Weststadt
Weststadt is a suburb of Heidelberg created during the 19th century, when Heidelberg expanded to the west along the railways during the Industrial Revolution.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Michael Linnenbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: quarter of Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Also known as: “Weststadt, Heidelberg”
Photo: 3268zauber, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: 3268zauber, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Christuskirche and Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg.
Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg
University
The Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg is a university of church music in Heidelberg and one of the most renowned ones in Germany. Its predecessor, Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg was founded in 1931 by Meinhard Hermann Poppen to improve the training of church musicians for the Evangelical Church in Baden.
St. Bonifatius
Church
St. Bonifatius is a Catholic church in the Weststadt of Heidelberg. It is a Romanesque Revival basilica with a transept and a facade with double towers, which was designed by Ludwig Maier and built between 1899 and 1903.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heidelberg-Bergheim and Notwohngebiet Mörgelgewann und Kirchheimer Weg.
Heidelberg-Bergheim
Suburb
Bergheim is a district of the German city of Heidelberg. It is bounded on the North by the Neckar River, the East by the Bismarkplatz, on the South by the Kurfürsten Anlage and the South by the city line.
Notwohngebiet Mörgelgewann und Kirchheimer Weg
Neighborhood
Photo: Tkarcher, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notwohngebiet Mörgelgewann und Kirchheimer Weg is a neighborhood.
Weststadt
- Categories: Ortsteil and locality
- Location: Heidelberg, Karlsruhe Region, Rhine-Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.40185° or 49° 24′ 7″ northLongitude
8.68488° or 8° 41′ 6″ eastElevation
150 metres (492 feet)Open location code
8FXCCM2M+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 338507614OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Weststadt” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վեստշտադտ”
- French: “Weststadt”
- German: “Heidelberg-Weststadt”
- German: “Weststadt”
- Irish: “Weststadt (Heidelberg)”
- Japanese: “ヴェストシュタット (ハイデルベルク)”
- Polish: “Weststadt (Heidelberg)”
- Polish: “Weststadt”
- Portuguese: “Weststadt”
- Ukrainian: “Вестштадт”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Weststadt”. Photo: Michael Linnenbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.