When I first floated the idea of meeting my German friend and her family in Tübingen to go punting, she expressed skepticism that her 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son could sit still for an hour ...

Mark Twain once described Germany in summertime as “the perfection of the beautiful,” and in his 1880 travel book “A Tramp Abroad,” the American author praises a section of the Neckar River between ...

Highly radioactive waste from a nuclear plant has been transported for the first time on a river in Germany. Protesters managed to temporarily halt the ship after they rappelled down from a bridge ...

Many bodies of water in Stuttgart are like little oases. However, they not only offer something for the eye, but are also ecologically very valuable. The Neckar, Lake Max Eyth, the park lakes - all ...

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Flooding in Germany is causing hydroelectric plants to be taken offline or reduce their output, putting more pressure on the country’s power supply. Issues around the Neckar River and its tributaries ...

Throngs of tourists stream through the slender streets of the Old Town and make their way up the steep incline to the Heidelberg castle high above. One hears a motley mix of languages: strains of ...

The work thus shows an integrated vision of the future for the long-neglected urban space as well as concrete spatial solutions for dealing with the infrastructures and land potential along the Neckar ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The German scientists testing water in the Neckar river, which runs through the city of Heidelberg, initially ...