Offenburg

city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Organization urban_municipality_in_germany Q4044

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Offenburg

Summary

Offenburg is an urban municipality in Germany^[1]. Offenburg ranks in the top 3% of urban_municipality_in_germany entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (186 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

Offenburg was a member of Climate Alliance^[3].
Offenburg was a member of Zweckverband 4IT^[4].
Offenburg was a member of Mayors for Peace^[5].
Offenburg is located in Ortenau^[6].
Offenburg is located in Offenburg VVG^[7].
Offenburg is located in County Offenburg^[8].
Offenburg is located in Q115908159^[9].
Offenburg is located in Q115668449^[10].
Offenburg is located in Electorate of Baden^[11].
Offenburg is in the country of Germany^[12].
Offenburg's head of government is recorded as Marco Steffens^[13].
Offenburg's image is recorded as Offenburg Rathaus 01.JPG^[14].
Offenburg's instance of is recorded as urban municipality in Germany^[15].
Offenburg's instance of is recorded as district capital^[16].
Offenburg's instance of is recorded as city^[17].
Offenburg's instance of is recorded as Greater district town in Baden-Württemberg^[18].
Offenburg's instance of is recorded as major regional center^[19].
Offenburg's flag image is recorded as Flag of Offenburg.svg^[20].
Offenburg's shares border with is recorded as Ortenberg^[21].
Offenburg's shares border with is recorded as Ohlsbach^[22].
Offenburg's coat of arms image is recorded as DEU Offenburg COA.svg^[23].
Offenburg's twinned administrative body is recorded as Lons-le-Saunier^[24].
Offenburg's twinned administrative body is recorded as Weiz^[25].
Offenburg's twinned administrative body is recorded as Borehamwood^[26].
Offenburg's twinned administrative body is recorded as Altenburg^[27].

Body

Founding

+1148-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Offenburg^[28].

Why It Matters

Offenburg ranks in the top 3% of urban_municipality_in_germany entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (186 views/month).^[2] Offenburg has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[29]

⭐ Popularity Graph

6/100 established

🌐 Wiki Languages

66 / 423 langs top 1%

📈 Wikipedia Views · last 225h

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Quick Facts

Instance of urban municipality in Germany, former administrative territorial entity, district capital, city, Greater district town in Baden-Württemberg, free imperial city, major regional center

Inception 1148

Country Germany

Official website www.offenburg.de

Country Germany

Website www.offenburg.de

Inception 1148

Member of Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken, Climate Alliance, Zweckverband 4IT, Mayors for Peace

Located in Ortenau, Offenburg VVG, County Offenburg, Amt Offenburg, Oberamt Offenburg, Electorate of Baden, Swabian Circle

Population 62k (44k–62k, n=59)

Instance of urban municipality in Germany, former administrative territorial entity, district capital, city, Greater district town in Baden-Württemberg, free imperial city, major regional center

Coordinate location lat: 48.470833333333, lon: 7.9408333333333

Capital of Ortenau

Short name lang: de, text: Ofb

Properties

Archinform location id 171

Archives at Stadtarchiv Offenburg

Area unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.42, unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.43, unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.42, unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.4, unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.38, unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.39, unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.38, unit: square kilometre, amount: 78.37

Area unit: Q712226, amount: +78.42, unit: Q712226, amount: +78.43, unit: Q712226, amount: +78.42, unit: Q712226, amount: +78.4, unit: Q712226, amount: +78.38, unit: Q712226, amount: +78.39, unit: Q712226, amount: +78.38, unit: Q712226, amount: +78.37

Bibliothèque nationale de france id 145246536

Brockhaus enzyklopädie online id offenburg

Capital of Ortenau

Cerl thesaurus id cnl00007803

Coat of arms image commons.wikimedia.org

Coordinates lat: 48.470833333333, lon: 7.9408333333333

Curlie id Regional/Europe/Germany/States/Baden-Württemberg/Localities/Offenburg/

Data commons id wikidataId/Q4044

Described at url www.leo-bw.de, www.leo-bw.de

Described by source Regesta Imperii, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Topographia Sueviae, Otto's encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia

Early modern letters online location id 0f63e744-bef4-49bc-a46a-821b35f93fd4

Elevation above sea level unit: metre, amount: 163

Elevation above sea level unit: Q11573, amount: +163

Encyclopædia britannica online id place/Offenburg

Encyclopædia universalis id therapeutique-vue-d-ensemble

Facebook location id 112158545467510

Factgrid item id Wolfgang Steinmayr

Flag image commons.wikimedia.org

Freebase id /m/06vgbt

Geonames id 6558111

German municipality key 08317096

German regional key 083175010096

Gnd id 4043367-5

Golden id Offenburg-BYR86K

Head of government Marco Steffens

Hikr waypoint id 29914

Idai.gazetteer id 2426205

Klimadashboard.de region id aad83c5f-8a6d-4c53-9c85-262fcefec2d2

Lex id Offenburg

Library of congress authority id n80053306

Licence plate code OG

Local dialing code 0781

Located in the administrative territorial entity Ortenau, Offenburg VVG, County Offenburg, Amt Offenburg, Oberamt Offenburg, Electorate of Baden, Swabian Circle

Located in time zone UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00

Locator map image commons.wikimedia.org

Member of Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken, Climate Alliance, Zweckverband 4IT, Mayors for Peace

Mindat locality id 404147

Museum digital place id 926

Musicbrainz area id 508bf165-910b-4998-b174-a98a34eccbb2

National library of israel id (old) 000979334

National library of israel j9u id 987007548062205171

Nl cr aut id ge627125

Online pwn encyclopedia id 3950163

Open library subject id place:offenburg_(germany)

Openstreetmap node id 69457035

Openstreetmap relation id 452988

Openweathermap city id 2857798

Owner of Badenova

Population amount: +43547, amount: +44413, amount: +45470, amount: +46904, amount: +48235, amount: +48920, amount: +49572, amount: +50641, amount: +51394, amount: +51553, amount: +51913, amount: +52252, amount: +52189, amount: +51888, amount: +51553, amount: +51141, amount: +50748, amount: +50554, amount: +50471, amount: +50486, amount: +50299, amount: +50050, amount: +50241, amount: +50048, amount: +50207, amount: +50468, amount: +51311, amount: +51730, amount: +52480, amount: +52964, amount: +53873, amount: +54506, amount: +54963, amount: +55316, amount: +56045, amount: +56535, amount: +56781, amount: +56981, amount: +56891, amount: +57455, amount: +58280, amount: +58544, amount: +58888, amount: +58810, amount: +58793, amount: +58811, amount: +58993, amount: +59208, amount: +59156, amount: +59215, amount: +57158, amount: +57328, amount: +57448, amount: +57687, amount: +59060, amount: +59646, amount: +60857, amount: +61670, amount: +62195

Postal code 77601–77656

Quora topic Offenburg

Rkd thesaurus id 12942

Shares border with Ortenberg, Ohlsbach

Short name Ofb

Snarc id Q2968

Store id google play Offenburg

Timezone UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00

Topic's main category Category:Offenburg

Tripadvisor id 198528

Trismegistos geo id 27988

Twinned administrative body Lons-le-Saunier, Weiz, Borehamwood, Altenburg, Olsztyn, Pietra Ligure

U.s. national archives identifier 10045645

Un/locode DEOFG

Viaf id 145415132

Who's on first id 101748497

Woeid 682998

World historical gazetteer place id 14255525

Worldcat entities id E39PBJdmmfR4bPCV76rp9dt9Xd

‎yale lux id place/ea147775-46cb-4f97-a799-8b0dca1e56fb

External References (47)

Archinform location id 171

Bibliothèque nationale de france id 145246536

Brockhaus enzyklopädie online id offenburg

Cerl thesaurus id cnl00007803

Curlie id Regional/Europe/Germany/States/Baden-Württemberg/Localities/Offenburg/

Data commons id wikidataId/Q4044

Early modern letters online location id 0f63e744-bef4-49bc-a46a-821b35f93fd4

Encyclopædia britannica online id place/Offenburg

Encyclopædia universalis id therapeutique-vue-d-ensemble

Facebook location id 112158545467510

Factgrid item id Wolfgang Steinmayr

Freebase id /m/06vgbt

Geonames id 6558111

German municipality key 08317096

German regional key 083175010096

Gnd id 4043367-5

Golden id Offenburg-BYR86K

Great norwegian encyclopedia id Offenburg

Hikr waypoint id 29914

Idai.gazetteer id 2426205

Klimadashboard.de region id aad83c5f-8a6d-4c53-9c85-262fcefec2d2

Lex id Offenburg

Library of congress authority id n80053306

Mindat locality id 404147

Museum-digital place id 926

Musicbrainz area id 508bf165-910b-4998-b174-a98a34eccbb2

National library of israel id (old) 000979334

National library of israel j9u id 987007548062205171

Nl cr aut id ge627125

Online pwn encyclopedia id 3950163

Open library subject id place:offenburg_(germany)

Openstreetmap node id 69457035

Openstreetmap relation id 452988

Openweathermap city id 2857798

Quora topic id Offenburg

Rkd thesaurus id 12942

Snarc id Q2968

Tripadvisor id 198528

Trismegistos geo id 27988

U.s. national archives identifier 10045645

Un/locode DEOFG

Viaf cluster id 145415132

Who's on first id 101748497

Woeid 682998

World historical gazetteer place id 14255525

Worldcat entities id E39PBJdmmfR4bPCV76rp9dt9Xd

Yale lux id place/ea147775-46cb-4f97-a799-8b0dca1e56fb

🌐 Available in 28 languages

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🏷️ Also known as

en Imperial City of Offenburg

🔗 Connections

People born here 31

Lorenz Oken, Aenne Burda, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Martin Wagner, Josef Kohler, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Katja Mast, Christine Gossé +23 more

People who died here 9

Wolfgang Schäuble, Aenne Burda, Otto Kumm, Hans Cieslarczyk, Arthur Dinter, Franz Burda sr., Franz Xaver von Neveu, Ida Maier-Müller +1 more

Twinned administrative body 6

Olsztyn, Altenburg, Lons-le-Saunier, Pietra Ligure, Weiz, Borehamwood

← Twinned administrative body 6

Olsztyn, Altenburg, Lons-le-Saunier, Pietra Ligure, Weiz, Borehamwood

Instance of 4

city, free imperial city, district capital, major regional center

← Headquarters location 4

Spellbound Entertainment, Black Forest Games, Mediclin, sevDesk GmbH

Contained subdivisions 3

Offenburg railway station, Central/North Black Forest Nature Park, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg

Described by source 3

Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Regesta Imperii

Located in the administrative territorial entity 3

Ortenau, Electorate of Baden, Swabian Circle

← Category combines topics 3

Category:People from Offenburg, Category:Births in Offenburg, Category:Deaths in Offenburg

← Work location 3

Hans Cieslarczyk, Max Müller, Ludwig Moroder

Located in time zone 2

UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00

Member of 2

Climate Alliance, Mayors for Peace

Residents 2

Johannes Vetter, Franz Xaver von Neveu

Shares border with 2

Ohlsbach, Ortenberg

← Location of formation 2

Spellbound Entertainment, Hubert Burda Media Holding

← Shares border with 2

Ohlsbach, Ortenberg

Capital of 1

Ortenau

Category for people born here 1

Category:Births in Offenburg

Category for people who died here 1

Category:Deaths in Offenburg

Category of associated people 1

Category:People from Offenburg

Country 1

Germany

Factgrid item id 1

Wolfgang Steinmayr

Located in this place 1

Nazi book burnings

Topic's main category 1

Category:Offenburg

← Capital 1

Ortenau

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Offenburg

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Ortenau

← Primary destinations 1

European route E35

← Snarc id 1

Ogbomosho

← Terminus location 1

European route E531

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Offenburg

Offenburg

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