Filderstadt — Filderstadt Map Poster & Print

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Filderstadt Map Poster & Print

Filderstadt sits on the Filder plain south of Stuttgart. The town was created in 1975 by merging five villages: Bernhausen, Bonlanden, Harthausen, Plattenhardt and Sielmingen. From above it does not read as one centre. It reads as a group of separate street clusters, each with its own knot of old lanes, spread over flat, fertile farmland. Newer housing and roads have grown in between but have not fully closed the gaps.

The plateau is known for its loess soils and for Filderkraut, the pointed cabbage grown here for generations. On a map the farmland shows up as broad empty stretches between the built areas, crossed by straight farm tracks. To the north, the long runway of Stuttgart Airport and the motorway corridor form hard lines that set this edge of the town apart from its softer rural southern side.

A Filderstadt map poster shows how a town can be several places at once. The five former villages stay legible as distinct patches of fine street pattern. Wider roads link them, and open field sits in the spaces the roads leave behind. In black and white the result looks like an archipelago of settlements on a plain, each island still keeping the outline it had before the merger.