City portrait

  • Porsche 911

    Typical Stuttgart

    What is typical of Stuttgart? Cars: most people say Mercedes and Porsche, and wine, which is of course true. Stuttgart is renowned for its cars and its wine. After some thought, someone is bound to mention all the city's parks, from which Stuttgart has gained its... more...

  • Places of interest

    The writer Eduard Mörike had a soft spot for Stuttgart and waxed lyrical in 1853 in his book "Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein" about beautiful old houses and their oriels, "which stand on corners serenely as towers". Despite bombing raids and extensive... more...

  • City history

    Stuttgart started out on a small scale: tradition tells us that Herzog Liudolf von Schwaben started a stud farm in a widened area of the Nesenbach valley in the year 950 AD. more...