Neckar River at Heidelberg
The pictures are of the Neckar river at Heidelberg. The Neckar flows in southwestern Germany originating in the black forest and merging into the Rhine, a major river of Germany, at Mannheim. The name Neckar derives from a Celtic (a branch of Indo-European languages) word ‘Nikros’ meaning ‘wild water’ or ‘wild water’. The river valley is used for a variety of purposes. Agriculture has been practiced in the valley since a long time. Gravel pit quarrying is another activity, and it has created large lakes that are used for recreational purposes by the locals. The Neckar valley also is home to an important industrial city of Germany, Stuttgart, which has several industries including Daimler AG, which makes the Mercedes Benz cars.
This is Mark Twain wrote about the Neckar in his work ‘A Tramp Abroad’-“Germany, in the summer, is the perfection of the beautiful, but nobody has understood, and realized, and enjoyed the utmost possibilities of this soft and peaceful beauty unless he has voyaged down the Neckar on a raft.”
This picture was taken at Heidelberg, which is a University town that hosts Germany’s oldest university which was built in 1386.
Soham Karandikar
at Heidelberg
The Winds of Wonder 
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