The classic city tour
The tour for Stuttgart residents and those interested in Stuttgart who want to get to know my Stuttgart …
Stuttgart City
You decide the meeting point! I will be happy to pick you up at your home, hotel or wherever, we will arrange this. For guests arriving by public transport, we recommend the I-Punkt, the tourist information office opposite the main railway station. From here we could first go to a viewing platform to enjoy a very nice overview of the city center. Experience has shown that you will ask me the first questions here and we will agree on the further course of the tour. We continue along the “cultural mile” past the State Gallery, Stuttgart Opera House, the House of History and the University of Music, the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, the State Library, the Main State Archives and the Wilhelmspalais to Karlsplatz. If you wish, I invite you to take a historical walk and we will visit the Old Palace, the market hall, the collegiate church and the market square. Via the Karlspassage in the Breuninger department store we come to the new Dorotheenquartier, pass the Hotel Silber, the former Gestapo headquarters and take a look at the Schlossplatz, which is unique in Germany in its architectural ensemble. – Important! These are all suggestions, YOU decide what you would like to visit.
Stuttgart West
Continue through the city center via Rotebühlplatz, Berliner Platz. There would be an opportunity to visit the Bosch Areal, an outstanding conversion project from the late 1990s from an industrial to a service area. Among other things, Robert Bosch had his spark plugs industrially manufactured here. Via the Liederhalle Culture and Congress Center, past the University of Stuttgart, the Katharinenhospital and the Lindenmuseum, in the direction of Killesberg, one of the city’s most upmarket residential areas on the so-called “Stuttgarter (Halb) Höhenlage”. Stop off at the China Garden, a real insider tip, with a breathtaking view over the entire city center and the television tower. Just don’t forget your camera! If you wish, I can stop almost anywhere you discover an interesting subject to photograph, perhaps at the Villa Porsche or the house of our first Federal President, Theodor Heuss? It’s also not far to the Bismarck Tower, with a panoramic view over the entire west of Stuttgart.
Corbusier House
We pass the famous Weissenhof Estate, where a model estate was built in 1927 on behalf of the German Werkbund and is now a World Heritage Site. Here we find names such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, to name just a few. If you wish, we can also combine this with a tour of the estate.
The Romans
Via the Pragsattel, a new Stuttgart cultural area with a theater and variety theater, past the Burgholzhof, we will see the new Robert-Bosch hospital, also from here a fabulous view over the entire Neckar valley with a view of the Württemberg, the ancestral castle of the House of Württemberg with today’s burial chapel, pass the former Flanders barracks, called “Robinson Baracks” after the 2nd World War. After the withdrawal of part of the American armed forces in the 1990s, it was converted into the largest low-energy housing estate in Germany. Here, too, there is an opportunity to stop for a bite to eat and a drink in the “Aussichtsreich”, which is not called that for nothing! Via Hallschlag we come to Stuttgart Münster past the Max-Eyth-See, through the Catholic Stuttgart Hofen (here there is the Barbara Church with the Stuttgart Madonna and a small Lourdes grotto) and further along the Neckar “like on the Moselle” to Bad Cannstatt to the Daimler memorial, if desired also here a small tour to the workshop in which Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach built the world’s first high-speed gasoline engine in 1883. Nearby is also the “Lautenschläger fountain”, a tapped mineral water spring (Bad Cannstatt has the second-highest mineral water supply in Europe after Budapest), we can taste the water, it tastes terrible, but makes it all the more fun…and finally we drive over the Neckar bridge past the Wilhelma, back towards the center, unless you have another wish…
