Winnenden

Winnenden is a small metropolis within the Rems Murr district of the Stuttgart Region in Baden Wurttemberg in southwest Germany. It lies in wine growing vicinity approx. 20 km northeast of Stuttgart and has a populace of fewer than 28,000. The town is home to the Karcher Company, makers of cleaning gadget specifically pressure washers. The earliest document of Winnenden is found in a record of 1,181 in which Gottfried of Schulenburg Winnenden is mentioned as a witness attesting that Emperor Friedrich I held the fort in the city. Around 1200 the castle, which was then referred to as Windin, got here into the ownership of Heinrich of Neuffen.

In 1277 it turned into transferred to Conrad von Weinberg. On 10 October 1325 the fortress and metropolis had been bought to Wurttemberg. In the German Peasants' War Winnenden become first beneath the control of the Armer Conrad or the peasants’ navy, but by 1519 it changed into underneath the manager of the Swabian League. In 1616 a pandemic took the lives of approximately half of the population of Winnenden. During the 30 Years' War the metropolis become pillaged twice, in 1638 and 1643, and Imperial, French and Swedish troops now and again occupied Winnenden at some point of this struggle.