Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen is a residential district (of fourteen) at the eastern perimeter of the city of
HeidelbergHeidelberg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2008, over 145,000 people live within the city's area. Heidelberg is a unitary authority...
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Ziegelhausen lies on the northern banks of the Neckar River and extends northward into the
OdenwaldThe Odenwald is a low mountain range in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Location :The Odenwald lies between the Rhine rift with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried in the west, the Main and the Bauland in the east, the Rhine-Main Plain of the Rhine rift near Darmstadt in...
Forest. It has a small shopping district but is dominated by single-family and multiple-family houses.
Ziegelhausen's abundant supply of water and steep, south-facing slopes made it a center of the Neckar Valley laundry trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen is a residential district (of fourteen) at the eastern perimeter of the city of
HeidelbergHeidelberg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2008, over 145,000 people live within the city's area. Heidelberg is a unitary authority...
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
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Ziegelhausen lies on the northern banks of the Neckar River and extends northward into the
OdenwaldThe Odenwald is a low mountain range in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Location :The Odenwald lies between the Rhine rift with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried in the west, the Main and the Bauland in the east, the Rhine-Main Plain of the Rhine rift near Darmstadt in...
Forest. It has a small shopping district but is dominated by single-family and multiple-family houses.
Ziegelhausen's abundant supply of water and steep, south-facing slopes made it a center of the Neckar Valley laundry trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Johannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms , German composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
summered in Ziegelhausen during the 1880's.
Ziegelhausen has several small parks, including one that features a playground of Niki de Saint-Phalle-inspired tile sculptures.
The
symbolA symbol is something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention. For example, a red octagon may stand for "STOP". On maps, crossed sabres may indicate a battlefield...
of Zeigelhausen is a house with red clay roof shingles. It is on local teams' shirt for most
sports.