the U.S. Army units based in Rheinland Kaserne were the 78th Engineer Battalion and 44th Signal Battalion. Public transport Trains on lines S1 and S11 of the Stadtbahn Karlsruhe call at the stops Ettlingen Erbprinz/Schloss, Ettlingen Wasen and Ettlingen Stadt. These lines operate over the Alb Valley Railway, an electric railway that links Karlsruhe to Bad Herrenalb (S1) and Ittersbach (S11). The town is also served by several buses run by the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund, with routes serving various neighbourhoods of Ettlingen, as well as more distant destinations like Durlach. Notable people Franciscus Irenicus (c. 1494–1553), theologian and historian Georg Wurster (1934–1977), police officer, victim of the Red Army Faction, was in the car of Siegfried Buback Dirk Notheis (born 1968), head of the German unit of the investment bank Morgan Stanley Simon Pierro (born 1978), magician and TV presenter Frank-Jürgen Richter (born 1967), founder and chairman of Horasis Other personalities associated with the town Karl Albiker (1878–1961), sculptor and lithographer who lived most of his life in Ettlingen Natalia Avelon (born 1980), actress born in Breslau, but has lived since childhood in the Ettlingen district of Schöllbronn Christian Klar (born 1952), member of the Red Army Faction (2nd generation), went to school in Ettlingen Winfried Schäfer (born 1950), football coach Karl Steinbuch (1917–2005), pioneer of German computer science Twin towns – sister cities Ettlingen is twinned with: Épernay, France (1953) Middelkerke, Belgium (1971) Clevedon, England, United Kingdom (1980) Löbau, Germany (1990) Gatchina, Russia (1992) Menfi, Italy (2007) See also Ottolenghi — an Italian-Jewish surname referencing Ettlingen References External links Official site Historic Jewish communities Karlsruhe (district) Holocaust locations in Germany