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Stuttgart, Germany

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The Resume

    (circa 950- )
    Founded by Duke Liudolf of Swabia as Stutengarten (mare garden or stud farm in English)
    Capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    Germany's 6th largest city
    Famous People from Stuttgart:
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - philosopher
    Friedrich von Schiller - poet
    Gottlieb Daimler - inventor
    Wilhelm Maybach - inventor
    Robert Bosch - inventor
    Count Stauffenberg - member of the German Resistance who tried to kill Hitler
    Ferdinand Porsche - creator of the VW Beetle and founder of the Porsche car company
    Theodor Heuss - First German Post-War President
    Richard von Weizsäcker - German President, Lord Mayor of Berlin
    Günther Behnisch - architect
    Frei Otto - architect
    Jürgen Klinsmann - football player, coach of the German football squad
    Roland Emmerich - director
    Hermann Lang, Grand Prix race car driver
    Peter Schilling - new wave vocalist

Why Stuttgart, Germany might be annoying:

    It was founded as a breeding center for the cavalry horses of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I the Great.
    It was almost destroyed by Allied bombers during WW II.
    RAF (The Red Army Faction) conducted terrorism in Stuttgart during the late 1970s.

Why Stuttgart, Germany might not be annoying:

    The motor bike and the four-wheeled automobile were invented in Stuttgart.
    It became the residence of the Counts (later on Dukes) of Württemberg (1300).
    It was restored after WW II under the Marshall Plan.
    It serves as the headquarters to U.S. European Command or EUCOM.
    It is one of Germany's largest wine-producing centers.
    It has the second largest Stock Exchange market (only behind Frankfurt) in Germany.
    It has one of the largest, oldest, and most beautiful Christmas Markets in Europe.

Credit: Jeff


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    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
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    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 23 Votes: 30.43% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 23 Votes: 56.52% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 33 Votes: 42.42% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 98 Votes: 46.94% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 109 Votes: 47.71% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 230 Votes: 57.83% Annoying