Ettlingen is a City south of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg. It is after Bruchsal the second largest city in the District of Karlsruhe and a Medium-sized centre for the neighbouring communities.
Since the territorial reform in Baden-Württemberg in the early 1970s, the urban area has consisted of the town centre and the districts of Bruchhausen, Ettlingenweier, Oberweier, Schluttenbach, Schöllbronn and Spessart.
The history of the town of Ettlingen here Excerpts from the community page:
In the first and second centuries AD, the area was colonised by the Romans, as evidenced by numerous finds such as godstones, tools, vessels and coins.
788The first written evidence of Ettlingen, then known as „Ediningom“, can be found in a deed of donation from the monastery of Weissenburg in Alsace. The year is considered to be the year in which Ettlingen was first mentioned, even though the settlement as such had already existed for some time.
The affiliation to the Weißenburg monastery is shown in the seal, which shows a key. This is the symbol for St Peter and Paul. Above it is the diagonal bar of Baden. This depiction can be found in the town hall, 1st floor, in the transition from the town hall to the tower.
965The village called „Ediningom“ is granted market rights by Emperor Otto the Great, thus establishing the central function of the town.
1192Presumably in this year, Emperor Henry VI, one of Barbarossa's sons, elevated the market town of Ettlingen to the status of a town and thus granted it the right to fortify itself. The town wall, which is still visible today, is built around the town centre in several phases.
The southern part of the old town between Alb and the AVG railway line will be doubly fortified with a double trench system, while the northern part of the old town between Alb and Pforzheimer Strasse will be given a single fortification but with towers such as the Lauerturm at the corners for additional protection.
In order to maintain the functionality of the moats and walls, a considerable amount of money had to be set aside in the municipal budget. When the French breached the town in 1689, the town walls began to decline as an effective defence against enemies. In the 18th century, the moats were drained and used as pasture. Today they are wide thoroughfares.
1219Margrave Hermann V of Baden becomes Ettlingen's feudal lord, while the Baden house monastery of Lichtental takes over the patronage of St Martin's Church from 1245 instead of Weissenburg Abbey. The Weissenburg signum - the Peter's key - disappears from the Ettlingen coat of arms, making way for the white tower on a blue background alongside the Baden colours of yellow and red.
1462Margrave Jakob I of Baden built the first paper mill in Baden in addition to the existing sawmills, oil mills and grinding mills. This established an industry that cemented Ettlingen's reputation as a paper manufacturing town.
1689During the Palatinate War of Succession, the town was almost completely burnt down by troops of the French King Louis XIV. All documents and church records were burnt.
The following thirty years were devoted to the reconstruction of public and private buildings. This decisive moment is captured in a stained glass window on the 1st floor of the town hall: Margravine Augusta Sibylla receives the construction plan for St Martin's Church from the hands of master builder Ludwig Michael Rohrer, as it was to be built after the destruction as a Baroque hall church and still exists today.
Grouped around this scene are other important buildings in the town, such as the town hall, the castle and private buildings, some of which were created according to an identical construction plan.
1727Margravine Sibylla Augusta chooses Ettlingen as her widow's residence. Court architect Johann Michael Rohrer is commissioned to rebuild Ettlingen Palace. Rohrer gives the south wing Baroque features, calls in the fresco painter Lucca Antonio Colomba and the plasterer Donato Riccardo Retti for the interior design and finally adds a palace chapel to the existing palace complex at Margravine Sibylla's request. The chapel was dedicated to St John Nepomuk, a Bohemian cleric and martyr who had just been elevated to the honour of saints and to whom the margravine felt an affinity, not least for reasons of her own country (she had grown up in Schlackenwerth near Karlsbad). She therefore commissioned the best fresco painter of her time, the Bavarian artist Cosmas Damian Asam, to decorate the Ettlingen palace chapel with wall frescoes and a dome painting depicting the life, suffering and death of her favourite saint. Asam completed this extremely large-scale work within ten weeks in the summer of 1732.
The picture shows a view of the baroque rooms in the south wing of the castle along the AVG route.
1737/1738In the same year in which the Baroque reconstruction of the nave of St Martin's Church, which dates back to the Frankish period, becomes a stone showpiece of all Western architectural forms, the citizens of Ettlingen are able to complete the construction of their new town hall. With its beautifully structured façade made of red sandstone - designed by Johann Peter Ernst Rohrer, the brother of Sibylla Augusta's court architect - the defiant tower and its equally baroque dome form an architectural counterpoint to St Martin's Church and, together with it, is one of the town's architectural landmarks.
1771The Catholic dynasty of the Baden-Baden margraves dies out, Ettlingen becomes part of the Protestant Margraviate of Baden-Durlach.
1796The „Battle of Malsch“ or „Bataille d'Ettlingen“ - as it is called on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris - in which Archduke Charles of Austria and the French General Moreau fight a battle at the gates of Ettlingen.
1805/1809Napoleon briefly takes up quarters in Ettlingen Castle during his military campaigns.
1836The spinning and weaving mill is founded and soon becomes the third largest employer in Baden. This brings skilled workers from predominantly Protestant countries - Württemberg, Switzerland and Alsace - to Ettlingen and leads to a confessional mix of the population and the founding of a Protestant parish.
1848/1849Ettlingen provides an important leader in the Baden Revolution, Philipp Thiebauth, who goes into exile for several years after the uprising fails. He travelled via Switzerland to Liverpool in England and returned after the amnesty as elected mayor of Ettlingen.
1870/1871After the Franco-Prussian War, Ettlingen's upward trend continued steadily. The returning Philipp Thiebauth, who was elected mayor of the town at least three times in succession from 1870, played a major role in this. His era saw the construction of a water pipeline and a school building, the expansion of the non-commissioned officers' school in the castle and the creation of the conditions for the construction of the Alb Valley railway, which was put into operation around ten years after his death in 1897.
1894The Lorenz machine factory moves to the railway line, laying the foundations for Ettlingen-West.
1927: On the occasion of a falsely celebrated city anniversary, today's B3 is opened as a bypass.
The practice of Tierarzt-Malsch.de is located 10.3 kilometres from Ettlingen via the B3 at Einsteinstr. 6, 76316 Malsch.
