Holzmaden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that lies between Stuttgart and Ulm. Holzmaden is 4 km south-east from Kirchheim unter Teck and 19 km south-east of Esslingen am Neckar. The A 8 runs south from Holzmaden. The town and surrounding area are well known as the source of exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Jurassic period.

Date Population 1671 43 1750 219 3 December 1834¹ 488 3 December 1861¹ 557 1 December 1900¹ 564 17 May 1939¹ 697 29 October 1946¹ 988 13 September 1950¹ 1,063

Date Population 6 June 1961¹ 1,290 27 May 1970¹ 1,520 25 May 1987¹ 1,646 31 December 1990 1,765 31 December 1995 1,909 31 December 2000 2,068 31 December 2005 2,145 31 December 2010 2,131

1=census results

• Christian Burkhardt (1945–1952)
• Otto Vogt (1952–1982)
• Jürgen Berner (1982–1998)
• Jürgen Riehle (1998–2014)
• Susanne Jakob (2014–2021)
• Florian Schepp (since 2021)

The community is located north of the Bundesautobahn 8, halfway between Ulm and Stuttgart; the next junction is Aichelberg.

The railway Kirchheim (Teck) Süd-Weilheim (Teck) connected Holzmaden to the railway network. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1982 and freight in 1995. Holzmaden also has a primary school, two kindergartens, a community hall with integrally joined forming gym and a sports and leisure facility.

The association's work is an essential factor in the social life in Holzmaden.

• Bernhard Hauff (1866–1950), founder of museum Hauff
• Heinz Kälberer (born 1942), former Lord mayor of Vaihingen an der Enz

The ground in and around the city contains rich layers of well-preserved fossils (or Lagerstätten) of the Jurassic period. The fossils are found in the 180-million-year-old Posidonia Shale and displayed in the local Museum Hauff as well as museums around the world. This locale is important for its frequent preservation of soft tissue, a rarity in fossils.

Examples from this site include:

• Ichthyosaurs
• Plesiosaurs
• Steneosaurus
• Platysuchus
• Lepidotus
• Dapedius
• Ammonite
• Pentacrinus colony (Sea Lily)