Emmendingen (district)

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Emmendingen

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State:	Baden-Württemberg
Capital:	Emmendingen } } |- | Area:||679.93 km² |- | Inhabitants:||153,624 (2002) |- | pop. density:||226 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||EM |- | Homepage:||http://www.landkreis-emmendingen.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Emmendingen is a district (Kreis) in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ortenaukreis, Schwarzwald-Baar, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and the district-free city Freiburg. To the west it borders the French département Bas-Rhin. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Cities and towns 5 External links History The district dates back to the Bezirksamt Emmendingen, which was created in 1803 when the area became part of Baden. After several additions it was converted into the district Emmendingen in 1936, when it was merged with the Amt Waldkirch. In the communal reform of 1973 the district wasn't changed - at first it was planned to merge it with the district Lahr, but that was merged into the Ortenaukreis instead. Geography The western part of the district is located in the upper Rhine valley, including the small volcanic mountain Kaiserstuhl. This extinct volcano is one of the climatic best regions of Germany, with wine grapes growing on its sunny slopes. The eastern part of the district belongs to the Black Forest. Coat of arms The left side of the coat of arms show the symbol of Baden. The six-topped mountain in the top right is the symbol of the Lords of Schwarzenberg, who ruled over the land around Elzach and Waldkirch; the wing in the bottom right is the symbol of the Lords of Üsenberg, who owned the land around Endingen, Herbolzheim and Kenzingen. Cities and towns Cities Towns Elzach Emmendingen Endingen (Kaiserstuhl) Herbolzheim Kenzingen Waldkirch Bahlingen (Kaiserstuhl) Biederbach Denzlingen Forchheim am Kaiserstuhl Freiamt Gutach (Breisgau) Malterdingen Reute (Breisgau) Rheinhausen (Breisgau) Riegel am Kaiserstuhl Sasbach (Breisgau) Sexau Simonswald Teningen Vörstetten Weisweil Winden (Elztal) Wyhl (Kaiserstuhl) Administrative districts Denzlingen-Vörstetten-Reute Elzach Emmendingen Kenzingen-Herbolzheim Nördlicher Kaiserstuhl Waldkirch External links [Official website] (German) Cities and districts in the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg in Germany Cities Baden-Baden · Freiburg · Heidelberg · Heilbronn · Karlsruhe · Mannheim · Pforzheim · Stuttgart · Ulm Rural districts Alb-Donau · Biberach · Bodensee · Böblingen · Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald · Calw · Konstanz (Constance) · Emmendingen · Enz · Esslingen · Freudenstadt · Göppingen · Heidenheim · Heilbronn (district) · Hohenlohe · Karlsruhe (district) · Lörrach · Ludwigsburg · Main-Tauber · Neckar-Odenwald · Ortenau · Ostalbkreis · Rastatt · Ravensburg · Rems-Murr · Reutlingen · Rhein-Neckar · Rottweil · Schwarzwald-Baar · Schwäbisch Hall · Sigmaringen · Tuttlingen · Tübingen · Waldshut · Zollernalb   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: