Hohenheim

Hohenheim is a farm on the Filderebene district in the south of Stuttgart. Together with the districts Asemwald, Chaussee field Plieningen and Steckfeld forms of Hohenheim the Municipality Plieningen.

It is known by the district, built in 1782 Schloss Hohenheim and the University of Hohenheim, whose campus extends around the castle.

Points of Hohenheim, Hohenheim gardens with the Landesarboretum ( Exotic garden and landscape garden ) and the botanical garden, the German Agricultural Museum, the zoological and veterinary museum in the castle and the museum of the history of Hohenheim.

From 1888 to 1967 Hohenheim was tied across the railway line Möhringen -Hohenheim to the local rail passenger transport. Today runs between Möhringen and Plieningen Garbe the rail line U3, the approximately 700 -meter-long residual portion to Stuttgart -Hohenheim is shut down, but got the last stop the illustrative suffix " University of Hohenheim ." Buses of the Stuttgart trams take over the task of the local Continue and the direct connection Degerloch.

Daughters and sons of the district

  • Hermann Eckstein (1847-1893), German - South African mining magnate and banker
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