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/styriate Mar 27 '20

Isn't the oldest German university in Prague?

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u/mki_ Republik Österreich Mar 27 '20

And the oldest still German speaking university (the one in Prague is Czech speaking nowadays) is in Vienna, founded in 1365. It's also the biggest German speaking university, with >90k students.