Changelog

Heidelberg's town page now opens with a sketch of the Neckar, the Alte Brücke's twin gate towers, and the castle ruins above the Altstadt.

On a warm weekend the old-town garages fill and cars end up circling the Kornmarkt and Karlsplatz entrances. A new live board shows how many spaces each of the city's public Parkhäuser reports free right now — most room first, with the Altstadt garages grouped together — straight from the city's own sensors, updated every few minutes. When a garage's sensor is faulting or hasn't reported recently it says so, rather than showing a misleading 'full' or 'empty'.

Current rnv service disruptions for Heidelberg's main tram and city-bus lines (5, 21–26, 33, 34) — building work, diversions and closed stops — pulled live from VRN's official service-information feed. It shows reported disruptions, not minute-by-minute delays, and links rnv's live departures for that.

The rules for Heidelberg's riverside meadow are scattered across several ordinances, so people kept asking the same things — can I grill, where, until when can I play music. A new plain-language page answers them: the marked grilling zones, the 11 p.m. quiet on amplified music, glass and litter, swimming safety near the shipping channel, dogs, and who to call.

Baden-Württemberg's 2025 property-tax reform taxes the land, not the building, which has caught a lot of owners out. Enter your plot size and its land value (Bodenrichtwert) and the new tool works out the yearly Grundsteuer, showing every step — the rate, the residential reduction and Heidelberg's Hebesatz. It links the official BORIS-BW lookup, and it's clear that the binding figure is your Grundsteuerbescheid, not our estimate.

Heidelberg now has its first tools: the live Neckar level at the Heidelberg gauge (with the city's gauge-to-street marks and the HVZ flood-warning link); a parking-cost comparison across the central Parkhäuser; and a community board where residents answer the questions the city keeps asking — starting with which Hausarzt is taking new Kassenpatienten. More to come.