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DEUTSCHLAND GERMANY
Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg  
Regierungsbezirk: Freiburg  
Landkreis: Lörrach  

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Lörrach

lv: Lēraha
el: Λέραχ
sr: Лерах uk: Леррах ru: Лёррах bg: Льоррах

3761 Lörrach Lörrach is situated at an elevation of 264 m in the extreme southwest of Germany, less than 5 km from the tripoint of Germany, France and Switzerland. The municipality of Lörrach has a population of about 49,300 (2018).

Lorracho was first mentioned in a written document dating from 1102. In 1403 it obtained the privileges as a market town from Ruprecht (Rupert) of the Palatinate, King of Germany. The privileges of a town were obtained in 1682 from Margrave Friedrich VII of Baden-Durlach. In 1863, Lörrach became the administrative centre of the district of the same name. Stetten was incorporated into Lörrach in 1908, Tüllingen and Tumringen followed in 1935, Haagen in 1974, and Brombach and Hauingen in 1975.

Glass no. 3761 [left] shows a view of the school building in Hebelpark, built in 1872 in Renaissance revival style. The fountain depicted in the foreground does not exist any more.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lörrach; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lörrach; https://amtsgericht-loerrach.justiz-bw.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/Das+Amtsgericht/Geschichte]


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