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Reutlingen The Magazine Reutlingen 1 The lively city Contents 4 Editorial 3 The man with the magical glasses. Out and about with city tour guide Prof Eugen Wendler 4 Sugar-sweet and award-winning. A stroll through the city of Reutlingen 10 10 The basis of all life. Gönningen’s tulip bloom 16 Recommended by experts. Insider tips for going out 18 Success in a bag. Carmen Bleile “upcycles” unique-item bags 22 From Reutlingen to the whole world. Reutlingen – an innovative location for business 24 Between the Jura and the Neckar. 18 Sightseeing around Reutlingen 26 Town and country – the best of both worlds. The city in the biosphere region 28 Imprint Publisher: StaRT – Stadtmarketing und Tourismus Reutlingen GmbH Person responsible for the content according to the press law: Tanja Ulmer Text: Mathias Becker, agentur.zs GmbH, Weinstadt Susanne Schwab, Reutlingen Josephine Förster, Reutlingen Design: Launer Kommunikationsdesign GmbH, Reutlingen Print: Druckerei Raisch GmbH & Co. KG., Reutlingen Photos: Andreas Böhm (p. 3/6/7/9/12/30/31) | Bosch AG (p. 25) | Peter Dreher (p. 14) Andreas Fetzer (p. 16/17) | Markus Gauß (cover / p. 18–21) Heimatmuseum Reutlingen (p. 17) | Reutlingen University / Karl Scheuring (p. 24) Philipp Junger (p. 5/9) | Mercedes AG (p. 26) | PixPerformance Joachim Jäger (p. 4/8/back cover) | Porsche AG (p. 26) Region Stuttgart (p. 27) | Schenker:Graphik!, albpanorama.de (p. 28) Lichtenstein Castle management (p. 27) | Maximilian Schreiner (p. 27) Sonnenbühl municipality (p. 27) | Stage Entertainment Stuttgart (p. 27) Town of Pfullingen (p. 30) | Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen (p. 29) taschen taolili (p. 22) | Gerlinde Trinkhaus (p. 10/11/13/14/30) Welcome to Reutlingen! “Do everything out of pleasure and out of love, and with originality.” – HAP Grieshaber In his Swabian style, Reutlingen’s treasured artist summa- Ingenuity and entrepreneurship. Carmen Bleile explains rises the cause taken up by the people of Reutlingen. how a passion for memories became a business idea. With innovative companies and Reutlingen University, the city Take Mr Wendler, for example. The professor, graduate his- is a location for high-tech and internationality. torian and graduate economist weaves his way tirelessly through the alleys to stay fit, as he says. And to familiarise The area around Reutlingen is also charming. Opposites visitors with the city’s history a little bit more. attract: urban flair with the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region in the north, pure nature with the Swabian Jura in the When sauntering across the market and strolling through south. The city in the middle of the biosphere region isn’t the shops, one meets unique people. Each one tells a differ- called the Gateway to the Swabian Jura for no reason. ent story. And all are united by a thirst for action. Let yourself be captivated by the eight sections of this There is just as much vitality during the Gönninger magazine. You will meet a few Reutlingen “ambassadors”, Tulpenblüte in spring. Over a thousand tulips fascinate all of whom act out of passion and give the city its diver sity. people each year time and again – and not just the locals. Dr Margarete Walliser explains to you why that is the case. Enjoy! It is no secret that the people of Reutlingen know how to party. They value the art and culture in their city. Genuine Reutlingen natives give you the best tips for going out. Tanja Ulmer and the StaRT team Marktplatz 2 72764 Reutlingen Telephone +49 (0)7121 93 93 53-00 Fax +49 (0)7121 93 93 53-10 [email protected] Telephone +49 (0)7121 93 93 53-53 Fax +49 (0)7121 93 93 53-55 www.tourismus-reutlingen.de [email protected] The man with the magical glasses. Walking through Reutlingen with Eugen Wendler, one discovers the city’s history behind its walls and facades. Reutlingen 4 The lively city Reutlingen’s Old Town with Tübinger Tor, the Marienkirche and the Achalm, the city’s “local mountain”. Reutlingen 5 The lively city Eugen Wendler has already had his jacket buttons scraped off in this alley. He wondered what such a breathtakingly narrow street was good for. “You would not have been able to come through here with a milk churn,” he says. “It can only have been an escape route.” In case there was another fire, like in 1726, when one almost destroyed the entire city. The alley is called Spreuerhofstraße and measures barely more than thirty centimetres at its narrowest point. It thus made it into Guinness Book of World Records. Tummy in: At a width of 31 cm, Spreuerhofstraße is the narrowest street in the world. Wendler has already had to go through here countless times. The group of women he leads today does not let him off so easily either. So he sucks his stomach in and graduate economist and historian. Professor Doctor Doc- scuttles sideways into the narrow lane. He holds a hand tor Eugen Wendler. He was away for fifteen years, stud- between the wall and his beige anorak, out of which a ying in Tübingen, Mannheim and Konstanz. Apart from starched collar peeks. His coil of white hair is blown by that, he has always been in Reutlingen. the autumn wind. He adjusts his gold-framed glasses. After a tour of the The man has known the city since his birth, a home city with him, one could think they possess magical birth in a house on Ringelbachstraße 75 years ago. And powers – Wendler sees the city with other eyes. He actually much longer: he researched the city’s history recognises the history behind the buildings. In the and wrote a book about it with 140 chapters. He is a upper part of Wilhelmstraße, where most visitor gazes Refreshing: gastronomy in historic walls. Hidden: sculptures on the Spitalhof and Tübinger Tor. Contemporary witness: 600-year-old Gartentor with the Gartentorbrunnen. Reutlingen 6 The lively city He sees the focus on bakeries and attrac- history behind through a gap into a heap of tively arranged display win- ” hay in the cellar. “Back then, dows, he sees the rows of the buildings. the wind blew just as it does houses of the imperial city. today,” describes Wendler. The Where others see only a house wall “ fire raged through the town burn- made of chunky blocks of stone, he ing ninety percent of the buildings. sees the plight of the people of the city, “You would have been able to see the who, after the major fire, could barely afford glow on Lake Constance”. Legend? Truth? Or building material and therefore used the city wall as something in between. Wendler recalls his historical the outside of their houses. Wendler sees more. As do knowledge like an actor does his lines. “It’s as if you are the ladies he leads through the city. listening to an audio drama on cassette”, says one of the participants. Wilhelmstraße, now a shopping mile, has always been the city’s main axis. Here, Wendler fondly recalls a cob- Wendler moves quickly between each stop. He wants to bler who lived opposite the Nikolaikirche and who, show a lot of Reutlingen and also deviates from the according to legend, brought bad luck over the city. plan from time to time. As he passes the community When telling these anecdotes, he changes from High college made of grey cubes and glass, he adds: “This German to Swabian, which he finds more fitting for part of the old city could have been home to Germany’s bawdy topics: the cobbler boozed a lot, swore just as oldest residential quarter – even older than Esslingen.” much and also worked on Sundays. Debauchery won’t But in former times the city didn’t treasure its historic go unpunished, the priest had threatened. Then, on structure enough. Wendler is known for his critical 23rd September 1726, his maid had a rendezvous in the remarks. But today, he emphasises, the city does a lot workshop. She knocked the candle over and it fell to preserve traditional architecture. The city invested The centre: The Maximilian-Brunnen between Marktplatz and Wilhelmstraße is a popular meeting place for wanderers, friends, and families. Reutlingen 7 The lively city Landmark: from the 70-metre-high tower at the Marienkirche, you can get a view over the city centre and enjoy gazing into the distance. We are on the 1.3 million Euros in the house about sources. He is now opposite the adult education northern border standing in the light of the centre, where a journalists’ ” midday sun, the group closely school is located. of the Roman crowds around him so that the autumn wind and the road On the market place, traders fold Empire. sweeper don’t detract from his away their red and white striped stories. awnings. A road sweeper brushes “ together the remains of the market day. “We are on the northern border of the Cabbage leaves, a tatty paper bag, an apple Roman Empire”, he explains. When guiding, that turned out to be too small. Daily commodities have the past becomes the present for him. It started with been sold here for 834 years already. All of these things Rutilo, the Alemannian. He and his entourage moved used to be manufactured by guilds, for example: bread, to the south from what is now known as Sweden. “And meat, shoes, clothing. Reutlingen got the market rights he liked the Echaz valley so much that he settled from Barbarossa in 1180, Wendler says, sticking a “prob- here”. The ending “-ingen” stands for “little hamlet”. ably” on the end. As a scientist, he is very particular Reutlingen – once Rutilo’s little hamlet.