Experience the city

The former Free Imperial City of Esslingen am Neckar nestles in the Neckar Valley and is surrounded by vineyards. The city looks back on a history of over 1,200 years.

A stroll through the winding cobblestone alleyways and inviting pedestrian zones of the historical Old Town can be recommended not only as a shopping experience but also as a walk into the past. The medieval Old Town is the only one in the Stuttgart Region to be so well preserved. The oldest row of half-timbered houses in Germany can be admired as well as patricians' and wine-growers' houses, churches, monastic administrative centres (Pfleghöfe), gate towers and towers