Tübingen

Geschichte

Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 30km south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in three people living in Tübingen is a student.GeographyImmediately north of the city lies the Schönbuch, a densely wooded nature park. The Swabian Alb mountains rise about 13km (beeline Tübingen City to Roßberg (869m)) to the southeast of Tübingen.The Ammer and Steinlach rivers discharge into the Neckar river, which flows right through the town, just south of the medieval old town in an easterly direction. Large parts of the city are hilly, with the Schlossberg and the Österberg in the city centre and the Schnarrenberg and Herrlesberg, among others, rising immediately adjacent to the inner city.The highest point is at about 500m above sea level near Bebenhausen in the Schönbuch forest, while the lowest point is 305m in the town's eastern Neckar valley. Nearby the Botanical Gardens of the city's university, in a small forest called Elysium, lies the geographical centre of the state of Baden-Württemberg.Regional structureTübingen is the capital of an eponymous district and an eponymous administrative region (Regierungsbezirk), before 1973 called Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern.