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Mannheim ( , Palatine German: Monnem or Mannem) is a city in the southwestern part of Germany, the third-largest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Mannheim is among the twenty largest cities in Germany, with a 2012 population of approximately 295,000 inhabitants. The city is at the centre of the larger densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region which has a population of 2,400,000 and is Germany's eighth-largest metropolitan region.
Mannheim is located at the confluence of the Rhine and the Neckar in the northwestern corner of Baden-Württemberg. The Rhine separates Mannheim from the city of Ludwigshafen, just to the west of it in Rhineland-Palatinate, and the border of Baden-Württemberg with Hesse is just to the north. Mannheim is downstream along the Neckar from the city of Heidelberg.
Mannheim is unusual among German cities in that its streets and avenues are laid out in a grid pattern, leading to its nickname "die Quadratestadt" ("city of the squares"). The eighteenth century Mannheim Palace, former home of the Prince-elector of the Palatinate, now houses the University of Mannheim.
The city is home to major corporations including Daimler, John Deere, Caterpillar, ABB, Fuchs Petrolub, IBM, Roche, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever, Phoenix Group, Siemens, and several other well-known companies. In addition, Mannheim's SAP Arena is not only the home of the German ice hockey record champions the Adler Mannheim, but also the well-known handball team, the Rhein-Neckar Löwen. According to the Forbes magazine, Mannheim is known for its exceptional inventive power and was ranked 11th among the Top 15 of the most inventive cities worldwide. The New Economy Magazine elected Mannheim under the 20 cities that best represent the world of tomorrow emphasizing Mannheim's positive economic and innovative environment. Since 2014, Mannheim has been a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and holds the title of "UNESCO City of Music". Mannheim is a Smart City the city's electrical grid is installed with a Power-line communication network.
The city's tourism slogan is "Leben. Im Quadrat." (Life. Squared.). The civic symbol of Mannheim is der Wasserturm, a Romanesque water tower completed in 1886 that rises to 60 metres above the highest point of the art nouveau area Friedrichsplatz. Mannheim is the starting and finishing point of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.
Mannheim is a city in Germany.
Mannheim or Manheim may also refer to:
- Mannheim (surname)
- Mannheim, Ontario, Canada
- Mannheim Road, a major north-south thoroughfare in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, U.S>
- Mannheim (Sanmar, Maryland), U.S.
- Mannheim (Linville, Virginia), U.S., historic home built in 1788 by one of the first German immigrants to the Shenandoah Valley.
- Manheim, New York, U.S.
- Manheim, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Manheim Auctions, major wholesale automobile auction company
- Midgard or Mannheim, the home of men in Norse mythology
Mannheim is a historic home and former grist mill located at San Mar, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The house is a 2-story, three-bay structure built of roughly coursed local limestone, with a one-story stone kitchen wing. Also on the property is a large frame bank barn and a small board-and-batten service kitchen or wash house. Nearby are the remains of a saw mill a large -story grist mill. The mill on this property, known as "Murray's Mill," was in operation through the 19th century.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Mannheim or Manheim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Amédée Mannheim (1831–1906), the inventor of the modern slide rule
- Camryn Manheim (born 1961), American actress
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951), the Finnish military leader and national hero of the Second World War
- Karl Mannheim (1893-1947), Hungarian sociologist
- Lucie Mannheim (1899–1976), German actress
- Ralph Manheim (1907-1992), American translator
- Kjetil Manheim (born 1968), Norwegian musician
Fictional characters:
- Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim, Superman villain
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Mannheim is one of the 299 single member constituencies ( German: Wahlkreis) used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 158.
One of thirty eight districts covering the state of Baden-Württemberg, it is coterminous with the city of Mannheim. The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. It was held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) until the 1994 election, when it was gained by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The SPD regained the seat in 1998, but lost it again to the CDU at the 2009 election. The current representative is Egon Jüttner, who had represented the constituency from 1994 to 1998.
Mannheim, also known as Koffman House, Kauffman House, and Coffman House, is a historic home located near Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was constructed circa 1788 by David Coffman, a descendant of one of the first German settlers in the Shenandoah Valley. David Coffman named his masterpiece after the German city from which the Coffmans originated. Mannheim is a two-story, three bay, stone Colonial style dwelling. It has a steep side gable roof with overhanging eaves and a central chimney. A two-story, Greek Revival style wood-frame ell with double porches was added to the rear of the dwelling about 1855. Also on the property are the contributing two brick slave quarters, a log smokehouse, an office, a chicken shed, and the ruins of a stone spring house. The house is representative of vernacular German architecture of the mid-to-late 18th century, as constructed in America.
Mannheim was occupied by successive generations of the Coffman family until 1880. It was restored in the late 1990s and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Usage examples of "mannheim".
The German Air Force had built a big airdrome outside of Mannheim where a fighter wing had been based, back in the days when the Third Reich had an effective air defense system.
He promised to write to me at Mannheim, where I had decided on spending a week to see my beloved Algardi, who was in the service of the Elector.
It is not usual in Europe to allow ladies and gentlemen to take bonnets, hats, overcoats, canes, or umbrellas into the auditorium, but in Mannheim this rule was not enforced because the audiences were largely made up of people from a distance, and among these were always a few timid ladies who were afraid that if they had to go into an anteroom to get their things when the play was over, they would miss their train.
Next day the station was closed again and the crews made their final preparations for another operation : when the briefing came it turned out that it was to be Mannheim.
One of his best and most reliable crews had suddenly deteriorated and had put up an extremely poor performance after Mannheim.
Louis’ empire, which now is interrupted in the Argonne, will be extended across and down the Rhine, as far as Mannheim and Heidelberg, and when domestic tranquillity is finally restored to St.
When, on the 26th of March, the news of Kotzebue's assassination came from Mannheim to Jena, the academic senate caused Sand's room to be opened, and found two letters--one addressed to his friends of the Burschenschaft, in which he declared that he no longer belonged to their society, since he did not wish that their brotherhood should include a man about to die an the scaffold.
Foresightfully, von Mannheim had left Germany in good time, but he started over in Hollywood at the bottom (forgive the double entendre).
In the German capital, the sleuth returned the two golden tablets to their legal owner, Herr Mannheim, the great collector.