Weinstadt is a town in the county Rems-Murr, in the state of Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

, Germany

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. It is located in the Rems

Rems

The Rems is a right tributary of the Neckar in eastern Baden-Württemberg. It is 78 km long. Its source is in Essingen, near Aalen. It flows generally west through the towns Böbingen an der Rems, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Plüderhausen, Schorndorf, Remshalden and Waiblingen. At Remseck the Rems flows...

 Valley approximately 15 km east of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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. As the name implies, it is best known for its vineyards and production of wine. The Remstalkellerei (Rems Valley Winery), in the Beutelsbach neighborhood of Weinstadt, is a cooperative owned by the local growers and is the tenth-largest winery in Germany.

The town is composed of five districts which were formerly separate rural villages. They are Beutelsbach, Endersbach, Großheppach, Strümpfelbach, and Schnait. The five villages were combined to form the town of Weinstadt in 1975.

From 1958 through 1976, Stanford University

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 in California

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, United States

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, maintained an "overseas campus" for Stanford undergraduates in Beutelsbach. The hilltop campus is now the Landgut Burg hotel and conference center.

The famous naval historian Jürgen Rohwer

Jürgen Rohwer

Jürgen Rohwer is a German naval military historian and Professor of history at the University of Stuttgart. He is currently residing in Weinstadt, Germany...

resides in Weinstadt.