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Villingen-Schwenningen
Onomastics Villingen: ad Filingas (Latin,= with the people of Filo, Vilmar)
Onomastics Schwenningen: Suaninga (Germanic, = with the people of Swano, Swanagèr) --> Swenlingen
first documentary mention: 817 A.D.
Number of inhabitants: 86,000
Area: 165.53 km²
State: Baden-Württemberg
Administrative district: Freiburg
County: Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis
Vehicle registration plate: VS
River. Brigach (Villingen), Neckar (Schwenningen)
The Club Aphrodite is located in Schwenningen.
In Germany, when people talk about a godforsaken town, they often say that "you don't even want to hang dead over a picket fence over there". However, the sentence "Villingen-Schwenningen is a town in the Black Forest where you don't want to hang dead over a picket fence" is wrong for the following reasons: Firstly, Villingen-Schwenningen is a twin city, consisting of Villingen in Baden and Schwenningen in Württemberg. Secondly, Villingen-Schwenningen is not situated in the forest, but on a high plateau at 758 m above sea level between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb along the European watershed. Thirdly, we are talking about two cities that can look back on a long history, which is expressed in each case by a central, pretty promenade and even by two different railway stations. Fourthly, one should not hang around on picket fences, neither dead nor alive, at the location of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Police College anyway. And fifthly, in Villingen-Schwenningen, four different sauna clubs and two walk-in brothels currently provide plenty of fun for those who want to enjoy themselves.
Those who take the Black Forest Railway from Baden-Baden or Offenburg to Villingen will be astounded to discover, after an almost adventurous journey through numerous tunnels and gorges, that the city is located on a wide plateau, the so-called "Hochmulde" of the Baar. Villingen-Schwenningen lies at 758 m above sea level and is therefore the highest of all German cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The town centres of Villingen and Schwenningen are about eight kilometres apart and are connected by a country road. Local public transport between the cities is mainly via local buses, but there is also a direct railway connection via the south loop of the regional railway tracks. While Villingen is located directly on the eastern edge of the Black Forest massif, Schwenningen, further to the east, offers a view of the mountain ranges of the Swabian Alb. Nearby, in Donaueschingen, the source of the Danube springs, and near Schwenningen, in the peatlands of the so-called Schwenninger Moos, lies the Neckar spring. The recreational value of the town is obvious, as the two villages have two wonderful natural landscapes right on their doorsteps, and there is another natural paradise, Lake Constance, some forty kilometres further south. A small drop of bitterness: Villingen-Schwenningen is regarded as the municipality with the highest hail risk in Germany.
The two cities merged in 1972 to form the twin city and have a different history. Both are mentioned for the first time in 817 in a document of Ludwig the Pious, but while Villingen was assigned to the Fürstenbergers in 1283 and belonged to Austria from 1326 to 1805, Schwenningen was assigned to the Tuttlingen upper office in 1444, from which it was passed on to the Rottweil upper office in 1842. Villingen still has a largely intact medieval town centre with some sights such as the early Gothic cathedral, the late Gothic town hall and relics of the town fortifications such as the Bickentor, the Riettor or the Pulvertürmle. Schwenningen was attacked by Villingen in the Peasants' War of 1525 and almost completely burned; Villingen in turn was completely destroyed in a conflagration in 1271.
Today, Villingen is home to Kienzle Apparate GmbH, which now belongs to Continental AG, and the music label HGBS. Villingen was once the home of the popular radio manufacturer SABA. In Schwenningen, a watch factory was founded by Johannes Bürk in 1858, and the town subsequently developed into a leading watchmaking town. Today the town is home to the watch and time recording companies Bürk, Eugen Trost, Kienzle, Mauthe and ISGUS. As a center of Black Forest watch production, the city is located on the course of the German Watch Route.
The singer Michelle, the ski jumper Martin Schmitt and the two soccer players Florian and Sebastian Rudy come from Villingen-Schwenningen.

Central Hotel (1,9 Km)
Alte Herdstraße 12
78054 Villingen-Schwenningen
http://www.centralhotel-vs.de/sites/de/centralHome.html
Schlenkers Ochsen (2,5 Km)
Bürkstraße 59
78054 Villingen-Schwenningen
https://www.hotelochsen.com