The region Württemberg is part of the state Baden-Wuerttemberg in the southwest of Germany.
Regions
Belong to Württemberg
- the Greater Stuttgart area with the Fildern, the Schönbuch
- the Swabian Alb with the Alb foreland and the Virgin forest
- the Gäu With Strohgäu, Korngäu and Heckengäu
- the Neckar basin until Heilbronner Land
- the Hohenloher level
- the Swabian-Franconian Forest
- the Tauberfranken
- the region Lake Constance Upper Swabia
places
- Stuttgart, State capital
- Tubingen, University City
- Bad Mergentheim
- Esslingen
- Goeppingen
- Reutlingen
- Heilbronn
- Rottweil
- Ulm
Other goals
background
history
The name Württemberg is derived from a family of counts whose ancestral castle was on the Württemberg mountain in Stuttgart-Rotenberg since the 11th century. After the Staufers lost power, they expanded their county. In 1251 Stuttgart came into their possession. Wuerttemberg only gained greater importance through the count Eberhard in the beardwho became the first Duke of Württemberg in 1495. The Württemberg people are not necessarily to be equated with thrifty Swabians. This shows the fact that they afforded the luxury of several residential castles in a relatively short period of time, so in LudwigsburgIn Stuttgart there are three magnificent buildings: the New Palace, the Solitude Palace and the Hohenheim Palace.
In the years 1803 and 1806, Württemberg was able to significantly enlarge its territory, and the duchy became a kingdom. The country was named after the 1st World War Free People's State of Württemberg, after WWII it became with Swimming to the new federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg united.
The Württemberg
On the 411 m high 1 hill The ancestral seat of the Counts of Württemberg was in what is now the Untertürkheim district. The last remains were removed in 1819, in their place there is now a mausoleum, the King Wilhelm I for his wife who died young Catherine was built from 1820-1824. The mausoleum is freely accessible during the day, it is open from March 1st to November 1st every Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 12pm and 1pm - 5pm, on Sundays and public holidays from 10am - 12pm and 1pm - 6pm € 2.50, reduced € 1.30.
The interior of the burial chapel is a room with Corinthian columns and a dome with stucco rosettes, on the sides are the four evangelists. A narrow staircase leads into the crypt, there are the busts and sarcophagi of Catherine and Wilhelm I as well as their daughter Marie. From the height of the Württemberg one has a wonderful view of the eastern districts of Stuttgart. The burial chapel can be reached on a street from the bus stop in Rotenberg, or via a footpath from Untertürkheim via the Rotenberger Steige.
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Tourist Attractions
- the residential palace in Ludwigsburg
- the locks in Stuttgart
- the caves of the Swabian Alb
