GERMANY - STUTTGART
The capital city of
the south west Federal State of Baden-Württemberg has about 600,000
inhabitants, and lies in the heart of one of Germany's most
industrialised regions, namely the central Neckar region. It grew from a
stud farm that was constructed here in the 10th century to become the
ducal (1321) and later (1806) the royal capital of Württemberg.
Stuttgart alone
employs approximately 440,000 people, with a total of 1.3 million
employed in the entire region. As well as being the city of cars,
Stuttgart is also the city of books boasting a total of 130 publishing
houses, including the famous Klett-Cotta, W. Kohlhammer, the
Silberburg-Verlag, the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Ernst Klett and J. B.
Metzler. Stuttgart has the highest number of book shops per capita of
any German city.
Stuttgart lies in
the middle of a beautiful valley, surrounded by pictoresque hills.
