Fluor GmbH containing more than 350 employees and producing different products in Fluorine chemistry, e. g. refrigerants and propellants. The biggest employer is “Lidl AG”, which is the main office of one of the biggest supermarket chains in Germany and Europe. They have about 2000 employees. Many inhabitants are working at the AUDI AG in Neckarsulm. Transport Bad Wimpfen station is on the Elsenz Valley Railway (Elsenztalbahn) running from Heilbronn to Heidelberg. The station, dating from 1868 is a rare Neo-Gothic style, which many consider to appear Scottish in influence. It contains an apartment and a cocktail bar . Bad Wimpfen Im Tal and Bad Wimpfen-Hohenstadt halts are on the same line in the municipality. Line S 42 of the Heilbronn Stadtbahn stops at all three stations every half hour. The town lies near the A 6 (junction Heilbronn/Untereisesheim). Media The Heilbronner Stimme (edition north-middle) and the official paper Wimpfener Heimat-Bote report on the happenings of the area. Education In Bad Wimpfen there is a primary school, Hauptschule incl. Werkrealschule containing around 380 pupils. In addition, there is the Hohenstaufen-Gymnasium which has more than 900 students from Bad Wimpfen and its surrounding municipalities. Health The urban health centre of Bad Wimpfen (former cure hospital) cares about 4800 patients by a staff of around 200. Personality Sons and daughters of the town Ignaz von Beecke (1733–1803), composer and pianist Carl Walter (1834–1906), architect and director of the Königliche Baugewerkschule in Stuttgart Other personalities Carl Geist (1870–1931), painter Paul Doll (1915–2003), mayor of Bad Wimpfen and state representative References Literature Ludwig Frohnhäuser: Geschichte der Reichsstadt Wimpfen, des Ritterstifts St. Peter zu Wimpfen im Thal, des Dominicanerklosters und des Hospitals zum hl. Geist zu Wimpfen am Berg. Darmstadt 1870, Nachdruck Verein Alt Wimpfen 1982. A. von Lorent: Wimpfen am Neckar - geschichtlich und topographisch. Stuttgart 1870, Nachdruck Verein Alt Wimpfen 1982. Georg Schäfer: Kunstdenkmäler im Großherzogthum Hessen, Provinz Starkenburg. ehemaliger Kreis Wimpfen. Darmstadt 1898. Fritz Arens, Reinhold Bührlen: Wimpfen – Geschichte und Kunstdenkmäler. Bad Wimpfen (Verein Alt Wimpfen) 1954, 1991. Rüdiger Jülch: Die Entwicklung des Wirtschaftsplatzes Wimpfen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1961. Walter Carlé: Die Geschichte der Salinen zu Wimpfen. Stuttgart (Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte XXIV) 1965 Albrecht Endriss: Die religiös-kirchlichen Verhältnisse in der Reichsstadt Wimpfen vor der Reformation. Stuttgart (W. Kohlhammer)1967. Klaus-Peter Schroeder: Wimpfen. Verfassungsgeschichte einer Stadt. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1973. Andreas Hafer: Wimpfen. Stadt-Raum-Beziehungen im späten Mittelalter.