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Small Map of Heidelberg
Parts of the City of Heidelberg
Coat of Arms of Heidelberg
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The picture shows our house in walking distance to Castle and Old Bridge.
The EMEA office of SAS Institute is the large building at almost the same
height on the other side of the river Neckar.
The SAS Germany ("Haarlass") office are the red roofed buildings close
to the river slightly below the monastery Neuburg in the upper left corner.
There, in 1810 C.M. v. Weber did some work on the opera "Freischuetz".
The "Wolfsschlucht" is located a few miles further up the Neckar valley
(at Zwingenberg, see the
sketch
by Erwin Bindewald). This is almost halfway upward the beautiful Neckar
valley from Heidelberg to Heilbronn, bordered by about twenty old castles.
Only a few miles downward from Heidelberg the Neckar is entering
the river Rhine at Mannheim.
The two hills on the right side of the picture are the "Koenigstuhl"
(with the castle and the historic mountain railway) and the "Gaisberg".
The hill on the left river side is the "Heiligenberg" with it's famous
"Philosophenweg" and with the
"Thingstaette"
and the remains of the Carolingian Michaelisbasilika (erected in 870) on top.
The old city on the right side of the river is cut by a few parallel streets.
Except for flooding, the fastest route for passing Heidelberg by car is
close to the right river shore. The street passing through the center of
the old city, Hauptstrasse (Main Street), is reserved for pedestrians
(and law neglecting bikers). The next to the right is Ploeck, which is the
domain of bike riding students.
The last on the right (along the forrest on the steep mountain
range) is Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage, running through two tunnels,
with the longer one piercing the Koenigstuhl underneath the castle.
The river shore on the left lower corner shows lots of sunbathing
topless women. (Sorry, guys, if you miss some pixels.)
In our close neighborhood we have two famous streets, the "Weinstrasse"
and the "Burgenstrasse". The "Weinstrasse" goes along the river Rhine
touching many great Wineries.
Parts of the "Burgenstrasse" run through the Neckar valley touching
a string of castles between Mannheim and Heilbronn as shown on this
map.
Traveling by car from Heidelberg to Heilbronn you should definitely
stop at the castle and sleepy town of Hirschhorn, the old place of Mosbach,
and the "Kaiserpfalz" in the quiet town of Bad Wimpfen, place of the
Emperor and crusader Barbarossa, whose empty toomb is at the Dom
of Speyer. Maybe you also have time to stop at the castle of Hornberg
where the famous Goetz von Berlichingen, the "Knight with the Iron Hand"
died. A cupper plate on one of the three castles in Neckarsteinach
refers to a tale that the old "Nibelungenlied" was written here.
Some etchings of the castle and city of Heidelberg by M. Merian in 1645:
Some etchings of the castle of Heidelberg by Ch. Haldenwang in 1815
At that time there was only one, the old bridge across the Neckar.
Further up- and downward, ferries were used to cross the river.
City map of Heidelberg in 1840.
Later a second Neckar bridge was added as shown here
at the 1911 painting by
Sophie Meyer
a painter living in Duesseldorf (1847-1921).
The last ferry boat river crossing in Heidelberg ended in the 1960's.
Now there are three (or four) bridges across the Neckar and ferries
only much further up the river Neckar.
Here is some more info about
Heidelberg
and some more historic views of Heidelberg at
Polygraphicum
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