Jeff McVicar

what does "STUTTGART" mean in the porsche crest? I have a feeling I'll feel dumb

Ron_H

You need to find that girl named Nicole. I'm sure she could explain the significance of the word. She comes around here once in awhile.

Thom1

Hi Jeff,

They make or made many Porsche cars in Stuttgart. I have had 928 parts backordered from Stuttgart. Maybe the original source factory location for all Porsches?

Jeff McVicar

AHHHHH a place is good enough of an answer for me .. Thank you. I was thinking "honor, royalty, semper fidelis, strrength,,, No I know Thanks again

autochicago

Stuttgart, ahhh ... where I spent my B-day two years ago and also zwei Oktoberfests ago. Been there many times.

Funny thing is, Porsche is really mostly in Zuffenhausen, a northern suburb of Stuttgart. BTW Porschephiles, unless they've upgraded the museum, waste of time. Spend your time at the M-B museum. WELL worth it. As is the M-B factory tour in Sindelfingen. And a trip to the Ring.

Nicole

Stuttgart is THE birth place - the place where most Porsches ever built, the place where Mr. Daimler invented the motorcycle, and the place where I started to terrorize this world...

The part of the Porsche crest which shows the name "Stuttgart" and the black horse on the yellow background - that's the old city crest of Stuttgart. The black horse indicates that the city started as a stud garden (Stutengarten), which gave the city its name.

I am not sure, if the city still uses the old crest - if you visit the official websites (www.stuttgart.de and www.stuttgart-tourist.de/english/index.html), you will see a modern logo that plays with the double "T" to indicate that there are various historic palaces in and around the city.

The new logo idicates that despite its long history, Stuttgart is a very modern, industrial town. People there don't live in palaces or imitations of such - newly build homes are very modern, functional and creative. Modern architecture and design are highly appreciated and have resulted in lots of innovative high-tech products. There is also a historic quarter of original Bauhaus architectural residences.

In other words: Stuttgart is a town that has constantly reinvented itself throughout history, rather than imitating it. While old substance is preserved, new developments usualy try to push the envelope a little further. This forward thinking culture is what brings you high end products like Mercedes Benz and Porsche automobiles, and many other, lesser known products.

For example, BOSCH - maker of ignition and injection parts as well as home appliances and power tools - is headquartered there. Mahle makes pistons in Stuttgart, and Eberspaecher makes car heaters while Hirschmann used to make the antennas and other electrical stuff for cars in nearby Esslingen.

Other famous companies in the region are Stihl (chain saws), and Kaercher (pressure washers and other commercial cleaning machines), Dick Knives (no, "dick" in German means "fat", not what you think! Here it's just a name...), Hengstenberg (sauerkraut), Dinkel Acker (beer). IBM and Hewlett Packard have their German offices outside of Stuttgart.

You can see that with all this high tech, the old fashioned city crest had to get a modern sister. But it does live on in the Porsche family crest and forms the logo that gets so many of us excited.

Flint

Capital of Baden-Wurttemburg, isn't it? Where the dukes lived?

Nicole

Just found this:

http://www.stuttgart.de/sde/item/gen/13827.htm

In its current form, the black horse on golden crest has been used since April 11, 1938. It is reserved for official government related) use only, while the modern logo - even though registered - can used more freely by everyone to promote the city (e.g. tourism).

Ron_H

I hear that the Ferrari horse is also the same horse as the Stuttgart horse.
True??

Parnelli Joneser

Stuttgart is also home of the Volksfest. It's like Oktoberfest without all the Italians. That's not a judgement, either. But "Ole, ole ole ole!" gets old after a few hours...

Nicole

I have no information on this... Maybe Enzo was an apprentice at ol' Ferdinand's design company?

I have never heard of a link between Ferrari and Stuttgart, but would be happy to hear, if my home town can take some creidt for these supercars as well...

Nicole

Well, we are not quite as uninhibited as the Bavarians... Our women aren't as big either (LOL), Lederhosen adn Dirndl are not our traditional style of clothing, and we don't have to "import" our Mercedes and Porsche cars...

Those who would like to see a little more of the town where your car was engineered and built, I encourage you to go to the city's image archive and browse through the pictures:

http://212.221.184.242/stadtmarketing/extern-e/

Thom1

Nicole,

We shiver with antici...














pation!


Are you a Stuttgart baby/born there?

Nicole

I was born in the part of Stuttgart where Mr. Daimler used to reside. When I got my first vaccination, they mixed it up with a gasoline injection. I've been speculating that Mr. Daimler might have ordered this for every baby born in his part of town, but was not able to verify...

Grew up in the suburbs, went to school and college there, worked there, then came to California 11 years ago. Getting old here now.

autochicago

yeah, sorry when i said oktoberfest i meant volksfest because have been to both and both in (relatively) close proximity to one another. 'cept that I have to give credit where credit is due to the fine bavarian marques. picture ring a bell? not too far from mercedes strasse during volksfest.