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ID: 7012635
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012635
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Offenburg (inhabited place)  Offenburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 007 56 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.9333  decimal degrees

Note: The city of Offenburg is located in the Kinzig River Valley in southwestern Germany at the edge of the Black Forest. It was founded by Zähringen margraves on the site of a Roman settlement, and was an important free city from 1289 to 1802. It is the major city of the Ortenau wine and fruit district. Heavily damaged in World War II, it still preserves much of its historic Gothic and Baroque architecture and is a popular tourist spot. The 2004 estimated population was 58,900.

Names:
Offenburg (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
Offenburg (German-P,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Baden-Württemberg (state)  ............  Baden-Württemberg (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Offenburg (inhabited place)  ................  Offenburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was Roman settlement, first documented in 1101
city (C)
manufacturing center (C)
market center (C)
transportation center (C)
tourist center (C)
political center (H)  ............  of revolutionary movement in Baden in 1840s
imperial city (H)  ............  held status 1289-1802

Sources and Contributors:
Offenburg..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 882
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 144
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 144
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 881
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 882
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1839098
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 144
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 144
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 881
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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