Wört is a municipality (

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: '' Gemeinde'') and town in the district of

Ostalbkreis The Ostalbkreis is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the east of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the border to Bavaria. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Schwäbisch Hall, Ansbach, Donau-Ries, Heidenheim, Göppingen and Rems-M ...

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 ...

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Geography

Location

Wört is located in the valley of the Rotach, a tributary of the Wörnitz River, in the

Virngrund The Virngrund (also called the Firngrund) is a historical landscape in the counties of Ostalbkreis and Schwäbisch Hall in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. it is forested in many places and up to . Geography Location Historic landsc ...

region. It is in the northeastern foothills of the Swabian Alb range, between

Dinkelsbühl Dinkelsbühl () is a historic town in Central Franconia, a region of Germany that is now part of the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Dinkelsbühl is a former free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. In local government terms, Dinkelsb� ...

(6 km) and

Ellwangen Ellwangen an der Jagst, officially Ellwangen (Jagst), in common use simply Ellwangen () is a town in the district of Ostalbkreis in the east of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated about north of Aalen. Ellwangen has 25,000 inhabitants. ...

(13 km).

Neighboring Towns

The municipality is bordered to the north by Fichtenau, part of

Schwäbisch Hall Schwäbisch Hall (; "Swabian Hall"; from 1802 until 1934 and colloquially: ''Hall'' ) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg located in the valley of the Kocher river, the longest tributary (together with its headwater Lein) of the ...

district, to the east by the

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

n city of

, to the south by Stödtlen and to the west by Ellenberg.

Land Use

According to the Baden-Württemberg Statistics Office, the total area of the municipality is 18.17 km² (7.02 sq mi), of which 8.13 km² (45%) is woodland, 7.67 km² (42%) is agricultural, 0.9 km² (5%) is buildings, 0.74 km² (4%) is for transportation, 0.62 km² (3.5%) is water and 0.09 km² (0.5%) is for recreational use.

Notable residents

It is the birthplace of church historian Hubert Wolf (born 1959).

References

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