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Background

Good to know about the Wiehre

History, notable figures, anecdotes, residents' associations - everything beyond the bare addresses. Every topic is backed by sources.

Blick über die Freiburger Wiehre - Dächer des Stadtteils vor dem bewaldeten Schwarzwaldrand

History of the Wiehre

From the village of Adelhausen to incorporation in 1826 - over 1,000 years of neighborhood history.
Porträt des Philosophen Edmund Husserl, der bis 1938 in der Freiburger Wiehre lebte (Aufnahme aus den 1910er-Jahren)

Edmund Husserl in the Wiehre

The founder of phenomenology lived at Lorettostraße 40 - tracing his footsteps.
Gerwigplatz in der Freiburger Wiehre - begrünter Quartiersplatz mit Gründerzeit-Bebauung

The Wiehre's Two Residents' Associations

The Mittel- und Unterwiehre association and the Oberwiehre-Waldsee-Oberau association - who does what?
Wasserschlössle im Freiburger Sternwald - Trinkwasserspeicher von 1896 mit drei Zinnentürmen

The Water Castle and the Freiburg City Seal

Why the Water Castle carries three battlemented towers - and what that has to do with the city seal of 1245.
Sebastians-Brunnen am Annaplatz in der Freiburger Mittelwiehre

From the Village of Adelhausen to Annaplatz

How a vanished medieval village became the most village-like square in today's Wiehre.