© Xocolatl (talk) 09:17, 21 June 2011 (UT… · CC0MHPArenaBad CannstattThe MHPArena stands in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district, beside the river Neckar. Built between 1929 and 1933 as the Stuttgarter Kampfbahn, it later bore names linked to history and industry. After the Second World War it became the Neckarstadion, then in 1993 was renamed Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion before taking its… read moreOpen place
© 8mobili · CC BY-SA 3.0 deNunos porsche MuseumStuttgartThe Porsche Museum stands in Zuffenhausen, a northern district of Stuttgart, on the site of the carmaker’s headquarters. It replaced a small works museum opened in 1976 that could show only about twenty cars at a time. The new building sits beside the factory on a busy junction, its design by Delugan Meissl Associated… read moreOpen place
© Julian Herzog (Website) · CC BY 4.0Mercedes-Benz MuseumBad CannstattThe Mercedes-Benz Museum stands beside the Daimler factory in Stuttgart, its striking cloverleaf design recalling the shape of a Wankel engine. The building was completed in 2006 by UNStudio, its three overlapping circles forming a triangular atrium that maximises space. Exhibition designer HG Merz worked alongside… read moreOpen place
© Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0Old CastleStuttgart-MitteThe Altes Schloss stands on Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, a former water castle first built in the 10th century to guard a mare garden. Counts of Württemberg made it their home in the 14th century, and later Dukes Christoph and Louis III remodelled it between 1553 and 1578. Blasius Berwart designed the equestrian… read moreOpen place
© Photo: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0Weissenhof EstateStuttgartThe Weissenhof Estate is a housing development built for the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart. Seventeen European architects designed twenty-one buildings with sixty dwellings, showing how modern architecture could create simple, efficient, and good-quality homes. Mies van der Rohe led the project,… read moreOpen place
© Manecke · CC BY-SA 3.02007 UCI Road World ChampionshipsStuttgartStuttgart hosted the 2007 UCI Road World Championships, a major cycling event held in late September. The championships featured road races and time trials for men, women and under-23 men. Italian rider Paolo Bettini won the elite men’s road race, while Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara claimed victory in the elite… read moreOpen place
© · Public domainStuttgart StadtbahnStuttgartThe Stuttgart Stadtbahn is a light rail network that runs across Stuttgart and into nearby towns such as Remseck am Neckar and Fellbach. It replaced the city’s old tram system in 1985, converting metre-gauge tracks to standard gauge and building new tunnels in the city centre. The network now has fourteen main lines… read moreOpen place
© Taxiarchos228 · FALFernsehturm StuttgartDegerlochThe Stuttgart TV tower stands on the Hoher Bopser hill in Degerloch, a southern district of Stuttgart. It is a reinforced-concrete telecommunications tower with a circular observation basket near its top. Completed in 1956, it was the first of its kind anywhere and changed the skylines of cities worldwide. The… read moreOpen place
© Selbst fotografiert von user:Enslin · CC BY 2.5Staatsgalerie StuttgartStuttgartThe Staatsgalerie Stuttgart stands in the centre of Stuttgart, a modern art museum made of two buildings. The older part, the Alte Staatsgalerie, is a classical stone building from 1843. The newer part, the Neue Staatsgalerie, was designed by James Stirling and opened in 1984. The two buildings sit side by side, one… read moreOpen place
© BuzzWoof · Public domainNew PalaceStuttgartThe New Palace stands in the heart of Stuttgart, a grand 18th-century Baroque palace built to replace the Old Castle. It occupies Schlossplatz, facing the Jubiläumssäule column and the Königsbau. Duke Carl Eugen commissioned the palace early in his reign to house his royal household. Several architects, including… read moreOpen place
