Welcome to Mannheim

Location

In the Rhine-Neckar triangle, one of the largest areas of industry in the Federal Republic. Second largest city in Baden-Württemberg with 325,349 inhabitants (as of 31.12.04),located where three Federal States converge: Rheinland Pfalz, Hessen and Baden-Württemberg. 70 km south of Frankfurt, 140 km northwest of Stuttgart.

History

Economy

ICE (Intercity Express) main rail junction point. 185 ICE/EC (intercity), 18 regional and 426 local train services daily. Second largest rail freight depot in the Federal Republic handling 5 million goods trucks annually. Riverport handling 7,6 million tons, annually (2004) with RoRo-facility and container terminal.First Class airport with connecting flights to Frankfurt. 4 x daily to Berlin on workdays. Excellent motorway links to the north and south, and network connecting east and west.World-renowned enterprises such as ABB, BASF, Roche, Freudenberg, John Deere, DaimlerChrysler and Siemens as well as medium-sized enterprises account for an annual turnover of about 11.3 billion Euro and create an attractive market and an exceptional business atmosphere in the region.

Culture

Birthplace of the "Mannheim School of Music"On the "Kulturmeile" (= culture mile), a mile long thoroughfare which bisects the centre of Mannheim, you will come across museums, galleries, colleges, theatres and concert-halls. Among these are, for instance, the National Theatre, the Reiss Museum, the State Museum for Technology and Work and the Rosengarten concert-hall. These provide a focal point for the whole Rhine-Neckar-region and beyond.

Sports

National League: (among others) Ice hockey - The Mannheim "Eagles", German champions four times, 79/80, 97-99,Tennis - Grün-Weiss Mannheim Baseball - BC Tornados, VfR Amigos Federal state centre for figure skating. Olympic training base of the region in field and track events, figure skating,boxing, canoeing. Federal state centre of canoeing. Over 200 sport clubs.

Leisure

Numerous leisure facilities, attractive residential areas, well-kept municipal parks, the landscape between the Palatinate and the Odenwald and, above all, the open -mindedness of the citizens of Mannheim allows new arrivals to feel at home after a very short period of time.

Education

Mannheim has a wide range of educational and training institutions. The University of Mannheim, the Faculty for Clinical Medicine at Mannheim Hospital, the State Academy of Music Heidelberg-Mannheim, the Mannheim Institute for Higher Education and another half a dozen renowned colleges and academies guarantee a future-oriented education. All in all, about 24,000 young people study in Mannheim. In 2002 Mannheim becomes the location of the first pop academy, which opens for students in 2003 and moves into a new building on Hafenstraße in 2004.