Neckarsulm

Neckarsulm is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart, and part of the district of Heilbronn., Neckarsulm had 27,296 inhabitants.The rivers Neckar and Sulm join there, hence the name, which is often misunderstood or mispronounced as "Neckars Ulm", an incongruity that would mean the Ulm of the Neckar, as the city of Ulm is well to the east on the Danube at the border between Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria.Neckarsulm is famous for being ranked first in the German Solarbundesliga (cities beginning at 10,000 inhabitants), a competition in renewable energy installations. Its other fame is that the Neckarsulm-Gundelsheim Weingaertnergenossenschaft (vintner's co-operative) is reputed to be the oldest in Germany; trollinger and lemberger are the principal varieties of grape that are grown.Buildings and constructions Teutonic Knights castle, featuring the Deutsches Zweirad- und NSU-Museum (the combined Motorcycle and NSU Museum of Germany) Neckarsulm TDS Office Tower Obereisesheim transmitter The medieval city wall is mostly intact along the riverside aspect of the town.Mayors and (since 1973) Lord Mayors 1845–1865: Franz Josef Alexander Heinrich Becker 1865–1878: Josef Pecoroni 1878–1885: Johann Nepomuk Kirner 1885–1911: Bernhard Rettenmeier 1911–1913: Heinrich Soller 1913–1941: Johannes Häußler 1942–1945: Oskar Volk 1945–1946: Hermann Greiner 1946–1949: Johannes Häußler (1879–1949) 1949–1955: Erwin Wörner 1955–1967: Hans Hoffmann (1915–2005) 1967–1992: Erhard Klotz (born 1938) 1992–2008: Volker Blust 2008–2016: Joachim Scholz since 2016: Steffen Hertwig