Rastatt
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| Coordinates: 48°51′N 8°12′E / 48.850°N 8.200°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Karlsruhe |
| District | Rastatt |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023–31) | Monika Müller[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 59.02 km2 (22.79 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 115 m (377 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 51,310 |
| • Density | 870/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 76401-76437 |
| Dialling codes | 07222, 07229 |
| Vehicle registration | RA |
| Website | rastatt.de |
Rastatt (German: [ˈʁaʃtat]) is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river, 6 km (3.7 mi) above its junction with the Rhine and has a population of around 51,000 (2022). Rastatt was an important place of the War of the Spanish Succession (Treaty of Rastatt) and the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
History
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Until the end of the 17th century, Rastatt held little influence, but after its destruction by the French in 1689, it was rebuilt on a larger scale by Louis William, Margrave of Baden, the Imperial General in the Great Turkish War known popularly as Türkenlouis.
It then remained the residence of the Margraves of Baden-Baden until 1771. It was the location of the First and Second Congress of Rastatt, the former giving rise to the Treaty of Rastatt while the second ended in failure in 1799. In the 1840s, Rastatt was surrounded by fortifications to form the Fortress of Rastatt. For about 20 years previous to 1866, it was occupied by the troops of the German Confederation.[3]
The Baden revolution of 1849 began with a mutiny of soldiers at Rastatt in May 1849 under Ludwik Mieroslawski and Gustav Struve, and ended there a few weeks later with the capture of the town by the Prussians. (See The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states and History of Baden.) For some years, Rastatt was one of the strongest fortresses of the German empire, but its fortifications were dismantled in 1890.
In the same year, the town's railway station was relocated closer to the centre of Rastatt, from a location formerly outside the town walls, in what is now an industrial area.
Between 1946 and 1954, about twenty major criminal proceedings (known as the Rastatt Trials) for crimes against foreign workers and prisoners in smaller camps in the National Socialist camp system in south-west Germany took place in front of the French Military Administration's Tribunal Général on the basis of Control Council Law No. 10, along with more than 2000 defendants.
In 1992, a new Mercedes-Benz car factory started production in Rastatt.[4]
Climate
[edit]Rastatt experiences an meditteran and oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) and its winter climate is milder, compared to most other German cities, except for the Rhine-Ruhr area. Summers are very hot with several days registering maximum temperatures between 35 and 40 °C (95 and 104 °F), sometimes over 40°C, especially in the Baden Tomato Valley, also Snail Creek Valley, where a record temperature of 46.3°C was measured at the Cold Source weather station on August 11th in 2003 and another record-breaking temperature of 45.6°C was recorded on July 20th in 2022. This makes Rastatt one of the hottest places in much of Europe! With an average of more than 2,000 sunshine hours a year, it is also one of the sunniest cities in Germany, like the Rhine-Palatinate area.
Precipitation occurs mainly during the winter, while in July it hardly rains, apart from a few evening thunderstorms.
| Climate data for Rastatt, Cold Source weatherstation (1991–2025 normals, extremes 1948–2025) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 22.6 (72.7) |
24.5 (76.1) |
31.5 (88.7) |
34.7 (94.5) |
37.9 (100.2) |
40.7 (105.3) |
45.6 (114.1) |
46.3 (115.3) |
39.3 (102.7) |
35.1 (95.2) |
27.5 (81.5) |
22.1 (71.8) |
46.3 (115.3) |
| Mean maximum °C (°F) | 13.2 (55.8) |
15.9 (60.6) |
21.7 (71.1) |
27.1 (80.8) |
31.5 (88.7) |
35.3 (95.5) |
36.6 (97.9) |
35.7 (96.3) |
29.9 (85.8) |
24.5 (76.1) |
17.9 (64.2) |
14.0 (57.2) |
36.6 (97.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.7 (42.3) |
8.1 (46.6) |
13.6 (56.5) |
19.4 (66.9) |
22.2 (72.0) |
26.4 (79.5) |
28.4 (83.1) |
27.7 (81.9) |
22.6 (72.7) |
16.4 (61.5) |
10.3 (50.5) |
6.4 (43.5) |
17.3 (63.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.5 (36.5) |
4.5 (40.1) |
8.1 (46.6) |
11.2 (52.2) |
16.3 (61.3) |
20.9 (69.6) |
22.5 (72.5) |
21.7 (71.1) |
16.8 (62.2) |
11.1 (52.0) |
7.3 (45.1) |
3.1 (37.6) |
12.2 (53.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.8 (33.4) |
1.2 (34.2) |
3.4 (38.1) |
5.8 (42.4) |
10.6 (51.1) |
15.2 (59.4) |
16.8 (62.2) |
16.2 (61.2) |
11.7 (53.1) |
7.0 (44.6) |
4.2 (39.6) |
1.6 (34.9) |
7.9 (46.2) |
| Mean minimum °C (°F) | −8.7 (16.3) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
2.8 (37.0) |
7.5 (45.5) |
10.2 (50.4) |
9.3 (48.7) |
5.0 (41.0) |
0.4 (32.7) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.0 (−0.4) |
−19.9 (−3.8) |
−14.6 (5.7) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
4.8 (40.6) |
8.9 (48.0) |
7.3 (45.1) |
2.1 (35.8) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
−9.8 (14.4) |
−18.5 (−1.3) |
−19.9 (−3.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 61.0 (2.40) |
52.6 (2.07) |
52.4 (2.06) |
45.2 (1.78) |
32.7 (1.29) |
21.2 (0.83) |
14.6 (0.57) |
23.0 (0.91) |
38.8 (1.53) |
57.5 (2.26) |
68.4 (2.69) |
69.1 (2.72) |
536.5 (21.11) |
| Average snowy days (≥ 1.0 cm) | 3.0 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 2.8 | 7.9 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 83.4 | 78.9 | 73.6 | 65.8 | 54.0 | 42.1 | 33.0 | 29.8 | 45.6 | 72.2 | 80.9 | 86.8 | 62.2 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 57.4 | 85.1 | 143.7 | 196.8 | 232.7 | 252.7 | 285.0 | 249.9 | 187.8 | 111.8 | 60.9 | 43.0 | 1,832.2 |
| Source 1: World Meteorological Organization[5] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Data derived from Deutscher Wetterdienst[6] | |||||||||||||
Twin towns – sister cities
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Fano, Italy
Guarapuava, Brazil
New Britain, Connecticut, United States
Orange, France
Vantaa, Finland
Ostrov, Czech Republic
Woking, England, United Kingdom
Notable people
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- Herman Fortunatus (1595–1665), Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern
- Charles William (1627–1666), Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern
- Augustus George (1706–1771), Margrave of Baden-Baden
- Joseph Frank (1771–1842), physician.[8]
- Wilhelm Stemmermann (1888–1944), general in the Wehrmacht
- Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927), pianist and composer of classical music
- Bodo Uhse (1904–1963), writer
- Oliver Hassencamp (1921–1988), cabaret artist, actor and author
- Ricky King (born 1946), guitarist and musician
- Joachim Schuster (born 1962), politician (SDP)
Sport
[edit]- Christian Seifert (born 1969), football functionary
- Andria Lloyd (born 1971), Jamaican sprinter, studied locally, team bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Philipp Laux (born 1973), footballer, played 230 games
- Christian Essig (born 1986), retired footballer, played 295 games
In literature
[edit]The plot of the historical novel The Lenz Papers by Stefan Heym (published London 1964) is set in 1849 Rastatt, during the failed revolutions in Germany in 1848.
Gallery
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Town hall -
Murg river -
Pagodenburg and water tower -
Former Franciscan monastery -
Ludwig-Wilhelm school -
Street theatre festival -
Hopfenschlingel beer garden -
Schloss Favorite
References
[edit]- ^ Oberbürgermeisterwahl Rastatt 2023, Staatsanzeiger. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
- ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ "Rastatt passenger car assembly plant inaugurated". mercedes-benz-publicarchive. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ "World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991–2020". World Meteorological Organization Climatological Standard Normals (1991–2020). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on 12 October 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ "Wetter und Klima – Deutscher Wetterdienst – CDC (Climate Data Center)". www.dwd.de.
- ^ "GewachseneStädtefreundschaften über viele Grenzen hinweg". rastatt.de (in German). Rastatt. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
- ^ . The American Cyclopædia. Vol. VII. 1879. pp. 428–429, see page 429.
....by his son. II. Joseph, a German physician....born at Rastadt, Dec. 23, 1771....
Further reading
[edit]- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rastatt". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
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- Official website
- Rastatt pictures
- . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
The last half of Chapter 7 in Volume One of The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz describes Carl Schurz's recollections as an involuntary inhabitant of Rastatt before its surrender to the Prussians in 1849, and his escape through a sewer after the surrender.
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