Erinnerungspfade (54d4a2)

The app provides information about places that are important for remembering Stuttgart’s urban and democracy history.

The app “Erinnerungspfade” (“Memory Paths”) is a project by Lernort Geschichte, an educational institution of Stuttgarter Jugendhaus gGmbH, in cooperation with the coordination of the Stuttgart Stolperstein initiatives.

The app provides information about specific places that are important for remembering Stuttgart’s urban history. These include:

Sites of democracy

Colonial traces

Stolpersteine

National Socialism

Forced labor

Migrant worker places

Jewish history

Queer history

Right-wing, racist, and antisemitic violence

Street names

Users can create their own places, which are published after review. The app also offers the possibility to put together custom tours that connect some of these places. In explorer mode, while walking through the city, users receive push notifications about nearby sites.

An interactive map shows all of these places, which can be filtered via a list. By clicking on a site, you get short information about its history, current use, projects, as well as literature and links. The biographies of people with Stolpersteine are linked. If you like a place, you can also share it or save it as a favorite!

The app closes a gap in the visibility of important places for a multiperspective culture of remembrance in Stuttgart. It aims to create low-threshold access to information about Stuttgart’s memory sites for everyone interested, and it brings together existing places from various initiatives that use web apps. Since the app is continuously expanded and updated, more places and categories will be added in the future.

The content for certain categories comes from different institutions, groups, or individuals:

Stuttgart Stolperstein initiatives: over 1,050 Stolpersteine and biographies of individuals, see also: www.stolpersteine-stuttgart.de

Students of the Historical Institute at the University of Stuttgart: primarily democracy sites, but also National Socialism, colonial traces, and Jewish history

Working Group on Forced Labor in Stuttgart: sites of forced labor

Web app Geschichte Online Stuttgart (GO-Stuttgart): National Socialism and street names

Lernort Geschichte and Markus Himmelsbach (Linden Museum): colonial traces

Lernort Geschichte and Mandy Hildebrandt: queer history

Lernort Geschichte with support from the Stuttgart City Archive: migrant worker places

The app was developed in 2025 by the design agency Bad Wolf GmbH in cooperation with the programming office APK. The project is financially supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart through the Coordination Office for Culture of Remembrance.