Heidelberg Germany Housing

Heidelberg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.  The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own. Although not being part of it, the Rhein Neckar Kreis, the rural district, which surrounds the town, has its seat in Heidelberg. The name Heidelberg is an adaptation of Heidelbeerenberg.

Heidelberg lies on the river Neckar at the point where the it leaves its narrow, steep valley in the Odenwald to flow into the Rhine valley where, 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) Northwest of Heidelberg, it joins the river Rhine at Mannheim. Heidelberg is part of a densely populated region called Rhein-Neckar-Triangle.

University of Heidelberg   Old university hallHeidelberg also is home to Europe's third oldest educational institute, the Ruprecht Karls University founded in 1386, more commonly known as the University of Heidelberg. Among the prominent thinkers to have been associated with the University over the centuries are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the philosopher of hermeneutics Hans-Georg Gadamer; the critical theorist Jürgen Habermas, and the discourse philosopher Karl-Otto Apel. Karl Drais, who invented the bicycle in 1817, was also a student. The university is also credited with chemists Posselt & Reimann's 1828 discovery of nicotine as the main pharmacologically active component of tobacco.

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and several Max Planck Institutes (MPI) - the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law are located in Heidelberg.

A number of United States Military installations are present in and around Heidelberg, including the Headquarters of the United States Army in Europe (HQ USAREUR). These make up the U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg. Additionally, a small number of NATO facilities are present on the installations, most notably HQ Allied Land Componant Command, Heidelberg (CC-Land Heidelberg).

Romanticism of Heidelberg
 
Romantic view of Heidelberg castle ruinsHeidelberg was the center of the epoch of "Romantik" (Romanticism) in Germany. There was a famous circle of poets such as Joseph von Eichendorff, Joseph von Görres, Arnim, and Brentano. A famous relic of Romanticism is the Philosophers´ Walk. The "Romantik" epoch of German philosophy and literature, was described as a movement against classical and realistic theories of literature, an antipole to the rationality of the Age of Enlightenment. It elevated medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be from the medieval period as well as folk art, nature and an epistemology based on nature, which included human activity conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.