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Tbingen Tbingen, an old university city of Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany, is situated 20 miles southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the River Neckar and the Ammer. The city functions as the seat of the Administrative District of Tbingen, as well as of the county of Tbingen. In 2002 the city had 82,885 inhabitants, including circa 20,000 students. Geographical location: . Tbingen is best described as a mixture of an old and distinguished academic flair including liberal and leftist politics, with rural, agricultural and typical Swabian elements. The city contains many picturesque buildings from previous centuries, and lies on the river Neckar. At the end of the Nineties, the biggest German weekly, "Der Spiegel" published a national survey according to which Tbingen had the highest quality of life from all cities in Germany. Tbingen's Eberhard Karls university dates from 1477, making it one of the oldest in Germany. Tbingen itself dates from the 6th or 7th century. Famous Tbingen residents include the poet Friedrich Hlderlin, Alois Alzheimer, from whom Alzheimer's disease takes its name and Friedrich Miescher, who was the first to discover DNA. Wilhelm Schickhard developed the first mechanical computer. Hegel and Johannes Kepler also studied in Tbingen. It is the home of scholars of international renown such as Ernst Bloch, a philosopher, Hans Kng, a theologician, Walter Jens, a famous author, as well as Christiane Nsslein-Volhard, nobel prize laureate for medicine. Districts Historical population | tyle="background:#efefef;" |Year | style="background:#efefef;" |Population | | a href="/encyclopedia/1871" title="1871">1871 | align=right|16,176 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1880" title="1880">1880 | align=right|19,378 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1890" title="1890">1890 | align=right|20,913 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1900" title="1900">1900 | align=right|23,425 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1910" title="1910">1910 | align=right|28,499 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1925" title="1925">1925 | align=right|29,971 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1933" title="1933">1933 | align=right|34,112 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1939" title="1939">1939 | align=right|35,963 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1950" title="1950">1950 | align=right|44,221 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1956" title="1956">1956 | align=right|51,454 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1961" title="1961">1961 | align=right|58,768 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1962" title="1962">1962 | align=right|61,068 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1963" title="1963">1963 | align=right|61,484 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1964" title="1964">1964 | align=right|62,454 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1965" title="1965">1965 | align=right|63,450 | } | valign="top" width="25%" | {| border="1" | style="background:#efefef;" |Year | style="background:#efefef;" |Population | | a href="/encyclopedia/1966" title="1966">1966 | align=right|64,886 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1967" title="1967">1967 | align=right|65,846 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1968" title="1968">1968 | align=right|67,054 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1969" title="1969">1969 | align=right|67,947 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1970" title="1970">1970 | align=right|66,788 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1971" title="1971">1971 | align=right|68,231 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1972" title="1972">1972 | align=right|69,650 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1973" title="1973">1973 | align=right|70,993 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1974" title="1974">1974 | align=right|71,175 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1975" title="1975">1975 | align=right|71,348 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1976" title="1976">1976 | align=right|71,558 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1977" title="1977">1977 | align=right|71,820 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1978" title="1978">1978 | align=right|71,193 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1979" title="1979">1979 | align=right|72,167 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1980" title="1980">1980 | align=right|73,132 | } | valign="top" width="25%" | {| border="1" | style="background:#efefef;" |Year | style="background:#efefef;" |Population | | a href="/encyclopedia/1981" title="1981">1981 | align=right|74,500 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1982" title="1982">1982 | align=right|74,766 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1983" title="1983">1983 | align=right|75,013 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1984" title="1984">1984 | align=right|75,333 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1985" title="1985">1985 | align=right|75,825 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1986" title="1986">1986 | align=right|76,122 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1987" title="1987">1987 | align=right|71,701 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1987" title="1987">1987 | align=right|72,936 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1988" title="1988">1988 | align=right|76,046 | | a href="/encyclopedia/1989" title="1989">1989 | align=right|78,643 | | a href="/encyclopedia/2001" title="2001">2001 | align=right|82,444 | | a href="/encyclopedia/2002" title="2002">2002 | align=right|82,885 | | a href="/encyclopedia/2003" title="2003">2003 | align=right|83,137 | } | census result Twinnings Ann Arbor, Michigan is Tbingen's sister city in the United States of America. Other cities twinned with Tbingen are Aix-en-Provence (France), Monthey (Switzerland), Durham (United Kingdom), Aigle (Switzerland), Perugia (Umbria, Italy), and Petrozavodsk ( Karelia, Russia). External links
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