Weingarten
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municipality in Landkreis Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Baden-Württemberg
- Admin region
- Karlsruhe
- District
- Karlsruhe
- Mayor 2018 26
- Eric Bänziger
- Total
- 29.38 km (11.34 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 144 m (472 ft)
- Density
- 358.5/km (928.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 07244
- Vehicle registration
- KA
- Website
- www.weingarten-baden.de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Weingarten (Baden) ( German pronunciation: [ˈvaɪnɡaʁtn̩] ) is a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe in southwestern Germany, situated at the transition from the Kraichgau to the Rhine valley. Its name means wine garden in German. Weingarten is located on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.
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 is considered to be the village's founding year. Until 1803, Weingarten belonged to the Electorate of the Palatinate; in the course of the Napoleonic Wars it became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Weingarten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.