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Sankt Georgen (Black Forest)
Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald (Low Alemannic: ''Sanderge'') is a town in Southwestern Baden-Württemberg, Germany and belongs to Schwarzwald-Baar County. Museums * Sammlung Grässlin The Sammlung Grässlin is an art collection in Germany. The works can be seen in its museum in Sankt Georgen (Schwarzwald). Artists in the collection Werner Büttner, Fischli & Weiss, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Asta Gröting, Georg Herold ..., art museum ''Germans Phono Museum'' Phono Museum References External links ''Citizens Cityweb www.St-Georgen.ORG'' News, Information, Photos and Events of citizens in St. Georgen *St. Georgen: information and pictures on the Grässlin family's art collection in Sankt Georgen Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald {{SchwarzwaldBaar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low Alemannic German
Low Alemannic German (german: Niederalemannisch) is a branch of Alemannic German, which is part of Upper German. Its varieties are only partly intelligible to non-Alemannic speakers. Subdivisions *Lake Constance Alemannic ( de) **Northern Vorarlberg ( de) **Allgäu dialect ( de) ** Baar dialect **Southern Württemberg * Upper Rhenish Alemannic ( de) **Basel German **Baden dialects north of Markgräflerland ** Alsatian, spoken in Alsace, in some villages of the Phalsbourg county in Lorraine and by some Amish in Indiana **Low Alemannic dialects in the Black ForestNoble, Cecil A. M. (1983). ''Modern German dialects'' New York .a. Lang, p. 67/68 **Colonia Tovar dialect, Venezuela Features The feature that distinguishes Low Alemannic from High Alemannic is the retention of Germanic /k/, for instance ''kalt'' 'cold' vs. High Alemannic ''chalt''. The feature that distinguishes Low Alemannic from Swabian is the retention of the Middle High German monophthong A monophthong ( ; , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a total area of nearly , it is the third-largest German state by both area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria). As a federated state, Baden-Württemberg is a partly-sovereign parliamentary republic. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm. What is now Baden-Württemberg was formerly the historical territories of Baden, Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg became a state of West Germany in April 1952 by the merger of Württemberg-Baden, South Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis
Schwarzwald-Baar () is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ortenaukreis, Rottweil, Tuttlingen, Constance, the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, and the districts Waldshut, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Emmendingen. History The district was created in 1973, when the districts of Donaueschingen and Villingen were merged. Geography The district got its name from the two predominant landscapes in the district. The Black Forest (''Schwarzwald''), and the ''Baar'', the foothills between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb. Both the Danube River and the Neckar The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenn ... River have their origins in the Schwarzwald and Baar district. Coat of arms The coat of arms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammlung Grässlin
The Sammlung Grässlin is an art collection in Germany. The works can be seen in its museum in Sankt Georgen (Schwarzwald). Artists in the collection Werner Büttner, Fischli & Weiss, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Asta Gröting, Georg Herold, Mike Kelley, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Meuser, Reinhard Mucha, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Franz West, Christopher Williams, Heimo Zobernig, Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin, Clegg & Guttmann, Mark Dion, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Christian Philipp Müller, Manuel Ocampo, Tobias Rehberger, Andreas Slominski, Vincent Tavenne, Ina Weber, Joseph Zehrer, Tim Berresheim, Michael Beutler, Henning Bohl, Tom Burr Tom Burr (born 1963) is an American conceptual artist. Burr's artwork explores the relationships between, "the built environment, subjectivity, and historical persona". He is based in New York City. Life Burr was born in 1963 in New Haven, Co ..., Sergej Jensen, Kalin Lindena, Michaela Meise, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
