Hüfingen (
Low Alemannic: ''Hifinge'') is a town in the district of
Schwarzwald-Baar, in
Baden-Württemberg
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,
Germany
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. It is situated on the river
Breg, 4 km south of the source of the
Danube
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.
History
Hüfingen has the historical distinction of once marking the boundary of the Roman empire. In the first century of the common era, imperial policy settled on using the natural boundaries formed by the Danube and the Rhine rivers. Because of its proximity to the source of the Danube in nearby
Donaueschingen, Hüfingen was the site of a Roman fort, Brigobanne, built to implement this policy. The legions built a road to Hüfingen from what is now
Schleitheim
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It is known as the location where the seven arti ...
, on the
upper Rhine
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in
Switzerland
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, thus connecting the two rivers with a man-made line on the landscape, defining a continuous border.
[pp 29, 30 August Vetter "Geisingen: Eine Stadtgrundung der Edelfreien fon Wartenberg" copyright 1964 Sudkurier GmbH Konstanz.]
Geography
Location
The city is situated at around 750 meters above sea level on the
Baar plateau on the eastern edge of the southern
Black Forest
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in the valley of
Breg, about four kilometers south of
Donaueschingen.
Nearby towns
To the north of the town is
Donaueschingen, to the east is the town
Geisingen in the
district of Tuttlingen, to the south the town borders on
Blumberg
Blumberg () is a municipality situated in the Schwarzwald-Baar region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. south of Donaueschingen, it lies between the southern edge of the ''Schwarzwald'', the Black Forest, the border with Switzerland's Canton of Sc ...
, and to the west is the town of
Bräunlingen.
References
External links
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