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40-592: Ludwigsburg ( German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪçsˌbʊʁk] ; Swabian : Ludisburg ) is a city in Baden-Württemberg , Germany, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar . It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 94,000 inhabitants. It is situated within the Stuttgart Region , and the district is part of

80-543: A Nazi propaganda film , Jud Süß , was filmed in Ludwigsburg. The film was based on a historical figure, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer , who was executed in Stuttgart in 1738; Oppenheimer lived in Ludwigsburg. During World War II , the city suffered moderate damage compared to other German cities. There were 1500 deaths. It was the home of the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag V-A from October 1939 till April 1945. After

120-458: A Reichssturmfahne , which had been part of the Duchy of Württemberg 's own coat of arms since 1495. There were some minor changes made to the design, as it had already been associated with the town of Markgröningen . A missive from the office of the mayor of Ludwigsburg in 1759–60 mentions its flag. The town council has 40 members. The last local election was on 25 May 2014. The voter participation

160-459: A palace ), which he began building in 1704. However, the examples of other princes fostered a desire to project his absolutist power by establishing a city. To the baroque palace, he added a hunting lodge and country seat, called Schloss Favorite (1713–1728), and the Seeschloss (castle on the lake) Monrepos (1764–1768). A settlement began near the palace in 1709 and a town charter

200-563: A favored hunting grounds by the royal Württemberg family for generations before the founding of Ludwigsburg. Although the region was wilderness, it was easily accessible by boat using the Neckar River. In 1704 the founder of Ludwigsburg, Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg , arranged for the laying of the foundation stone for Ludwigsburg Palace. Ludwigsburg is named after the Duke Eberhard Louis' middle name, Ludwig being

240-479: A film adaptation of the novel. The role of Karl Alexander was played by Frank Vosper . Charles Alexander and his relationship with Oppenheimer is fictionally portrayed in Veit Harlan 's 1940 Nazi propaganda film titled Jud Süß . He is portrayed by Heinrich George . Although inspired by the historical details of Süß's life, Hauff's novella, Feuchtwanger's novel, and Harlan's film only loosely correspond to

280-401: A pearl, a symbol of fertility, from the hand of God. However, people's hopes for another child were not fulfilled as Eberhard Louis died in 1733 and his Catholic cousin, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg , ascended to the throne. When Charles Alexander immediately moved the capital of Württemberg back to Stuttgart, the population of the Ludwigsburg suddenly dropped by more than half within

320-501: A year. Jewish families began living in Ludwigsburg during the 19th century and in 1884, a synagogue was built on Solitudestraße. The synagogue was later destroyed by storm troopers during Kristallnacht , the pogrom of November 1938. In 1988, the perimeter of the structure was marked out in plaster on the site. A 1959 memorial and newer memorial plaques commemorate the Jewish Holocaust victims and extol human rights. In 1940,

360-426: Is a very special town." Ludwigsburg is twinned with: Swabian German Swabian can be difficult to understand for speakers of Standard German due to its pronunciation and partly differing grammar and vocabulary. In 2009, the word Muggeseggele (a Swabian idiom ), meaning the scrotum of a housefly , was voted in a readers' survey by Stuttgarter Nachrichten , the largest newspaper in Stuttgart , as

400-468: Is regarded as one of the best film schools in the world. Since 2007, there is also the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg ( Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg ). Ludwigsburg has eight secondary schools of various types and four vocational schools . There ere are also four special schools and seventeen primary schools . An adult high school and the city library are located at

440-523: The Kurfürst (Prince-Elector) Friedrich was made king of Württemberg by Napoleon. In 1812, the Württembergish army was raised in Ludwigsburg for Napoleon's Russian campaign. Of the 15,800 Württemberg soldiers who served, just a few hundred returned. In 1921, Ludwigsburg became the largest garrison in southwest Germany. In 1945, Ludwigsburg was made a "Kreisstadt" (urban district), and later, when

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480-479: The Duchy of Württemberg from his cousin, Eberhard Louis . As Duke of Württemberg he moved the court back from Ludwigsburg to the nearby capital of Stuttgart . He ruled over the Duchy until his sudden death in 1737, and was succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Charles Eugene . During his reign, he employed as his financier the ill-fated Joseph Süss Oppenheimer , who was executed in 1738 for abuse of office during

520-878: The Holy Roman Emperor , he had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1712. He was militarily successful under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Spanish War of Succession as well as in the Ottoman–Venetian War . In 1719 he was appointed imperial governor of Belgrade . In 1720 Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI appointed him governor of the Kingdom of Serbia in Belgrade. While in this post he married Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706–56) in 1727; they had 4 children. After 13 years of autocratically ruling over Serbia, in 1733 Charles Alexander inherited

560-669: The Karlsschule Stuttgart (an elite military academy he had founded) in 1773, where Schiller eventually studied medicine. The Duke was very demanding of his students, and Schiller's childhood was a lonely and unhappy one, but he was greatly enriched by the excellent education he received. It was there that he wrote his first play, Die Räuber ("The Robbers"), about a group of naïve revolutionaries and their tragic failure. Leopold Mozart visited Württemberg with his son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in July 1763 and said, "Ludwigsburg

600-424: The Kingdom of Serbia as regent from 1720 until 1733, when he assumed the position of Duke of Württemberg , which he held until his death. Born in Stuttgart , he was the eldest son of Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental and his wife, Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach . He succeeded his father as Duke of Württemberg-Winnental in 1698. As a successful army-commander in service of

640-654: The Ludwigsburg University of Education ( Pädagogische Hochschule ) a teacher training college, and the Staatliche Sportschule Ludwigsburg (State Sports School) were opened. Further universities based in Ludwigsburg are the Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences ( Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung und Finanzen Ludwigsburg ), a public institution for the training of higher-level Civil Servants), and

680-618: The administrative region ( Regierungsbezirk ) of Stuttgart . The middle of Neckarland, where Ludwigsburg lies, was settled in the Stone and Bronze Ages . Numerous archaeological sites from the Hallstatt period remain in the city and surrounding area. Towards the end of the 1st century, the area was occupied by the Romans . They pushed the Limes further to the east around 150 and controlled

720-686: The cultural center behind the city hall. Ludwigsburg has seven teams in the top level of professional sports. They are MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg (Basketball), both formations A and B of the dance team (1. Tanzclub Ludwigsburg), the Latin formation (TSC Ludwigsburg), the Hockey-Club Ludwigsburg 1912 e.V., Svl08 (water polo) and the Ludwigsburg riflery team. Additionally, there are numerous amateur clubs for various sports. Ludwigsburg consists of following districts: The following towns are neighbouring towns of Ludwigsburg, starting north of

760-804: The Baden-Württemberg municipal code took effect on 1 April 1956, the city was named a major urban district. In 1956 the tradition of the German garrison town was taken up again by the Bundeswehr , Germany's federal armed forces. 2004 was the 300th birthday of Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg, celebrated by the opening of the Baroque Gallery and the Ceramic Museum in the Residenzschloss . The area around Ludwigsburg had been

800-619: The Duchess Johanna Elisabeth (1680–1757) remained in Stuttgart. The clever, ambitious mistress made the best of her time, influencing politics in Württemberg and advancing her status in society. When it became clear that the seriously ill heir to the throne would not come to power, Eberhard Louis had a change of heart, split with his lover and reconciled with his wife in the hope that he would have another son. This

840-524: The German dubbing of the 2001 movie Monsters Inc. , the Abominable Snowman , played by John Ratzenberger in the original English version and Walter von Hauff in the German version, speaks in the Swabian dialect. Charles Alexander, Duke of W%C3%BCrttemberg Charles Alexander of Württemberg (24 January 1684 – 12 March 1737) was a Württemberg Duke from 1698 who governed

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880-515: The German name for Louis. Right up until his death, construction workers and craftsmen worked on what was to become one of the largest Baroque palace ensembles in Europe. Under Eberhard Louis and his successor, Charles Eugene, the Palace served as the royal residence of Württemberg for a total of 28 years. With the Palace as their Gesamtkunstwerk (translated literally, "collective work of art") and

920-492: The Ludwigsburg Evangelical University for Social Works, Church Social Works and Religious Teaching ( Evangelische Hochschule Ludwigsburg (Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit, Religionspädagogik und Diakonie) ). In 1991, a national film school, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg ( Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg ) was established in Ludwigsburg, which has won several national and international awards and

960-470: The Swabian dialect is spoken with a unique intonation that is also present when native speakers speak in SHG. Similarly, there is only one alveolar fricative phoneme /s/ , which is shared with most other southern dialects. Most Swabian-speakers are unaware of the difference between /s/ and /z/ and do not attempt to make it when they speak Standard German. The voiced plosives, the post-alveolar fricative, and

1000-411: The city and going clockwise: Freiberg am Neckar , Benningen am Neckar , Marbach am Neckar , Erdmannhausen , Affalterbach , Remseck am Neckar , Kornwestheim , Möglingen , Asperg und Tamm . Ludwigsburg's climate is temperate oceanic ( Köppen : Cfb ) with warm and rainy summers and cold winters with less precipitation. Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, enrolled the young Friedrich Schiller in

1040-408: The city with a series of incentives: first he promised free plots of land and free building materials as well as fifteen years tax-free status, and later on he added freedom to practice one's profession and religion to the list. However, the town only began to grow when it was granted city status in 1718 and then in that year became the royal residence and capital city of the country of Württemberg. By

1080-494: The course of more than a century; the earliest of these having been Wilhelm Hauff 's 1827 novella, titled Jud Süß . The most successful literary adaptation was Lion Feuchtwanger 's 1925 novel titled Jud Süß based on a play that he had written in 1916 but subsequently withdrew. Ashley Dukes and Paul Kornfeld also wrote dramatic adaptations of the Feuchtwanger novel. In 1934, Lothar Mendes directed " Jew Süss ",

1120-436: The difference in the formation of the past participle of 'sein' (to be) into gwäa and gsei. The Gsei group is nearer to other Alemannic dialects , such as Swiss German . It can be divided into South-East Swabian , West Swabian and Central Swabian . The Danube Swabians from Hungary, Romania, and former Yugoslavia have been speaking several different Swabian dialects, called locally Schwowisch , some being similar to

1160-487: The first 12 Stolpersteine were laid in Ludwigsburg. They are part of a project by artist Gunter Demnig to memorialize individuals who perished under Nazi persecution. Demnig was back in Ludwigsburg on 7 October 2009 to install more Stolpersteine. The coat of arms of Ludwigsburg depicts a black eagle on a golden banner flying on an oblique red lance, on a blue background. Duke Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg awarded Ludwigsburg its coat of arms on 3 September 1718 as

1200-534: The frequent use of diminutives based on " l " suffixes gives the dialect a very "soft" or "mild" feel, often felt to be in sharp contrast to the harder varieties of German spoken in the North. Swabian is categorized as an Alemannic dialect, which in turn is one of the two types of Upper German dialects (the other being Bavarian ). The Swabian dialect is composed of numerous sub-dialects, each of which has its own variations. These sub-dialects can be categorized by

1240-550: The most beautiful Swabian word , well ahead of any other term. The expression is used in an ironic way to describe a small unit of measure and is deemed appropriate to use in front of small children (compare Bubenspitzle ). German broadcaster SWR 's children's website, Kindernetz , explained the meaning of Muggeseggele in their Swabian dictionary in the Swabian-based TV series Ein Fall für B.A.R.Z. In many regions,

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1280-503: The opulent festivals they organized, the Dukes put their unbounded power on display with no consideration for the finances of Württemberg. To them, their most important task was to bring fame and renown to the court of Württemberg and to compete with and outdo other European rulers in this regard. Duke Eberhard Louis planned to found an ideal Baroque city right beside Ludwigsburg Palace. From 1709 onwards, he tried to attract new residents to

1320-931: The original Swabian dialect, but also the Bavarian dialect, mostly with Palatine and Hesse mixed dialects. In this regard, the Banat Swabians speak the Banat Swabian dialect . The Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Commerce launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch." which means "We can [do] everything. Except [speak] Standard German" to boost Swabian pride for their dialect and industrial achievements. However, it failed to impress Northern Germans and neighboring Baden. Dominik Kuhn ( Dodokay ) became famous in Germany with Swabian fandub videos, dubbing among others Barack Obama with German dialect vocals and revised text. In

1360-649: The region until 260, when the Alamanni occupied the Neckarland. Evidence of the Alamanni settlement can be found in grave sites in the city today. The origins of Ludwigsburg date from the beginning of the 18th century (1718–1723) when the largest baroque castle in Germany, Ludwigsburg Palace was built by Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg . Originally, the Duke planned to just build one country home (albeit

1400-413: The reign of the duke. In 1727, he married Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706–1756). They had 6 children: King Charles III is his descendant through his great-grandmother Mary of Teck . Although the story of Duke Karl Alexander and Joseph Süß Oppenheimer constituted a relatively obscure episode in German history, it became the subject of a number of literary and dramatic treatments over

1440-438: The time of Eberhard Louis' death in 1733, the population had risen to around 6,000 people, which was more than half as big as the former capital city Stuttgart. Nevertheless, the new capital city Ludwigsburg was still a major construction site with many unpaved streets and half-finished buildings. For over two decades, Eberhard Louis (1676–1733) held court in Ludwigsburg with his mistress Wilhilmine von Grävenitz (1684–1744) while

1480-499: The war, there was a large displaced persons camp which housed several thousand mainly Polish displaced persons until about 1948. After 1945 until the middle of 1946, there was also an allied internment camp for war criminals in Ludwigsburg and the U.S. Army maintained the Pattonville barracks on the edge of town, large enough to have its own American high school. The land was returned to Germany in 1994. On 27 September 2008,

1520-414: Was 44.62%. The results of the election were: The North-South Powerline , includes a large transformer station Ludwigsburg-Hoheneck, built in 1926, which still exists today. It is a central junction in the power lines of Baden-Württemberg to this day. On 5 October 1957, the first 380kV-powerline in Germany between the transformer station Ludwigsburg-Hoheneck and Rommerskirchen went into service. In 1966,

1560-520: Was cause for great joy for many people in Württemberg, as the Protestant population feared that power would fall into the hands of the Catholic side of the royal house. To mark reconciliation, the Ludwigsburg citizenry published a leaflet with a copper etching that made reference to the general wish for a new heir to the throne. The etching depicts the personification of Ludwigsburg who is receiving

1600-399: Was granted on 3 April 1718. That same year, Ludwigsburg became a bailiff's seat, which eventually became the rural district of Ludwigsburg in 1938. In the years between 1730 and 1800, the royal seat of residence changed back and forth several times between Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. In 1800, Württemberg was occupied by France under Napoleon Bonaparte and was forced into an alliance. In 1806,

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