Ludwigsbourg

Ludwigsbourg (German: Ludwigsburg) is a city located in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Land of the Bade-Wurtemberg. Baroque city close to Stuttgart, at the edge of the Neckar, of a81 highway and at 35 minutes in the car of the airport.

History

The duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg posed the first stone of his hunting lodge, at the edge of the river Tälesbach the May 7th 1704, which gave rise to a city when in 1718, it set up Ludwigsbourg with the row of main home.

Demography

Monuments

Residence of Ludwigsbourg (Das Barock-Residenzschloss)
Hunting lodge and Favorite pleasure
the apartment of the Duke Carl Eugen
municipal Museum
penitentiary Museum
Museum of ceramics
Museum of the mode

Policy

Successive mayors since 1720:

Twinnings

- Montbeliard (France) since 1950
- Rhymney Valley (Great Britain) since 1960
- Jevpatorija (Ukraine) since 1990
- Holy Charles (the United States) since 1995
linguistic Exchange: Mörike Gymnasium with College A.Camus ,

Famous personalities

Justinus Kerner (September 18th 1786 - February 21st 1862 with Weinsberg), physicist.
Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875), romantic writer.
Wilhelm Grœner : Soldier and statesman German, born the November 22nd 1867 in Ludwigsbourg and deceased the May 3rd 1939 with Potsdam.
Caesar von Hofacker (March 2nd 1896 - December 20th 1944 in Berlin), pertaining to the Luftwaffe and carried out by the Nazis the December 20th 1944 with Berlin.

Photographic gallery

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