Vaihingen

Vaihingen an der Enz lies in the Enz valley on the western edge of the Neckar basin, below Kaltenstein Castle. The town is documented in 1252 and passed to the counts of Württemberg in 1339, becoming a local administrative centre.

Duke Ulrich's return to Württemberg in 1534 brought the Reformation to Vaihingen. During the Thirty Years' War troops were quartered in the town, while requisitions, hunger and plague inflicted heavy losses. French troops plundered it in 1692, and a fire in 1693 destroyed much of the town. Its church and town hall were subsequently rebuilt.