Tübingen
Traditional university city on the Neckar
Location:
The university city of Tübingen on the Neckar is the geographical center of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Tübingen is to the south of Stuttgart at the foot of the Swabian Alb and at the southern edge of the nature park Schönbuch. Tübingen is an international center for art and culture, congresses and events of all kinds.
Local authority districts:
- Bebenhausen
- Buhl
- Derendingen
- Hagelloch
- Hirschau
- Kilchberg
- Lustnau
- Pfrondorf
- Unterjesingen
- Weilheim
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Geographic position:
48°31' North
9°4' East
Altitude above sea level: 320m
Area: 10.812 hectares |
History:
1078 - First written mentioning of Tübingen when King Heinrich VI besieged the fortress Hohentübingen.
1477 - Founding of the university by Count Eberhard in Bart, some 300 students register at the university.
1498 - First printed book. In the time following, Tübingen becomes a publishing city.
1514 - The Tübinger treaty is considered to be the "magna charta" of Wuerttemberg. 1534 Reformation through Duke Ulrich.
1588-92 - Building of the Collegium illustre, a riding academy. For decades the most important place for the education of the protestant nobility.
1623 - Professor Wilhelm Schickhard invents the first calculating machine in the world.
1787 - Johann Friedrich Cotta becomes publisher of the German classics.
1939 - Tübingen has more than 30,000 residents, in 1947 becomes the capital of the state of Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern
1954 - For the first time more than 5,000 students are registered, in 1995 the record number of more than 25,000 is reached.
1968/69 - Student protests
1995 - The Tübinger professor Dr. Christine Nüsslein-Volhard receives the Nobel Prize for medicine.
1997 - The exhibition successes of the art hall Tübingen (Cézanne exhibition 1993 with more than 400,000 visitors) is published in the "Guinness Book of Records".
1998 - Beginning of the rebuilding of the clinic with the departments of medical virology and microbiology and the ENT clinic.
2000 - In June the prime minister Tony Blair gives a lecture at the university after being invited by Hans Küng.
Economy:
The history of Tübingen and with it the society and cultural life as well as the economic development have been essentially characterized by the founding of the university in 1477. Tübingen still lives from and with the university and is thus considered to be an "intellectual" city, a city of poets and thinkers. Still today, the university is the largest employer of the city. Due to the idyllic old town with its crossing alleyways, steep echelons and the picturesque timber frame houses, Tübingen is often described as being romantic and "homelike". But Tübingen is also a modern, pulsating city which has remained young and is full of new ideas and challenges. A city in which you can feel good, in which you can relax as well as sharpen the senses.
Tübingen also captivates through a demanding and diverse cultural program and whoever would like to spend the night can select between smaller family operations, first class hotels, cozy inns or hotels Garni.
Exceptionally rich is the repertoire of gastronomic offerings. An unmistakable mixture of Swabian and international cuisine up to "haute cuisine". And, in one of the numerous original student pubs, you can find wonderful philosophical discussions!
Sights:
Neckar riverfront with Hölerlin tower The poet Friedrich Hölderlin lived here
Marketplace City hall with astronomic clock
Collegiate Church with tombs of the Wuerttemberg ruling house
Protestant monastery Here among others Kepler, Mörike, Hegel, Hölerlin, Schelling lived and studied
Castle Hohentübingen with museum University prison and Alte Aula in the Münzgasse
Botanic gardens with tropicarium, arboretum and many other sights
Monastery and castle Bebenhausen
Museums & Galleries:
Art hall Tübingen
Museum castle Hohentübingen (classical antiquity, Glyptothek, prehistory and early history, Egypt)
Car and toy museum "Boxenstop"Isinger village museum Alte KelterHölderlin Museum in the tower
City museum in the grain house
University prison
Geological-paleontological collection
Monastery and castle Bebenhausen
Galleries and Ateliers
Verkehrsverein Tübingen