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Coordinates: 48°16′N 8°51′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...

Balingen
Coat of arms of Balingen
 
Federal state Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region Tübingen
District Zollernalbkreis
Population 34,338 (2005)
Area 90.34 km²
Population density 380/km²
Elevation 519 m
Coordinates 48°16′ N 8°51′ E
Postal code 72301-72336
Area code 07433
Licence plate code BL
Mayor Edmund Merkel (CDU)
Website balingen.de

Balingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, capital of the district of Zollernalbkreis. It is located in the Swabian Alb, approx. 35 km northeast of Villingen-Schwenningen, and 60 km southwest of Stuttgart. Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ... Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in southwestern Germany to the east of the Upper Rhine. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Tübingen is one of the four Administrative Districts (Regierungsbezirke) of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the south-east of the country. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... The Zollernalbkreis is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. ... see also Telephone numbering plan of Germany for further codes including service numbers, cell phones etc. ... German car number plates show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... This article needs cleanup. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... Baden-Württemberg is a federal state in southwestern Germany to the east of the Upper Rhine. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... The Zollernalbkreis is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... A view on the Swabian Alb, with its typical hills and a juniper meadow The Albtrauf, which forms the western border of the Swabian Alb The Swabian Jura (German: Schwäbische Alb) is a plateau in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending 220 km from southwest to northeast and 40 to... Villingen-Schwenningen is the largest city of the Schwarzwald-Baar district located in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... Stuttgart, a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 as of September 2005 in the city and around 3 million in the metropolitan area. ...


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The New Town Centre of Balingen (613 words)
The centre of Balingen was for many years dull and unattractive due to the heavy concentration of traffic and lack of planning.
After Balingen was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1809, the State's master builder of the time redesigned the town in a completely new style.
Old Balingen not only had many wells, but also a stream running through it, fed from the Steinach, a tributary of the River Eyach.
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