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Home Page > Travelogues > Germany > Baden-Württemberg > Heidelberg Area > Leimen
The town of Leimen is about five miles south of Heidelberg, and is the area's industial center -- providing a significant number of jobs for residents of Leimen, Nußloch, and other area towns (such as St. Ilgen, Sandhausen, Bruchhausen, Walldorf, and Rohrbach). It is the endestelle for the Heidelberg straßenbahn to the south. Despite its 'industrial' roots, Leimen's downtown has maintained
a quaintness all its own, with the main street snaking up a steep hillside, away
from the factories. Leimen is also an ac Leimen's restaurants are among the more progressive compared to
other towns of its size (most small Like most towns, Leimen has its brewery and brauhaus/restaurant, but few display their tanks in a storefront window the way Leimen's does... Having been a homebrewer in a previous part of my life, I've
taken it upon myself to critique the locally brewed beers, and so far Leimener
Bergbrau Kellerbier and Pils are among the best I've Leisure activities aside, Leimen actually sports a handsome industrial, if one could ever conceive such a thing. The Heidelberg Zementwerk (pictured here) is among the classiest factories you will ever see. Also, the presence of the Zementwerk is clearly evident through the conveyor belt system that runs through the town -- past Nußloch, and down into a tunnel near Wiesloch far to the south, eminating from some quarry located a long distance away. Leimen -- a great little industrial town with a lot more to offer. Page last updated 01 September 2006 -- (C) 2001 Tom Galvin Useful Links:
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tive town, with a regular cycle of
festivals and activities. These are held across two main marketplatzes,
the Kurfalz-Zentrum and the nearby Georgi Platz (pictured at left). Georgi
Platz harbors the majority of the town's sidewalk cafés and restaurants. 
town restaurants use traditional or
conservative decor, and offer rather standard or seasonal German/Italian fare,
whereas a few places in Leimen seem willing to be a little 'different').
had in Germany. If
you have a chance to try them, you'll never drink another Beck's.
