Sprawling

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Location: Heidelberg (though mostly only the Weststadt suburb), as seen from the Gaisberg hill in Weststadt.

Busy

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Location: Planken, Mannheim. The main pedestrian zone in inner-city Mannheim. Looking east towards the water tower in the background.

Zero Nature

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Location: Mannheim-Handelshafen ("commercial harbour") tram station, located on a 2-km-long bridge between Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, at about 30 meters height. Beneath the tram station is the identically-named train station (running another path though), and below that is the actual harbour.

Dominating

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Location: South Mannheim, as seen from Dossenheim.

Notes: Those big factory-like industry things there in the middle? Power plant, 20 kilometers away, in Mannheim-Rheinau. Mountain range in the background is the "Palatinate Forest", one of the few occasions when the opposite side of the 50-km-wide Rhine Ditch is visible from the Bergstraße.

Not as old as you might think

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Location: Christuskirche (Christ Church), Heidelberg-Weststadt. Front facade renovated around 2004 to 2006.