A report on Stuttgart and Mercedes-Benz Group

1634 Drawing of Stuttgart by Matthäus Merian

The largest Mercedes-Benz plant is in Sindelfingen, Germany.

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.

The Mercedes-Benz Group AG (previously named Daimler-Benz, DaimlerChrysler and Daimler) is a German multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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In addition to many medium-sized companies, several major corporations are headquartered in Stuttgart, including Porsche, Bosch, and Mercedes-Benz Group.

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Gottlieb Daimler

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German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany.

Daimler's birthplace in Schorndorf, now a small museum.

The Reitwagen (riding car), the first internal combustion motorcycle (1885)

Model of a DMG Lastwagen, 1896, first gasoline truck

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was the son of a baker named Johannes Däumler (Daimler) and his wife Frederika, from the town of Schorndorf near Stuttgart, Württemberg.

The resulting new company was named Daimler-Benz AG.

Mercedes-Benz

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German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926.

Karl Benz made the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile.

Gottlieb Daimler, founder of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.

Mercedes-Benz Zetros used for snowplowing

Unimog, a famous allround vehicle by Mercedes-Benz

A STRAN Citaro (second generation) in June 2014

A DMG Mercedes Simplex 1906 in the Deutsches Museum

Both Mercedes-AMG Formula One cars at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix.

Mercedes-Benz sponsors the German national football team.

Mercedes-Benz AG (a Mercedes-Benz Group subsidiary established in 2019) is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft

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German engineering company and later automobile manufacturer, in operation from 1890 until 1926.

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Poster for a Mercedes Double Phaeton (1908)

1912 Mercedes Knight 4.0 50Hp at Technikmuseum Sinsheim

Daimler Double-Six 50 alloy V12 150 bhp
Corsica drophead coupé
body designed by Reid Railton (1931)

1916 DMG advertisement for the Mercedes automobiles, illustrated by Jupp Wiertz

Founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, it was based first in Cannstatt (today Bad Cannstatt, a city district of Stuttgart).

Because of the post World War One German economic crisis, DMG merged in 1926 with Benz & Cie., becoming Daimler-Benz and adopting Mercedes-Benz as its automobile trademark.

Carl Benz

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German engine designer and automotive engineer.

Karl Benz, in 1869 at the age of 25 (Zenodot Verlagsges. mbH)

Replica of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen built in 1885

An official license to operate the Benz Patent-Motorwagen on the public roads was issued by Großherzoglich Badisches Bezirksamt on 1 August 1888

Official signpost of Bertha Benz Memorial Route, commemorating the world's first long-distance journey with a Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 in 1888

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 of 1888, used by Bertha Benz for the first long-distance journey by automobile (more than 106 km or sixty miles)

Karl Benz introduced the Velo in 1894, becoming the first large scale production automobile

Bertha Benz with her husband Karl Benz in a Benz Victoria, model 1894

First internal combustion-engined bus in history: the Benz Omnibus, built in 1895 for the Netphener bus company

Benz "Velo" model presentation in London 1898

1909 Blitzen Benz – built by Benz & Cie., which held the land speed record

Karl and Bertha Benz c. 1926 (collection of Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH)

Last home of Karl and Bertha Benz, now the location of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation in Ladenburg, in Baden-Württemberg

The Carl Benz monument in Mannheim (2015)

The Carl Benz monument in Mannheim, in the evening (2015)

In 1926 it merged with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft to form Daimler-Benz which produces the Mercedes-Benz among other brands.

Although Gottlieb Daimler died in March 1900—and there is no evidence that Benz and Daimler knew each other nor that they knew about each other's early achievements—eventually, competition with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Stuttgart began to challenge the leadership of Benz & Cie.

Mercedes-Benz Arena (Stuttgart)

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"Cannstatter Kurve" is the area for the fans of VfB Stuttgart

Mercedes-Benz Arena is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and home to German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart.

After a major refurbishment in the late 1980s and early 1990s partly financed by Daimler-Benz, the Stuttgart town council dedicated the stadium to Gottlieb Daimler.

Wilhelm Maybach

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Early German engine designer and industrialist.

Maybach Zeppelin DS 8, 1938–39, exhibited in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Seestraße 22, Friedrichshafen, Germany.

When he was eight years old the family moved from Löwenstein near Heilbronn to Stuttgart.

In 2002, Daimler AG began to produce models under the Maybach name.

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 largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe.

Part of the Four Motors for Europe, some of the largest German companies are headquartered in Baden-Württemberg, including Mercedes-Benz Group, Schwarz Group, Porsche, Bosch and SAP.

Mercedes-Benz Museum

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A McLaren SLR near the museum shop, 2008

The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automobile museum in Stuttgart, Germany.

Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of the Mercedes-Benz Group.