Looking southeast from the station tower
by Nemorino
If the weather is good when you arrive at Stuttgart Central Station (Hauptbahnhof), you can start getting oriented by going up to the observation deck on the tenth floor of the station's clock tower. Admission is free.
Here is a view looking southeast. The Opera House is in the center of the photo, partly hidden by two trees. The white building to the left of the Opera House is the Small House for spoken theater, and the darker flat building to the right is the Landtag or State Parliament building.
My visit to Stuttgart was in...
by PartyRambo
My visit to Stuttgart was in fact, a visit to the suburbs os the city - namely, to visit Porsche & Mercedes, but also to visit Gemballa Automobilinterieur und Technik, in the suburb of Leonberg.
If you love Porsches, this is the ultimate pit stop - but you must be serious about tuning your car to the top of its limits.
Uwe Gemballa's love of racing led him to create one of the finest tuning & customizing Porsche shop in Germany, and his debut of the 'Avalanche' in (1986?) put him on the design map as well.
The attached photo is of a red Avalanche (a modified 911 Turbo) through a glass window, so I'll dig up & scan a better picture at a future date.
Their home page is http://www.gemballa.com/ - English pages are still under construction
Destination Farm Restaurant
by seoulgirl about OBERE RAUHMUHLE
This is a fun place to go. It is family run, husband cooks and wife is the waitstaff. They are hippie types with a farm. You will most likely be eating there own pork, butchered by them recently. They have a nice outdoor garden which is surrounded by their farm and a walking path behind. They also have a nice assortment of vegetarian dishes. My friend had some tofu cakes that were a special one day and we were all jealous. The jagreschnitzel is excellent. Everything is very good.
Hauptbahnhofturm
by antistar
The train station tower is ten stories tall, and topped with the grand star of Mercedes. Not only is it an eye-catching icon of the city, perfect for navigation, but it also serves as a viewing platform to snatch great pictures of the city. If you want to stand under the Mercedes star, you don't even have to pay any money, as the lifts to the top are free. If you have the time you can even stop off at the exhibitions in the different levels, or the restaurant on floor 8. To get to the top you must take one of the two lifts in the tower to floor 9, and then walk up a few more steps to the observation platform.
The tower is open until 9pm on weekdays, until 2pm on Saturdays (partial opening until 4pm), and on Sundays it is closed.
Oberer Schlossgarten
by antistar
Behind the theater is a beautiful little park in the shadow of the north wing of the Neues Schloss. From here you can cut through to Schlossplatz, past the Kunstegaude (House of Art), to view the Schlossplatz itself, and the Jubilaeumssaule. Also fronting onto the upper palace gardens are the state theater and opera house.
Rathaus, Stuttgart, Germany 2010
The band
United Buddy Bears
Tourist Information Kiosk - Stuttgart Germany
