Filderstadt

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (February 2009) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Filderstadt]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Filderstadt}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Filderstadt
Town
Old school in Filderstadt-Bonlanden
Coat of arms
Location of Filderstadt within Esslingen district
Filderstadt Show map of Germany Filderstadt Show map of Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48°40′49″N 9°13′6″E / 48.68028°N 9.21833°E / 48.68028; 9.21833
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Esslingen
Government
• Mayor (2023–31)	Christoph Traub[1] (CDU)
Area
• Total	38.54 km2 (14.88 sq mi)
Elevation	371 m (1,217 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	46,188
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	70794
Dialling codes	0711 and 07158
Vehicle registration	ES
Website	www.filderstadt.de

Filderstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈfɪldɐˌʃtat] ^ⓘ; Swabian: Fildorsdadd) is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located approximately 13 km south of Stuttgart.

Filderstadt is located next to the Stuttgart Airport and the new Trade Fair. Line S2 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn terminates at Filderstadt station.

Filderstadt was created as a town in 1975 from five smaller villages called Bernhausen, Bonlanden, Plattenhardt, Sielmingen and Harthausen.

From 1978 to 2005, it played host to the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, a WTA Tier II event.

Princess Claire of Luxembourg was born here on 21 March 1985.

German writer Michael Ende, author of The Neverending Story, died in Filderstadt in 1995.

Contact Air once had its headquarters in Filderstadt.^[3]

• Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), Swabian poet, held in Bernhäuser Jakobuskirche his first sermon and lived during his time as a vicar in 1829 a few months in the Plattenhardt rectory
• Michael Ende (1929–1995), writer of books for children, (Die unendliche Geschichte, Momo), died in Bonlanden (Filderklinik)
• Roman Herzog (1934–2017), politician (CDU), former German President, lived during his tenure as interior minister of Baden-Württemberg (1980–1983) from 1978 five years in the Ludwigstraße (Ludwig street) in Bernhausen
• Paul Maar (born 1937), writer and illustrator, taught in the 1970s for several years as an art teacher at the Eduard-Spranger-Gymnasium in Bernhausen
• Laura Siegemund (born 1988), tennis player
• Helen Grobert (born 1992), cyclist
• Marvin Plattenhardt (born 1992), soccer player at Hertha BSC
• Leonie Adam (born 1993), trampoline gymnast

The most recent mayoral election was held on 5 Juli 2015, and the results were as follows:

The most recent municipal election result, of 2019, was as follows:

Filderstadt is twinned with:^[4]