Leimen

Leimen is a city in North West Baden Wurttemberg, Germany. It is ready 7 km south of Heidelberg and the 3rd largest town of the Rhein Neckar district after Weinheim and Sinsheim. It is likewise the location's commercial centre. Leimen is positioned at the Bergstrasse Mountain Road and at the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. In the context of a communal reform in the 70s, Leimen became newly comprised of the villages Leimen, Gauangelloch and Sankt Ilgen.

In 1981, the state authorities of Baden Wurttemberg granted Leimen the privilege to be called city. When Leimen's population passed 20,000 in 1990, the town council carried out for elevation to a Grosse Kreisstadt which became granted by way of the country authorities on April 1, 1992. The first documentary file of Leimen is from 791, whilst each the Lorsch Abbey and the Diocese of Worms owned land there. First statistics of the districts are from 1270 for Gauangelloch a report supposedly from 1016 become found out to be a faux, 1312 for Lingental, round 1300 for Achenbach and 1100 for Sankt Ilgen, then called bruch, an Old High German phrase for bathroom.