18 Facts About Ilsfeld

Ilsfeld is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany, on the outer edge of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region.

The village of Ilsfeld was largely destroyed by a fire in 1904, and was rebuilt with public buildings in a rustic Wurttemberg style with Jugendstil elements.

Ilsfeld is located in the south of the district of Heilbronn, in and around the valley of the Schozach near the point where the Gruppenbach flows into it.

Territory of Ilsfeld has been settled almost without interruption since the Mesolithic and Neolithic.

At the former settlement of Gendach, on the Schozach near Ilsfeld, there was a small motte and bailey castle, no traces of which remain.

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The royal center at Ilsfeld led to new settlements in the area, such as Westheim, Ostheim and Talheim, named for their relationship to Ilsfeld and marked as Frankish by the termination -heim.

In 1368 Ilsfeld became the property of Wurttemberg; by about 1460 it had become a fief of the Vogt or reeve of Lauffen am Neckar.

In 1450, during Count Ulrich V's war against 30 Swabian Imperial Cities, Ilsfeld was attacked by Heilsbronn forces; the village was laid waste, with 40 people killed and 300 head of livestock removed.

Ilsfeld suffered greatly in the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries.

The railroad caused Ilsfeld to develop in the early 20th century from a purely rural settlement to a bedroom community for Heilbronn, where more than 200 residents were soon working, mostly in factories such as the Ackermann plying mill, the Knorr soup factory, the Bruckmann silverware factory and the Flammer soap factory.

Ilsfeld remained primarily rural in character until World War II; industry failed to gain a foothold, primarily because of a lack of infrastructure.

The business district of Ilsfeld proper extends from the center of the town east to the autobahn exit, and starting with the 1952 Kernersiedlung, large new residential developments have appeared to the east, north, and south.

Blazon of the coat of arms of Ilsfeld is: On a field of silver, a black stag's antler over a rooted green tree.

Ilsfeld is a wine-growing area, with vineyards belonging to the Schozachtal, Wunnenstein und Kirchenweinberg sections of the Wurttembergisch Unterland wine-producing region.

Ilsfeld is located on Bundesautobahn 81 and has its own exit.

Ilsfeld is covered by the SO edition of the Heilbronner Stimme newspaper.

Ilsfeld has an open-air pool with an associated DLRG lifesaving club.

Sportclub Ilsfeld offers badminton, soccer, judo, karate, track and field, gymnastics, and volleyball.