© Pumuckel42 (Reinhard Wolf) at de:Wikipe… · CC BY-SA 3.0Heidelberg CastleHeidelbergHeidelberg Castle stands on the northern slope of the Königstuhl hill, 80 metres above the old town. Its ruins dominate the view of Heidelberg and include important Renaissance structures north of the Alps. A funicular railway from Kornmarkt reaches an intermediate station below the castle, linking the town to the… read moreOpen place
© Mhdman at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Heidelberg-Königstuhl State ObservatoryHeidelbergThe Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl is an astronomical observatory perched on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg. It began in 1774 as the Mannheim Observatory before moving to Karlsruhe in 1880. In 1898 it settled permanently on the Königstuhl under the name Großherzogliche Bergsternwarte. Today it is run by… read moreOpen place
© Markus.martin2003 at German Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0KönigstuhlHeidelberger AltstadtThe Königstuhl rises 567.8 metres above the Odenwald Mountains on the edge of Heidelberg. The hilltop gives sweeping views across the city and the Neckar river. On clear days the Pfälzerwald forest appears forty to fifty kilometres away. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular climbs from Altstadt in two stages. It passes… read moreOpen place
© en:User:Pph · Public domainMax Planck Institute for AstronomyHeidelbergThe Max Planck Institute for Astronomy stands on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg, next to the Landessternwarte observatory. The institute was founded in 1967 to give German astronomers access to powerful telescopes. Hans Elsässer became its first director in 1968 and guided the institute until 1997. Today it is… read moreOpen place
© · CC BY 2.5Church of the Holy Spirit, HeidelbergHeidelbergThe Church of the Holy Spirit stands in Heidelberg’s old town centre, built between 1398 and 1515 in Romanesque and Gothic styles. It occupies the marketplace, making it a focal point of the city. The church was planned as the burial place for the Electors of the Palatinate and as a symbol of their royal seat. Its… read moreOpen place
German Cancer Research CenterHeidelbergThe German Cancer Research Center stands on the edge of Heidelberg’s old university quarter, a modern campus of glass and white walls beside the Neckar valley. The buildings house laboratories, lecture halls and a graduate school where scientists from thirty countries work. Two Nobel laureates have trained here:… read moreOpen place
© Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deuts… · Public domainDocumentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and RomaHeidelbergThe Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma stands in Heidelberg, a city on the River Neckar. It was opened in 1997 as the world’s first permanent exhibition on the Nazi genocide of Sinti and Roma. The centre occupies a rebuilt complex of three historic buildings arranged around a courtyard. Its… read moreOpen place
© Radosław Drożdżewski (Zwiadowca21) · CC BY-SA 4.0Max Planck Institute for Nuclear PhysicsHeidelbergThe Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics stands on the edge of Heidelberg’s old town, a modern research campus framed by the wooded hills of the Odenwald. Founded in 1958 under Wolfgang Gentner, it grew from the physics section of the nearby Institute for Medical Research. Today the institute houses five… read moreOpen place
© Radosław Drożdżewski (Zwiadowca21) · CC BY-SA 4.0Astronomical Calculation InstituteHeidelbergThe Astronomical Calculation Institute stands in Heidelberg, a city on the River Neckar in southwestern Germany. Founded in 1700 in Berlin-Dahlem by Gottfried Kirch, it moved to Heidelberg in 1945 after the Second World War. Since 2005 it has formed part of the Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University. The… read moreOpen place
© BishkekRocks · CC BY-SA 3.0Old BridgeHeidelbergThe Karl Theodor Bridge, known locally as the Old Bridge, spans the Neckar in Heidelberg. It links the historic Old City with the eastern district of Neuenheim. Made of Neckar sandstone, the present structure is the ninth bridge on this site. Elector Charles Theodore completed it in 1788. The bridge gate at its… read moreOpen place
