of the building in early 2020 due to the risk of collapse. Furthermore, serious violations of fire safety regulations were discovered. Redevelopment of the renovation or demolition and new construction would lead the city of Geislingen into over-indebtedness. Geislingen is the location of the Faculty of Business and Law of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences (HfWU) with Bachelor's degree programs in Automotive Management, Energy and Resource Management, Health and Tourism Management, Real Estate Management, Business Law, and Sustainable Product Management. In addition, the master's programs Automotive Management, Real Estate Management, Corporate Management, and Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Management are offered at the location. Students in Geislingen are allowed to share the use of WMF's company cafeteria, as Geislingen itself does not have its own cafeteria. The district of Göppingen is the school authority for the three vocational schools (Emil-von-Behring-Schule - Hauswirtschaftliche Schule, Gewerbliche Schule and Kaufmännische Schule) and the Bodelschwinghschule für Geistigbehinderte. History Although the area had settlements since the Bronze Age, Geislingen was founded by the counts of Helfenstein as a transit collection station on the important commercial route between the Rhine valley and the Mediterranean. The fortified Helfenstein castle existed since 1100. Giselingen was first mentioned as civitas in a document dated 1237. From 1396 through 1802, Geislingen was owned by the free and imperial city of Ulm on the Danube. In 1803 Ulm and Geislingen became part of Bavaria, but in a land exchange were incorporated into the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810. Much older than the "artificial" foundation of Geislingen are two present-day districts, Altenstadt and Rorgensteig. Altenstadt, in the oldest times still called "ze der alten Stadt" or "Altengiselingen", is of Alamannic origin. First traces of settlement go back to the 5th century. On the site of today's "Lindenhof" stood since the 11th century a St. Michael's church, the original church of Altenstadt and the whole surrounding area. So the name of the later helfenstein Geislingen comes from the older neighboring village. Rorgensteig, situated on the upper Rohrach River, was an old parish village into which the citizens of the town of Geislingen were parishioners until 1393. The importance of the Rorgensteig church for the religious life of the Geislingen community decreased since the elevation of the Geislingen Lady Chapel to a parish church (around 1393) and the construction of the present town church in the years 1424 to 1428. Rorgensteig with its mills