Holzmaden

Holzmaden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that lies between Stuttgart and Ulm. Holzmaden is 4 km south-east from Kirchheim unter Teck and 19 km south-east of Esslingen am Neckar. The A 8 runs south from Holzmaden. The town and surrounding area are well known as the source of exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Jurassic period.

Demographics
1=census results

Mayors

 * Christian Burkhardt (1945–1952)
 * Otto Vogt (1952–1982)
 * Jürgen Berner (1982–1998)
 * Jürgen Riehle (1998–2014)
 * Susanne Jakob (2014–2021)
 * Florian Schepp (since 2021)

Infrastructure and facilities
The community is located north of the Bundesautobahn 8, halfway between Ulm and Stuttgart; the next junction is Aichelberg.

The railway Kirchheim (Teck) Süd-Weilheim (Teck) connected Holzmaden to the railway network. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1982 and freight in 1995. Holzmaden also has a primary school, two kindergartens, a community hall with integrally joined forming gym and a sports and leisure facility.

Associations and Organizations
The association's work is an essential factor in the social life in Holzmaden.

Notable people from Holzmaden

 * Bernhard Hauff (1866–1950), founder of museum Hauff
 * Heinz Kälberer (born 1942), former Lord mayor of Vaihingen an der Enz

Fossils
The ground in and around the city contains rich layers of well-preserved fossils (or Lagerstätten) of the Jurassic period. The fossils are found in the 180-million-year-old Posidonia Shale and displayed in the local Museum Hauff as well as museums around the world. This locale is important for its frequent preservation of soft tissue, a rarity in fossils.

Examples from this site include:
 * Ichthyosaurs
 * Plesiosaurs
 * Steneosaurus
 * Platysuchus
 * Lepidotus
 * Dapedius
 * Ammonite
 * Pentacrinus colony (Sea Lily)