12 Facts About Ludwigshafen

In 2012, Ludwigshafen was classified as a global city with 'Sufficiency' status by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network .

Post-war, Ludwigshafen was part of the French occupation zone, becoming part of the newly founded Bundesland of Rheinland-Pfalz and thus part of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Many friendships started to form, so that in 1956, Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Pasadena, California became sister cities.

City centre of Ludwigshafen is comparatively small and dominated by post-war buildings.

Rheingonheim, as the southernmost suburb of Ludwigshafen, is known mainly for its industry and its game enclosure Wildpark.

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Ludwigshafen is the most important German harbour west of the Rhine.

Ludwigshafen Hauptbahnhof is a huge station, its impressive pylon bridge pier serving as the city's landmark.

The rash construction of these first stations in Ludwigshafen became superfluous when Mannheim cancelled the project due to its enormous costs.

The district south of Ludwigshafen is dominated by the Rhine and the Altrhein arms and the ancient town of Speyer with its magnificent imperial cathedral, a noteworthy and remarkable city.

Regions with some more distance to Ludwigshafen include the beautiful German Wine Route region with Germany's biggest coherent winegrowing area and the Palatinate forest, the biggest coherent forest of Europe 50 kilometres in the West, the French region Alsace and the German Schwarzwald hills in the South, Heidelberg and the Odenwald hills in the East and the Rhein-Main region with the city of Frankfurt about 100 kilometres in the North.

Several small museums in Ludwigshafen focus on the city's history, first of all the Stadtmuseum in the Rathaus Center, but the Schillerhaus Oggersheim, K O Braun-Museum in Oppau or the Frankenthaler Kanal Museum in the North.

Ludwigshafen is one of the German cities that has never had a professional football club.