BREISGAU-HOCHSCHWARZWALD

'Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald' is a Kreis (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Emmendingen, Schwarzwald-Baar, Waldshut, Lörrach and the French ''départements'' Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin. The district-free city Freiburg is surrounded by the district.

Contents

History

Geography

Politics

Coat of arms

Cities and towns

External links

History

The district was created in 1973 by merging the previous districts Freiburg, Müllheim und Hochschwarzwald.

Geography

Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is a large and rural district with at least three distinct scenic settings:
# the flat land at the River Rhine (''Oberrheinebene'') with the Kaiserstuhl mountain, the Tuniberg, the Breisgau and the Markgräflerland
# the slopes of the Black Forest mountains, with black forest valleys reaching to the Rhine, like Glottertal, Dreisamtal, Höllental and Münstertal
# the higher mountain ranges of the Black Forest (''Hochschwarzwald''), including the highest mountain in the Black Forest, the Feldberg (1493 m)
The district is interesting to tourists. Other characteristic items are wine and forests.

Politics

Politically, the majority of the districts parliament (''Kreistag'') is traditionally christian democratic-conservative, with higher levels of conservative votes the farther one gets from Freiburg (which has a red-green majority).

Coat of arms

Coat of arms

The left half of the coat of arms show the colors of Austria, and the right side the colors of Baden, as both countries owned big parts of the district. In the middle it shows an eagle, taken from the coat of arms of the Princes of Fürstenberg. The coat of arms was granted in 1974, and it's very similar to the coat of arms of the previous Freiburg district.

Cities and towns

Cities
#Bad Krozingen#Breisach#Heitersheim #Löffingen #Müllheim #Neuenburg am Rhein#Staufen #Sulzburg#Titisee-Neustadt#Vogtsburg	Breitnau Buchenbach Buggingen Ebringen Ehrenkirchen Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl Eisenbach Eschbach Feldberg Friedenweiler Glottertal Gottenheim Gundelfingen Hartheim Heuweiler Hinterzarten Horben Ihringen Kirchzarten	Lenzkirch March Merdingen Merzhausen Münstertal Oberried Pfaffenweiler Schallstadt Schluchsee Sölden Sankt Märgen Sankt Peter Stegen Umkirch Wittnau
Towns
#Au #Auggen #Badenweiler #Ballrechten-Dottingen #Bötzingen #Bollschweil

External links

★ Official Website