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Herzogenaurach
Herzogenaurach, Bavarian town in district Erlangen-Höchstadt near Nuremberg, home of Adidas and Puma headquarters founded by the rival Dassler brothers; also Schaeffler/INA precision engineering.
Hof, Bavaria
Hof (Bavaria) is a county-level town in Upper Franconia on the Saale, near the Saxon and Czech borders. About 46,400 residents; medieval charter of 1319, textile heritage, Iron Curtain border town, 1989 refugee gateway.
Hohberg
Hohberg is a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed from Diersburg, Hofweier, and Niederschopfheim; known for its excavated Roman road station near Niederschopfheim, built about 50 AD on the Basel–Mainz road. Distinct from Hohberg (Oberzent) in Hesse and Am Hohberg in Saxony.
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a city in Bavaria, Germany, on the Danube north of Munich, historically a ducal residence and fortress and today the home of Audi.
Jagsthausen
Jagsthausen, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg's Heilbronn district on the Jagst river, site of the Götzenburg where Götz von Berlichingen was born in 1480 and of a Roman cohort fort (Cohors I Germanorum) on the UNESCO Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes.
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, the Fächerstadt, is a southwest German city founded 17 June 1715 by Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach around a 32-avenue fan plan; seat of Germany's federal courts since 1950/51, home of KIT, and a UNESCO City of Media Arts.
Kippenheim
Kippenheim, a municipality in Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg (5,534 residents, 20.85 km²), first recorded 762/763 as Chippinheim, known for its restored former synagogue memorial, Schmieheim castle, and a Roman mansio.
Konstanz
Konstanz (Constance), a university city of about 87,000 in Baden-Württemberg on Lake Constance's southern shore, bordering Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; largest city on the lake, seat of the Council of Constance 1414–1418.
Lauchheim
Lauchheim is a small town on the River Jagst in the Ostalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, about 80 kilometers east of Stuttgart, known for its large excavated early medieval cemetery.
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg, Große Kreisstadt north of Stuttgart, seat of Landkreis Ludwigsburg; planned ducal residence city founded 1704–18 around Germany's largest baroque palace (18 buildings, 450+ rooms), Blühendes Barock gardens, Filmakademie, and the 1958 Zentrale Stelle for Nazi-crime investigations.
Mainhardt
Mainhardt is a municipality in the district of Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, lying in the Mainhardter Wald on the Roman frontier, where a cohort fort of the Cohors I Asturum equitata stood until about 260 AD.
Mannheim
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg city at the Rhine-Neckar confluence, planned grid city (Quadrate), ~330,000 residents, 17 districts, home of the University of Mannheim in the Baroque Schloss.
Mengen
Mengen is a town in Sigmaringen district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, distinct from Mengen in Turkey or Mengeš in Slovenia. Known for the Roman Danube fort on the Ennetacher Berg, its 1276 town charter, and the 2023 Elbgermanic Ziegeleschle excavations.
Munich
Munich (München), capital of Bavaria and Germany's third largest city, first recorded in 1158; 1,612,429 residents in 2025, 25 districts, Germany's most expensive city, lowest big-city unemployment, and 6.5 million Oktoberfest guests.
Murrhardt
Murrhardt (vicus murrensis) is a town in Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Upper German-Rhaetian Limes. It has a 2.2 ha Roman cohort fort of the Cohors XXIV voluntariorum, a fort bath found in 2010, and the Benedictine abbey St. Januarius founded around 817 with first abbot Walterich.
Neckarau
Neckarau, a district of Mannheim, Germany, first documented 871 as Villa Naucravia; Neolithic settlement, a late Roman burgus bridgehead for Altrip, Kurpfalz village, incorporated into Mannheim 1899, about 35,000 residents.
Nersingen
Nersingen is a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, on the Leibi stream near the Danube, first recorded in 1143 and formed in the 1970s by merging four neighboring villages.
Nördlingen
Nördlingen, Bavarian town (Große Kreisstadt, Donau-Ries, ~20,400 residents) inside the 25 km Nördlinger Ries impact crater; former Free Imperial City with preserved town wall, Daniel tower, and suevite buildings.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bavaria's second-largest city with about 547,000 residents, is the economic and cultural center of northern Bavaria, a former Free Imperial City, site of the Nazi party rallies, Nuremberg trials, and Germany's first railway.
Nussloch
Nussloch (Nußloch), a municipality of about 10,700 in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis near Heidelberg, first documented 766 in the Lorscher Codex; lead-zinc-silver mining from Roman times to 1954 and limestone quarries shaped its history.
Obernburg
Obernburg am Main, a Bavarian town of about 8,800 in Miltenberg district, stands on a Roman Main Limes cohort fort (Nemaninga, Cohors IIII Aquitanorum) with a beneficiarius station; a town since 1313 under Mainz, UNESCO Limes World Heritage since 2005.
Passau
Passau (Dreiflüssestadt, "Venice of Bavaria") is an independent city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, at the Danube–Inn–Ilz confluence; 53,373 residents (2026), University of Passau, baroque old town, St. Stephen's Cathedral with the world's largest cathedral organ.
Rammersweier
Rammersweier, a wine-growing district of Offenburg, Germany, incorporated 1971, first recorded 1242 as Romeswilre; site of a small Flavian Roman fort and 11.5 x 4.3 m fort bath on the Kinzigtal road, discovered 1993.
Rastatt
Rastatt is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the seat of the district of Rastatt, known for its Baroque Residential Palace and the 1714 Treaty of Rastatt.
Ravensburg
Ravensburg is a Große Kreisstadt of about 50,500 people in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, between Lake Constance and the Allgäu. A former free imperial city (1276) and home of the Great Ravensburg Trading Company, it is known as the city of towers and gates and for Ravensburger games.
Regensburg
Regensburg (Ratisbon) is a district-free Bavarian city at the Danube's northernmost point, founded as the Roman fortress Castra Regina in AD 179, seat of the Perpetual Imperial Diet 1663–1806, and a UNESCO World Heritage old town since 2006.
Reutlingen
Reutlingen is a large district town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near the Swabian Alb, a former Free Imperial City with about 117,000 inhabitants, an industrial and university city, and home of the world's narrowest street.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Rothenburg ob der Tauber: medieval walled town in Middle Franconia, Bavaria; free imperial city from 1274, annexed to Bavaria 1802, 40–45% destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt; about 11,400 residents and over 2.5 million visitors a year.
Sasbach
Sasbach names two municipalities in Baden-Württemberg: Sasbach in the Ortenaukreis (5,348 residents, first recorded 750, battle of 1675, Turenne monument) and Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in Emmendingen (Sponeck Roman fort and castle, Alte Limburg).
Schlossau
Schlossau is a village in the municipality of Mudau in the Odenwald region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, best known for the Roman fort that stood there on the Odenwaldlimes.