Ettenheim

Sister cities

• Benfeld
• Castelló d'Empúries
• Avelgem

History

Ettenheim was founded in the 8th century by Eddo, bishop of Strasbourg, and the was founded at about that time. Ettenheim received town rights in the 13th century from the Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg, whose territory on the right bank of the Rhine Ettenheim would form the center of until 1803, when it was mediatized to the Margraviate of Baden. Karlsruhe assigned Ettenheim to the district of Mahlberg, but then in 1809 made it the seat of its own district until 1824. In 1939, Ettenheim was assigned to , which was replaced by the with the district of Ortenau. Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien took refuge here in 1801 after he was suspected in a plot against Napoleon. He was arrested on 15 March 1804 and later executed in Paris. Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg, also lived here from 1790 and plotted a counter-revolution from the city. He is buried in the local Catholic church.

Geography

The township (Stadt) of Ettenheim lies on the southern edge of the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg, along the former's border with the Emmendingen district. Ettenheim is physically located in the . The main watercourse in the municipal area is the Ettenbach, which, at the municipality's western border, marks its lowest elevation above sea level at Normalnull (NN). The highest elevation, NN, is found in the municipality's northeast, in the buntsandstein mountains of the Central Black Forest around Lahr. In the foothills of those mountains that fall within Ettenheim's municipal area are the wetlands of the Seltenbach, which are protected as the nature reserve.

Most-observed species

• Zoropsid spider

  Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour, 1820) · Arachnida
  1,505
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  939
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  828
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  827
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  741
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  707
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  665
• White Stork

  Ciconia ciconia (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  635

Most recent

• M 3.5 — 2024-06-27
  1 km SSW of Todtmoos, Germany
• M 3.4 — 2022-10-16
  Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France
• M 4 — 2022-07-09
  2 km NNE of Grosselfingen, Germany
• M 4.1 — 2021-06-26
  2 km SE of Hœrdt, France
• M 3.1 — 2018-05-04
  2 km W of Schliengen, Germany