Littenweiler (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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Littenweiler is a district located in the south-east of Freiburg im Breisgau near the river Dreisam in the Dreisam valley. The station building of the stopping point Freiburg-Littenweiler lies 318 m above sea level.

The village Littenweiler is mentioned for the first time in the 11th century as "Lutenwile" in a document of the Einsiedeln monastery. It has been a farming village located Eastern of the city of Freiburg at the edge of the Black Forest, where the Dreisam valley opens up to the Zartener basin in the East. Because the village’s church is dedicated to Saint Barbara the patron of miners, it can be assumed that miners lived in Littenweiler, who along with the residents of the neighbouring village Kappel (Freiburg im Breisgau) worked in the tunnels of the Schauinsland (called “Erzkasten”). After various property situations, the village was divided in 1560 into two districts: one district belonging to the lords of the House of Sickingen and the other district belonging to the Teutonic Order of Freiburg. In 1614, these local lords concluded a contract, which organised the reciprocal interests as for example jurisdiction and taxes.

Despite its incorporation into Freiburg in 1914 the character of the farmer’s village at the gates of the city hadn’t changed much until the middle of the 20th century, even though the modern world found its way into it with the construction of the Höllentalbahn (Black Forest) in 1887, a rail station and the tram in 1925. In the middle of the 1950s the high population growth of Freiburg impacted the development of this district (1950: 2.132 inhabitants, 1961: 4.735 inhabitants, 1970: 6.826 inhabitants): huge building sites were developed, a new parish church in honour of Saint Barbara was built (the old one became a community hall) as well as the Evangelic Ascension church and the University of Education was established on the fields between the railway line and the old centre of the village. The placid village with a few mansions along the sides of the mountain became a large municipal residential quarter for a predominantly middle-class population, which grew together with the neighbouring districts Waldsee, Ebnet and Kappel.

The village’s coat of arms shows a white cross pattée on a red background. In each of the four consequentially built sections is a silver bullet. It is a combination of the coats of arms of the long-time local lords of the German Order (cross) and the count of Sickingen (silver bullets).

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