Lörrach () is a town in southwest
Germany
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, in the valley of the
Wiese, close to the
French and the
Swiss
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borders. It is the capital of the district of
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 t ...
in
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 ...
. It is the home of a number of large employers, including the
Milka
Milka is a brand of chocolate confectionery, originally made in Switzerland in 1901 by Suchard. It has then been produced in Lörrach, Germany for the past 100 years. Since 2012 it has been owned by US-based company Mondelez International, when ...
chocolate
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civ ...
factory owned by
Mondelez International
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. 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
The Margraviate of Baden (german: Markgrafschaft Baden) was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the east side of the Upper Rhine River in southwestern Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, ...
; this was destroyed by the troops of
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
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
The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918.
It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subs ...
. On 21 September 1848,
Gustav Struve
Gustav Struve, known as Gustav von Struve until he gave up his title (11 October 1805 in Munich, Bavaria – 21 August 1870 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary), was a German surgeon, politician, lawyer and publicist, and a revolutionary during the Germa ...
attempted to start a revolutionary uprising in Lörrach as part of the
Revolutions of 1848–49. It failed, and Struve was caught and imprisoned. Still, Lörrach was officially the capital of Germany for a day.
Geography
Lörrach is located in the southernmost part of the
Rhine Rift
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben (German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the s ...
valley. The
depression is created by tectonic movements, and the area has a high earthquake risk.
Several times a year, Lörrach is afflicted by slight and medial earthquakes.
The city is located in a valley of the
Quaternary
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period. Lörrach is surrounded by slopes on two sides. The slopes create the southern part of the
Wiesental, that is the valley where the
Wiese river flows.
Geographical locations of the subdistrict Lörrach:
* Elevation of the deepest place: 272 m (in the valley ''Wiesental'' at the border with Switzerland)
* Elevation of the highest place: 570 m (in the forest of ''Rötteln'')
The extent of the urban area from south to north is 6.0 km and from east to west 4.6 km.
Lörrach is also the capital city of
Markgräflerland
Markgräflerland () is a region in the southwest of Germany, in the south of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, located between the Breisgau in the north and the Black Forest in the east; adjacent to west with France and in the south ...
and a part of the tri-national
agglomeration
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* Urban agglomeration, in standard English
* Megalopolis, in Chinese English, as defined in China's ''Standard for basic terminology of urban planning'' (GB/T 50280—98). Also known as " city cluster".
* Economies of ag ...
area of
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
(Switzerland).
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
is 220 km away from Lörrach, and it takes one hour to drive to
Bern
german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese
, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
, website ...
or
Zürich
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. The city has several forested hills along the valley Wiesental:
Schädelberg, Homburg,
Röttler Wald, and
Tüllinger Berg.
Lörrach is bounded by many municipalities and the city of Riehen (Switzerland). In addition, it is located in the foothills of the
Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the 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 t ...
and on the border of Switzerland.
Climate
Lörrach's climate is mild, and in the summer, it is often hot. The region of
Markgräflerland
Markgräflerland () is a region in the southwest of Germany, in the south of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, located between the Breisgau in the north and the Black Forest in the east; adjacent to west with France and in the south ...
is the warmest in Germany because of the Mediterranean air current from the valley of the
Rhône
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. Because of its numerous sunny days, the region is dubbed the German Tuscany (German: ''Die Toskana Deutschlands'').
Boroughs and districts
![Stadtgliederung Lörrach](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Stadtgliederung_L%C3%B6rrach.png)
Lörrach is subdivided into three boroughs and three districts. In sum, the three boroughs have an area of 18.6 km
2.
The three districts have their own administrations with a chief magistrate (''Ortsvorsteher''). Every five years, the citizens of Lörrach elect the council of the districts. The
satellite city
Satellite cities or satellite towns are smaller municipalities that are adjacent to a principal city which is the core of a metropolitan area. They differ from mere suburbs, subdivisions and especially bedroom communities in that they have mun ...
Salzert was developed in 1963.
Inzlingen
Inzlingen is a village in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
From the Fondation Beyeler, a famous art collection in Riehen in the canton Basel Stadt, Switzerland, the street Inzlingerstrasse goes uphill to Inz ...
, close to Lörrach, is an independent municipality, but Lörrach oversees its administration.
History
Population development
source: Statistisches Landesamt Stuttgart, Statistischer Jahresbericht der Stadt Lörrach.
Coat of arms
![Tüllingen - Ottilienkirche3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/T%C3%BCllingen_-_Ottilienkirche3.jpg)
Lörrach received its city rights in 1682 when it became the capital of the Oberamt Rötteln-Sausenberg. At the same time, its arms were granted. The arms show a
canting
' (IPA: , VOS Spelling: ''tjanting'', jv, ꦕꦤ꧀ꦛꦶꦁ, Tjanting) is a pen-like tool used to apply liquid hot wax ( jv, ) in the batik-making process in Indonesia, more precisely ''batik tulis'' (lit. "written batik"). Traditional '' ...
lark (''Lerche''). In 1756, both the city rights and the arms were regranted by
Margrave
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Charles Frederick of Baden
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Biography
Born at Karlsruhe, he was the son of Hereditary Prince Frede ...
. The colours are also the colours of Baden. Even though the arms have not changed since, the shape and size of the lark have changed considerably. The present arms have been used since the early 1960s and show a very modern variation of the lark. After municipal reforms, the coat of arms was reconfirmed on 11 November 1975.
Religion
![Lörrach-Brombach - Germanus-Kirche](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/L%C3%B6rrach-Brombach_-_Germanus-Kirche.jpg)
Christianity:
Lörrach initially belonged to the diocese of Konstanz and was under the
archdiocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
of
Breisgau
The Breisgau () is an area in southwest Germany between the Rhine River and the foothills of the Black Forest. Part of the state of Baden-Württemberg, it centers on the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. The district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, ...
. In 1529, after the
Reformation
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
had been introduced there, the parsonage of Lörrach was occupied from Basel. The reformation in the city was introduced in 1556. After that, Lörrach was for many centuries a predominantly Protestant city. In Rötteln, an archdiocese had existed since the beginning of the 15th century, which at the end of the 17th century, shifted to Lörrach. The Protestant pastor of Lörrach was from 1682 an intendant, too. The ''Stadtkirche'' is the main church of Lörrach (first mentioned in the 12th century). In addition, Lörrach has a few parishes: ''Johannespfarrei'' (founded in the 20th century), ''Pauluspfarrei'' for the northern city (founded in 1906), ''Matthäuspfarrei'' for the eastern city, Inzlingen (founded in 1949), ''Markuspfarrei'' (founded in 1956), Salzertgemeinde (founded in 1969), and ''Friedensgemeinde'' for the district of Homburg (founded in 1974).
The borough of Stetten was controlled by
Austria
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until 1803. Therefore, Stetten has a Catholic tradition, although the reformation had been introduced years before. Because of a contract with Austria, Stetten again became Catholic. At first, the parish of Stetten also served the resident Catholics of Lörrach. They held their church services in the new church, the ''Fridolinskirche'' (1822). The original church of Stettens was founded in the 13th century. Between 1864 and 1867 in Lörrach, its own parish church (St. Bonifatius) was built, at which a curacy was created that was raised to the status of a parsonage in 1882. A second Catholic church (St. Peter) was built in 1964. In Brombach, they had already built in 1900 a church (St. Josephskirche), which has been a parsonage since 1911. All Catholic parishes of Lörrach today form together with the neighbouring parishes of St. Peter and Paul in Inzlingen a group pastoral ministry within the deanery of Wiesental belonging to the archbishopric
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...
.
Today, a slight predominance of the Lutheran denomination exists. In the borough of Stetten exists a relative Catholic majority.
Beside the two large churches, some parishes belong to
free church
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es. For example, the ''Freie evangelische Gemeinde'' or ''FeG Lörrach'' (English: Free Evangelical community).
Politics
Political proportion
![Loerracher Rathaus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Loerracher_Rathaus.jpg)
The municipal council of Lörrach consists of 32 volunteer aldermen and alderwomen, whose chairman is the Oberbürgermeisterin (
mayor
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).
The municipal council is elected for a period of five years by the citizenry.
The last election from 13 June 2004 had a percentage of voting of 41.2% and resulted in the following allocation of seats in the city hall of Lörrach:
Source:
(1) Kommunale Unabhängige Liste (''English: Municipal autonomous list'')
* variance to the municipal council elections of 1999.
Heads of city
The
chronicle
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of Lörrach reports of a
Johann von Schallbach in the year 1366 as the first
Vogt
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. The office designation of mayor was reserved for the local chiefs of the cities. The first mayor of Lörrach was
Marx Christoph Leibfried, who took office in 1882, the year of the first
German town law of the city. He was employed by the
Markgraf
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. Since 1956, the city head is the Oberbürgermeister, who is selected directly by the citizens.
Mayors since 1804
![Jörg Lutz2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/J%C3%B6rg_Lutz2.jpg)
Source:
* Oberbürgermeister
Economics and infrastructure
The town supports approximately 18,300 jobs. Retailers gained a business volume of 342.7 million euros in the year 2004. Approximately a fifth of this business volume was generated by customers from Switzerland.
Transport
Bundesautobahn 98
is a long motorway in southern Germany, originally intended to connect Weil am Rhein with the A 8 near Irschenberg.
Currently, only three relatively short unconnected sections have been constructed:
*Weil am Rhein to near Eichsel, wher ...
passes Lörrach. Thereby it has a direct connection to the
Bundesautobahn 5
is a 445 km (277 mi) long Autobahn in Germany. Its northern end is the Hattenbach triangle intersection (with the A 7. The southern end is at the Swiss border near Basel. It runs through the German states of Hessen and Baden-W ...
and to the
A35 autoroute
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in France. The
A2 motorway and the
A3 motorway of Switzerland are also near Lörrach. The
Bundesstraße
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Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...
B 317, from Titisee-Neustadt across the pass of the
Feldberg, is the most important arterial road of the city. The Bundesstraße 317 is interrupted by Switzerland. At present the B 317 is built through the Swiss territory as duty-free road.
The principal railway station in Lörrach is
Lörrach Hauptbahnhof, with frequent service provided by the
Basel S-Bahn ,french: RER trinational de Bâle
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, alt = logo trireno
, imagesize = 180
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, alt2 = S-Bahn train at B ...
. There are a half-dozen other stations within the municipality. There is also a terminal where car drivers can travel together with their cars by train. The terminal connects Lörrach with
Hildesheim
Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Lei ...
,
Bremen
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,
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
, timezone1 = Central (CET)
, utc_offset1 = +1
, timezone1_DST = Central (CEST)
, utc_offset1_DST = +2
, postal ...
and
Berlin
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. From 1919 to 1939 as well as from 1947 to 1967 Line 6 of the tram of Basel operated as the urban tram of Lörrach. Lörrach has some local and regional bus connections. They belong to the . The nearest international airport, the
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg IATA airport 3-letter codes for the French area, the Swiss area, and the metropolitan area, french: Aéroport de Bâle-Mulhouse-Fribourg, it, Aeroporto di Basilea-Mulhouse-Friburgo, rm, Eroport da Basilea-Mu ...
, is 14 km away from Lörrach.
Administrative bodies, organisations and courts
Lörrach as a district accommodates the district administration office and a highway maintenance depot. Lörrach has several schools of all school types plus a
Folk high school
Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;'' ...
, a municipal library with over 65,000 books, a scientific regional library, a school of music, and two other smaller libraries. The local court of Lörrach is responsible for cities and municipalities in the district. Furthermore, there is a labour court in Lörrach, which constitutes the first jurisdiction for the districts of Lörrach and Waldshut. In addition there are three Superior Courts of Justice in
Radolfzell am Bodensee
Radolfzell am Bodensee is a town in Germany at the western end of Lake Constance approximately 18 km northwest of Konstanz. It is the third largest town, after Constance and Singen, in the district of Konstanz, in Baden-Württemberg.
Ra ...
. Lörrach also has a tax office, a labour office, a motorway police (German: ''Autobahnpolizei''), and a criminal investigation department. Lörrach's hospital opened on 1 October 1845, at that time as an urban infirmary. On 1 January 1994 the three hospitals of Lörrach, Rheinfelden, and Schopfheim were pooled into a
GmbH. Today the hospital of Lörrach has 351 beds.
Companies in Lörrach
One of the most well-known companies and employers in Lörrach is the chocolate manufacturer
Mondelez
Mondelez International, Inc. ( ), often styled Mondelēz, is an American multinational confectionery, food, holding and beverage and snack food company based in Chicago. Mondelez has an annual revenue of about $26 billion and operates in ...
Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, well known for the brand of
chocolate
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confectionary
Confectionery is the Art (skill), art of making confections, which are food items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Exact definitions are difficult. In general, however, confectionery is divided into two broad and somewhat overlappi ...
Milka
Milka is a brand of chocolate confectionery, originally made in Switzerland in 1901 by Suchard. It has then been produced in Lörrach, Germany for the past 100 years. Since 2012 it has been owned by US-based company Mondelez International, when ...
and
Suchard. Lörrach was the home of the GABA Deutschland GmbH, a pharmaceutical company that produced the famous
elmex, meridol and
aronal toothpaste.
Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in the production, distribution, and provision of household, health car ...
acquired Gaba's parent company Gaba Holding AG in 2004 and closed down the Lörrach-based factory in 2012
Other companies of note:
* KBC Fashion GmbH & Co. KG, textile finishing company
*
Tally Weijl
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Tally may also refer to:
Counting
* Tally (voting), an unofficial private observation of an election count carried out ...
Retail Germany GmbH, the German arm of the Basel based fashion label
* A. Raymond GmbH & Co. KG, the German arm of the international enginnering group
* Streck Transportges. mbH, Transport & Logisitcs company
* Midro Lörrach GmbH, pharmaceutical company
*
Migros
Migros () is Switzerland's largest retail company, its largest supermarket chain and largest employer. It is also one of the forty largest retailers in the world. It is structured in the form of a cooperative federation (the Federation of Mig ...
, headquarters of Migros Germany
* Brauerei Lasser GmbH, brewery with 70 employees
Media
Print media
Two daily newspapers are based in Lörrach and have a local editorial office:
Badische Zeitung
The ''Badische Zeitung'' (''Baden Newspaper'') is a German newspaper based in Freiburg im Breisgau, covering the South Western part of Germany and the Black Forest region. It has a circulation of 145,825 and a readership of 409,000. The paper was ...
and
Die Oberbadische. Die Oberbadische (formerly Oberbadisches Volksblatt), published in the city, is Lörrach's oldest newspaper (founded 1885). In addition the ''Oberbadische Verlagshaus'' publishes the two newspapers ''Weiler Zeitung'' und ''Markgräfler Tagblatt''. The city magazine ''Puls'' is published monthly and reports on events in and around Lörrach.
Broadcast and television
The radio programme of
Südwestrundfunk
Südwestrundfunk (SWR; ''Southwest Broadcasting'') is a regional public broadcasting corporation serving the southwest of Germany , specifically the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The corporation has main offices ...
has a regional office in Lörrach. There they produce parts of the radio program SWR4 Baden-Württemberg.
Culture
Lörrach is the home to an annual voice festival (''Stimmen'') that takes place in early summer, in 2010 from 14 July to 8 August. The festival has many venues in and around Lörrach including Weil am Rhein. The motto of the festival is "Passion that sounds" (German: ''Leidenschaft, die klingt'') (alternate translation: "Passion you can hear"). The festival exists since 1994.
Twin towns – sister cities
Lörrach is
twinned with:
*
Sens
Sens () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yonne Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km from Paris.
Sens is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture and the second city of the d ...
, France (1966)
*
Senigallia
Senigallia (or Sinigaglia in Old Italian, Romagnol: ''S’nigaja'') is a ''comune'' and port town on Italy's Adriatic coast. It is situated in the province of Ancona in the Marche region and lies approximately 30 kilometers north-west of the pro ...
, Italy (1986)
*
Village-Neuf
Village-Neuf (; german: Neudorf; gsw-FR, Neidorf; literally ''New Village'') is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Climate
Village-Neuf features a continentalized oceanic climate (''Cfb'') under the Köpp ...
, France (1988)
*
Meerane
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As of 31 December 2015, there were 14,851 inhabitants. The population has declined from a peak of over 2 ...
, Germany (1990)
*
Chester
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...
, United Kingdom (2002)
Annually, numerous meetings and exchanges between schools and associations take place. The Hebel Gymnasium School in Lörrach takes part in an annual school exchange with
The Mountbatten School
The Mountbatten School is an 11–16 secondary school located on Whitenap Lane in Romsey, Hampshire, England. The school is an Academy, but opened in 1969 as a comprehensive.
Specialist status and national awards
The school became a Language C ...
in Romsey, England. With
Vyshhorod
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in the
Ukraine
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exists a friendly connection. In 2004 ''
Loerrach International
Loerrach International e.V. (Registered_association_(Germany), registered association) is an association of citizens, educational, sport and cultural institutions, service clubs, municipal administration and local council in Lörrach in southwester ...
'' was created, an association for the advancement of the partnerships between cities and international friendships. In 2005 a cultural partnership was substantiated with
Edirne
Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...
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Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
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Notable people
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Gustav Hugo
Gustav Hugo (23 November 1764 – 15 September 1844) was a German jurist.
Biography
Hugo was born at Lörrach in Baden. From the gymnasium at Karlsruhe he passed in 1782 to the University of Göttingen, where he studied law for three years. Hav ...
(1764–1807), jurist
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Ferdinand Hitzig
Ferdinand Hitzig (23 June 1807 – 22 January 1875) was a German biblical critic.
Life and works
Hitzig was born at Hauingen (now a part of Lörrach), Baden, where his father was a pastor.
He studied theology at Heidelberg under H.E.G. Paulu ...
(1807–1875), biblical critic
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Ottmar Hitzfeld
Ottmar Hitzfeld (; born 12 January 1949) is a German former professional football player ( striker) and manager. He accumulated a total of 18 major titles, mostly in his tenures with Grasshopper Club Zürich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. ...
(born 1949), football player and manager
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Jörg Kachelmann
Jörg Andreas Kachelmann (born 15 July 1958 in Lörrach, Germany) is a Swiss presenter, journalist and entrepreneur in the meteorological field.
Early life and education
Jörg Kachelmann spent his youth in Schaffhausen. His childhood ambition was ...
(born 1958), Swiss presenter in the meteorological field
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Sebastian Deisler
Sebastian Toni Deisler (; born 5 January 1980) is a German former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder and attacking midfielder.
A Borussia Mönchengladbach youth product, he played one season with the club during which it ...
(born 1980), footballer
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Timișoara
), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor)
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Melanie Behringer
Melanie Behringer (born 18 November 1985) is a German footballer who played as a midfielder for Bayern Munich. She was a Best FIFA Women's Player finalist.
Club career
Behringer started her career at SpVgg Utzenfeld and FC Hausen. In 2003, she ...
(born 1985), footballer
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Christina Shakovets
Christina Shakovets (born 29 April 1994 in Lörrach) is a German tennis player.
Shakovets has won two singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 16 July 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 450. On 21 ...
(born 1994), tennis player
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Butrint Imeri
Butrint Imeri (; born 3 July 1996) is a Kosovo-Albanian singer and dancer.
Life and career
1996–present: Early life and continued success
Imeri was born on 3 July 1996 into an Albanian family from Mitrovicë in the city of Lörrach, Ge ...
(born 1996), Kosovo-Albanian singer
Associated with the city
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Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel (10 May 1760 – 22 September 1826) was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, Lutheran theologian and pedagogue, most famous for a collection of Alemannic lyric poems (''Allemannische Gedichte'') and one of Ge ...
(1760–1826), short story writer and poet
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Gustav Struve
Gustav Struve, known as Gustav von Struve until he gave up his title (11 October 1805 in Munich, Bavaria – 21 August 1870 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary), was a German surgeon, politician, lawyer and publicist, and a revolutionary during the Germa ...
(1805–1870), surgeon
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Manfred G. Raupp Manfred Gustav Raupp (born 13 November 1941 Staffort, a suburb of Stutensee) is a German
agricultural scientist and economist. He is honorary professor of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague active in the Department of Agricultural Researc ...
(born 1941), agricultural scientist and economist
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Marion Caspers-Merk
Marion Caspers-Merk (born 24 April 1955 in Mannheim) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She was a member of the Bundestag, representing Lörrach – Müllheim, and Parliamentary State Secretary at ...
(born 1955), politician (SPD)
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Theodor Sproll (born 1957), social and economical scientist
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Roland Wiesendanger (born 1961), physicist
See also
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Rötteln Castle
Rötteln Castle (german: Burg Rötteln), located above the Lörrach suburb of , lies in the extreme southwest corner of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, just 10 kilometres (6 miles) north-east of the Swiss City of Basel. The fortification w ...
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Lörrach sculpture path
References
External links
Official website(German)
Lörrach:History and imagesDaily Newspaper of the areaDaily Newspaper of the areaNews and musings from Weil am Rhein – German town near Loerrach on the Basle border triangleBurg Rötteln: Picture GalleryBurghof Cultural Event Centre and TheatreCultural Youth events in Loerrach'Stimmen' Loerrach'Metal Forces Festival' Loerrach
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Lörrach (district)
Germany–Switzerland border crossings
Baden