Swabia (Bavaria)

Swabia
Swabia; Schwaben
	Map of Bavaria highlighting the Regierungsbezirk of Swabia
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Region seat	Augsburg
	Area
• Total	9,993.97 km2 (3,858.69 sq mi)
	Population (31 December 2010)
• Total	1,784,919
• Density	180/km2 (460/sq mi)
Website	regierung.schwaben.bayern.de

This article is about the administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) of Bavaria. For the greater historical region of Germany, see Swabia.

Swabia (German: Schwaben) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany.

Geography[]

Swabia is located in southwest Bavaria. It was formed out of the part of the historic region of Swabia which was annexed by Bavaria in 1803. It was once formally ruled by dukes of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. During the Nazi period, the area was separated from the rest of Bavaria to become the Gau Swabia. It was re-incorporated into Bavaria after the war.

The Regierungsbezirk is subdivided into 3 regions (Planungsregionen): Allgäu, Augsburg, and Donau-Iller. Donau-Iller also includes two districts and one city of Baden-Württemberg.

Landkreise (districts)	Kreisfreie Städte (district-free towns)	Natural regions
Aichach-Friedberg Augsburg Dillingen an der Donau Donau-Ries Günzburg Lindau Neu-Ulm Oberallgäu Ostallgäu Unterallgäu	Augsburg Kaufbeuren Kempten im Allgäu Memmingen	Nördlinger Ries* Swabian Jura Iller-Lech Plateau Southern Alpine Foreland Swabian-Bavarian Pre-Alps Northern Limestone Alps Upper Swabia

* Part of the Swabian Keuper Land

districts and district-free towns before the regional reorganization in 1972[]

Kreisfreie Städte (district-free towns)	Landkreise (districts)	Landkreise (districts) (continuation)
Augsburg Dillingen an der Donau Günzburg Kaufbeuren Kempten Lindau Memmingen Neuburg an der Donau Neu-Ulm Nördlingen	Augsburg Dillingen Donauwörth Friedberg Füssen Günzburg Illertissen Kaufbeuren Kempten Krumbach	Lindau Marktoberdorf Memmingen Mindelheim Neuburg an der Donau Neu-Ulm Nördlingen Schwabmünchen Sonthofen Wertingen

Population[]

Historical Population of Swabia:

1939: 934,311
1950: 1,293,734
1961: 1,340,217
1970: 1,467,454
1987: 1,546,504
2002: 1,776,465
2005: 1,788,919
2006: 1,786,764
2008: 1,787,995
2010: 1,785,875

History[]

The Bavarian administrative region of Swabia is the eastern part of the duchy of Swabia. Already after the execution of the Swabian duke Conradin in Naples in 1268, his uncle, the Bavarian duke Louis inherited some of Conradin's possessions in Swabia. In 1803 with the German Mediatisation Bavaria acquired the further East Swabian territories which were merged with Palatinate-Neuburg under the old name Swabia which was introduced in 1837 by king Ludwig I of Bavaria. In 1945 Lindau was divested by France, but reunited with Swabia in 1955. In 1972 the former Swabian city Neuburg an der Donau was reunited with Upper Bavaria.