St. Odile
St. Odile is a forest sanctuary in Freiburg's suburb Waldsee. It is located at a height of 480 m in a forest clearing in the upper St. Odile ravine in the municipal forest of Freiburg at the southern slope of the Roßkopf at a distance of approximately 750 m from St.Photo: Joergens.mi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: church
- Also known as: “Kapelle Sankt Ottilien”
- Address: Kartäuserstraße 133, Freiburg im Breisgau, 79104
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Roßkopfturm and Roßkopf.
Roßkopfturm
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Andreas Schwarzkopf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Roßkopf tower is a 34.4 m high observation tower of steel frame structure commissioned and financed by the Schwarzwaldverein and built by the Freiburg architect Philipp Anton Lazy in 1889 on the 737 m high Roßkopf near Freiburg between the Dreisam valley and the Glotter valley. Roßkopfturm is situated 780 metres north of St. Odile.
Roßkopf
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Roßkopf is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The 737 m high Rosskopf is a mountain in the Black Forest in the northeast of Freiburg and the southeast of Gundelfingen.
St. Wendelin’s Chapel
Church
Photo: Joergens.mi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The small St. Wendelin's Chapel is located about 750 metres east of St. Odile above the Musbach valley, Germany, on the Small Roßkopf, a spur of the Roßkopf, at a height of 540 m. St. Wendelin’s Chapel is situated 610 metres southeast of St. Odile.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Freiburg Charterhouse and Ebnet.
Freiburg Charterhouse
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Freiburg Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Waldsee
Suburb
Waldsee is an eastern district of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a population of around 5,400 inhabitants. It is named after the local recreational area of the same name.
St. Odile
- Categories: building, chapel, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Gundelfingen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.00313° or 48° 0′ 11″ northLongitude
7.8994° or 7° 53′ 58″ eastOpen location code
8FW92V3X+7QOpenStreetMap ID
way 87967999OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=chapelOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicWikidata ID
Q402173
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“St. Odile” goes by many names.
- French: “Sankt Ottilien”
- French: “St. Ottilien”
- German: “St. Ottilien”
- Spanish: “Santa Odilia”
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