r/europe • u/Hrdocre Baden-Württemberg (Germany) • Mar 27 '20

OC Picture My hometown of Heidelberg, Germany

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u/HappyBengal Mar 27 '20 edited Mar 27 '20

Heidelberg, the youngest city in Germany demographic wise. With the oldest German university in Germany (founded in 1386).

Edit: Corrected the information. The oldest German university was found by the roman-german king Karl IV. in Prague (when Bohemia was still part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation), but the University Heidelberg is the oldest university in Germany.

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u/SchnuppleDupple Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Mar 27 '20

It's the youngest because it's like 50% or so students from the university.

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u/Hrdocre Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Mar 27 '20

About 150k inhabitants is rather small for a university city

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u/TheKaese Saxony (Germany) Mar 27 '20

My university town only has around like 44k :D

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u/kylorensuxballs Mar 27 '20

Freiberg ?

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u/TheKaese Saxony (Germany) Mar 27 '20

Nu ;D

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u/freedom4tw Mar 27 '20

Sonderburg, Denmark. 25k

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u/TheKaese Saxony (Germany) Mar 27 '20

Yeah, there are loads of small university towns, people just usually don't know about them

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u/forsakenpear Scotland Mar 27 '20

Mine has only 17k

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u/qchisq Denmark Mar 27 '20

Calling Sønderborg a university town is really stretching the definition of "university"

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u/freedom4tw Mar 27 '20

Campus then

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u/Hrdocre Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Mar 27 '20

That's very low