Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants as of 2019 across a total area of nearly 35,752 km2 (13,804 sq mi), it is the third-largest German state by both area and population. As a federated state, Baden-Württemberg is a partly-sovereign parliamentary republic. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm.
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia describe themselves as a Freistaat, and Berlin and Hamburg are frequently called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), as is the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which includes the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The other thirteen states are called Flächenländer.
Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a Landkreis (district) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Main-Tauber-Kreis, Hohenlohe-Kreis, Heilbronn, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Odenwaldkreis (Hesse) and Landkreis Miltenberg (Bavaria). The district is part of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.
Reichenbach may refer to:
Auerbach, German for "meadow-brook", may refer to the following:
Württemberg-Baden was a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was created in 1945 by the United States occupation forces, after the previous states of Baden and Württemberg had been split up between the US and French occupation zones. Its capital was Stuttgart. In 1952, Württemberg-Baden merged with Württemberg-Hohenzollern and Baden into the present state of Baden-Württemberg.
Lichtenau is a small town in Rastatt district in southwestern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Southern Germany is a region of Germany which has no exact boundary, but is generally taken to include the areas in which Upper German dialects are spoken, historically the stem duchies of Bavaria and Swabia or, in a modern context, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and the southern parts of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate that were part of the Duchy of Franconia.
Sulzbach or Sülzbach may refer to:
Gaienhofen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is located at the border with Switzerland.
The Weschnitz is a 59.4-kilometre-long (36.9 mi) right tributary of the Rhine running through the German states of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg. The name of the river traces to the Celtic god Visucius, who was worshiped in the region.
Finkenbach is a river of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, Germany. At its confluence with the Ulfenbach in Hirschhorn, the Laxbach is formed.
Grundelbach is a river of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, Germany. It passes through Gorxheimertal and flows into the Weschnitz in Weinheim.
The Itter is a river in Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Neckar in Eberbach.
The Murg or Hauensteiner Murg is a river and right tributary of the High Rhine in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The Murg reaches the Rhine at the municipality of Murg.
Ulfenbach is a river of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, Germany. At its confluence with the Finkenbach in Hirschhorn, the Laxbach is formed.
Wehra is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It passes through Todtmoos and Wehr and flows into the Rhine downstream of Bad Säckingen.
Baden is a historical territory in South Germany, in earlier times on both sides of the Upper Rhine but since the Napoleonic Wars only East of the Rhine.
The Battle of Tauberbischofsheim was an engagement of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, on the 24 July at Tauberbischofsheim in the Grand Duchy of Baden between troops of the German Confederation and the Kingdom of Prussia. It was part of the campaign of the Main and ended with a Prussian victory.
