Elzach (;
Low Alemannic
Low Alemannic German () is a branch of Alemannic German, which is part of Upper German. Its varieties are only partly intelligible to non-Alemannic speakers.
Subdivisions
*Lake Constance Alemannic ( de)
**Northern Vorarlberg ( de)
**Allgäu dia ...
: ''Elze'') is a town in the
district of Emmendingen, 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
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. It is situated on the river
Elz, 26 km northeast of
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...
.
Geography
The town of Elzach is located at the eastern border of the
district of Emmendingen and borders on the district of the
Ortenaukreis
Ortenaukreis (; ) is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (clockwise from north) Rastatt, Freudenstadt, Rottweil, Schwarzwald-Baar and Emmendingen. To the west it borders the French Ba ...
and the
Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis
Schwarzwald-Baar () is a (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ortenaukreis, Rottweil, Tuttlingen, Constance, the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, and the districts Waldshut, Br ...
. Topographically is the area characterised by the river valley of the
Elz and the local hill called
Rohrhardsberg. Also Elzach belongs to the
Breisgau
The Breisgau () is an area in southwest Germany extending along the Rhine River and enveloping portions of the Black Forest. Part of the state of Baden-Württemberg, it centers on the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. The district of Breisgau-Hoch ...
area and is located at the edge of the
Southern Black Forest Nature Park
The Southern Black Forest Nature Park () is located in Baden-Württemberg in Germany and covers an area of . As of 2018, it is Germany's largest nature park.
History
The Southern Black Forest Nature Park was established on February 1, 1999. The ...
.
Urban districts
The town has five urban districts.
* Elzach
* Yach
* Prechtal
* Oberprechtal
* Katzenmoos
Gallery
Drei Stufen des Sehens.jpg, ''Granite sculpture: "The three stages of seeing" (2002) by Dieter Oehm, in Elzach''
Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10015, Robert Hermann Dietrich.jpg, Robert Dietrich in 1930 as minister of finance
International relations
Elzach is
twinned with:
:
Worthing
Worthing ( ) is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 113,094 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Br ...
, United Kingdom
:
Ville
''Ville'' is a French word meaning "city" or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin '' villa rustica'') ...
, France
:
Telfs
Telfs is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol, west of Innsbruck. It is the third largest municipality in Tyrol. Telfs received its status in 1908 and maintains its own district court. Population
Refe ...
, Austria
Sons and daughters of the town
*
Hermann Dietrich
Hermann Robert Dietrich (14 December 1879 – 6 March 1954) was a German politician of the liberal German Democratic Party and served as a minister during the Weimar Republic.
Finance Minister of Germany
In 1930, Dietrich succeeded Paul Molden ...
(1879-1954) German politician of the liberal German Democratic Party, minister during the Weimar Republic
References
Emmendingen (district)
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