Walldorf in the Rhine-Neckar district
Wednesday, 21 September 2011 - 03:03 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Walldorf is currently probably best known as the city that headquarters the world’s third largest software company SAP, but it is also the birthplace of the millionaire John Jacob Astor, at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the United States. Astor’s descendants of the Astor family perpetuated the North-Americanized version Waldorf in the names of The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Waldorf salad. It is also the origin of the name of the Waldorf-Astoria-Zigarettenfabrik and through it Waldorf education.
The town is referred to, though not actually named, in John le Carré’s novel Absolute Friends (2003), much of which is set in Heidelberg.
Walldorf City Church © Rudolf Stricker
In 1901 Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden granted Walldorf town privileges. The 19th century synagogue was devastated in the 1938 Kristallnacht and is now in use as a New Apostolic church. After World War II the establishing of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen and of SAP made it one of the most prosperous towns of Germany.
Walldorf is most famous for its white asparagus which one may enjoy in the months of April through June.
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