Freiburg im Breisgau facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Freiburg im Breisgau
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View over Freiburg
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Country | Germany | ||
State | Baden-Württemberg | ||
Admin. region | Freiburg | ||
District | Stadtkreis | ||
Elevation | 278 m (912 ft) | ||
Population
(2021-12-31)
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• Total | 231,848 | ||
Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | ||
Postal codes |
79098–79117
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Dialling codes | 0761, 07664, 07665 | ||
Vehicle registration | FR | ||
Website | [1] |
Freiburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its full name is Freiburg im Breisgau.
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
Images for kids
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Freiburg City Hall (Rathaus)
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The Martinstor, one of the original city gates in Freiburg
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Schwarzwald-Stadion is the former home ground of Bundesliga club SC Freiburg
See also
In Spanish: Friburgo de Brisgovia para niños