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The name Baden-Württemberg was only intended as a temporary name, but ended up the official name of the state because no other name could be agreed upon. In May 1954, the Baden-Württemberg Landtag (legislature) decided on adoption of the following coat of arms: three black lions on a golden shield, framed by a deer and a griffin.
As a federated state, Baden-Württemberg is a partly-sovereign parliamentary republic. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm .
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Württemberg ( / ˈwɜːrtəmbɜːrɡ, ˈvɜːrt -/ WURT-əm-burg, VURT-; [1] German: [ˈvʏʁtəmbɛʁk] ⓘ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart . Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Württemberg now ...
6. Baden-Württemberg [ˌbaːdn̩ˈvʏrtəmbɛrk] ( Abkürzung BW; amtlich Land Baden-Württemberg) ist ein Land im Südwesten von Deutschland. [5] [6] Gemäß seiner Verfassung hat es die Staatsform einer parlamentarischen Republik und ist ein teilsouveräner Gliedstaat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
In 1952, the States of Württemberg-Baden, Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged to form a single cohesive State in Germany’s southwest. A historical stroke of fortune – as former German President Theodor Heuss emphasized. But the eventful history of the individual states in the Southwest stretches back much further.
The history of Baden-Württemberg covers the area included in the historical state of Baden, the former Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg, part of the region of Swabia since the 9th century. Old Castle (Stuttgart) In the 1st century AD, Württemberg was occupied by the Romans, who defended their control of the territory by constructing a ...
Baden-Württemberg, Land (state) in southwestern Germany. Baden-Württemberg is bordered by the states of Rhineland-Palatinate to the northwest, Hessen to the north, and Bavaria to the east and by the countries of Switzerland to the south and France to the west. The state’s capital is Stuttgart. Area 13,804 square miles (35,752 square km).
