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NECKAR , a See also:

river of See also:Germany, and a right-See also:bank tributary of the See also:Rhine, rises between the See also:Black See also:Forest and the Swabian See also:Alb, near Schwenningen, in See also:Wurttemberg, at an See also:altitude of 2287 ft. As far as See also:Rottweil only a See also:mountain stream, it here attains the See also:volume of a river, flows N. as far as Horb, thence in a See also:north-easterly direction, and with rapid current it passes See also:Rottenburg and the university See also:town of See also:Tubingen, taking then a generally northerly course. From See also:Esslingen the Neckar becomes broader and deeper and its valley very picturesque, and after passing See also:Cannstatt, from which point it is navigable for small See also:craft, it flows through See also:vine-clad hills by the pleasant See also:village' of Marbach, See also:Schiller's birthplace, receives at Besigheim the See also:waters of its most considerable tributary, the Enz, swirls down by Lauffen, and enters the beautiful vale of See also:Heilbronn. Hence, between hills crowned by frequent feudal castles, it runs by Wimpfen and by Hornberg, where Gotz von See also:Berlichingen lived, to See also:Eberbach, where it enters the See also:sandstone formation of the See also:Odenwald. It now takes a tortuous See also:westerly course, and the scenery on its See also:banks becomes more romantic. Winding down by Neckarsteinach and See also:Neckargemund between lofty wooded heights, it sweeps beneath the Konigsstuhl (190o ft.), washes the walls of See also:Heidelberg, and now quitting the valley enters the See also:plain of the Rhine and falls into that river from the right at See also:Mannheim. Its length is 247 m., and its drainage See also:area 4790 sq. m. Its more important tributaries are the Enz, Eschach and Glatt (See also:left), and the Fils, Rems, Kocher and Jagst (right). It is navigable for small steamboats up to Heilbronn, for boats up to Cannstatt, and for rafts from Rottweil. It is the See also:principal waterway of Wurttemberg, and is greatly used for floating down See also:timber. From Rottenburg downwards its banks are almost everywhere planted with vineyards. Up to See also:Frankfort it has been deepened and the channel otherwise improved.

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committee, chiefly promoted by the Wurttemberg See also:government and the See also:Stuttgart chamber of See also:commerce, reported in 1901 that it was both desirable and practicable to dredge the river and to canalize it, from Esslingen down to Mannheim, and that the cost would probably be between 2 and 22 millions See also:sterling. See T. Eckart, Bilder aus dem Neckartal (1893).

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