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Weil der Stadt is a small town of somewhat less than 20,000 inhabitants, located in the Stuttgart Region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is about 30 km west of the Stuttgart city center, and is often called "Gate to the Black Forest". Weil der Stadt became an Imperial Free City in the 13th century, but had existed for centuries before as an important trading place. It was completely destroyed during the 30-years' War but was subsequently rebuilt, and the centre is still dominated by buildings from this period. The city fortifications are still nearly intact. Weil der Stadt is best known for being the birth place of both the astronomer Johannes Kepler and the Protestant reformer Johannes Brenz of Württemberg. The association with Kepler is the reason for the town's unofficial title ('The Kepler Town Weil der Stadt'). Due to its surroundings and attractive cityscape, Weil der Stadt is a popular destination for excursions in the Stuttgart region. NameThe original settlement was named Vila, from the Latin vil, or town. This evolved into Weil. Later the suffix "die Stadt" (the town) was added to distinguish the town from other villages of the same name. The unusual grammar in the current form of the name derives from the German dative case: The place of issue in official documents was usually given as "gegeben zu Weil, der Stadt" ("issued in Weil, the town").EventsWeil der Stadt is a stronghold of traditional carnival. In contrast to the carnival in Cologne, the carnival in Weil der Stadt is more subdued due to the authorities in the Stuttgart area restricting excessive public festivals.Weil escaped destruction in World War II when a French artillery barrage was called off in honor of its being Kepler's birthplace. External links
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..... Click the link for more information. German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. Whenever a person changes their main place of residence in Germany, or buys a new car, they are required to buy new number plates. ..... Click the link for more information. Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen, abbreviated to PLZ), consist of five digits, which indicate the wider area (first two digits), and the postal district (last three digits). The present system was introduced on 1 July 1993. ..... Click the link for more information. Area codes in Germany (German Vorwahl) have two to five digits, not counting the leading zero. The leading zero must be dialed when calling from within Germany and must be omitted when calling from abroad. ..... Click the link for more information. A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. ..... Click the link for more information. geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ..... Click the link for more information. Stuttgart Region (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) consists of the city of Stuttgart and the surrounding districts of Ludwigsburg, Esslingen, Böblingen, Rems-Murr and Göppingen (each 10 - 20 km from Stuttgart city center). About 2.7 million inhabitants live in that area (3,700 km²). ..... Click the link for more information. Länder (singular Land). Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesländer (federal states; singular Bundesland ..... Click the link for more information. Baden-Württemberg Flag Coat of arms Details Location Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country Germany ..... Click the link for more information. Stuttgart Stuttgart Schlossplatz (Castle square) Coat of arms Location ..... Click the link for more information. Black Forest (German Schwarzwald) is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 meters (4,898 feet). ..... Click the link for more information. free imperial city (in German: freie Reichsstadt) was a city formally ruled by the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which belonged to a territory and were thus governed by one of the many princes (Fürsten) ..... Click the link for more information. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. In the history of European culture, this period is considered part of the High Middle Ages, and after its conquests in Asia the Mongol Empire stretched from Korea to ..... Click the link for more information. Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved most of the major European continental powers. Although it was ostensibly a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the rivalry between the Habsburg ..... Click the link for more information. Johannes Kepler A 1610 portrait of Johannes Kepler by an unknown artist Born November 27 1571 ..... Click the link for more information. Johann Brenz, the German theologian and Swabian Reformer, was born at Weil (8 m, s. of Stuttgart) June 24, 1499; died at Stuttgart September 11, 1570. Early Advocacy of the Reformation..... Click the link for more information.
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