Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen is a metropolis in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, on the river Rhine, contrary Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the encompassing location, it bureaucracy the Rhine Neckar Area. Known by and large as an business town, Ludwigshafen is the home of chemical giant BASF and other groups. Among its cultural facilities is the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz. It is the birthplace of the previous German chancellor Helmut Kohl and the logician Ernst Bloch. In antiquity, Celtic and Germanic tribes settled in the Rhine Neckar region. During the 1st century B.C.

The Romans conquered the area, and a Roman auxiliary castle turned into built close to the present suburb of Rheingonheim. The middle Ages noticed the muse of some of Ludwigshafen's destiny suburbs, such as Oggersheim, Maudach, Oppau, and Mundenheim. Most of the vicinity, however, remained swampland, with its improvement hindered through seasonal flooding of the Rhine. The Rhine Neckar region turned into a part of the territory of the Prince elector of the Kurpfalz, or Electorate of the Palatinate, one among the larger states within the Holy Roman Empire.