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Walldorf
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg town in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis near Heidelberg; first mentioned 770, town rights 1901, birthplace of Johann Jakob Astor, and worldwide headquarters of SAP SE; distinct from Mörfelden-Walldorf and Walldürn.
Walldürn
Walldürn, a town in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the UNESCO-listed Upper German-Raetian Limes; site of Kastell Walldürn (ORL 33), a mid-2nd-century Roman fort of about 160 men, a row-type Roman bath, and a 2.2 km Limes trail.
Weimar
Weimar, Thuringian city of about 65,500 residents, home of Weimar Classicism (Goethe, Schiller), the Bauhaus founded 1919, and the Weimar Republic; two UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Weissenfels
Weißenfels (Weissenfels), Saxony-Anhalt town on the Saale, founded about 1185 by Otto the Rich of Meissen; residence of the dukes of Saxe-Weissenfels 1656–1746 with the Augustusburg palace and princely crypt.
Welzheim
Welzheim, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, hosts a major Roman Limes site: the 4.3-hectare Westkastell (Ala I Scubulorum), the Ostkastell (Numerus Britonum), and Kleinkastell Rötelsee, founded around 160/165 AD, with a vicus lasting to about 254/260.
Wernigerode
Wernigerode, the "Colorful Town by the Harz" (Die bunte Stadt am Harz), is a Saxony-Anhalt town at the northern edge of the Harz mountains, chartered in 1229, with about 31,800 residents, a hilltop castle, half-timbered old town, and the Harz Narrow-Gauge Railways to the Brocken.
Wesel-Büderich
Wesel-Büderich is a district of Wesel in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the left bank of the Rhine, rebuilt after Napoleon ordered the old town of Büderich demolished in 1813.
West Berlin
West Berlin (West-Berlin): the US, British, and French sectors of divided Berlin, a Western enclave inside East Germany from 1945 to 1990, marked by the 1948–49 Airlift, the 1961 Wall, and Allied special status until reunification.
Westernbach
Westernbach is a village in Zweiflingen in the Hohenlohekreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, home to a Roman fort on the Obergermanisch-Raetian Limes, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden, the Hessian state capital on the Rhine opposite Mainz, grew from the Roman thermal spa Aquae Mattiacorum into a 19th-century world spa city; today around 284,600 inhabitants, ICE rail link, KLIMA_PLAN climate-neutrality program, and World Design Capital 2026.
Wiesbaden-Biebrich
Wiesbaden-Biebrich (Biebrich am Rhein) is Wiesbaden's most populous district, about 37,000 residents. First recorded 874 as villa Biburg; Nassau residence from 1744; industrial town from 1882; incorporated into Wiesbaden 1926.
Wiesbaden-Rentmauer
Wiesbaden-Rentmauer: a Wiesbaden forest district and locality where Roman building remains were found in 1899 and published by Emil Ritterling (1905); also the name of a disputed Celtic or early medieval rampart near Rod an der Weil.
Wilhelmshaven
Wilhelmshaven is a seaport city in Lower Saxony, Germany, founded as a Prussian naval base and now the site of Germany's only deep-water container terminal.
Witten
Witten is a city in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the southern Ruhr Metropolis. First recorded in 1214, it became a metal-industry center and hosts Germany's first private university, Witten/Herdecke.
Wittenberg
Wittenberg (Lutherstadt Wittenberg), a town of about 46,800 on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; seat of Landkreis Wittenberg. Site of Luther's 1517 95 Theses; four Reformation buildings are UNESCO World Heritage (1996).
Wittlich
Wittlich (villa witelira) is a town in Bernkastel-Wittlich district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Lieser. It is distinguished by a 140 m Roman villa built 150-200 AD, destroyed around 350, and by its 1300 town charter from the Trier archbishops.
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony city founded 1 July 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens for Volkswagen workers, renamed 1945; over 125,000 residents, Germany's highest GDP per working person and wages, lowest rent burden.
Worms, Germany
Worms, Germany: a kreisfreie Stadt in Rhineland-Palatinate on the left Rhine bank, also called Nibelungenstadt; one of Germany's oldest cities, with UNESCO ShUM Jewish heritage and the Nibelungenlied setting.
Wuppertal
Wuppertal, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, founded 1 August 1929 by merging Barmen, Elberfeld, and other towns; home of the 1901 Schwebebahn suspended monorail, Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, and the University of Wuppertal.
Würzburg
Würzburg, Bavarian district-free city on the river Main with 132,700 residents (2025), 13 districts, a bishopric since 742, the UNESCO-listed Baroque Würzburg Residence, and St. Kilian's Cathedral.
Xanten
Xanten is a town in Kreis Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Lower Rhine, site of the Roman Colonia Ulpia Traiana and the LVR-Archaeological Park, part of the UNESCO Lower German Limes since 2021; about 21,000 residents on 72.43 km².
Zerbst
Zerbst/Anhalt, a town in Saxony-Anhalt's Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, former residence of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst (1603/06-1793), hometown tagline of Catherine the Great, baroque castle ruined in 1945, about 20,800 residents on 470.90 km².
Zingsheim
Zingsheim is a village in Nettersheim, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, seat of the municipal administration, first recorded as Cinesheym in 893, with a Roman Matronae Fachinehae temple (Vor Hirschberg) at its edge.
Zunsweier
Zunsweier, a district of Offenburg in Baden-Württemberg with about 3,000 residents, first recorded in 1136 under Kloster Schuttern; site of a Vespasianic Roman fort, bathhouse, and vicus on the Kinzigtal road.