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Backnang | ||
federal state | Baden-Wuerttemberg | |
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Residents | 37.253 (2019) | |
height | 271 m | |
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Backnang is a city northeast of Stuttgart in Neckar basin in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
background
Backnang is located in the Rems-Murr district in an eastern bay of the Neckar basin, it is surrounded by the mountain ranges of the Swabian-Franconian Forest with the Löwenstein Mountains, the Murrhardt Forest and the Welzheimer forest as well as the ridge in the south Berglen. It is traversed by the Murr.
Backnang was first mentioned in a document in 1067, had city rights by 1230 and became part of Württemberg around 1300. In the early modern era, tanners and weavers dominated the craft. With the industrialization of the early 19th century, the city continued to grow in size and importance, the city walls were torn down.
Backnang has been a major district town since 1956. Today, the districts of Steinbach, Heiningen, Maubach, Waldrems and Strümpfelbach and a few other residential areas still belong to Backnang.
getting there
By plane
The nearest airport is that Stuttgart Airport(IATA: STR).
In the district Heiningen is there a Special landing site with the ICAO identifierEDSHoperated by an air sports club.
By train
The Murrbahn comes out Stuttgart and leads over Waiblingen to the 1 Backnang train station and further after Gaildorf. The route from Stuttgart to Backnang also belongs as a line S3 to the Stuttgart S-Bahn. The line takes you via the so-called Kleine Murrbahn S4 the S-Bahn Stuttgart over Marbach am Neckar and Ludwigsburg also to Stuttgart.
In the street
The main artery is the heading south after Winnenden leads and from there is expanded like a motorway and over Waiblingen and Fellbach leads to Stuttgart. In a northerly direction the
to Sulzbach an der Murr and further over Mainhardt to Schwäbisch Hall.
The German half-timbered street leads through the place.
mobility
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Tourist Attractions
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- The 1 historical town hall by 1716
- The 2 Townhouse
- The evangelical 3 Collegiate Church of St. Pankratius
- The Stiftshof
- 4 District Court formerly ducal castle
- The 5 City tower
- Goose fountain
- Market fountain
- Mount of Olives, path of reflection
- Hungarian German Museum
- Kübler smithy
- 6 Galli Theater
- Katharinenhof Palace in the Strümpfelbach district
activities
- Visit to the leisure pool 1 Murrbäder Wonnemar
shop
- Weltladen, Schillerstraße 11, with a remarkably wide range of fairly traded goods.
kitchen
nightlife
accommodation
health
Practical advice
trips
- To Ludwigsburg into the blooming baroque
- To Stuttgart to Wilhelma
- To the Ebnisee or to Swabian Park in the Swabian-Franconian Forest
- Neighboring places clockwise from north: Oppenweiler, Sulzbach an der Murr, Floodplain forest, Weissach in the valley, Allmersbach in the valley, Winnenden, People Bach, Burgstetten, Kirchberg on the Murr, Aspach (near Backnang)
literature
Web links
- http://www.backnang.de/ - Official website of Backnang