Rheinfelden (Baden)

For the adjacent town in Switzerland, see Rheinfelden.

Rheinfelden

Saint Joseph Church

Coat of arms

Rheinfelden

Coordinates: 47°33′40″N 7°47′30″E / 47.56111°N 7.79167°ECoordinates: 47°33′40″N 7°47′30″E / 47.56111°N 7.79167°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Eberhard Niethammer (CDU)

Area

• Total

62.84 km² (24.26 sq mi)

Population (2013-12-31)^[1]

• Total

32,245

• Density

510/km² (1,300/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

79618

07623

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Website

www.rheinfelden-baden.de

Rheinfelden (Alemannic German: Badisch-Rhyfälde, pronounced [ˈb̥ad̥ɪʃ ʁifæld̥ə]) is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, across from Rheinfelden, Switzerland, and 15 km east of Basel. The population is 32,469 as of 2006, making it the second most populated town of the district after Lörrach.

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, Schwörstadt, and Wehr in Germany.

Communities

Rheinfelden consists of a relatively young city core (founded in the late 19th Century), two formerly independent villages (Nollingen and Warmbach), and seven villages which were incorporated into the city 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 city 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 city core with its diverse population of recent origin.

Famous people

Anne-Sophie Mutter, *1963, violinist

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Rheinfelden is twinned with:

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References

↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland mit Bevölkerung am 31. Dezember 2013 (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2014.

Towns and municipalities in Lörrach (district)

Aitern Bad Bellingen Binzen Böllen Efringen-Kirchen Eimeldingen Fischingen Fröhnd Grenzach-Wyhlen Häg-Ehrsberg Hasel Hausen im Wiesental Inzlingen Kandern Kleines Wiesental Lörrach Malsburg-Marzell Maulburg Rheinfelden Rümmingen Schallbach Schliengen Schönau im Schwarzwald Schönenberg Schopfheim Schwörstadt Steinen Todtnau Tunau Utzenfeld Weil am Rhein Wembach Wieden Wittlingen Zell im Wiesental

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