Neckarbahn). Since 2009, there is also a daily direct Intercity link to Mannheim, Cologne and Düsseldorf as well as to Berlin. Local public transport: The city, due to its high student population, features an extensive public bus network with more than 20 lines connecting the city districts and places outside of Tübingen such as Ammerbuch, Gomaringen and Nagold. There are also several night bus lines in the early hours every day. A direct bus is available to Stuttgart Airport (via Leinfelden-Echterdingen) as well as to Böblingen and Reutlingen. Sport Tigers Tübingen are the city's only professional sports team, playing basketball. Education Higher education and research The Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen dates from 1477, making it one of the oldest in Germany. Including the university hospitals, it is also the city's largest employer. The town is also host to several research institutes including the Max Planck Institutes for Biological Cybernetics, Developmental Biology, Intelligent Systems, The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the MPG, and the Max Planck Institute for Biology, the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and many others. A modern technology park is growing in the northern part of the city, where science, industrial companies and start-ups are conducting joint research, primarily on biotechnology and artificial intelligence. The university also maintains an excellent botanical garden, the Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen. Furthermore, there is a Protestant College of Church Music. Schools More than 10,000 children and young adults in Tübingen regularly attend school. There are 30 schools in the city, some of which consist of more than one type of school. Of these, 17 are primary schools while the others are for secondary education: four schools are of the lowest rank, Hauptschule, three of the middle rank, Realschule, and six are Gymnasien (grammar schools). There also are four vocational schools (Berufsschule) and three special needs schools. Primary schools Freie Aktive Schule Tübingen Grundschule Innenstadt / Silcherschule Grundschule Weilheim Ludwig-Krapf-Schule Grundschule Hügelstraße Französische Schule Dorfackerschule Lustnau Grundschule Hirschau Grundschule Hechinger Eck Grundschule auf der Wanne Grundschule Aischbach Grundschule Winkelwiese / Waldhäuser Ost Grundschule Bühl Grundschule Bühl Grundschule Kilchberg Grundschule Hagelloch Grundschule Pfrondorf Grundschule Unterjesingen Hauptschulen Dorfackerschule Lustnau Mörikeschule Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Hauptschule Innenstadt Realschulen Walter-Erbe-Realschule Albert-Schweitzer-Realschule Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Gymnasien Carlo-Schmid-Gymnasium Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Kepler-Gymnasium Uhland-Gymnasium Wildermuth-Gymnasium Freie Waldorfschule Vocational schools (Berufsschulen) Gewerbliche Schule Wilhelm-Schickard-Schule Mathilde-Weber-Schule Bildungs- und Technologiezentrum Notable people Primož Trubar (1508–1586), Protestant Reformer of the Lutheran tradition,