Stuttgart Metropolitan Region

( Cooperation area metropolitan region of Stuttgart )

The European Metropolitan Region of Stuttgart - not to be confused with the Stuttgart region - is one of currently eleven metropolitan regions in Germany. It was established as such by the German Conference of Ministers for Spatial Planning ( MKRO ) 1995. There are various spatial boundaries of the metropolitan area.

In the largest of interpretation, which is called the co-operation area metropolitan region of Stuttgart, about 5.3 million people. It includes the regions of Stuttgart, Heilbronn -Franken, Northern Black Forest, Ostwürttemberg and Neckar-Alb and has an area of 15,400 km2.

After updating the National Development Plan Baden -Württemberg from 2002, the delimitation of the metropolitan region of Stuttgart is deliberately left out of focus, but based on the so far as Stuttgart agglomeration designated space in Baden- Württemberg. This includes almost all municipalities of the Stuttgart Region, in addition the two main centers of Heilbronn in the north and Tübingen / Reutlingen in the south, which means the center of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the east and the eastern edge of the northern Black Forest region in the west, and the compression space between these parts. In this area, about 3.5 million people. According to National Development Plan 2002, the minimum expansion corresponds to the compression chamber with its peripheral zone. In addition are the National Development Plan 2002, the task of the future allocation of rural conurbation Albstadt / Balingen / Hechingen to work for the Metropolitan Region of Stuttgart.

Territory of the metropolitan region of Stuttgart

At the Stuttgart metropolitan area includes the following cities and towns:

• Of the Stuttgart Region ( Region of Stuttgart ) City district of Stuttgart
• From the district of Böblingen all municipalities, the municipalities Bondorf, Deckenpfronn, Jettingen, Mötzingen and Weissach are marginal zone
• District of Esslingen all municipalities except those of the Neidlingen, the communities Beuren, Bissingen an der Teck, Erkenbrechtsweiler, Lenningen, Neuffen and Ohmden belong to the marginal zone
• From the district of Göppingen all municipalities except the municipalities of Bad Ditzenbach, Boehmenkirch, Deggingen, Drackenstein, Gruibingen, High Town, Lauterstein, Mühlhausen in the Dales and meadow trail, where the congregations Adelberg, Aichelberglifte, Bad Ueberkingen, Birenbach, Börtlingen, Bad Boll, Donzdorf, Dürnau, Eschenbach ( Württemberg), Gammelshausen, Hattenhofen, Hein Ingen, brook Otten, Rechberghausen, Schlatter, Schlierbach, Waeschenbeuren, cheeks and cell under Aichelberglifte belong to the marginal zone.
• From the district of Ludwigsburg, all municipalities, the municipalities Eberdingen, Großbottwar, Oberriexingen, Supreme box and Saxony home belong to the marginal zone
• From the Rems- Murr district municipalities Backnang, Fellbach, nuclei in the Rems valley, Basket, people stream Pluederhausen, Remshalden, Schorndorf, Schwaikheim, Urbach, Waiblingen, wine town, Weissach im Tal, Winnenden and winter creek and the communities of the marginal zone Allmersbach in the valley, Burgstetten and Kirchberg an der Murr

• Urban district Heilbronn
• From the district of Heilbronn in all municipalities with the exception of Epping, Gemmingen, Hardthausen am Kocher, Ittlingen, Jagsthausen Langenbrettach, Lowenstein, Moeckmuehl, Oberpfaffenhofen, Roigheim, rams, Wüstenrot and Zaberfeld, the communities Abstatt, Bad Rappenau, Beilstein, brackish Home, Cleebronn, Eberstadt, Güglingen, Gundel Home, Ilsfeld, Kirchardt, Lehrensteinsfeld, Massenbachhausen, Neckarwestheim, Neudenau, New town on the stove, Obersulm, Oedheim, Offenau, Schwaigern Siegelsbach, Talheim subgroup Bach belong to the marginal zone.

• From the district of Calw communities Althengstett, Bad Love Zell, Calw, Gechingen Nagold, Ostelsheim, Simmozheim and Wildenberg, which all belong to the marginal zone
• Enz from the town home and the home belonging to the border zone communities Friolzheim and Mönsheim
• From Freudenstadt district belonging to the marginal zone in the municipality Eutingen Gaeu

• From Reutlingen district municipalities Eningen under Achalm, Grafenberg, Metzingen, Pfullingen, Pliezhausen, Reutlingen, Riederich, Walddorfhäslach and Wannweil ​​and belonging to the border zone communities of Bad Urach, Dettingen an der Erms, Hülben and Lichtenstein
• From the district of Tübingen communities Dettenhausen, Kirchentellinsfurt, Kuster things and Tübingen as well as the belonging to the border zone communities Ammer book, Bodelshausen, Dußlingen, Gomaringen, Mossingen, Nehren, Neustetten, Novalis and Rottenburg am Neckar

• From Ostalb that belong to the border zone communities Böbingen an der Rems, Heubach, Iggingen, Leinzell, Lorch, Mögglingen, Mutlangen, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Waldstetten

Regional centers and resources centers

The metropolitan region of Stuttgart has three regional centers: Stuttgart, Heilbronn and the double center Tübingen -Reutlingen.

Related Resource Centres within the Stuttgart metropolitan area are:

• In the region of the upper center of Stuttgart: Backnang, Bietigheim-Bissingen/Besigheim, Böblingen / Sindelfingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Geislingen, Göppingen, Herrenberg, Kirchheim unter Teck, Leonberg, Ludwigsburg / Kornwestheim, Nürtingen, Schorndorf, Vaihingen an der Enz and Waiblingen / Fellbach

• Neckarsulm

• Metzingen and Rottenburg am Neckar
• ( Albstadt, Balingen and Hechingen )

• Calw and Nagold

• Schwäbisch Gmünd

Larger cities

In the inner metropolitan region of Stuttgart

The inner metropolitan region of Stuttgart essentially corresponds to the area of the Stuttgart Region. It has an area of ​​3,654 square kilometers and has about 2.7 million inhabitants (as of 31 March 2005). However, some municipalities in Rems -Murr -Kreis, the district of Esslingen and Göppingen district belonging to the Stuttgart region, do not belong to the metropolitan region of Stuttgart.

Outer metropolitan region of Stuttgart

Rural areas in the cooperation area metropolitan region of Stuttgart

The cooperation area Stuttgart metropolitan region includes a rural area including dortiger compression regions. There about 1.8 million people. This rural area with its compression areas is in the consideration of the metropolitan area, such as the Initiative Group European metropolitan regions in Germany, involved. The entire co-operation area includes the regions of Stuttgart, Heilbronn -Franken, Northern Black Forest, Ostwürttemberg and Neckar -Alb completely.

The largest cities (over 20,000 inhabitants) this rural area of ​​cooperation in the Stuttgart metropolitan area are

(future assignment of the compression chamber Albstadt / Balingen / Hechingen to Stuttgart metropolitan region, according to National Development Plan 2002 desired)