Ludwigsburg and Related Topics

Stuttgart

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Capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

1634 Drawing of Stuttgart by Matthäus Merian

View of Stuttgart from Alexanderstraße, 1895. The Rotebühlkaserne is visible to the left, and the Old Castle and Stiftskirche to the right.

The historic Stuttgart Marktplatz looking west, 1881

Stuttgart Rathaus on the Marktplatz, 1907. The building was destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II. What was left of the building was used to build the current City Hall.

Villa Berg, the summer residence of the royalty of Wurttemberg built from 1845 to 1853, in a colorized photograph from 1910

A colorized photo from 1911 of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft factory in Untertürkheim. Today, this building is the seat of Daimler AG.

Front and back of a 50-pfennig Notgeld from 1921 featuring the state capital, Stuttgart

Demonstration at the Stuttgart Marktplatz on German Hiking Day (Deutschen Wandertag), 1938

Map of the destruction of Stuttgart after the air raids

A war-damaged Neues Schloss at Schlossplatz prior to restoration, 1956

Stuttgart's Hauptbahnhof from the Königstraße, 1965

The Stiftskirche, seen from south-east (Kirchstraße)

The Alte Kanzlei on Schillerplatz square

Wilhelma Zoo and Botanical Garden, around 1900

The Johanneskirche on the Feuersee, designed by Christian Friedrich von Leins

Killesbergpark with fountains and vineyards in the background

View from the Birkenkopf (partly a Schuttberg)

The Protestant Stiftskirche (originally built in 1170, pictured around 1900) with the memorial on Schillerplatz square in foreground

The Cannstatter Volksfest in the district of 'Bad Cannstatt'

The Württemberg crown jewels on display in the State Museum of Württemberg (Old Castle)

The 'Königsbau' on Schlossplatz, former home to the Stuttgart Stock Exchange

The new building of the State University of Music and Performing Arts, designed by James Stirling

Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (main railway station)

VfB Stuttgart's home ground, the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Bad Cannstatt. In the background: the Stuttgart Spring Festival

The Markthalle Stuttgart (Stuttgart Market Hall)

The {{convert|216|m|adj=on|abbr=off}} Fernsehturm Stuttgart (Stuttgart Television Tower) at night

Romantic view on the downtown area seen from upper Lenzhalde

The Haus der Wirtschaft (House of Commerce)

The mild climate and hilly landscape are perfect for viticulture, as the Romans discovered. Pictured are vineyards near Obertürkheim.

View of Stuttgart from atop the Birkenkopf

Neckar river flowing through Hedelfingen and Obertürkheim

Vineyards on the Neckar river in the Mühlhausen area of Stuttgart during the Autumn of 2006

Results of the second round of the 2020 mayoral election.

Results of the 2019 city council election.

For the first time in centuries, Duke Eberhard Ludwig moved the seat of the Duchy out of the declining city of Stuttgart in 1718 to Ludwigsburg, founded in 1704, while the namesake Baroque palace, known as the "Versailles of Swabia", was still under construction.

Neckar

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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)

The Neckar in Tübingen, between the Neckarinsel at the left and the Neckarfront of the old town at the righ

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.

Ludwigsburg Palace

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Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, known in German as Eberhard Ludwig, as he appeared in 1720

Courtyard, looking north at the corps de logis of the Alter Hauptbau. Nette began and finished most of the structures depicted.

In 1760, Casanova was a guest at Charles Eugene's court. During his stay, he praised the performances of the duke's orchestra.

A defense counsel (standing) at the Borkum Island massacre trial questions a witness, in the foreground next to an American soldier who is acting as interpreter.

Revolverheld performing in the courtyard in August 2016

Plan of Ludwigsburg Palace as completed, in German

The Riesenbau's namesake giants in its vestibule

The Ahnengalerie, tracing the lineage of the House of Württemberg

King Frederick I's throne in the Ordenskapelle

Statuary and ceiling of the Queen's Staircase

Aerial image of Ludwigsburg Palace, the palace gardens, and Schloss Favorite

The Blooming Baroque gardens around Ludwigsburg Palace

Ludwigsburg porcelain on display in the Ceramics Museum

Ludwigsburg Palace, nicknamed the "Versailles of Swabia", is a 452-room palace complex of 18 buildings located in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg

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Württemberg noble from 1698 who governed the Kingdom of Serbia as regent from 1720 until 1733, when he assumed the position of Duke of Württemberg, which he held until his death.

The Spiegelkabinett in the Old Haupbtbau of Ludwigsburg Palace, where Charles Alexander died in 1737.

As Duke of Württemberg he moved the court back from Ludwigsburg to the nearby capital of Stuttgart.

Baden-Württemberg

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German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.

A campaign sticker developed by Scholz & Friends, translated, "We can [do] anything. Except [speak] Standard German." That is an allusion to Baden-Württemberg being one of the principal centres for innovation in Germany and having its own distinctive dialects.

Sticker with slogan "Nice here. But have you been to Baden-Württemberg?" on a burnt-out car in Namibia (2017)

Stuttgart center with the Schlossplatz (Stuttgart)

Heidelberg with the Neckar river and the vast Heidelberg Schloss (upper picture part)

Ulm with the famous Ulm minster and the world`s highest church tower

Baden-Württemberg state parliament in Stuttgart

The Black Forest as seen from the Belchen

The University of Karlsruhe. Since 2009, it has been known as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The Mannheim Palace houses the University of Mannheim, which repeatedly receives top marks in business administration and is sometimes referred to as the "Harvard of Germany".

The residential (court) towns of Ludwigsburg and Karlsruhe, the spas and casino of luxurious Baden-Baden, the medieval architecture of Ulm (Ulm Münster is the tallest church in the world), the vibrant, young, but traditional university towns of Heidelberg and Tübingen with their old castles looking out above the river Neckar, are popular smaller towns.