Lörrach

Sister cities

• Meerane
• Sens
• Chester
• Senigallia

History

{| class="wikitable" |- ! style="width:50px;" | Year ! Event |- | 1102 | Lörrach was first mentioned as the settlement Lorracho. |- | 1403 | Rupert of Germany declared Lörrach a market town. |- | 1678 | The castle of Rötteln was destroyed by the French. |- | 1682 | Lörrach was granted town privileges by Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. |- | 1702 | Battle of Käferholz against the French. |- | 1756 | The town received a new civic law and its first town hall. |- | 1783 | Johann Peter Hebel became a teacher at the boarding school. |- | 1803 | Stetten became a part of Baden, having previously belonged to Austria. |- | 1808 | In Lörrach, numerous buildings in the classical style were built (synagogue, Stadtkirche, and Fridolinskirche). |- | 1835 | The state Baden joins the Zollverein. |- | 1848 | In September, Gustav Struve declared the new 'German Republic' from the town hall of Lörrach after the failed revolution. Some days later, he was arrested. |- | 1862 | The Wiesentalbahn between Basel, Lörrach, and Schopfheim was opened. A railway connection to Weil and Säckingen was extended to Lörrach in 1890. Also, Carl Christian Renaux was born on 11 March. |- | 1863 | Lörrach became a district seat. |- | 1871 | The first elementary school was opened. |- | 1880 | Philippe Suchard created a chocolate factory in Lörrach. |- | 1908 | Incorporation of Stetten; later, Tüllingen und Tumringen (1935), Haagen (voluntary 1974), Brombach und Hauingen (1975), were incorporated. |- | 1945 | Air raid on Brombach and Lörrach: On 24 April, French troops occupied the city. |- | 1963 | Start of construction of the district of Salzert. |- | 1983 | The fourth Landesgartenschau of Baden-Württemberg (a national horticultural show) was held in the new park area in the Grütt. |- | 1984 | The…

Geography

Lörrach is located in the southernmost part of the Rhine Rift valley. The depression is created by tectonic movements, and the area has a high earthquake risk. Several times a year, Lörrach is afflicted by slight and medial earthquakes. The city is located in a valley of the Quaternary period. Lörrach is surrounded by slopes on two sides. The slopes create the southern part of the Wiesental, that is the valley where the Wiese river flows. Geographical locations of the subdistrict Lörrach: * Elevation of the lowest place: 272 m (in the valley Wiesental at the border with Switzerland) * Elevation of the highest place: 570 m (in the forest of Rötteln) The extent of the urban area from south to north is 6.0 km and from east to west 4.6 km. Lörrach is also the capital city of Markgräflerland and a part of the tri-national agglomeration area of Basel (Switzerland). Stuttgart is 220 km away from Lörrach, and it takes one hour to drive to Bern or Zürich. The city has several forested hills along the valley Wiesental: Schädelberg, Homburg, Röttler Wald, and Tüllinger Berg. Lörrach is bounded by many municipalities and the city of Riehen (Switzerland). In addition, it is located in the foothills of the Black Forest and on the border of Switzerland. {| border="0" style="width:60%; margin:auto;" |- | style="width:33%; text-align:center;"| Binzen | style="width:33%; text-align:center;"| Rümmingen | style="width:33%; text-align:center;"| Steinen |- | style="width:33%; text-align:center;"| Weil am Rhein | style="width:33%; text-align:center;"| | style="width:33%; text-align:center;"| Rheinfelden |- style="text-align:center;" | style="width:33%; "| Riehen (CH) | style="width:33%; "| Inzlingen Grenzach-Wyhlen |} Lörrach's climate is mild, and in the…

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  11,517
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10,656
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10,457
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  9,919
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  8,908
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  8,345
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,634
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,337

Most recent

• M 3.5 — 2024-06-27
  1 km SSW of Todtmoos, Germany
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France
• M 4.1 — 2021-12-24
  2 km WSW of Blamont, France
• M 3.1 — 2018-05-04
  2 km W of Schliengen, Germany
• M 4.2 — 2012-02-11
  2 km WNW of Unterägeri, Switzerland