Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen am Rhein (literally: Ludwigshafen on the Rhine), commonly referred to as Ludwigshafen, is a City in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. After Mannheim it is the second largest city of the Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar.

Ludwigshafen is independent of the local district government, but is the administrative seat of the surrounding district.

Ludwigshafen lies on the west bank of the Rhine River.

As one of the five upper centers of the country Rhineland-Palatinate Ludwigshafen forms the core of the European Metropolregion Rhine Neckar triangle together with its neighbour city in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mannheim. Large cities nearby are Heidelberg (about 25 km southeast), Karlsruhe (about 50 km south) and Mainz (about 60 km north).

The number of people of the city of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine was more than 100,000 by the year 1925. Nowadays it has about 160,000 people. The chemical industry is big in the city.

• Town hall
• BASF
• Helmut Kohl
• East Asia Institute

• Pasadena (United States), since 1948
• Lorient (France), since 1963
• Havering (England), since 1971
• Sumqayıt (Azerbaijan), since 1987
• Dessau (Germany), 1988
• Antwerpen (Belgium), since 1999

Media related to Ludwigshafen am Rhein at Wikimedia Commons

• Official City Website Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Ludwigshafener Kongress- und Marketing-Gesellschaft mbH Archived 2006-12-19 at the Wayback Machine(in English)
• BASF Website(in German and English)