Baden-Württemberg

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Capital: Stuttgart
Area: 35,751.65 km²
Inhabitants: 10,718,327 (2005-03-31)
pop. density: 300/km²
Website: http://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/
ISO 3166-2: DE-BW
Politics
Minister-president: Günther Oettinger (CDU)
Ruling party: CDU/FDP coalition
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Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in south-western Germany 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 capital is Stuttgart.

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Geography

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

Its principal cities include Stuttgart, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Ludwigsburg, Ulm, Tübingen, Pforzheim and Reutlingen.

The Rhine forms the western border as well as large portions of the southern border. The Black Forest (Schwarzwald) the main mountain range of the state, rises east of the Rhine valley. Baden-Württemberg shares both Lake Constance (Bodensee) and the foothills of the Alps with Switzerland.

The Danube river has its source in Baden-Württemberg near the town of Donaueschingen, in a place called Furtwangen in the Black Forest.

See also List of places in Baden-Württemberg.

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Administration

Baden-Württemberg is divided into 35 counties, 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
  5. Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
  6. Calw
  7. Konstanz (Constance)
  8. Emmendingen
  9. Enz
  10. Esslingen
  11. Freudenstadt
  12. Göppingen

  1. Heidenheim
  2. Heilbronn
  3. Hohenlohe
  4. Karlsruhe
  5. Lörrach
  6. Ludwigsburg
  7. Main-Tauber
  8. Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
  9. Ortenaukreis
  10. Ostalbkreis
  11. Rastatt
  12. Ravensburg

  1. Rems-Murr-Kreis
  2. Reutlingen
  3. Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
  4. Rottweil
  5. Schwäbisch Hall
  6. Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis
  7. Sigmaringen
  8. Tübingen
  9. Tuttlingen
  10. Waldshut
  11. Zollernalbkreis

Image:Wirkoennenalles.jpgFurthermore there are nine independent cities, which do not belong to any district:

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

This state combines the historical states of Baden, Hohenzollern and Württemberg. After World War II the Allied forces established three states: Württemberg-Baden (occupied by the USA), Württemberg-Hohenzollern (France) and Baden (France). In 1952 these states were merged in order to form the State of Baden-Württemberg; the 1949 constitution of West Germany contained a special clause (Article 118) that made this merger possible.

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Politics

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List of minister-presidents of Baden-Württemberg

  1. 1952 - 1953: Reinhold Maier (FDP/DVP)
  2. 1953 - 1958: Gebhard Müller (CDU)
  3. 1958 - 1966: Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU)
  4. 1966 - 1978: Hans Karl Filbinger (CDU)
  5. 1978 - 1991: Lothar Späth (CDU)
  6. 1991 - 2005: Erwin Teufel (CDU)
  7. since 2005: Günther Oettinger (CDU)
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March 26, 2006 state elections

See also: Baden-Württemberg state election, 2006

Party Party List votes Vote percentage (change) Total Seats (change) Seat percentage
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 1,748,781 44.2% -0.6% 69 +6 49.7%
Social Democratic Party 996,095 25.2% -8.1% 38 -7 27.3%
Alliance '90/The Greens 462,889 11.7% +4.0% 17 +7 12.2%
Free Democratic Party (FDP) 421,885 10.7% +2.6% 15 +5 10.8%
Labour and Social Justice Party (WASG) 121,875 3.1% +3.1% 0 0 0.0%
The Republicans 100,079 2.5% -1.9% 0 0 0.0%
All Others 108,741 2.6% 0.0% 0 +0 0.0%
Totals 3,960,345 100.0%   139 +11 100.0%



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