"Castle is an early Baroque castle in Dellmensingen. Erbach an der Donau Erbach an der Donau is a town on the Danube River in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Located in the Alb-Donau District, Erbach lies between Ulm and Ehingen an der Donau on the southern edge of the Swabian Jura. Erbach was first mentioned in the Konstanz Tithe Book in 1275 as a parish called ""Irlebach"", although findings dating from the Neolithic Age indicate the area around Erbach was settled earlier. Erbach received town privileges on 1 August 2002. In 1972 the community Ringingen was incorporated into Erbach. In the course of"
"Danube-Auen National Park Donau-Auen National Park () covers 93 square kilometres in Vienna and Lower Austria and is one of the largest remaining floodplains of the Danube in Middle Europe. The German word Aue (variant Au) means ""river island, wetland, floodplain, riparian woodland"", i.e. a cultivated landscape in a riparian zone. The words Aue and Au occur in a large number of German place names—including Donau, the German word for the Danube River—and refer to forests, meadows, and wetlands in river and stream lowlands and floodplains. The Danube-Auen National Park protects a large area of lowland forests, meadows, wetlands, and"
"Mühlheim an der Donau Mühlheim an der Donau (or alternatively in English ""Mühlheim on the Danube"") is a town in the district Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the Danube, 7 km northeast of Tuttlingen. While today the largest part of the city is on the right bank of the Danube, the city ""Mühlheim"" was founded on the left bank, where the old part of town is still to be found. There a spring provides enough water year-round to drive millwheels. There is evidence that watermills were built here as early as the Roman imperium. The place takes"
"on both land and water, and other invertebrates, the total number of species in Donau-Auen National Park is estimated to be at least 5,000. Danube-Auen National Park Donau-Auen National Park () covers 93 square kilometres in Vienna and Lower Austria and is one of the largest remaining floodplains of the Danube in Middle Europe. The German word Aue (variant Au) means ""river island, wetland, floodplain, riparian woodland"", i.e. a cultivated landscape in a riparian zone. The words Aue and Au occur in a large number of German place names—including Donau, the German word for the Danube River—and refer to forests,"
"Donaukanal The Donaukanal (""Danube Canal"") is a former arm of the river Danube, now regulated as a water channel (since 1598), within the city of Vienna, Austria. It is long and, unlike the Danube itself, it borders Vienna's city centre, Innere Stadt, where the Wien River (""Wienfluss"") flows into it. The Donaukanal bifurcates from the main river at the Nußdorf weir and lock complex, in Döbling, and joins it again just upstream of the ""Praterspitz"", at the Prater park in Simmering. The island thus formed between the Donaukanal and the Danube holds 2 of the 23 districts of Vienna: Brigittenau"
"Austrian professional and amateur bands are invited but from year to year the organisers invite bands from the neighbouring countries. The banks of the Donaukanal were immortalized by Heinz Conrads in his song ""A schräge Wiesn"" (""A Sloping Lawn""; later covered by Willi Resetarits and Rainhard Fendrich), where the hero, Franz, chooses not to go on holiday. Instead, he spends his spare time napping on the grassy slopes next to the Donaukanal. Donaukanal The Donaukanal (""Danube Canal"") is a former arm of the river Danube, now regulated as a water channel (since 1598), within the city of Vienna, Austria. It"
"(20th District) and Leopoldstadt (2nd District). The canal is crossed by 15 road bridges and 5 rail bridges. Because in German, the name ""Kanal"", which has been used since about 1700, evokes associations of an open sewer, attempts at renaming the Donaukanal have been made (one suggestion was ""Kleine Donau""—""Little Danube"") but have not met with success. The name """"Donaukanal"""" (""Danube Canal""), has been used since 1686, for the southern branch of the River Danube in Vienna. Originally a natural branch, during 1598–1600, it was regulated for the first time by Baron von Hoyos. In the 19th century, the Schwimmtor,"
"down the Danube to Budapest or Belgrade, whence they set off on foot for their new homes. The colonists were generally the younger sons of poor farming families, who saw little chance of success at home. Under Maria Theresa, they received financial support and long-term tax relief. Many of the earliest immigrants never married, since few German women traveled among them. Craftsmen were financially encouraged, as were teachers, doctors, and other professionals. Over the decades and more, the German spoken by these colonists became separate from that developing in Germany, particularly after its unification. It became known as Donau-Swabian, an"
"Neuburg an der Donau Neuburg an der Donau, literally ""Newcastle on the river Danube"", is a town which is the capital of the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany. The municipality has 16 divisions: Neuburg was originally an episcopal see. In the 10th century it passed to the counts of Scheyern and through them to Bavaria, being ceded to the Rhenish Palatinate at the close of a war in 1507. From 1557 to 1742 it was the capital of a small principality ruled by a cadet branch of the family of the elector palatine of the Rhine."
"of Baden): “Danube, the biggest river of Germany, rises at the Martinskapelle in a wild and lonely area of the Black Forest, is called Brege at its origin and forms the river Danube in Donaueschingen where it is unified with the Brigach."" (German original: „Donau, der größte Fluß Deutschlands, entspringt bei der Martinskapelle in einer wilden und einsamen Gegend des Schwarzwaldes, heißt am Anfang Brege… und bildet erst in Donaueschingen, wo sie sich mit der Brigach vereinigt, die Donau.“) The identification of the main spring in the uppermost Bregtal (also called Katzensteig) is dependent on a defining convention: Instead of"
"Donauwörth Donauwörth ) is a town and the capital of the Donau-Ries district in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is said to have been founded by two fishermen where the rivers Danube (Donau) and Wörnitz meet. The city is part of the scenic route called ""Romantische Straße"" (Romantic Road) The city is situated between Munich and Nuremberg, 46 km north of Augsburg. Donauwörth grew up in the course of the 11th and 12th centuries under the protection of the castle of Mangoldstein, became in the 13th century a seat of Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria, who, however, soon withdrew to Munich"
"suffix ""-ouwe"" ""wetland"". The modern languages spoken in the Danube basin all use names related to ""Dānuvius"": (); (); , (); Classified as an international waterway, it originates in the town of Donaueschingen, in the Black Forest of Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg. The Danube then flows southeast for about , passing through four capital cities (Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade) before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine. Once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, the river passes through or touches the borders of 10 countries: Romania"
"the Danube at Donauwörth, where they were surprised by Marlborough's troops and after heavy fighting pulled back. This allowed Marlborough to capture Donauwörth and cross the Danube without any problem. About 5,000 French troops drowned while trying to escape. Another battle of Donauwörth on 7 October 1805 opened Napoleon's Ulm Campaign. Donauwörth is twinned with: Donauwörth Donauwörth ) is a town and the capital of the Donau-Ries district in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is said to have been founded by two fishermen where the rivers Danube (Donau) and Wörnitz meet. The city is part of the scenic route called ""Romantische"
"Tulln an der Donau Tulln an der Donau (Tulln on the Danube) is a historic town in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, the administrative seat of Tulln District. Because of its abundance of parks and gardens, Tulln is often referred to as ""Blumenstadt"" (""City of Flowers""). The town is situated in the centre of the Tulln Basin stretching to the Vienna Woods in the south, about northwest of the Austrian capital Vienna. The main part of its built-up area is located on the southern bank of the Danube river. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Frauenhofen, Langenlebarn-Oberaigen,"
"speakers call it ""Duitsland"", both from *""þeudō"" ""people or nation"" (see Theodiscus and Teutons). Several modern languages use the name ""Germania"", including Hebrew (גרמניה), Italian (Germania), Albanian (Gjermania), Bulgarian (Германия), Maltese (Ġermanja), Greek (Γερμανία), Romanian (Germania), Russian (Германия), Armenian (Գերմանիա) and Georgian (გერმანია). Germania extended from the Rhine eastward to the Vistula river, and from the Danube river northward to the Baltic Sea. The areas west of the Rhine were mainly Celtic (specifically Gaulish) and became part of the Roman Empire in the first century BC. The Roman parts of Germania, ""Lesser Germania"", eventually formed two provinces of the empire,"
"The Galluschurch is Mühlheim's cemetery church. Parts of the building are Romanesque and date from the 10th and 11th centuries. The interior has frescos from the 14th and 15th centuries. The yellow rock offers a fantastic view on the meandering Danube valley. Mühlheim an der Donau Mühlheim an der Donau (or alternatively in English ""Mühlheim on the Danube"") is a town in the district Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the Danube, 7 km northeast of Tuttlingen. While today the largest part of the city is on the right bank of the Danube, the city ""Mühlheim"" was founded"
"Danube Hills The Danube Hills (), also variously called the Vorderer Forest, Anterior Bavarian Forest or Vorderer Wald (""Vordere Bayerische Wald""), is part of the Bavarian Forest, a low mountain range in Germany. In older geographical-regional literature the German name ""Vordere Bayerische Wald"" was applied to the whole southern chain of the Bavarian/Bohemian mountains between the Danube and the Regen, from the Keilberg Depression near Regensburg to the Austro-German border near Passau. Bernhard Grueber and Adalbert Müller described it in 1846 as the ""äußern Wald"" ('outer forest') ""named the Regen Mountains by the geographers"". Others chose the name Danube Hills"
"UNESCO World Heritage cities of Regensburg, Wachau and Vienna. Danube The Danube ( ), known by various names in other languages, is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga. It is located in Central and Eastern Europe. The Danube was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, and today flows through 10 countries, more than any other river in the world. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , passing through or touching the border of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine"
"Dillingen an der Donau Dillingen, or Dillingen an der Donau (Dillingen on the Danube) is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative center of the district of Dillingen. Besides the town of Dillingen proper, the municipality encompasses the villages of Donaualtheim, Fristingen, Hausen, Kicklingen, Schretzheim and Steinheim. Schretzheim is notable for its 6th to 7th century Alemannic cemetery, 630 row graves in an area of 100 by 140 metres. The counts of Dillingen ruled from the 10th to the 13th century; in 1258 the territory was turned over to the Prince Bishops of Augsburg. After the Reformation,"
"these eight territories, Donaustadt also contains a ninth area, Donau City (officially part of Kaisermühlen), which is between the Alte Donau (""Old Danube"") and Neue Donau (""New Danube""). It was constructed recently, consisting of many modern buildings and skyscrapers, of which most contain offices. In addition, another area of Donaustadt, Lobau, contains a large forest and meadow. Altogether, about 59% of the district is greenery, which is 30% of all the green spaces in all of Vienna. The area went through a dramatic change as a result of the 1870–1875 legislation Wiener Donauregulierung. Were the original Danube to branch out"
"(1591–1606), the Battle of Vienna (1683), the Great Turkish War (1683–1699), the Crimean War (1853–1856) and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Along its course, the Danube is a source of drinking water for about 20 million people. In Baden-Württemberg, Germany, almost 30 percent (as of 2004) of the water for the area between Stuttgart, Bad Mergentheim, Aalen and Alb-Donau (district) comes from purified water of the Danube. Other cities such as Ulm and Passau also use some water from the Danube. In Austria and Hungary, most water is drawn from ground and spring sources, and only in rare cases is water"
"of the Danube."" Source of the Danube The Danube is conventionally taken to be formed by the confluence of the two streams Brigach and Breg just east of Donaueschingen. Known as the source of the Danube (""Donauquelle"") the source of the ""Donaubach"" in Donaueschingen itself. Hydrologically, the source of the Danube is the source of the Breg as the larger of the two formative streams, which rises near Furtwangen. There was an active rivalry between the municipalities of Furtwangen and Donaueschingen for the claim of being home to the ""official"" source of the Danube since the 1950s, sometimes with the"
"dedicated to the museum as well as in bulk box Essling the Battle of Aspern. In 1972, Lobaumuseum was founded for information on the ecology of Lobau and the Danube Auen and on the local flora and fauna. Moreover, the history of Lobau and the work of General Field Marshal Archduke Karl are represented. Donaustadt Donaustadt (; literally, Danube City) is the 22nd district of Vienna, Austria (). Donaustadt is the eastern district of Vienna. The Donaustadt district is situated in the northeast part of Vienna and is the largest of the districts by area, occupying about one-quarter of the"
"Rhine–Main–Danube Canal The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: ""Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal""; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), in Bavaria, Germany, connects the Main and the Danube rivers across the European Watershed, running from Bamberg via Nuremberg to Kelheim. The canal connects the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, providing a navigable artery between the Rhine delta (at Rotterdam in the Netherlands), and the Danube Delta in south-eastern Romania and south-western Ukraine (or Constanța, through the Danube–Black Sea Canal). The present canal was completed in 1992 and is long. Projects for connecting the Danube and Rhine basins by canal"
"Oberdonaukreis The Oberdonaukreis (German: Upper Danube District) was one of the 15 administrative districts (German: Bezirke or Regierungsbezirke) of the Kingdom of Bavaria between 1806 and 1837 named after its main river Danube. It was the predecessor of the ""Regierungsbezirk Schwaben"" (Administrative District of Swabia). The district was divided in the following judicial districts (""Landgerichte""), according to the original borders of the districts of the former territories (""Herrschaftsgerichte""): In the years between 1806 and 1808 the Kingdom of Bavaria was divided into 15 districts. Their names were taken from their main rivers. The ""Oberdonaukreis"", with Ulm as its capital, was"
"Donauinsel The Donauinsel (Danube Island) is a long, narrow island in central Vienna, Austria, lying between the Danube river and the parallel excavated channel ""Neue Donau"" (""New Danube""). The island is in length, but is only wide. The New Danube waterway is practically an elongated (swimming) lake, technically a diluvian bed. It has been described as an ""autobahn for swimmers"", due to its use by people commuting to work. To most visitors, the island is known as a recreational area with bars, restaurants and nightclubs. It has sports opportunities from rollerblading, cycling and swimming to canoeing. There is one beach"
"Passau Passau (') is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt (""City of Three Rivers"") because the Danube is joined there by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north. Passau's population is 50,000, of whom about 12,000 are students at the University of Passau, renowned in Germany for its institutes of economics, law, theology, computer science and cultural studies. In the 2nd century BC, many of the Boii tribe were pushed north across the Alps out of northern Italy by the Romans. They established a new capital called Boiodurum by the Romans"
"often persecuted by the Communist government. After the fall of communism in 1989, the Transdanubian Germans received minority rights, organisations, schools, and local councils and maintained their own regional dialect of German. However, the Germans are gradually being assimilated. Swabian Turkey The term Swabian Turkey (, ) describes a region in southeastern Transdanubia in Hungary delimited by the Danube (""Donau""), the Drava (""Drau""), and Lake Balaton (""Plattensee"") inhabited by an ethnic German minority. This present-day minority, the largest German-speaking minority in Hungary, primarily lives in the counties of Tolna (""Tolnau""), Baranya (""Branau""), and Somogy (""Schomodei"") and are regarded as Danube"
"be citizens of the city, but lived outside the fortification. Wöhr was also the headquarters of the noble family of the Lords of Wöhr and the ducal Urbar Office ""ze Become"". Neustadt an der Donau Neustadt an der Donau is a town in Lower Bavaria on the Danube in Bavaria, Germany. Lying on the western border of Landkreis Kelheim, Neustadt is primarily known for the thermal spa Bad Gögging. Neustadt had a population of 12,753 as of December 31, 2003. The city is located halfway between Ingolstadt and Regensburg, on an approximately 5 km wide gravel plain of the Danube"
"March 2014 showed the following results: Dillingen an der Donau Dillingen, or Dillingen an der Donau (Dillingen on the Danube) is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative center of the district of Dillingen. Besides the town of Dillingen proper, the municipality encompasses the villages of Donaualtheim, Fristingen, Hausen, Kicklingen, Schretzheim and Steinheim. Schretzheim is notable for its 6th to 7th century Alemannic cemetery, 630 row graves in an area of 100 by 140 metres. The counts of Dillingen ruled from the 10th to the 13th century; in 1258 the territory was turned over to the Prince"
"Danube The Danube ( ), known by various names in other languages, is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga. It is located in Central and Eastern Europe. The Danube was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, and today flows through 10 countries, more than any other river in the world. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , passing through or touching the border of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more countries. The Danube river basin is home to"
"Dürnstein Dürnstein is a small town on the Danube river in the Krems-Land district, in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is one of the most-visited tourist destinations in the Wachau region and also a well-known wine growing area. The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden of ""Dürnstein, Oberloiben"", and ""Unterloiben"". The town gained its name from the medieval Dürnstein castle, which overlooked it. The castle's name derived from the German ""duerr/dürr"", meaning ""dry"", and ""Stein"", ""stone"". The castle was dry because it was on a rocky hill, high above the damp conditions of the Danube at the base of"
"Source of the Danube The Danube is conventionally taken to be formed by the confluence of the two streams Brigach and Breg just east of Donaueschingen. Known as the source of the Danube (""Donauquelle"") the source of the ""Donaubach"" in Donaueschingen itself. Hydrologically, the source of the Danube is the source of the Breg as the larger of the two formative streams, which rises near Furtwangen. There was an active rivalry between the municipalities of Furtwangen and Donaueschingen for the claim of being home to the ""official"" source of the Danube since the 1950s, sometimes with the involvement of the"