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Introduction

Baden-Württemberg (/ˌbɑːdən ˈvɜːrtəmbɜːrɡ/ BAH-dən VURT-əm-burg, German: [ˌbaːdn̩ ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ^ⓘ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state (Land) 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 across a total area of nearly 35,752 km² (13,804 sq mi), it is the third-largest German state by both area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria). 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.

What is now Baden-Württemberg was formerly the historical territories of Baden, Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg became a state of West Germany in April 1952 through the merger of South Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. These three states had been artificially created by the Allies after World War II out of the existing traditional states by their separation over different occupation zones.

Baden-Württemberg is especially known for its strong economy with various industries like car manufacturing, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, the service sector, and more. It has the third-highest gross regional product (GRP) in Germany. Part of the Four Motors for Europe and located in the Blue Banana, some of the largest German companies are headquartered in Baden-Württemberg, including Mercedes-Benz Group, Schwarz Group, Porsche, Bosch and SAP.

The sobriquet Ländle, a diminutive of the word Land in the local Swabian, Alemannic and Franconian dialects, is sometimes used as a synonym for Baden-Württemberg. (Full article...)

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Donauversinkung

The Danube Sinkhole (German: Donauversinkung or Donauversickerung) is an incipient underground stream capture in the Upper Danube Nature Park. Between Immendingen and Möhringen and also near Fridingen (Tuttlingen), the water of the Danube sinks into the riverbed in various places. The main sinkhole is next to a field named Brühl between Immendingen and Möhringen.

The term “sinking” is more accurate than “seeping”, because, instead of just distributing into the soil, the Danube’s water flows through underground caverns to the Aachtopf, where it emerges as the river Radolfzeller Aach.

The sinking Danube water disappears into a karst water system of the well-stratified limestone formation (the ox2 layer) of the White Jura and appears again in a horizontal limestone layer (the ki4 layer), approximately twelve kilometers away at Aachtopf. It then flows as Radolfzeller Aach into Lake Constance at Radolfzell. Thus, a part of the Danube water also flows into the Rhine. This geographical situation is a striking feature of the large European Watershed, which separates the catchment areas of the North Sea and the Black Sea.

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Eduard Mörike

Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875) was a German Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike (died 1817), a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer. After the death of his father, in 1817, he went to live with his uncle Eberhard Friedrich Georgii in Stuttgart, who intended his nephew to become a clergyman. Therefore, after one year at the Stuttgart Gymnasium illustre, Mörike joined the Evangelical Seminary Urach, a humanist grammar school, in 1818 and from 1822 to 1826 attended the Tübinger Stift. There, he scored low grades and failed the admission test to Urach Seminary, yet was accepted anyhow. At the Seminary he went on to study the classics, something that was to become a major influence on his writing, and he made the acquaintance of Wilhelm Hartlaub and Wilhelm Waiblinger.

State facts

• Nickname: Ländle
• Capital: Stuttgart
• Minister-president: Winfried Kretschmann
• Governing parties: Greens / CDU
• Total area: 35,751 km² (13,804 sq mi)
• Population: 10,879,618 (2015)
• Founded: April 25, 1952
• Website: www.baden-wuerttemberg.de

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Hohenzollern Castle

Credit: A. Kniesel
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern.

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• ...that the 18th-century Schloss Bruchsal is noted for its fine Roccoco decoration and in particular its grand Baroque entrance staircase, which is regarded as one of the finest examples of its genre.

• ... that the Schwarzwaldverein (Black Forest Association) was founded in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1864, making it the oldest German hiking and mountaineering club. The Schwarzwaldverein has almost 90,000 members in 241 local chapters.

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Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance

Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen (German for 'Stilt house museum') is an archaeological open-air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses or lake dwellings from the Neolithic Stone Age and Bronze Age.

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Cities: Freiburg – Heidelberg – Heilbronn – Karlsruhe – Mannheim – Pforzheim – Reutlingen – Stuttgart – Ulm Politics of Baden-Württemberg: List of Ministers-President of Baden-Württemberg – Bundesverfassungsgericht – Demokratische Volkspartei – Landtag Economy: Bosch – EnBW – Heidelberger Druckmaschinen – Hugo Boss – Mercedes-Benz – Porsche – SAP History of Baden-Württemberg: List of Ministers-President of Baden-Württemberg – Kingdom of Württemberg – Grand Duchy of Baden – Hohenzollern – Württemberg-Baden Symbols: Coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg – Flag of Baden-Württemberg – Badnerlied Languages and culture: Alemannic dialects – Swabian German – Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht – Kehrwoche – Bollenhut The Kaiserstuhl hills including the Totenkopf.

Literature and writer: Codex Manesse – Wilhelm Hauff – Johann Peter Hebel – Georg Herwegh – Hermann Hesse – Friedrich Hölderlin – Justinus Kerner – Eduard Mörike – Sebastian Sailer – Friedrich Schiller – Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart – Thaddäus Troll – Christoph Martin Wieland – Ludwig Uhland Badische Landesbibliothek – Bibliotheca Palatina Architecture and buildings: Günter Behnisch – Paul Bonatz – Richard Döcker – Martin Elsaesser – Hugo Häring – Fritz Leonhardt – Jörg Schlaich – Friedrich Weinbrenner Weißenhofsiedlung – Stuttgarter Fernsehturm – Vitra Design Museum Art and design: Friedrich Adler – Willi Baumeister – Johann Joseph Christian – Otto Dix – Hartmut Esslinger – HAP Grieshaber – Karl Hubbuch – Wolfgang Kermer – Anselm Kiefer – Peter Lenk – Oskar Schlemmer – Franz Joseph Spiegler – Hans Thoma Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm – State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart – Staatsgalerie Stuttgart – Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe – ZKM Music: Die Fantastischen Vier – Die Happy – Joy Fleming – Anne-Sophie Mutter – Xavier Naidoo – Pur – Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart – Wolfgang Rihm – Friedrich Silcher – Söhne Mannheims Landscapes and regions: Allgäu – Baar – Breisgau – Gäu – Hegau – Hohenlohe – Kaiserstuhl – Kraichgau – Kurpfalz – Markgräflerland – Ortenau – Schwäbische Alb – Schwarzwald Blautopf – Source of the Danube – Danube Sinkhole – Black Forest National Park – Triberg Waterfalls Lakes: Lake Constance (Bodensee) – Federsee – Mummelsee – Schluchsee – Titisee Mountains: Achalm – Belchen – Bussen – Feldberg – Hohenstaufen – Hohentwiel – Hornisgrinde – Ipf – Katzenbuckel – Schauinsland – Teck

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