Schwetzingen

Schwetzingen is a German metropolis situated in the northwest of Baden Wurttemberg, around 10 km southwest of Heidelberg and 15 km southeast of Mannheim. Schwetzingen is one of the 5 largest cities of the Rhein Neckar Kreis district and a medium sized centre close to the higher ranked town of Mannheim. Schwetzingen was cited as Suezzingen for the primary time in 766, recorded inside the overdue 12^th century Codex Aureus of Lorsch, however there are already lines of agreement from the Stone Age. Originally it consisted of two settlements, Ober and Unterschwetzingen that grew collectively in the course of the 17th and 18th century.

Originally the town belonged to the diocese of Worms, but later surpassed to the Counts of the Palatinate inside the 12^th century. The moated castle of Schwetzingen is noted for the first time in 1350. It was destroyed inside the 30 Years' War and in the following War of the Palatinate Succession it turned into rebuilt by remembers Johann Wilhelm and his predecessor. From 1720 it served quickly as the house of the Elector Karl III Philip 1716 to 1742 after he moved far away from Heidelberg. Later on it served as a summer season residence of the Elector of the Palatinate and their court.