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Stuttgart, often nicknamed the "Schwabenmetropole" (English: Swabian metropolis) in reference to its location in the centre of Swabia and the local dialect spoken by the native Swabians, has its etymological roots in the Old High German word Stuotgarten, [24] or "stud farm", [25] because the city was founded in 950 AD by Duke Liudolf of Swabia to breed warhorses.
Stuttgart is one of the four administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke) of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the north-east of the state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwestern part of Germany. It is sub-divided into the three regions: Heilbronn-Franken, Ostwürttemberg and Stuttgart.
Stuttgart Region (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is an urban agglomeration at the heart of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region. It consists of the city of Stuttgart and the surrounding districts of Ludwigsburg , Esslingen , Böblingen , Rems-Murr and Göppingen (each 10–20 km from Stuttgart city center).
Bad Cannstatt, also called Cannstatt (until July 23, 1933) [2] or Kannstadt (until 1900), is one of the outer stadtbezirke, or city boroughs, of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bad Cannstatt is the oldest and most populous of Stuttgart's boroughs, and one of the most historically significant towns in the area of Stuttgart.
In 1886, Robert Bosch opened his very first workshop in Stuttgart. The automobile and motorcycle were purported to have been invented in Stuttgart (by Karl Benz and subsequently industrialized in 1887 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach at the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft ), earning the city the moniker "Cradle of the Automobile."
Stuttgart Airport (German: Flughafen Stuttgart) ... and is the sixth busiest airport in Germany with 11,832,634 passengers having passed through its doors in 2018.
The Stuttgart metropolitan region is roughly 200 km south of Frankfurt, 200 km west of Munich and about 600 km east of Paris. Other metropolitan areas around are Rhine-Neckar, Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Nuremberg Metropolitan and Munich Metropolitan. The region is one of the economically strongest regions in Germany and Europe.
Map of Stuttgart, 1794. 1321 - City status granted. 1392 - Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg (1315–1392) dies in Stuttgart. 1486 - Printing press in operation. [1] 1493 - Spitalkirche built. [2] 1495 - Stuttgart becomes capital of Wurttemberg. 1570 - Old Palace built. [2] 1626 - Hoppenlaufriedhof (cemetery) in use.