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Sightseeing Tours in Stuttgart1. Württemberg
The Württemberg is a hill on the territory of the German city of Stuttgart, capital of Baden-Württemberg. Its peak lies above vineyards at 411 m above sea level, on the eastern edge of the Stuttgart cauldron valley, in the Rotenberg quarter of Stuttgart's district of Untertürkheim, overlooking the Neckar valley with the Daimler-Benz industrial plant and the Mercedes-Museum.
2. Fruchtkasten
The so-called Fruchtkasten, a late Gothic stone building on Schillerplatz, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Stuttgart. Nowadays, the house is used as a part museum of the Württemberg State Museum as a house of music in a fruit box.
3. Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German polymath and poet, playwright, historian, philosopher, physician, lawyer. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright.
4. Neues Schloss
The New Palace is an 18th-century Baroque palace in Stuttgart and is one of the last large city palaces built in Southern Germany. The palace is located in the on the Schlossplatz in front of the Jubiläumssäule column and Königsbau. Public tours of the building are only permitted by special arrangement, as the building contains some government offices. Once a historic residence of the kings of Württemberg, the New Palace derives its name from its commissioning by Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg to replace the Old Castle in the early years of his reign. Originally, Charles commissioned Nikolaus Friedrich Thouret, but architects Leopoldo Retti, Philippe de La Guêpière, Reinhard Heinrich Ferdinand Fischer would contribute to the design, history, and construction of the palace.
5. Tempelgesellschaft in Deutschland
The German Templer Society, also known as Templers, is a Radical Pietist group that emerged in Germany during the mid-nineteenth century. Templer theology is rooted in the legacy of preceding centuries during which various Christian groups bravely undertook to establish the perfect Christian religion in preparation for Christ's promised return. The movement was founded by Christoph Hoffmann, [1815-1885] who believed that humanity’s salvation lay in the gathering of God's people in a Christian community. He also believed that the second coming of Christ was imminent, and that according to Biblical prophecy it would take place in Jerusalem, where God's people were to gather as a symbol of the rebuilding of the temple.
6. Straßenbahnmuseum Stuttgart
Founded in 1987, the Stuttgart Historic Tramways Association (SHB) documents the history of Stuttgart's trams (SSB) and former neighbouring networks such as the Filder Railway, the Feuerbach Municipal Tramway, the Eßlingen am Neckar Tram and the Esslingen–Nellingen–Denkendorf intercity tram with historic vehicles as well as objects from operation and technology. To this end, the association, as the owner of the vehicles and technical equipment, operates the Stuttgart Tram Museum in Bad Cannstatt in cooperation with the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG, from which there is also a historic operation with round trips of historic vintage lines over the preserved part of the metre-gauge Stuttgart track network.
7. Hasenbrünnele
Weilimdorf, until 1955 known as "Weil im Dorf", is the north-western borough (Stadtbezirk) of the German city and capital of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart. Weilimdorf, covering an area of 12.6 square kilometres (4.9 sq mi) with a population of around 30,000, borders the Stadtbezirke of Zuffenhausen, Feuerbach, Stuttgart-West, and the towns of Gerlingen, Ditzingen, and Korntal-Münchingen in the Ludwigsburg district. Weilimdorf became part of Stuttgart in 1933 amidst the hardship of the economic instability of the 30s in Germany. The city district is made up by six Stadtteile: Weilimdorf, Bergheim, Giebel, Hausen, Weilimdorf-Nord and Wolfbusch and is home to an expanding commercial area.
8. St. Fidelis
St. Fidelis Church is a Catholic church in the west of Stuttgart, Germany. The gable-ended building is slightly elevated above street level and its main façade recedes from the street line. An outer wall with turrets and two entrance gates and a courtyard with arched walkways separate the church from the street. The three-nave hall church without tower and transept is spanned by reinforced concrete trusses and crowned by a gable roof. Inside, the church presents itself as a simple and unadorned hall with a high, coffered wooden barrel vault, low, windowless side aisles and a light-flooded central nave with high glass windows.
9. Schwebender Merkur
The Mercury Column is a former water tower in Stuttgart, which was built in 1598 according to the plans of Heinrich Schickhardt and has been crowned by a gilded statue of Mercury since 1862. The tower is connected to the northeast corner of the Old Chancellery, a building between Schillerplatz and Schlossplatz. The corner tower is designed as an Ionic column and has a capital decorated with rich ornaments according to the design of Wendel Dietterlin, above which a lattice-protected viewing platform is attached. The column ends in a stump with a hemisphere that a "Floating Mercury" touches with one foot.
10. Ruine der Freitreppenanlage des ehemaligen Neuen Lusthauses
From the point of view of architectural history, the New Lusthaus in Stuttgart, which has not been preserved, is considered one of the most important buildings of the German late Renaissance and served as a place for courtly festivals and celebrations. In 1954, the Stuttgart chronicler and monument conservator Gustav Wais described the original building as "one of the noblest creations of the German Renaissance, which, if we still possessed it today, would be the main attraction of Stuttgart". Both the history of the building and the appearance are well known due to the numerous traditions.
11. Burgholzhof-Turm
The Observation Tower Burgholzhof in Burgholzhof, since 1998 a separate community within Bad Cannstatt in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is an 1891 brick observation tower constructed by the Cannstatt municipal architect Friedrich Keppler on behalf of the Verschönerungsverein Cannstatt e. V., in the style of a Roman tower, at an elevation of 359 meters (1778 ft) above sea level, at 9°11'41 east and 48°49'08" north. It was formally opened on 19 September 1891. It has extensive views over East Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt and along the Neckar valley as far as Esslingen am Neckar.
12. Burg Frauenberg
Frauenberg Castle is a ruin in the district of Feuerbach in Stuttgart, Germany. The hilltop castle was built in the early 13th century. The central tower was about 20 m high. The small interior – which is still visible today – served as a prison around 1390. The walls measured between 3 and 3.8 m thick. From the end of the 14th century, seven families became co-owners. At the beginning of the 16th century, however, the castle was demolished and it was not until 1971 that the remains of walls were discovered, which were secured in 1973 and surrounded by a complex.
13. Domkirche St. Eberhard
Stuttgart Cathedral or St Eberhard's Cathedral is a church in the German city of Stuttgart. It is dedicated to Saint Eberhard of Salzburg. Since 1978, it has been co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, whose main cathedral is Rottenburg Cathedral - the church's promotion marked the 150th anniversary of the diocese and its renaming as the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The parish dates back to the Medieval era while the current building was completed in 1955, eleven years after it was mostly destroyed by Allied air raids in 1944.
14. Deutsches Landwirtschaftsmuseum
The German Agricultural Museum (DLM) in Stuttgart-Hohenheim is considered one of the most extensive collections of agricultural equipment and machinery in the German-speaking world. On a total of 5,700 square meters of covered exhibition space, the DLM documents the technical change in agriculture from simple handheld implements to modern self-propelled vehicles. The museum concept presents the developments in the history of production and documents the constant change in agricultural history as well as its causes and connections.
Wikipedia: Deutsches Landwirtschaftsmuseum (Hohenheim) (DE), Website
15. Markthalle
The Markthalle Stuttgart was opened in 1914 in the city centre of Stuttgart. Today, the Markthalle is a food market in the upper price segment. It offers a total of 6800 square meters of usable space for service providers and dealers, of which 3500 square meters are on the ground floor for sales stands. In 2010, there were 37 different stalls. The column-free space of the hall is 60 meters long and 25 meters wide. There are several restaurants on Sporerstraße and in the market hall.
16. Grabkapelle auf dem Württemberg
The Württemberg Mausoleum is a mausoleum located on the Württemberg, in the Rotenberg borough of Untertürkheim, in Stuttgart. It was designed by Giovanni Salucci for King William I of Württemberg to house the remains his second wife, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia. Construction elapsed over four years, from 1820 to 1824, while work on its decor lasted another four years. The remains of William I, Catherine, and their daughter Maria Friederike Charlotte, are housed in the mausoleum.
17. Gruhe
A Ruhstein, also known as Ruhestein, Ruhbank, Grubstock, Gruhe, Gruhbank, Krugstatt or Gruegstatt as well as Raststein, is a single or multi-unit bench that was used in earlier times for resting porters. While there were originally comparable devices made of wood, the resting benches that have survived to this day are made of stone. As witnesses of earlier forms of transport and old traffic routes, many resting benches are now classified as small or field monuments.
18. Robert-Bosch-Haus
Das Robert-Bosch-Haus in Stuttgart ist der ehemalige Wohnsitz des Fabrikanten Robert Bosch bis zu dessen Tod im Jahr 1942. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg diente es den Amerikanern als Gästehaus und später den Franzosen als Konsulat. Seit 1986 hat die Robert Bosch Stiftung hier ihren Geschäftssitz. Das Haus befindet sich inmitten eines Parks in der Heidehofstraße 31 im Stadtteil Gänsheide im Stuttgarter Stadtbezirk Ost.
19. Schlossplatz
Schlossplatz is the largest square in Stuttgart Mitte and home to the Neues Schloss which was built between 1746 and 1807. From its construction until the mid-1800s it was used as a military parade ground and not open to general public use. It stands next to two other popular squares in Stuttgart: Karlsplatz to the south and Schillerplatz to the south west. The Königstraße bisects the plaza from north to south.
20. Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha
The Museum of Local History of the Germans of Bessarabia and Dobruja is a museum of local history of the Bessarabian Germans and the Dobruja Germans in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded there in 1952 as a local history museum of the Bessarabian Germans and has functioned since the annexation of the Landsmannschaft der Dobrudscha- und Bulgariendeutsche 2009 also as a museum for this group of people.
Wikipedia: Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha (DE), Website
21. Japan-Garten
Stuttgart-Ost is one of the five inner districts of Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located between the district of Stuttgart-Mitte and the banks of the Neckar opposite Bad Cannstatt. The district consists of the older urban areas of Berg, Gablenberg, Gaisburg and Ostheim as well as the newer districts of Frauenkopf, Stöckach, Uhlandshöhe and Gänsheide.
22. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde am Löwentor
The Museum at the Lion's Gate, often abbreviated to the Lion's Gate Museum, is a museum of paleontology and geology. It is part of the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, which also includes the Museum Schloss Rosenstein and several branch offices. The Museum am Löwentor is located in the north of Stuttgart on the edge of Rosenstein Park and has about 110,000 visitors a year.
23. Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg
The Ferdinand-Leitner-Steg is a pedestrian bridge in Stuttgart that crosses the nine-lane Schillerstraße and connects the Schlossgarten with the Upper Schlossgarten. Its southern end is located in the Upper Palace Garden near the Schauspielhaus. Its northern end forks into a footbridge to the walkway through the palace garden and a footbridge to the walkway towards the main station.
24. Ehemalige Burg Hedelfingen
Hedelfingen Castle is a Höhenburg, which was left in the 14th century, which was located on the Wangen Höhe, a ridge between Neckar and Dörrbach in the east of Stuttgart. The castle was about one kilometer northwest of the Hedelfingen municipality in a larger parcel. The fleet still bears the name "Burg" and spreads north to the district of the municipality of Wangen.
25. Universitätssternwarte Pfaffenwald
The University Observatory Pfaffenwald has been a observatory in the high -altitude Stuttgart district of Vaihingen since 1934, which was affiliated in 1972 by a gift from the University of Stuttgart. The observatory was originally part of the private property of the manufacturer Hermann Fellmeth, who had it built at his country house on the Vaihingen Pfaffenwald.
26. Zeichen der Erinnerung
The memorial "Sign of Memory" at the Nordbahnhof Stuttgart is reminiscent of this place under the rule of the National Socialist regime between 1941 and 1944 more than 2600 Jews from Stuttgart, Württemberg and Hohenzollern "to the East", that is, to their murder , were deported. Almost all of these people were then murdered in the Shoah (Nazi Jews.) Until 1945.
Wikipedia: Gedenkstätte „Zeichen der Erinnerung“ am Nordbahnhof Stuttgart (DE)
27. Theodor-Heuss-Haus
The Theodor Heuss House is the name given to the last residence of the first Federal President Theodor Heuss (1884–1963) on Stuttgart's Killesberg. The building is located at Feuerbacher Weg 46, in the Feuerbacher Heide. Since 1995 it has been owned by the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation, which uses the house as a museum and event venue.
28. Fernsehturm
Fernsehturm Stuttgart is a 216.61 m (710.7 ft) telecommunications tower in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the first telecommunications tower in the world constructed from reinforced concrete, and it is the prototype for many such towers worldwide. Although controversial at first, it quickly became a well known landmark of Stuttgart and a tourist attraction.
29. Weißenburgpark
The Weißenburgpark is a five-hectare green space in the district of Stuttgart-Süd in the Bopser district. On a hill in the park are the so-called tea house and the marble hall, which are now used as an excursion restaurant and as an event venue, respectively. The park itself is landscaped with several walking paths and seating areas to linger.
30. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
The Rosenstein Castle Museum is a museum of biology in Stuttgart, Germany. It is part of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, which also includes the Museum at the Lion Gate and some branches. The Natural History Museum in the Rosenstein Castle is located in the Rosenstein Park of the same name and has about 115,000 visitors per year.
31. Städtisches Lapidarium
The Stuttgart Municipal Lapidary is an open-air museum located in the park of the former Villa Ostertag-Siegle in Stuttgart, Germany. More than 200 mostly stone testimonies from five centuries of Stuttgart's city history are exhibited in the lapidary, as well as the Roman collection of antiquities by Carl von Ostertag-Siegle (1860–1924).
32. Jupitergigantensäule von Hausen an der Zaber
The Jupitergigant column of Hausen an der Zaber is a consecration for Jupiter and Juno, which had a Roman citizen built around 200 at his estate in Hausen an der Zaber. During an excavation, the almost completely preserved remains of the pillar were recovered in 1964 and brought into the collection of the Roman Lapidarium Stuttgart.
Wikipedia: Jupitergigantensäule von Hausen an der Zaber (DE)
33. Siebener Denkmal
The seven monument with the "Siebener Brünnle" in Stuttgart (Rotebühl-/Herzogstraße) is a monument with Obelisk and was in honor of the soldiers of the infantry regiment Kaiser Friedrich, King of Prussia (7th Württemberg) No. . 125 built according to a design by the sculptor Fritz von Graevenitz and consecrated in 1927.
34. Löwe
The stag and the lion are two life-size statues that flank the entrance to the courtyard of the New Palace in Stuttgart on high granite pedestals. The two Württemberg heraldic animals were designed and modelled by the Stuttgart court sculptor Antonio Isopi, cast in iron at the Wasseralfingen ironworks and erected in 1823.
35. Gaisburger Kirche
The Gaisburg Church is a Protestant church in the Gaisburg district of Stuttgart-Ost. It was created between 1911 and 1913 by the architect Martin Elsaesser as a reinforced concrete building in a mixture of late Art Nouveau, Neoclassicism and Neo-Baroque. It is considered one of the most beautiful churches in Stuttgart.
36. Gate of Hope
The Gate of Hope in Stuttgart is an architectural sculpture by the American conceptual artist Dan Graham, a gate designed as a regular tetrahedron made of stainless steel profiles and one-way mirrors. It is located at the end of the Łódź footbridge, which leads from Rosenstein Park to Leibfried's Garden.
37. Minerva
Hercules and Minerva are two colossal statues that flank the input sport of the main wing of the new castle in Stuttgart on stone positions. In 1759 Pierre François Lejeune, the first sculptor of the Duke of Württemberg Carl Eugen, created these statues of the divine hero Hercules and the goddess Minerva.
Wikipedia: Herkules und Minerva (Schlossplatz Stuttgart) (DE)
38. Linden-Museum
The Linden Museum is an ethnological museum located in Stuttgart, Germany. The museum features cultural artifacts from around the world, including South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Islamic world from the Near East to Pakistan, China and Japan, and artifacts from North and Latin America and Oceania.
39. Veitskapelle
The Veitskapelle is an evangelical church built in the late Gothic style in the Mühlhausen district of Stuttgart on the Neckar. In art history, the exceptionally well-preserved wall and vaulted paintings and the medieval altars of the Veitskapelle, which come from around 1400, are significant.
40. Bismarckturm Stuttgart
The Bismarck Tower is an observation tower built as a Bismarck monument in the Am Bismarckturm district of Stuttgart-Nord, Germany. It is located on the highest point in Stuttgart-Nord, the Gähkopf, and offers a good view of the Stuttgart city area as well as distant views in all directions.
41. Bärenschlössle
The Bärenschlössle in Stuttgart's Red Deer Park was originally a pleasure palace and now serves as a restaurant. It was named after the Bear Brook that flowed near it. The Bärenschlössle and the lakes in the forest are part of the "district" Wildpark in the district of Stuttgart-West.
42. Carl Benz Center
The Carl Benz Center is an event center opened in 2006 in the Neckarpark in Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart). The investor in the 75-million-euro project is Rudolf Häussler. The Carl Benz Center offers around 20,000 square metres of usable space, 4,000 of which are used by VfB Stuttgart alone.
43. Universelles Leben
Universal Life is the name of a controversial new religious movement based in Marktheidenfeld, Germany, which is described by members as a part of the new revelation movement. The group was originally called Heimholungswerk Jesu Christi, but has been known as Universal Life since 1984.
44. Markuskirche
St. Mark's Church is a Protestant church in Stuttgart's southern district on Filderstraße, at the corner of Römerstraße, in the Heusteigviertel. It is used as a parish church by the Protestant parish of Markus-Haigst. Adjacent to the church grounds is the Fangelsbach cemetery.
45. Liebesvase
The Love Vase is a monumental ornamental vase in sandstone by Friedrich Distelbarth at the Chamber Theatre wing of the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. The vase is constructed in the style of the Medici vase and bears a bas-relief with the Allegory of the Age of Love.
46. Galatea-Brunnen
The Galatea Fountain is a fountain on a viewing platform at Eugensplatz in Stuttgart-Mitte, Germany. It was created in 1890 by the architect and sculptor Otto Rieth and the ore foundry Paul Stotz (1850–1899) and is one of the most magnificent fountains in the city.
47. Killesbergturm
The Killesberg Tower is a 40-meter high observation tower located in the Killesberg Park in Stuttgart, Germany. Originally planned for the 1993 World Horticultural Exposition, an interruption in the design process delayed its erection until 8 years later in 2001.
48. Villa Moser
The Villa Moser was a country house villa in Stuttgart, Germany, built in 1875 by Johann Wendelin Braunwald for the chocolate manufacturer Eduard Otto Moser in the park of the Leibfried Garden. In 1944, the villa was destroyed to the ground in an air raid.
49. Schicksals-Brunnen
The Fountain of Destiny is a fountain in the Upper Palace Garden in Stuttgart, Germany. It was designed in 1914 by the sculptor Karl Donndorf (1870–1941) in Art Nouveau style and is considered one of the most important fountains of this style in Germany.
50. Junobrunnen
The Juno Fountain is a fountain in the Kursaal complex in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany. It was designed in 1910 by the sculptor Emil Kiemlen (1869–1956) in the neoclassical style and executed by the Stuttgart stone sculptor Willi Schönfeld.
51. Leonhardskirche
The Leonhardskirche in Stuttgart is the second oldest church founded in the old town of Stuttgart and today the centre of the Evangelical Leonhard parish of Stuttgart within the Stuttgart church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg.
52. Bernhardine Salomon
A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.
53. Staatsgalerie
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, it opened in 1843. In 1984, the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.
54. Hohe Carlsschule (Akademie)
Hohe Karlsschule was the strict military academy founded by Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It was first founded in 1770 as a military orphanage, but then converted into a military academy in 1773 for the duke.
55. Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg
The House of History Baden-Württemberg is a museum of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It is located on the "Stuttgart Culture Mile" in Konrad-Adenauer-Straße between the Staatsgalerie and the Musikhochschule.
Wikipedia: Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg (DE), Website
56. Graevenitz-Museum
The Graevenitz Museum, also known as Museum Fritz von Graevenitz, has housed selected works by the artist Fritz von Graevenitz since 1971. It is located in a cavalier house in Stuttgart-West in the Solitude district near Gerlingen.
57. Engelburg
The ruins of Engelburg, formerly also known as Biberburg, are the remains of a hilltop castle on a hilltop above the district of Mühlhausen north of Mönchfeldstraße in the state capital Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg.
58. Weißenhofmuseum
The Weissenhof Museum in Stuttgart is a museum for the history of architecture opened in 2006. It is located in a semi-detached house designed by the architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in the Weissenhof estate.
59. Dischinger Burg
Weilimdorf is a borough in the northwest of Stuttgart, Germany. It borders on the Stuttgart districts of Zuffenhausen, Feuerbach and Stuttgart-West as well as the cities of Gerlingen, Ditzingen and Korntal-Münchingen.
60. Skulpturenpark Hajek
Otto Herbert Hajek was a German abstract painter, graphic artist and sculptor. His architecture-related estate and his photo archive are housed in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering.
61. Schellenturm
The Schellenturm is one of the sparse remnants of Stuttgart's city fortifications. It was named after the Schellenwerker, condemned convicts who were used for public labor service and wore bells on their clothes.
62. Hospitalkirche
The Hospital Church is the third major medieval church foundation in the old town of Stuttgart and today the centre of the "Evangelical Hospital Church Parish Stuttgart" within the church district of Stuttgart.
63. Höhenpark Killesberg
The Killesbergpark is an urban public park of half a square kilometre in Stuttgart, Germany. It is just north of the state capital, where Killesberg is a quarter of the borough of Stuttgart-Nord (North).
64. Sankt Nikolai
The Russian Church is a Russian Orthodox church in Stuttgart, Germany, built in 1895 according to plans by the architectural firm Eisenlohr & Weigle. The church was financed by the Russian government.
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