Frauenkopf

The woman's head is a wooded, 462.3 m above sea level. NN high hill southeast of the city center of Stuttgart, after whom is named a district in the south of the district of Stuttgart -Ost. On the property market he is considered a jewel for the city residents as a "green island ". The eastern side of the mountain already part of the suburb Hedelfingen.

Name and Geography

His name is the woman's head was consecrated by a shepherd's chapel, which existed until 1530 and " Our Lady ". It was probably destroyed during the Reformation. At the foot of the mountain was a hill grave; Fox Rain on the northern slope is considered to be of Stone Age settlement site.

Starting from the northeast adjacent Raichberg a large forest area takes over the woman's head, (also known as High Bopser ) the Bopser and Dornhaldestrasse to the southwest to Nesenbachtal which is interrupted by the places Degerloch and Sonnenberg. In the south it forms the transition to the extended Filderstadt Plateau.

The mountain is home to its gentle knoll the striking, 192 m high telecommunications tower in Stuttgart. This 1970 to 1972, built of reinforced concrete transmission tower of Deutsche Telekom is - in contrast to the near Stuttgart TV Tower - not publicly available. The unusually low but wide gallery that reaches 33 m just above the treetops, is the operational space of the mobile phone or radio operator.

In the immediate vicinity of the telecommunications tower is a Protestant holiday Waldheim for children from 4 to 14 years.

District Head of a Woman

In 1937 the municipality Rohracker to which belonged the woman's head, was incorporated to Stuttgart. Today, 1956 resulting district of the same name is in area with about 5 km ² one of the larger of Stuttgart, but only counts about 800 inhabitants, since it only in the East - is settled - against out Hedelfingen / Rohracker. The dimensions of the settlement, which provided for the first development plan of 1929 were only slightly changed until today. The secluded and quiet but not far away from downtown residential area, the property prices are correspondingly high.

In the north, on the border district of Gable Mountain, the Merz - school ( Gänsheide ) is with an affiliated boarding school. The other neighboring districts are cheeks in the Northeast, which is already on the Neckar, Sillenbuch in the South and South Stuttgart in the West.

Traffic

From the Stuttgart basin and the Filderebene from the woman's head on the Pischek or Jahn road is reached. At the tram stop point, the woman's head road branches off to the settlement. The narrow Speidelweg connects the woman's head with Rohracker and the Neckar valley. It is often used by non-local traffic as an alternative Filderab or driveway, which is criticized by residents for years. However, the inhabitants of the woman head itself depend on this connection since the nearest schools and shops Rohracker are.

Public transport opens up the settlement woman's head with the bus line 64, which serves as a feeder to the stop point of the rail line U15. The bus, which serves three stops in the city will be replaced due to the low volume from people about 19:30 clock by a line of taxi Taxi Car Centre Stuttgart with largely individual breakpoints.

Church

On the woman's head is a Catholic and a Protestant, inaugurated on April 12, 1955 Church. The originally catholic church was leased in 2006 to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Sports

In the district there is a football pitch of the NHI Rohracker with adjoining restaurant.