WÜRTTEMBERG-AUSTRALIA  

Begun 5 years ago, and since March 2018 improved with a huge data upgrade & edit, to supercede the original.       ~ by Wayne D Knoll

Pioneer Settlers from Württemberg, Baden, Schwabians and Württembergers of the Schwaben-Alb regions, the Schwarzwald, or elsewhere in the State of Grand Duchy of Baden or other place now in the Stadt of Baden-Württemberg, Germany who came as pioneers to Australia.

Historical Map of the source region of Baden-Württemberg emigrants to Australia



The Grand Duchy of Baden (brown) & the Königreich Württemberg (green)[/caption]
A upside-down heart shaped Upper German region centred around Stuttgart, within bounds between Lörrach by Switzerland at Basel, diagonally north to the approaches of Würzberg in Central Deutschland. From towards Worms in the State of Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland Palatinate) beyond Mannheim, up to the borders of Switzerland at Lake Konstanz and then to Kressbronn-am-Bodensee, close to Austria.

From the River Main at Wertheim-am Main opposite lower Bavaria, to the lower Neckar at Neckarsteinach in the state of Hessen. From Freiberg in the Rheinland opposite Colmar in France, to Ulm on the Danube at the Bayern borders. From the approaches of Strasbourg in France, to the approaches of Memmingen at the edge of Bavaria. From Kneilingen on the Rhine by Karlsruhe, to Wilburgstetten on Wörnitz in the upper Danube catchment. From Speyer, Heidelberg, to the edge of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Bavaria towards Nurenberg.  It includes much of the Rheinland, The Black Forest (Schwarzwald), the Neckar Valley, the Swabian Jura or Alps (Schwabisch Alb), and the Upper Donau (Danube), as well as the northern shores of Lake Constance (the Bodensee) to include some areas that were formerly Swiss.


SUB-REGIONS (KREIS / CIRCLES) of Baden-Württemberg

Plus the cities of Freiburg, Baden Baden, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Heilbronn, Stuttgart and Ulm.

THE NAMES: A HISTORICAL RESEARCH LIST

- arranged in alphabetical groupings - see index