Gärtringen is a municipality in the district of Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 25 km southwest of Stuttgart and consists of the villages Rohrau and Gärtringen.Personalities who have worked on the ground Friedrich Sieburg (1893-1964), journalist, writer and literary critic, lived in the Villa Schwalbenhof since the 1950s until his death. Qianhong Gotsch (born 1968), Chinese-German table tennis player