Heidelberg
City in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.
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Neckar
362 km river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse.
362 km river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse.
Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenningen in the Schwenninger Moos conservation area at a height of 706 m above sea level, it passes through Rottweil, Rottenburg am Neckar, Kilchberg, Tübingen, Wernau, Nürtingen, Plochingen, Esslingen, Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg, Marbach, Heilbronn and Heidelberg, before discharging on average 145 m3/s of water into the Rhine at Mannheim, at 95 m above sea level, making the Neckar its 4th largest tributary, and the 10th largest river in Germany.
Rhine-Neckar
Polycentric metropolitan region located in south western Germany, between the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region to the North and the Stuttgart Region to the South-East.
Polycentric metropolitan region located in south western Germany, between the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region to the North and the Stuttgart Region to the South-East.
Rhine-Neckar has a population of some 2.4 million with major cities being Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg.
Electoral Palatinate
State that was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
State that was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
It stretched from the left bank of the Upper Rhine, from the Hunsrück mountain range in what is today the Palatinate region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the adjacent parts of the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine (bailiwick of Seltz from 1418 to 1766) to the opposite territory on the east bank of the Rhine in present-day Hesse and Baden-Württemberg up to the Odenwald range and the southern Kraichgau region, containing the capital cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim.
Heidelberg Castle
Heidelberg Castle (Heidelberger Schloss) is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg.
Mannheim
Second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2020 population of 309,119 inhabitants.
Second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2020 population of 309,119 inhabitants.
Upstream along the Neckar lies Heidelberg, the fifth-largest city of Baden-Württemberg and the third-largest of the Rhine-Neckar Region.
Odenwald
Low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
Low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
Furthermore, in the south near Heidelberg, there is still Zechstein under the Early Triassic deposits.
Max Planck Society
Formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.
Formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.
International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, Heidelberg at the MPI for Astronomy
Heidelberg University
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Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Intergovernmental organization dedicated to molecular biology research and is supported by 27 member states, two prospect states, and one associate member state.
Intergovernmental organization dedicated to molecular biology research and is supported by 27 member states, two prospect states, and one associate member state.
The Laboratory operates from six sites: the main laboratory in Heidelberg, and sites in Hinxton (the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), in England), Grenoble (France), Hamburg (Germany), Rome (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain).
Baden-Württemberg
German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm.