Editing Neckar (section)

== The Neckar in literature ==
{{Blockquote
 |text= Germany, in the summer, is the perfection of the beautiful, but nobody has understood, and realized, and enjoyed the utmost possibilities of this soft and peaceful beauty unless he has voyaged down the Neckar on a raft.
 |author= [[Mark Twain]] 
 |title= ''A Tramp Abroad''}}

* [http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Hölderlin,+Friedrich/Gedichte/Gedichte+1800-1804/%5BOden%5D/Der+Neckar Der Neckar] poem by [[Friedrich Hölderlin]] 
*[[Friedrich Hölderlin]] wrote a poem entitled "Der Neckar".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/H%C3%B6lderlin,+Friedrich/Gedichte/Gedichte+1800-1804/%5BOden%5D/Der+Neckar |title=Literatur im Volltext: Friedrich Hölderlin: Sämtliche Werke. 6 Bände, Band 2, Stuttgart 1953 |last=Zeno |date=n.d. |website=www.zeno.org |language=de |access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref>
*The Neckar is mentioned prominently in [[Gustav Mahler]]'s 1893 "Rheinlegendchen" ('Little Rhine Legend'), first published in 1899 in a cycle of 12 songs under the title ''Humoresken'' ('Humoresques'), today known as one of Mahler's ''[[Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler)|Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn]]'' (Songs from ''The Youth's Magic Horn'').<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Parsons|first1=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vef4v8G6XQsC&q=Mahler%27s+Songs+from+Des+Knaben+Wunderhorn+%28Songs+from+The+Youth%27s+Magic+Horn&pg=PA238|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Lied|last2=Cross|first2=Jonathan|date=July 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80471-4|language=en}}</ref>