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Enjoy - you are in Heidelberg!

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Spend the night in Heidelberg

25.12.2024
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18.12.2025
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Shopping and gastronomy

The car-free main street, lined with bistros, cafés and restaurants, is one of the most beautiful and longest pedestrian zones in Europe and Heidelberg's shopping mile par excellence. In addition, there is a lot more to discover.

Events in Heidelberg

18.12.2024
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13.12.2025

City of diversity

Heidelberg is a melting pot of different cultures and ideas and despite or precisely because of that it is an international city of research and science. It is a prime example of culture, tolerance and lived integration ...

Heidelberg in numbers

162.960

residents

39 000

students at 11 universities

39 %

of the population are younger than 30 years

14 000

people work at the University of Excellence

80 000

apartments in the city area

109 sqkm

ground area

70 %

Forest and green spaces

13 900 000

happy visitors per year

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Environment & sustainability

Consistently green and clean: Heidelberg is the environment and sustainability capital.

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