27 Facts About Freiburg

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".

In 1366 the counts of Freiburg made another failed attempt to occupy the city during a night raid.

University city, Freiburg evolved from its focus on mining to become a cultural centre for the arts and sciences.

In 1520, Freiburg decided not to take part in the Reformation and became an important centre for Catholicism on the Upper Rhine.

In 1827, when the Archdiocese of Freiburg was founded, Freiburg became the seat of a Catholic archbishop.

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On 18 July 1942, the remaining Baden and Freiburg Jews were transferred to Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland, where almost all were murdered.

The pavements of Freiburg carry memorials to individual victims, in the form of brass plates outside their former residences.

In December 1945 Freiburg became the seat of government for the German state Badenia, which was merged into Baden-Wurttemberg in 1952.

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.

Freiburg'storical Merchants' Hall, is a Late Gothic building on the south side of Freiburg's Munsterplatz.

In everyday language of people living in Freiburg, it serves as an orientation marker or as a meeting place.

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.

The citizens of Freiburg are known in Germany for their love of cycling and recycling.

Freiburg is a center of academia and research, in which numerous intellectual figures and Nobel Laureates have lived, worked, and taught.

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.

That same year, Freiburg became an episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg.

Also part of the ecclesiastical province of Freiburg are the suffragan dioceses of Mainz and Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

The Archbishop of Freiburg holds the title of metropolitan and the German headquarters of the Caritas International is in Freiburg.

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.

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.

Freiburg has an extensive pedestrian zone in the city centre where no motor cars are allowed.

Freiburg has an excellent public transport system, operated by the city-owned VAG Freiburg.

Freiburg is on the main Frankfurt am Main – Basel railway line, with frequent and fast long-distance passenger services from the Freiburg Hauptbahnhof to major German and other European cities.

Freiburg is home to football teams SC Freiburg, which plays at the Europa-Park Stadion and is represented in the 1.

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.

Freiburg is represented in the first women's basketball league by the Eisvogel USC Freiburg.