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Lowenstein (Baden-Wurttemberg)




Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
 
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
 
Lowenstein is a town in the administrative district of Stuttgart which is in state Baden-Wuttemberg, located in Germany. It was founded in 1123 by the counts of Calw, and belonged to the Habsburgs from 1281 to 1441. In 1634, the castle was destroyed by the imperial forces. The county of Lowenstein belonged to a branch of the family of the counts of Calw before 1281, when it was purchased by the German king Rudolph I, who presented it to his natural son, Albert. In 1441, Henry, one of Albert's descendants, sold it to the elector palatine of the Rhine, Frederick I, and later it served as a portion for Louis, a son of the elector by a morganatic marriage, who became a count of the Empire in 1494.
 
Baden-Wurttemberg is a state of the federal republic of Germany in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine. It is third largest in both area and population among the country's sixteen states, with an area of 35,742 square kilometer and 10.7 million inhabitants.

Lowenstein is definitely one of the popular tourist attractions in Germany. It is worth paying a visit while touring the country. This place leaves a pleasing and unforgettable memory and justifies the proud cultural tradition of Germany.

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