Geschichten aus Stuttgarts Geschichte

A digital picture lecture on the topics of "Travertine & brassieres" in the café of the Generationenhaus West, by and with Bernhard Leibelt

Bernhard Leibelt tells stories from Stuttgart's past again

A look back into the prehistoric times of the Stuttgart area. On the banks of the Neckar, near the mineral springs, hunters and gatherers set up camp. Their traces were preserved in the mighty Cannstatt travertine banks - a rock that was quarried in Cannstatt for many decades and that we encounter in many places in Stuttgart...

We will then take a look at the corset factory of Salomon Lindauer, which opened in 1856. With the world's first industrially produced brassiere, which Lindauer & Co brought onto the market shortly before the First World War, the company from Cannstatt made industrial history...