"Keeweechic's Heidelberg" a Heidelberg Travel Page by keeweechic

Heidelberg has inspired and fascinated people for many centuries. Painters such as Rottmann and Trubner created their impressions of the city as well as writers and poets such as Mark Twain and Clemens Brentano put pen to paper to produce their great inspirational works. Heidelberg lured artists from all over the world with its location and beauty. Great Composers such as Schumann and Brahms also encapsulated their impressions of this town and beautiful landscape in their timeless music.

It is also the site for the discovery of the Heidelberg Man, which has given us evidence of the earliest human life in Europe with a 500.000-year-old jawbone.

...Out of a billowy upheaval of vivid green foliage...rises Heidelberg Castle, with empty window arches, ivy-mailed battlements, moldering towers -- the Lear of inanimate nature, -- deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storms, but royal still, and beautiful."

Mark Twain, "A Tramp Abroad"

Heidelberg was completely rebuilt in the 17th-century baroque style after Louis XIV all but destroyed the province. Visitors first approaching Heidelberg will immediately notice the ruined Schloss (castle), which was built in the typical local red Neckar sandstone over several centuries. Heidelberg is located approximately 80KM to the south of Frankfurt and is sometimes described as being at the heart of Europe. Given that European borders are in a constant state of flux this is probably no longer true!

Heidelberg is located approximately 80KM to the south of Frankfurt and is sometimes described as being at the heart of Europe. Given that European borders are in a constant state of change this is probably no longer true!

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