Stuttgart and Related Topics

Baden-Württemberg

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

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.

Tübingen

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.

Duchy of Württemberg

Duchy located in the south-western part of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Duchy of Württemberg (in yellow) and the other territories of Swabia. This map is an oversimplification since there were about 80 distinct territories within the Circle of Swabia and hundreds of enclaves and exclaves. Published by Mattäus Seutter, circa 1750.

Courtyard of the Ducal palace at Ludwigsburg

Boundary-Stone between Baden and Württemberg

Much of the territory of the Duchy of Württemberg lies in the valley of the Neckar river, from Tübingen to Heilbronn, with its capital and largest city, Stuttgart, in the center.

Frankfurt

Most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

Often stereotyped as a financial city, Frankfurt is multifaceted, including the entertainment district at Bahnhofsviertel.

The legend of the Frankenfurt (ford of the Franks)

View of Frankfurt am Main, including the Alte Brücke (Old Bridge), by Gustave Courbet (1858)

Frankfurt as seen by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A

The 46 Stadtteile (city districts) of central Frankfurt

The central Innenstadt district, as seen by a SkySat satellite

The New Frankfurt Old Town was completed in 2018, including 15 reconstructed historical buildings.

Alte Oper, now a concert hall, at Opernplatz

Upper section of the Main Tower with a public observation deck at 200 metres

Frankfurt skyline in June 2013, view from south-west

Skyline at dusk, seen from Deutschherrnbrücke (2014)

Top of the Europaturm, a 337 m communications tower

Zeil, Frankfurt's central shopping street

A "Frankfurt kitchen" in the version of 1926 in an Austrian museum

Frankfurt Airport (with the fourth runway under construction in 2010) and the Frankfurter Kreuz (lower right corner)

The new headquarters of the European Central Bank in the Ostend district

Westend Tower, also known as Westendstraße 1 or Crown Tower, headquarters of DZ Bank

Opernturm, headquarters of UBS Germany, at the Opernplatz

Bull and bear in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Messeturm seen from the trade fair premises

Two Lufthansa Airbus A380s at Frankfurt Airport

Westhafen Tower, home to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)

Editorial department building of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The Waldstadion (currently known as the Deutsche Bank Park), home of the football club Eintracht Frankfurt

Frankfurt is one of the world's most important financial centres and Germany's financial capital, followed by Hamburg and Stuttgart.

Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

The eldest son, and successor, of Charles Alexander; his mother was Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis.

Carl Eugen, in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni

In 1761, Charles Eugen founded an Académie des Arts in Stuttgart (now the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart), in 1765 a public library in Ludwigsburg (now the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart), and he was responsible for the construction of a number of other key palaces and buildings in the area including the New Palace which still stands at the centre of the Schlossplatz, Castle Solitude and Castle Hohenheim.

Gottlieb Daimler

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.

Karlsruhe

Panorama of Karlsruhe, looking south from the palace tower: The Institute of Technology is on the left, the market square in the centre, the Federal Constitutional Court on the right. Wings of the palace align with streets, all radiating out from the centre of town, i.e., the palace tower.

A 180-degree panorama from atop the palace tower, facing north

Panorama of the courtyard of Botanischer Garten Karlsruhe

Breweries and buildings in the Art Nouveau style were predominant in the western city.

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

A tram at the subterranean Durlacher Tor - KIT Campus Süd station.

Memorial for Baden Life Grenadiers in several wars, 1803–1918, temporarily removed in 2010

The Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, the main station in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe Synagogue, built by Friedrich Weinbrenner in 1798, existed until 1871

Karlsruhe, formerly spelled Carlsruhe in English, is the third-largest city of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart, and Mannheim.

Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 12 km north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar.

William I of Württemberg

King of Württemberg from 30 October 1816 until his death.

Queen Pauline and her son Charles in 1825.

The Jubiläumssäule on the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart

"Reporting to King William" (1847) by Stirnbrand. All the participants are identified on the painting's page at Wikimedia Commons.

Napoleon III, William I and Alexander II at the Meeting of the Two Emperors at Stuttgart in 1857.

Transfer of the body of William I, in the early morning hours of 30 June 1864, to the Württemberg Mausoleum.

King William I and his third wife Queen Pauline (above), with their children Crown Prince Charles (centre), Catherine (bottom left) and Augusta (bottom right) and the king's two daughters from his second marriage Princesses Sophie (centre left) and Marie (centre right)

Thirdly on 15 April 1820 in Stuttgart he married another first cousin, Duchess Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800–1873), a daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817) and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1780–1857), by whom he had one son and heir and two further daughters: