Weilimdorf is a north-western municipality (Stadtbezirk

Stadtbezirk

A Stadtbezirk is a form of German city district, an administrative unit within a larger city. In Germany Stadtbezirke usually only exist in a metropolis with more than 150,000 inhabitants....

) of the German city of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 and covers an area of 12,6 km² with a population of around 30,000¹ . It first became part of Stuttgart in 1933 and until that time was a separate entity with its own administration which was then subsumed into the city administration. Weilimdorf includes the districts (Stadtteile) of Bergheim, Giebel, Hausen, Weilimdorf-Nord and Wolfbusch and is home to an expanding commercial area.

Notable architecture includes the Castle Solitude

Castle Solitude

Castle Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany , was built as a hunting lodge between 1764 and 1769 under Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg. It is not a true castle, but rather a rococo palace. Since 1956 the area is part of the urban district of Stuttgart-West. The castle is located on a high plain between...

, the 15th Century Oswald Church and the modern centre of Weilimdorf the Löwen-Markthttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Weilimdorfloeewnmarkt.jpg.

External links

All of these links are to German language pages

The official City of Stuttgart webpage - use the search (Suche) box to find information about Weilimdorf.

The Weilimdorf advertising association's news and information pages from the Weilimdorf Werbegemeinschaft