Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Stuttgart, Germany

The Robert Bosch House in Stuttgart was the former residence of the manufacturer Robert Bosch until his death in 1942. After the Second World War, it served as a guest house for the Americans and later as a consulate for the French. The Robert Bosch Stiftung has had its headquarters here since 1986. The house is located in the middle of a park at Heidehofstraße 31 in the Gänsheide district of Stuttgart's East district.

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The Galatea Fountain is a fountain on a viewing platform at Eugensplatz in Stuttgart-Mitte. It was created in 1890 by the architect and sculptor Otto Rieth and the ore caster Paul Stotz (1850–1899) and is one of the most magnificent fountains in the city.

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The Haus der Geschichte 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 University of Music.

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Points of View is the title of a series of sculptures by sculptor Tony Cragg from 2002. The largest version of the works in this series consists of three columnar structures about 12.5 meters high, which are sometimes placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle. Numerous variants in different sizes and made of different materials can be found in several public and private locations and collections in Europe.

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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.

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The Schiller monument in front of the Great House of the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart was designed by the Stuttgart sculptor Adolf von Donndorf, executed in marble by Richard Schönfeld and erected in 1913. The statue shows an idealized Schiller image, according to Donndorf's intention "the immortal Schiller, [...] descending from Olympus with the golden Leyer."

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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.

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Christoph of Württemberg, ruled as Duke of Württemberg from 1550 until his death in 1568.

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The two Schloßplatz fountains on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz were erected in honour of Wilhelm I of Württemberg.

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The New Palace Stuttgart is the former residence of the Dukes and Kings of Württemberg on the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart. The Baroque three-winged complex was begun in 1746 by Karl Eugen von Leopoldo Retti and completed in 1807 by Friedrich I of Nikolaus Friedrich Thouret. The staircase, the marble hall and the white hall are particularly noteworthy.

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The deer and 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.

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The Jubilee Column is a monument that was erected on the Schloßplatz in Stuttgart from 1841 to 1846 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign and the 60th birthday of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg. The column, with a total height of 32.6 meters, consists of a 9-meter-high pedestal with four reliefs with historical scenes and four allegorical figures at the corners, an 18.5-meter-high granite column and a 5.1-meter-high statue of the Roman goddess Concordia.

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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.

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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 carries a capital decorated with rich ornaments according to the design of Wendel Dietterlin, above which a grid-protected viewing platform is attached. The column ends in a stump with a hemisphere that a "floating Mercury" touches with one foot.

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The Landesmuseum Württemberg is the main historical museum of the Württemberg part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It emerged from the 16th-century “Kunstkammer” of the dukes, later kings, of Württemberg who resided in Stuttgart. As a museum it was founded in 1862 by King William I.

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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.

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The Schiller Monument on Schillerplatz in Stuttgart was the first large poet monument in Germany and the first important Schiller monument. The statue, a major work of European sculpture of Classicism, was cast in bronze by Johann Baptist Stiglmaier in Munich after a model by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. The architectural design of the monument was based on the plans of Nikolaus von Thouret and Gottlieb Bindesbøll. The unveiling of the monument took place in 1839.

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The Stuttgart Market Hall was opened in 1914 in the city centre of Stuttgart. Today, the market hall is a food market in the upper price segment. It offers a total of 6800 square meters of usable space for service providers and retailers, 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.

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The Memorial to the Victims of National Socialism is a memorial on Stuttgart's Stauffenbergplatz in front of the Old Palace. The sculptor was Elmar Daucher.

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The Stauffenberg Memorial in Stuttgart's Old Palace is dedicated to the Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his brother and co-conspirator Berthold. The exhibition was initiated by the then Baden-Württemberg Minister of State Christoph Palmer and conceived and realised by the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg on behalf of the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation.

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The Jupiter Giant Column of Hausen an der Zaber is a consecration monument to Jupiter and Juno, which a Roman citizen had erected around the year 200 on his estate in Hausen an der Zaber. During an excavation in 1964, the almost completely preserved remains of the column were recovered and placed in the collection of the Roman Lapidarium Stuttgart.

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The Roman Lapidarium in the basement of the New Palace in Stuttgart is a more than 400-year-old collection of Roman stone monuments of the Landesmuseum Württemberg.

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Hercules and Minerva are two colossal statues that flank the entrance portico of the main wing of the New Palace in Stuttgart on stone pedestals. In 1759, Pierre François Lejeune, the first sculptor of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg, created these statues of the divine hero Hercules and the goddess Minerva.

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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.

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The list of religious buildings in Stuttgart lists church buildings and other religious buildings in Stuttgart.

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The Hegel House is a museum in Stuttgart, Germany, located in the house where the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born.

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The Seven Monument with the "Siebener-Brünnle" in Stuttgart (Rotebühl-/Herzogstraße) is a monument with an obelisk and was erected in honour of the soldiers of the Infantry Regiment Kaiser Friedrich, King of Prussia (7th Württemberg) No. 125 who died in the First World War according to a design by the sculptor Fritz von Graevenitz and consecrated in 1927.

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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.

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Stuttgart-West is one of the five inner districts of the Baden-Württemberg state capital Stuttgart and is located in the western part of the Stuttgart basin, which forms a kind of bay. The district also includes the extensive forest areas Rotwildpark and Solitude and, in small parts, the Kräherwald. It is bordered in the south by the ridge of the Hasenberg and its extension, the Karlshöhe, and in the north by the ridge of the Kräherwald.

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