Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita386recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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WÜRTTEMBERG 223 Reutlingen (15,245 inhabitants), in a side valley of the Neckar, was raerely a village of serfs in the twelfth century, but through the industry of its inhabitants it has grown into an important town. There are tan-yards, shoe factories, and printing-offices. The Gothic church of the town is looked upon as the finest religious edifice in Württemberg. Metzingen (5,003 inhabitants) and Nürtingen (5,078 inhabitants) succeed each other on the Neckar, whilst Kirchheim (6,197 inhabitants), at the foot of the castle of Tccl-, and Göppingen (9,532 inhabitants), known for its tan-yards and cotton-mills, occupy lateral valleys at the foot of the Swabian Jura. Esslingen Fia-. 128.—View of Tübingen.
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(15,701 inhabitants), lower down on the Neckar and close to Stuttgart, has machine shops, iron works, and other manufactories. The grapes grown on the surrounding hills are converted into " Esslingen champagne," a mischievous beverage. Several towns of importance lie in the valle)^ of the Rems, which joins the Neckar opposite Ludwigsburg, and is one of the most fertile of Württemberg. Waiblingen (4,128 inhabitants), near its mouth, is no longer the most populous town, but under its Italian name of Ghihellino it has acquired a great repu- tation on account of the wars carried on in Italy by the emperors of the

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