Alb-Donau-Kreis named after the Danube River (German "Donau") and the Swabian Alb ("Schwäbische Alb") mountains. The Danube enters the district in the southwest, runs through the southern parts of the district and leaves eastwards to Ulm. North of the Danube banks the hills of the Swabian Alb rise. The hill chain extends from southwest to northeast parallel to the course of the Danube River and is continued on either side of the district. An affluent of the Danube, the Iller River, forms the southeastern border of the Alb-Donau district, before it meets the Danube in Ulm. The coat of arms is
Donau (horse) the "Daily Racing Form" suggesting that the break from racing was due to Donau being a "track demon" with a "disposition to do nothing asked of him." Donau was gelded at the end of his three-year-old season in an attempt to curb his behavior, but he was still fractious. However, in March of 1912 he won the South Carolina Selling Stakes at Palmetto Park in Charleston, South Carolina. Donau was retired from flat racing in December 1912, at age five. Donau was in the process of being re-trained for steeplechasing when he died suddenly in February 1913 during a disease