Langenau

Today‘s Langenau was created in 1972 by merging the historical villages of Albeck, Göttingen and Hövelsingen into the village of Langenau. Today, the four villages function as the town‘s Ortsteile.[3]

Religious Buildings

The Protestant Martinskirche with Baroque altar comes from the 14th century to 18 century.

Langenau St. Martin

The likewise Protestant St. Leonhardskirche dates back to the 17th-18th century.

As of 31 December 2024, the total population is 16,045, on an area of 7,500 Hectares, and is distributed amongst the four villages as follows:[4]

The population is aged 43,6 years on average and immigrants from other countries make up 16.3 percent of the population.[4]

Langenau is located directly on the Autobahn A7 and near the A8

Public transport is provided by the Donau-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund (DING). Langenau is connected to the national rail network via the Brenz Railway (Brenzbahn) from Ulm to Aalen.

• -April 2016: Wolfgang Mangold
• May 2016-: Daniel Salemi,[5][6] elected in February 2016.

Langenau is twinned with:[3]

• Albeck in Carinthia, Austria, since 1994
• Brand-Erbisdorf, Germany, since 1991
• Bridgend, Wales, since 1972
• Somberek, Hungary, since 1990

The newspaper Südwest-Presse is distributed in Langenau, and includes a weekly local edition "Langenau aktuell" Media Langenau date.[7]

Langenau has three primary schools, a special education school, a Werkrealschule, a Realschule and the Robert Bosch school.

At Langenau town Wörth is a park with a water wheel, a lake and a playground.

Every year on the last weekend before the summer holidays, the traditional children's festival is held with a parade of schools.

• The acting Bavarian war minister Albrecht Besserer von Thalfingen (1787–1839) was born in Langenau.
• Robert Bosch (1861-1942), founder of the Robert Bosch GmbH
• Gottlob Honold (1876–1923), engineer and inventor
• Hansjörg Schlager (1948–2004), sportsman (ski)
• Thure Riefenstein (born 1965), actor and director

• There were plans for a federal highway Bundesautobahn 86 with an exit for Langenau until the 1970s.
• The German Armed Forces Military History Research Office was situated there from 1957 to 1958.