Neckar
The Neckar is a 362-kilometre-long river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: right tributary of Rhine river in Germany
- Also known as: “Necker” and “NSU-Fiat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kraftwerk BASF-Ludwigshafen Mitte and Riedbahnbrücke West.
Kraftwerk BASF-Ludwigshafen Mitte
Power station
Photo: Felix Koenig, CC BY 3.0.
Kraftwerk BASF-Ludwigshafen Mitte is a power station.
BASF Ludwigshafen Verbund site
Factory
Photo: Laniakea-rubikon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
BASF Ludwigshafen Verbund site is a factory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hemshof and Luzenberg.
Hemshof
Suburb
Hemshof is one of the oldest city districts of Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany. It is located above the "Nord" district. The first settlement in Hemshof is believed to have been built by the Celts in 516, not as a city but as a small farm. Hemshof is situated 2½ km south of Neckar.
Mannheim
Mannheim is a city in the northwest corner of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers. It is close to Ludwigshafen.
Neckar
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Neckar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Neckar”
- Albanian: “Lumi Neckar”
- Albanian: “Neckar”
- Arabic: “نهر نيكار”
- Arabic: “نيكار”
- Aragonese: “Neckar”
- Armenian: “Նեկար”
- Arpitan: “Neckar”
- Asturian: “Neckar”
- Azerbaijani: “Nekkar çayı”
- Basque: “Neckar”
- Bavarian: “Neckar”
- Belarusian: “Некар”
- Belarusian: “Нэкар”
- Belarusian: “Рака Некар”
- Breton: “Neckar”
- Bulgarian: “Некар”
- Catalan: “Neckar”
- Cebuano: “Neckar”
- Chinese: “Neckar Hô”
- Chinese: “內卡河”
- Chinese: “内卡河”
- Chuvash: “Неккар”
- Corsican: “Neckar”
- Croatian: “Neckar”
- Czech: “Neckar”
- Danish: “Neckar”
- Dutch: “Neckar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر نيكار”
- Esperanto: “Neckar”
- Estonian: “Neckar”
- Finnish: “Neckar”
- French: “Neckar”
- Friulian: “Neckar”
- Galician: “Río Neckar”
- Georgian: “ნეკარი”
- German: “Neckar”
- Greek: “Νέκαρ”
- Hebrew: “נקאר”
- Hebrew: “נקר”
- Hungarian: “Neckar”
- Icelandic: “Neckar”
- Ido: “Neckar”
- Indonesian: “Neckar”
- Interlingua: “Neckar”
- Interlingue: “Neckar”
- Irish: “Neckar”
- Italian: “Neckar”
- Japanese: “ネッカー川”
- Kongo: “Neckar”
- Korean: “네카어 강”
- Korean: “네카어강”
- Latin: “Neccarus”
- Latin: “Nicer”
- Latvian: “Nekāra”
- Ligurian: “Neckar”
- Limburgan: “Neckar”
- Lithuanian: “Nekaras”
- Lombard: “Neckar”
- Low German: “Neckar”
- Luxembourgish: “Neckar”
- Macedonian: “Некар”
- Malagasy: “Neckar”
- Malay: “Neckar”
- Malayalam: “നെക്കാർ”
- Marathi: “नेकार नदी”
- Mazanderani: “نکار”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Neckar Hô”
- Minangkabau: “Neckar”
- Mingrelian: “ნეკარი”
- Narom: “Neckar”
- Neapolitan: “Neckar”
- Nepali: “नेक्कार”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Neckar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Neckar”
- Norwegian: “Neckar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Neckar”
- Ossetian: “Неккар”
- Persian: “نکار”
- Pfaelzisch: “Neckar”
- Pfaelzisch: “Negga”
- Picard: “Neckar”
- Piemontese: “Neckar”
- Polish: “Neckar”
- Portuguese: “Neckar”
- Portuguese: “Rio Necar”
- Portuguese: “Rio Neckar”
- Romanian: “Neckar”
- Romansh: “Neckar”
- Russian: “Неккар”
- Sardinian: “Neckar”
- Scots: “Neckar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Neckar”
- Serbian: “Neckar”
- Serbian: “Некар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Neckar”
- Sicilian: “Neckar”
- Slovak: “Neckar”
- Slovenian: “Neckar”
- South Azerbaijani: “نکار چایی”
- Spanish: “Neckar”
- Spanish: “rio Neckar”
- Spanish: “río Neckar”
- Spanish: “Río Neckar”
- Swahili: “Neckar”
- Swedish: “Neckar”
- Swiss German: “Negger”
- Tamil: “நெக்கர் ஆறு”
- Thai: “เน็คคาร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Neckar”
- Turkish: “Neckar Nehri”
- Turkish: “Neckar”
- Ukrainian: “Неккар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Neckar”
- Venetian: “Neckar”
- Vietnamese: “Neckar”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Neckar”
- Vlaams: “Neckar”
- Volapük: “Neckar”
- Walloon: “Neckar”
- Welsh: “Afon Neckar”
- Western Frisian: “Neckar”
- Wolof: “Neckar”
- Wu Chinese: “内卡河”
- Zulu: “Neckar”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Friesenheim and Neckarstadt.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ludwigshafen (Rhein) BASF Mitte and Friesenheimer Insel.
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