Pfaffenweiler (
High Alemannic
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Language area
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: ''Pfaffewiiler'') is a municipality in the district of
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald 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 ...
in southern
Germany
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. Around 1850, over 200 inhabitants of Pfaffenweiler emigrated to the United States, and settled in
Jasper, Indiana
Jasper is a city in, and the county seat of, Dubois County, Indiana, United States, located along the Patoka River. The population was 16,703 at the 2020 census making it the 48th largest city in Indiana. On November 4, 2007, Dubois County retur ...
. Pfaffenweiler maintains a
partnership
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with Jasper, as a part of which students are exchanged and several formal and informal visits are made.
Pfaffenweiler municipal website
References
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Baden
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