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City encyclopedia Stuttgart

Explore city history online? The Stuttgart city encyclopedia makes it possible. Developed by the Stuttgart City Archive and City Surveyor's Office, the digital city encyclopedia offers entries on places, people and events in the city's history. Thus, city history can be experienced directly and independent of location.

Travel through time with light luggage: The digital city encyclopedia offers interesting insights into Stuttgart's past.

Stadtlexikon Stuttgart: excellent journey through time

Where was Robert Bosch's first workshop located? Who founded Stuttgart's first daycare center? And what do Romeo and Juliet have to do with Zuffenhausen? Anyone looking for answers to these and other questions will find exciting, interesting and surprising facts in the digital city encyclopedia of the city of Stuttgart.

Each article is accompanied by historical illustrations or documents from the archives. The online encyclopedia is much more than just a reference work, as the historical maps that can be called up allow comparisons to be made between then and now.

Nominated for the prestigious Grimme Online Award immediately after its launch, the encyclopaedia impresses with in-depth specialist knowledge, a wide range of features and a wealth of material that is constantly being expanded. The journey into Stuttgart's past can therefore begin at any time, and in the mobile version even interactively on site.

With just a few clicks into 18th century Stuttgart? It's that easy!

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Picture credits

  • Max Kovalenko
  • City Archive
  • martinlorenz.net/Stuttgart City Library yi architects
  • Saeed Kakavand/CityPalace