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Weingarten
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town and urban municipality in the valley of the Schussen River, in the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Baden-Württemberg
- Admin region
- Tübingen
- District
- Ravensburg
- Municipal assoc
- Mittleres Schussental
- Lord mayor 2022 30
- Clemens Moll ( Ind. )
- Total
- 12.16 km (4.70 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 485 m (1,591 ft)
- Density
- 2,051/km (5,312/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 0751
- Vehicle registration
- RV
- Website
- www.weingarten-online.de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Weingarten ( German pronunciation: [ˈvaɪnɡaʁtn̩] ; Low Alemannic: Wãẽgaade; lit. 'Wine Garden') is a town with a population of 25,000 (as of 2020) in Württemberg, in the District of Ravensburg, in the valley of the Schussen River. Together with the southern neighbour cities of Ravensburg and Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance (Bodensee), it forms one of 14 medium-sized infrastructural centres in Baden-Württemberg. The town is seat of the University of Applied Sciences of Ravensburg-Weingarten (Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten) and of the Teachers' College of Weingarten (Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Weingarten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.