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Bad Cannstatt ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), also called Cannstatt (until July 23, 1933)<ref>Jürgen Hagel Cannstatt und seine Geschichte, S. 237, Hrsg. Verein Pro Alt-Cannstatt, 2. Auflage, 2007, Template:ISBN.</ref> or Kannstadt (until 1900), is one of the outer stadtbezirke, or city boroughs, of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bad Cannstatt is the oldest and most populous of Stuttgart's boroughs, and one of the most historically significant towns in the area of Stuttgart.Template:Efn The town is home to the Cannstatter Wasen and Cannstatter Volksfest beer festivals, the MHPArena (VfB Stuttgart), the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, and the Porsche-Arena.
NameEdit
Template:Anchor Bad Cannstatt's name originates from a Castra stativa, Cannstatt Castrum, the massive Roman Castra that was erected on the hilly ridge in AD 90 to protect the valuable river crossing and local trade.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the past, Bad Cannstatt has been known as simply Cannstatt or Kannstatt,Template:Sfnp Cannstadt, Canstatt, Kanstatt, and Condistat.Template:Sfnp Its name was changed to include "Bad" (Template:Langx) to mention the town's spas on 23 July 1933.
HistoryEdit
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Bad Cannstatt lies on the Neckar at the convergence of various regional trails.Template:Sfnp The area was inhabited by the Seelberg mammoth hunters during the last glacial period.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The town was founded during the Roman period, records survive of Roman knowledge of the area's springs.Template:Sfnp The nearby Sielberg is notable for its caverns and fossils.Template:Sfnp
In 746 Carloman, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, called a council at Cannstatt, arrested and executed virtually all nobles of the Alemanni. This marks the transfer of power from the Alemanni to the emerging Carolingians.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The present name first appeared as the seat of a court held by Charlemagne in the 8th century while trying the rebellious dukes of Alemannia and Bavaria.
Cannstatt was the capital of the county of Württemberg into the 14thTemplate:Sfnp or 15th century;Template:Sfnp the Rotenberg was the location of the ruling house's ancestral castle.Template:Sfnp Cannstatt subsequently formed part of the duchy, electorate, and kingdom of Württemberg. It lay about Template:Convert from Stuttgart proper,Template:Sfnp although it has since grown to include Bad Cannstatt. In the 13th or 14th century, Louis the Bavarian expanded its rights and privileges to equality with Esslingen. Its 15th-century cathedral was dedicated to St Uffo.Template:Sfnp In 1755, the Great Lisbon earthquake caused the town hall to subside about Template:Convert.Template:Sfnp During the wars which followed the French Revolution, the town was the site on 21 July 1796 of a French victory over the Austrian Empire.Template:Sfnp
In the 19th century, it boasted an attractive town hall, a royal theater, a market house, the Wilhelma and Rosenstein palaces, and extensive industry including wool-spinning, dyeing, steelmaking, and construction of machinery. There were then about 40 mineral springs, which were considered beneficial for "dyspepsia and weakness of the nervous system",Template:Sfnp as well as "diseases of the throat".Template:Sfnp Cannstatt was the site of Gottlieb Daimler's invention of the first petroleum-fueled automobile in 1886<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and housed an automotive factory before the First World War. Around that time, it also had notable railway and chemical works and a brewery. Cannstatt was incorporated into Stuttgart in 1904.Template:Sfnp
Of the 19 surviving mineral springs, 11 are recognized as state wells.Template:Clarify In the world, it is now second to only Újbuda in Budapest, Hungary, in scale.<ref name=sr>Template:Citation.</ref> The Mombach spring is the only one that releases its water without pressure in large quantities; its outflow is used in the adjacent baths and the Wilhelma spa.Template:Citation needed
Famous residentsEdit
Famous people associated with Bad-Cannstatt include:
- Gottlieb Daimler, inventor of the first automobile, developed in Cannstatt, and part-founder of Daimler-Benz. (Karl Benz independently invented a successful automobile in the same year, 96 km away in Ladenburg.)
- Emy Gordon (née von Beulwitz), writer, translator and Catholic activist
- Georg Pfäfflin (1908–1972), German Lutheran pastor