Kirchzarten is a town in the district of
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (french: Arrondissement de Brisgau-Haute-Forêt-Noire) is a (district) in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Fifty towns and municipalities with 133 settlements lie within the district. The district itself belon ...
in the federal-state of
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 ...
in southwestern
Germany
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A Zionist agricultural training farm was founded in Kirchzarten in 1919 to prepare young people to become farmers in
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
'Eretz Israel''
The Kirchzarten synagogue had a set of
Jugendstil
''Jugendstil'' ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German counterpart of ...
windows by artist
Friedrich Adler, who made a duplicate set now in the
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...
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Gallery
File:Kirchzarten, het gemeentehuis foto5 2013-07-25 14.25.jpg, Kirchzarten, town hall
File:Kirchzarten, die Sankt Gallus Kirche foto6 2013-07-25 14.20.jpg, Kirchzarten, Church of Saint Gall
File:Zarten, kerk foto1 2013-07-25 13.50.jpg, Zarten, church
See also
Kirchzarten Airfield
Kirchzarten Airfield (in German ''Segelfluggelände Kirchzarten-Oberried'') is an unpaved airfield located approximately southeast of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in the town of Kirchzarten.
The airfield is home to Freiburg and Kirchzarten base ...
References
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Baden
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