FKK Sakura Böblingen/Stuttgart (D)

Böblingen

Stuttgart

State capital of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg

Name origin: Stuotengarten (Old High German, = horse garden, stud farm)

First documented mention: approx. 948 AD

Population: 631,000

Area: 207.32 km²

Administrative region: Stuttgart

District: /

Vehicle registration: S

River: Neckar

The club FKK Sakura near Stuttgart is located in Böblingen-Hulb.

They say the Stuttgarter drives a Mercedes, votes CDU and is very thrifty. At the latest since the Greens came into power in the land of the Swabians, one knows that this can't quite be true. For a Mercedes or even a Porsche from the local car manufacturing, it should still be enough in many cases in the state capital of one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. "Stuttgart is sexy and still has money," countered Harald Schmidt, born in Neu-Ulm, in response to the statement by the former mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, that Berlin is poor but sexy.

The lively metropolis on the Neckar may not be quite as big as Berlin and the three other German cities with a million-plus population, but it can certainly hold its own with them in terms of quality of life. Stuttgart looks back on a centuries-long proud and rich tradition, boasts magnificent cultural treasures, is lined with fantastic landscapes and offers a modern and efficient infrastructure.

Stuttgart 21: The transport and urban development project to reorganise the so-called Stuttgart railway hub is one of the most ambitious construction projects in the history of the Federal Republic. Although the project is regarded as a billion-euro money pit and has triggered numerous protests among the local population, in the end it could see the completion of a groundbreaking, high-performance and hyper-modern urban infrastructure and transport concept that could serve as a model for the whole of Europe.

The tension between tradition and modernity that the city has to bridge becomes clearly apparent when you walk a few steps from the station along the Königstraße, Stuttgart's dominant promenade, and suddenly find yourself standing in front of the Schlosspark: the city's central gathering place is a successful ensemble of various buildings and green spaces from different eras, at the centre of which the Jubiläumssäule, the Opera House, the Old and New Palace provide an impressive testament, in particular, to former baroque Württemberg royal splendour.

Right opposite, after a few steps through the arcades of the Königsbau-Passagen, one steps back into high-tech modernity in the Börsenstraße: the Börse Stuttgart is, after Frankfurt, the second most important stock exchange location in Germany. If, on the other hand, you stroll straight down the Königstraße heading south, passing the Altes Schauspielhaus and the Gerber-Passagen, you not only reach FKK Phönix, Stuttgart's centrally located FKK club, but eventually find yourself standing before the Karlshöhe, the walkable city hill in the heart of the city, the sight of which makes you feel transported to Athens with its Lykavettos and its Acropolis.

Stuttgart is rich in theatre stages and museums and, being the world's most renowned location for automotive technology, it is hardly surprising that there is both a Mercedes museum and a Porsche museum here. Anyone who takes the step beyond the hills of the roaring valley basin in which Stuttgart is nestled will find, in the south, in the panorama café of the 217 m high television tower, the city's modern landmark at an elevation of 483 m above sea level, a breathtaking view. From up here, the view reaches not only as far as the Cannstatter Wasen on the Neckar, where the Stuttgart Oktoberfest, which rivals the Munich Wiesn, is held every year, but on a clear day also as far as the mountain ranges of the Swabian Alb, and you can take in many of the pretty surrounding little towns, each of which, nestled in a magnificent cultural landscape, bears eloquent testimony to charming Swabian tradition and way of life.

Among the well-known sons and daughters of Stuttgart are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Friedrich Alexander von Württemberg, Wilhelm Hauff, Gustav Schwab, Feodora zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Max Horkheimer, Fritz Bauer, Richard von Weizsäcker, Joachim Fuchsberger, Wolfgang Dauner, Eberhard Weber, Michael Pfleghar, Fritz Umgelter, Roland Emmerich, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Hansi Müller, Jürgen Klopp, Sami Khedira, Michael Beck, Natalia Wörner and Nina Hoss.