Villingen-Schwenningen

Villingen-Schwenningen (; Low Alemannic: Villinge-Schwenninge) is a town in Schwarzwald-Baar, a district (Landkreis) in Freiburg. It has 85,838 inhabitants (as of September 2019). It is also the capital of Schwarzwald-Baar.

Geography
Villingen-Schwenningen lies on the eastern edge of the Black Forest about  above sea level.

Boroughs
 Villingen
 Schwenningen
 Obereschach
 Weilersbach
 Weigheim
 Mühlhausen
 Marbach
 Rietheim
 Pfaffenweiler
 Herzogenweiler
 Tannheim

Mayors and Lord mayors

Villingen
 1912–1930: Guido Lehmann
 1931–1933: Adolf Gremmelspacher
 1933: Gutmann, temporary
 1933–1937: Hermann Schneider
 1937–1940: Karl Berckmüller
 1940–1945: Hermann Riedel
 1945–1946: Walter Bräunlich
 1946: Edwin Hartmann
 1946–1950: Edwin Nägele
 1950–1972: Severin Kern

Schwenningen
 1797–1816: Erhard Bürk
 1816–1819: (Vogt)
 1819–1821: Thomas Wegler
 1821–1825: ?
 1825–1835: Matthias Rapp
 1835–1841: Johann Georg Koch
 1841–1852: Andreas Bürk
 1852–1857: Christian Strohm
 1857–1887: Erhard Müller
 1887–1912: David Würth
 1912–1925: Emil Braunagel
 1925–1930: Ingo Lang von Langen
 1930–1948: Otto Gönnenwein
 1949–1962: Hans Kohler
 1962–1972: Gerhard Gebauer

Villingen-Schwenningen
 1972–1994: Gerhard Gebauer (SPD)
 1994–2002: Manfred Matusza (CDU)
 2002–2019: Rupert Kubon (SPD)
 since 2019: Jürgen Roth (CDU)

Population

Number of inhabitants
 Date Inhabitants 31 December 1972  78,436 31 December 1980  78,904 31 December 1990  78,218 31 December 1995  80,734 31 December 2005  81,778 31 December 2015  84,674 31 December 2017  84,818 31 December 2018  85,181

Source: State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg

Largest communities of foreigners


Main sights
 Town wall
 Municipal Art Gallery
 Franciscan Monastery Museum
 Schwenningen Clock Museum
 Minster of Our Lady
 Theater am Ring
 Wanne Observation Tower, one of the oldest towers built of iron
 Internationales Luftfahrt-Museum, aviation museum

Twin towns – sister cities
Villingen-Schwenningen is twinned with:

 Pontarlier, France
 La Valette-du-Var, France
 Tula, Russia
 Savona, Italy
 Zittau, Germany
 Friedrichsthal, Germany

Notable people
Robert Prosinečki (born 1969), Croatian footballer and coach
Dennis Seidenberg (born 1981), ice hockey player

 References 

Other websites

Villingen-Schwenningen: history & pictures  
The siege of Villingen in 1702 

Category:Towns in Baden-Württemberg
Category:Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis