Geislingen

Geislingen an der Steige is a town inside the district of Goppingen in Baden-Wurttemberg in southern Germany. The call pertains to its area "on the climb" of a alternate route over the Swabian Jura mountain variety. Although the place had settlements because the Bronze Age, Geislingen was founded through the counts of Helfenstein as a transit series station on the crucial business direction between the Rhine valley and the Mediterranean. The fortified Helfenstein fort existed due to the fact that 1100. Giselingen turned into first stated as civitas in a record dated 1237.

From 1396 through 1802, Geislingen became owned through the loose and imperial town of Ulm at the Danube. In 1803 Ulm and Geislingen became part of Bavaria, however in a land alternate had been integrated into the Kingdom of Wurttemberg in 1810. Industrialization started out with the arrival of the railroad and the development of the Fils Valley Railway up the Geislinger Steige, a steep incline of rail and street to the plateau of the Schwabische Alb, and Geislingen station. The main commercial business enterprise is the Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik based in 1852, a world-famend manufacturer of goods for kitchen and table.