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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.

It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the Stuttgarter Kessel (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest.

Heidelberg

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Heidelberg Castle, here shown in a painting by Carl Blechen, was destroyed by the French during the war of succession of the Electorate of the Palatinate

Memorial stone marking the site of the synagogue in the Lauerstrasse

The marketplace, with Town Hall on the right

Heidelberg's old city centre from the castle above

Heidelberg Castle with the Old Bridge in foreground, 2010

View from the castle during winter, 2014

View from the so-called "Philosophers' Walk"
(Philosophenweg) towards the Old Town, with Heidelberg Castle, Heiliggeist Church and the Old Bridge

From left: Jesuit Church, Providence Church and Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg's Old Town on the Neckar River

Buildings of European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, including the new Advanced Training Centre

SRH Hochschule Heidelberg is one of the oldest and largest private universities in Germany

The New city district of Heidelberg, Bahnstadt, is one of the biggest passive house settlements in the world

Heidelberg with the Old Bridge illuminated

Romantic view of Heidelberg Castle ruins by Karl Philipp Fohr, 1815, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

Friedrich Ebert first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925

Frederick V; Elector Palatine, King of Bohemia

Actor Michael Fassbender was born in Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

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".

Most of the major cities of Baden-Württemberg straddle the banks of the Neckar River, which runs downstream (from southwest to the centre, then northwest) through the state past Tübingen, Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Heidelberg, and Mannheim.

Black Forest

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Large forested mountain range in south-west Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, bounded by the Rhine valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland.

An unmarried Black Forest woman wearing a red Bollenhut, 1898

Woods and pastures of the High Black Forest near Breitnau

Slopes of the Northern Black Forest to the Upper Rhine Plain (Northern Black Forest Valleys)

Grassland economy in side valleys of the Kinzig, Central Black Forest

The Belchen in the Southern Black Forest with its bare dome, seen from Münstertal

Central/North Black Forest Nature Park: view from the Hornisgrinde (highest mountain of the Northern Black Forest)

Two Black Forest Horses pulling a sled in the winter

Winter on the Schauinsland. In the background are the Vosges

Hinterzarten in the Southern Black Forest: church and Adler ski jump

The Altstadt of Altensteig in the Northern Black Forest

The Vogtsbauernhof (1612) of the Black Forest Open Air Museum in the Gutach valley

The Gutach bridge on the Höllental Railway

Winter on Schauinsland: famous "Windbuchen" Beeches bent by the wind

Hornisgrinde plateau and raised bog (2004). Behind: transmission mast and wind generators

Trunks of White Fir from Gersbach hold up the largest unsupported wooden roof in the world at Expo 2000

Clockmaker's workshop in a sitting room (postcard from around 1900)

The Straßerhof Mill in Hornberg, a typical Black Forest farming mill

The Hornberg Basin near Herrischried, upper reservoir of the Wehr pumped storage station (emptied, May 2008).

Traditionally, the Bollenhut is worn by unmarried women as part of the tracht.

Arnold Lyongrün: "Frühling im Schwarzwald" (1912)

"Kinderreigen" (1872) by Black Forest artist Hans Thoma

Black Forest farmhouse, painted by Wilhelm Hasemann

A Gutach family, painted by Wilhelm Hasemann (ca. 1900)

Carnival pleasure in the Black Forest (1890)

The Minster in Freiburg, the region's biggest city

The River Kinzig passing through the Black Forest

Ortenberg Castle near Offenburg (now a youth hostel)

The Black Forest is known for its native clockmakers

Traditional farmhouse of the Black Forest

The former Graf-Eberhard-Bad (now: Palais Thermal) in Bad Wilbad

It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers.

Tübingen

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Traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Tübingen (lower right) on the Neckar, in southwest Germany

Tübingen University Main Building (Neue Aula)

It is situated 30 km south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers.

Heilbronn

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City in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn District.

Heilbronn (upper right) on the Neckar River, in southwest Germany.

Heilbronn in 1643. Engraving by Matthäus Merian

Bond of the Municipality Heilbronn, issued 10. April 1923

View of the Bundesgartenschau and the Neckarbogen

St. Kilian's Church, Heilbronn, as seen from the Kiliansplatz

View of Heilbronn from Wartberg viewing tower.

Heilbronn/Karlsruhe Stadtbahn train pulling into the station outside of Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof

View of the Thermal Power Plant from Wartberg

Heilbronn is located in the northern corner of the Neckar basin at the bottom of the Wartberg (308 m).

Odenwald

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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)

The part south of the Neckar valley is sometimes called the Kleiner Odenwald ("Little Odenwald").

Mannheim

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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.