Wendlingen is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the Neckar and Lauter rivers, 27 km southeast of Stuttgart.

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Wendlingen
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Location of Wendlingen within Esslingen district
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Coordinates: 48°40′29″N 9°22′54″E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Esslingen
Subdivisions	3
Government
• Mayor (2019–27)	Steffen Weigel[1] (SPD)
Area
• Total	12.15 km2 (4.69 sq mi)
Elevation	294 m (965 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	16,258
• Density	1,300/km2 (3,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	73240
Dialling codes	07024
Vehicle registration	ES
Website	www.wendlingen.de

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The town grew in size, officially, on 1 April 1940, when three separate communities of Wendlingen, Unterboihingen and Bodelshofen merged.

The town also is the headquarters of the tool company Festool.

• 1940–1944: Andreas Bauer
• 1944–1945: Emil Hartung
• 1945–1945: Karl Strohmaier (commissarial)
• 1945–1946: Rudolf Bisterfeld (commissarial)
• 1946–1978: Helmut Kaiser
• 1978–1992: Hans Köhler
• 1992–2003: Andreas Hesky
• 2003–2011: Frank Ziegler^[3]
• 2011-2019: Steffen Weigel^[1]
• Since 2019: Steffen Weigel^[4]

The local council in Wendlingen has 22 members. The mayor is the president of the local council and has one vote. Communal elections in Baden-Württemberg 2014 had the following official results.^[5]

• Marianne Erdrich-Sommer (born 1952), German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), former member of Landtag, Kreistagsabgeordnete, lives in Wendlingen
• Matthias Landfried (born 1975), German national table-tennis trainer
• Andrea Barth (born 1972), World champion, Europe champion, German champion in one wheel art cycling
• Werner Utter (1921–2006), chef-pilot of Lufthansa
• Erwin Behr (1857–1931),^[6] entrepreneur for furniture, first producer of wall units
• Robert Otto, manager of Heinrich Otto & Söhne company in Unterboihingen, first cotton spinning in Württemberg
• Alfred Kleefeldt, (born 1933), German athlete, competing in 5000 meters

Wendlingen is twinned with:

• – Dorog, Hungary
• – Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, France
• – Millstatt, Austria