Oberwolfach () is a town in the district of
Ortenau
The Ortenau (), originally called Mortenau, is a historic region in the present-day German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the right bank of the river Rhine, stretching from the Upper Rhine Plain to the foothill zone of the Black F ...
in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...
,
Germany
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. It is the site of the
Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, or Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.
Geography
Geographical situation
The town of Oberwolfach lies between 270 and 948 meters above sea level in the central
Schwarzwald (
Black Forest
The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is th ...
) on the river
Wolf
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a Canis, canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus, subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, includin ...
, a tributary of the
Kinzig.
Neighbouring localities
The district is neighboured by
Bad Peterstal-Griesbach to the north,
Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach in
Landkreis Freudenstadt to the east, by the towns of
Wolfach and
Hausach to the south, and by
Oberharmersbach to the west.
Demographics
Population development:
References
External links
Gemeinde Oberwolfach: Official Homepage (in German)Oberwolfach Mineral Museum
Ortenaukreis
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