BREAKING NEWS
Cloud Server Hosting For Online Businesses
Inexpensive SEO Services
Benefits of Wanting to play Free Online Slot machines
Efringen-Kirchen

Summary

Efringen-Kirchen is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Efringen-Kirchen
Municipality
Coat of arms of Efringen-Kirchen
Coat of arms
Location of Efringen-Kirchen within Lörrach district
FranceSwitzerlandWaldshut (district)Breisgau-HochschwarzwaldFreiburg im BreisgauAiternBad BellingenBinzenBöllenEfringen-KirchenEfringen-KirchenEimeldingenFischingenFröhndGrenzach-WyhlenZell im WiesentalHäg-EhrsbergHaselHausen im WiesentalInzlingenKandernKleines WiesentalLörrachMalsburg-MarzellMaulburgRheinfelden (Baden)RümmingenRümmingenSchallbachSchliengenSchönau im SchwarzwaldSchönau im SchwarzwaldSchönau im SchwarzwaldSchönau im SchwarzwaldSchönau im SchwarzwaldSchönau im SchwarzwaldSchönenbergSchopfheimSchwörstadtSteinenTodtnauTunauUtzenfeldWeil am RheinWembachWembachWembachWiedenWittlingenWittlingenZell im WiesentalZell im WiesentalZell im Wiesental
Efringen-Kirchen is located in Germany
Efringen-Kirchen
Efringen-Kirchen
Efringen-Kirchen is located in Baden-Württemberg
Efringen-Kirchen
Efringen-Kirchen
Coordinates: 47°39′20″N 7°33′57″E / 47.65556°N 7.56583°E / 47.65556; 7.56583
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionFreiburg
DistrictLörrach
Subdivisions9
Government
 • Mayor (2022–30) Carolin Holzmüller[1] (FDP)
Area
 • Total43.74 km2 (16.89 sq mi)
Elevation
258 m (846 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total8,773
 • Density200/km2 (520/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
79588
Dialling codes07628
Vehicle registrationLÖ
Websitewww.efringen-kirchen.de

Fortifications edit

During World War I fortifications were built at Istein; these were destroyed at the end of the war. In 1936 plans were drawn up to turn the location into the "Gibraltar of the West" with two kilometres of underground passages linking gun emplacements and bunkers. The site was to host an underground garage for over 100 tanks, 3600 men and as part of the Siegfried Line it would dwarf similar Maginot Line fortifications. Work began in 1937 and Hermann Göring visited in the spring of 1938. By 1939 several installations were complete but as the war progressed advantageously for the Germans in 1940 the site remained unfinished.[3]

Communities within Efringen-Kirchen edit

  • Blansingen
  • Efringen
  • Egringen [de]
  • Huttingen
  • Istein
  • Kirchen
  • Kleinkems
  • Mappach
  • Maugenhard
  • Welmlingen
  • Wintersweiler[4]
 
Efringen, reformed church
 
Blansingen, church: the Peterskirche


Religion edit

Churches edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bürgermeisterwahl Efringen-Kirchen 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
  3. ^ Kaufmann JE, Kaufmann HW: "Fortress third Reich", page 128. DA Capo Press, 2003.
  4. ^ Efringen-Kirchen im Markgräflerland

External links edit

  • (in German) Information about and images