Neckarhalde, Tübingen

The Neckarhalde is an 841-metre (0.5 mi) road in Tübingen,[1][2] Germany, on the southern slope below Hohentübingen Castle.

Approximately halfway through the length of the road, it crosses a pedestrian and bicycle tunnel, which continues to the Avenue Bridge.

As described in the "Caterpillar hymn" (Raupenhymne),[3] it was necessary as the winegrowers carried the smelly solids up the mountain to use it as fertilizer on strawberries and grapevines.

The Neckarhalde branches at its upper, northeastern end, the so-called Faules Eck (Lazy or bad corner), into the Burgsteige, Wienergässle, Kronenstraße, Münzgasse and Klosterberg.

It may come from the smell of damp wood due to the Neckar timber rafting that was transported up the Neckarhalde and for a time was temporarily stored or by the fact that there the woodworking timber traders there scolded the alleged lazy students who watched them and sometimes mocked them.

Today, however, it is considered to be most likely that long ago the narrowness, especially for larger transports from the marketplace to the castle, made it less walkable and passable, so in this sense it was a "Bad corner".