1. General Information :
Mannheim with its 327,000 inhabitants is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, after the capital Stuttgart.
Mannheim is situated at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Neckar, in the northwestern corner of the state of Baden-Württemberg. The Rhine separates Mannheim from the adjacent Rhineland-Palatinate city of Ludwigshafen. The Hessian border is north of the city. Mannheim is the largest city of the Rhine Neckar Area, a metropolitan area with 2.4 million inhabitants.
Mannheim is unusual among German cities in that its central area is laid out in a grid pattern (called Quadrate, squares), much like many North American cities. The main route through the squares leads to an enormous 18th-century palace. This former seat of the Electors of the Palatinate now houses the University of Mannheim.
Population: 327.000
Location: Germany
Twinned with: Swansea (United Kingdom), Toulon (France), Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Germany), Windsor (United Kingdom), Chisinau (Modalvia), Bydoszcz (Poland), Klaipeda (Lithuania), Zhenjiang (China), Haifa (Israel).
2. The city in our network :
The city and Efus:
Member since : April 2009
Member of the Executive Committee since : 2012
Participation:
- General Assembly, Cascais, Portugal, 27 June 2013
- Partner of the project “GOAL” to prevent violence at sports events, 2009-2012
- General Assembly, Toulouse, 25-26 June 2009
- General Assembly, German Congress on Crime Prevention, Berlin, 10-11 May 2010
- General Assembly, Genoa, 18-20 May 2011
- General Assmebly, Brussels, 7-8 June 2012
- Conference “Security, Democracy and Cities”: The Future of Prevention”, Aubervilliers/Saint-Denis, 12-14 December 2012
The City and the National Forum, the German European Forum for Urban Security (DEFUS):
- Founding member