Welcome to: A day in Tübingen. If you stand here at the Neckar Bridge, you are often lucky and see such a punt. This is totally traditional image. At the same time, Tübingen is very modern, very green, and there are many students here. I 've never been here and I'm really looking forward to exploring Tübingen with you today. So every time you tell someone I'm going to Tübingen, they say: you absolutely have to drive a punt. I'm doing that now too and Philipp explains to us what that actually means. Hi! Warm welcome! Thanks. Just over there, exactly. Is it called a punt because you're poking that thing in there? Exactly. Really? Yes, that's a boat where they're punting. That comes from fraternities, actually. And they like to toast with beer and that's why they sit opposite each other. It was actually invented by the Tübingen student fraternities, this way of sitting. How is it that you are here in Tübingen? I study molecular medicine. What is typical student life like here in Tübingen? Well, in the summer everything actually only takes place outside. Well, I spend most of my free time here on the Neckar, even when I'm not working. May I try this? I don't lose the poke either. Just try it. I trust you. Now drop like that? Exactly. And don't grab it again until you hear it hit the ground. And now you can push continuously. Oh god, this is more complicated than it looks. It wasn't a brilliant achievement, I can see that. Thanks! Yes very much. It was so much fun and I think when you listen to Philipp you realize that studying here in Tübingen must be really fun. This ride has now cost 75 euros, but there are also public ones for 12 euros from the tourist office and you can also upgrade at any time and book a barbecue ride, for example. This is where the lower town begins. The Gogen used to live here, that's the Swabian word for vintner. But they were much, much poorer than the people in the upper town, in the upper town of Tübingen, and you can still see that now. A little wine is still growing everywhere here, it looks very romantic here. This is where Goethe lived. This is the Cottahaus and to be more precise, he lived here for almost a week when he visited his publisher Cotta and he immediately behaved very honestly... Goethe threw up here... I don't know, it might be possible with that to do with the fact that there were a lot of pubs around here and he really liked going to them. The Holzmarkt is a great meeting place for students and other young people and they have come up with something great: this is exactly where the audio walk from Tübingen starts, the Fridays for future audio walk, so all you need is a cell phone, headphones, you can do it on Google Simply enter: Audiowalk, Fridays for Future, Tübingen and you will not only get historical information about the city, but also this small aspect of climate activism and climate change directly on your cell phone. Audiowalk I think that's really beautifully done. Lovingly. Gardening and home farming has become very popular, especially in recent years. That's why here in Tübingen, for example, there is the opportunity to rent a pop-up garden. Can I say that Annika and Svenja are the bosses of the pop-up garden? We see ourselves more as the initiators of this pop-up community garden, because it 's in the word that it is led and managed by the community, the bed sponsors and the community here around the garden. Do you then rent these individual boxes or what? Exactly. So every bed box, every raised bed is in a sponsorship, so we always have the pop-up community garden for one season, and the bed sponsors then pay a fee for it. It varies depending on the size, so basically it's just the cost of the material. Who are these people who have such a sponsorship? Very different. Well, we have very mixed generations, from really very small families to young couples, let me put it this way, the Midagers and we also have our seniors who somehow feel comfortable here and stay and take care of it, so it's really mixed . And if I want to go on vacation , will you take care of that? We have little "I'll be gone then" signs and the other godmothers and the rest of the community will take care of it. So it's actually also a social project, a bit? Totally, yes, so that's our goal too. The community garden is intended to promote the community, i.e. to bring the neighborhood together, to represent the place here where you can get together and simply exchange ideas in a very uncomplicated way. Then continue to have fun, a good harvest. Yes, I hope so, it actually looks pretty good here. Thank you, and I'll get to my potatoes at home. Bye! It's going up the mountain now. Tübingen has its own castle, Hohentübingen Castle, and the university is also located there . When the students go to the university, they have completed a decent sports program straight away. It's beautifully medieval here, and of course there's a great view over the city from up here. A little more than 90,000 people live in Tübingen and 28,000 of them are students. Right next to the university there is a museum with ancient art that is a Unesco World Heritage Site. There's Ice Age art here, for example this is a replica, but inside the museum there's the original, it's a little wild horse made out of mammoth ivory. The old town is really nice to stroll around, there are lots of lovely little souvenir shops, shops and really nice cafes. Swabian cuisine is known for being hearty, and I really feel like it now. Hi! Hi! Can I get you something to drink or something to eat? I think I'll have a beer. bright? Typically Swabian? Yes, I'll gladly take it. And what do you recommend to eat? Small Swabian tapas are typically Swabian, with mushroom ragout or cheese spaetzle, then we also offer Schupfnudel with sauerkraut, for example, which is what most people order here. Then, because it's all tapas, I'll have it all, plus the oyster mushrooms. So, then once a half. A half? That's what we call it here. Thanks! Cheers! So... we have the oyster mushrooms... the more or less Swabian ones. Exactly. Then the Schupfnudeln with sauerkraut... that's perfect! Mushroom ragout and cheese spaetzle. What is your favorite meal? My favorite is the mushroom ragout. It all looks great. Enjoy your meal! Thanks! This is really good. That's exactly my thing. Honestly, I'm an absolute Swabian, at least when it comes to food. So, trying out this kitchen all the way through is a lot of fun and tastes really good. The story of the poet Hölderlin is also part of the history of Tübingen. It's tragic on the one hand, but also very endearing on the other, and above all it has to do not only with Hölderlin, but with the carpenter Ernst Zimmer, who lived in this tower. Today, by the way, it is an interactive museum. Hölderlin was properly supported for a long time by Schiller, for example, but nobody really understood him and at some point he was diagnosed with the fact that he was mentally ill. He was then admitted to the university, but they couldn't treat him properly at the time and that's why it was said that he should be placed with a foster family, and this is where Ernst Zimmer comes into play. He lived here with his family, he was only 34 years old himself, and then took the 36-year-old Hölderlin here with himself and his family. Here you can also listen to Hölderlin's poems again, because they were a bit complicated and not only now, but also for the conditions at that time and if you don't read them but listen to them, you can make them a little easier to understand. "The open day is bright with pictures... before the evening light begins to fall..." I think Tübingen is so charming, it's small, manageable, has a totally picturesque architecture and who knows what else If you want to top it off, take a look at it from the Neckar, driving the punt is a lot of fun and then the Swabian cuisine, what more could you want. I hope you enjoyed it. 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