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Augsburg
Augsburg, a district-free city in Bavaria and Germany's third-largest Bavarian city with about 308,000 residents, was founded by Rome in 15 BC, hosted the 1555 Peace of Augsburg, and holds the UNESCO-listed Water Management System and the Fuggerei.
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden, until 1931 simply Baden, is a Black Forest spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with twelve thermal springs (56–68.8 °C, 800,000 L/day), Roman origins as Aquae around 70 AD, and UNESCO World Heritage status since 2021 as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe.
Balingen
Balingen, seat of the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, is documented here through TSG Balingen von 1848 e.V., its >1250-member sports club, the Bizerba Arena football ground, and the town's 28 Kitas.
Bamberg
Bamberg is a county-independent town in Upper Franconia, northern Bavaria, on the Regnitz river, with about 77,000 residents. A prince-bishopric founded in 1007 by Henry II, its intact old town was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993.
Bayreuth
Bayreuth, a Bavarian city of about 72,500 residents, is known for the Baroque Margravial Opera House (UNESCO World Heritage, 2012), the Bayreuth Festival founded by Richard Wagner in 1876, and the University of Bayreuth.
Benningen
Benningen (Benningen am Neckar) is a municipality in the Ludwigsburg district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a Roman fort on the Neckar-Odenwald Limes built around 85 CE, garrisoned by the cohors XXIV voluntariorum, plus the medieval Annakirche.
Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden: Bavarian market town at the Watzmann, founded as an Augustinian abbey in 1102, ruled by prince-provosts until 1803, Bavarian since 1810; salt mined continuously since 1517, with the Obersalzberg, Königssee, and Berchtesgaden National Park nearby.
Böbingen
Böbingen (Böbingen an der Rems), a municipality in Baden-Württemberg's Ostalbkreis on the Limes, site of Kastell Unterböbingen, a 2 ha Roman cohort fort under Antoninus Pius, occupied to about 260 CE, now a UNESCO World Heritage stop on the Deutsche Limes-Straße.
Burladingen
Burladingen, a town in the Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, in the Killertal; home of the Roman fort Burladingen-Hausen (c. 80 AD, Vespasian, Alblimes) with its vicus and a second march camp found in 2006.
Coburg
Coburg, Upper Franconia town in Bavaria, Germany, former residence of the dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; dominated by the Veste Coburg fortress, joined Bavaria by 1920 referendum, ancestral town of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort.
Dachau, Bavaria
Dachau, Bavaria (Große Kreisstadt Dachau): Upper Bavarian town northwest of Munich on the Amper, 48,361 residents (2023), first recorded 805, artists' colony town, site of the first Nazi concentration camp and its 1965 memorial.
Deggingen
Deggingen, municipality in Landkreis Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, in the upper Filstal. Merovingian settlement, Helfenstein and Wiesensteig rule, Württemberg from 1806; elephant arms, baroque Holy Cross church, Roman fortlet Schonterhöhe.
Diersheim
Diersheim (Rheinau-Diersheim, Ortenaukreis, Germany), village on the right bank of the Rhine about 20 km northeast of Strasbourg, site of two 1st-century AD cremation cemeteries of the Suebi 'Oberrheingermanen', excavated in the 1930s (Oberfeld) and 2015-2020 (Diersheim II).
Ebingen
Ebingen, now a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis, Germany, is documented from 793 (Ebinga) and hosts a Roman earth-and-timber cohort fort of the Alblimes of about 80 AD, plus an excavated early medieval village.
Eichstätt
Eichstätt, Große Kreisstadt in Upper Bavaria on the Altmühl, seat of the Diocese of Eichstätt founded around 740 by Willibald and home to the only Catholic university in the German-speaking area; former prince-bishopric, about 14,000 inhabitants.
Eislingen
Eislingen/Fils, a town in the Göppingen district of Baden-Württemberg on the river Fils; first recorded as Isininga in 861, made a town in 1933, with a Roman fort, the 181-million-year-old Fischsaurierfriedhof fossil site, and textile-industry heritage.
Emerkingen
Emerkingen is a village in the Danube valley about 35 km southwest of Ulm, Germany, first recorded in 805 and known for its Roman fort.
Erlangen
Erlangen: kreisfreie Stadt in Middle Franconia, Bavaria; Huguenot New Town founded 1686, university founded 1743, Siemens seat since 1945; about 120,800 residents, 25.5% foreign nationals.
Esslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg
Esslingen am Neckar, a Große Kreisstadt southeast of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany; first mentioned 777, a free imperial city until 1802, industrial from 1830; about 95,000 residents, seat of Landkreis Esslingen.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau, a city of about 234,000 in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany, near the French and Swiss borders; home of the 1457 university and Germany's best-known "Green City" with Vauban, Rieselfeld, and a strong cycling and solar culture.
Friesenheim
Friesenheim, a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, site of a Roman road station (mansio) at Bannstude on the Augst–Mainz road, discovered from a train in 1970, excavated 1973–1977, with a Diana Abnoba temple.
Frittlingen
Frittlingen is a municipality of 2,127 residents in the Tuttlingen district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, first documented in 797 and known for its surgical instrument industry.
Fürth, Bavaria
Fürth (Bavaria): kreisfreie city in Middle Franconia, Nuremberg–Erlangen triangle, Kleeblattstadt. First mentioned 1007; Adler railway 1835; Quelle and Grundig; ~132,600 residents (2025); climate-neutral by 2040.
Garching
Garching bei München is a town in the Munich district of Upper Bavaria, north of Munich, first recorded around 1020 (or 915) as Gouvirihhinga. It hosts the TUM research campus with over 7,500 staff and 20,300 students, the 1957 Atom-Ei reactor, and three U6 stations.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavarian market town at the foot of the Zugspitze (2,962 m), Germany's highest mountain, about 90 km from Munich. Formed by merging Garmisch and Partenkirchen in January 1935; hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics; major ski and tourism resort with housing pressure.
Geislingen
Geislingen an der Steige, a town of about 26,800 in Landkreis Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; founded by the Counts of Helfenstein, first named 1108, Ulm 1396-1802, industrialized via WMF.
Gerlachsheim
Gerlachsheim, a village in the Tauber valley, now a district of Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg; first recorded 1209 as Gerlagesheim, seat of an Alemannic noble family, and home of a Premonstratensian priory with a Baroque church of 1723-1730.
Gomadingen
Gomadingen, also Gemeinde Gomadingen, is a municipality in the Reutlingen district, Baden-Württemberg, in the Große Lauter valley on the Swabian Alb, with seven Ortsteile including Grafeneck, site of the Aktion T4 memorial, and the Marbach state stud.
Heidelberg
Heidelberg, a city of about 160,000 in Baden-Württemberg on the Neckar river, home of Germany's oldest university (1386), roughly 39,000 students, major research institutes, and about 13.9 million annual visitors.
Heilbronn
Heilbronn, a county-free city on the Neckar in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, had 133,360 residents at end-2025. Known for its imperial-city history, the 1944 air raid, wine, and top German purchasing power.