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Reutlingen
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district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Baden-Württemberg
- Adm region
- Tübingen
- Capital
- Reutlingen
- District admin
- Ulrich Fiedler
- Total
- 1,094.14 km (422.45 sq mi)
- Density
- 268.232/km (694.717/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- RT
- Website
- www .kreis-reutlingen .de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Reutlingen, nicknamed "The Gate to the Swabian Alb" (German: "Das Tor zur Schwäbischen Alb"), is a Landkreis (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The former free imperial city (until 1802) reached the limit of 100,000 residents in 1989. It is the ninth-largest city in Baden-Württemberg. Reutlingen district's neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Esslingen, Göppingen, Alb-Donau, Biberach, Sigmaringen, Zollernalbkreis, Tübingen and Böblingen.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reutlingen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.