Weingarten (Baden)

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Location of Weingarten in Germany

Weingarten (Baden) is a village and municipality in the district of Karlsruhe in South-Western Germany with approx. 9,000 inhabitants, 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.

Weingarten railway-station

The village is connected by Bundesstraße (federal road) B 3 and the railroad Frankfurt am Main-Basel. Closeby is Bundesautobahn (motorway) A 5 Karlsruhe-Frankfurt am Main.

The village has got 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 some 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, Sohl and Waldbrücke. 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.