Freiburg was founded by Konrad and Duke Berthold III of Zahringen in 1120 as a free market town; hence its name, which translates to "free town".
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Freiburg was founded by Konrad and Duke Berthold III of Zahringen in 1120 as a free market town; hence its name, which translates to "free town".
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In 1366 the counts of Freiburg made another failed attempt to occupy the city during a night raid.
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University city, Freiburg evolved from its focus on mining to become a cultural centre for the arts and sciences.
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In 1520, Freiburg decided not to take part in the Reformation and became an important centre for Catholicism on the Upper Rhine.
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In 1827, when the Archdiocese of Freiburg was founded, Freiburg became the seat of a Catholic archbishop.
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The pavements of Freiburg carry memorials to individual victims, in the form of brass plates outside their former residences.
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In December 1945 Freiburg became the seat of government for the German state Badenia, which was merged into Baden-Wurttemberg in 1952.
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In 2010, Freiburg was voted as the Academy of Urbanism's European City of the Year in recognition of the exemplary sustainable urbanism it has implemented over the past several decades.
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Freiburg'storical Merchants' Hall, is a Late Gothic building on the south side of Freiburg's Munsterplatz.
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In everyday language of people living in Freiburg, it serves as an orientation marker or as a meeting place.
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Freiburg is bordered by the Black Forest mountains Rosskopf and Bromberg to the east, Schonberg and Tuniberg to the south, with the Kaiserstuhl hill region to the west.
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The citizens of Freiburg are known in Germany for their love of cycling and recycling.
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Freiburg is a center of academia and research, in which numerous intellectual figures and Nobel Laureates have lived, worked, and taught.
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Freiburg belonged to Austria until 1805 and remained Catholic, although surrounding villages like Haslach, Opfingen, Tiengen, and the surrounding land ruled by the Margrave of Baden became Protestant as a result of the Reformation.
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That same year, Freiburg became an episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg.
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Also part of the ecclesiastical province of Freiburg are the suffragan dioceses of Mainz and Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
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The Archbishop of Freiburg holds the title of metropolitan and the German headquarters of the Caritas International is in Freiburg.
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Since 2007, any Protestants who are not part of a 'free church' belong to the newly founded deanery of Freiburg as part of the parish of Sudbaden which in itself is a part of the Landeskirche Baden.
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The counts of Freiburg bought the lucrative Schutzjude, which means that all personal information on Jews living in Freiburg was directly sent to Konrad II and his co-reigning son Friedrich.
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Freiburg has an extensive pedestrian zone in the city centre where no motor cars are allowed.
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Freiburg has an excellent public transport system, operated by the city-owned VAG Freiburg.
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Freiburg is home to football teams SC Freiburg, which plays at the Europa-Park Stadion and is represented in the 1.
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In 2016, SC Freiburg got promoted to the highest league for the fifth time in its club history.
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Freiburg has the EHC Freiburg ice hockey team, which plays at the Franz-Siegel Halle.
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Freiburg is represented in the first women's basketball league by the Eisvogel USC Freiburg.
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