Villingen-Schwenningen

Villingen-Schwenningen
Town
View of Villingen
Coat of arms
Location of Villingen-Schwenningen within Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis district
Villingen-Schwenningen Villingen-Schwenningen
Coordinates: 48°03′37″N 08°27′31″E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis
Subdivisions	Stadtbezirk
Government
• Mayor	Jürgen Roth (CDU)
Area
• Total	165.47 km2 (63.89 sq mi)
Elevation	704 m (2,310 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	88,213
• Density	530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	78001–78056
Dialling codes	07721, 07720, 07425, 07705
Vehicle registration	VS
Website	www.villingen-schwenningen.de

Villingen-Schwenningen (German pronunciation: [ˈfɪlɪŋən ˈʃvɛnɪŋən]; Low Alemannic: Villinge-Schwenninge) is a town in Schwarzwald-Baar, a district (Landkreis) in Freiburg. It has 85,838 inhabitants (as of September 2019). It is also the capital of Schwarzwald-Baar.

Geography

Villingen-Schwenningen lies on the eastern edge of the Black Forest about 700 metres (2,300 feet) above sea level.

Boroughs

• Villingen
• Schwenningen
• Obereschach
• Weilersbach
• Weigheim
• Mühlhausen
• Marbach
• Rietheim
• Pfaffenweiler
• Herzogenweiler
• Tannheim

Mayors and Lord mayors

Villingen

• 1912–1930: Guido Lehmann
• 1931–1933: Adolf Gremmelspacher
• 1933: Gutmann, temporary
• 1933–1937: Hermann Schneider
• 1937–1940: Karl Berckmüller
• 1940–1945: Hermann Riedel
• 1945–1946: Walter Bräunlich
• 1946: Edwin Hartmann
• 1946–1950: Edwin Nägele
• 1950–1972: Severin Kern

Schwenningen

• 1797–1816: Erhard Bürk
• 1816–1819: (Vogt)
• 1819–1821: Thomas Wegler
• 1821–1825: ?
• 1825–1835: Matthias Rapp
• 1835–1841: Johann Georg Koch
• 1841–1852: Andreas Bürk
• 1852–1857: Christian Strohm
• 1857–1887: Erhard Müller
• 1887–1912: David Würth
• 1912–1925: Emil Braunagel
• 1925–1930: Ingo Lang von Langen
• 1930–1948: Otto Gönnenwein
• 1949–1962: Hans Kohler
• 1962–1972: Gerhard Gebauer

Villingen-Schwenningen

• 1972–1994: Gerhard Gebauer (SPD)
• 1994–2002: Manfred Matusza (CDU)
• 2002–2019: Rupert Kubon (SPD)
• since 2019: Jürgen Roth (CDU)

Population

Number of inhabitants

Date Inhabitants 31 December 1972 78,436 31 December 1980 78,904 31 December 1990 78,218 31 December 1995 80,734 31 December 2005 81,778 31 December 2015 84,674 31 December 2017 84,818 31 December 2018 85,181

Source: State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg

Largest communities of foreigners

Italy
Turkey
Croatia
Romania
Syria
Serbia
Greece
Poland
Kosovo
Bosnia

Main sights

• Town wall
• Municipal Art Gallery
• Franciscan Monastery Museum
• Schwenningen Clock Museum
• Minster of Our Lady
• Theater am Ring
• Wanne Observation Tower, one of the oldest towers built of iron
• Internationales Luftfahrt-Museum, aviation museum

Twin towns – sister cities

Villingen-Schwenningen is twinned with:

• Pontarlier, France
• La Valette-du-Var, France
• Tula, Russia
• Savona, Italy
• Zittau, Germany
• Friedrichsthal, Germany

Notable people

• Robert Prosinečki (born 1969), Croatian footballer and coach
• Dennis Seidenberg (born 1981), ice hockey player

Other websites

Media related to Villingen-Schwenningen at Wikimedia Commons

• Villingen-Schwenningen: history & pictures Archived 2018-07-01 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
• The siege of Villingen in 1702 Archived 2010-07-21 at the Wayback Machine