Freiburg im Breisgau

This article is about the city in Baden-Württemberg. For other uses, see Freiberg.

Freiburg (Alemannic German: Friburg im Brisgau) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its full name is Freiburg im Breisgau.

Freiburg im Breisgau
City
View over Freiburg
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Location of Freiburg im Breisgau
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Coordinates: 47°59′N 7°51′E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Stadtkreis
Subdivisions	41 districts
Government
• Lord mayor	Martin Horn (Ind.)
Area
• Total	153.07 km2 (59.10 sq mi)
Elevation	278 m (912 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	236,140
• Density	1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	79098–79117
Dialling codes	0761, 07664, 07665
Vehicle registration	FR
Website	www.freibur

Freiburg is on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald).

Twin cities

Freiburg has many twin cities throughout the world:

• France, Besançon,since 1959
• Austria, Innsbruck, since 1963
• Italy, Padua, since 1967
• United Kingdom, Guildford, since 1979
• United States, Madison, Wisconsin, since 1987
• Japan, Matsuyama, since 1988
• Ukraine, Lviv, since 1989
• Spain, Granada, since 1991
• Iran, Isfahan, since 2000

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial comments, which included questioning the size of the Holocaust, have sparked questions about Freiburg's partnership with Isfahan. After the comments Freiburg's mayor postponed a trip to Isfahan, but most people involved, especially those in the Alliance '90/The Greens party, were opposed to cancelling the partnership.

Famous residents

• Friedrich von Hayek, economist
• Hans F. K. Günther, Nazi eugenicist
• Dany Heatley, player for the Ottawa Senators NHL team
• Martin Heidegger, philosopher (originally not from Freiburg, taught in Freiburg)
• Edmund Husserl, philosopher
• Boris Kodjoe, model and actor
• Benjamin Lebert, author and newspaper columnist
• Joachim Löw, coach of the German national football team.
• Karl Rahner, Catholic theologian
• Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of the Interior, 1989 - 1991, in Helmut Kohl and, 2005 - current, Angela Merkel governments.
• Jürgen Schrempp, former head of DaimlerChrysler
• Berthold Schwarz, fabled alchemist who supposedly introduced gunpowder to Germany
• Til Schweiger, actor and director
• Hermann Staudinger, Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
• Edith Stein, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, member of the Freiburg faculty; her residence is marked by a plaque.
• Martin Waldseemüller, the inventor of the name America
• August Weismann, biologist
• Bernhard Witkop, organic chemist

Gallery

• 
  The Freiburger Münster
• 
  Freiburg seen from the Schlossberg
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  Landscape seen from the Schlossberg
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  The Martinstor
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  The Schwabentor
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  The Historic Marketplace (Historisches Kaufhaus) at the Münsterplatz
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  Look-Out at the Schlossberg
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  Freiburg's town-hall
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  Freiburg's Main Station
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  The Konzerthaus (concert hall)
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  Stadttheater
• 
  Freiburg with the city centre 'Bächle'

Other websites

• Official website
• Freiburg:History and images Archived 2008-12-30 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
• City of Freiburg and the Black Forest
• Augustinermuseum Archived 2005-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
• VAG Freiburg Freiburg Public Transit Authority
• Freiburg-Home.com - Information & Reviews about Freiburg in English for expats, tourists and the community Archived 2013-08-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Solar City - Germany Archived 2007-10-14 at the Wayback Machine August 2000
• Webcams in Freiburg and the Black Forest
• Tramway in Freiburg
• fudder - a popular online-mag for young people (Winner of Grimme Online Award 2007)
• Freiburg's History for Pedestrians