Lörrach (district)

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Lörrach

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|- | Area:||806.81 km² |- | Inhabitants:||219,149 (2001) |- | pop. density:||272 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||LÖ |- | Homepage:||http://www.landkreis-loerrach.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Lörrach is a Kreis (district) in the south-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Waldshut. To the west it borders the French département Haut-Rhin; to the south the Swiss cantons Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft and Aargau.

Contents

1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Cities and towns
5 External links

History

In 1973 part of the district Müllheim and small parts of the district Säckingen were added to the district, which enlarged the district by about 25% to the current size.

Geography

The north-east of the district is part of the Hochschwarzwald, the highest part of the Black Forest. In the west is the Markgräfler Hügelland, in the south the Dinkelberg, both lower hilly areas. The Rhine river, which forms most of the districts southern and western border, is in a narrow valley until it spreads north of Basel in the much more wide Oberrheinebene.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Lörrach district can be blazoned as Per fess Argent a Demi Lion facing sinister Gules and in base per pale Or a Bend Gules and Azure a Bend Sinister wavy Argent. The lion in the top part of the coat of arms represents the Lords of Rötteln, who had their most important castle in Wiesental. The bottom-left shows the coat of Baden, as much of the district belonged to the Counts of Baden historically. The wavy line in the bottom-right represent the small river Wiese, which flows through the district.

Cities and towns

Cities	Towns
Kandern Lörrach Rheinfelden (Baden) Schönau im Schwarzwald Schopfheim Todtnau Weil am Rhein Zell (Wiesental)	Aitern Bad Bellingen Binzen Böllen Bürchau Efringen-Kirchen Eimeldingen Elbenschwand Fischingen Fröhnd Grenzach-Wyhlen Häg-Ehrsberg Hasel Hausen im Wiesental Inzlingen Malsburg-Marzell Maulburg	Neuenweg Raich Rümmingen Sallneck Schallbach Schliengen Schönenberg Schwörstadt Steinen Tegernau Tunau Utzenfeld Wembach Wieden (Lörrach) Wies Wieslet Wittlingen

External links

() [Official Website]
() [Lörrach: images and history]

	Cities and districts in the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Cities	Baden-Baden · Freiburg · Heidelberg · Heilbronn · Karlsruhe · Mannheim · Pforzheim · Stuttgart · Ulm
Rural districts	Alb-Donau · Biberach · Bodensee · Böblingen · Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald · Calw · Konstanz (Constance) · Emmendingen · Enz · Esslingen · Freudenstadt · Göppingen · Heidenheim · Heilbronn (district) · Hohenlohe · Karlsruhe (district) · Lörrach · Ludwigsburg · Main-Tauber · Neckar-Odenwald · Ortenau · Ostalbkreis · Rastatt · Ravensburg · Rems-Murr · Reutlingen · Rhein-Neckar · Rottweil · Schwarzwald-Baar · Schwäbisch Hall · Sigmaringen · Tuttlingen · Tübingen · Waldshut · Zollernalb

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