Kirchheim is a district in the city of Heidelberg, Germany. Traces of civilization in modern-day Kirchheim date as far back as the 6th century. The village of Kirchheim is first mentioned in the Lorsch codex in 767 AD.[1] The village was largely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, reconstruction efforts were subsequently thwarted when the village was once again burned to the ground during the Palatine war of succession. Kirchheim repopulated slowly, with 350 people in 1766 2,000 in 1861.
The building of a train station in 1865 brought industry to the village, and the construction of a tramline in 1910 connected it to the city of Heidelberg.
Kirchheim was annexed to Heidelberg in 1920, at which point building boomed and the population swelled to 8,000.
Today, Kirchheim has 5 buslines and one tramline[2] and with a population of 15,683[3] is on the way to becoming the largest district in Heidelberg.[4]