Weingarten (Baden)
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Weingarten (Baden) is a village in the district of Karlsruhe in South-Western Germany with approx. 9,000 inhabitants, situated at the transition from the Kraichgau to the Rhine valley. Its name means vine garden in German.
While remains of a settlement from Roman or earlier times have been found nearby, the village itself developed from a farm belonging to the Wissembourg monastery in Northern Alsace; 985 A.D. is considered to be the village's founding year.
The population is about half protestant, half catholic.
The village is connected by Bundesstraße (federal road) B 3 and the railroad Frankfurt am Main-Basel. Closeby is Bundesautobahn (motorway) A 5 Karlsruhe-Frankfurt am Main.
The village has got its own elementary and secondary school; further schools are in the neighbouring cities of Karlsruhe, Bruchsal and Stutensee.
Business branches in the village are wine and fruit production, gastronomy, and some industries (wood, chemicals, metal).
For recreation, there are sports fields, an indoor swimming pool, a recreational lake, and the nature reserve Weingartener Moor.
External link
- Official homepage (http://www.weingarten-baden.de/)de:Weingarten (Baden)