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Landeskunde Entdecken Online (better known as LEO-BW) is a regional online information system for
Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...
,
Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. It is owned by the .


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Atlas

In 2015, the Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg was incorporated into LEO-BW.


German archives

On February 22, 2018, the ''Südwestdeutsche Archivalienkunde'' (Southwest German Archival Records) was incorporated into LEO-BW, linking millions of documents into LEO-BW. The oldest of these documents come from the
Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...
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Weimar Republic

On November 8, 2017, the topic "From the Monarchy to the Republic" was released. It contained 900,000 documents of the
Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was the German Reich, German state from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclai ...
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History

The plans for LEO-BW were first initiated in 2010 order to celebrate the 60th birthday of the State of Baden-Württemberg. However, the website wasn't opened until April 25, 2012.{{Cite web, title=Pressemitteilung, url=https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilung/pid/landeskundliches-portal-leo-bw-geht-online/, access-date=2020-07-29, website=Baden-Württemberg.de, language=de


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External links


Official website
Baden-Württemberg