Opfingen is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
to the west of
Freiburg,
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 ...
,
Germany
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. It was incorporated into Freiburg on 1 December, 1971. Opfingen's main industry is the growing and production of
wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...
.
The surrounding communities are
Merdingen
Merdingen is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Merdingen's main industry are vineyards. Jan Ullrich
Jan Ullrich (; born 2 December 1973) is a German former professional road bicycl ...
,
Freiburg-Waltershofen,
Freiburg-Tiengen,
Niederrimsingen,
Freiburg-St. Georgen und
Freiburg-Rieselfeld.
History
Opfingen was first mentioned in a document in 1006, which are preserved in two transcripts from the 14th and 15th century. The documents are related to the handing of the land, then called ''Ophinga'', from
Henry II HRH to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel.
Since 1 December, 1971, Opfingen has been part of the nearby city of Freiburg. Since then the population has grown by a factor of three.
Municipalities in Baden-Württemberg
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