Stuttgart-North

Stuttgart-Nord; District of the state capital Stuttgart
List of districts of Stuttgart
Height :	210- 409 m above sea level. NHN
Population density :	4,054 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	70174, 70191, 70192
Area code :	0711
Address of the ; Citizens' Office North:	Rosensteinstrasse 24 ; 70191 Stuttgart
Website:	www.stuttgart.de
District Head:	Sabine Mezger ( CDU )
	128 Am Rosensteinpark is included in 129 Auf der Prag
Source: Stuttgart data compass

48.797222222222 9.1769444444444Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ' N , 9 ° 11' E

Stuttgart-Nord is one of the five inner city districts of the Baden-Württemberg state capital Stuttgart .

geography

Stuttgart-Nord extends from the Doggenburg to the highest point, the Gähkopf (409 m above sea level) with the Bismarck tower , over the Killesberg and Pragsattel to Rosensteinpark and Pragfriedhof . The Pragsattel lies at the lowest point of a ridge from the Killesberg to the Burgholzhof .

There are numerous good residential areas and vantage points of downtown Stuttgart in Stuttgart-Nord. These include the high-altitude and half- height streets such as: Am Bismarck Tower, Am Gähkopf, Cäsar-Flaischlen-Straße, Eduard-Pfeiffer-Straße, Feuerbacher Heide , Lenzhalde, Robert-Bosch-Straße and Schottstraße.

history

The city district was created in 1956 when the state capital was divided into city districts. At first it only consisted of the 7000 Stuttgart-Nord district of the same name. The western border runs from the Doggenburg along the Herdweg, the eastern border on Feuerbacher Weg, Weißenhof and Killesberg .

When the Stuttgart districts were reorganized on January 1, 2001, the district was divided into 11 districts. They are called Am Bismarck Tower, Am Pragfriedhof, Am Rosensteinpark, Auf der Prag , Heilbronner Straße, Killesberg, Lenzhalde, Mönchhalde, Nordbahnhof, Relenberg and Weißenhof.

politics

Local election 2014

%

30th

20th

10

0

28.8

25.7

11.6

8.1

6.5

5.3

4.7

3.9

5.5

SÖS

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

% p

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

+5.4

-5.0

-2.6

-4.5

+1.2

-1.9

+0.9

+3.9

+4.9

SÖS

Otherwise.

The results of the municipal council elections in the city districts are decisive for the number of seats of the parties in the district councils. The local election on May 25, 2014 resulted in the proportions of votes shown in the diagram opposite and the following distribution of the 13 seats of the district advisory council:

CDU : 4 seats
Greens : 3 seats
SPD : 2 seats
Fraktiongemeinschaft SÖS - LINKE -PluS: 2 seats
FDP : 1 seat
Free voters : 1 seat

Sabine Mezger is the honorary district head of the Stuttgart-Nord district.

economy

traffic

On Pragsattel the cross highways 10 , 27 and 295 . It is also the junction and transfer point of the light rail lines from Stuttgart-Mitte and Bad Cannstatt to the northern districts of Feuerbach , Zuffenhausen , Weilimdorf , Stammheim and the neighboring town of Gerlingen .

The SSB bus lines 43 and 44 connect the district with the city center .

Urban facilities

freetime and sports

Killesbergbahn Stuttgart
Killesberg outdoor swimming pool from 1938
SV Prag Stuttgart Sports club in this area since 1899
Weißenhof tennis facility

Culture and sights

schools

In Stuttgart-Nord there are two public high schools ( Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium , Hölderlin-Gymnasium ), three public primary schools (primary school in sunny Winkel, Mühlbachhof school, Prague school), the public primary and secondary school Rosenstein school, two public industrial schools (Steinbeis school, Werner Siemens School), a university: the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , the public commercial school Stuttgart-Nord and a public school kindergarten for children and young people with several disabilities. The Waldorf School at the Kräherwald is also located in Stuttgart-North.

Theaters and museums

Weissenhof Museum

Buildings

Bismarck Tower , erected on the Gähkopf in Stuttgart-Nord, 1904.
Kriegsberg tower above the Katharinen Hospital
Theodor-Heuss-Haus , home and memorial of the first Federal President
Killesbergturm , Perkins Park and outdoor swimming pool in the Killesberg Park
Listed Werkbundsiedlung Weißenhofsiedlung from 1927
Kochhofsiedlung from 1933
Pragsattel with high bunker
State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , founded in 1913 as a school of applied arts
Birkendörfle , the Stuttgart Black Forest
Memorial "Signs of Remembrance" at the Nordbahnhof

Parks

Höhenpark Killesberg , created on the occasion of the Reichsgartenschau in 1939
Rosenstein Park with Rosenstein Castle
Wartberg , exhibition site of the IGA 1993
Chinese Qingyin Garden in the vineyard on Birch Forest Road

Prague cemetery

The Pragfriedhof, opened in 1873, is located south of the Pragsattel on Heilbronner Straße. With 20 hectares, it is one of the largest cemeteries in Stuttgart. From 1905 to 1907 the Art Nouveau celebration hall, the only crematorium in Stuttgart, was built.