Breisach station is a station in Breisach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is now the starting point of the Breisach Railway to Freiburg and the Kaiserstuhl Railway (Kaiserstuhlbahn) to Riegel. The Breisach Railway crossed the Upper Rhine, running from Breisach to Colmar in France, until the destruction of the Breisach rail bridge in 1945.
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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.