Baden Württemberg (Deutschland)
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Baden Württemberg is a State of the Country Germany. It's located in the southern part of the country.

- Capital city: Stuttgart

- Districts: 35 (Landkreise)
- - - Alb-Donau, Biberach, Bodensee, Böblingen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Calw, Konstanz (Constance), Emmendingen, Enz, Esslingen, Freudenstadt, Göppingen,
- - - Heidenheim, Heilbronn, Hohenlohe, Karlsruhe, Lörrach, Ludwigsburg, Main-Tauber, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Ortenaukreis, Ostalbkreis, Rastatt, Ravensburg
- - - Rems-Murr-Kreis, Reutlingen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Rottweil, Schwäbisch Hall, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Sigmaringen, Tübingen, Tuttlingen, Waldshut

- independent cities: 9
- - - Baden-Baden, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Ulm

- one of the Four Motors of Europe.
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among the most prosperous states in Germany,
and is one of the wealthiest regions in Europe with a traditionally low unemployment rate. A number of well-known enterprises are headquartered in the state, for example Daimler AG, Porsche, Robert Bosch GmbH (automobile industry), Carl Zeiss AG (optics), and SAP AG (largest software enterprise in Europe).

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Tourism

Baden-Württemberg is a popular holiday destination, rivaled in Germany only by Bavaria in terms of its natural landscapes and variety of culinary and cultural offering and its possibilities for outdoor activities. Main sights include the capital and biggest city, Stuttgart, modern and historic at the same time, with its urban architecture and atmosphere (and famously, its inner city parks and historic Wilhelma zoo), its castles (such as Castle Solitude), its (car and art) museums as well as a rich cultural programme (theatre, opera) and mineral spring baths in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt (also the site of a Roman Castra), the residential (court) towns of Ludwigsburg and Karlsruhe, the spas and casino of luxurious Baden-Baden, the medieval architecture of Ulm (Ulm Cathedral is the tallest church in the world), the vibrant, young, but traditional university towns of Heidelberg and Tübingen with their old castles looking out above the river Neckar, sites of former monasteries such as the ones on Reichenau Island and at Maulbronn (both World Heritage Sites) as well as Bebenhausen Abbey, the lush Upper Neckar valley (where Rottweil is famous for its carnival (Fastnacht)) and the pristine Danube valley, rich old Free Imperial Cities such as Biberach, Esslingen am Neckar, Heilbronn, Ravensburg, Reutlingen and Schwäbisch Hall, and the southernmost and sunniest city of Germany, Freiburg, close to Alsace and Switzerland, being an ideal base for exploring the heights of the nearby Black Forest (e.g. for skiing in winter or for hiking in summer) with its traditional villages and the surrounding wine country of the Rhine Valley of South Baden. The countryside of the Swabian Alb (with Hohenzollern Castle), the largely pristine Swabian Forest, the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance (German: Bodensee), where all kinds of water sports are popular, with the former Imperial, today border town of Konstanz (where the Council of Constance took place), the Neolithic and Bronze Age village at Unteruhldingen, the flower island of Mainau, and the hometown of the Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen a.o., are especially popular for outdoor activities in the summer months.

In spring and autumn (April/May and September/October), beer festivals (fun fairs) are taking place at the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart; the one in the autumn, the Cannstatter Volksfest, is the second biggest such festival in the world after the Munich Oktoberfest. In late November/early December, Christmas markets are a tourist magnet in all major towns, with the biggest one in Stuttgart, lasting for the three weeks prior to Christmas.
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Language

Two dialect groups of German are spoken in Baden-Württemberg in various variants: Alemannic and Franconian dialects. In southern and central Württemberg, the Alemannic dialect of Swabian is spoken (slightly differing even within the area, e.g. between Upper Swabian, the Alb Swabian and the central Neckar Valley variant of the Stuttgart region). In South Baden, the local dialects are Low Alemannic and High Alemannic (i.e. variants of what is also Swiss German). In the northern part of Baden, i.e. the former Kurpfalz (Electoral Palatinate) with the capital Heidelberg, the idiom is Rhine Franconian (Kurpfälzisch, i.e. Palatinate German), while in the Northeast (around Schwäbisch Hall) East Franconian is spoken.

The same or similar Alemannic dialects are also spoken in the neighbouring regions of Bavarian Swabia, Alsace (Alsatian), German-speaking Switzerland (Swiss German), Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg, small parts of Tyrol and the Piemont and Aosta Valley (Walliser German), while other Franconian dialects are spoken in the Palatinate, parts of Hessen and the Rhineland and in Franconia.

Baden Württemberg (Deutschland)
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Baden Württemberg is a State of the Country Germany. It's located in the southern part of the country.

- Capital city: Stuttgart

- Districts: 35 (Landkreise)
- - - Alb-Donau, Biberach, Bodensee, Böblingen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Calw, Konstanz (Constance), Emmendingen, Enz, Esslingen, Freudenstadt, Göppingen,
- - - Heidenheim, Heilbronn, Hohenlohe, Karlsruhe, Lörrach, Ludwigsburg, Main-Tauber, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Ortenaukreis, Ostalbkreis, Rastatt, Ravensburg
- - - Rems-Murr-Kreis, Reutlingen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Rottweil, Schwäbisch Hall, Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Sigmaringen, Tübingen, Tuttlingen, Waldshut

- independent cities: 9
- - - Baden-Baden, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Ulm

- one of the Four Motors of Europe.
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among the most prosperous states in Germany,
and is one of the wealthiest regions in Europe with a traditionally low unemployment rate. A number of well-known enterprises are headquartered in the state, for example Daimler AG, Porsche, Robert Bosch GmbH (automobile industry), Carl Zeiss AG (optics), and SAP AG (largest software enterprise in Europe).

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Tourism

Baden-Württemberg is a popular holiday destination, rivaled in Germany only by Bavaria in terms of its natural landscapes and variety of culinary and cultural offering and its possibilities for outdoor activities. Main sights include the capital and biggest city, Stuttgart, modern and historic at the same time, with its urban architecture and atmosphere (and famously, its inner city parks and historic Wilhelma zoo), its castles (such as Castle Solitude), its (car and art) museums as well as a rich cultural programme (theatre, opera) and mineral spring baths in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt (also the site of a Roman Castra), the residential (court) towns of Ludwigsburg and Karlsruhe, the spas and casino of luxurious Baden-Baden, the medieval architecture of Ulm (Ulm Cathedral is the tallest church in the world), the vibrant, young, but traditional university towns of Heidelberg and Tübingen with their old castles looking out above the river Neckar, sites of former monasteries such as the ones on Reichenau Island and at Maulbronn (both World Heritage Sites) as well as Bebenhausen Abbey, the lush Upper Neckar valley (where Rottweil is famous for its carnival (Fastnacht)) and the pristine Danube valley, rich old Free Imperial Cities such as Biberach, Esslingen am Neckar, Heilbronn, Ravensburg, Reutlingen and Schwäbisch Hall, and the southernmost and sunniest city of Germany, Freiburg, close to Alsace and Switzerland, being an ideal base for exploring the heights of the nearby Black Forest (e.g. for skiing in winter or for hiking in summer) with its traditional villages and the surrounding wine country of the Rhine Valley of South Baden. The countryside of the Swabian Alb (with Hohenzollern Castle), the largely pristine Swabian Forest, the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance (German: Bodensee), where all kinds of water sports are popular, with the former Imperial, today border town of Konstanz (where the Council of Constance took place), the Neolithic and Bronze Age village at Unteruhldingen, the flower island of Mainau, and the hometown of the Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen a.o., are especially popular for outdoor activities in the summer months.

In spring and autumn (April/May and September/October), beer festivals (fun fairs) are taking place at the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart; the one in the autumn, the Cannstatter Volksfest, is the second biggest such festival in the world after the Munich Oktoberfest. In late November/early December, Christmas markets are a tourist magnet in all major towns, with the biggest one in Stuttgart, lasting for the three weeks prior to Christmas.
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Language

Two dialect groups of German are spoken in Baden-Württemberg in various variants: Alemannic and Franconian dialects. In southern and central Württemberg, the Alemannic dialect of Swabian is spoken (slightly differing even within the area, e.g. between Upper Swabian, the Alb Swabian and the central Neckar Valley variant of the Stuttgart region). In South Baden, the local dialects are Low Alemannic and High Alemannic (i.e. variants of what is also Swiss German). In the northern part of Baden, i.e. the former Kurpfalz (Electoral Palatinate) with the capital Heidelberg, the idiom is Rhine Franconian (Kurpfälzisch, i.e. Palatinate German), while in the Northeast (around Schwäbisch Hall) East Franconian is spoken.

The same or similar Alemannic dialects are also spoken in the neighbouring regions of Bavarian Swabia, Alsace (Alsatian), German-speaking Switzerland (Swiss German), Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg, small parts of Tyrol and the Piemont and Aosta Valley (Walliser German), while other Franconian dialects are spoken in the Palatinate, parts of Hessen and the Rhineland and in Franconia.