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02Baden-Württemberg · District and federal state

Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is in Baden-Württemberg.

All four answers are real district names. What matters is which district belongs to the state in the question.

About 4 min readReviewed: 20 October 2026
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The short answer

The answer is Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis.

Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis belongs to Baden-Württemberg; its district administration is in Mosbach. The three other named districts belong to different federal states. A district is not itself a federal state.

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Which is a district in Baden-Württemberg?

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Assign the district to the correct level of government.

A district name identifies an area containing several municipalities and a district administration. For this question, the relevant connection is Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis → Baden-Württemberg. The German word Land in Landkreis does not make it one of the 16 federal states.

The official district-administration directory lists Mosbach for Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis. This concrete place gives you a useful second connection when studying: district name, administrative seat and federal state are different pieces of information that belong together.

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The other three answers

The incorrect answers are not invented names; their locations simply do not fit this question.

Mecklenburgische Seenplatte

Mecklenburgische Seenplatte is a district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Its name therefore belongs to another federal state.

Nordfriesland

Nordfriesland belongs to Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is not a district of Baden-Württemberg.

Altötting

Altötting is in Upper Bavaria and thus in the Free State of Bavaria. Here too the district name is real, but the state does not match.

A familiar place name does not replace an accurate connection.

The question does not ask for a complete list of Baden-Württemberg’s districts. You need to recognise the relevant one among four names. If names are similar, check the official directory instead of deciding only from a landscape term.

Mosbach, as the seat of the district administration, is not the state capital. That is Stuttgart. A district administration, a city administration and the state government have different responsibilities, so their seats are not interchangeable.

Districts · Location · State Statistical Office BW ↗
Your memory cue

Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis → Baden-Württemberg; district administration → Mosbach.

Keep the district name and state together without confusing the district with the whole state.

Three words for this question

der Landkreisdistrict
A local government area containing several municipalities.
das Landratsamtdistrict administration
The administration of a district.
der Verwaltungssitzadministrative seat
The place where an administration is based.
Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg · Landratsämter ↗
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Sources & context

An independently written study guide, not an official BAMF publication or advice for an individual case. The sources below were reviewed on 20 October 2026 for the claims explained here; the test question comes from the existing question bank.

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