Walldorf
Walldorf is also a constituent community of Mörfelden-Walldorf in Hesse.Walldorf is a
town in the
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis of
Baden-Württemberg in
Germany with a population of 14,445 inhabitants.
Walldorf is currently probably best known as the city that headquarters the
software company
SAP, but it is also the hometown of
John Jacob Astor. Several of Astor's descendents in the
Astor family include the Americanized version
Waldorf in their names. The
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York, New York derives its name from that name.
The name of the train station is Wiesloch-Walldorf, not Walldorf (which is somewhere else entirely).
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Astoria, Oregon,
USA, since 1963
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Kırklareli,
Turkey, since 1970
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Saint-Max,
France, since 1985
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Waldorf, Maryland,
USA, since 2002
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Freeport, New York,
USA, since 2003
Walldorf is most famous for its
white asparagus which you can enjoy in the months of April through June.
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John Jacob Astor, born in Walldorf, at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the
United States*
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