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Location of the town of Wiesloch within Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Karlsruhe |
| District | Rhein-Neckar-Kreis |
| Town subdivisions | Kernstadt, 4 Stadtteile |
| Lord Mayor | Franz Schaidhammer (Ind.) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 30.262 km2 (11.684 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 130 m (427 ft) |
| Population | 26,034 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 860 /km2 (2,228 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | HD |
| Postal code | 69168 |
| Area code | 06222 |
| Website | www.wiesloch.de |
Wiesloch is a city in Germany, in northern Baden-Württemberg. It is situated 13 kilometres south of Heidelberg. After Weinheim, Sinsheim and Leimen it is the fourth largest city of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis and is in the north-central area near Heidelberg with its neighbouring town Walldorf. Also in the vicinity of Wiesloch are the cities and towns of Dielheim, Malsch (bei Wiesloch), Mühlhausen, Rauenberg and Sankt Leon-Rot.
During the reformation of the area in the 1970s Wiesloch's inhabitants exceeded 20,000. Wiesloch became a "Große Kreisstadt" on January 1, 1973, when Altwiesloch, Baiertal, Frauenweiler and Schatthausen were joined with the town of Wiesloch to form the present municipality.
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Wiesloch is a sister city to:
The fossil remains of the oldest hummingbird found to date, Eurotrochilus inexpectatus, were found in a clay pit at Frauenweiler. This bird lived during the Early Oligocene (30 mya), when the area had a humid, subtropical climate similar to the northern Caribbean today.[2]
There were three battles near Wiesloch, the Battle of Mingolsheim on April 27, 1622 (during the Thirty Years' War), the 1632 Battle of Wiesloch on August 16, 1632, (during the same war) and the 1799 Battle of Wiesloch on December 3, 1799 (during the War of the Second Coalition).
Wiesloch was attacked on January 28, 1689 by French troops under Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac, during the Nine Years' War, and was almost completely burnt down and destroyed.
The city pharmacy in Wiesloch was the first "filling station" in the world, because Bertha Benz stopped there on August 5, 1888, on the first long distance car trip, to refill the tank of her automobile which her husband Karl Benz had invented. She was supplied with ligroin by the apothecary Willi Ockel.
In 2008 Bertha Benz Memorial Route was officially approved as a route of industrial heritage, as it follows Bertha Benz's route for the world's first long-distance journey by automobile. Now everybody can follow the 194 km of the signposted route from Mannheim via Heidelberg and Wiesloch to Pforzheim (Black Forest) and back.
Wiesloch is partly situated on the southern foothills of the Odenwald, partly in the Rhine Valley and partly in the Kraichgau. Five brooks flow through Wiesloch: the Leimbach, the Gauangelbach, the Waldangelbach, the Ochsenbach, and the Maisbach.
Wiesloch includes the global headquarter of the MLP AG, a large German broker of personal finance services. It also hosts the world’s largest printing press manufacturing site, operated by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen.[3]
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