Mannheim

Mannheim
Mannem / Monnem (Palatine German)
City
Old City Hall and St. Sebastian
Friedrichsplatz
Christ Church
Mannheim Palace
View of Mannheim from Heidelberg with wind turbines in the Palatine Forest in the background
Flag
Coat of arms
Location of Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg
Mannheim
Mannheim
Coordinates: 49°29′16″N 08°27′58″E / 49.48778°N 8.46611°E / 49.48778; 8.46611
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionKarlsruhe
DistrictUrban district
Founded1607
Subdivisions17 Stadtbezirke
Government
 • Lord mayor (2023–31) Christian Specht[1] (CDU)
Area
 • City
144.96 km2 (55.97 sq mi)
Elevation
97 m (318 ft)
Population
 (2023-12-31)[3]
 • City
316,256
 • Density2,200/km2 (5,700/sq mi)
 • Metro
2,362,046 (2,012)[2]
DemonymMannheimer
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
68001–68309
Dialling codes0621
Vehicle registrationMA
Websitewww.mannheim.de

Mannheim (German pronunciation: [ˈmanhaɪm] ⓘ; Palatine German: Mannem[4] or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (German: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the state capital, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a population of over 315,000. It is located at the border with Rhineland-Palatinate. The city is the cultural and economic centre of the Rhine-Neckar, Germany's seventh-largest metropolitan region, with nearly 2.4 million inhabitants.[5]

Mannheim is located at the confluence of the Upper Rhine and the Neckar in the Kurpfalz (Electoral Palatinate) region of northwestern Baden-Württemberg. The city lies in the Upper Rhine Plain, Germany's warmest region, between the Palatine Forest and the Oden Forest. Mannheim forms a continuous urban zone of around 500,000 inhabitants with Ludwigshafen am Rhein in the Rhineland-Palatinate, while some northern suburbs lie in Hesse. Hamburg is the only other German city with such a presence in two states other than its own.

Unusually for a German city, central Mannheim's streets and avenues are laid out in a grid pattern, leading to its nickname as the Quadratestadt (Square City) and the tourism slogan "Leben im Quadrat" ("Life in the[a] Square").[6] At the southern base of this system is Mannheim Palace, one of the largest palace complexes in the world. It was the former home of the Prince-elector of the Electoral Palatinate, and now houses the University of Mannheim.[7] The civic symbol of the city is the Mannheim Water Tower, completed in 1886 and rising to 60 metres (200 feet) above the art nouveau area Friedrichsplatz. Held annually, the May Market is the largest regional consumer exhibition of Germany.[8]

Mannheim is well-known for its inventions, including the automobile,[9][10] the bicycle,[11][10] and the tractor,[10] leading to a nickname of the "city of inventions".[12][13][14] The city is the starting and finishing point of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route, which follows the tracks of the first long-distance automobile trip in history.

A Großstadt (major city with more than 100,000 inhabitants) since 1896,[15] Mannheim is an important industrial and commercial city, a university town, and a major transportation hub between Frankfurt and Stuttgart, including an ICE interchange (the Mannheim Hauptbahnhof), Germany's second-largest marshalling yard[16] (the Mannheim Rangierbahnhof), and Germany's largest inland port[17] (the Mannheim Harbour). The city is home to many factories, offices and headquarters of several major corporations such as Roche, ABB, IBM, Siemens, Unilever and more. Mannheim's SAP Arena is home to German ice hockey record champions Adler Mannheim as well as the popular handball team Rhein-Neckar Löwen. Since 2014, Mannheim has been a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and holds the title of "UNESCO City of Music".[18] In 2020, Mannheim was classified as a global city with 'Sufficiency' status by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC).[19] Mannheim is a smart city;[20] the city's electrical grid is installed with a power-line communication network.[21]

  1. ^ OB Wahl Mannheim 2023 Staatsanzeiger Baden-Württemberg
  2. ^ "Rhine-Neckar: Rhine-Neckar in figures". 7 July 2015. Archived from the original on 31 August 2014.
  3. ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2023 (Fortschreibung auf Basis des Zensus 2022)" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2023 (updated based on the 2022 census)] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg.
  4. ^ "Wörterbuchnetz – Pfälzisches Wörterbuch". woerterbuchnetz.de. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Wirtschaftsstandort". www.mannheim.de. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  6. ^ DPA (6 January 2014). "Slogans: "Leben im Quadrat" | svz.de". svz. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  7. ^ "The City of Mannheim isn't Germany at its Prettiest". Foster Blog. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Die 10 größten Messen in Deutschland | "Wer liefert was"". wlw.de (in German). Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Benzin im Blut: Der vergessene Mannheimer Auto-Bauer Franz Heim – Mannheim". www.rheinpfalz.de (in German). 4 February 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  10. ^ a b c "The Manhattan of Germany: the innovative Mannheim city". The New Economy. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  11. ^ Völklein, Marco (17 June 2017). "200 Jahre Fahrrad – Radfahrer erobern Mannheim zurück". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Mannheim: Die Stadt der Erfindungen – Mannheim – Nachrichten und Informationen". www.mannheimer-morgen.de (in German). 25 January 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  13. ^ "Stadt der Erfinder – Grünstadt". Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen (in German). 28 October 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  14. ^ Stadt der Erfinder: Mannheimer Augustaanlage wird zur "Allee der Innovationen" (in German), 24 October 2016, retrieved 20 December 2021
  15. ^ Jan., Van Deth (2015). Demokratie in der Großstadt Ergebnisse des ersten Mannheimer Demokratie Audit. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. p. 5. ISBN 978-3-658-05849-4. OCLC 964356167.
  16. ^ "Mannheim: Dieser Rangierbahnhof stößt an Grenzen". www.rnz.de (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  17. ^ "Infrastructure". Hafen Mannheim (in German). Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  18. ^ "Mannheim ist jetzt offiziell "Unesco City of Music"" (in German). RNZ. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  19. ^ "The World According to GaWC 2020". GaWC – Research Network. Globalization and World Cities. Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  20. ^ "The rise of the smart city". The New Economy. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  21. ^ "Smart City knows who needs power, and when". CNN. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016.


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