Ettlingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 8 kilometres south of the city of Karlsruhe and approximately 15 kilometres from the border with Lauterbourg, in France's Bas-Rhin department.

Karlsruhe is a Landkreis in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rhein-Neckar, Heilbronn, Enz, Calw, Rastatt, Germersheim, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis and the district-free cit