FKK Imperial (Villa Venus) Fellbach/Stuttgart (D)

Fellbach

Stuttgart

Capital of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg

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

First documented mention: c. 948 AD

Population: 631,000

Area: 207.32 km²

Administrative region: Stuttgart

District: /

Vehicle registration: S

River: Neckar

The club FKK Imperial near Stuttgart is located in Fellbach.

They say the Stuttgarter drives a Mercedes, votes CDU and is very thrifty. At the latest since the Greens came to power in the land of the Swabians, we know that this can't quite be true. For a Mercedes or even a Porsche from the local automobile production, 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 cash," countered Harald Schmidt, born in Neu-Ulm, in response to the statement by Berlin's former mayor Klaus Wowereit that Berlin is poor but sexy.

The lively metropolis on the Neckar is not quite as large as Berlin and the three other German cities with over a million inhabitants, but it can certainly compete with them in terms of quality of life. Stuttgart looks back on centuries of proud and rich tradition, boasts magnificent cultural treasures, is surrounded by wonderful 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 considered a bottomless money pit and has triggered numerous protests among the local population, it could ultimately result in a groundbreaking, high-performance and hypermodern urban infrastructure and transport concept, serving as a model for the whole of Europe.

The tension between tradition and modernity that the city must bridge becomes clear when you walk a few steps from the station down 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 Altes Schloss and the Neues Schloss provide impressive testimony, in particular to the former baroque splendour of the Württemberg rulers.

Just opposite, after a few steps through the galleries of the Königsbau-Passagen, you find yourself back in the high-tech present on Börsenstraße: the Stuttgart Stock Exchange is, after Frankfurt, the second most important stock exchange location in Germany. If, on the other hand, you stroll straight down Königstraße to the south, past the Altes Schauspielhaus and the Gerber-Passagen, you not only reach FKK Phönix, Stuttgart's centrally located FKK club, but eventually stand before the Karlshöhe, the walkable city hill at the heart of the city, the sight of which makes you feel transported to Athens with its Lykavittos and its Acropolis.

Stuttgart is rich in theatres and museums and, as the world's most renowned location for automotive technology, it's hardly surprising that there is both a dedicated Mercedes museum and a Porsche museum here. Anyone who ventures beyond the hills of the roaring valley basin in which Stuttgart is nestled will find, to 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 NHN, a breathtaking view. From up here, the view reaches not only as far as the Cannstatter Wasen on the Neckar, where the Stuttgart Oktoberfest, a rival to Munich's 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 towns that, nestled in a magnificent cultural landscape, each bear eloquent witness to charming Swabian tradition and way of life.

Among Stuttgart's well-known sons and daughters 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.