Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis

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Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis

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State:	Baden-Württemberg
Capital:	Villingen-Schwenningen } } |- | Area:||1,025.23 km² |- | Inhabitants:||211,732 (2004) |- | pop. density:||207 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||VS |- | Homepage:||http://www.schwarzwald-baar-kreis.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Schwarzwald-Baar is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ortenaukreis, Rottweil, Tuttlingen, Constance, the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, and the districts Waldshut, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Emmendingen. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Cities and towns 5 External links History The district was created in 1973, when the two districts Donaueschingen and Villingen were merged. Geography The district got its name from the two predominant landscapes in the district. The Black Forest (Schwarzwald), and the Baar, the foothills between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb. The river Danube as well as the Neckar have their spring in the district. Coat of arms The coat of arms is modeled after the two coat of arms of the cities Villingen and Schwenningen. Villingen had a horizontally divided blue-and-white arms, while Schwenningen had a vertically divided blue-and-white arms. Combining both divisions give the four fields. The eagle in the top-left quarter is taken from the coat of arms of the city Villingen, and derives from the Zähringen family who ruled that city in the 13th century. Cities and towns Cities Administrative districts Towns Bad Dürrheim Blumberg Bräunlingen Donaueschingen Furtwangen im Schwarzwald Hüfingen Sankt Georgen (Black Forest) Triberg im Schwarzwald Villingen-Schwenningen Vöhrenbach Donaueschingen Furtwangen Raumschaft Triberg Villingen-Schwenningen Brigachtal Dauchingen Gütenbach Königsfeld im Schwarzwald Mönchweiler Niedereschach Schonach im Schwarzwald Schönwald im Schwarzwald Tuningen Unterkirnach 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: