By Air

There is an airfield in Heilbronn not however there is a helipad at the hospital at the mineral spring.Another also commercially exploitable commercial heliport in Bollinger yards is in trial operation since April 2010 and is from 2011 initially for two years to go into regular operation.

By Train

Heilbronn is not as one of the few German cities served by Fernzugnetz of Deutsche Bahn AG, but the city is a rail hub.The Franks Bahn Stuttgart connects Wurzburg, resulting in Bad Frederick Hall Jagstfeld branching Neckar and Elsenztalbahnen to Heidelberg and Mannheim, the Hohenlohe train Schwabisch Hall reached on ohringen.In addition to the Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof there are regional trains in the city on the path of the Franks another breakpoint Sulmertor.Of the Heilbronner freight station is located in the district Bockingen.

By Bus

Public transport (LPT) in the city buses get the city of Heilbronn (transport) and some other carriers.In addition, the light rail runs (see above) according to the Karlsruhe model.Heilbronn from 1897 to 1955 had its own tram network.

By Road

Thanks to the approximately 6 km east-northeast of the city center on the territory of the neighboring city located Weinberger Cross, in which the federal highways 81 (Würzburg - Stuttgart) 6 - Cut (Mannheim, Nuremberg), Heilbronn is easy to reach. By the city itself lead to major roads 27 (Mosbach - Stuttgart), 39 (Mainhardt - Sinsheim) and 293 (in Karlsruhe).A major relief road, which connects the A6 in the north near Obereisesheim across the city with the B 27 in the south at Sontheim is the Neckartalstrabe.Inner city's main street is the alley.Heilbronn is a pioneer of the "green arrow".At street intersections in the city since 1996 is a total of 65 times this traffic sign, so it appears thicker here than anywhere else in the old federal states.

By Ferry

With a turnover of approximately 4 million tonnes, the port today Heilbronn (2008) with the eight largest German Neckar river and the main port where the incurred 50% of the total envelope on the Neckar.Heilbronner all ports together (Channel port, Eastern Harbour, salt port, east of the old Neckar) comprise a total area of approximately 78 ha and a quay length of about 7.2 km. The port and industrial Heilbronn train runs on about 18 km of track, 38 cranes handle the envelope which consists of 80% of salt from the mine, coal for power plants and building materials.Part of the port facilities is also an extended Schwergutkai most recently in 2003, of the individual loads can be handled up to 350 tons.The Heilbronn harbor is the starting point and destination of heavy vehicles and the Augsburg air transport industry and the local marine engine manufacturer MAN Diesel.

Theatre Heilbronn, Ancient Theatre, South German Railway Museum, Heilbronner horse market, Trollinger Marathon, Heilbronn Wine Festival, People in Regional Festival

Theatre Heilbronn

is a communal worn Heilbronn Theatre in Heilbronn, which has its own drama and music theater division regularly presents in guest appearances.The urban scene in Heilbronn goes back to the stock theater in 1844 and located since 1913 at Berliner Platz.Today's municipal theater building in 1982 with a performance of the musical My Fair Lady opened in 2001 and extended through the boxes in the adjacent theater Theater Forum K3.The adjoining room was also in Berlin after the new theater yet almost another 20 years one of the largest post-war wasteland in the city. Until 29 Could be completed in June 2001, the building complex with the Theater Forum K3. The Comedy House Theater for the lodge was Heilbronner Kleist's The Kathy of Heilbronn opened. In the same building are the new city library Heilbronn , music school, several cinemas, shops and a jazz club.

Ancient Theatre

is the predecessor of the nearby building today Heilbronn Municipal Theatre.The building was built in the years 1911 to 1913, during the Second World War damaged and rebuilt as one of the first building in 1946 and used.On 18 July 1970 the building was demolished despite numerous protests.The theater was considered a "significant architectural works" by Theodor Fischer, who as chairman of the Deutsche Werkbund after its founding, the architecture of reform made a significant progress.Therefore took the Heilbronn Theatre building on local building traditions in particular, the architecture of the so-called "Heilbronner Renaissance."The theater building is described as "the most important buildings" of architectural modernism before World War II in Heilbronn.Because of its architectural quality, it was considered "high on the regional structure."

South German Railway Museum

is located in Heilbronn district Bockingen on the grounds of the former DB train depot Heilbronn.The Association South German Railway Museum Heilbronn eV operates the museum.In this way, the partially listed site, which will then housed historic rail vehicles and associated infrastructure and made publicly available.The former DB depot Heilbronn was founded in 1893 by the Royal Württemberg State Railways put into operation in 2000 and acquired by the sponsoring association for museum purposes. The museum has about 80 exhibits (cars and locomotives). On the grounds there is a roundhouse with a working turntable and a large storage building. It can then steam and diesel locomotives are maintained and cared for.The active volunteer members of the association restored locomotives and cars from the period from 1895 to the fifties. Incidentally is also working on roundhouse of 1893, the last original 'roundhouse from the time of the Royal Württemberg State Railways.

Heilbronner horse market

is one of the most traditional fairs that are held in a German city, and is the first major market in the region Heilbronn.Its tradition dates back to 1770.At that time led the Mayor Georg Heinrich von Robkampff the annual cattle and horse market at the Heilbronn Schiebhaus one Of the Heilbronner horse market takes place every three days instead of over the last weekend in February.On Saturday and Sunday, about 200 to 300 horses compete at Trappensee the various awards, are available on Monday still horses for sale, albeit in much smaller numbers than in previous times.Moreover, on all three days in the Heilbronn City Market with a shopkeeper rides up.2006 around 150,000 people visited the horse market with about 350 dealers and exhibitors.

Trollinger Marathon

is a marathon and half marathon in Heilbronn , from the Württembergische Athletic Association is organized and hosted by the Heilbronn Marketing GmbH. He has been held since 2001 in May or June and is one of the greatest landscape runs in Germany.The start is at the height of Badstraße in Heilbronn Böckingerbrücke.First, it goes to Götzenturm bridge there over the Neckar River and along the right bank of the river in the district Sontheim.Behind Flein, an increase is the highest point of the trail, the Haiger at Talheim.Here the route turns north from the half marathon, while the marathon runs westward and Lauffen, where the Neckar river is crossed, Meimsheim , Hausen and Dürrenzimmern after Neipperg leads.About Nordhausen Nordheim, it goes back to Heilbronn, where the district Klingenberg joins the half marathon distance.The target is located in the Franken Stadium Heilbronn, near the start.A total of 340 marathon and half marathon 150 meters to cope.Each participant will receive a bottle of Trollinger as a gift, and just as the German Wine Road Marathon and the Médoc Marathon is served at the refreshment stations in addition to the usual beverages for athletes wine.

Heilbronn Wine Festival

is a traditional wine festival in Heilbronn , which since 1971, nine days in September each year around the Heilbronn City Hall will be celebrated.The wine village is organized by the Heilbronn Marketing GmbH, the state land to the cooperatives and wineries awards. The first successful high point of the wine village in the 80's, when for the first time more than 300,000 visitors were counted. Visitor numbers were declining, and then only in recent years could again reach the milestone of 300,000 visitors, including the 36th Heilbronn Wine Festival in September 2006.The attraction of the festival ground is determined by the lighting of the new market square area and increased the reconstructed pavement on gravel market. The stalls are decorated with striking the gardener flower arrangements for the snaps since 1974, a creative competition. The wine is usually served in "Ten Teles glasses" (0.1 liters) and costs around 1.50 € per glass.Twelve Weingartner cooperatives and 18 wineries and cellars in 2006 offered nearly 300 different wines from the years 2002 to 2005, there were about 75,000 bottles of wine sold. About 20 percent of visitors came by public transport, two thirds of the light rail Heilbronn.

People in Regional Festival

is the largest folk festival in Heilbronn and one of the largest in Baden-Wuerttemberg .The festival takes place at the Heilbronn Theresienwiese, begins each year on the last Friday in July and ends on the second Monday in August. It has a tradition back to the year 1926, when first held an annual week away, but after 1929 the re-employed in 1933 but was added as Heilbronner festival was again. After the interruption by the Second World War , the festival takes place annually since 1947 again.The name says it not only as an attraction for Heilbronn, but for the entire lowlands to be understood. Among the country folk festival is about half as large as the Spring Festival in Stuttgart and is visited by over 200,000 guests in 2009 there were 235.000, in previous years up to 300,000.

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