Leimen (Baden) Leimen is a town in north-west Baden-Württemberg, Germany . It is about south of Heidelberg and the third largest town of the Rhein-Neckar district after Weinheim and Sinsheim . It is also the area's industrial centre. Leimen is located on the Bergstraße 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 April 1 , 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, 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 market place 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 1976–2000Lord Mayor Wolfgang Ernst 2000–2016 since 2016: Hans D. ReinwaldPeople, culture and architecture Leimen consists of the Leimen, nowadays called "Leimen ", 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,, businessman and financier, art patron and friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bert Hellinger,, psychotherapist , associated with a therapeutic method best known as Family Constellations , book author Michael Peter,, field hockey player, gold medallist of the 1972 Summer Olympics Rainer Zietsch , footballer Ralph Götz,, rugby player and administrator Boris Becker,, tennis player , former World No. 1 Clemens von Grumbkow,, rugby union player Akeem Vargas,, basketball player , grew up in LeimenTwin towns Mafra, Portugal . Castanheira de Pera, Portugal Tigy, France Tinqueux, France Cernay-lès-Reims, France Kunín, Czech Republic Elek, Hungary Rodewisch, Saxony and Langenhagen, Lower Saxony , are partner cities of Leimen.
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