St. Johann: Würtingen - Feuerwehrturm
St. Johann combines working farmland with small-scale commercial activity in a way that reflects its position on the Swabian Alb. The municipality lies in the Reutlingen district of Baden-Württemberg, where cultivated fields and wooded folds of the Alb surround a group of separate settlements rather than one dense urban centre. St. Johann took its present municipal form in 1975, when six formerly independent communities were combined. Würtingen is its administrative centre. Village streets, farm buildings and local businesses shape this settled upland landscape, while the Alb’s rolling plateau defines the wider setting across the municipality.
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St. Johann combines open farmland with the wooded contours of the Swabian Alb in a way that reflects its position on this elevated limestone plateau in Baden-Württemberg. The municipality lies within the Swabian Alb Biosphere Reserve, a protected cultural landscape shaped by grazing, agriculture and forest. Founded in 1975, St. Johann brought together the formerly independent communities of Bleichstetten, Lonsingen, Ohnastetten, Sirchingen, Upfingen and Würtingen. Its dispersed settlement pattern gives the area a distinctly rural character, far from the larger cities on the Alb’s northern edge. See how St. Johann fits into the wider Swabian Alb by browsing webcams nearby.
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