page_title: Donaueschingen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Donaueschingen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Donaubachquelle in Donaueschingen von oben
context_page_description: Donaueschingen is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar Kreis. It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Danube.
  Donaueschingen stands in a basin within low mountainous terrain. It is located about 13 km south of Villingen-Schwenningen, 24 km west of Tuttlingen, and about 30 km north of the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. In 2015 the population was 21,750, making it the second largest town in the district of Schwarzwald-Baar. It is a regional rail hub.
context_section_description: Donaueschingen lies in the Baar basin in the southern Black Forest at the confluence of the Brigach and Breg rivers— the two source tributaries of the Danube— from which the town gets its name. This is today considered the true source of the Danube.
  An enclosed karst spring on the castle grounds, the source of the "Donaubach", is known as the source of the Danube.
  The municipal area extends continuously from the granite and gneiss of the Black Forest through the Triassic formations of the Schwarzwald-Baar talus to the Swabian Alb, and exhibits all strata of the southern German cuesta country. The heights decrease from 1,020 metres (3,350 ft) in the Black Forest to about 660 metres (2,170 ft) on the Baar plateau, then increase to above the 900 metres (3,000 ft) mark again at the Swabian Alb. A model showing the extraordinary geological setting of the city and its surrounding region is located in the park opposite the train station.
  The town is close to Lake Titisee and less than an hour's drive from both Switzerland and France.
caption: Source of the Donaubach in Donaueschingen (historically considered the source of the Danube)
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