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Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland

latitude: 48.83, longitude: 10.06

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Ostalbkreis is a landkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland at latitude 48°49′48.00″ North, longitude 10°03′36.00″ East.

General information - Abstract

The Ostalbkreis is a district (Kreis) in the east of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the border to Bavaria.

Together with the Landkreis Heidenheim it builds up the Ostwürttemberg Region Ostwürttemberg] in the Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart. Neighboring districts are the district of Schwäbisch Hall in the north, the bavarian districts Ansbach und Donau-Ries in the east, the districts Heidenheim and Göppingen in the south, and the Rems-Murr-Kreis in the west.

More details can be found on the english Wikipedia article or german Wikipedia article.

The capital of the Ostalbkreis is Aalen.

Main roads besides the A 7 are the B 29 and the B 19. The district town Aalen is railway junction. Here the Remsbahn from Stuttgart, the Brenzbahn from Ulm, the Jagstbahn to Crailsheim and the Riesbahn to Donauwörth are crossing. The intercity line Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Nürnberg crosses the Ostalbkreis with stops in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Aalen and Ellwangen.

The Ostalbkreis has major part at the eastern Swabian Alb (hence its name which translates to Eastern Alb District) as well as the eastern Welzheimer Wald (forest of Welzheim), belonging to the Schwäbisch-Fränkischen Wald = swabian-frankish forest, as well as the Ellwanger Mountains in the north of the district. Main rivers in the district are the Rems and the two rivers Jagst and Kocher all affluents of the Neckar.

Towns and Communities

See also the list List of locations in the Ostalbkreis in Wikipedia

Towns

Aalen, Bopfingen, Ellwangen (Jagst), Heubach, Lauchheim, Lorch, Neresheim, Oberkochen, Schwäbisch Gmünd

For status of OSM-map see german site

Communities

The list of communities in the Ostalbkreis covers about 920 places (towns, villages, hamlets, granges, domicils) of the Ostalbkreis in geographical sense. Here are listed only the largest 10 % - the complete list will be shown on its own subpage DE:Ostalbkreis-Gemeindeliste.

Abtsgmünd, Adelmannsfelden, Bartholomä, Böbingen an der Rems, Durlangen, Ellenberg, Eschach, Essingen, Göggingen, Gschwend, Heuchlingen, Hüttlingen, Iggingen, Jagstzell, Kirchheim am Ries, Leinzell, Mögglingen, Mutlangen, Neuler, Obergröningen, Rainau, Riesbürg, Rosenberg, Ruppertshofen, Schechingen, Spraitbach, Stödtlen, Täferrot, Tannhausen, Unterschneidheim, Waldstetten, Westhausen, Wört

For status of OSM-map see german site

User, Meetings, Mailinglist

Here is an automatically generated list of the users User im Ostalbkreis. Everybody including "Category:Users_in_Ostalbkreis" on his Wiki-page, appears on this list.

Meetings of the users are in Schorndorf, Esslingen and Stuttgart

The users of the region also meet on the Stuttgart-Mailingliste.

Mapping of the Ostalbkreis

Mappers: see Users in Ostalbkreis, Users in Alfdorf.

Traffic

The most important traffic routes in Ostalbkreis (borders of district 62708 62708 are the A 7, die B 29 and the B 19. The A 6 is located north of the district, the A 8 southern, the A 81 western.

State Roads

Two main state roads cross the Ostalbkreis:

The B 29 serves as important connection between Stuttgart, the valley of the Rems Remstal, the A 7 and the Nördlinger Ries.
The B 19 goes from the österreich austrian border through the Ostalbkreis up to Thüringen.
In addition there are also the state roads B 298 in the west at the border to the Rems-Murr-Kreis, as well as the B 290, B466 in the eastern part of the Ostalbkreis.

See WikiProject Germany/Bundesstraßen: B 10 – B 19, B 20 – B 29 , B 250 – B 299 und B 450 – B 499.

If all state roads are covered in OSM, they cover about 200 km in length. The state roads should be completet in the district - nevertheless: this should be verified.

Country Roads

See WikiProject Germany/Landesstraßen/Baden-Württemberg 6 Country roads in Baden-Württemberg (L 1000 - L 1199) and WikiProject Germany/Landesstraßen/Baden-Württemberg 7: Country roads in Baden-Württemberg (L 1200 - L 1399)

If all country roads are covered in OSM, they cover about 400 km in length. The country roads are probably completed in the district - nevertheless: this should be verified. For the list of country roads: see german site DE:Ostalbkreis

District Roads

The numbers of district roads 3200–3399 are reserved for the Ostalbkreis (see WikiProject_Germany/Kreisstraßen#Baden-Württemberg). At the moment the highest number used is 3334. If all countryroads are covered in OSM, they cover about 500 km in length. The district roads are probably completed in the district - nevertheless: this should be verified.

For status of control: see german site DE:Ostalbkreis

Connecting Roads

Here are probably some still missing.

Special Streets/Ways

Touristic Roads

German Limes Street - Deutsche Limes-Straße

Cycle Tracks

The single relations of the cycle way network in Baden-Württemberg are combined in a super-relation: 536151 536151. At the moment there is no relation listed for the Ostalbkreis. (siehe: [1])
Valley of the Rems cycle route 16223 16223 (Remstal-Radroute)

Long Distance Paths:

Limes-Radweg Deutscher Limes-Radweg: 2944 2944
Alb-Neckar-Radweg: 8300 8300

External links outside of OSM or WIKI (as interim solution, till relations are defined in OSM - in how far the pages listed underneath can be used to build up relations in OSM: ??? ):

http://katalog.meinestadt.de/ostalbkreis/katl/100-100-535-24898

http://www.ostalbkreis.de/sixcms/detail.php?_topnav=38&_sub1=166&_sub2=100888&_sub3=119964&id=119967

http://www.neckar-magazin.de/radwege/index.html

http://www.ellwangen.de/index.php?id=270; http://www.ellwangen.de/index.php?id=288

http://www.fahrradreisen.de/radwege/b16.htm

http://www.radtour4u.de/hohenlohe_ostalb_weg.php

Hiking Trails

DE:Camino de Santiago=Jakobsweg - The relation "Jakobsweg Göppingen" runs partly through the Ostalbkreis. Here seem to be still many gaps regarding complete discriptions in relations.
Limes-Wanderweg (HW 6) of the Schwäbischer Albverein.

Rail/Bus

Rems Railway Stuttgart - Schwäbisch Gmünd - Aalen.

Geographie/Nature

Waters

Rivers:

Rems (german site), Rems (english site, rather short)
Jagst (german site), Jagst (english site, rather short)
Kocher (german site), Kocher (english site, rather short)

Different results for searches in OSM (eg.: Rems as brook - Jagst and Kocher however as river, for the Jagst - on the contrary to the other rivers - also the source of the Jagst is specified)

Further brooks/rivers are existing, but the completeness must still be verified.

Lakes: A cosiderable number in OSM, but the completeness must still be verified.

Forest

A cosiderable number in OSM, but the completeness must still be verified.

Protectorates

In the Ostalbkreis there are more than 800 protectorates, to which nature reserves belong to as well as special trees as natural monuments.

Nature Reserves The Ostalbkreis owns 42 nature reserves with a total area of 1.898,5 ha.

Auweiher (Rotach): 22,8 ha; local subdistricts Wört and Ellenberg
Bargauer Horn: 25,2 ha; local subdistrict Weiler in den Bergen
Beiberg-Buchberg: 20,8 ha; local subdistrict Bopfingen
Bergrutsch Tannenwald: 10,9 ha; local subdistrict Waldstetten
Birkenweiher with Ober- and Unterholzweiher: 22,5 ha; local subdistrict Wört
Blasienberg: 41,8 ha; local subdistrict Kirchheim am Ries
Breitweiher with Hilsenweiher: 14,3 ha; local subdistrict Stödtlen
Dellenhäule: 24,1 ha; local subdistricts Waldhausen bei Aalen and Elchingen auf dem Härtsfeld
Dossinger Tal: 22,6 ha; local subdistrict Dorfmerkingen
Ellwanger Schlossweiher and surroundings: 63,0 ha; local subdistrict Ellwangen
Goldberg: 32,45 ha; local subdistricts Trochtelfingen, Pflaumloch, Goldburghausen and Kirchheim am Ries
Goldshöfer Sande: 46,5 ha; local subdistrict Hofen
Gromberger Heide: 18 ha; local subdistrict Lauchheim
Ipf: 71 ha; local subdistricts Bopfingen and Oberdorf
Kaltes Feld with Hornberg, Galgenberg und Eierberg: 634,4 ha; local subdistricts Degenfeld, Waldstetten, Wißgoldingen, Nenningen and Weißenstein
Kapf nearby Trochtelfingen: 61,1 ha; local subdistrict Trochtelfingen
Leintal between Leinecksee and Leinhäusle: 202,5 ha; local subdistricts Spraitbach, Durlangen and Alfdorf
Lindenfeld: 75,0 ha; local subdistrict Bettringen
Dredging lakes of Lorch: 18,5 ha; local subdistricts Lorch and Waldhausen
Muckental: 33,3 ha; local subdistrict Ellenberg
Orbachtal with Streuwiesen: 5,9 ha; local subdistrict Rosenberg
Rauhe Wiese: 4 ha; local subdistrict Bartholomä
Riegelberg: 21,3 ha; local subdistrict Utzmemmingen
Rosenstein: 22,0 ha; local subdistricts Lautern and Heubach
Valley of Rot and Seebach: 15,6 ha; local subdistrict Gschwend
Schechinger Weiher: 12,7 ha; local subdistrict Schechingen
Scheuelberg: 119 ha; local subdistricts Bargau and Heubach
Schloßberg with Ruine Flochberg: 9,4 ha; local subdistrict Bopfingen
Canyon of the Großer Wimbach: 3,1 ha; local subdistricts Frickenhofen and Laufen am Kocher
Stausee Stockmühle: 44,1 ha; local subdistrict Lippach
stone pit terraces in the Egau-valley: 10,7 ha; local subdistricts Neresheim and Dischingen
Streuwiese nearby Rötenbach: 5,6 ha; local subdistrict Bartholomä
Valley of the Blind Rot: 60,7 ha; local subdistricts Neuler, Abtsgmünd and Pommertsweiler
Tierstein with Hangwald and Eger-soure: 2,9 ha; local subdistrict Aufhausen
Tonnenberg, Käsbühl, Karkstein: 173,4 ha; local subdistricts Aufhausen, Oberdorf_am_Ipf and Röttingen
Volkmarsberg: 68,1 ha; local subdistrict Oberkochen
Vorbecken Buch: 11,2 ha; local subdistricts Schwabsberg, Dalkingen and Westhausen
Weiherkette nearby Spitalhof: 23,2 ha; local subdistrict Wört
Weiherwiesen: 27,8 ha; local subdistrict Essingen
Wental with Seitentälern and Feldinsel Klösterle: 288,9 ha; local subdistrict Essingen and Steinheim
Wiesentäler nearby Menzlesmühle: 62,8 ha; local subdistricts Altersberg, Vordersteinenberg and Kaisersbach
Zwing: 102,0 ha; local subdistricts Neresheim, Auernheim and Dischingen

Legende

Colour and symbol legend

The status of each map region is indicated by a symbol, which describes the type of feature, and a colour, which indicates the completeness of that feature in a map region.

Usage

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{{State|Key=progress}}

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Meaning of symbols

- Street names are labelled. This means that the map can be used to find an address - Key: l
- All housenumbers are present - Key: h
- All footways are present - Key: fo
- All wheelchair access is present - Key: d
- All cycleways, and field and forest roads suitable for bicycles are present - Key: b
- Roads for car traffic are present. One way streets and pedestrian streets are present. This means that the map can be used for car navigation - Key: c
- All public transports are present (including name of the bus stop/station names) - Key: tr
- - All stop/station/harbour names are present - Key: ha
- - All bus lines are present (including name of the bus stop names) - Key: bu
- - All trolley/guided bus lines are present (including name of the station names) - Key: ty
- - All tram lines are present (including name of the tram station names) - Key: tm
- - All fast railway lines transports are present (including name of the train station names) - Key: tn
  - - All U-Bahn (subway in Germany) lines are present (including name of the station names) - Key: u
  - - All S-Bahn (regional commuter train in Germany) lines are present (including name of the station names) - Key: s
  - - All steam railway lines transports are present (including name of the train station names) - Key: st
- - All ship lines are present (including name of the harbour station names) - Key: sh
- All public institutions are present (Churches, sports facilities, venues, schools, hospitals, city hall) - Key: p
- - All emergency services (hospitals...) are present - Key: em
- All petrol stations are present - Key: fu
- All restaurants and hotels are present - Key: r
- All tourist attractions are present - Key: t
- All natural resources are mapped (e.g Water, Lakes and Woodland) - Key: n

Meaning of colours

Meaning	Use for navigation	To do	value
The map needs checking, status unknown	Availability unknown	Please check	(None)
The map contains no or little data	Not to be used	Please complete	0
The map contains partial data	Limited usability	Please complete	1
The map is largely complete (please describe missing data)	Use with restrictions	Please complete (missing data, streets etc.)	2
The map is complete (in the opinion of a mapper)	Suitable for use	Please check and correct any errors	3
The map is complete (verified by 2 mappers) ; please indicate Date when checked)	Suitable for use	Please update as needed	4
This attribute does not exist in the mapped area (e.g. no petrol stations)	Suitable for use	Please update as needed	X

The English translation is Editable here.

- "Lanes" - Fahrspuren?

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General information - Abstract