Sulzburg

Sulzburg
Coat of arms
Sulzburg Location of Sulzburg within Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district
Coordinates: 47°50′25″N 7°42′33″E / 47.84028°N 7.70917°E / 47.84028; 7.70917Coordinates: 47°50′25″N 7°42′33″E / 47.84028°N 7.70917°E / 47.84028; 7.70917
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Government
• Mayor	Dirk Blens
Area
• Total	22.73 km2 (8.78 sq mi)
Elevation	337 m (1,106 ft)
Population (2017-12-31)[1]
• Total	2,771
• Density	120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	79295
Dialling codes	07634
Vehicle registration	FR
Website	www.sulzburg.de

Sulzburg is a town in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the western slope of the Black Forest, 20 km southwest of Freiburg.

Sulzburg had a long tradition of continuous Jewish settlement since medieval times. Around 1850 almost one third of its population of around 1200 was Jewish. Sulzburg's lovely, barrel-vaulted synagogue has been completely restored.^[2] There exists an old Jewish cemetery near the town.

Sons and daughters of the city

• 1594 Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Markgraf of Baden-Durlach (1622-1659)
• 1694 Johann Daniel Schöpflin, professor of history, eloquence and the theory of law at the University of Strasbourg
• 1808 Gustav Weil, † 1889 in Freiburg im Breisgau, [first orientalist]], first Jewish professor in Germany
• 1843 Ernst Leitz, † 1920 in Solothurn, founder of the Ernst Leitz Optical Works Wetzlar
• 1925, Erich Bloch, † 2016 in Washington, computer scientist and engineer, director of the American National Science Foundation,

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See also

• Sulzberg