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Leimen
Leimen
Town
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Leimen within Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district
	Leimen Leimen
	Coordinates: 49°20′53″N 08°41′28″E / 49.34806°N 8.69111°E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Karlsruhe
District	Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
Government
• Lord mayor (2024–32)	John Ehret
Area
• Total	20.64 km2 (7.97 sq mi)
Elevation	118 m (387 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	27,142
• Density	1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	69181
Dialling codes	06224, 06226
Vehicle registration	HD
Website	www.leimen.de

Leimen (South Franconian: Lååme) is a town in north-west Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is about seven kilometres (4+1⁄2 miles) south of Heidelberg and the third largest town of the Rhein-Neckar district after Weinheim and Sinsheim. It is also the area's industrial centre.

Leimen is located on the Bergstraße (Mountain Road) and on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

In the context of a communal reform in the 1970s, Leimen was newly created from the villages Leimen, Gauangelloch and Sankt Ilgen. In 1981, the state government of Baden-Württemberg granted Leimen the privilege to be called "town." When Leimen's population exceeded 20,000 in 1990, the city council applied for elevation to a Große Kreisstadt which was granted by the state government on 1 April 1992.

History

The first documentary record of Leimen is from 791, when both the Lorsch Abbey and the Diocese of Worms owned land there. First records of the districts are from 1270 for Gauangelloch (a document supposedly from 1016 was found out to be a fake), 1312 for Lingental, around 1300 for Ochsenbach and 1100 for Sankt Ilgen, then called bruch, an Old High German word for bog.

In 1262, the lords of Bruchsal gave Leimen to the Electorate of the Palatinate as a fiefdom and from 1464 on Leimen was part of the Palatinate. In 1579, Leimen was granted the right to celebrate an annual fair and became a marketplace in 1595. In 1674, Leimen was partially destroyed.

Mayors

Johann Ludwig Waldbauer 1838–1844
Heinrich Seitz 1845–1876
Jakob Rehm III. 1876–1882
Leonhard Schneider 1882–1883
Ludwig Endlich 1883–1896
Christoph Lingg 1883–1923
Jakob Weidemaier 1923–1933
Fritz Wisswesser 1933–1945
Jakob Weidemaier 1945
Georg Appel 1946–1948
Otto Hoog 1948–1976
Herbert Ehrbar 1976–2000 (from 1992 Lord Mayor)

Lord Mayor

Wolfgang Ernst 2000–2016
Hans D. Reinwald 2016–2024
since 2024: John Ehret

People, culture and architecture

Leimen consists of the Leimen (proper), nowadays called "Leimen (Mitte)", and the four boroughs Gauangelloch, Lingental, Ochsenbach and Sankt Ilgen.

Despite its industrial roots, Leimen's downtown has maintained a certain quaintness. It is an active town, with a regular cycle of festivals and activities.

At Ochsenbach, there is the NDB NKR.

Notable people

Joseph von Henikstein (1768–1838), businessman and financier, art patron and friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Michael Peter (1949–1997), field hockey player, Olympic winner
Rainer Zietsch (born 1964), football player and coach
Ralph Götz (born 1967), rugby player and administrator
Boris Becker (born 1967), tennis player
Clemens von Grumbkow (born 1983), rugby union player
Akeem Vargas (born 1990), basketball player, grew up in Leimen
Anne Spiegel (born 1980), German politician, born in Leimen