Flein

Flein
Coat of arms
Flein
Location of Flein within Heilbronn district
Coordinates: 49°6′N 9°13′E / 49.100°N 9.217°E / 49.100; 9.217Coordinates: 49°6′N 9°13′E / 49.100°N 9.217°E / 49.100; 9.217
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Heilbronn
Municipal assoc.	Flein-Talheim
Government
• Mayor	Alexander Krüger
Area
• Total	8.47 km2 (3.27 sq mi)
Elevation	212 m (696 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	6,918
• Density	820/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	74223
Dialling codes	07131
Vehicle registration	HN
Website	www.flein.de

 Flein  is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Flein is situated in the south of the district of Heilbronn and directly borders on Heilbronn in the south.

Neighbouring towns and municipalities of Flein are (clockwise from north-west): Heilbronn (Stadtkreis), Untergruppenbach and Talheim (both in the district of Heilbronn). Flein has combined with Talheim to form a joint association of administrations.

The communal land of Flein already was settled during the linear pottery culture of the neolithic. The village was first mentioned in 1188 within an imperial document as Flina. The name presumably comes from the Old High German term flins respectively the Middle High German vlins, meaning something like "pebble" or "hard stone".

In 1385 the free imperial city Heilbronn bought the village from the Lords of Sturmfeder. During the German Peasants' War many insurgent farmers of the region assembled in Flein around of their head Jäcklein Rohrbach. Like most of Germany, Flein suffered great damage during the Thirty Years' War.