dominate the townscape near the railroad station. The roundabout where federal Highway 14 and 311 cross is named "Aesculap-Platz". Chiron-Werke Hettich Instruments (Centrifuges) Instrumed International Inc.(Medical technology) Karl Storz GmbH (ENT equipment, endoscopy) KLS Martin, founded as "Gebrueder Martin" in 1923 (Vertrieb Medizintechnik) Berchtold GmbH & Co. KG (Medical technology) (a part of Stryker Corporation since 2014) Schwäbische Hüttenwerke, Ludwigstal (Brake pads) Storz & Bickel GmbH (Medically certified vaporizers) Rieker (Shoe manufacture) City Works Tuttlingen (Energy- and Water supply) Smith & Nephew (Medical technology), Produktionsstätte in Tuttlingen Volksbank Schwarzwald- Donau-Neckar (Bank) BINDER GmbH (Environmental simulation chambers, incubators) Cultural events Each summer the festival "Honberg Sommer" attracts visitors to concerts with international bands, cabaret artists, and beer gardens. Tuttlingen's pedestrian precinct offers a market twice a week, a fountain, shops, and art displays. The German poet Goethe wrote that the town and surrounding area has a strange and beautiful landscape, hilly with fields and patches of forest. He is said to have left his watch in the town. Twin towns – sister cities Tuttlingen is twinned with: Battaglia Terme, Italy Bex, Switzerland Bischofszell, Switzerland Draguignan, France Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria Notable people Johann Georg Gödelmann (1559–1611), legal professor and diplomat, also interested in witches Hermann Dold (1892–1953), entrepreneur and politician (CDU), parliamentary deputy Edmund Heckler (1906–1960), engineer and weapons manufacturer Jürgen Lässig (born 1943), racing driver Wolfgang Volz (born 1948), photographer Laura Weihenmaier (born 1991), volleyball player References External links Notes from Tuttlingen – a description of the surgical instruments industry in the town Towns in Baden-Württemberg Tuttlingen (district) Württemberg