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#Municipalities_in_Baden-Württemberg
#Esslingen_(district)
#Württemberg
Köngen is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
About nine kilometers from the district city Esslingen am Neckar and about six kilometers away from Nürtingen.
It is part of the Stuttgart Region and the European Stuttgart Metropolitan Region.
Köngen is located on the left side of the river Neckar on the western slopes of the Neckar valley.
Adjacent communities are in northern Deizisau, northeast Wernau, southeast Wendlingen, south Unterensingen and west Denkendorf （all Esslingen district）.
The municipality includes the village Köngen, the yards Birkenhöfe, Buchenhöfe, Erlenhöfe, Kempflerhöfe, Lerchenhof, Riedhöfe, Rothöfe, Seehof, Talhof and Wangerhöfe and the house Altenberg.
According to data from the Statistical State office, effective 2014.
Köngen is in the area of the Roman settlement Grinario that was built around 100 AD around a Roman castra.
Grinario was the endpoint of the Roman road "Neckar-Alb-Aare" which originated in Windisch （Switzerland）.
In 260 the place was destroyed by the Alemanni and the Romans were expelled.
The Alemanni place was first mentioned in 1075 in a document of the Hirsau Abbey.
In 1336 the lords of Hohenberg sold the village to Albrecht von Aichelberg.
In 1382 the lords of Thumb von Neuburg attained the sovereignty, who relocated their residence from Grisons to Köngen in 1430.
Hans Friedrich Thumb promoted early the Reformation; already in 1527 was therefore preached Lutheran in Köngen, this is seven years before Duke Ulrich penetrated in 1534 the Reformation in Württemberg.
Around the year 1600 about 900 people inhabited the village.
During the 17th century Köngen suffered from several outbreaks of diseases and war violence.
From 1609 until 1611 there was a first plague outbreak, the second one happened in 1627.
About one third of the population...