Place:Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Place Information
Name
Baden-Württemberg
Alternate names
Baden-Württemberg     (Getty Vocabulary Program)
Württemberg-Baden     (Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 360)
Type
Modern State
Coordinates
47.95°N 9.9°E
Located in
Germany     (1952 - )
See also
Baden, Germany     (Parent)
Hohenzollern, Preußen, Germany     (Parent)
Württemberg, Germany     (Parent)
Contained Places

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Inhabited place
Uberlingen
Regierungsbezirk
Freiburg
Karlsruhe
Stuttgart
Tübingen
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source: Family History Library Catalog
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Baden-Württemberg is a state of the Federal Republic of Germany in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine. It is third largest in both area and population among the country's sixteen states, with an area of 35,742 km² and 10.7 million inhabitants. The state capital is Stuttgart.

History

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This state combines the historical states of Baden, Hohenzollern and Württemberg.

After World War II the Allied forces established three states: Württemberg-Baden (occupied by the USA), Württemberg-Hohenzollern (France) and Baden (France). In 1949 these three states became parts of the Federal Republic of Germany. Article 118 of the new German constitution however allowed for those states to merge. After a plebiscite held in 1952 these states merged into Baden-Württemberg.

In 1956 the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that the plebiscite was unlawful because it had disadvantaged Baden's population. The plebiscite was then held again within the area of former Baden in 1970 resulting in a majority of more than 81% for the new state.

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