Tuttlingen

Tuttlingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the capital of the district that bears its name. It lies in Swabia east of the Black Forest, in the Swabian Jura, in the valley of the Upper Danube, and the former municipalities of Nendingen, Möhringen and Eßlingen belong to it. The name suggests a Celtic settlement long before the Romans built a border castellum. The town was first mentioned in 797, belonged to the monastery of Reichenau soon after, received town privileges before 1338 and belonged to Württemberg from 1376 to 1377. A fire on 1 November 1803 destroyed everything within the town walls in a few hours, and from 1804 the architect Carl Leonard von Uber rebuilt it on classicist plans with right-angle streets. The town was connected to the railway in 1869.