History
There is a group of Hallstatt culture barrows in the Hochholz woods near the offices of SAP Deutschland. The settlement was first mentioned as Waltorf in a 770 deed issued by the Abbey of Lorsch. The Electorate of the Palatinate received Walldorf as an Imperial fief in 1230. Thereafter it suffered hard during the Thirty Years' War and in 1689 was completely destroyed in the course of the Nine Years' War. The area was settled anew by religious refugees, among them the predecessors of John Jacob Astor, Waldensians from the Piedmont. With the 1803 German Mediatisation Walldorf fell to Baden. 1843 saw the building of the Rheintalbahn, which decisively promoted the economic development. In 1901 Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden granted Walldorf town privileges. After World War II the establishing of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen and of SAP made it one of the most prosperous towns of Germany.
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