The Baden Rhine Plain is to the west of Baden-Wuerttemberg. It extends along the right bank of the Rhine over a length of over 250 km from Lörrach to Mannheim. Form the boundary to the east Black Forest and Kraichgau-Stromberg.
The Baden Rhine Plain is one of the warmest areas in Germany, where spring starts four to six weeks earlier and late summer lasts longer than elsewhere. The Rhine plain itself is, as the name suggests, flat, but the historical landscapes often extend into the foothills of the Black Forest, and occasionally into the Black Forest. In the southern part of the Kaiserstuhl and the Tuniberg as isolated mountain or hill groups.
Regions
From south to north you can find the following regions:
The Markgräflerland
The Markgräflerland is characterized by viticulture, orchards and Black Forest mountains
- Loerrach, District town, with the castle Rötteln
- Because on the Rhine, End point of Baden Wine Route
- Bad Bellingen and Badenweiler with their thermal springs
The Breisgau
As an old Alemannic Gau that is enough Breisgau all the way into the Black Forest, Schauinsland and Glottertal are just as much a part of Breisgau as the former volcanoes Kaiserstuhl and Tuniberg.
- Bad Krozingen also has thermal springs
- Breisach with the St. Stephansmünster
- Freiburg in Breisgau, University town, Freiburg Minster, picturesque old town, gateway to the Black Forest
- Your singing and Endingen are wine towns on the Kaiserstuhl
The Ortenau
Also originally an old district that is today Ortenau the name of a county. Part of today's Ortenau also bears the name Hanauer Landwhich gave its name to the county Hanau-Lichtenberg and also on the left bank of the Rhine as Communauté de communes du Pays de Hanau has its continuation.
- Offenburg is the economic center
- Lahr
- Throat, here connect the Europe Bridge and the Mimram Bridge Germany with France.
Central bathing
The region north of the Ortenau actually bears the name Ufgau, but hardly any local would use that name. It's just something like Central bathing, but this term is anything but clearly defined.
- Karlsruhe, fan-shaped urban architecture, castle, constitutional court
- Baden-Baden, known for its mineral bath and casino
- Ettlingen on the southern edge of Karlsruhe with its castle
- Rastatt, Castle, military history museum
- Rheinmünster with the Baden Airpark
The eastern border of the Rhine Plain is the Kraichgau north of Karlsruhe, the hilly landscape of which is visible on the horizon. The language is also changing: while south of Karlsruhe the Alemannic was unmistakable, north of it it is the Electoral Palatinate dialect.
Hardtwald and Bruhrain
The forest area in the Baden Rhine Plain around Karlsruhe is called Hardtwald referred to, it extends from Karlsruhe north to Graben-Neudorf, the name can often be found until shortly before Mannheim. The Hardtwald is in the east from Kraichgau, bounded to the west by the Rhine. The closes in a northerly direction Bruhrain an area that is characterized by the arms of the Old Rhine and wetlands of the lowlands. The Bruhrain extends in the north about to Schwetzingen and goes over into the Electoral Palatinate.
- Linkenheim-Hochstetten
- Stutensee
- Bruchsal, Castle, historic residence of the Speyer Füstbischöfe, today also the German Museum of Music Automatons
- Forest (Baden)
- Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
- Graben-Neudorf
- Karlsdorf-Neuthard
- Philippsburg
- Waghausel
The Electoral Palatinate
The Baden Rhine Plain extends as far as shortly after Mannheim. In the sandy bottom of the Electoral Palatinate grow pines, but also a royal vegetable: asparagus.
- Hockenheim with the Hockenheimring
- Schwetzingen with castle and baroque garden.
- Walldorf
- Mannheim. Here the Neckar flows into the Rhine. The chessboard-shaped old town is well worth seeing
- Heidelberg with the Heidelberg Castle
Other goals
background
The Baden Rhine plain is shaped by its past. The seat of the Catholic bishops was in for the southern part for a long time Strasbourgwhile im Ufgau north of it the bishops have their seat in Speyer had. But hardly anyone knows the name of this region even there. Not even that City wiki Karlsruhe knows what to do with it.
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Kitchen and cellar
The edge of the Baden Rhine plain is actually a huge vineyard. In the Markgräflerland and Kaiserstuhl, for example, excellent grape varieties, such as Gutedel and Traminer, which are otherwise rarely grown, grow. The Baden Wine Route testifies to it. All sorts of fruits are also grown. It is known Bühler plum, but also the secondary products plum water and raspberry spirit are produced here. And of course, don't forget the asparagus. For him the Baden Asparagus Route created by Schwetzingen leads to Lichtenau.
