![]() ![]() Here again the valley sides show limestone-sinter.īetween Stuttgart and Lauffen the Neckar cuts a scenic, meandering, and in many places steep-sided, valley into fossiliferous Triassic limestones and Pleistocene travertine.Īfter Stuttgart it turns again towards the general northern direction. Only around the Cannstatter valley bend for a short distance it is interspersed by large park areas. It lies up to Stuttgart in a wide, urbanized meadow, which has been built over with industry and is cut through by transportation structures. Beginning from here the river has been expanded into a canalised waterway. From here onwards, the surrounding elevated grounds are considerably more densely populated.Īt Plochingen the Neckar turns sharply north west at the "Neckarknie" (knee of the Neckar), the mouth of the Fils coming down from the east, from the Swabian Jura. At Rottenburg it enters the wider valley of Tübingen. Near Weitingen the valley is traversed by the 127 m high Neckar Viaduct of the A 81. At Horb it turns from the Gäu Plateau towards north east and then follows the western side of the Swabian Jura ( Albtrauf). Further down the river lies high above the river the old town of Oberndorf on a Calcareous sinter terrace, which fills one of the bowl-like side valleys. It has created two cut-off meander spurs at the Neckarburg which is spanned by the Neckarburgbrücke. With this junction above Rottweil the Neckar enters a narrow, wooded valley and for the next 80 km it bores its way towards north between the ranges of the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura. Its main tributary Glasbach, which originates at the Brogen, is hydrographically seen, the main river of the Neckar river system. Afterward, the Neckar joins with the Eschach coming from the eastern slopes of the Black Forest which is much more water bearing. In Deißlingen-Lauffen it has its only, 4 meters high waterfall, which is drained today. Up to shortly before Rottweil the Neckar is only a small rivulet on the Baar plateau. This riverbed runs largely on the newly constructed horticultural show ground, which was used as the occasion for the remodeling. In order to protect the city better from the more frequent flooding through overflow of the duct, the river received more space through a new, mostly open riverbed. Prior to the Landesgartenschau Villingen-Schwenningen 2010 the Neckar flowed in the city center of Schwenningen mostly underground. The traditionally marked spring of the river lies in the city park Möglingshöhe in Schwenningen. The headwater region of the Neckar lies in the Schwenninger Moos between Schwenningen and Bad Dürrheim. The grammatical gender of the name in German is masculine (der Neckar). The name Neckar may be derived from Nicarus and Neccarus from Celtic Nikros, meaning wild water or wild fellow. Traditionally the fertile plains have been intensively used for agriculture and its steep valley sides as vineyards. Schwenninger Bog, the source of the Neckar The Neckar in Tübingen, between the Neckarinsel at the left and the Neckarfront of the old town at the righ The Neckar near Neckarsulm The Neckar in southwest Germany flows from south to north, and joins the Rhine at Mannheim. Along the Neckar's valley in the Odenwald hills many castles can be found, including Hornberg Castle and Guttenberg Castle in Haßmersheim the now-mothballed Obrigheim Nuclear Power Plant and the active Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant are also located there. Between Stuttgart and Lauffen, the Neckar cuts a scenic, meandering, and in many places steep-sided, valley into fossiliferous Triassic limestones and Pleistocene travertine. Since 1968, the Neckar has been navigable for cargo ships via 27 locks for about 200 kilometres (120 mi) upstream from Mannheim to the river port of Plochingen, at the confluence with the Fils.įrom Plochingen to Stuttgart, the Neckar valley is densely populated and heavily industrialised, with several well-known companies. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenningen in the Schwenninger Moos conservation area at a height of 706 m (2,316 ft) above sea level, it passes through Rottweil, Rottenburg am Neckar, Kilchberg, Tübingen, Wernau, Nürtingen, Plochingen, Esslingen, Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg, Marbach, Heilbronn and Heidelberg, before discharging on average 145 m 3/s (5,100 cu ft/s) of water into the Rhine at Mannheim, at 95 m (312 ft) above sea level, making the Neckar its 4th largest tributary, and the 10th largest river in Germany. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. The Neckar ( German pronunciation: ( listen)) is a 362-kilometre-long (225 mi) river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. ![]()
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