Heubach is a town in the Ostalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located 10 km east of Schwäbisch Gmünd, and 13 km southwest of Aalen. The town finds itself at the edge of the Rems River Valley and at the base of the Swabian Alps. Heubach is located in the Swabian region of Germany. Residents speak the Swabian German dialect.
Population: 10,167
Latitude: 48° 47' 33.61" N
Longitude: 9° 56' 1.32" E
The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (English: Colubrid, grass-snake) was a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor, which was to be used in a very similar way to a manned surface-to-air missile. After a vertical take-off, which eliminated …
The Winnenden school shooting occurred on the morning of 11 March 2009 at a secondary school in Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany, followed by a shootout at a car dealership in nearby Wendlingen. The shooting spree resulted in 16…
Aalen (German pronunciation: [ˈʔaːlən]) is a former Free Imperial City located in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of Stuttgart and 48 kilometres (30 mi) north of Ulm. It is the seat of the …
The Nördlinger Ries is a large circular depression in western Bavaria, Germany, located north of the Danube in the district of Donau-Ries.
Southern Germany (German: Süddeutschland) is the region that comprises the south of Germany. While there is no specific boundary, usually it includes all of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Historically, this corresponds to the stem duchies of Swabia …
Teck was a ducal castle in the kingdom of Württemberg, immediately to the north of the Swabian Jura and south of the town of Kirchheim unter Teck (now in the district of Esslingen). Burg Teck takes its name from the ridge, the Teckberg, 2,544 feet h…
The 15 kV, 16.7 Hz AC railway electrification system is used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway. The high voltage enables high power transmission with low losses powering traction motors available since the beginning of the 20th cen…
The Esslingen University of Applied Sciences or Hochschule Esslingen (formerly 2006: Hochschule für Technik (FHTE) und Hochschule für Sozialwesen (HfS)) is a University of applied sciences in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. It has 11 faculties offerin…
The Battle of Neresheim (11 August 1796) saw a victory of Republican French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau over the Habsburg Austrian army of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. Pursued by Moreau's Army of Rhin-et-Moselle, Charles launched an at…
Stuttgart is one of the four administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke) of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the north-east of the state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwestern part of Germany.It is sub-divided into the three regions: Heilb…
Esslingen is a district (Landkreis) in the centre of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Winnenden is a small town in the Rems-Murr district of the Stuttgart Region in Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It lies in a wine-growing area approx.
Bopfingen is a small city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Ostalbkreis, between Aalen and Nördlingen. It consists of the city Bopfingen itself and its suburbs Aufhausen, Baldern, Flochberg, Kerkingen, Oberdorf, Schloßberg, Trocht…
Göppingen is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Dillingen is a district in Bavaria, Germany.
Rems-Murr is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The Ostalbkreis is a district (Kreis) in the east of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the border to Bavaria.
Germany, Austria and Switzerland operate the largest interconnected 15 kV AC 16.7 Hz system, which has central generation, a special transmission network, central and decentral converter plants.