A report on Stuttgart and Swabian Jura

Typical Swabian Jura landscape: the Salmendinger Kapelle (chapel) on top of the Kornbühl

1634 Drawing of Stuttgart by Matthäus Merian

Groz-Beckert in Ebingen, world leader in needles for textile machines

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.

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Each year, it recedes approximately 2 mm. Some millions of years ago, the mountains reached as far as Stuttgart.

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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.

The high plateau of the Swabian Alb, between the Neckar, the Black Forest, and the Danube, is an essential European watershed.

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.

With this junction above Rottweil the Neckar enters a narrow, wooded valley and for the next 80 km it bores its way towards north between the ranges of the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura.

Reutlingen

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City in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Spendhaus, first home of the weaving school that would become Reutlingen University

Reutlingen is located about 35 km south of the State capital of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart.

It lies in the Southwest corner of Germany, right next to the Swabian Jura, and that is why it is often called The gateway to the Swabian Jura (Das Tor zur Schwäbischen Alb).

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.

The Swabian Alb mountains rise about 13 km (beeline Tübingen City to Roßberg - 869 m) to the southeast of Tübingen.

A sticker that translates as: "We can do everything. Except [speak] standard German."

Swabian German

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One of the dialect groups of Alemannic German that belong to the High German dialect continuum.

It is mainly spoken in Swabia, which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg (including its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia).

Swabia

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Cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.

The coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg: Or, three lions passant sable, the arms of the Duchy of Swabia, in origin the arms of the House of Hohenstaufen. Also used for Swabia (and Württemberg-Baden, 1945–1952) are the three antlers of the coat of arms of Württemberg.

Duchy of Swabia around AD 1000 shown in gold yellow including (present-day) Alsace, the southern part of Baden-Württemberg, Bavarian Swabia, Vorarlberg in Austria, Liechtenstein, eastern Switzerland and small parts of northern Italy. In green: Upper Burgundy.

Swabian German or German is traditionally spoken in the upper Neckar basin (upstream of Heilbronn), along the upper Danube between Tuttlingen and Donauwörth, and on the left bank of the Lech, in an area centered on the Swabian Alps roughly stretching from Stuttgart to Augsburg.

Danube

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Second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

The hydrogeographical source of the Danube at St Martin's Chapel in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald: the Bregquelle, the source of the Danube's longest headstream, the Breg, where the Danube is symbolized by the Roman allegory for the river, Danuvius.

The symbolical source of the Danube in Donaueschingen: the source of the Donaubach (Danube Brook), which flows into the Brigach.

The Danube's source confluence in Donaueschingen: the Donauzusammenfluss, the confluence of Breg and Brigach.

Confluence of (from left to right) Inn, Danube, and Ilz in Passau

The Tisza is the longest tributary of the Danube

Confluence of river Sava into the Danube beneath Belgrade citadel

Where the Danube Meets the Black Sea (European Space Agency Sentinel-2 image).

The Danube discharges into the Black Sea (the upper body of water in the image).

Aerial view of Margaret Island, Budapest, Hungary. There are 15 bridges over the Danube in Budapest.

Great War Island, Belgrade, as seen from Zemun, Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube.

The Ada Kaleh island in the Danube was forgotten during the peace talks at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, which allowed it to remain a de jure Turkish territory and the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II's private possession until the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 (de facto until Romania unilaterally declared its sovereignty on the island in 1919 and further strengthened it with the Treaty of Trianon in 1920). The island was submerged during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric plant in 1970.

Iron Gate II Hydroelectric Power Station, Romania-Serbia

The Iron Gate, on the Serbian-Romanian border (Iron Gates natural park and Đerdap national park)

Fishing from a Zille on the Danube in Lower Austria, 1982

The Danube Bike Trail running along the Schlögener Schlinge

The Danube Bike Trail leading through the city Linz

Resting area along the Donausteig hiking trail near Bad Kreuzen

16th-century Danube landscape near Regensburg, by Albrecht Altdorfer – a member of the Danube school.

The oldest bridge across the Danube, constructed by Apollodorus of Damascus between 103 and 105 CE, directed by Trajan, modern Serbia and Romania.

At Esztergom and Štúrovo, the Danube separates Hungary from Slovakia

The Danube between Belene and Belene Island, Bulgaria

A look upstream from the Donauinsel in Vienna, Austria during an unusually cold winter (February 2006). A frozen Danube usually occurs just once or twice in a lifetime.

Bratislava does not usually suffer major floods, but the Danube sometimes overflows its right bank

Combat between Russian and Turkish forces on the Danube in 1854, during the Crimean War (1853–1856)

Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve in Serbia.

Golubac Fortress in Đerdap National park, Serbia.

Parts of this ancient river's bed, which was much larger than today's Danube, can still be seen in (now waterless) canyons in today's landscape of the Swabian Alb.

In Baden-Württemberg, Germany, almost 30 percent (as of 2004) of the water for the area between Stuttgart, Bad Mergentheim, Aalen and Alb-Donau (district) comes from purified water of the Danube.

Jurassic

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Geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

Folded Lower Jurassic limestone layers of the Doldenhorn nappe at Gasteretal, Switzerland

Middle Jurassic strata in Neuquén Province, Argentina

Tidwell Member of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Colorado

The breakup of Gondwanaland took place during the Late Jurassic, the Indian Ocean opened up as a result

Formation of the Pacific Plate during the Early Jurassic

Grainstone with calcitic ooids and sparry calcite cement; Carmel Formation, Middle Jurassic, of southern Utah, USA

Petrified Araucaria mirabilis cone from the Middle Jurassic of Argentina

Leaves of Ginkgo huttonii from the Middle Jurassic of England

Sagenopteris phillipsi (Caytoniales) from the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire, England

Holotype specimen of Platysuchus, a telosaurid thalattosuchian

Thalassemys, a thalassochelydian sea turtle known from the Late Jurassic of Germany

Fossil of Ichthyosaurus somersetensis at the Natural History Museum, London

Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni at the Natural History Museum

Skeleton of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri at Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Skeleton of Heterodontosaurus, a primitive ornithischian from the Early Jurassic of South Africa

Skeleton of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum from the Middle-Late Jurassic of China

Henkelotherium, a likely arboreal dyolestoid from the Late Jurassic of Portugal

Head and forefin of Pachycormus, an extinct pachycormiform fish

Fossil of Palaeocarcharias, the oldest known lamniform shark

Lichnomesopsyche daohugouensis, an extinct mesopsychid scorpionfly from the Late Jurassic of China

Mongolarachne from the Late Jurassic of China

Eryon, a polychelidan decapod crustacean from the Late Jurassic of Germany.

Vadasaurus herzogi, a rynchocephalian from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany

Homeosaurus maximiliani, a rynchocephalian from the Solnhofen Limestone

Pleurosaurus,, an aquatic rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Europe

Eichstaettisaurus schroederi,, an extinct lizard from the Solnhofen Limestone

Skeleton of Ceratosaurus, a ceratosaurid from the Late Jurassic of North America

Skeleton of Monolophosaurus, a basal tetanuran from the Middle Jurassic of China

Restoration of Yi qi, a scansoriopterygid from the Middle to Late Jurassic of China

Fossil of Thrissops, an ichthyodectid stem-group teleost from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, showing preserved colouration

Fossil specimen of Proteroctopus from the Middle Jurassic of France, formerly thought to be worlds oldest known octopus

The German geologist and palaeontologist Friedrich August von Quenstedt in 1858 divided the three series of von Buch in the Swabian Jura into six subdivisions defined by ammonites and other fossils.

Albert Oppel in 1858 named the Pliensbachian Stage after the hamlet of Pliensbach in the community of Zell unter Aichelberg in the Swabian Alb, near Stuttgart, Germany.