Rheinfelden (Baden)

Sister cities

• Neumarkt
• Mouscron

Geography

Rheinfelden is located on the Swiss-German border, between the High Rhine to the south and the Dinkelberg hills to the north in the district of Lörrach. It borders the Swiss town of the same name across the Rhine river, and the towns of Grenzach-Wyhlen, Inzlingen, Steinen, Maulburg, Schopfheim, and Schwörstadt in Germany. Rheinfelden consists of a relatively young town core (founded in the late 19th century), two formerly independent villages (Nollingen and Warmbach), and seven villages which were incorporated into the town between 1972 and 1975. These are: *Degerfelden (alem. Degerfälde). *Minseln (alem. Meisele). *Herten (alem. Herte). *Nordschwaben (alem. Nordschwoobe). *Adelhausen (alem. Adelhuuse). *Eichsel (alem. Eiggsle) *Karsau (alem. Charsau) and its community of Beuggen (alem. Büügge). Apart from the town core, the villages forming Rheinfelden date from the early Middle Ages. Partly because of this, a teasing animosity exists between the villages with their longer history and traditions, and the industrial town core with its diverse population of recent origin.

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10,902
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10,156
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10,075
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  9,689
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  8,441
• Yellow-legged hornet

  Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836 · Insecta
  8,367
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  8,080
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  6,603

Most recent

• M 3.5 — 2024-06-27
  1 km SSW of Todtmoos, Germany
• M 4.2 — 2024-06-04
  2 km NNW of Unteriberg, Switzerland
• 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