Walldorf is a town in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg in Germany with a population of 14,685 inhabitants.
Walldorf is currently probably best known as the city that headquarters the world's third largest software company SAP, but it is also the hometown of John Jacob Astor. Several of Astor's descendants in the Astor family include the North-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, which is located between Wiesloch (the neighbour town to the East) and Walldorf.
The town is referred to, though not actually named, in John le Carré's novel Absolute Friends (2003), much of which is set in Heidelberg.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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