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the appearance of hovering in Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)
space. More than 80 cars are on
display, ranging from the Lohner- This outstanding astronomer and
Porsche, the world’s first hybrid mathematician was born in Weil der
automobile built in 1900, to the Stadt. He studied theology in Tübingen,
latest generation of the Porsche where he encountered the work of
911. There are also historical Nicolaus Copernicus, becoming a
archives, an open workshop, a fervent advocate of his theory. Forced
restaurant and café. to flee in 1600, Kepler went to Prague
where he worked with Tycho Brahe.
Many years of research led him to
P Markthalle formulate three laws of planetary
Dorotheenstraße 4. Open 7:30am– motion. Kepler is also the inventor of
6:30pm Mon–Fri, 7am–5pm Sat. the twin-lens telescope.
Stuttgart’s market hall, built
in 1912–14 in Art Nouveau
style on the site of an earlier
veg etable market, is one of P Bad Cannstatt (9 miles) southwest, it is worth
the finest in Europe. Built as Once an independent health visiting the Romanesque
a food exchange, it has magni- resort, Bad Cannstatt is now Church of St Martin Canons,
ficent frescoes. Today it still a district of Stuttgart. Set in a which was founded in 1083.
sells fresh fruit and vegetables beautiful park, it has a late- While you are there, take a stroll
to the general public, and also Gothic parish hall-church, a along Lange Straße to the old
houses a small restaurant Neo-Classical town hall and a town hall, which dates from
and café. Kursaal (spa-house), built in 1478 and is joined with the Salt
1825–42. One of its attractions is House (1592). The two buildings,
+ Schloß Solitude the Neo-Classical Schloß both half-timbered in their
Solitude 1. Tel (0711) 69 66 99. Rosenstein, built in 1824–29 at upper sections, now house the
Open Apr–Oct: 10am–noon, 1:30– the request of King Wilhelm I, town museum.
5pm Tue–Sat, 10am–5pm Sun; Nov– based on amended designs by A little further to the west, Weil
Mar: 1:30–4pm Tue–Sat, 10am–4pm John Papworth. The King was der Stadt is the birthplace of the
Sun. 8 obligatory. & garden free. also the initiator of the beautiful astronomer Johannes Kepler and
This exquisite small palace, “Wilhelm’s complex”. This the reformer Johannes Brenz. The
standing on the slopes of a hill, includes a Moorish-style villa town’s late-Gothic church of St
was built for Prince Karl Eugene located in a symmetrically laid- Peter and St Paul was completed
in 1763–67. The Prince not only out park, with many Oriental- in 1492 by Aberlin Jörg. Inside
commissioned the residence, but style pavilions and other is a beautiful Renaissance
also took an active part in its decorative elements. sacrarium, dating from 1611.
design, which is the work of Completed in the 1840s, its The Marktplatz, with a statue
Pierre Louis Philippe de la main designer was Karl Ludwig of Kepler at its centre, has a
Guêpière, who introduced the Wilhelm von Zanth. The park Renaissance town hall (1582).
Louis XVI-style to Germany. Many has now been transformed into Nearby, at Keplergasse 2, stands
consider this palace to be a botanical-zoological garden. the house in which the famous
his masterpiece. astronomer was born and which
Following its full restoration Environs now houses a small museum,
in 1990, and the provision of 45 Stuttgart provides a convenient the Kepler-Museum.
residential studio apartments, base for exploring the surroun- Another place worthy of a visit
the palace now serves art dings. In Sindelfingen, 15 km is Waiblingen, 10 km (6 miles) to
students on scholarships from the northeast of Stuttgart. It
all over the world. A 15-km features a Romanesque church,
(9-mile) long, straight road the vaults of which are decorated
connects Schloß Solitude with some splendid wall
with Ludwigsburg. paintings dating from 1515.

The façade of the Schloß Solitude, in the hills to the west of Stuttgart’s centre

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