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Freiburg (region)

Freiburg is one of the four Regierungsbezirke of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the south-west of the country. It covers the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) hills as well as the Rhine valley. It's sub-divided into the three regions (Regionalverband) Hochrhein-Bodensee, Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg and Südlicher Oberrhein.

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  1. Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
  2. Emmendingen
  3. Constance (Konstanz)
  4. Lörrach
  5. Ortenaukreis
  6. Rottweil
  7. Schwarzwald-Baar
  8. Tuttlingen
  9. Waldshut

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Freiburg (disambiguation)

Freiburg can refer to:

  • Freiburg im Breisgau, a large city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), an institution of higher learning founded in 1457 in Freiburg im Breisgau
    • Freiburg (district), a former district in Baden-Württemberg which was merged into the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in 1973
    • Freiburg (region), an administrative district in Baden-Württemberg
  • Freiburg, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony
  • Fribourg, a Swiss city, whose German name is Freiburg im Üechtland
    • Canton of Fribourg
  • Świebodzice, a Polish city, whose German name is Freiburg in Schlesien
  • Nova Friburgo ("New Freiburg" in Portuguese), a Brazilian town
  • Fraiburgo, a southern Brazilian town that is related to Freiburg im Breisgau
  • SC Freiburg, a German football club in the Bundesliga

Usage examples of "freiburg".

His home was set on the side of a mountain, with a panoramic view of Freiburg lit up in the dark below.

By far the most influential Neptunist in the eighteenth century, in fact the most influential geologist of any kind, was Abraham Gottlob Werner, a teacher at the mining school in Freiburg, Germany, who proposed that, once one assumed that the earth, when it cooled, had an uneven surface, and that the waters retreated at a different rate in different areas, the formation of rocks could be explained.

For all the world stops at Freiburg to hear and enjoy the great organ,--all except the self-satisfied English clergyman, who says he does n't care much for it, and would rather go about town and see the old walls.

Was snow falling when he began to shuttle back and forth between Freiburg im Breisgau and the ski slopes of Todtnau?