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Bad Buchau | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Bad Buchau within Biberach district  | |
  Bad Buchau  Bad Buchau | |
| Coordinates: 48°3′58″N 9°36′36″E / 48.06611°N 9.61000°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Tübingen |
| District | Biberach |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2018–26) | Peter Diesch[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 23.77 km2 (9.18 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 592 m (1,942 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 4,636 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (510/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 88422 |
| Dialling codes | 07582 |
| Vehicle registration | BC |
| Website | www.badbuchau.de |
Bad Buchau (German pronunciation: [ˌbaːt ˈbʊːxaʊ̯] ) (formerly Buchau; Swabian: Buacha) is a small town in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with about 4,000 inhabitants. It is situated near Lake Federsee, which is separated from the town by a wide reed belt.
Bad Buchau incorporates the nine villages of Allmannsweiler, Dürnau, Kanzach, Betzenweiler, Moosburg, Alleshausen, Seekirch, Tiefenbach, and Oggelshausen, as well as the outlying farm settlements of Ottobeurer Hof, Bruckhof, and Henauhof. Also part of Bad Buchau is the formerly independent district of Kappel.
The official language is German, with day-to-day conversations by the majority of its inhabitants in the Swabian dialect.
From the 13th century to the mediatisation of 1803, Buchau had the particularity of being the seat of both an Imperial Abbey and a Free Imperial City, independent of each other. In terms of area, it was one of the smallest such self-ruling cities and its island situation eliminated the necessity to erect city walls and towers. Buchau, however, lost its insular benefits after the water level of Lake Federsee had been lowered on two occasions.
- ^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 11 September 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.