The History of Baden-Württemberg

from the History of the German Southwest

3 May 1954	The State Coat of Arms
500,000 B.C.	Discoveries from prehistoric times
	Half a million years
800-100 B.C.	The Celts
	The Magdalenenberg in Villingen
100-300 A.D.	The Romans
	Ladenburg, a large Roman settlement
300 - 700	The Alemanii
1000 - 1200	The Duchy of Swabia
600 - 1300	Bishoprics and monasteries in the Middle Ages
	Reichenau: an island
1070 - 1270	The Staufer, Welfen and Zähringer families
1200 - 1750	Anterior Austria and the Electorate of the Palatinate
	A Habsburg prince travels through southwest Germany in 1503
1300 - 1500	The Margraviate of Baden and the earldom of Württemberg at the beginning of the 15th Century
1517 - 1580	The time of the Reformation
1524 - 1525	The Peasants' War
	The rise of the Stühlinger peasants
1618 - 1648	The Thirty Years War
	Calw, 1634
up to 1800	The German southwest at the end of the 18th Century
1800 - 1918	Southwest Germany up to 1918
	The imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd and the principality of Leiningen under new lords
1933 - 1945	The German southwest in World War II
	Jews in Buttenhausen Enthusiasm, rejection, dissension, fear - injustice and daily life in the Third Reich
1945 - 1952	Southwest Germany after the war
	The zonal borders Food supply Displaced persons
1952 - today	"Southwest state" of Baden-Württemberg
	An overview of Baden-Württemberg

Source:
"Baden-Württemberg - Eine Heimat- und Landeskunde"
Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-12-281200-2