Ortenaukreis

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Ortenaukreis

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State:	Baden-Württemberg
Capital:	Offenburg } } |- | Area:||1,860.74 km² |- | Inhabitants:||412,184 (2002) |- | pop. density:||222 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||OG |- | Homepage:||http://www.ortenaukreis.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Ortenaukreis is a district (Kreis) in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (clockwise from north) Rastatt, Freudenstadt, Rottweil, Schwarzwald-Baar and Emmendingen. To the west it borders the French Bas-Rhin département. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Partnerships 4 Coat of arms 5 Cities and Towns 6 External links History The district was created in 1973 by merging the districts Kehl, Lahr, Offenburg, Wolfach and the southern part of the district Bühl. Geography The western part of the district is located in the upper Rhine valley, the east is part of the northern Black Forest. The highest elevation of the district, the Hornisgrinde (1164m), is located in the north-east of the district. The lowest elevation (124.3m) is in the Rhine valley to the north. Partnerships The district has a friendship with the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia. Offenburg district already had a city partnership with Altenburg so, after German reunification in 1990, Ortenaukreis chose to help modernize the Altenburger Land administration to the west German standard. France and Germany are negotiating the creation of a Eurodistrict straddling the Rhine and combining Ortenaukreis and Greater Strasbourg, with an overall population of 860,000. Coat of arms The coat of arms is identical with that of the former Offenburg, and is based on the coat of arms of the Ortenau canton of the League of Imperial Knights. It shows an imperial eagle with two heads, which also stands for the free imperial cities of Offenburg, Gengenbach and Zell. In an escutcheon on the breast of the eagle is the patron Saint George, depicted killing the dragon. Cities and Towns Cities Administrative districts Towns Achern Ettenheim Gengenbach Haslach (Kinzigtal) Hausach Hornberg Kehl Lahr (Schwarzwald) Mahlberg Oberkirch Offenburg Oppenau Renchen Rheinau (Baden) Wolfach Zell am Harmersbach Achern Ettenheim Gengenbach Haslach Hausach Kappelrodeck Lahr Oberes Renchtal Oberkirch Offenburg Seelbach Schwanau Wolfach Zell Appenweier Bad Peterstal-Griesbach Berghaupten Biberach (Lahr) Durbach Fischerbach Friesenheim Gutach (Schwarzwaldbahn) Hofstetten Hohberg Kappel-Grafenhausen Kappelrodeck Kippenheim Lauf (Baden) Lautenbach Meißenheim Mühlenbach Neuried Nordrach Oberharmersbach Oberwolfach Ohlsbach Ortenberg Ottenhöfen (Schwarzwald) Ringsheim Rust (Baden) Sasbach Sasbachwalden Schuttertal Schutterwald Schwanau Seebach Seelbach Steinach Willstätt 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: