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Bundesland Baden-Wrttemberg (State of Baden-Wrttemberg)
Flag Coat of Arms
Location of Baden-Wuerttemberg (dark green) within Germany
Administration
Country	Germany
Capital	Stuttgart
Minister-President	Stefan Mappus ( CDU , mandate 2010 / 2011 )
Party (or parties)	Coalition CDU - FDP / DVP
Diet : CDU : SPD : A90/Verts : FDP / DVP : Total:	69 38 17 15 128
Number of votes in the Bundesrat	6
Statistical data
Area	35 751.65 km ( 3rd )
Population (31/12/06)	10,738,753 inhab. ( 3 )
Density	300.37 inhabitants / km ( 6th )
GDP (2006)	337.117 billion ( 3 )
GDP per capita.	31 400 ( 5 th )
Other information
ISO 3166-2	DE-BW
Official site	baden-wuerttemberg.de

Black Forest

Baden-Wrttemberg (in German is one of the (states) component of Germany. It is sometimes also called Baden in French (only in its western part, corresponding to the former Grand Duchy of Baden ).

Baden-Wuerttemberg is the demographic and economic importance of the third Land Germany.

Its capital is Stuttgart , the most populous city and the most economically important.

The most famous sights are the Black Forest (Schwarzwald), the Lake Constance (Bodensee), the Swabian Jura (Schwbische Alb), the cloister Maulbronn and the cities of Heidelberg , Stuttgart , Karlsruhe , Freiburg im Breisgau , Baden-Baden , Tbingen , Ulm and Constance.

Baden-Wurttemberg is bordered by France and Switzerland. In Germany itself it is neighboring Lnder of Rhineland-Palatinate , in Hesse and Bavaria.

Apart from the metropolis that is Stuttgart, the regions of " Ulm / Neu-Ulm ( Bavaria ) "and" Mannheim / Heidelberg / Ludwigshafen ( Rheinland-Pfalz ) "and the border region of Basel also have a considerable economic influence.

Baden-Wrttemberg was created in 1952 , succeeding the old Lnder of postwar Baden , of Baden-Wuerttemberg , and Wrttemberg-Hohenzollern themselves successors:

• Margrave then Grand Duchy of Baden ,
• duchy and kingdom of Wrttemberg
• Prussian province of Hohenzollern.

List of cities in Baden-Wrttemberg, with the population of the town in 2008:

Economy

Lake Constance

Baden-Wrttemberg is one of the economically more competitive in Europe. It is a center of automotive industry ( Daimler , Porsche , Robert Bosch GmbH , Audi ) with sites in Stuttgart , Sindelfingen , Neckarsulm , Mannheim , Rastatt , Gaggenau and Ulm. Many companies in the engineering industry located there ( Festo , Voith , Liebherr , Trumpf, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen). Precision mechanics, particularly watches, there are longstanding ( Junghans ), more recently, companies producing consumer electronics have been implanted ( SABA , Dual). Baden-Wuerttemberg has long been a center of textile industry , which it still retains some importance ( Hugo Boss , Trigema, Steiff). At Karlsruhe is the largest refinery in Germany. The headquarters of the company SAP AG , Europe's leading supplier of software is located in Walldorf.

The unemployment rate of 4.6% (September 2010 ) is one of the lowest in Germany. Only Bavaria has a lower unemployment at 4.0% ^Subdivisions

Map of the 35 boroughs and districts, 9 cities in Baden-Wrttemberg

Baden-Wrttemberg is divided into 4 districts (Regierungsbezirke) also called ridings or administrative regions, themselves subdivided into 12 regions (Regionen), which account for 35 districts (Landkreis) and 9 municipalities not included in a district, therefore constituting a district alone account called city-districts (Kreisfreie Stdte).

Districts (Regierungsbezirke)

The 4 districts of Baden-Wrttemberg:

• District of Freiburg im Breisgau
• Karlsruhe district
• Stuttgart District
• District of Tbingen

Districts (Landkreis) and Cities districts (Kreisfreie Stdte)

The 9 -city districts (Kreisfreie Stdte) in Baden-Wrttemberg:

• ADB: Baden-Baden
• FR: Freiburg im Breisgau
• HD: Heidelberg
• HN: Heilbronn
• KA: Karlsruhe
• MA: Mannheim
• PF: Pforzheim
• S: Stuttgart
• UL: Ulm

The 35 districts (Landkreis) of Baden-Wrttemberg:

Confessions

• Christian: 71.6% (7.6 million, of which 4 million Catholics and 3.6 million Protestants)
• Muslim: 5.6% (600 000)
• Buddhist: 0.23% (25 000)
• Hindu: 0.14% (15 000)
• Jewish: 0.08% (9000)
• No other: 22.3% (2.4 million)

Blazon

Due to its recent establishment, the Land of Baden-Wuerttemberg has no weapons "historic", unlike its neighboring Bavaria.

• Arms of the Grand Duchy of Baden: Golden to the band gules.
• Arms of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg: Golden to three half-raised deer antlers in fess, one over the other.

References

External Links

• The portal of Baden-Wrttemberg in French
• "Willkommen in Sdbaden" - Gateway to the region Sdbaden / Freiburg / Black Forest - many pictures and stories (of)

Boroughs and cities districts of Baden-Wrttemberg
Cities boroughs (Kreisfreie Stdte)	Baden-Baden Freiburg im Breisgau Heidelberg Heilbronn Karlsruhe Mannheim Pforzheim Stuttgart Ulm
Districts (Landkreis)	Alb-Danube Biberach Bblingen High-Breisgau-Black Forest Calw Constance Emmendingen Enz Esslingen Black Forest-Baar Freudenstadt Gppingen Heidenheim Heilbronn Hohenlohe Karlsruhe Constance Lake Lrrach Ludwigsburg Main-Tauber Neckar-Odenwald Ortenau Ostalb Rastatt Ravensburg Rems-Murr Reutlingen Rhein-Neckar Rottweil Schwbisch Hall Sigmaringen Tbingen Tuttlingen Waldshut Zollernalb

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