Walldorf

Walldorf is a metropolis within the Rhein Neckar Kreis district inside the country of Baden Wurttemberg in Germany. Walldorf is domestic to the arena's 7^th largest software program business enterprise SAP, and the birthplace of the entrepreneur John Jacob Astor, of the Astor circle of relatives. The city is cited, although not really named, in John le Carre novel Absolute Friends plenty of which is about in Heidelberg.

There is a group of Hallstatt way of life barrows in the Hochholz woods, close to the workplaces of SAP Deutschland. The earliest documentary point out of the agreement happens as Waltorf in a 770 deed issued through the Abbey of Lorsch. The Electorate of the Palatinate received Walldorf as an Imperial fief in 1230.

The city suffered a good deal for the duration of the 30 Years' War of 1618 to 1648, and in 1689 was completely destroyed within the path of the French invasion in the course of 9 Years' War. The place was settled anew by means of spiritual refugees, among them the predecessors of John Jacob Astor, Waldensians from Piedmont. With the 1803 German Mediatisation Walldorf fell to Baden. In 1843 saw the building of the Rheintalbahn this railway decisively promoted economic development.