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Baden-Württemberg is a state of the
Federal Republic of Germany in the southwestern part of the
country to the east of the Upper Rhine. It is third
largest in both area and population among the country's sixteen states, with
an area of 35,742 km² and 10.7 million
inhabitants. The state capital is Stuttgart. This state combines the historical states
of Baden,
Hohenzollern and Württemberg. HISTORY
OF BADEN Baden is a
historical state in the southwest of Germany,
on the right bank of the Rhine. It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate
of Baden and subsequently split into different lines, which were unified in
1771. It became the much-enlarged Grand
Duchy of Baden through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in
1803-1806 and remained a sovereign country until it joined the German
Empire in 1871, remaining a Grand Duchy until 1918 when it
became part of the Weimar Republic. Baden
was bounded to the north by the Kingdom of Bavaria
and the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt;
to the west and practically throughout its whole length by the River Rhine, which
separated it from the Bavarian
Rhenish
Palatinate and Alsace in modern France ;
to the south by Switzerland, and to
the east by the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
and partly by Bavaria. After World
War II in 1945, the French military government created the State of Baden with Freiburg im Breisgau as capital out of the southern
half of the former Baden. The northern half combined with northern Württemberg was part of the American
military zone and formed the State of Württemberg-Baden. In
1952 Baden merged with Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern
(southern Württemberg and the former Prussian
exclave
of Hohenzollern) to form
Baden-Württemberg,
the only time two or in this case three Bundesländer
have chosen to do so. Hohenzollern (Hohenzollernsche
Lande in German) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia.
It was created in 1850 by joining the principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
and Hohenzollern-Hechingen
after both formerly independent states had been annexed by Prussia, ruled by
the protestant branch of the House of Hohenzollern. Hohenzollern consisted of a single
district, the Regierungsbezirk
Sigmaringen. The last census in 1939 resulted 74,000 inhabitants; the capital was Sigmaringen.
While Hohenzollern enjoyed all the rights of a full-fledged province of
Prussia, including representation in the Prussian parliament, its military
matters were governed by the Rhine
Province. The Regierungsbezirk Sigmaringen was further subdivided into seven Oberamtsbezirke, although only four of these remained by
1925, when they were merged and re-divided as two new Kreisen. In 1946, the French military administration made it a part of
the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern.
Hohenzollern has been part of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg since 1952. After regional reforms in 1973 the
Hohenzollern borders were finally eliminated, with the region now belonging
to the districts of Sigmaringen
and Zollernalbkreis,
which also contain land that was not previously Hohenzollern territory. HISTORY OF WÜRTTEMBERG Württemberg, once a Duchy, became a Kingdom after the
implosion of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, during the
reign of Frederick I of Württemberg,
and finally a Republic in 1918. After the Federal Republic of Germany
was composed in 1949, Württemberg in 1952 merged with Baden
to become the German Land (state) of Baden-Württemberg. |
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following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
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BADER; BANNHEURS; BARTH;
BECK; CAMMERER; DELLINGER; DOLL;
GAMER; GILBERT; GOSSNER;
HAAS; HAUER; HAUG;
HEIDECKER; HORCH; KATTERMAN; KAUSCH;
KETTERMAN; KIEFER; KLEIN;
KOLB; KUFFER; LAUX;
MEINZER; MEYER; MULLER;
NAGEL; PRECHT; ROTTENHAUSER; RUPPERT;
SAUERS; SCHALL; SCHIECK;
SCHMID; SCHON; SHAFFER;
WEBER |
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each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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ancestral
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The following named
districts are associated with the history of our DIRECT
ancestors. To select a specific
ancestral district, click on the following link. There you will find
additional links where you can obtain information about our family gen-sites,
images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our database, who have
lived in the selected district. |
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Enz (9); Esslingen (10); Heilbronn (14); Karlsruhe (16); Reutlingen (26); Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (27) |
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The links below
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Baden-Württemberg is divided into 35 districts (Landkreise) and 9 independent cities (Stadtkreise), both grouped into the four Administrative Districts (Regierungsbezirke ) of Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Tübingen. |
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1. Alb-Donau; 2. Biberach 3. Bodensee 4. Böblingen 6. Calw 7. Konstanz (Constance) 8. Emmendingen 9. Enz 10. Esslingen 11. Freudenstadt 12. Göppingen |
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Heidenheim 14.
Heilbronn 15.
Hohenlohe 16.
Karlsruhe 17.
Lörrach 18.
Ludwigsburg 19.
Main-Tauber
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Ortenaukreis 22.
Ostalbkreis 23.
Rastatt 24. Ravensburg |
25. Rems-Murr-Kreis 26. Reutlingen 28. Rottweil 29. Schwäbisch Hall 31. Sigmaringen 32. Tübingen 33. Tuttlingen 34. Waldshut 35. Zollernalbkreis |
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Independent Cities Furthermore
there are nine independent cities, which do not belong to any district, they
are: Baden-Baden; Freiburg; Heidelberg; Heilbronn; Karlsruhe; Mannheim; Pforzheim; Stuttgart; Ulm |
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We
recommend that you use the following search engine and
external-links
to obtain additional knowledge about this place.
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· Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google |
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Locality
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· Rootsweb Message Boards ( Baden-Wurttemburg) |
· genealogy.net: Baden-Wuerttemberg · Baden-Wurttemburg Genealogy Links |
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The following Link will take you to our library of
genealogy reference books. Here you will find a range of volumes that pertain to
Germany. |
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The Black Forest area of
Baden-Wurttemberg |
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If you
have any photographs or other images relating to this ancestral location we would
greatly appreciate hearing from you. Use the following LINK to ascertain whether we have any images that pertain to this location. ANCESTRAL
LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHS and IMAGES |
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