Demographics of Württemberg

Demographics of Württemberg

Population statistics for the former Kingdom of Württemberg's four departments (Kreise) for 1900 and 1905 appear below.[1]


District (Kreis). Area in
mile²
Area in
km²
Population
1900.
Population
1905.
Density
(Pop./mile²)
1905.
Density
(Pop./km²)
1905.
Neckar
Black Forest (Schwarzwald)
Jagst
Danube (Donau)
1286
1844
1985
2419
3,330
4,780
5,140
6,270
745,669
509,258
400,126
514,427
811,478
541,662
407,059
541,980
631
293
205
224
244
113
79
87
Total 7534 19,520 2,169,480 2,302,179 306 118


Other details

Settlement density concentrates in the Neckar valley from Esslingen northward.

The mean annual population increase from 1900 to 1905 amounted to 1.22%. 8.5% of the births occurred out of wedlock.

Classified according to religion circa 1905, about 69% of the population professed Protestantism, 30% Roman Catholicism, and about 0.5% Judaism. Protestants largely preponderated in the Neckar district, Roman Catholics in that of the Danube.

The people of the north-west represent Alamannic stock, those of the north-east Franconian, and those of the centre and south Swabian.

In 1910, 506,061 persons worked in the agricultural sector, 432,114 in industrial occupations, and 100,109 in trade and commerce.

Urban centres

The largest towns in the Kingdom of Württemberg included: Stuttgart (with Cannstatt), Ulm, Heilbronn, Esslingen am Neckar, Reutlingen, Ludwigsburg, Göppingen, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Tübingen, Tuttlingen and Ravensburg.

Notes

  1. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Württemberg". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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