T�bingen, an old university city on the River Neckar in Baden-W�rttemberg in Germany, functions as the seat of the T�bingen administrative region, as well as of the district of T�bingen. In 2002 the city had 82,885 inhabitants, including circa 20,000 students. Geographical location: 48° 30' North, 9° 45' East. T�bingen is best described as a mixture of an old and distinguished academic flair including liberal and leftist politics, with rural, agricultural and typical Swabian elements. The city contains many picturesque buildings from previous centuries, and lies on the river Neckar.
T�bingen's Eberhard Karls university dates from 1477. T�bingen itself dates from the 6th or 7th century.
Famous T�bingen residents include the poet Friedrich H�lderlin, Alois Alzheimer, from whom Alzheimer's disease takes its name and Friedrich Miescher, who was the first to discover DNA. Wilhelm Schickhard developed the first mechanical computer. Hegel and Johannes Kepler also studied in T�bingen.
Ann Arbor in Michigan is T�bingen's sister city in the United States of America. Other cities twinned with T�bingen are Aix en Provence (France), Monthey (Switzerland), Durham (United Kingdom), Aigle (Switzerland), Perugia (Umbria, Italy), and Petrozavodsk ( Karelia, Russia).