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Freiburg Region

Freiburg

Freiburg im Breisgau is a major city in a secluded wine-rich corner of in southwest , on the edge of the . Picturesquely located on the river Dreisam, in between green mountainsides, it enjoys one of the sunniest and warmest climates among German cities.
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  • Type: City with 220,000 residents
  • Description: large city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Also known as: “Freiburg i. B.”, “Freiburg i. Br.”, “Freiburg im Breisgau”, and “Freiburg/Breisgau”
  • Postal code: 79098

Places of Interest

Highlights include Freiburg Minster and Historical Merchants‘ Hall.

Church
Photo: KarlNapf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the cathedral of Freiburg im Breisgau, southwest . The last duke of Zähringen had started the building around 1200 in romanesque style.

Photo: Marsupilami04, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Historical Merchants' Hall is one of the most outstanding buildings in Freiburg im Breisgau. It is situated on the south side of the . It stands out clearly due to its dominant red facade.

Railway station
Photo: Flominator, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Freiburg Hauptbahnhof is the central railway station of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. The Rhine Valley Railway, Höllentalbahn and the Breisach Railway meet here.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wiehre and Haslach.

Suburb
is a residential district at the edge of Freiburg im Breisgau, located southwards and across the River from the Old City. It is a desirable district, with comparatively quiet streets and many well-preserved commercial and residential buildings dating from the 18th century and earlier.

Suburb
, incorporated into the city on 1 January 1890, is one of the Western districts of Freiburg im Breisgau. After the demerging of the district is made up out of the boroughs 611 Haslach-Egerten, 612 Haslach-Gartenstadt, 613 Haslach-Schildacker and 614 Haslach-Haid.

Suburb
Photo: Thomas Berwing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Old City is part of the city and business centres of Freiburg im Breisgau and is the core of the original city. It is divided into the two districts 111 Altstadt-Mitte and 112 Altstadt-Ring.

Freiburg

Latitude
47.9961° or 47° 59′ 46″ north
Longitude
7.8494° or 7° 50′ 58″ east
Population
220,000
Elevation
278 metres (912 feet)
IATA airport code
QFB
United Nations Location Code
DE FBG
Open location code
8FV9XRWX+CQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240092010
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2925177
Wiki­data ID
Q2833
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Freiburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Albanian: “Frajburgu”
  • Albanian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Arabic: “فرايبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Friburgo de Bresgobia”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրայբուրգ իմ Բրայսգաու”
  • Arpitan: “Fribôrg-en-Brisgovia”
  • Asturian: “Friburgu de Brisgovia”
  • Aymara: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Frayburq-im-Braysqau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Frayburq”
  • Balinese: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Basque: “Friburgo”
  • Bavarian: “Freiburg”
  • Belarusian: “Фрайбург-ім-Брайсгаў”
  • Belarusian: “Фрайбург”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রাইবুর্গ ইম ব্রেইসগু”
  • Breton: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Bulgarian: “Фрайбург”
  • Catalan: “Friburg de Brisgòvia”
  • Cebuano: “Freiburg”
  • Chechen: “Фрайбург-им-Брайсгау”
  • Chinese: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Chinese: “佛萊堡”
  • Chinese: “布赖斯高地区弗赖堡”
  • Chinese: “弗莱堡”
  • Chinese: “弗萊堡”
  • Chinese: “弗赖堡”
  • Chinese: “費賴堡”
  • Chuvash: “Фрайбург-им-Брайсгау”
  • Corsican: “Friburgu in Breisgau”
  • Croatian: “Freiburg”
  • Czech: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Czech: “Freiburg”
  • Danish: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Dutch: “Freiburg (Breisgau)”
  • Dutch: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Dutch: “Freiburg”
  • Esperanto: “Freiburg i. B.”
  • Esperanto: “Freiburg i. Br.”
  • Esperanto: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Esperanto: “Freiburg/Breisgau”
  • Esperanto: “Freiburg”
  • Estonian: “Freiburg”
  • Finnish: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Finnish: “Freiburg”
  • French: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • French: “Fribourg en Brisgau”
  • French: “Fribourg-en-Brisgau”
  • Galician: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Galician: “Friburgo de Brisgovia”
  • Galician: “Friburgo, Alemaña”
  • Galician: “Friburgo”
  • Georgian: “ფრაიბურგი”
  • German: “Freiburg i. B.”
  • German: “Freiburg i. Br.”
  • German: “Freiburg i.B.”
  • German: “Freiburg i.Br.”
  • German: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • German: “Freiburg, Br.”
  • German: “Freiburg”
  • German: “Freiburg/Breisgau”
  • Greek: “Φράιμπουργκ”
  • Greek: “Φρειβούργο”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રેઈબર્ગ ઈમ બ્રેઈસ્ગૌ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Freiburg”
  • Hebrew: “פרייבורג בברייסגאו”
  • Hebrew: “פרייבורג”
  • Hindi: “फ्रेईबुर्ग इम ब्रेसगौ”
  • Hungarian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Icelandic: “Freiburg”
  • Ido: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Indonesian: “Freiburg”
  • Interlingua: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Interlingue: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Irish: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Italian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Italian: “Friburgo in Brisgovia”
  • Japanese: “フライブルク・イム・ブライスガウ”
  • Japanese: “フライブルク”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೈಬರ್ಗ್ ಇಮ್ ಬ್ರೆಸ್ಗೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Фрайбург-им-Брайсгау”
  • Kazakh: “Фрайбург”
  • Kirghiz: “Фрайбург-в-Брайсгау”
  • Korean: “프라이부르크”
  • Korean: “프라이부르크임브라이스가우”
  • Kurdish: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Ladin: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Latin: “Friburgum Brisgoviae”
  • Latvian: “Freiburga Breisgavā”
  • Latvian: “Freiburga”
  • Lithuanian: “Breisgau Freiburgas”
  • Lojban: “fraiburg”
  • Lombard: “Friburgh”
  • Low German: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Macedonian: “Фрајбург”
  • Malagasy: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Malay: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Maltese: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Maltese: “Freiburg”
  • Marathi: “फ्रायबुर्ग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Moksha: “Фрайбург им Брайсгау”
  • Mongolian: “Фрайбург”
  • Northern Frisian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Freiburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Norwegian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Friborg de Brisgòvia”
  • Ossetian: “Фрайбург-им-Брайсгау”
  • Persian: “فرایبورگ”
  • Piemontese: “Friborgh an Breisgau”
  • Polish: “Fryburg Bryzgowijski”
  • Portuguese: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Portuguese: “Friburgo na Brisgóvia”
  • Quechua: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Romanian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Romanian: “Freiburg”
  • Russian: “Фрайбург-в-Брайсгау”
  • Russian: “Фрайбург-им-Брайсгау”
  • Russian: “Фрайбург”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Scots: “Freiburg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Serbian: “Фрајбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Freiburg”
  • Sicilian: “Friburgu”
  • Silesian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රයිබර්ග් ඉම් බ්‍රිස්ගවු”
  • Slovak: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Slovak: “Freiburg”
  • Slovenian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Slovenian: “Freiburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فرایبورق”
  • Spanish: “Friburgo de Brisgovia”
  • Swahili: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Swedish: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Swedish: “Freiburg”
  • Swiss German: “Friburg im Brisgau”
  • Tajik: “Фраибург”
  • Tamil: “பிரைபர்க் இம் பிரெய்ஸ்கவ்”
  • Tatar: “Фрайбург-им-Брайсгау”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రైబర్గ్ ఇమ్ బ్రీస్గౌ”
  • Thai: “ไฟรบวร์คอิมไบรส์เกา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Tumbuka: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Turkish: “Freiburg i. B.”
  • Turkish: “Freiburg i. Br.”
  • Turkish: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Turkish: “Freiburg/Breisgau”
  • Turkish: “Freiburg”
  • Turkmen: “Fraýburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрайбург-ім-Брайсгау”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрайбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрайбурґ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Freiburg”
  • Urdu: “فری برک”
  • Urdu: “فری برگ”
  • Uzbek: “Frayburg im Braysgau”
  • Uzbek: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Venetian: “Friburgo en Brisgovia”
  • Vietnamese: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Volapük: “Freiburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Welsh: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Western Frisian: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • Western Panjabi: “فرائیبرگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗赖堡 (巴登-符腾堡州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗赖堡（巴登-符腾堡州）”
  • Yakut: “Фрайбург”
  • Yoruba: “Freiburg”
  • Yue Chinese: “費賴堡”
  • Zeeuws: “Freiburg im Breisgau”
  • “Freiburg”
  • “Freiburg im Breisgau”

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