52 Sights in Stuttgart, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Back to the list of cities in Germany1. 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.
2. Straßenbahnmuseum Stuttgart
The Stuttgart Historical Railways e. V. (SHB) documents with historical vehicles from 1868 to 1986 as well as objects from the company and technology The history of the Stuttgart trams (SSB) and neighboring or operational transport companies such as. B. the Filderbahn-Gesellschaft, the municipal tram Feuerbach (SSF), the tram Eßlingen am Neckar-which was operated by the Eßlinger Städtische tram (ESS)-and the Esslingen-Nellingen-Denkendorf tram (end). For this purpose, the association as the owner of the vehicles and technical systems in cooperation with Stuttgart Straßenbahnen AG in Bad Cannstatt operates the Museum tram world Stuttgart, from which tours of historical classic car lines also take place over the preserved part of the meter -gauge Stuttgart track network.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Markthalle
The Stuttgart Markthalle is a Art Nouveau building in the Stuttgart city center in Dorotheenstraße 4. The market hall is now a consumer market in the upscale price segment. There are a total of 6,800 square meters of usable space, including 3500 square meters for sales stands on the ground floor. The building offers numerous service providers and dealers room, in 2010 there were 37 different stalls. The support -free space of the hall is 60 meters long and 25 meters wide. There are several restaurants on Sporerstrasse and in the market hall.
6. Theodor-Heuss-Haus
The Theodor-Heuss-Haus in Stuttgart, Feuerbacher Weg 46, is the former house of the first German Federal President Theodor Heuss (1884–1963). It is located in the Feuerbacher Heide on Killesberg next to the Villa Porsche, built in 1923. The Federal President-Theodor-Heuss-Haus Foundation acquired the building in 1995 and had it renovated, renovated and expanded it according to the plans of the Stuttgart architecture firm Behnisch & Partner. Federal President Johannes Rau opened the museum in the house on March 8, 2002.
7. 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.
8. Schiller-Denkmal
Schiller Monument, located in Schiller Square in Stuttgart, is the first large poet monument in Germany and the first important Schiller Monument. The statue, a masterpiece of European classical sculpture, was cast in bronze in Munich by Johann Baptiste Stegelmeier and modeled after a model by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. The architectural design of this monument is based on the plan of Nicholas von Tourette and Gottlieb Bindesbor. The monument was unveiled in 1839.
9. Ruine der Freitreppenanlage des ehemaligen Neuen Lusthauses
The new Lusthaus in Stuttgart is considered one of the most important buildings of the late German Renaissance and was the site of palace parties and celebrations. Gustav Wais, Stuttgart's chronicler and monument keeper, described the building in 1954 as "one of the noblest buildings of the German Renaissance and would be Stuttgart's main attraction if we still owned it today". Because of many traditions, the architectural history and appearance are well known.
10. Jubiläumssäule
The anniversary pillar is a monument that was built on the Schloßplatz in Stuttgart on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the government and the 60th birthday of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg from Württemberg. The column consists of a 30 -meter -high shaft made of granite, the 5 meter high statue of the Roman goddess Concordia, four reliefs with historical scenes and four allegorical figures at the corners of the pillar base.
11. Gruhe
Ruhstein, also known as Ruhstein, Ruhbank, Grubstock, Gruhe, Gruhbank, Krugstatt or Gruegstatt, as well as Raststein, was a single-or multi-knotted bench used in the early days as a rest for load carriers. Although there were similar wooden devices at first, the existing rest benches are made of Stone. As witnesses to early forms of traffic and old routes of traffic, many rest benches are now considered small or country monuments.
12. Museum Hotel Silber
The Silber Hotel, also known as the Silber Memorial Hotel or Silber Learning and Memorial Hotel, is a permanent exhibit on the police witch hunt at the Silber Hotel from 1928 to 1984, as well as the persecution and deportation of Sinti and Roma and the persecution of homosexuals by the police in Hospitalhof during the Nazi period. The exhibition "Police, Gestapo and Persecution" is located at Silber Hotel in Stuttgart.
13. Feuerwehrmuseum
The fire brigade museum in Stuttgart in a former factory building in Assmann & Stockder in the Münster Stuttgart district shows the development of fire fighting from the unorganized extinguishing of fires over the first ducal and royal fire regulations, the foundation of the voluntary fire brigades in Stuttgart to the establishment of a constantly occupied professional guard Stuttgart fire brigade.
14. Points of View
"Viewpoint" is the title of a series of sculptures created by British sculptor Tony Cragg in 2002. In the largest version, this series of works consists of three columnar structures about 12.5 meters high, which are sometimes placed on the vertices of equilateral triangles. Many variants of different sizes and materials can be found in several public and private sites and collections in Europe.
15. 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.
16. Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien und der Dobrudscha
The local museum of Germans from Bessarabia and the Dobrudscha is a local museum of the Bessarabian Germans and the Dobrudchadeutschen in Stuttgart. It was founded there in 1952 as a local museum of the Bessarabian Germans and has been acting since the connection of the Country team of the Dobrudscha and Bulgariend Germans in 2009 also as a museum for this group of people.
17. Japan-Garten
Stuttgart-Ost is one of the five inner districts of the Baden-Württemberg state capital Stuttgart. It lies between the Stuttgart-Mitte district 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.
18. Stauffenberg Erinnerungsstätte
The Stauffenberg Memorial in Stuttgart Castle is dedicated to Hitler's assassin, Count Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg, and his brother and accomplice, Berthold. The exhibition was initiated by Christopher Palmer, then Minister of State of Baden-Württemberg, and conceived and realized by Baden-Württemberg Historical House on behalf of Baden-Württemberg Foundation.
19. Universitätssternwarte Pfaffenwald
The University Observatory Pfaffenwald has been a observatory in 1934 in the high -altitude Stuttgart district of Vaihingen, 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.
20. Schillerdenkmal
The Schiller monument in front of the National Theatre in Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, was designed by Stuttgart sculptor Adolf von Dondorf, built in marble by Richard Sheffield and erected in 1913. The statue shows an idealized image of Schiller, and according to Dondorf's intention, "the immortal Schiller, [...] came down from Mount Olympus with the golden Layer."
21. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde am Löwentor
The Löwentor Museum, commonly referred to as the Löwentormuseum, is a museum of paleontology and geology. It is part of the National Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, which also includes the Rosenstein Castle Museum and several branches. The Löwentor Museum is located on the edge of Rosensteinpark, north of Stuttgart. 110,000 visitors.
22. Jupitergigantensäule von Hausen an der Zaber
Jupiter Giant Column is a monument dedicated to Jupiter and Juno, which was built by a Roman citizen on his estate in Hausen-sur-Zaber around 200 AD. During an excavation in 1964, the remains of the pillars, which were almost completely preserved, were recovered and brought to the collection of the Roman Gem Museum in Stuttgart.
23. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
The Museum Schloss Rosenstein is a Museum of Biology in Stuttgart. It is part of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, which also includes the Museum am Löwentor and some branches. The Natural History Museum in Rosenstein Castle is located in the Rosenstein Park of the same name and has around 115,000 visitors a year.
24. Zeichen der Erinnerung
The memorial sign at Stuttgart North Station reminds us that during the period of National Socialism from 1941 to 1944, more than 2,600 Jews from Stuttgart, Württemberg and Hohenzoren were deported from this place. Almost all of these people were murdered during the Nazi Holocaust (Nazi persecution of Jews) until 1945.
25. Gaisburger Kirche
Gessberg Church is a Protestant church in Gessberg District, east of Stuttgart, Germany. Built by architect Martin Elsaesser between 1911 and 1913, it is a reinforced concrete building that combines late art nouveau, neoclassicism and neobaroque styles. It is considered one of the most beautiful churches in Stuttgart.
26. StadtPalais
The Stadtmuseum Stuttgart is a museum about the history of Stuttgart. It was opened in April of 2018 in the Wilhelm Palais, the former residence of Württembergs last King William II. The Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, the public library of the city of Stuttgart, was also housed there from 1965 until 2011.
27. Gate of Hope
The Gate of Hope in Stuttgart is an architectural sculpture by the American conceptual artist Dan Graham, a gate made of stainless steel profiles and disposable mirrors designed as a regular tetrahedron. It is located at the end of the Lodzer Steg, which leads from Rosensteinpark to Leibfried's Garden.
28. Hirsch
The stag and lion are two life-size statues on either side of the entrance to the Neues Schloss courtyard in Stuttgart. The two Wurttemberg crest animals, designed and shaped by Stuttgart court sculptor Antonio Isopi, were cast in iron at the Wasser Alphingen steel plant and erected in 1823.
29. Bismarckturm Stuttgart
The Bismarck tower is an observation tower built as a Bismarck monument in the Stuttgart district Am Bismarckturm in Stuttgart-Nord. It stands 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.
30. Kriegsbergturm
The Kriegsberg Tower in the city of Stuttgart (Germany) is an observation tower. It was built 1894/95 by architect Weigle for the Stuttgart adornment association. Its elevation is 353 meters (Kriegsberg). Geographical coordinates: 9°10'26 "eastern length, 48°47'15" northern latitude
31. Beinsteiner Tor
The Beinsteiner Torturm is located on the edge of the old town, directly on the Rems in the Baden-Württemberg city of Waiblingen. He is the only preserved city gate of the medieval city complex in Waiblingen. The building is protected as a cultural monument according to § 28 DSchG.
32. Carl Benz Center
Karl Benz Center is an activity center in Badkanstadneka Park in Stuttgart, Germany. The investor in this 75 million euro project is Rudolf Hessler. The Carl Benz Centre provides about 20,000 square metres of available space, of which Stuttgart VfB alone uses 4,000 square metres.
33. Universelles Leben
Universal Life is the name of a controversial new religious movement based in Würzburg, 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.
34. Stiftskirche
The Stiftskirche is an inner-city church in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the main church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg as well as the parish church of the evangelical (Lutheran) inner-city church district of Stuttgart.
35. Markuskirche
The Markuskirche is a Evangelical Church in the South Stuttgart district on Filderstraße, corner of Römerstrasse, in the Heusteigviertel. It is used by the Protestant parish of Markus-Haigst as a community church. The Fangelsbachfriedhof borders on the church premises.
36. Mercedes-Benz Museum
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automobile museum in Stuttgart, Germany. It covers the history of the Mercedes-Benz brand and the brands associated with it. Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of the Mercedes-Benz Group.
37. Leonhardskirche
The Leonhardskirche in Stuttgart is the second oldest foundation of the church in the old town of Stuttgart and today the center of the Evangelical Leonhardkirchengemeinde Stuttgart within the Stuttgart church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg.
38. Liebesvase
The love vase is a monumental ornamental vase in sandstone by Friedrich Distelbarth in the chamber theater wing of the new state gallery in Stuttgart. The vase is structured according to the Medici vase and carries a flat relief with the Allegory of love age.
39. Weinbaumuseum Stuttgart
The Wine Museum Stuttgart in Stuttgart-Uhlbach shows an exhibition on historical and modern viticulture in Stuttgart. The task of the museum is to present the regional peculiarities of winemaking. The museum belongs to the state capital Stuttgart.
40. Junobrunnen
The Junobrunnen is a fountain in the Kursaalanlagen in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. 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.
41. 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 district of Solitude near Gerlingen.
42. 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.
43. Schicksals-Brunnen
Fountain of Destiny is a fountain in Stuttgart, Germany. Designed in 1914 by sculptor Karl Dondorf (1870-1941) in Art Nouveau style, it is considered to be one of the most important fountains in this style in Germany.
44. Stauferstele
The Swabian Stele is an octagonal memorial stone commemorating the Swabians, who were Roman-German kings and emperors in the late Middle Ages. The sculptor of these monuments is Marcus Wolfe from Stuttgart-Pliningen.
45. Weißenhofmuseum
The Weissenhof Museum in Stuttgart is a museum for architectural history opened in 2006. It is located in a double house designed by the architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in the Weißenhof settlement.
46. Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg
Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg is a museum in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany. It is located at "Stuttgarter Kulturmeile" in Konrad-Adenauer-Straße, between Staatsgalerie and Musikhochschule.
47. Villa Moser
Villa Moser is a country house built in Stuttgart in 1875 by John Windling Braunwald for chocolate maker Edward Otto Moser in Leibfried Garden Park. In 1944, the villa was razed to the ground in an air raid.
48. Killesbergturm
The Killesberg Tower is a 40.4-meter high observation tower located in the Killesberg Park in Stuttgart, Germany. Originally planned for the 1993 World Horticultural Exposition, it was erected only in 2001.
49. Hochwachtturm
Hochwachturm is located on the edge of the Old City in the town of Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg, just above the city wall. According to Article 28 of DSG, the building is protected as a cultural monument.
50. Hospitalkirche
Hospitalkirche is the third large medieval church foundation in the historical center of Stuttgart and today is the center of the Stuttgart church district "Evangelische Hospitalkirchengemeinde Stuttgart".
51. 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).
52. Skulpturenpark Hajek
Otto Herbert Hayek is a German abstract painter, graphic artist and sculptor. His architectural heritage and photo archives are located in the Architectural and Engineering Archives of Southwest Germany.
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