12 Facts About Heidelberg

The first reference to Heidelberg can be found in a document in Schonau Abbey dated to 1196.

In 1386, Heidelberg University was founded by Rupert I, Elector Palatine.

In 1720, after assigning a major church for exclusively Catholic use, religious conflicts with the mostly Protestant inhabitants of Heidelberg caused the Roman Catholic Prince-Elector Charles III Philip to transfer his court to nearby Mannheim.

Between 1920 and 1933, Heidelberg University became a center of notable physicians Czerny, Erb, and Krehl; and humanists Rohde, Weber, and Gandolf.

Campus of Heidelberg University has a total undergraduate enrollment of 30, 898 as of 2014.

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The Schiller International University, a private American university is represented with a campus in Heidelberg offering several undergraduate and graduate programs in the fields of International Business and International Relations and Diplomacy.

Since 14 December 2003, Heidelberg has been connected to the network of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, which opens up the entire Rhine-Neckar region, with lines connecting with the Palatinate, the Saarland and southern Hesse.

The move from Heidelberg took place in 2012 and 2013, and was completed in 2014.

The situation has slightly improved since late 2017, when Heidelberg got a new multiplex adjacent to the new Bahnstadt development, the "Luxor Filmpalast".

In 1901 Wilhelm Meyer-Forster wrote the play Old Heidelberg which was followed by a large number of film adaptations.

Rugby League Deutschland has two teams based in Heidelberg, Heidelberg Sharks formed in 2005 and Rohrbach Hornets formed in 2007.

City is home to the USC Heidelberg, which won 9 German Basketball Championships and remains the second most successful team in the history of German professional basketball.