sentences:  After falling to only 6862 residents in 1997, the community has rebounded with an upswing in construction of new housing.Ilvesheim lies predominantly on the northside of a large natural loop on the Neckar river.After the Neckar canal was built in the 1920s to facilitate transport shipping the main part of the city was effectively severed from the northern land, and became an "island," sandwiched between the Neckar river to the south, and the new waterway to the north.