Neckarsulm

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Neckarsulm
Neckarsulm
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Heilbronn
Town subdivisions	4
Mayor	Volker Blust
Basic statistics
Area	24.94 km2 (9.63 sq mi)
Elevation	162 m  (532 ft)
Population	27,246  (31 December 2006)
- Density	1,092 /km2 (2,829 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	HN
Postal code	74172
Area code	07132
Website	Neckarsulm.de
Location of the town of Neckarsulm within Heilbronn district
Coordinates: 49°11′30.1″N 9°13′28.4″E / 49.191694°N 9.224556°E / 49.191694; 9.224556

Neckarsulm is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart, and part of the district Heilbronn. As of 2004, Neckarsulm had 27,296 inhabitants.

The rivers Neckar and Sulm join there, hence the name, which is often misunderstood or mispronounced as "Neckars Ulm", which would mean the Ulm of the Neckar, in comparison to the city of Ulm, which is far to the East, and on the Danube at the border between Baden-Wuerttemburg and Bavaria.

Both the former NSU Motorenwerke AG (which has been acquired by Audi), the Audi Aluminium Plant, and quattro GmbH are located here. Lidl is also from Neckarsulm.

Neckarsulm is famous for being ranked first in the German Solarbundesliga (cities beginning at 10,000 inhabitants), a competition in renewable energy installations. Its other fame is that the Neckarsulm-Gundelsheim Weingaertnergenossenschaft (vintner's co-operative) is reputed to be the oldest in Germany; trollinger and limburger are the principal varieties of grape that are grown.

[edit] Buildings and Constructions

• Teutonic Knights castle with Deutsches Zweirad- und NSU-Museum(the Motorcycle Museum of Germany)
• Neckarsulm TDS Office Tower
• Obereisesheim transmitter
• The mediaeval city wall is mostly intact along the riverside aspect of the town.

[edit] Twin Towns

• Carmaux, France
• Bordighera, Italy
• Grenchen, Switzerland
• Zschopau, Germany
• Budakeszi, Hungary

[edit] Gallery

Sign denoting twin towns of Neckarsulm	Old House of Neckarsulm	Church "St. Dionysius"	Old Castle of the Teutonic Knights "Deutschordensschloss"
Vineyards on mountain "Scheuerberg"

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v • d • e Towns and municipalities in Heilbronn (district) Abstatt | Bad Friedrichshall | Bad Rappenau | Bad Wimpfen | Beilstein | Brackenheim | Cleebronn | Eberstadt | Ellhofen | Eppingen | Erlenbach | Flein | Gemmingen | Güglingen | Gundelsheim | Hardthausen | Ilsfeld | Ittlingen | Jagsthausen | Kirchardt | Langenbrettach | Lauffen am Neckar | Lehrensteinsfeld | Leingarten | Löwenstein | Massenbachhausen | Möckmühl | Neckarsulm | Neckarwestheim | Neudenau | Neuenstadt am Kocher | Nordheim | Obersulm | Oedheim | Offenau | Pfaffenhofen | Roigheim | Schwaigern | Siegelsbach | Talheim | Untereisesheim | Untergruppenbach | Weinsberg | Widdern | Wüstenrot | Zaberfeld

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