Emmendingen

Sister cities

• Newark-on-Trent
• Drom HaSharon Regional Council
• Six-Fours-les-Plages
• Sandomierz
• Torre Annunziata

History

The first mention of this town in a document dates back to 1091, however it is much older. It was the seat of the counts of Hochberg, a cadet branch of the Margraviate of Baden. In 1418 it received market rights from the emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, and in 1590 was raised to the status of a town, and walled, by Margrave Jacob III. The author Johann Georg Schlosser (1739–1799), a brother-in-law of Goethe, was (bailiff) for a few years. There was also a neighboring town called Nieder-Emmendingen. The towns merged in 1883.

Geography

The town lies in Breisgau, between the foothills of the Black Forest and the Kaiserstuhl which rises out of the Rhine plain to the north of Freiburg. The land is between high. On the western edge of Emmendingen flows the Elz river, which divides shortly after its confluence with the Dreisam and Glotter near Riegel, into the Old Elz and the Leopoldskanal, which both flow into the Rhine. The Leopoldskanal was built in the middle 19th century. The climate in this area is close to a Mediterranean microclimate, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. However, more year-round rain occurs than in the Rhine plateau because of the closeness to the Black Forest. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/Oceanic climate). However, it is close to being humid subtropical (Cfa) due to the mean temperatures in July and August just under . The city is close to the Kaiserstuhl, a range of hills of volcanic origin located a few miles away which is considered to be one of the warmest places of Germany and therefore considered as a viticultural area.

Most-observed species

• Zoropsid spider

  Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour, 1820) · Arachnida
  4,254
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,441
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,880
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,700
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,494
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,305
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,301
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,165

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