Tübingen and the other cities of the Neckar River watershed Watershed of the Rhine River Tübingen, an old university city of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is situated 20 miles southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the River Neckar and the Ammer. The city functions as the seat of the Administrative District of Tübingen, as well as of the county of Tübingen.
In 2002 the city had 82,885 inhabitants, including circa 20,000 students. Geographical location: 48° 30' North, 9° 45' East. Tübingen is best described as a mixture of an old and distinguished academic flair including liberal and leftist politics, with rural, agricultural and typical Swabian elements. The city contains many picturesque buildings from previous centuries, and lies on the river Neckar.
Tübingen's Eberhard Karls university dates from 1477. Tübingen itself dates from the 6th or 7th century.
Famous Tübingen residents include the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Alois Alzheimer, from whom Alzheimer's disease takes its name and Friedrich Miescher, who was the first to discover DNA. Wilhelm Schickhard developed the first mechanical computer. Hegel and Johannes Kepler also studied in Tübingen.
Districts
- Bebenhausen
- Bühl
- Derendingen
- Hagelloch
- Herrlesberg
- Hirschau
- Innenstadt
- Kilchberg
- Kreßbach (zu Weilheim)
- Lustnau
- Österberg
- Pfrondorf
- Südstadt
- Unterjesingen
- Waldhäuser Ost
- Wanne
- Weilheim
- Weststadt
Historical population
| Year
| Population
|
| 1871 | 16,176
|
| 1880 | 19,378
|
| 1890 | 20,913
|
| 1900 | 23,425
|
| 1910 | 28,499
|
| 1925 | 29,971
|
| 1933 | 34,112
|
| 1939 | 35,963
|
| 1950 | 44,221
|
| 1956 | 51,454
|
| 1961 | 58,768
|
| 1962 | 61,068
|
| 1963 | 61,484
|
| 1964 | 62,454
|
| 1965 | 63,450
|
|
| Year
| Population
|
| 1966 | 64,886
|
| 1967 | 65,846
|
| 1968 | 67,054
|
| 1969 | 67,947
|
| 1970 | 66,788
|
| 1971 | 68,231
|
| 1972 | 69,650
|
| 1973 | 70,993
|
| 1974 | 71,175
|
| 1975 | 71,348
|
| 1976 | 71,558
|
| 1977 | 71,820
|
| 1978 | 71,193
|
| 1979 | 72,167
|
| 1980 | 73,132
|
|
| Year
| Population
|
| 1981 | 74,500
|
| 1982 | 74,766
|
| 1983 | 75,013
|
| 1984 | 75,333
|
| 1985 | 75,825
|
| 1986 | 76,122
|
| 1987¹ | 71,701
|
| 1987 | 72,936
|
| 1988 | 76,046
|
| 1989 | 78,643
|
| 2001 | 82,444
|
| 2002 | 82,885
|
| 2003 | 83,137
|
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¹ census result
Twinnings
Ann Arbor, Michigan is Tübingen's sister city in the United States of America. Other cities twinned with Tübingen are Aix-en-Provence (France), Monthey (Switzerland), Durham (United Kingdom), Aigle (Switzerland), Perugia (Umbria, Italy), and Petrozavodsk ( Karelia, Russia).
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