Stuttgart-Hohenheim

Stuttgart-Hohenheim
Quarter of Stuttgart
Schloss Hohenheim
Coat of arms
Stuttgart-Hohenheim
Location within Plieningen, Stuttgart
Coordinates: 48°42′42.48″N 9°12′40.68″E / 48.7118000°N 9.2113000°E / 48.7118000; 9.2113000Coordinates: 48°42′42.48″N 9°12′40.68″E / 48.7118000°N 9.2113000°E / 48.7118000; 9.2113000
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart (region)
District	Stuttgart
City	Stuttgart
Borough	Plieningen
Founded	1782
Area
• Quarter of Stuttgart	1,563 km2 (603 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Metro	575
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	70599
Dialling codes	0711

Hohenheim ( /hoʊnhaɪm/) is one of 18 outer districts of the city of Stuttgart in the borough of Plieningen that sits on the Filder in central Baden-Württemberg. The Municipality was founded in 1782.

Hohenheim sits on the Filder, a large and fertile plateau in the center of Baden-Württemberg. Hohenheim forms the Plieningen Municipality of Stuttgart along with Asemwald, Chausseefeld, Plieningen and Steckfeld.

The district was founded in 1782 when Schloss Hohenheim was constructed on the orders of Charles Eugene of Baden-Württemberg. The University of Hohenheim, as the name might imply, is based here and uses much of Schloss Hohenheim for its campus.

After the duke had acquired the former manor of the Bombast von Hohenheim family in 1768, he gave it to his mistress Franziska Leutrum von Ertingen, including the title of a Reichsgräfin von Hohenheim. From 1772 Karl Eugen had the manor house rebuilt as a water castle surrounded by an extended English garden featuring several midget replicas of historic buildings, an arboretum and numerous exotic plants. The construction of the present-day palace started in 1782 but discontinued with the duke's death in 1793.

In 1818 King William I of Württemberg established an agricultural school at Hohenheim, the predecessor of today's university. Today the gardens comprise the Landesarboretum Baden-Württemberg and the Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim.