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Schopfheim
Schopfheim is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Wiese, 10 km north of Rheinfelden, and 13 km east of Lörrach. The town is the birthplace of Gisela Oeri, Max Picard, and Arno Villringer Arno Villringer (born 1958, Schopfheim, Germany) is a Director at the Department of Neurology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany; Director of the Department of Cognitive Neurology at Universi .... Transport The Wiese Valley Railway runs through the town and serves four stations: , , , and . Gallery Schopfheim, straatzicht die Hauptstrasse foto5 2013-07-26 13.53.jpg, Market square Schopfheim, die evangelische Kirche foto2 2013-07-26 13.46.jpg, Reformed church Schopfheim, die katholische Kirche foto3 2013-07-26 13.57.JPG, Catholic church References Lörrach (district) Baden {{Lörrach-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiese Valley Railway
The Wiese Valley Railway (german: Wiesentalbahn) is a 27.2 km long, electrified main line in German Baden-Württemberg in the tri-national area of Germany, Switzerland and France near the Swiss city of Basel. It is part of the Basel trinational S-Bahn and referenced as . It runs alongside the river Wiese from Basel Badischer Bahnhof in Basel (on Swiss territory) to Zell (Wiesental). It is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) History The line was built as the first private railway in the Grand Duchy of Baden by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (''Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft'') and opened on 7 June 1862 to Schopfheim with a length of 20 km. It was continued up the valley as the ''Hintere Wiesenthalbahn'' (“rear” Wiese Valley Railway) on 5 February 1876 by the Schopfheim-Zell Railway Company (''Schopfheim-Zeller Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''). This was followed on 7 July 1889 by a narrow-gauge railway owned by the Baden railway consortium of Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiese (river)
The Wiese is a river, 57.8 kilometres long, and a right-hand tributary of the Rhine in southwest Germany and northwest Switzerland. From its source in Baden-Württemberg in the Southern Black Forest on the mountain of the Feldberg, it flows for a short distance though the county of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and then mainly across Lörrach and through numerous settlements including the county town of Lörrach. After crossing the international border, the lower reaches of the river pass through the canton of Basel-Stadt, mainly through the city of Basle and through its district of Kleinbasel before emptying into the Upper Rhine. The valley of the Wiese, which drains a catchment of 455 square kilometres, is called the '' Wiesental'' or Wiese Valley; it is oriented roughly towards the south-west. Its largest tributary is the Little Wiese (''Kleine Wiese'') which approaches from the north. The right-hand Rhine tributary of the Wiese and the left-hand Rhine tributaries of the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Picard
Max Picard (5 June 1888 in Schopfheim, Baden, Germany – 3 October 1965 in Sorengo, Switzerland) was a Swiss writer and philosopher, important as one of the few thinkers writing from a deeply Platonic sensibility in the 20th century. Biography Born to a Jewish family in Schopfheim, a German village on the Swiss border, Max Picard studied medicine and received his medical degree in 1911. He practiced medicine, first in Heidelberg and later in Munich. Unsatisfied with the positivist and Darwinian orientations of the medical profession at the time, he began as of 1915 to distance himself from it in order to turn more towards philosophy. In 1919, he immigrated to Switzerland, first to Locarno and later to Brissago. In 1929, he completed work on ''Das Menschengesicht'' (''The Human Face''). In 1934, ''Die flucht vor Gott'' (''The Flight From God'') was published. He developed a friendship with fellow immigrant and artist Gunter Böhmer in the late 1930s. In 1939, Picard conver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lörrach
Lörrach () is a town in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including the Milka chocolate factory owned by Mondelez International. The city population has grown over the last century, with only 10,794 in 1905, it has now increased its population to 49,382. Nearby is the castle of Rötteln on the Wiesental, whose lords became the counts of Hachberg and a residence of the Margraves of Baden; this was destroyed by the troops of Louis XIV in 1678, but was rebuilt in 1867. Lörrach received market rights in 1403, but it did not obtain the privileges of a city until 1682. After the Napoleonic epoch, the town was included in the Grand Duchy of Baden. On 21 September 1848, Gustav Struve attempted to start a revolutionary uprising in Lörrach as part of the Revolutions of 1848–49. It failed, and Struve was cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Oeri
Gisela "Gigi" Oeri (born 1955) is a Swiss-German football chairwoman and philanthropist born 8 November 1955 in Schopfheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She was the chairwoman of FC Basel from 2006 until 2012. At the club's Extraordinary General Assembly on 16 January 2012 the 601 attending members appointed Oeri as honorary president. Oeri is a trained physiotherapist although she no longer practices. She is married to Andreas Oeri, one of the heirs of the Basel pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG. According to the business magazine Bilanz the couple are the richest Swiss people. Oeri is heavily involved financially with the Puppenhausmuseum, the largest collection of teddy bears in Europe. The foundation Youth Campus Basel was brought to life by Ms Gigi Oeri in 2010, with the aim to continuously develop FC Basel’s youth division on a long-term basis. The foundation runs the campus grounds in Münchenstein and the ''Wohnhuus'' in Basel , french: link=no, Bâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lörrach (district)
Lörrach is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Waldshut. To the west it borders the French ''département'' Haut-Rhin; to the south the Swiss cantons Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft and Aargau. History In 1973 part of the district Müllheim and small parts of the district Säckingen were added to the district, which enlarged the district by about 25% to the current size. Geography The north-east of the district is part of the ''Hochschwarzwald'', the highest part of the Black Forest. In the west is the ''Markgräfler Hügelland'', in the south the ''Dinkelberg'', both lower hilly areas. The Rhine river, which forms most of the district's southern and western border, is in a narrow valley until it spreads north of Basel in the much wider ''Oberrheinebene''. The district is included in the trinational Basel metropolitan area. Coat of arms The coat of arms of the Lörrach district can b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rheinfelden (Baden)
Rheinfelden ( gsw, Badisch-Rhyfälde, ) is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, across from Rheinfelden, Switzerland, and 15 km east of Basel. The population is 32,919 as of 2020, making it the second most populated town of the district after Lörrach. Geography Rheinfelden is located on the Swiss-German border, between the High Rhine to the south and the Dinkelberg hills to the north in the district of Lörrach. It borders the Swiss town of the same name across the Rhine river, and the towns of Grenzach-Wyhlen, Inzlingen, Steinen, Maulburg, Schopfheim, Schwörstadt, and Wehr in Germany. Communities Rheinfelden consists of a relatively young town core (founded in the late 19th century), two formerly independent villages ( Nollingen and Warmbach), and seven villages which were incorporated into the town between 1972 and 1975. These are: * Degerfelden ( alem. ''Degerfälde''). * Minseln (ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer (born 1958, Schopfheim, Germany) is a Director at the Department of Neurology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany; Director of the Department of Cognitive Neurology at University of Leipzig Medical Center; and Academic Director of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Mind&Brain Institute, Berlin. He holds a full professorship at University of Leipzig and an honorary professorship at Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From July 2022 to June 2025 he is the Chairperson of the Human Sciences Section of the Max Planck Society. Academic career and achievements Arno Villringer studied medicine at the University of Freiburg (German: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) from 1977 to 1984, graduating with a Doctor of Medicine (summa cum laude) higher degree in 1984. After a fellowship at the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School in 1985, he worked in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a 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 inhabitants across a total area of nearly , it is the third-largest German state by both area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria). As a federated state, Baden-Württemberg is a partly-sovereign parliamentary republic. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm. What is now Baden-Württemberg was formerly the historical territories of Baden, Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg became a state of West Germany in April 1952 by the merger of Württemberg-Baden, South Baden, and Württemberg-Hohe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
