TUTTLINGEN

'Tuttlingen' is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. The county (Kreis) includes several surrounding towns including Trossingen, Spaichingen, and Mühlheim. The town is built around the Honberg mountain where a ruined fort built in the Middle Ages still stands and is a site for festivals and concerts. A fire in 1803 destroyed most of the town and only a small section of the original town remains.
Today Tuttlingen has many businessess and considerable industry. Tuttlingen is the home for more than 200 surgical equipment companies, including Karl Storz GmbH, Aesculap, and KLS Martin. Fifty percent of the world's surgical equipment is manufactured in this town. The town centre includes a pedestrian zone, a market twice a week, a fountain, shops, and art displays.
The source of the Danube is located nearby in Donaueschingen and is stream-sized here in comparison to its more famous, grander appearance in Vienna. Tuttlingen is located in Swabia east of the Black Forest region in the Schwäbische Alb.
The German poet Goethe wrote that the town and surrounding area has a strange and beautiful landscape, hilly with fields and patches of forest. He is said to have left his watch in the town.

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Twin towns

External links

Twin towns

★ Battaglia Terme, Italy

★ Bex, Switzerland

★ Bischofszell, Switzerland

★ Draguignan, France

★ Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria

External links

★ Official Tuttlingen home page (In German)