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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.

The Neckar in southwest Germany flows from south to north, and joins the Rhine at Mannheim.

Schwenninger Bog, the source of the Neckar

Houses in Tübingen reflected in the Neckar

A Stocherkahn (punt) on the Neckar in Tübingen

Mouth of the Aich at Nürtingen-Oberensingen

Mouth of the Körsch on the right near Deizisau

The last of the large tributaries and the overall longest is the Jagst near Bad Friedrichshall Jagstfeld

Lock on Wieblingen channel from Heidelberg and open river at Schwabenheim

Historic routes of the Neckar at the mouth

View from the Hessigheimer rock gardens into the Neckar valley

Stone terraces at the Cannstatter Zuckerle, located on the Neckar slopes in Stuttgart

The Neckar in Neckarsulm, in the background the coal power station of Heilbronn.

The Neckar loop around the Dilsberg castle, as seen from the Hinterburg

Heidelberg, the Neuenheim riverside with the neckar meadow and the Heiligenberg

The not regulated old Neckar at Freiberg am Neckar

Stift Neuburg und das Neckartal, Ernst Fries, um 1830

Mouth of the Heilbronner Wilhelmskanal (right) into the side arm Heilbronn (old neckar) (left). The canal made the Neckar continuously navigable in 1821. The lock with the bridge is from 1884.

Neckar-Staustufe Hirschhorn with weir and double barrage

Navigation on the Neckar near Bad Wimpfen in 1988 with the passenger ship Neckarbummler of the Personenschifffahrt Stumpf

Neckarverlauf bei Stuttgart-Untertürkheim durch stark industriell geprägtes Gebiet

Kanalhafen Heilbronn mit Schiffsverkehr durch die Gütermotorschiffe Wolfgang Krieger und Heiner Krieger der Reederei Gebr. Krieger

Old Neckar mill below Horneck Castle in Gundelsheim

Kombiniertes Wasser –a coal-fired power station in Kiebingen 1910

Das Kraftwerk von Lauffen am Neckar 1891

Wehrsteg über den Neckar am Wehr Wieblingen in Heidelberg (Baujahr 1925)

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.

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.

Territory of the Electoral Palatinate in 1618, prior to the Thirty Years' War

Frederick I, King of Bohemia (1619–1620)

Maximilian Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1799–1806)

Arms used by the House of Palatinate-Simmern

The colors of the country (Landesfarben) ensign (alternate flag)

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

The earliest known depiction of the castle, from Sebastian Münster's Kalendarium Hebraicum published in 1527 (detail).

Historic etching from the "Alley of philosophers" (Philosophenweg) towards the Old Town area of Heidelberg. Visible in the background are the Heidelberg Castle, Heiliggeist Church, and the Old Bridge.

Pamphlet on the Destruction of the Castle, 1693.

Church of the Holy Spirit served two congregations (Protestant and Catholic) for a time and was the reason why the court removed to Mannheim.

The ruins of the castle as portrayed in a 1815 painting by Karl Philipp Fohr.

The Heidelberg Castle Powder Turret, split by an explosion, was described by Mark Twain in his 1880 book A Tramp Abroad.

Excerpt from a broader view by Theodor Verhas, 1856.

View from Stück-garden upon the ruins of the Rondells, the Heidelberg Old Town and Old Bridge.

The new Visitor Centre designed by Max Dudler opened 2012

The castle as it appears in the Thesaurus Pictuarum, circa 16th century.

The castle and town, by Matthäus Merian.

Plan of the Castle and its Defenses from 1622.

Castle with the Hortus Palatinus, circa 1650.

Romantic painting by J. M. W. Turner depicting the castle.

Heidelberg Castle and Old Bridge by night

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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.

Aerial view of the city center, showing the grid layout

US troops in street fighting in Mannheim, 1945

Victoria Tower Mannheim at the marshalling yard at night

Carl-Benz-Stadion, the home stadium of SV Waldhof Mannheim

The University of Mannheim's main campus – the Palace in a 180-degree panoramic view

Former City Hall and St. Sebastian's Church

The University of Mannheim is housed in the Mannheim Palace.

Jesuit Church (background) and Sternwarte (defunct observatory; in the foreground)

At the Mannheim Fair (Mannheimer Mess), Oct. 2014

The world's first bicycle, built in Mannheim by Karl Freiherr von Drais in 1817

The world's first motorcar, built in Mannheim by Karl Benz in 1885

Official sign of Bertha Benz Memorial Route, commemorating the world's first long-distance journey by automobile from Mannheim to Pforzheim in 1888 {{convert|104|km|0|abbr=on}}

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.

Felsenmeer near Reichenbach (Lautertal) in winter

Characteristic sandstone formation near Eberbach

Roman manor house Villa Haselburg near Höchst (Mümling)

Wild Woman (Wildweibchen) with a unicorn (Straßburg around 1500)

Heidelberg with the castle and the Königstuhl

The Himbächel viaduct on the Odenwald Railway)

Every year the Heppenheimer Street Theatre Gassensensationen occupiesEberstadt the marketplace and other corners of the old town

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"Siegfried's Death" (Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1847): Hagen murdererd Siegfried by a spring in the Odenwald.

Picture of Siegfrieds assassination in the Nibelungenlied-manuscript k (1480–90)

Siegfriedbrunnen by Wilhelm Trübner. In the legend there is no exact description in respect of the hunting trip.

Rodenstein Castle is the scene of the Rodensteiner ghost legend (19th-century picture).

The Crystal Teaching Path around the Katzenbuckel starts near the old volcanic quarry (below-mentioned)

Neutsch with a view to Neunkirchen and the Neunkircher Höhe

View from Weschnitz- Valley to the mountains Hardberg (with transmitter), Götzenstein, Kisselbusch (from left)

Weschnitz- Valley with a view to Tromm-mountain range

Overlooking the Krehberg (view from Lindenfels)

With a view from the Lauter- Valley (Hohenstein) to the Melibokus (right) and the Auerbach Castle (background, in the middle)

The Gesprenz-Valley gneiss-sandstone-mountain range: Böllsteiner Höhe on the left, Morsberg in the middle

The Felsberg (with transmitter, view from the Lauter-Valley), Auerbach-Castle and Melibokus on the left

The Weschnitz-Valley with Hirschkopf-Juhöhe-mountain range (view from the Tromm)

Climbing path at the Breuberg-Hainstadt quarry

Hohenstein near Reichenbach (Baryte-quartz-cliff)

Borstein near Reichenbach (Baryte-quartz-cliff)

Reichenbach-Felsenmeer: The giant column (Riesensäule) is a workpiece of Roman stonemasons.

Granite rocks Wildfrauhaus (Fischbachtal)

Zwingenberg (Neckar) gorge: Wolfsschlucht

When Caspar und Max begin with casting the magic bullets in the Wolf’s Glen the Wild Hunt appears in the air with demoniacal noise.

The rocks at the Juhöhe are supposed to be the petrified dogheads of the Rodensteiner cry of hounds

It is said, that the holes of the Opfersteine were offering cups for the devil.

People of the Kreiswald near the Juhöhe told, that a long time ago the granite formation was the flat iron of Giant-ladies

Frankenstein near Darmstadt/Upper Rhine Rift valley

The ruins of Tannenberg near Seeheim (Seeheim-Jugenheim)

Heiligenberg Castle near Jugenheim (Seeheim-Jugenheim)

Alsbach Castle, view from Melibokus (Alsbach-Hähnlein)

The ruins of Auerbach Castle near Bensheim

Park and mansion Fürstenlager near Bensheim-Auerbach

Bergstaße: Starkenburg (view from Maiberg, Heppenheim)

Starkenburg with Schlossberg (Heppenheim)

Wachenburg near Weinheim (Two-Castles-Town)

Wachenburg (view from Hirschkopf-tower), ''Weißer Stein (lookout tower) in the background

The ruins of Lindenfels Castle, Bürgerturm (tower)

View from Weschnitztal to Lindenfels (left), in the background right of centre: Reichenberg Castle, left picture margin: Neunkircher Höhe

The ruins of Rodenstein near Fränkisch-Crumbach are the setting of a ghost story: Rodensteiner flies with a berserker-cornet in the night through the air to prophesy the start of a war (see above).

Reichenberg Castle, entrance, near Reichelsheim

Neunkircher Höhe with a view to Lichtenberg Castle (left) and the Reinheimer Bucht: Otzberg to the right of centre

Castle Grounds in Lichtenberg in Odenwald, Wilhelm Trübner, 1900. Colección Carmen Thyssen Bornemisza.

extinct volcano Otzberg and the old fort Veste Otzberg with the white tower

Fürstenau Castle (near Michelstadt) with decorative gateway arch

Burg Breuberg near Höchst in the summer of 2006

Breuberg Castle, keep (Bergfried) and main gate

The ruins of Wildenberg (Kirchzell) from the High Middle Ages, built in the Staufer era, where Wolfram von Eschenbach is said to have written parts of his Parzival.

Portrait of the medieval poet Wolfram von Eschenbach from the Codex Manesse

Fireplace in the great hall. In Wolframs Parzival the author indirectly compares the gigantic fireplace in the Grail Castle with that of Wildenberg: “so groziu fiwer sit noch e sach niemen hie ze Wildenberc” (line 230,12-13)

The ruins of Freienstein near Beerfelden

Waldleiningen Castle in the British-style (near Mudau)

Heidelberg with Castle and the Old Bridge over river Neckar

Neckarsteinach with Mittelburg (left) and Vorderburg (in the middle)

Neckarsteinach: The ruins of Schwalbennest

The medieval feudal lord and poet (minnesinger) Bligger von Steinach (Portrait from the Codex Manesse) resided in Steinach (Neckarsteinach)

Tower and wall of Dilsberg near Neckarsteinach

Zwingenberg Castle (also called the Zwingenburg) (Zwingenberg/Neckar)

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.

Max Planck, after whom the society is named.

Entrance of the administrative headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich

International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, Heidelberg at the MPI for Astronomy

Seal of the Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis

Heidelberg University

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In 1386, Heidelberg University was founded by Rupert I on instruction of Pope Urban VI who demanded modelling it after the ancient University of Paris.

A Solemn Mass was offered in the Heiliggeistkirche in 1386 to mark and bless the establishment of the university.

The Old Assembly Hall or "Great Hall" was redesigned in 1886 in celebration of the university's quincentenary.

The main entrance of the New University building in 1988, showing the bronze bust of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.

The New University of 1931 as seen from the Old University.

The Bergheim Campus houses Economics and the Social Sciences.

The main building of the University Library, built in 1905.

The University Library's collection includes the Codex Manesse, an important German song manuscript of the Middle Ages.

The Center for Advanced Study Marsilius Kolleg, situated in House Buhl, was founded in 2007

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.

The EMBL Heidelberg buildings, including the new Advanced Training Centre

In 1968 the European Molecular Biology Conference was founded at CERN, associating 14 governments with EMBO, providing the organisation with stable funding and scientific independence. This led to the formal establishment of The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in 1974.

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).