Uhlandshöhe

The Uhlandshöhe in Stuttgart is a denunciation of the historic area of Stuttgart belonging elevation on the eastern edge of the city center. The name of the hill was originally Ameisenberg, but went in 1862, the name of a park on the entire site over. With the districts Gaisburg, Mountain, Gable Mountain, Ostheim, woman's head, and Stöckach Gänsheide it forms since 2001 the inner city district of Stuttgart -Ost.

The Uhlandshöhe is roughly in the triangle between the city center, the historic Bad Cannstatt ( am Neckar ) and the Gänsheide. The dome has a height of about 355 m above sea level. NN.

The Uhlandshöhe, inter alia, is known by

• The observatory Stuttgart, which was built in 1922 by the " Swabian Observatory eV ", next to the city waterworks of 1893
• The large, established by the 1862 Beautification Association Stuttgart park Uhlandshöhe that is beside the palace garden and the Karlshöhe one of the few larger green areas of the city center. Here since 1955, is the bronze bust of the poet Ludwig Uhland, 1865 designed by the sculptor Ernst Biberacher Rau, and cast by William Pelargus,
• The Waldorf School Uhlandshöhe is the first Waldorf school ever. It was opened on September 7, 1919. Stifter was Emil Molt, director of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory, who wanted to give the children of his workers twelve years of education. Head of the factory school was Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy,
• The house of the fraternity Alemannia Stuttgart, the oldest fraternity at the site,
• The primary and secondary school Ameisenberg school.
• At the top of both the Uhlandshöhe how the Gänsheide, Villa 1904, built for the manufacturer Friedrich Hauff (Regina ) Hauff, as concise Representative for the end of the century incipient departure from the dogmatic- historical style of architecture to a more painterly- romanticized style mounting. The villa was designed by the architects Charles Hengerer and now serves as a workshop and youth Stuttgart (East). Previously she was a temporary wartime SS base and then U.S. Consulate. Connected to the property was a turret, which still exists today on the Uhlandshöhe as a lookout.