Christine in Stuttgart

Stuttgart is my "new" home town.  Although I have lived here for *almost* a year.  It is the 6th largest city in Germany, generally considered industrial.  This is why we bombed it heavily during World War II.  As previously written, we are home to Porsche, Mercedes, and maybe Bosch (think home appliances).  But we are so much more than that.  My apartment building:

I live in the apartment with the 3rd set of windows (either direction), right side.  It was obviously very warm the day I took this picture as the windows are opened.  I never open windows.

There is a church down the street from me.  Around the lovely church is fire lake.  And as you can imagine, the lake around it was originally used to put out fires.  It is Feuesee Church.  The saying goes that we may have bombed it as well.  And the Germans did not finish rebuilding the top tower.

The Church in the middle of the Stuttgart Mitte (City Center) (two different styled towers):

There are a couple of castles in town as well:

The main castle (now I think it is now government offices but whatever):

Statute of someone (I just kinda like it):

The Hauptbahnhof (Main Train Station).  It was the first thing built after WWII.   As a side note, Germans like long words.  So they put all the words together to make up one word.  This may be why I can't speak Deutsch.  Just throwing it out there.  

This is not an in and out bahnhof (train station).  The trains pull in and then there is a separate engine in the back that takes the train out again.  So essentially, every train has at least 2 engines.  This is not very economical.  Years ago, the powers that be decided to expand the Hauptbahnhof.  And make it a threw station.  So that a train could come in and leave without backtracking.  There is a group called Stuttgart 21.  They are "environmentalist" who protest the expansion.  It is suppose to be done in 2021.  Hence the name.  They camp in the park next to the hof (station).  (It is to the right in this picture.)  The park will be gone once they expand the bahnhof (train station).  The Germans love trees.  They are quite upset that very old trees will have to be cut in order to expand the station.  They should have cared back when the vote was taking place.  (My free advice.)

Sometimes they march through town as well.  Germans have to obtain permits to protest.  The polizie (police) always know when there will be a protest.  And they have enough in case things get out of hand.  Which I doubt they ever will here.  (There is a cop on the right hand side.)

One guy does chalk art work on Koenigstrasse (King Street).  This is the main shop street, where the castle is located.  No cars allowed.

 

There is some interesting architecture as well.

I'll post more pictures of the city another.  Something to look forward too.  Ha ha  I look forward to Mayrhofen, Austria and skiing this Thursday, Thanksgiving.

Christine
**Pictures were taken on different days.