Ruit (DE)
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Ruit (1967-1974: Ruit on the Fildern) is a district of the city of Ostfildern in Baden-Württemberg. The village lies between the Ostfildern districts of Parksiedlung, Scharnhausen and Kemnat as well as the Stuttgart districts of Heumaden and Hedelfingen.
Ruit was first mentioned as Rutte in 1173. The name means as much as grubbing-up, this was probably created from Nellingen. With Nellingen, Ruit came to Württemberg as early as the 13th century and belonged to the Vogtei Nellingen from 1382. The monastery of St. Blaise, however, had some estates in Ruit. In 1519, the village was cremated by the imperial city of Esslingen, but then rebuilt. The municipality belonged to the Amt or Amtsoberamt Stuttgart and came to the district of Esslingen in 1938. The municipality's name was added "on the Fildern" in 1967. The last mayor was Otto Vatter from 1952 to 1974.
On 1 January 1975, Ruit was merged with Nellingen on the Fildern, Kemnat and Scharnhausen to become the municipality of Ostfildern.
In April 1947, Ruit became the site of the German Office for Peace, the most important institutional precursor of the Federal Republican Foreign Office
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