Ludwigshafen

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Ludwigshafen am Rhein (literally: Ludwigshafen on the Rhine), commonly referred to as Ludwigshafen, is a City in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. After Mannheim it is the second largest city of the Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar.

Ludwigshafen is independent of the local district government, but is the administrative seat of the surrounding district.

Geography

Ludwigshafen lies on the west bank of the Rhine River.

As one of the five upper centers of the country Rhineland-Palatinate Ludwigshafen forms the core of the European Metropolregion Rhine Neckar triangle together with its neighbour city in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mannheim. Large cities nearby are Heidelberg (about 25 km southeast), Karlsruhe (about 50 km south) and Mainz (about 60 km north).

Population

The number of people of the city of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine was more than 100,000 by the year 1925. Nowadays it has about 160,000 people. The chemical industry is big in the city.

• Ludwigshafen RathausCenter.jpg

  Town hall

• BASF

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  Helmut Kohl

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  East Asia Institute

Sister cities

• Pasadena (United States), since 1948
• Lorient (France), since 1963
• Havering (England), since 1971
• Sumqayıt (Azerbaijan), since 1987
• Dessau (Germany), 1988
• Antwerpen (Belgium), since 1999

Ludwigshafen Media

• RheinschanzeMannheim.jpg

  Mannheim, view from the Rheinschanze (today's Ludwigshafen am Rhein) around 1750.

• Joseph Karl Stieler - King Ludwig I in his Coronation Robes - WGA21796.jpg

  Portrait of Ludwig I of Bavaria by Joseph Karl Stieler. The nineteenth century King of Bavaria named the settlement after himself.

• BASF Werk Ludwigshafen 1866.JPG

  BASF Werk Ludwigshafen

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  View from west over Edigheim and Oppau to the BASF Ludwigshafen

• Mh RHB GT6 mit gelenkbeiwagen.jpg

  Tramway from the 1960s in regular service

• Miro-Wand in Ludwigshafen 07.jpg

  Miró mural, known as the Miró-Wand, on the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum

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  stadium in Ludwigshafen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Ludwigshafen Parkinsel Weg.jpg

  Parkinsel of Ludwigshafen in Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany)

• Bundesarchiv Bild 183-27348-0008, Berlin, Ernst Bloch auf Begegnung der Geistesschaffenden.jpg

  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
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  Kurt Biedenkopf, Leipzig 2006

Other websites

Media related to Ludwigshafen at Wikimedia Commons

• Official City Website Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Ludwigshafener Kongress- und Marketing-Gesellschaft mbH Archived 2006-12-19 at the Wayback Machine(in English)
• BASF Website(in German and English)