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.

Town hall
BASF
Helmut Kohl
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

Mannheim, view from the Rheinschanze (today's Ludwigshafen am Rhein) around 1750.
Portrait by Joseph Stieler, 1825
BASF Werk Ludwigshafen
View from west over Edigheim and Oppau to the BASF Ludwigshafen
Tramway from the 1960s in regular service
Miró mural, known as the Miró-Wand, on the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum
stadium in Ludwigshafen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Parkinsel of Ludwigshafen in Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany)
- For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
Kurt Biedenkopf, Leipzig 2006