Boblingen

Boblingen is a city in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, seat of Boblingen County. Sindelfingen and Boblingen are contiguous. Boblingen turned into based by means of Count Wilhelm von Tubingen-Boblingen in 1253. Wurttemberg obtained the town in 1357, and on 12 May 1525 one of the bloodiest battles of the German Peasants' War passed off in Boblingen. Jorg Truchsess von Waldburg attacked a pressure of 15,000 armed peasants; 3,000 were killed. By the quit of the 30 Years' War in 1648, the populace of Boblingen were decreased to 600.

After the established order of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Boblingen have become the seat of an Oberamt in 1818. The metropolis become connected to the railroad community in 1879, allowing industrialization to take vicinity. In the context of administrative reform in 1938, Boblingen Oberamt became Boblingen Landkreis. During the World War I, an air force base became set up.

It went into provider on 16 August 1915. It had a vast impact on the further improvement of the city. In 1925 the air force base became the Landesflughafen of Baden-Wurttemberg known as Boblingen Airport. The plane pioneer Hanns Klemm hooked up his business enterprise "Klemm Leichtflugzeugbau GmbH" subsequent to it. Until the Second World War it changed into the primary employer in Boblingen.