During the Nazi era there were in today's urban area 17 forced labor camps and accommodations with "Eastern workers", prisoners of war and "foreign workers", who had to work in the local companies, such as Maschinenfabrik Gebrüder Heller. At the present location of the secondary schools was the Mühlwiesenlager with "Eastern workers". Eleven names of victims of the "euthanasia" murders are known; they were killed in Grafeneck or Hadamar. They also caused that all in so-called "mixed marriages" living men were brought to concentration camps and murdered there. A Sinti child born in Nürtingen, Anton Köhler, was with most of his siblings brought in 1944 from the Catholic orphanage St. Josephpflege in Mulfingen to Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed after his parents had been murdered.
1945 : A few bombs hit Nürtingen. The Tiefenbachtal was an escape route for German soldiers.
1973 : The district of Nürtingen was merged into the district of Esslingen
Education
Nürtingen is home to Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science, also known as the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen. The school hosts undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, finance, real estate, and landscape architecture. Programs are taught in English and German, with a Master of Science in International Finance being taught through its growing European School of Finance, which partners with the German Institute for Corporate Finance, the European Derivatives Institute, the Deutsche Börse, and the Eurex exchange.
Hardt is the smallest district of Nürtingen. Hardt was first mentioned in 1366 in documents.
Neckarhausen
Neckarhausen is about 2 km from Nürtingen. Neckarhausen was first mentioned in the year 1284. The site is largely dominated by the church and the town hall.
Raidwangen
Raidwangen is about 3 km southwest of Nürtingen and about 1 km from the Neckar. Raidwangen was first mentioned in 1236 in documents.
Reudern
Reudern is located on a hill approximately 3 km east of Nürtingen and was first mentioned in the year 1338.
Zizishausen
Zizishausen is to the left and right of the Neckar and borders to the north directly to the core city of Nürtingen. Zizishausen was first mentioned in 1296.
Oberensingen
Oberensingen closes immediately northwest of the central city of Nürtingen. The first mention dates back to 1344.
Roßdorf
Roßdorf lies south of Nürtingen. The district was created in the early 1960s as a model construction project for modern urban planning on the drawing board. Today Roßdorf has around 4,500 inhabitants.
Local council
The local council in Nürtingen has 32 members. Until 2014, the local council had 39 members. The Baden-Württemberg elections in 2014 had the following results. The Oberbürgermeister is the president of the council and has one vote.
