Gomadingen

{{Infobox German location

|image_coa = Wappen Gomadingen.png

|coordinates = {{coord|48|24|01|N|09|23|31|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|image_plan = Gomadingen in RT.svg

|state = Baden-Württemberg

|region = Tübingen

|district = Reutlingen

|elevation = 693

|area = 45.85

|postal_code = 72532

|area_code = 07385

|licence = RT

|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 4 15 027

|divisions = 7 Ortsteile

|website = [http://www.gomadingen.de/ www.gomadingen.de]

|mayor = Klemens Betz[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse], Staatsanzeiger, accessed 14 September 2021.

|leader_term = 2018–26

}}

Gomadingen is a town in the district of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. About 85% of its territory is located on the Swabian Alps. It's the district where the Grafeneck Castle [http://www.gedenkstaette-grafeneck.de/342.htm] is situated. During the II World War, the castle was home of the Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre (German: NS-Tötungsanstalt Grafeneck), one of the main Nazi Germany's killing centres part of their Action T4 programme.

History

Built around 1560, the Grafeneck Castle served as a hunting lodge to the dukes of Württemberg. In the 19th Century, it was used as the Forest Service and in 1928 the Samaritan Foundation acquired it, setting up a handicapped home. In the times of National Socialism, the Grafeneck Castle served in as a killing center - the Nazi Euthansasieaktion (later T4 Action) killed 10,654 disabled and sick people through lethal injections and gas. They were transported mainly from southern Germany and burned on site in a crematorium. The French occupying forces returned the site in 1946/47 back to the Samaritan Foundation, whom reestablished it as a center for disabled and mentally ill people and still operates to this day. Already in the fifties, the development of the cemetery began as a memorial. In 2005, the documentation center Grafeneck Memorial was finally built.

Mayors

Since 1994 Klemens Betz is the mayor of Gomadingen. He was reelected in 2002 and 2010.

Photo gallery

Bahnhof Marbach I.jpg|Marbach station

Grafeneckklein1.jpg|Grafeneck Castle

Schloss-grafeneck-2015-2.JPG|Grafeneck Castle

Offenhausen Gestütsmuseum 2012.jpg|Offenhausen

Gestuet Marbach-18-2020-gje.jpg|Marbach stud

Gestuet Marbach-08-2002-gje.jpg|Marbach stud

Gestuet Marbach-30-Pferdekopf-2020-gje.jpg|Marbach stud

Gestuet Marbach-46-Pferde-2020-gje.jpg|Marbach stud

References

Category:Reutlingen (district)