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.[3] 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,
References
- ^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 11 September 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
- ^ "Die Synagoge in Sulzburg (Landkreis Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald)".
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