Marbach am Neckar

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Marbach am Neckar

Total population

15,985

Coordinates48.94°, 9.26°

Demographic figures from Destatis. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Marbach am Neckar is a town about 20 kilometres north of Stuttgart. It belongs to the district of Ludwigsburg, the Stuttgart region and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart. Marbach is known as the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller, to whom it owes the additional designation of Schiller City, which it has officially held since 2022. The town is home to the Schiller National Museum, the German Literature Archive and the Modern Literature Museum.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

S

Stephanie Evert

German corpus and computational linguist

J

Johann Friedrich Steinkopf

publisher

H

Hans Ballreich

A

Adolf von Hausch

K

Karl Friedrich Weberling

German violinist, actor, singer and theatre director

J

Julius Jaiser

K

Karl Schmidt-Buhl

teacher, politician, 1855-1936

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Walther Gebhardt

German librarian

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Nicolas Wähling

German football player

U

Ulrich Prinz von Württemberg

(1880-1880)

A

August Friedrich Pauly

J

Jana Bürgelin

German film director

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Ludwig Friedrich Fischer

Christhard Läpple

D

Daniel Zimmermann

economist and political scientist from Germany

W

Wilhelm Müller-Loebnitz

GErman military officer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

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