Baden-W�rttemberg (original) (raw)
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Statistics
Capital: Stuttgart
Area: 35,751 km�
Inhabitants: 10.500.000 (2000)
pop. density: 294 people/km²
Homepage: baden-wuerttemberg.de
ISO 3166-2: DE-BW
Politics
Minister-President: Erwin Teufel (CDU)
Ruling party: CDU/FDP coalition
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With an area of 35,750 km� and 10.5 million inhabitants, Baden-W�rttemberg lies in south-western Germany to the east of the upper Rhine, and is third largest in both area and population among the country's sixteen Bundesl�nder (federal states). The capital is Stuttgart.

Geography

The state borders on Switzerland to the south, France in the west, and the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Bavaria.

Its principal cities include Stuttgart, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Ulm, T�bingen, Pforzheim and Reutlingen.

The Rhine forms the western border as well as large portions of the southern border. East of the Rhine there is the Black Forest (Schwarzwald), the main mountain range of the state. In the south Baden-W�rttemberg shares in the foothills of the Alps and in Lake Constance (Bodensee). The source of the Danube is located in the state.

Administration

Baden-W�rttemberg is divided into 35 districts, grouped into the four Regierungsbezirke Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, T�bingen.

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Alb-Donau Biberach Bodenseekreis B�blingen Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald Calw Constance (Konstanz) Emmendingen Enzkreis Esslingen Freudenstadt G�ppingen Heidenheim Heilbronn Hohenlohekreis Karlsruhe L�rrach Ludwigsburg Main-Tauber Neckar-Odenwald Ortenaukreis Ostalbkreis Rastatt Ravensburg Rems-Murr Reutlingen Rhein-Neckar Rottweil Schw�bisch Hall Schwarzwald-Baar Sigmaringen T�bingen Tuttlingen Waldshut Zollernalbkreis

Furthermore there are nine independent towns, which don't belong to any district:

  1. Baden-Baden
  2. Freiburg
  3. Heidelberg
  4. Heilbronn
  5. Karlsruhe
  6. Mannheim
  7. Pforzheim
  8. Stuttgart
  9. Ulm

History

The state combines the historical states of Baden and W�rttemberg. After World War II the Allied forces established three states: W�rttemberg-Baden (US), W�rttemberg-Hohenzollern (french) and Baden (french) - in 1952 these territories were merged in order to form the state of Baden-W�rttemberg.

List of Minister-Presidents of Baden-W�rttemberg

  1. 1952 - 1953: Reinhold Maier (FDP/DVP)
  2. 1953 - 1958: Gebhard M�ller (CDU)
  3. 1958 - 1966: Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU)
  4. 1966 - 1978: Hans Karl Filbinger (CDU)
  5. 1978 - 1991: Lothar Sp�th (CDU)
  6. since 1991: Erwin Teufel (CDU)

States of Germany:
Baden-W�rttemberg | Bavaria | Berlin | Brandenburg | Bremen | Hamburg | Hesse | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Lower Saxony | North Rhine-Westphalia | Rhineland-Palatinate | Saarland | Saxony | Saxony-Anhalt | Schleswig-Holstein | Thuringia