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| Country | Germany |
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| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Tuttlingen |
| Mayor | Michael Beck (CDU) |
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| Area | 90.48 km2 (34.93 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 645 m (2116 ft) |
| Population | 34,775 (31 December 2006) |
| - Density | 384 /km2 (995 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | TUT |
| Postal codes | 78501–78532 |
| Area code | 07461 |
| Website | www.tuttlingen.de |
Tuttlingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. Nendingen, Möhringen and Eßlingen are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen. The county (Kreis) includes several surrounding towns including Trossingen, Spaichingen, and Mühlheim. The town is built around the Honberg mountain where ruins of fortress built in the Middle Ages still stand and are a site for festivals and concerts. In 1803, fire destroyed most of the town and only a small section of the original town remains.
Today Tuttlingen has many businessess and considerable industry and is the home for more than 200 surgical equipment companies, including Karl Storz GmbH, Aesculap, Hettich Centrifuges, KLS Martin and Instrumed International Inc. Fifty percent of the world's surgical equipment is manufactured in this town,[1] whose centre includes a pedestrian zone, a market twice a week, a fountain, shops, and art displays.
The source of the Danube is located nearby in Donaueschingen and is stream-sized here in comparison to its more famous, grander appearance in Vienna. Tuttlingen is located in Swabia east of the Black Forest region in the Swabian Alps.
The German poet Goethe wrote that the town and surrounding area has a strange and beautiful landscape, hilly with fields and patches of forest. He is said to have left his watch in the town.
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International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Tuttlingen is twinned with:
Battaglia Terme, Italy
Bex, Switzerland- Bischofszell, Switzerland
Draguignan, France
Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria
Notes
- ^ Mahmood F. Bhutta (August 5, 2006), Fair Trade for Surgical Instruments, 333, BMJ, http://www.bmj.com/cgi/pdf_extract/333/7562/297?rss=, retrieved 2009-02-09
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tuttlingen |
- Official Tuttlingen home page (German)
- Notes from Tuttlingen - a description of the surgical instruments industry in the town
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