Ehrenkirchen
Sign in to saveEhrenkirchen is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Key facts
- German place.type
- Gemeinde
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Ehrenkirchen COA.svg
- German place.image_photo
- Rathaus von Ehrenkirchen 3.jpg
- German place.image_caption
- Ehrenkirchen town hall
- German place.image_plan
- Ehrenkirchen in FR.svg
- German place.state
- Baden-Württemberg
- German place.region
- Freiburg
- German place.district
- Breisgau-Hochschwaürzwald
- German place.elevation
- 265
- German place.area
- 37.80
- German place.postal_code
- 79238
- German place.area_code
- 07633
- German place.licence
- FR
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 08 3 15 131
- German place.divisions
- 5
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Ehrenkirchen is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
==History== The villages of Ehrenstetten, Kirchhofen, Norsingen, Offnadingen, and Scherzingen were properties of Saint Blaise Abbey, Black Forest until 1806, when they were mediatized to the Grand Duchy of Baden. They were assigned to the district of Staufen im Breisgau until 1936, when they were reassigned to the district of Freiburg im Breisgau. As part of the , they were assigned to the new district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. Over 1973 and 1974, the five villages merged into a single municipality, Ehrenkirchen, whose name was a combination of the largest towns, Ehrenstetten and Kirchhofen.