313 branches off, direction Tübingen and Stockach from the B 10 In addition to this motorway-like structure, two further road bridges and a pedestrian bridge span the Neckar near Plochingen. The Plochingen station is a traffic junction of the Deutsche Bahn at the Neckar-Alb-Bahn (Stuttgart-Tübingen-Horb am Neckar) and the Filstalbahn (Stuttgart-Ulm-Munich). It is served by long-distance trains, regional trains and the S1 line of the S-Bahn Stuttgart. The maintenance of the railcars of the S-Bahn Stuttgart takes place in the Depot Plochingen. The Neckar harbour (dt. Neckarhafen) in Plochingen has been the end point of the navigable Neckar since 12 July 1968. It was designed as a port for commercial inland navigation exclusively for the pure transport of goods without passenger shipping. The port area extends along two harbour basins. Responsible for the conception, realisation and development was from 1954 to 1992 harbour director Heinz Kreeb. Since 1992, Eberhard Weiß has been entrusted with the management of the port. Nearly 20 companies with an investment volume of around EUR 100,000,000 have settled in the Neckar harbour. The main transhipment goods are iron/steel products/scrap, animal feed/grain, mineral oil and wood. The goods handling per year amounts to more than 1,300,000 tons. Resident companies German headquarters of Decathlon (sports retail chain) CeramTec GmbH (Technical Ceramic) Robert Bosch GmbH (Motor vehicle testing technology, training) Educational institutions Plochingen has a Gymnasium (Gymnasium Plochingen), a Realschule, a Grundschule and Werkrealschule, a Special school and a pure primary school. There are also nine kindergartens in the town. Furthermore, Plochingen is home to a GARP education centre for the IHK Region Stuttgart e.V. Culture and sights Plochingen is lies on the Württemberger Weinstraße with many sights. Buildings The market place with half-timbered houses, including the Old Town Hall (1530) The gothic Church St. Blasius (1488) The Ottilien Chapel (1328) The Gablenberg House (1799) The Hundertwasserhaus "Living under the Rain Tower" (1991-1994) The present town hall (1900) with the municipal gallery The Catholic Church St. Konrad (1929) The Vineyard Tower The Outlookout Tower at Stumpenhof The public toilet house designed by Tomi Ungerer ''"Les Toilettes"' (2007) next to the Ottilienkapelle Free time The Park railway in the Neckarauen is a 1.5-kilometre-long park railway that is operated every weekend from Easter Monday to October. Twin towns – sister cities Plochingen is twinned with: Landskrona, Sweden (1971) Zwettl, Austria (1993) Oroszlány, Hungary (2010) Notable people Christian Friedrich Löw (1778–1843), Schultheiß