Stuttgart is the state capital of Baden-Württemberg and its largest city with around 630,000 inhabitants. This makes it the sixth largest city in Germany and the center of the Stuttgart region, which has around 2.7 million inhabitants, and the core city of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart with around 5.3 million inhabitants. Stuttgart itself was probably founded as a stud farm (“Stuotengarten”) in the Nesenbach Valley southwest of Altenburg Castle during the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century. The city has always been the seat of the counts, dukes and kings of Württemberg, apart from two interruptions in the 18th century, when the residence was moved to Ludwigsburg for a decade at a time. Another special feature in the 15th century was the division of the land by the so-called “Realerbteilung”, when Stuttgart was the capital of the “Unterland” and Urach became the capital of the “Oberland”. Count Eberhard V reunified the land in the Treaty of Münsingen. The Reformation was introduced in 1534 by Duke Ulrich and later by his son Duke Christoph and Johannes Brenz. Stuttgart is located in the center of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Unique among all major German cities is its “basin location”: the city is surrounded on three sides by hills with an altitude difference of up to 300 meters. This results in special features in terms of infrastructure, urban climate and urban development. There is a funicular and a cog railroad! The countless panoramic viewpoints over the city are particularly attractive and unique. Also unique are the many vineyards right into the city center, even behind the main train station. That’s why the people of Stuttgart call it the “city between the forest and the vines”. As the city is also known throughout the country as a particularly congested city, insiders also refer to it as the “city between slopes and choking”…