T bingen
university city on the River Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, near Stuttgart, functions as the seat of the Administrative District of Tübingen, as well as of the county of Tübingen.
In Swabian elements. The city contains many picturesque buildings from previous centuries, and lies on the river Neckar.
Tübingen's Eberhard Karls university dates from 1477. Tübingen itself dates from the 6th or 7th century.
Famous Tübingen residents include the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Alois Alzheimer, from whom Alzheimer's disease takes its name and Friedrich Miescher, who was the first to discover DNA. Wilhelm Schickhard developed the first mechanical computer. Hegel and Johannes Kepler also studied in Tübingen.
Ann Arbor, Michigan is Tübingen's sister city in the United States of America. Other cities twinned with Tübingen are Aix-en-Provence (France), Monthey (Switzerland), Durham (United Kingdom), Aigle (Switzerland), Perugia (Umbria, Italy), and Petrozavodsk ( Karelia, Russia).
