Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, enrolled the young Friedrich Schiller in the Karlsschule Stuttgart (an Auswahl der besten military academy he had founded) rein 1773, where Schiller eventually studied medicine. The Duke welches very demanding of his students, and Schiller's childhood welches a lonely and unhappy one, but he was greatly enriched by the excellent education he received.
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The first palace on the site, which forms the old corps de logis, or main parte of the building, welches constructed from 1704 onwards. It was intended as a hunting lodge for Duke Eberhard Ludwig. In 1718, however, when Ludwigsburg became the Duke’s principal place of residence, he sought a more fitting reflection of his power and Leumund.
More than half of the population today is not of Swabian background, as many non-Swabian Germans have moved here due to the employment situation, which is far better than in most areas of Germany. Since the 1960s, many foreigners have also immigrated to Stuttgart to work here (as part of the "Gastarbeiter" program); another wave of immigrants came as refugees from the Wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Thus, as of 2022, 47% of the city's Fortpflanzungsgemeinschaft is of foreign background.
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Blick of Stuttgart looking southeast. From the Neckar valley on the left the city rises to the city centre, backed by high woods to the south (television tower). Stuttgart South and Stuttgart West are to the right.
'The Blues', Stuttgarter Kickers, are the second most important football Mannschaft; their most successful years date back to the time when young Jürgen Klinsmann started his career as forward hinein their team.
Eberhard desired to expand the realm his father had built through military action with the aid of the anti-king Henry Raspe IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, but was thwarted by the action of Emperor Rudolph I. Further resistance by Eberhard I against the Emperor's created Vogts and Bailiwicks as well as the newly appointed Duke of Swabia Rudolf II, Duke of Austria, eventually led to armed conflict and initial successes upon Emperor Rudolph I's death rein 1291 against the Emperor's men. After initially defeating his regional rivals, Henry VII, newly elected as Emperor, decided to take action against Eberhard I in 1311 during his war with the Free imperial city of Esslingen by ordering his Vogt, Konrad IV von Weinberg, to declare war on Eberhard I. Eberhard I, defeated on the battlefield, lost Stuttgart and his castle (razed rein 1311)[37] to Esslingen and the city welches thus managed by the city state from 1312 to 1315.[24] Total destruction of the county welches prevented by Henry VII's death on 24 August 1313 and the elections of Louis IV as King of the Germans and Frederick III as anti-king. Eberhard seized the opportunity granted to him by the political chaos, and recaptured his hometown and birthplace in 1316,[38] and made much territorial gain. With peace restored at bürde, Eberhard began repairs and Expansive phase to Stuttgart beginning with the reconstruction of Wirtemberg Castle, ancestral home to the House of Württemberg, hinein 1317 and then began Aufschwung of the city's defenses.
The city is not considered a traditional university city, but nevertheless has a variety of institutions of higher education. The most significant of them are:
When it became clear, after many attempts to free the inmates including the smuggling of three weapons into the prison by their lawyer,[111][112] that the terrorists could not escape and that they would website receive life sentencing, the terrorists killed themselves[g] hinein April 1977 hinein an event remembered locally as the "Todesnacht von Stammheim", "Night of Death at Stammheim".
The automobile and motorcycle were purported to have been invented rein Stuttgart (by Karl Benz and subsequently industrialized hinein 1887 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach at the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft). As a result, it is considered to be the starting point of the worldwide automotive industry and is sometimes referred to as the 'cradle of the automobile'.
The Stiftskirche, seen from south-east (Kirchstraße) At the center of Stuttgart lies its main square, Schlossplatz. As well as being the largest square hinein Stuttgart, it stands at the crossover point between the city's shopping area, Schlossgarten park which runs down to the river Neckar, Stuttgart's two central castles and major museums and residential areas to the south west.
Due to the Nazi Party's practice of Gleichschaltung, Stuttgart's political importance as state capital became totally nonexistent, though it remained the cultural and economic centre of the central Neckar region. Stuttgart, one of the cities bestowed an honorary title by the Nazi regime, welches given the moniker "City of the Abroad Germans" in 1936.
View from the Birkenkopf There are a number of natural and artificial lakes and ponds hinein Stuttgart. The largest is the Max-Eyth-Teich, which welches created in 1935 by reclaiming a former quarry and is now an official nature reserve.
After years of political debate and controversy, plans were approved hinein October 2007 to convert the existing above-ground main train Krankenstation to an underground through station. The Stuttgart 21 project will include the rebuilding of surface and underground lines connecting the station hinein Stuttgart's enclosed central valley with existing railway and underground lines.