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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.

Surnames

The following are surnames of persons, found within our databases,

as having been either born, married or died in this location.

McVicker; Moreland; Pinnell; Scruggs and allied families

Bozarth; Peiffer; Quigley; Rhubart and allied families

Dellinger; Knecht; Pfeffer; Silar and allied families

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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ancestral counties

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.

Enz (9);   Esslingen (10);   Heilbronn (14);    Karlsruhe (16);   Reutlingen (26);  

 Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (27)

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ANCESTRAL LOCATIONS

Gazetteer of places

The links below may assist you with your research within the various districts of this state.

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.   

1.       Alb-Donau;  

2.       Biberach

3.       Bodensee

4.       Böblingen

5.        Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald

6.       Calw

7.       Konstanz (Constance)

8.       Emmendingen

9.       Enz

10.   Esslingen

11.   Freudenstadt

12.   Göppingen

13.   Heidenheim

14.   Heilbronn

15.   Hohenlohe

16.   Karlsruhe

17.   Lörrach

18.   Ludwigsburg

19.   Main-Tauber

20.   Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis

21.   Ortenaukreis

22.   Ostalbkreis

23.   Rastatt

24.   Ravensburg

25.   Rems-Murr-Kreis

26.   Reutlingen

27.   Rhein-Neckar-Kreis

28.   Rottweil

29.   Schwäbisch Hall

30.   Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis

31.   Sigmaringen

32.   Tübingen

33.   Tuttlingen

34.   Waldshut

35.   Zollernalbkreis

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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The Black Forest area of Baden-Wurttemberg

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