Stuttgart Region (

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

, Germany) is an

urban agglomeration An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...

at the heart of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region. It consists of the city of

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

and the surrounding

districts A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a Cities of Germany, city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg (district), Lu ...

, Esslingen,

Böblingen Böblingen (; ) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous. History Böblingen was founded by Count Wilhelm von Tübingen-Bö ...

Rems-Murr Rems-Murr is a (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall, Ostalbkreis, Göppingen, Esslingen, the district-free city Stuttgart and the district Ludwigs ...

and

Göppingen Göppingen (; or ) is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the Goeppingen (district), district Göppingen. Göppingen is home to the toy company Märklin, and it is the birthplace ...

(each 10–20 km from Stuttgart city center). About 2.7 million inhabitants live in that area (3,700 km²). In fact, with 708 people per square kilometre, the Stuttgart Region () is one of the most densely populated areas in Germany. Stuttgart Region is governed by a directly elected parliament. Situated at the heart of

, the ''Stuttgart Region'' is the hub of

economic An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

scientific Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

, and

political Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

life in Southwest

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. The area currently has Germany's highest density of scientific, academic and research organisations, and tops the national league for

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applications.

Geography

From northwest to southeast the

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is 90 kilometers long and from southwest to northeast 80 kilometers. The size of the area is 3.654 km². According to calculations made by the land surveying office, the geographical center is located in the south of the district Rems-Murr a few hundred meters east from the village Weinstadt-Strümpfelbach in a vineyard. An erratic placed after the vine field reform - the so-called ''Vogelstein'' - lays by accident almost exactly in that center. The

Neckar The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar ...

flows through the region for about 90 kilometers, of which about 70 kilometers are navigable

waterway A waterway is any Navigability, navigable body of water. Broad distinctions are useful to avoid ambiguity, and disambiguation will be of varying importance depending on the nuance of the equivalent word in other ways. A first distinction is ...

. The longest tributary in the region is the Fils (50 km), followed by Murr (45 km), the Rems (35 km) and the Enz (30 km). Topographically the Region lays between 170 m above sea level (

near Kirchheim am Neckar) and 835 m above sea level (swabian albs plateau near Hohenstadt).

Demographics

About 2.7 million people live in the Stuttgart Region, which corresponds to a quarter of the entire population of Baden-Württemberg at about on tenth of its size. 749 people/km² is the regions average population density. The numbers of inhabitants are census results (¹) or official updates of the statistical state office of Baden-Württemberg (only primary residence).

Verband Region Stuttgart

The Verband Region Stuttgart (VRS) a

public body A statutory corporation is a government entity created as a statutory body by statute. Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction, but they are corporations owned by a government or controlled by national or sub-national government to the (in ...

, is as one of 12 regional associations in Baden-Württemberg

and administrative instance of the Stuttgart Region. Its predecessor is the ''Regionalverband Mittlerer Neckar'' founded in 1973 which was renamed to ''Regionalverband Stuttgart'' in 1992. By law it was transferred into the ''Verband Region Stuttgart'' on February, 7th 1994. Thereby the new association besides the

regional planning Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land-use activities, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area of land than an individual city or town. Regional planning is related to urban planning as it relates land ...

, received additional tasks and has as the only regional association in Baden-Württemberg a directly elected

parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

. The ''regional assembly of the Verband Region Stuttgart'' is elected every five years. Further association bodies besides the regional assembly are the honorary chairman elected by the assembly out of its members for 5 years and the

regional director In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and ...

elected for 8 years who is temporary full-time public official. The regional director represents the association and leads the Administration. His office is located in the associations office in

. The association additionally has an office in

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. The Budget of the VRS for 2016 was 389 million Euro (2015: 323 million Euro).

Tasks

Important compulsory tasks of the VRS are amongst others: * regional

spatial planning Spatial planning mediates between the respective claims on space of the state, market, and community. In so doing, three different mechanisms of involving stakeholders, integrating sectoral policies and promoting development projects mark the th ...

(

) * regional

transportation planning Transportation planning is the process of defining future policies, goals, investments, and spatial planning designs to prepare for future needs to move people and goods to destinations. As practiced today, it is a collaborative process that i ...

and

public transport Public transport (also known as public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) are forms of transport available to the general public. It typically uses a fixed schedule, route and charges a fixed fare. There is no rigid definition of whic ...

* regional economic promotion

Spatial Planning

The VRS is the representative for the regional

(

). Most important tool herefore is the regional plan according to § 9 ROG. This plan names the following central places.

Transport

The VRS is responsible for the regional transport planning and the regional significant local

. In the regional transport plan it makes forecasts of the traffic development for longer periods of time and names and evaluates urgent measures to cope with traffic. The VRS is sponsor of the S-Bahn Stuttgart and stakeholder of the

Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart The ''Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart GmbH'' (VVS; ) is a List of German transport associations, transport association that coordinates the local public transport in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, as well as in the neighbouri ...

(VVS). Moreover, he co-finances Stuttgart 21. Out of the 323 million Euro in the budget of 2015, 300.4 million Euro went to the transport budget. Of those, 80.5 Million Euro was for the operation of the S-Bahn, the Schuster and the small Teckbahn. According to a financing agreement the VRS receives for the S-Bahn Stuttgart 9,1 % of the states regionalization budget from 2018 until 2031, 88 million Euro in 2018.

Economic promotion

In order to exercise as required by law, the regionally important task of economic promotion, the VRS founded together with other Stakeholders the die ''Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH (in 1995).'' Besides the recruitment and the guidance of companies which want to locate in the Stuttgart Region (Exogenic economic promotion) the about 50 employees of WRS consult and assist within the scope of site development already locally based companies (endogenous economic promotion). Besides the classical economic promotion in the narrower sense (e.g. through the marketing of industry sites, guidance of investors at their search for a location as well as location marketing) one focus is on the economic promotion activities of the Stuttgart Region and the Support of certain business clusters. Amongst others.: * Automotive industry and engineering * Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering * Energy and Environmental Engineering * Information Technology (especially in the field of Open-Source-Software) * Health based economy * Aerospace Engineering * Cultural industry In order to support these Clusters, the WRS initiates, coordinates and mentors the WRS branch networks (e.g. the ''Clusterinitiative Automotive CARS'', the ''MedienInitiative Region Stuttg''art or the ''Initiative Open Source Region Stuttgart''), organises Symposiums (as for example the annual fuel cell congress f-cell) and gathers and publishes a variety of branch information. In order to promote the employer attractiveness of the regions small and medium-sized employers to the pupils, students and graduates, the Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH hosts an online Stuttgart Region employer directory. There organizations have the possibility to present themselves and their current offers for junior employees. In order to improve the

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and contacts between industry and science, 15 competence and Innovation Centers have been established in the Region within which organisations,

universities A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

and research facilities work together

interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...

on industries related projects. Examples for such competence and Innovation Centers are the Virtual Dimension Center (VDC, competence Center for

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a Simulation, simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video gam ...

in Fellbach), the Kompetenznetzwerk Mechatronik in

, the Packaging Excellence Center (PEC, competence Center for

packaging Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coo ...

and

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...

technology) in Waiblingen or the Software center Böblingen/Sindelfingen. Further activities aim at the supply of skilled employees (for example through advancing the compatibility of family and careers and model projects on

professional development Professional development, also known as professional education, is learning that leads to or emphasizes education in a specific professional career field or builds practical job applicable skills emphasizing Praxis (process), praxis in addition t ...

). As well as the support of company foundations (for example through the partner network ''Partnernetz für Unternehmensgründungen aus Stuttgarter Hochschulen (PUSH)'' or the agency of founders and

private Investors An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an individual who provides capital to a business or businesses, including startups, usually in exchange for convertible debt ...

; see also Business Angels). In order to sponsor the

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

and

film industry The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production company, production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre- ...

the Region has established two separate institutions: The ''Film Commission Region Stuttgart'' and the ''Popbüro Region Stuttgart''.

Honorary Chairmans

The designations were: 1974–1994 „Vorsitzender des Regionalverbands Mittlerer Neckar“ respectively „Vorsitzender des Regionalverbands Stuttgart“; since 1994 „Vorsitzender des Verbands Region Stuttgart“. * March 1974 until 1 October 1994: Walter Hirrlinger (former Minister of Labour) * 19 October 1994 until 29 March 1995: Hans Jochen Henke (Lord Mayor City of Ludwigsburg) * 29 March 1995 until 26 June 1996: Wolfgang Rückert (former mayor) * 26 June 1996 until 7 December 1999: Eberhardt Palmer * 7 December 1999 until 21 August 2000: Helmut Xander * 21 August 2000 until 20 September 2000 Peter Hofelich (temporary after the step-down of Helmut Xander) * 20 September 2000 until 31 Dezember 2006: Jürgen Fritz * since 1 January 2007 and reelected for 5 years on 16 September 2009: Thomas Bopp

Regional Directors

The designations were: 1974–1994 ''Verbandsdirektor des Regionalverbands Mittlerer Neckar'' respectively ''Verbandsdirektor des Regionalverbands Stuttgart''; since 1994 ''Regionaldirektor des Verbands Region Stuttgart''. * 1 February 1974 until 1 October 1994: Erich Stoll * 1 October 1994 until 25 September 2008: Bernd Steinacher (1956–2008) * 1 July 2009 until 1 July 2013: Jeannette Wopperer * since 19 March 2014: Nicola Schelling

Infrastructure

The Stuttgart Region is accessed through a dense roadenetwork of controlled access highways (

Autobahn The (; German , ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. Much of t ...

), federal Highway (

Bundesstraße ''Bundesstraße'' (, ), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German ''Bundesstraßen'' are labelled with re ...

n), district roads ( Kreisstrassen). The Bundesstraßen, enhanced to four to six lanes run in a star pattern towards the states capital. There are only few efficient tangential Connections. The two Autobahns A 8 and A 81 meet in the Region at the Leonberg triangle, one of the most used Autobahn junctions in Germany. Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof, the main railway station is hub for the long-distance, regional and S-Bahn-Verkehr. Within a radius of 100 km you thereby can reach about 12 million people. Stuttgart Airport has become a European hub for almost 60 airlines. 10 Million passengers use it annually and 65,000 tons of

air freight Air cargo is any property carried or to be carried in an aircraft. Air cargo comprises air freight, air express and airmail. Aircraft types Different cargo can be transported by passenger, cargo or combi aircraft: * Passenger aircraft use th ...

is shipped here. Flights are offered to over 120 destinations in more than 40 countries. Through the Stuttgarter Harbour the Region is connected to the inner German and western European waterway network.

Cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's List of seas, seas and Ocean, oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. ...

s with a tonnage of up to 2,800 t are loaded and unloaded here daily. In order to accommodate the large number of commuters in the Region and relieve the roads, the

(VVS) offers, counting only the

S-Bahn The S-Bahn ( , ), , is a hybrid urban rail, urban–suburban rail system serving a metropolitan region predominantly in German language, German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit syst ...

already a network of 215 km length and Services 83 stops. The leisure traffic accumulates the majority of the distances taken by the regions 2.7 Million inhabitants. About 800,000 People, roundabout three quarters of the socially insured employees, do not work where they live.

Economic significance

The

Gross Domestic Product Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performanc ...

for Stuttgart Region was recorded at about €35,000 per capita, about €64,000 per employed person and €120 billion total. The unemployment rate is 4.8 per cent. Stuttgart Region is one of Europe's economic centres. This is due not only to the influence of international

companies A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specifi ...

, such as Daimler,

Porsche Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche (; see below), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in luxury, high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans, headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Th ...

Robert Bosch Robert Bosch (23 September 1861 – 12 March 1942) was a German business magnate, engineer and inventor, founder of Bosch (company), Bosch. Biography Bosch was born in Langenau, Albeck, in the Swabia, Swabian Highlands near Ulm. He was one of t ...

, Celesio,

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California ...

and

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

(all of whom have their world or German

headquarters Headquarters (often referred to as HQ) notes the location where most or all of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. The term is used in a wide variety of situations, including private sector corporations, non-profits, mil ...

here), but also to the influence of medium-sized enterprises such as Behr, Kärcher,

Märklin Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH or Märklin (stylized as ma̋rklín) (MÄRKLIN or MAERKLIN in capital letters) is a German toy company. The company was founded in 1859 and is based at Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg. Although it originally specialis ...

, Stihl,

Festo Festo is a German automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. Festo produces and sells pneumatics, pneumatic and electrical control systems and drive technology for factories and Process automation system, process automation. Fe ...

, and Trumpf. In total, approximately 150,000 companies are located in the Stuttgart Region. 24 per cent of employees in the Stuttgart Region work in the high-tech sector – a European record. The ''Verband Region Stuttgart'' as a political entitywww.region-stuttgart.org
“Verband Region Stuttgart is the political entity for the Stuttgart Region.” is responsible for regional transportation planning and for the basic network of public transport in Stuttgart Region.

Research and development

Out of the total Investments in R&D of German companies, more than 10% is invested by companies from the Stuttgart Region, which is one of the reasons for its leading high patent application amount. Two institutes of the

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...

, six of the

Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society () is a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on Basic re ...

, for industrial development institutes where several companies work together, one large research institution, 88 transfer centers of the

Steinbeis foundation The Steinbeis Foundation is an institute headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany dedicated to the transfer of academic findings and knowledge into the field of business. Established in its current form in 1971, the foundation encompasses the Steinbei ...

for economic Promotion and many research facilities at

Universities A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

and

Universities of Applied sciences A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...

are located in the region..

Administrative District of Stuttgart

Stuttgart Region shouldn't be confused with the Administrative District of Stuttgart. The German state of Baden-Württemberg is sub-divided into four districts: *Administrative District of Stuttgart * Administrative District of Tübingen * Administrative District of Karlsruhe * Administrative District of Freiburg Stuttgart Region is part of the "Administrative District of Stuttgart" (Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart, 4 million inhabitants, 11,000 km²).

Stuttgart Metropolitan Area

The Stuttgart Metropolitan Area (pop. 5.3 million), according to the definition of the European Union, is neither identical with the "inner" Stuttgart Region nor with the Administrative District of Stuttgart. The Stuttgart Metropolitan Area consists i.a. of the following larger cities (approx. 50 km from Stuttgart City Center): *Stuttgart Region, 2.7 million inhabitants *Heilbronn, 120,000 inhabitants, Administrative District of Stuttgart *Schwäbisch Gmünd, 65,000 inhabitants, Administrative District of Stuttgart *Tübingen, 85,000 inhabitants, Administrative District of Tübingen *Reutlingen, 115,000 inhabitants, Administrative District of Tübingen *Pforzheim, 115,000 inhabitants, Administrative District of Karlsruhe and their surrounding counties.

Maps

map of Baden-Württemberg
Left: Stuttgart Region - Right: Stuttgart Administrative District

Tourism

A selection of regional attractions: * Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (James Stirling designed the extension) *

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a contemporary art, contemporary and modern art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, built and opened in 2005. Description The cubic museum building with 5000 m2 of display space was designed by Berlin architects Hascher ...

State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart The State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (), abbreviated SMNS, is one of the two state of Baden-Württemberg's natural history museums. Together with the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karls ...

* Landesmuseum Württemberg im Alten Schloss * House of History Baden-Württemberg * Linden-Museum (Völkerkunde-Museum) *

Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave The Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave is a richly-furnished Celtic burial chamber near Hochdorf an der Enz (municipality of Eberdingen) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, dating from 530 BC in the Hallstatt culture period. It was discovered in 1968 by a ...

* Open-air museum Beuren and Hohenneuffen castle *

Hohenasperg Hohenasperg, located in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg near Stuttgart, Germany, of which it is administratively part, is an ancient fortress and prison overlooking the town of Asperg. It was an important Celtic oppidum, and a number of ...

fortress with museum ''Hohenasperg – a german prison'' * German Literature archive Marbach * Museum

Ritter Ritter (German for "knight") is a designation used as a title of nobility in German-speaking areas. Traditionally it denotes the second-lowest rank within the nobility, standing above " Edler" and below "" (Baron). As with most titles and desig ...

in Waldenbuch (Art- and chocolatemuseum) *

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 Merc ...

at the NeckarPark Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt * Porsche-Museum in Zuffenhausen * Ludwigsburg Palace with gardens and baroque old town * Lichtenberg Castle near Großbottwar * Reichenberg Castle Oppenweiler * Old town of Esslingen * Old town of Besigheim over Neckar and Enz * Old town

Schorndorf Schorndorf () is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located approximately 26 km east of Stuttgart. Its train station is the terminus of the S2 line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. The town is also sometimes referred to as ' (''The Daimler T ...

* State Theater Stuttgart * Wilhelma (Germanies only and Europes largest zoological-botanical garden) * Carl-Zeiss-Planetarium * Cannstatter Spas Berg and Leuze (largest Mineralwater deposit in western Europe) * Stuttgarter Fernsehturm (first TV Tower of its kind worldwide) * SI-Centrum * Hundertwasserhaus Plochingen Wohnen unterm Regenturm. Residential and Business complex in Plochingen designed by

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

Festivals

Cannstatter Volksfest The Cannstatter Volksfest is an annual three-week Volksfest (beer festival and travelling funfair) in Stuttgart, Germany. It is sometimes also referred to by foreign visitors as the Stuttgart Beer Festival, although it is actually more of an au ...

(by many considered the second largest beer festival after the Oktoberfest) * Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart (one of the worldwide largest and most important festivals for animation) * Stuttgart Spring Festival * Stuttgarter Weindorf * Schäferlauf in Markgröningen (oldest Volksfest in Württemberg) * Christmas Market in Stuttgart and Medieval Christmas Market in Esslingen am Neckar * Vaihinger Maientagmbergs) * Göppinger Maientag (for more than 350 years) * Waiblinger Altstadtfest * Fellbacher Herbst

Trivia

* Over 3,600 patents are filed each year in the Stuttgart Region. * Besides the car, the

ring binder Ring binders (loose leaf binders, looseleaf binders, or sometimes called files in United Kingdom, Britain) are large folders that contain file folders or hole punched papers (called Loose leaf, loose leaves). These binders come in various sizes ...

, office copy machine, Nylon stockings, the

spark plug A spark plug (sometimes, in British English, a sparking plug, and, colloquially, a plug) is a device for delivering electric current from an ignition system to the combustion chamber of a spark-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel/air ...

, the electric hand drill (Fa. C. & E. Fein), brassiere, Unimog, VW Beetle, time clock and portable Radio where invented here. * Theodor Beltle, merchant a creative mind, developed sherbet powder in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1925.

External links

Competence Centers Stuttgart Region

Portal Region Stuttgart

Push! Stuttgart Region

References

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