaster, 2007 and German Chess Champion, 2018
Clemens von Grumbkow (born 1983), rugby union player
Akeem Vargas (born 1990), basketball player, grew up in Leimen

Twin towns – sister cities

Leimen is twinned with:

POR Castanheira de Pera, Portugal
FRA Cernay-lès-Reims, France
CZE Kunín, Czech Republic
POR Mafra, Portugal
FRA Tigy, France
FRA Tinqueux, France

References

[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/wahl/oberbuergermeisterwahl-leimen-2024/ Oberbürgermeisterwahl Leimen 2024], Staatsanzeiger. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
(August 2025). "Partnerstädte". Leimen.
"Partnerschaftsurkunde unterzeichnet". Leimen.

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