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Central bathing denotes the densely populated, central section of the Baden Rhine Plain around the former residential cities of Baden Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden. It essentially coincides with the historical region Ufgau
places
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- 1 Karlsruhe
- 2 Baden-Baden
- 3 Bietigheim
- 4 Durmersheim
- 5 Ettlingen
- 6 Iffezheim
- 7 Malsch
- 8 Muggensturm
- 9 Ötigheim
, known from the Popular spectacles
- 10 Rastatt
- 11 Rheinmünster
- 12 Rheinstetten
- 13 Sinzheim
background
The medieval county of Ufgau extended from the Oos over the lower reaches of the Murg to the Albgau. The residence was Waldenfels Castle near Malsch. In the 12th century it largely fell to the Margraviate of Baden, whose residence was in the city of Baden (today's Baden-Baden) until the division in 1535.
After the division of the estate, the area belonged to the margraviate of Baden-Baden, which was reunited with Baden-Durlach in 1771. The residence was then relocated to the centrally located Karlsruhe. The former Ufgau thus formed the core part of Baden, which (unlike e.g. the Breisgau or the Electoral Palatinate) has always belonged to this state.
Because of this history, the residents see themselves simply as "Badeners" and have no regional identity of their own as "Mittelbadener" or "Ufgauer". In contrast to Breisgau, Kraichgau or Hegau, the name Ufgau is hardly used any more, but rather - if at all - rather of "Mittelbaden".
language
German in the Baden language
getting there
Airports
- The Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden airport
(IATA: FKB) or Baden Airpark is located in Rheinmünster (15 km from Baden-Baden, 40 km from Karlsruhe). It is mainly used by low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and holiday airlines such as TUIfly.
- The Strasbourg airport
(IATA: SXB) is 75 km from Baden-Baden. The transfer by train to Baden-Baden takes 50 minutes to 1½ hours (change in Strasbourg and possibly Appenweier), to Karlsruhe 1:05 to 1:25 hours (via Strasbourg and possibly Offenburg)
- The Stuttgart Airport
(IATA: STR) is 77 km from Karlsruhe. There are buses from the airport directly to Karlsruhe almost every hour (journey time a good 1 hour).
- airport Frankfurt
(IATA: FRA), 125 km from Karlsruhe. From the airport train station there is a direct ICE connection to Karlsruhe (travel time 1:05 hours).
By train
Karlsruhe Hbf is a stop on the ICE lines Frankfurt – Basel (more frequently than every hour). IRE every half hour, IC every hour, ICE or TGV almost every two hours. There is an ICE or TGV connection with Strasbourg and Paris eight times a day. ICEs on the Hamburg – Hanover – Basel – Zurich line stop every hour in Baden-Baden.
By boat
- Rhine shipping
- Pleasure boats
- Ferry connections
mobility
- Karlsruhe light rail
- Regional buses and city buses