Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Stuttgart, Germany

A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.

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The Galatea Fountain is a fountain on a viewing platform at Eugensplatz in Stuttgart-Mitte. It was created in 1890 by the architect and sculptor Otto Rieth and the ore caster Paul Stotz (1850–1899) and is one of the most magnificent fountains in the city.

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The Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg is a museum of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It is located on the "Stuttgart Culture Mile" in Konrad-Adenauer-Straße between the Staatsgalerie and the University of Music.

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Hohe Karlsschule was the strict military academy founded by Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It was first founded in 1770 as a military orphanage, but then converted into a military academy in 1773 for the duke.

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Hercules and Minerva are two colossal statues that flank the entrance portico of the main wing of the New Palace in Stuttgart on stone pedestals. In 1759, Pierre François Lejeune, the first sculptor of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg, created these statues of the divine hero Hercules and the goddess Minerva.

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The Roman Lapidarium in the basement of the New Palace in Stuttgart is a more than 400-year-old collection of Roman stone monuments of the Landesmuseum Württemberg.

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The New Palace Stuttgart is the former residence of the Dukes and Kings of Württemberg on the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart. The Baroque three-winged complex was begun in 1746 by Karl Eugen von Leopoldo Retti and completed in 1807 by Friedrich I of Nikolaus Friedrich Thouret. The staircase, the marble hall and the white hall are particularly noteworthy.

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The deer and lion are two life-size statues that flank the entrance to the courtyard of the New Palace in Stuttgart on high granite pedestals. The two Württemberg heraldic animals were designed and modelled by the Stuttgart court sculptor Antonio Isopi, cast in iron at the Wasseralfingen ironworks and erected in 1823.

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The two Schloßplatz fountains on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz were erected in honour of Wilhelm I of Württemberg.

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Christoph of Württemberg, ruled as Duke of Württemberg from 1550 until his death in 1568.

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Stuttgart Cathedral or St Eberhard's Cathedral is a church in the German city of Stuttgart. It is dedicated to Saint Eberhard of Salzburg. Since 1978, it has been co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, whose main cathedral is Rottenburg Cathedral - the church's promotion marked the 150th anniversary of the diocese and its renaming as the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The parish dates back to the Medieval era while the current building was completed in 1955, eleven years after it was mostly destroyed by Allied air raids in 1944.

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Schlossplatz is the largest square in Stuttgart Mitte and home to the Neues Schloss which was built between 1746 and 1807. From its construction until the mid-1800s it was used as a military parade ground and not open to general public use. It stands next to two other popular squares in Stuttgart: Karlsplatz to the south and Schillerplatz to the south west. The Königstraße bisects the plaza from north to south.

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The Jubilee Column is a monument that was erected on the Schloßplatz in Stuttgart from 1841 to 1846 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign and the 60th birthday of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg. The column, with a total height of 32.6 meters, consists of a 9-meter-high pedestal with four reliefs with historical scenes and four allegorical figures at the corners, an 18.5-meter-high granite column and a 5.1-meter-high statue of the Roman goddess Concordia.

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The Stauffenberg Memorial in Stuttgart's Old Palace is dedicated to the Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his brother and co-conspirator Berthold. The exhibition was initiated by the then Baden-Württemberg Minister of State Christoph Palmer and conceived and realised by the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg on behalf of the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation.

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The Memorial to the Victims of National Socialism is a memorial on Stuttgart's Stauffenbergplatz in front of the Old Palace. The sculptor was Elmar Daucher.

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The Stuttgart Market Hall was opened in 1914 in the city centre of Stuttgart. Today, the market hall is a food market in the upper price segment. It offers a total of 6800 square meters of usable space for service providers and retailers, of which 3500 square meters are on the ground floor for sales stands. In 2010, there were 37 different stalls. The column-free space of the hall is 60 meters long and 25 meters wide. There are several restaurants on Sporerstraße and in the market hall.

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The Schiller Monument on Schillerplatz in Stuttgart was the first large poet monument in Germany and the first important Schiller monument. The statue, a major work of European sculpture of Classicism, was cast in bronze by Johann Baptist Stiglmaier in Munich after a model by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. The architectural design of the monument was based on the plans of Nikolaus von Thouret and Gottlieb Bindesbøll. The unveiling of the monument took place in 1839.

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The so-called Fruchtkasten, a late Gothic stone building on Schillerplatz, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Stuttgart. Nowadays, the house is used as a part of the Württemberg State Museum as the House of Music in the Fruchtkasten.

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The Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein is a fairy tale by Eduard Mörike and was first published in 1853. The Swabian word Hutzel has different meanings. In the narrower sense, it refers to dried pieces of fruit, which is why fruit bread, which is said to have been invented by the title character, is also called Hutzelbrot in Swabian.

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The Stiftskirche is an inner-city church in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the main church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg as well as the parish church of the evangelical (Lutheran) inner-city church district of Stuttgart.

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The Landesmuseum Württemberg is the main historical museum of the Württemberg part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It emerged from the 16th-century “Kunstkammer” of the dukes, later kings, of Württemberg who resided in Stuttgart. As a museum it was founded in 1862 by King William I.

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The Mercury Column is a former water tower in Stuttgart, which was built in 1598 according to the plans of Heinrich Schickhardt and has been crowned by a gilded statue of Mercury since 1862. The tower is connected to the northeast corner of the Old Chancellery, a building between Schillerplatz and Schlossplatz. The corner tower is designed as an Ionic column and carries a capital decorated with rich ornaments according to the design of Wendel Dietterlin, above which a grid-protected viewing platform is attached. The column ends in a stump with a hemisphere that a "floating Mercury" touches with one foot.

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The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a contemporary and modern art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, built and opened in 2005.

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The Hospital Church is the third large medieval church foundation in the old town of Stuttgart and today the centre of the "Evangelical Hospital Parish of Stuttgart" within the church district of Stuttgart.

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The Hegel House is a museum in Stuttgart, Germany, located in the house where the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born.

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Tagblatt-Turm is a 61 m (200 ft), the 16-storey skyscraper in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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The Seven Monument with the "Siebener-Brünnle" in Stuttgart (Rotebühl-/Herzogstraße) is a monument with an obelisk and was erected in honour of the soldiers of the Infantry Regiment Kaiser Friedrich, King of Prussia (7th Württemberg) No. 125 who died in the First World War according to a design by the sculptor Fritz von Graevenitz and consecrated in 1927.

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Universal Life is the name of a controversial new religious movement based in Marktheidenfeld, Germany, which is described by members as a part of the new revelation movement. The group was originally called Heimholungswerk Jesu Christi, but has been known as Universal Life since 1984.

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Stuttgart-West is one of the five inner districts of the Baden-Württemberg state capital Stuttgart and is located in the western part of the Stuttgart basin, which forms a kind of bay. The district also includes the extensive forest areas Rotwildpark and Solitude and, in small parts, the Kräherwald. It is bordered in the south by the ridge of the Hasenberg and its extension, the Karlshöhe, and in the north by the ridge of the Kräherwald.

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