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74 unusual facts about Stuttgart


123d Airlift Wing

During the period July 1944 – February 1945, the group engaged chiefly in escorting bombers to oil refineries, marshalling yards, and other targets in such cities as Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, Merseburg, and Brux.

131st Bomb Wing

Converted from P-38's to P-51 Mustang's in the summer of 1944 and from then until the end of the war flew many long-range escort missions heavy bombers that attacked oil refineries, industries, and other strategic objectives at Berlin, Regensburg, Merseburg, Stuttgart, Brussels, and elsewhere.

165th Airlift Squadron

After D-Day, engaged chiefly in escorting bombers to oil refineries, marshalling yards, and other targets in such cities as Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, Merseburg, and Brux.

1991 UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial

The women's team time trial of the 1991 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 21 August 1991 in Stuttgart, Germany.

26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing

On 30 October 1943, the 5th flew its first mission to Germany, photographing targets in Munich, Augsburg, Regensburg and Stuttgart.

467th Bombardment Group

In combat, the unit served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization, attacking the harbor at Kiel, chemical plants at Bonn, textile factories at Stuttgart, power plants at Hamm, steel works at Osnabrück, the aircraft industry at Brunswick, and other objectives.

824th Tank Destroyer Battalion

Once Heilbronn had been secured, the 100th Division, and the 824th with it, moved south towards Stuttgart.

Amor und Psyche

Based on the story of Cupid and Psyche, the opera premiered on January 18, 1800 at the Hoftheater (Herzöglichestheater) in Stuttgart.

Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran

He was appointed High Sheriff of Donegal in 1863.He was an Attaché at the British embassies in Hanover, Stuttgart, Lisbon and Paris as well as a Special Commissioner for Income Tax from 1865 to 1881 and a Commissioner of Customs from 1883 to 1884.

Automobiles Marathon

The technical enthusiasts who established the Marathon car business purchased the design from Hans Trippel (1908–2001) who had been released from war-related imprisonment in 1949 and at this point was based in Stuttgart.

Blanche Willis Howard

In 1877 she went to Germany on assignment to write travel articles for the Boston Evening Transcript and stayed there the rest of her life, settling in Stuttgart and opening a finishing school for American girls abroad.

Blizanci

Predrag and Nenad Jovanović were born on 11 January 1977 in Stuttgart, West Germany.

Cannstatter Wasen

The Cannstatter Wasen is a 35 hectare festival area on the banks of the Neckar river in the part of Stuttgart known as Bad Cannstatt.

Christos Tsigiridis

In the beginning of the 20th century they are forced to leave and move to Stuttgart in Germany.

Claire Waldoff

Waldoff was buried on the cemetery Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart following her death.

Clara Nordström

Shortly afterwards Clara Nordström moved with her children to Stuttgart and got a divorce in 1935 at Vegesack’s wish.

Critchley Light car

The Critchley Light car was briefly manufactured by Daimler Company of Coventry in 1899 to find use for about 50 unwanted 4 h.p. engines shipped to Coventry by the German Daimler works at Stuttgart.

Cyril Joe Barton

His second sortie with the new Squadron was an attack upon the city of Stuttgart in Germany, flying in Halifax LK797 (codename LK-E).

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum/James F. Byrnes Institute

-Byrnes-Institut (English German American Centre/James F. Byrnes Institute) in Stuttgart, Germany was founded in 1995 as the successor institution to the Stuttgart Amerika Haus, which was closed that year.

The Institute is organized as an association in which, in addition to the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Stuttgart, the Universities of Hohenheim and Stuttgart, the Fachhochschulen of Baden-Württemberg, German-American organizations, the U.S. Embassy in Germany as well as private persons and corporations are represented.

Different from You and Me

The West German premiere in Stuttgart on October 31, 1957, was followed by protest actions and demonstrations.

Dompfeil

While the name of the pair of trains remained the same, the route has been changed several times and in 1979 "Dompfeil" was put in service in route Dortmund - Wuppertal - Cologne - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - München.

Economy of Naples

In terms of international arrivals, Naples came 166th in the world in 2008, with 381,000 visitors (a -1.6% decrease from the previous year), coming after Lille, but overtaking York, Stuttgart, Belgrade and Dallas.

Elsa Brändström

Her daughter Brita stayed with her husband and children in the USA, Elsa Brändström-Ulich's husband Robert returned to Germany, where he died in 1977 in Stuttgart.

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

The EYE building was designed by architectural firm Delugan Meissl (see article in German Wikipedia), which specializes in buildings that appear to be in motion, and which is most renowned for designing the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart.

F. Wolfgang Schnell

Wolfgang Schnell (* 18 Mai 1913 in Bad Oeynhausen; † 29 December 2006 in Stuttgart) was a German professor of applied genetics and plant breeding.

Fred R. Zimmerman

His mother was born in Wisconsin of parents who were natives of Stuttgart.

Friedrich von Schubert

He died in Stuttgart in 1865, after having spent his last years traveling.

Funds for Endangered Parrots

The convention in 2008 will be held at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart and 2009 dem Vogelpark Walsrode.

German rugby union championship

The first final of the German championship was played on 14 November 1909 in Stuttgart.

Gustav Riek

Born in Stuttgart in 1900, Gustav Riek was an archaeologist from the University of Tübingen who worked with the SS Ahnenerbe in their excavations, and led the team that excavated the Heuneburg Tumulus burial mounds in 1937.

Helen Tobias-Duesberg

Shortly after the war, Duesberg died of a heart attack in a Stuttgart courtroom while preparing to testify against several Nazi war criminals.

Henry Cuesta

In the Army Special Services, he was involved in entertaining troops in Europe and England, which included a "Tribute to Gershwin" concert with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra.

Jean Chrétien Fischer

Jean Chrétien Fischer (German: Johann Christian Fischer; 17 January 1713 in Stuttgart – 1 July 1762 near Kassel) was a German-born soldier in the French service.

John Latenser, Sr.

Born in Nendeln, Liechtenstein to a family of people in the construction business, Latenser studied architecture at the Polytechnic College in Stuttgart, Germany, which is now the University of Stuttgart.

John Liptrot Hatton

In 1875 he went to Stuttgart, and wrote an oratorio, Hezekiah, given at The Crystal Palace in 1877; like all his larger works it met with moderate success.

John Tiplady Carrodus

He made his first appearance as a violinist at the age of nine, and had the advantage of studying between the ages of twelve and eighteen at Stuttgart, with Bernhard Molique.

Kreidler

Kreidler was a German manufacturer of small motorcycles and mopeds, based in Kornwestheim, between Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart.

Lechler

Lechler originated from the German company Christian Lechler und Sohn Nachfolger established in 1858 in Stuttgart by the chemist-pharmacist Christian Lechler.

Leslie Broderick

He then served in No. 106 Squadron RAF and completed 18 bombing missions before being forced to crash land in France when returning from a raid on Stuttgart and four of his crew were killed.

Lutz Templin

Ludwig "Lutz" Templin (June 18, 1901, Düsseldorf - March 7, 1973, Stuttgart) was a German jazz bandleader.

Manfred Korfmann

Also due to his initiative, in 2001 a major Troy exhibition was displayed in Stuttgart, "Troy - dream and reality".

Melanie Kurt

In the following years she sang mainly in Berlin again, in Leipzig, Stuttgart, Dresden, Vienna and at the famous Wagner Festival in Zoppot (1922), then a serious rival to the Bayreuth Festival.

Monarchy of Germany

However, the Federal Court of Justice of Germany overturned the original rulings in favour of Georg Friedrich's uncles, the case being remanded to the courts at Hechingen and Stuttgart.

Open Source Business Alliance

Linux Solutions Group (LiSoG) was founded in 2005 in Stuttgart.

Operation Provide Comfort

While Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were run by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Operation Provide Comfort came under the authority of the U.S. European Command (EUCOM), headquartered in Vaihingen, Germany.

Paul Nieder-Westermann

After he completed the adult education center in Langendreer he begann to study upon the agrarian high school Hohenheim in Stuttgart.

Peter und Ännchen

Peter und Ännchen premiered on September 29, 1809 in the theatre of the Ludwigsburg Palace near Stuttgart.

Revolving restaurant

A barrel-shaped, but stationary, restaurant on Fernsehturm Stuttgart, a TV tower in Stuttgart, Germany, built in 1956, was noted as the inspiration for the idea of a revolving restaurant.

Robert Forsyth Scott

Scott was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, then in Stuttgart before becoming a student at University College, London.

RTL Radio

From Stuttgart the station broadcast 1950s, 60s and 70s music over the old Luxembourg frequencies (from the Grand Duchy) and via the "Oldie Sender" network in Germany.

Scanlan's Monthly

The issue was finally printed in Quebec and in a German translation in Stuttgart (Guerilla-Krieg in USA, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1971).

Selling Hitler

However, to the dismay of all, including eminent historians such as Hugh Trevor-Roper (Alan Bennett) who verified the diaries as authentic, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Sergels torg

In Stuttgart they could conclude that having pedestrians on a lower level required escalators, and in Vienna the pedestrians hall Opernpassage gave them the inspiration to replace the central open space at Sveaplatsen with a round restaurant with glass walls, an aesthetic device intended to give the square an architectonic dignity.

Steyr automobile

The Great Depression intervened, however, and Steyr was bailed out by Austro Daimler, which killed the project as competing with its own very similar car, while Porsche resigned to form Porsche Büro in Stuttgart.

STUDIODADA

At Farbe Design in Stuttgart in 1983, they presented, in collaboration with Olivetti, one of the first examples of a computerised system for ceramic tiles linked with an automatic order-management system.

StudiVZ

StudiVZ denied the intellectual property lawsuit accusations, and asked for declaratory judgment at the District Court in Stuttgart.

Stuttgart Stadtbahn

The Stadtbahn is part of the regional transport cooperative, the Transit and Tariff Association Stuttgart (VVS), which coordinates tickets and fares among all transport operators in the metropolitan area.

Stuttgart-Feuerbach

His company, Leitz subsequently became known in Germany as the inventor of the ring binder.

Its name is derived from the small river of the same name that flows from the neighboring district of Botnang through Feuerbach.

Feuerbach is home to one of Germany's biggest industrial giants and is surrounded by the districts of Zuffenhausen, Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart-North, Stuttgart-West, Botnang and Weilimdorf.

The remains of a prehistoric settlement were uncovered in 1904, when the pastor of Feuerbach, Richard Kallee excavated, archeologically documented and published a total of 102 Alemannic sandstone tombs and cists.

In 1929 Feuerbach merged voluntarily with the neighboring community of modern-day Stuttgart-Weilimdorf.

Leitz business administration school and the Kerschensteinerschule for business technology.

Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen station

The Great Depression hit Zuffenhausen particularly hard and led to a sharp decline in tax revenues.

The Shell


In February 2001 the band recorded their first demo CD in Stuttgart, Germany which was supported by shows at Rock am See, the Montreux Jazz Festival, St. Gallen Open Air and a support act with grunge band Bush.

Thomas Sieverts

Sieverts studied architecture and urban design in Stuttgart, Liverpool, and Berlin between 1955 and 1962.

Todd McCaffrey

Before Trinity College, Todd Johnson served in the United States Army 1978–82, stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, and determining to pursue civilian life.

Tom Whalen

In 2008, he taught a film class at the Staatliche Akademie der Künste Stuttgart.

Whalen also was a Visiting Professor in American Film and Literature 2006-09 at the University of Stuttgart.

Wallace McIntosh

In July 1944, he shot down two German night fighters in a raid on Stuttgart and was awarded a Bar to his DFC in December 1944 at the end of his second tour of a further 23 operations.

WEGA

WEGA, pronounced "Vega", was founded as Wuerttembergische Radio-Gesellschaft mbh in Stuttgart, Germany in the year 1923.

Weil der Stadt

Later the suffix "die Stadt" (the town) was added to distinguish the town from villages of the same name, such as Weil im Dorf and Weil im Schönbuch.

Yellow-headed Amazon

Introduced populations can be found in Stuttgart, Germany where a population of over 50 individuals resides .


2001 Mercedes Cup

The 2001 Mercedes Cup was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Tennis Club Weissenhof in Stuttgart in Germany and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2001 ATP Tour.

Agri Decumates

The Agri Decumates or Decumates Agri were a region of the Roman Empire's provinces of Germania superior ("Upper Germania") and Raetia; covering the Black Forest, Swabian Jura, and Franconian Jura areas between the Rhine, Main, and Danube rivers; in present southwestern Germany, including present Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Weißenburg in Bayern.

Bach-Collegium Stuttgart

Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, conducted by Rilling, completed a first recording worldwide of Bach's cantatas and oratorios, a project of 15 years in collaboration with Hänssler Classic, in 1985 on the occasion of the composer's 300th birthday.

Carlos Alexander

Alexander has sung with companies in Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Canada, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Bayreuth (Beckmesser in Wieland Wagner's Die Meistersinger, 1963), Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Florence, Mexico City, Basel, Geneva, Zurich, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Hartford, etc.

Christian Dettweiler

He was a student of Pharmacy and in 1942 received a PhD in Botany (Plant Physiology) and was a Scientific Assistant at the Universities of Rostock and Stuttgart.

Christmas market

Famous Christmas markets are held in the cities of Augsburg, Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, making them popular tourist attractions during Christmas holiday season.

Christmas Market, Stuttgart

Stuttgart Christmas Market, known in German as the Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt is a Christmas market that takes place every year during Advent in the German city of Stuttgart.

Cipher

David A. King, The ciphers of the monks - A forgotten number notation of the Middle Ages, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2001 (ISBN 3-515-07640-9)

Daniel Frahn

His sixth goal of the season came ten seconds into a home-match against VfB Stuttgart II: seven Leipzig players stormed the Stuttgart half immediately after kick-off; the ball was played back then a long-ball was hit forward to Matthias Morys, who crossed for Frahn to score.

DSPACE GmbH

The company has Project Centers in Pfaffenhofen (near Munich) and Böblingen (near Stuttgart) and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, Japan and China.

Georg Friedrich Zundel

Georg Friedrich Zundel (13 October 1875 in Iptingen, Wiernsheim - 7 June 1948 in Stuttgart) was a German painter, farmer and art patron.

Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo

In Stuttgart, he created the set designs for operas of Niccolò Jommelli, and the ballets of Jean-Georges Noverre.

Henry de Bury

Count Robert Visart de Bury, of Bury in Péruwelz, Belgium and St. John, New Brunswick, a civil engineer, studied at the Episcopal College of Mecheln, in Belgium, at the University of Zurich and at the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart in Württemberg.

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Historical behaviour studies

A particular characteristic of the Stuttgart studies of historical behaviour was the comparative turn towards non-Western societies like Indonesia, Japan, and China.

International Socialist Congress, Stuttgart 1907

The gathering was held in Stuttgart, Germany from 18 to 24 August 1907 and was attended by nearly 900 delegates from around the globe.

Jaak Aaviksoo

From 1981 to 1994 Aaviksoo worked in many foreign institutes as a guest professor, namely the Novosibirsk Institute of Thermal Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Osaka University and University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.

Johann Gotthard von Müller

In 1776 Duke Charles recalled him to Stuttgart, where he taught for nine years, and whence he was summoned to Paris to engrave a portrait of Louis XVI, after Joseph Duplessis.

Jörg Schlaich

Other structures include the observation tower at the Killesbergpark in Stuttgart.

Landesmuseum Württemberg

It emerged from the 16th-century “Kunstkammer” (art chamber) of the dukes, later kings, of Württemberg who resided in Stuttgart.

Leningrad Codex

In 1935, the Leningrad Codex was lent to the Old Testament Seminar of the University of Leipzig for two years while Paul E. Kahle supervised its transcription for the Hebrew text of the third edition of Biblia Hebraica (BHK), published in Stuttgart, 1937.

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1999 he became the founder and president of the Association for Cognitive Management and of the Institute for Cognitive Management in Stuttgart, Germany, an affiliated training centre of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Nagold Valley Railway

Between Calw and Horb, long-distance trains from Stuttgart also ran on the Württemberg Black Forest Railway to Singen and from there to Lake Constance or Schaffhausen.

Nana Gualdi

During the 1980s, Ms. Gualdi enjoyed success as a stage actress in Hamburg and Stuttgart, Germany.

Raphael Regius

"In praise of Raphael Regius" in Siegmar Döpp (editor), Antike Rhetorik und ihre Rezeption. Symposion zu Ehren von Professor Dr. Carl Joachim Classen... (Stuttgart: Steiner)

Rems Railway

The Rems Railway was electrified, starting from Stuttgart, to Waiblingen in 1949, to Schorndorf in 1962, to Aalen in 1971 and in 1972 on the Ries Railway from Aalen to Nördlingen and Donauwörth.

Restatement

Restatement of Policy on Germany, a famous speech by James F. Byrnes, then United States Secretary of State, held in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946

Richard Farber

Farber’s first full-length ballet, 5 1/2 (German title Mann im Schatten), was set to his own libretto and choreographed by Renato Zanella; it premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1992

Ring binder

German Louis Leitz, founder of Leitz later made some important changes in development of ring binders in Stuttgart-Feuerbach.

SAP Arena

A tram line (number 6) connects the SAP Arena to Mannheim city center and a newly built road connection to the B 38a highway connects it to the A 656 Autobahn, leading to the A656/A 6 interchange, connecting eastbound Mannheim to Heidelberg (A656), and north/southbound to Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (A6), as well as a little north on the A6 to Kaiserlautern (westbound).

Swabian German

In 2009 Muggeseggele, literally referring to the scrotum of a male housefly, was elected in a readers survey of Stuttgarter Nachrichten, the largest newspaper in Stuttgart as most beautiful Swabian word, with a large lead on any other expression.

Unterbiberger Hofmusik

For his own further vocational education he attended a masterclass in 1992 which was held by the renowned American jazz trumpeter Claudio Roditi in Stuttgart.

Volker Ignaz Schmidt

Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England).

Walter Niephaus

1947, tied for 9-10th in Kassel (Efim Bogoljubow won), took 3rd in Riedenburg (Ludwig Roedl won), finished 1st ahead of Bogoljubow in Heringen, tied for 5-7th in Weidenau (the 11th GER-ch, Georg Kieninger won), and shared 2nd, behind Rellstab, in Stuttgart.

Wilhelm Pelikan

1919 Dr. Eugen Kolisko asked him to come and work at the Der Kommende Tag research institute in Stuttgart.

William Dehning

In 1988, Dehning took his second sabbatical in Germany where he lectured at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik and spent time observing university and professional choruses in Munich and Stuttgart, including the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Helmuth Rilling's Gächinger Kantorei.

Ziss Modell

Except for Cursor Models which were made for the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, and some Gama veteran cars, Ziss seems to be the only other German manufacturer dedicated to making models from the veteran era.