Merklingen

Geschichte

Merklingen is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.Geographical locationMerklingen is located on the plateau of the Swabian Jura, about 20 kilometers northwest of Ulm, between Geislingen and Blaubeuren.Expansion of the municipalityThe district is approximately 21.31 square kilometers.Neighboring communitiesThe neighboring communities of Merklingen are : Nellingen, Dornstadt, Laichingen, Hohenstadt, Drackenstein, Bad Ditzenbach .Municipality arrangementMerklingen, consisting of the main town and the hamlet Widderstall, remained an independent municipality with its own administration.AirThe climate is: dry summers, fog in autumn, cold winters.HistoryIn 861, we find the first mention of Merklingen as Marchelingen in a document of the monastery of Wiesensteig. Since 1482 the place belonged to the territory of the Free imperial city of Ulm. Merklingen came in 1810 to the kingdom of Württemberg and was allocated to Oberamt Blaubeuren, which became in 1938 the district of Ulm.