Renningen

Renningen is a town in the district of Boblingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. It is located 18 km west of Stuttgart. Renningen lies in an area which even within the Early Stone Age become thickly populated. Proof of this are the various remains discovered of settlements from the linear pottery way of life. Remains of settlements determined to originate with the Urnenfelderkultur as nicely the Hallstatt- and La Tene tradition, offer proof of agreement throughout diverse prehistoric eras.

The evaluation of archeological digs and reveals display expansion of early Alemannic settlements inside the Renningen Basin north and south of the Rankbach. Excavations via the then State Office for Historical Monuments in Baden-Wurttemberg within the Raite Industrial Park unearthed a number of farmsteads comprising 3-naved longhouses, storehouses and pit houses.

A second agreement within the Neuwiesenackern advanced into a huge agreement, that can now be identified as Altheim, first cited in the 12^th century. During the Middle Ages, numerous different areas of settlement sprang up alongside this settlement. In the 12^th and 13^th century the population began to gravitate toward the two present-day centres of the town, given that around 1200 the enlargement of the outlying areas of the town seems to have stopped. Several in advance unearths within the centre of Renningen show, that an older middle settlement exists on the site of the later village.