Weingarten (Baden)

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
image_photo = WeingartenBaden_Marktplatz.jpg
Wappen = Wappen Weingarten Baden.pnglat_deg = 49 |lat_min = 3 |lat_sec = 5
lon_deg = 8 |lon_min = 31 |lon_sec = 50
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk = Karlsruhe
Landkreis = Karlsruhe
Höhe = 144
Fläche = 29.40
Einwohner = 9686
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 76356
PLZ-alt = 7504
Vorwahl = 07244
Kfz = KA
Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 2 15 090
Adresse = Marktplatz 2
76356 Weingarten
Website = [http://www.weingarten-baden.de/ www.weingarten-baden.de]
Bürgermeister = Klaus-Dieter Scholz

Weingarten (Baden) is a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe in southwestern Germany, situated at the transition from the Kraichgau to the Rhine valley. Its name means vine garden in German.

While remains of a settlement from Roman or earlier times have been found nearby, the village itself developed from a farm belonging to the Wissembourg monastery in Northern Alsace; 985 A.D. is considered to be the village's founding year. Until 1803, Weingarten belonged to the Palatinate; in the course of the Napoleonic wars it became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden.

The population is about two thirds protestant, one third catholic.The village is connected by "Bundesstraße" (federal road) B 3 and the railroad Frankfurt am Main-Basel. Close by is "Bundesautobahn" (motorway) A 5 Karlsruhe-Frankfurt am Main.

The village has its own elementary and secondary school; further schools are in the neighbouring cities of Karlsruhe, Bruchsal and Stutensee.

Business branches in the village are wine and fruit production, gastronomy, and industries (wood, chemicals, metal).

For recreation, there are sports fields, an indoor swimming pool, a recreational lake, and the nature reserve "Weingartener Moor".Also part of the municipality are the settlements Sallenbusch and Sohl in the Kraichgau hills and Waldbrücke in the plain. The settlement of Sallenbusch was founded in June 1951 and constructed with the aid of U.S. soldiers. The first settlers arrived in July 1952.

Weingarten was the home of the NATO International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School through the 1980s and 90s until it moved to Pfullendorf

External links

* [http://www.weingarten-baden.de/ Official homepage]