Breisach is a town with approximately 16,500 inhabitants, situated along the Rhine in the Rhine Valley, in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about halfway between Freiburg and Colmar — 20 kilometres away from each — and about 60 kilometres north of Basel near the Kaiserstuhl. A bridge leads over the Rhine to Neuf-Brisach, Alsace.
View of Breisach from above. The French town of Neuf-Brisach is located in the upper left corner.
Breisach as seen from the French Rhine shore.
The Spanish relief of Breisach by the Duke of Feria in 1633, during the Thirty Years' War.
The town of Breisach, Germany, during a heavy artillery shelling.
Freiburg im Breisgau, usually called simply Freiburg, is an independent city in the state of Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germany. With a population of about 231,848, it is the fourth-largest city in that state after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of about 355,000 (2021) while the greater Freiburg metropolitan area ("Einzugsgebiet") has about 660,000 (2018).
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Image: Historisches Kaufhaus (Freiburg) 2431
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Image: Freiburger Münster, Winter
