Rastatt (district)

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Rastatt

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State:	Baden-Württemberg
Capital:	Rastatt } } |- | Area:||738.77 km² |- | Inhabitants:||224,958 (2002) |- | pop. density:||305 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||RA |- | Homepage:||http://www.landkreis-rastatt.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Rastatt is a district (Kreis) in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Karlsruhe, Calw, Freudenstadt and the Ortenaukreis. To the west it borders the French département Bas-Rhin. The district-free city Baden-Baden is completely surrounded by the district. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Partnerships 4 Coat of arms 5 Cities and towns 6 External links History The district was created in 1939 as the successor of the Oberamt Rastatt and later the Großkreis Baden. In 1973 it was merged with the majority of the neighboring district Bühl, and some small parts of the district Kehl. Geography The district is located in the Rhine valley, the south-east part however is already part of the northern Black Forest. The highest elevation is the Hornisgrinde. Partnerships Since 1968 the district has partnership with the Finnish city Vantaa. The partnership with the Italian Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino was started in 1996. Coat of arms The top-left corner of the coat of arms show a wine ladder, the symbol of the city Rastatt. The grapes in the top-right symbolize the viticulture in the area around Bühl. The red bar on yellow ground in the bottom-right is the symbol of Baden, and the rose in bottom-left is the symbol of the dukes of Eberstein. Cities and towns Cities Towns Bühl Gaggenau Gernsbach Kuppenheim Lichtenau Rastatt Au (Rhine) Bietigheim (Baden) Bischweier Bühlertal Durmersheim Elchesheim-Illingen Forbach Hügelsheim Iffezheim Loffenau Muggensturm Ötigheim Ottersweier Rheinmünster Sinzheim Steinmauern Weisenbach Administrative districts Bischweier-Kuppenheim Bühl Durmersheim Gernsbach Rastatt Rheinmünster-Lichtenau Sinzheim 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: