The River Neckar

The river Neckar is a river in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Born in Schwenningen, very close to the source of the Danube near the Black Forest in the district of Villingen-Schwenningen. After 367 km through the western foothills of the Swabian Jura, flows into the Rhine at the height of Mannheim.

The name comes from-via Nicarus Neckar and Neccarus-NikR from the Celtic word, meaning wild water. From about 1100 the Black Forest wood is down by the waters of the Neckar and the Rhine to its final destination in the Netherlands. In ancient times the transport is carried out gancheros traveling on tree trunks. There is now in river barges.

It crosses several major cities in its course towards the river Rhine: Rottweil, Tübingen (Tübingen), Stuttgart, Heilbronn and Heidelberg.

One of the more traditional tours that can be performed in Germany and one of the most chosen by tourism. Besides knowing the tour will visit the New Castle (Neues Schloss called), the National Gallery of Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Television Tower.

Along the valley can be found many castles in the Burg Hornberg and Burg Guttenberg Neckarzimmern in Neckarmühlbach. Also, its banks are Obrigheim NPP, which will be dismantled in the coming years. After Heidelberg, the Rhine Neckar download an average of 145 m³ / s of water. This makes the fourth largest tributary Neckar Rhine and the tenth largest river in Germany.

Its main tributaries are the Eyach river, the river Fils, the river Rems, Enz river, the river Kocher, and before it flows into the Rhine, the river Jagst.

From Stuttgart is navigable, the first of the locks is located in Bad Cannstatt.