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28-511: Plochingen is about nine kilometres east-southeast of the district town Esslingen am Neckar and in the same direction about 19 kilometres from the state capital Stuttgart . The town is situated on the right banks of the Fils and the outflowing Neckar . In the area of the town, three Natural areas collide, the Foreland of the central Swabian Alb in the southeast, the subspace Schurwald of

56-616: A Special school and a pure primary school. There are also nine kindergartens in the town. Furthermore, Plochingen is home to a GARP education centre for the IHK Region Stuttgart e.V. Plochingen is lies on the Württemberger Weinstraße with many sights. The Park railway in the Neckarauen is a 1.5-kilometre-long park railway that is operated every weekend from Easter Monday to October. Plochingen

84-562: A New Apostolic Church have also been established. The population figures are estimates, or official updates of the Statistical Office. Plochingen forms with Altbach and Deizisau the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Plochingen . Frank Buß , the mayor of the town of Plochingen, is the chairman of the administrative association. The town of Plochingen also runs its own businesses. These are

112-433: A large part of the town area. Neighbouring towns are in turn the community Altbach in the west, the district town Esslingen am Neckar in the northwest, the community Baltmannsweiler in the northeast and the community Reichenbach an der Fils in the east, in the southeast briefly the municipality Hochdorf , in the south the town Wernau (Neckar) , in the southwest the municipality Deizisau , all of which also belong to

140-571: A medieval footbridge. In addition, a bridge over the Fils was built, so that bridge tolls could be charged for it. After the Battle of Nördlingen lost for Württemberg, Plochingen's convenient location had a negative effect on the traffic situation during the Thirty Years' War, as imperial troops plundered the town as early as 1634 and many houses burned down. The population of about 1300 people before

168-828: A pedestrian bridge span the Neckar near Plochingen. The Plochingen station is a traffic junction of the Deutsche Bahn at the Neckar-Alb-Bahn (Stuttgart- Tübingen - Horb am Neckar ) and the Filstalbahn (Stuttgart- Ulm - Munich ). It is served by long-distance trains, regional trains and the S1 line of the S-Bahn Stuttgart . The maintenance of the railcars of the S-Bahn Stuttgart takes place in

196-485: Is twinned with: Esslingen am Neckar Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 549101712 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:39:39 GMT Wooden bridge A timber bridge or wooden bridge

224-548: Is a bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material. One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times. The most ancient form of timber bridge is the log bridge , created by felling a tree over a gap needing to be crossed. Among the oldest timber bridges is the Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden crossing upper Lake Zürich in Switzerland;

252-618: Is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The town coat of arms is five times diagonally left divided by blue and gold. The town colours are blue and yellow. The town can be reached by car via Bundesstraße 10 from Stuttgart in about 25 minutes. At the Plochinger Dreieck the B ;313 branches off, direction Tübingen and Stockach from the B ;10 In addition to this motorway-like structure, two further road bridges and

280-615: The Depot Plochingen . The Neckar harbour (dt. Neckarhafen ) in Plochingen has been the end point of the navigable Neckar since 12 July 1968. It was designed as a port for commercial inland navigation exclusively for the pure transport of goods without passenger shipping. The port area extends along two harbour basins. Responsible for the conception, realisation and development was from 1954 to 1992 harbour director Heinz Kreeb. Since 1992, Eberhard Weiß has been entrusted with

308-549: The Federal Highway Administration has concentrated on major highways and other primary roads; rural highways and local roads, where timber bridges are mostly found, have received less attention. Local and state agencies prefer timber bridges because timber is a renewable resource , it is relatively economical, and there have been rapid improvements in design, construction, and preservative treatment. The US Congress emphasized timber bridges by passing

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336-570: The Neckargau . The place was first mentioned in 1146 as Blochingen in a document of the king Conrad III of Hohenstaufen . There were two castles in Plochingen, but nothing remains of them. From the 12th to the 14th century the seat of a noble family can be proven for Plochingen. In 1331, the lord of the castle Johann von Plochingen sold some property in Plochingen to the hospital in Esslingen . The Württemberg part of Plochingen, originally with

364-695: The Stadtwerke (Public utilities), the Eigenbetrieb Abwasserbeseitigung (Own operation sewage disposal) and the Eigenbetrieb Wohnen (Owner-occupied living). The municipal council in Plochingen has 22 members. The local elections in Baden-Württemberg 2019 led to the following official final result. The local council consists of the elected honorary local councillors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor

392-899: The Bronze Age give evidence of a settlement belonging to the Urnfield culture . Also from the Hallstatt period grave mounds indicate that there might have been a continuous Celtic settlement up to the Roman period. In classical antiquity the Romans and in the early Middle Ages the Alamanni settled in the area. In the High Middle Ages, Plochingen was situated in the territory of the Herzogtum Schwaben and formed part of

420-591: The Neckar, which then became famous in Europe, 1905 it was replaced by the extension of the railway station completely intact. In 1808, the municipality moved from the Amtsoberamt Stuttgart to the newly established Oberamt Esslingen in implementing the new administrative division of Württemberg in the Kingdom of Württemberg . In 1846, the construction of the Filstalbahn as far as Plochingen led to

448-881: The Neckarhafen Plochingen was inaugurated. Since the beginning of the S-Bahn operation in the Stuttgart area on October 1, 1978, the vehicles have been technically maintained and cleaned in the Bahnbetriebswerk Plochingen . In 1998, Plochingen hosted the Landesgartenschau Baden-Württemberg. Since the Reformation Plochingen has been evangelical shaped. There is also a Roman Catholic church. In recent years, an Evangelical Methodist and

476-711: The Timber Bridge Initiative (TBI) in 1988 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act (ISTEA) in 1991. Covered bridges , usually made of wood and enclosed as if a tunnel, were very popular in the 19th century in the US. Today, timber bridges are promoted as environmentally friendly, and as a way to protect water quality and the habitat along waterways. Timber bridges can be placed over small streams or channels with firm, stable banks. The passing of TBI and ISTEA by

504-548: The US Congress has provided an impetus to identify and develop standard designs for timber bridges, which the US Forest Service has done. The US Forest Service has designed standardized plans for timber bridge superstructures made of treated lumber. The University of Minnesota Extension Service recommends three types of timber bridges for wilderness lands, and suggest that a licensed engineer be hired to insure

532-471: The bailiwick of Nellingen, was already subordinated to the office in Stuttgart at the beginning of the 15th century. Since the 12th century Plochingen had had a market for building materials, salt and agricultural goods, including in particular wine, grain, fishing and livestock. In 1536 Duke Ulrich von Württemberg pushed through the Reformation. In 1545 the first bridge over the Neckar was built, replacing

560-448: The bridge design is safe and appropriate for the site. Using fallen trees, stringer bridges can be built. Wood laminated by stress, glued, dowels, or nails lumber are good for panel bridges. New lumber and wood scavenged from buildings and railroad ties can be used to build stringer bridges. A licensed engineer can help operators design a safe, appropriate timber bridge. Personnel from Virginia Tech have described in detail how to build

588-729: The connection to the emerging network of the Württembergische Staatsbahnen , only one year after a train had run for the first time in Württemberg on the line between Cannstatt and Untertürkheim . In 1888 the Schwäbische Albverein was founded in the Waldhorn Restaurant. In 1905 the wooden bridge from 1778 was replaced by an iron bridge over the Neckar. On 1 June 1913 a tornado destroyed numerous buildings in Plochingen. During

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616-600: The district of Esslingen. Plochingen includes the town of Plochingen and the district of Stumpenhof to the north-east of the town. According to data from the Statistical State Office Baden-Württemberg , status 2014. Due to its convenient location at the mouth of the Fils into the Neckar, people have been living in the area since the earliest times, which is attested by finds from the Stone Age. Finds of weapons and grave goods from

644-632: The district reform during NS period in Württemberg Plochingen came to the district of Esslingen in 1938. After the Second World War, the community fell into the American occupation zone and was located in the state Württemberg-Baden from 1945 to 1952. On April 13, 1948, the municipality of Plochingen was elevated to the status of a town, which became part of the new federal state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. On 12 July 1968

672-413: The management of the port. Nearly 20 companies with an investment volume of around EUR 100,000,000 have settled in the Neckar harbour. The main transhipment goods are iron/steel products/scrap, animal feed/grain, mineral oil and wood. The goods handling per year amounts to more than 1,300,000 tons. Plochingen has a Gymnasium ( Gymnasium Plochingen ), a Realschule , a Grundschule and Werkrealschule ,

700-633: The natural area Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald in the northeast, and the subspace Nürtinger-Esslinger Neckartal , which is part of the Filder , along the larger of the two rivers in the west. The lowest point in the town area is in the very west at the outflow of the Neckar at 247 metres above sea level, the highest point is in the very north at the White Stone on the Schurwaldkamm at about 448 metres above sea level, from which forest areas cover

728-645: The prehistoric timber piles discovered to the west of the Seedamm date back to 1523 B.C. The first wooden footbridge led across Lake Zürich , followed by several reconstructions at least until the late 2nd century AD, when the Roman Empire built a 6-metre-wide (20 ft) wooden bridge. Between 1358 and 1360, Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria , built a 'new' wooden bridge across the lake that was used until 1878 – measuring approximately 1,450 metres (4,760 ft) in length and 4 metres (13 ft) wide. On April 6, 2001,

756-591: The reconstructed wooden footbridge was opened, being the longest wooden bridge in Switzerland. The Kapellbrücke is a 204-metre-long (669 ft) bridge crossing the Reuss in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe, and one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions. Recently timber bridges have received attention in the United States because they are environmentally friendly compared to other bridge types. Until 1991,

784-580: The war sank to about 500 inhabitants after the war. In 1698 Plochingen became a post station on the imperial postal line between Antwerp and Venice , operated by the House of Thurn- und Taxis. In 1778 the Hofwerkmeister Johann Christian Adam Etzel (1743-1801; uncle of Gottlieb Christian Eberhard von Etzel ) built the covered wooden bridge with a self-supporting span of 70 metres without intermediate pillars across

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