Donauwörth

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base data
Land of the Federal Republic:	Bavaria
governmental district:	Swabia
district:	Danube Ries
surface:	77.02 km ²
inhabitants:	18296 (30. September 2003)
Population density:	238 inhabitants for each km ²
height:	401 m and. NN
postal zip code:	86609
preselection:	0906
geographical situation:	Coordinates: 48° 42 ' 0 " N, 10° 48 ' 0 " O 48° 42 ' 0 " N, 10° 48 ' 0 " O
Kfz characteristics:	DON
municipality key:	09 7 79 131
address of the local administration:	City hall lane 1 86609 Donauwörth
official Website:	City Donauwörth
E-Mail address:
Politics
mayor:	Armin Neudert (CSU)

Donauwörth is a large district town at the Danube in the governmental district Swabia in Bavaria.

1 geography
- 1,1 geographical location
- of 1,2 city arrangement
2 history
3 objects of interest
of 4 recurring celebrations and meetings into and around Donauwörth
5 personalities
of 6 sons and daughters of the city
7 economicsand traffic
- 7,1 traffic
- 7,2 residents enterprise
8 partnerships between cities
9 literature
10 Web on the left of

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geography

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geographical location

you is because of the deltas of Wörnitz, Zusam and Schmutter into the Danube. About 9 km east of Donauwörth that flows Lech into the Danube. The city is because of the eastern Ausläufern of the Swabian Alb.

Height and. NN: 401-517 m

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city arrangement

the municipality has 9 quarters:

Auchsesheim
mountain
north home

park city
Riedlingen
sheep stable

Wörnitzstein
Zirgesheim
Zusum

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history

Already around 500 there are first settlement cores in the today's Ried. In the course of the preparations to the battle on the Lechfeld 955 the first bridge develops over the Danube. In the year 1049 the monastery is integrated holy cross, at that time still into the castle one Goldstein,by Pope Leo IX. geweiht. In the year 1193 will becomes by emperors Heinrich VI. to the city raised.

View over the city

1178 - 1266 are assigned the city as Reichslehen directly to the dominant pilotfar from, which pawn her to 1266 to the duchy Bavaria. The einköpfige Stauferadlerremains representing in the Stadtwappen to 1530, when it is replaced by the doppelköpfigen realm eagle.

1256 left the Wittelsbacher duke Ludwig II. behead his Mrs. Maria von Brabant from unsettled motives as Ehebrecherin in Donauwörth. Regular theatre performances also today still bring the tragic occurence in memory.

1301 become the city realm-free, i.e. the free realm city and thus directly the emperor subject.

In the years 1444 - 1473 develop the city parish church to our love woman in place of the become too small sank for Ulrichskirche.

In the consequence of religion confusions, in thosethe city the thing of the reformation had supported, comes it 1607, to the cross and flag combat in such a way specified at the Markustag 1606, under realm eight and from duke Maximilian from Bavaria into Bavarian pledge possession is converted. As reaction to this Okkupation the Protestant closeRealm conditions 1608 to the Protestant union together. 1632 become the city of Gustav II. Adolf conquers.

Before end of the Second World War the city in two air raids at the 11 becomes short. and 19. April 1945 particularly within the range of the station and the realm road heavily destroys. ThatReconstruction of the historical realm road begins 1946.

Donauwörth holds barracks an important garrison of the German Federal Armed Forces with the Alfreds Delp -.

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objects of interest

German medal house

dear woman Mrs

holy cross

realm road

Riedertor

German medal house, 1197 in Donauwörth one of the oldest addresses of the German knight medal was created
City hall with bell play
Münster to our dear wife, dreischiffige gothical brick resounding church
monastery holy cross, which is pilgrimage church an example of the latebaroque Wessobrunner school, there a Monstranz with a particle of the cross Christi kept.
Realm road, ensemble of civil Giebelhäuser and partthe “romantic road”
dance house, over 1400 delighted urban purchase and dance house, late grain memory
Rieder gate
free light stage to one gold rock, each year in the summer in each case 2 different productions
cross way at the Kalvarienberg
ruin of the “castle to Wörth”

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returning celebrations and meetings in and overDonauwörth

Schwäbischwerder child day (annual)
“picture book of the urban history”: over 1000 pupils in historical garbs play history after the city (in the context “Schwäbischwerder child daily”) (every 2 years, there since 2005 in the change with the “removal Schwäbischwerder child daily”)
handing race celebration (every 2 years)
free light stage at one gold rock
the Pitzbrunnen celebration(every 2 years)

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personalities

Werner Egk, composer, in the today's quarter Auchsesheim was born. Of it the charm playing the violin well and the Werner Egk meeting place in Donauwörth remind.
Käthe Kruse, Puppenmacherin, nut/mother of the writer max of Kruse.

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sons and daughters thatCity

Sebastian Franck, German chronicler, journalist, geo count and proverb collecting tank and is considered as the most important mystische writer 16. Jhdt.
Carolin hung, German light athlete (Stabhochsprung)
Manfred G. Schmidt, German Politologe
Werner Egk, German composer
George forge, state secretary of the Bavarian ministry of the Interior

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