14 Facts About Ettlingen

Ettlingen is a town in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, about 8 kilometres south of the city of Karlsruhe and approximately 15 kilometres from the border with Lauterbourg, in France's Bas-Rhin department.

Ettlingen is the second largest town in the district of Karlsruhe, after Bruchsal.

Ettlingen is situated at the northern edge of the Black Forest on the Upper Rhine Plain.

The Alb River arises in the hills of the Black Forest and flows through Ettlingen before emptying into the Rhine at Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, making Ettlingen a central feature of the Albtal, the Alb Valley.

Municipality of Ettlingen is bordered by the following communities, clockwise from the north: Karlsruhe, Waldbronn, Karlsbad, Marxzell, Malsch, and Rheinstetten, all of which belong to the district of Karlsruhe, except for the independent city of Karlsruhe itself.

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Ettlingen was an important crossroads during Roman times, when the region was part of the province of Germania Superior.

In 965, the village of Ettlingen received market rights from Emperor Otto the Great.

Ettlingen gave its name to a line of defensive earthworks known as the Ettlingen Line built to deter French aggression.

Ettlingen remained an independent town until 1937, when it was incorporated into the administrative unit that would become the district of Karlsruhe in 1939.

In 1966, Ettlingen passed the 20,000 population mark and raised to the status of Große Kreisstadt by the state government of Baden-Wurttemberg.

Ettlingen's renowned open-air theater series, the Schlossfestspiele first took the stage in the Baroque inner courtyard of Ettlingen Palace in 1979.

Ettlingen was originally a part of the ancient Diocese of Speyer and was under the pastoral care of the Archdeacon of St German and Moritz in Speyer.

Today, Ettlingen belongs to the deanery of Karlsruhe, with the various parishes organized into pastoral units.

From 1969 to 2003, Ettlingen was the seat of the Evangelical Church in Baden's district of Central Baden.