Sinsheim

Sinsheim is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state Baden-Württemberg in the district Rhein-Neckar between Heidelberg and Heilbronn. It consists of a core town and 11 villages; as of 2003 its population is 34,898. Its area is 127 km².

Tourist attractions

Sinsheim's main tourist attraction is the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, a large technology museum with over 1 million visitors per year. Additionally, Sinsheim has a beutiful historic city core; the Altes Rathaus (old city council) is a museum for the town and its role in the 1848 revolution.

History

The region around Sinsheim was settled since 700.000 BC. The romans have been there from 90 AD to 260 AD. The city was founded in about 550 AD by the frankish nobleman Sunno. It was first historically mentioned in 770 AD in the Codex of the cloister Lorsch. Since 1192 the town had "city rights" (special privileges, first granted by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

Very poor town throughout the ages. Ceased several wars from 16th to 18th century. Sinsheim born revolutionar Franz Sigel became famous general in the US civil war.

First railroad built in 1900 with high employment.WW1, wall street crash, and WW 2 kept Sinsheim from growing, until 1968 highway A 6 was built, that made Sinsheim a perfect center of southern german as well as european traffic ways, with Mannheim, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Heilbronn, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen within 1 hour of driving.

Electricity and public water pipes had been invented in the city up to 1910, but only from the beginning of the highway connection in the late 1960s most of todays roads have been built in Sinsheim.

Population of the districts

(as of 2003)