Freiburg im Breisgau

**Freiburg** () is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its full name is *Freiburg im Breisgau*.

Freiburg is on the western edge of the southern Black Forest ().

## Twin cities 
Freiburg has many twin cities throughout the world:
* , Besançon,since 1959
* , Innsbruck, since 1963
* , Padua, since 1967
* , Guildford, since 1979
* , Madison, Wisconsin, since 1987
* , Matsuyama, since 1988
* , Lviv, since 1989
* , Granada, since 1991
* , Isfahan, since 2000

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial comments, which included questioning the size of the Holocaust, have sparked questions about Freiburg's partnership with Isfahan. After the comments Freiburg's mayor postponed a trip to Isfahan, but most people involved, especially those in the Alliance '90/The Greens party, were opposed to cancelling the partnership.

## Famous residents 
* Friedrich von Hayek, economist
* Hans F. K. Günther, Nazi eugenicist
* Dany Heatley, player for the Ottawa Senators NHL team
* Martin Heidegger, philosopher (originally not from Freiburg, taught in Freiburg)
* Edmund Husserl, philosopher
* Boris Kodjoe, model and actor
* Benjamin Lebert, author and newspaper columnist
* Joachim Löw, coach of the German national football team.
* Karl Rahner, Catholic theologian
* Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of the Interior, 1989 - 1991, in Helmut Kohl and, 2005 - current, Angela Merkel governments.
* Jürgen Schrempp, former head of DaimlerChrysler
* Berthold Schwarz, fabled alchemist who supposedly introduced gunpowder to Germany
* Til Schweiger, actor and director
* Hermann Staudinger, Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
* Edith Stein, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, member of the Freiburg faculty; her residence is marked by a plaque.
* Martin Waldseemüller, the inventor of the name America
* August Weismann, biologist
* Bernhard Witkop, organic chemist

## Gallery 

Image:Muenster gegenlicht 1.jpg|The Freiburger Münster
Image:Freiburg vom Schlossberg.jpg|Freiburg seen from the Schlossberg
Image:Freiburg Landschaft vom schlossberg aus.jpg|Landscape seen from the Schlossberg
Image:Freiburg Martinstor.jpg|The Martinstor
Image:Freiburg Schwabentor.jpg|The Schwabentor
Image:Freiburg Muensterplatz Kaufhaus.jpg|The Historic Marketplace (Historisches Kaufhaus) at the Münsterplatz
Image:Freiburg Schlossberg Aussichtsturm.jpg|Look-Out at the Schlossberg
Image:Freiburg Rathaus.jpg|Freiburg's town-hall
Image:Freiburg_Hauptbahnhof.JPG|Freiburg's Main Station
Image:Konzerthaus_Freiburg.JPG|The Konzerthaus (concert hall)
Image:Freiburger_Stadttheater.JPG|Stadttheater
Image:Friburgo Ruscelli nel Centro -- Freiburg with the city center streams.jpg|Freiburg with the city centre 'Bächle'

## References 
## Other websites 
* Official website
* Freiburg:History and images  
* City of Freiburg and the Black Forest
* Augustinermuseum 
* *VAG Freiburg* Freiburg Public Transit Authority
* Freiburg-Home.com - Information & Reviews about Freiburg in English for expats, tourists and the community 
* Solar City - Germany  August 2000
* Webcams in Freiburg and the Black Forest 
* Tramway in Freiburg
* fudder - a popular online-mag for young people (Winner of Grimme Online Award 2007)
* Freiburg's History for Pedestrians