Holzmaden
# Holzmaden

Holzmaden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that lies between Stuttgart and Ulm. Holzmaden is 4 km south-east from Kirchheim unter Teck and 19 km south-east of Esslingen am Neckar. The A 8 runs south from Holzmaden. The town and surrounding area are well known as the source of exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Jurassic period.

## Demographics

| Date | Population |
| - | - |
| 1671 | 43 |
| 1750 | 219 |
| 3 December 1834¹ | 488 |
| 3 December 1861¹ | 557 |
| 1 December 1900¹ | 564 |
| 17 May 1939¹ | 697 |
| 29 October 1946¹ | 988 |
| 13 September 1950¹ | 1,063 |
| Date | Population |
| 6 June 1961¹ | 1,290 |
| 27 May 1970¹ | 1,520 |
| 25 May 1987¹ | 1,646 |
| 31 December 1990 | 1,765 |
| 31 December 1995 | 1,909 |
| 31 December 2000 | 2,068 |
| 31 December 2005 | 2,145 |
| 31 December 2010 | 2,131 |

1=census results

### Mayors

* Christian Burkhardt (1945–1952)
* Otto Vogt (1952–1982)
* Jürgen Berner (1982–1998)
* Jürgen Riehle (1998–2014)
* Susanne Jakob (2014–2021)
* Florian Schepp (since 2021)

## Infrastructure and facilities

The community is located north of the Bundesautobahn 8, halfway between Ulm and Stuttgart; the next junction is Aichelberg.

The railway Kirchheim (Teck) Süd-Weilheim (Teck) connected Holzmaden to the railway network. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1982 and freight in 1995. Holzmaden also has a primary school, two kindergartens, a community hall with integrally joined forming gym and a sports and leisure facility.

### Associations and Organizations

The association's work is an essential factor in the social life in Holzmaden.

## Notable people from Holzmaden

* Bernhard Hauff (1866–1950), founder of museum Hauff
* Heinz Kälberer (born 1942), former Lord mayor of Vaihingen an der Enz

## Fossils

The ground in and around the city contains rich layers of well-preserved fossils (or Lagerstätten) of the Jurassic period. The fossils are found in the 180-million-year-old Posidonia Shale and displayed in the local Museum Hauff as well as museums around the world. This locale is important for its frequent preservation of soft tissue, a rarity in fossils.

Examples from this site include:

* Ichthyosaurs
* Plesiosaurs
* Steneosaurus
* Platysuchus
* Lepidotus
* Dapedius
* Ammonite
* Pentacrinus colony (Sea Lily)
