(circa 950- )
Founded by Duke Liudolf of Swabia as Stutengarten (mare garden or stud farm in English)
Capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Germany's 6th largest city
Famous People from Stuttgart:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - philosopher
Friedrich von Schiller - poet
Gottlieb Daimler - inventor
Wilhelm Maybach - inventor
Robert Bosch - inventor
Count Stauffenberg - member of the German Resistance who tried to kill Hitler
Ferdinand Porsche - creator of the VW Beetle and founder of the Porsche car company
Theodor Heuss - First German Post-War President
Richard von Weizsäcker - German President, Lord Mayor of Berlin
Günther Behnisch - architect
Frei Otto - architect
Jürgen Klinsmann - football player, coach of the German football squad
Roland Emmerich - director
Hermann Lang, Grand Prix race car driver
Peter Schilling - new wave vocalist

It was founded as a breeding center for the cavalry horses of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I the Great.
It was almost destroyed by Allied bombers during WW II.
RAF (The Red Army Faction) conducted terrorism in Stuttgart during the late 1970s.

The motor bike and the four-wheeled automobile were invented in Stuttgart.
It became the residence of the Counts (later on Dukes) of Württemberg (1300).
It was restored after WW II under the Marshall Plan.
It serves as the headquarters to U.S. European Command or EUCOM.
It is one of Germany's largest wine-producing centers.
It has the second largest Stock Exchange market (only behind Frankfurt) in Germany.
It has one of the largest, oldest, and most beautiful Christmas Markets in Europe.

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