Nürtingen
Nürtingen (
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History
The following events occurred, by year:
1046 : First mention of Niuritingin in the document of Speyer. Heinrich III gave Nürtingen as a gift to the chapter of Speyer
around 1335 : Nürtingen receives the city rights
1421 : Nürtingen is the domicile of the Württemberg widows.
1602 : The Maientag, a famous folklore procession and celebration is first recorded
1634 : Half of the population died in the Thirty Years' War and of the plague
1750 : 133 buildings were burned down in the great fire
1783/1784 : Friedrich Hölderlin and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling are pupils of the Latin school (German: Lateinschule). They are still commemorated in the town by the street name Schellingstraße and the name of a highschool Hölderlin-Gymnasium.
1945 : A few bombs hit Nürtingen. The Tiefenbachtal (a valley in south part of Nürtingen) was an escape route for German soldiers.
