Neckarsulm is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart, and part of the district of Heilbronn., Neckarsulm had 26,800 inhabitants. The rivers Neckar and Sulm join there, hence the name, which is often misunderstood or mispronounced as "Neckars Ulm", an incongruity that would mean the Ulm of the Neckar, as the city of Ulm is well to the east on the Danube at the border between Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria. Neckarsulm is famous for being ranked first in the German Solarbundesliga, a competition in renewable energy installations. Its other fame is that the Neckarsulm-Gundelsheim Weingaertnergenossenschaft is reputed to be the oldest in Germany; trollinger and lemberger are the principal varieties of grape that are grown.
The numbers are estimates, census results or data from statistical offices.
¹ Census results ² The population increase between 1950 and 1961 comes from the new district Neckarsulm-Amorbach. In this place lived in 1955 around 3.00 people.
Economy
, owner of Lidl and Kaufland — the largest European grocery chain — has its head office in Neckarsulm. The city was the home of the car manufacturer NSU which was taken over by Volkswagen in 1969 and merged with Auto Union to create Audi. The former NSU factory is now one of Audi's two principal assembly plants in Germany – and manufactures the company's larger, high end models such as the Audi A6, A7, and A8, the latter is made in the Audi Aluminium Plant, and Audi's performance subsidiary Audi Sport GmbH is also located here. The NSU logo on early vehicles stands for the city name Neckarsulm.. Further notable companies, headquartered in Neckarsulm, include :de:Fujitsu TDS|Fujitsu TDS, Bechtle AG and Rheinmetall Automotive AG.
Personality
Freemen
1894: Franz Joseph Maucher was 35 years chaplain and parish priest in Neckarsulm.
1911: Gottlob Banzhaf was Kommerzienrat and after the death of his brother Christian Schmidt first director the Neckarsulmer Strickmaschinenfabrik AG from 1884 to 1910.
1930: Ernst Josef Bauer was a teacher and successful author of the home game "Peter Heinrich Merkle, the Löwenwirt of Neckarsulm".
1933: Christian Mergenthaler, NSDAP politician, Prime Minister from 1933 to 1945 of Württemberg. On 27 July 1933 the Neckarsulm council awarded him honorary citizenship. On 28 August 1945, it was deprived him again
1949: Johannes Häußler was about 30 years with interruption mayor.
2004: Kurt Bauer was 36 years city council, deputy mayor, SPD parliamentary leader, chairman of the SPD local association.
2008: Volker Blust was from 1976 head of the main and personnel office and was elected in 1992 Mayor of Neckarsulm.
Wilhelm Ganzhorn was in Neckarsulm 1859–1878 senior judge. Ganzhorn was a poet, and was known as the author of the text for the song "In the loveliest meadow".
Albert Roder was an engineer, who became known for the construction of motorcycles. He was from 1946 to 1961 chief designer at NSU.
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