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Hailfingen

quarter of Rottenburg am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ314887
Source-derived summary

Hailfingen is a suburban district of Rottenburg am Neckar in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).

Geography

Hailfingen is located 9 km (5.6 mi) northwestern from Rottenburg am Neckar and 9 km southern from Herrenberg.

Extent

The area of the district is 751 hectares. Thereof fall 75.0% upon agriculturally used area, 13.1% upon forest area, 11.2% upon settlement area and roads and 0.7% upon other.

Neighbour localities

The territories of the following villages adjoin to Hailfingen, they are called clockwise beginning in the north: Tailfingen, Reusten, Oberndorf, Seebronn and Bondorf.

Bondorf and Tailfingen are in the administrative district of Böblingen, the other villages are in the administrative district of Tübingen. The villages Oberndorf and Seebronn are also suburbs of Rottenburg. Bondorf is an independent municipality. Tailfingen belongs to the municipality of Gäufelden and Reusten is a part of the municipality of Ammerbuch.

Population

Hailfingen has 1581 residents (31/01/08).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hailfingen” as quarter of Rottenburg am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1581—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hailfingen, quarter and Rottenburg can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as quarter of Rottenburg am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q314887. VIAF identifies the subject as 239470747. Authority coordinates are 48.528, 8.869. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1581.

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This entry incorporates text from Hailfingen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.