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This is a list of geographical features in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mountains. Black Forest ... List of places in Baden-Württemberg.
The following table shows the highest mountain, hill or high point in each of the natural regions or landscapes of Baden-Württemberg. In the landscape column, large-scale or high Central Uplands are shown in bold, italics are used to indicate landscapes or local areas of upland or valleys, sometimes dominated by just an isolated hill.
Baden-Württemberg (/ ˌ b ɑː d ən ˈ v ɜːr t ə m b ɜːr ɡ / BAH-dən VURT-əm-burg; [6] German: [ˌbaːdn̩ ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ⓘ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state (Land) in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
The climate in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is very varied. Between Ihringen, the place with the highest annual average temperature in Germany, and the summit of the Feldberg, both the warmest and the coldest places in Baden-Württemberg lie in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. Climatically, the district is one of the warmest regions in Germany: its mean ...
Tübingen (German: [ˈtyːbɪŋən] ⓘ; Swabian: Dibenga) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.It is situated 30 km (19 mi) south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers.
In the 10th century, the Breisgau was a county within the Duchy of Swabia, ruled by the Zähringen family. In the 12th century, they detached themselves from Swabia, establishing the Margraviate of Baden. In the Breisgau, the dukes of Zähringen founded Freiburg, which became their chief city. Arms of Further Austria (Vorderösterreich)
The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried (the northeastern section of the Rhine rift) to the west, the Main and the Bauland (a mostly unwooded area with good soils) to the east, the Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin – a subbasin of the Upper Rhine Rift Valley in the Rhine-Main Lowlands – to the north and the Kraichgau to the south.
Chapel of Ehrenstetten in the Markgräflerland with typical landscape. Markgräflerland (German: [ˈmaʁkɡʁɛːflɐˌlant]) is a region in the southwest of Germany, in the south of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, located between the Breisgau in the north and the Black Forest in the east; adjacent to west with France and in the south with Switzerland.