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		Freiburg is a city of 205,000 people that was founded 900 years ago in the wine-growing area of southwest Germany, close to the French border, the upper Rhine and the Black Forest.
		Freiburg's energy policy has three pillars: energy conservation, the use of new technologies such as combined heat and power, and the use of renewable energy sources such as solar to meet new demand, instead of fossil fuels, with the goal of realizing an ecologically-oriented energy supply.
		Freiburg's goal is to decrease nuclear's influence, and increase the energy from renewables to 10% by 2010.
	www.solarregion.freiburg.de /solarregion/freiburg_solar_city.php (1725 words)

	Stadt Freiburg - Tourists \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 150-year rule of the Counts of Freiburg was mainly characterized by wars with other rulers and disputes with the town’s inhabitants, which is why, in 1368, the wealthy citizens bought their independence by paying him 15,000 silver Marks and submitted to the rule of the House of Habsburg.
		In 1899, Freiburg University was the first German university to accept a female student; in 1910 the municipal theatre was inaugurated; and in 1911 new university buildings were finished.
		Freiburg’s prosperity is mainly based on the many small- and medium-sized companies in the service industry, medical technology, pharmaceuticals, solar energy, bio-technology and electronics.
	www.freiburg.de /6/6/611/index.php (627 words)

	New German Community Models Car-Free Living By Isabelle de Pommereau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Vauban development - 2,000 new homes on a former military base 10 minutes by bike from the heart of Freiburg - has put into practice many ideas that were once dismissed as eco-fantasy but which are now moving to the center of public policy.
		Vauban, which is located in the southwestern part of the country, owes its existence, at least in part, to Freiburg - a university town, like Davis - that has a reputation as Germany's ecological capital.
		In 1998, Freiburg bought land from the German government and worked with Delleske's group to lay out a master plan for the area, keeping in mind the ecological, social, economic, and cultural goals of reducing energy levels while creating healthier air and a solid infrastructure for young families.
	www.countercurrents.org /po-isbelle231206.htm (947 words)

	Freiburg - Hotels and Travel Info
		Freiburg im Breisgau is situated in the Black Forest in the southwestern part of Germany in the immediate vicinity of France and Switzerland.Freiburg city from SchlossbergFreiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) with about 200,000 inhabitants.
		Freiburg Münster medieval cathedralIn 1520, the city undertook a set of legal reforms, widely known as the most progressive of the times.
		The citizens of Freiburg are known in Germany for their love of cycling and recycling.
	www.travelgermanyplus.com /Freiburg.html (905 words)

	Stadtgeschichte 3
		Freiburg looses its territories in Alsace and the river Rhine becomes the new border to France.
		Because Freiburg is the seat of the provisionary revolutionary government, it is subject to a temporary occupation by Prussian troops.
		Freiburg votes in the plebiscite with 52.2% in favour of Baden remaining an individual state.
	www.freiburg-online.com /freiburg/english/online/html/stadtgeschichte/geschichte/stadtge3.html (855 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Freiburg
		Freiburg in Breisgau, the third largest city in Baden, is beautifully situated at the foot of the Schwarzwald mountains on both banks of the Dreisam.
		Freiburg and all Breisgau was ceded to the Duke of Modena, but a little later, by the Treaty of Pressburg (1805), it reverted to the house of Zähringen.
		Freiburg is the residence of an archbishop, metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06264a.htm (5406 words)

	Freiburg history
		Freiburg reached a dominating position in the Breisgau region, because it was easy to access, because there were rich silver mines in the Black Forest, and they had the market rights.
		The builder de Vauban Freiburg is chancing Freiburg to a fortification to this time.
		From then on Freiburg is switching from austrian to french occupation all the time.
	www.gemeinschaften.uni-freiburg.de /iaeste/freiburgEN.htm (617 words)

	Freiburg
		Freiburg was founded in the 12th century by Duke Konrad of Zahringen as a free market town, hence its name.
		In the 1368 Freiburg bought its liberty from a local count, and turned itself over to the protection of the Habsburgs, who allowed it to retain a large amount of freedom.
		Freiburg is home to Second Bundesliga football team SC Freiburg, coached by Volker Finke and playing in the Badenova-Stadion (formerly Dreisamstadion).
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/fr/Freiburg.htm (1238 words)

	English Introduction to the Vauban District, Freiburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Freiburg, on the former area of a French barrack site, Vauban, a new district is being developed for more than 5,000 inhabitants and 600 jobs.
		Forum Vauban gives voice to the people's needs and supports their initiatives, invents innovative ecological and social concepts and sets up a communication and participation structure including meetings, workshops, a three-monthly district news magazine, publications on special issues and internet-presentations.
		The citizen's association "Forum Vauban e.V." applied to coordinate the participation process and was recognized as its legal body by the City of Freiburg in 1995.
	www.vauban.de /info/abstract.html (641 words)

	Stadt Freiburg - Tourists \| The Sights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Opposite in the Colombipark, a former bastion of the fortifications planned by Vauban after the French had taken the city in 1677, is the Colombi Palace.
		Freiburg’s main street, lined by arcades built since the war, was the central marketplace in the Middle Ages with wooden buildings known as "Lauben" down its centre.
		Dominican convents in the village of Adelshausen south of Freiburg which were destroyed as a result of the 30 Years’ War and the building of the fortifications.
	www.freiburg.de /6/6/604/index.php (2136 words)

	Freiburg - Free net encyclopedia
		Freiburg was founded in the 12th century by Duke Konrad of ZГ¤hringen as a free market town, hence its name.
		In the year 1368 Freiburg bought its liberty from a local count, and turned itself over to the protection of the Habsburgs, who allowed it to retain a large amount of freedom.
		The newly built neighbourhoods of Vauban, Freiburg and Rieselfeld were developed and built accordingly to the idea of sustainability.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Freiburg (1460 words)

	Vauban, Freiburg at AllExperts
		Vauban is a new neighborhood of 5000 inhabitants and 600 jobs 4km to the south of the town center in Freiburg, Germany.
		Vauban will be connected to the town center by a tramway.
		Around 40% of the households have agreed to live without their own cars, while others have to leave their vehicles in at the edge of the development.
	en.allexperts.com /e/v/va/vauban,_freiburg.htm (309 words)

	Sustainable City - Freiburg
		Freiburg is a city of 205,000 people that was founded 900 years ago in the wine-growing area of southwest Germany, close to the French border, the upper Rhine and the Black Forest.
		Freiburg's energy policy has three pillars: energy conservation, the use of new technologies such as combined heat and power, and the use of renewable energy sources such as solar to meet new demand, instead of fossil fuels, with the goal of realizing an ecologically-oriented energy supply.
		Freiburg's Central Station has installed a solar PV facade that is 19 floors tall, with 240 solar modules, and the city is full of houses whose owners have installed solar systems for electricity or hot water on their roofs.
	www.madisonfreiburg.org /sustainablecity.htm (1634 words)

	Vauban District, Freiburg: Part 5: Achievements
		Besides the innovative technology which also contributed to Freiburg's EXPO 2000- presentation ("Solar Region Freiburg"), a highly innovative aspect is the culture of planning and of the participation process.
		Vauban soon needs a third public kindergarden and the primary school has to be enlarged, too.
		The level of synergy, accrued from such forceful collaboration structures, eventuated in a multiplicity of experimental and daring solutions to planning tasks when Vauban was developed from early 1998 onwards, proving as inspirational to sustainable building as such as requiring ongoing attention and re-evaluation with regard to their long-term viability.
	www.freiburg-vauban.de /info/abstract5.html (1314 words)

	Louis XIV - The Sun King
		In the successful battles of Freiburg im Breisgau (1644) and Nördlingen (1645) he served with the brilliant commander Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé; the lives of the two were thereafter intertwined.
		Born of minor nobility, Vauban became a royal engineer in 1655, won the king's favor by his spectacularly successful siege (1667) of Lille, and formed and headed the separate army engineering corps after 1672.
		Vauban was a military innovator, introducing ricochet fire and the socket bayonet.
	www.louis-xiv.de /index.php?t=wars&a=command (830 words)

	Building for Life
		The citizens' association 'Forum Vauban' applied to coordinate the 'extended citizen participation' process and was recognised as its legal body by the City of Freiburg in 1995.
		Two bus routes connect Vauban to the city centre and the main railway station, and a tramline and suburban train line are planned for 2006.
		Vauban has been designed to create a 'district of short distances' where the schools, farmer’s market, businesses, shopping centre, food coop, recreation areas and approximately 600 jobs will be within walking and cycling distance of residents.
	www.buildingforlife.org /buildingforlife.aspx?bfl=true&contentitemid=460&aspectid=24 (1902 words)

	Vauban - region of Freiburg \| Freiburg Germany \| Vacations \| Guides \| Black Forest \| Tourist Info
		Vauban is a new district of over 5000 inhabitants and created 600 jobs just 4km to the south of the city center of Freiburg, Germany.
		Other buildings are heated by a combined heat and power station burning wood chippings while many of the buildings have solar energy collectors or photovoltaic cells fitted to their rooves.
		Vauban is connected to the town center by a tramway (line 3, Paula- Modersohn Platz).
	www.freiburg-home.com /articles/About_Freiburg/Districts_of_Freiburg/Vauban_-_region_of_Freiburg/details (360 words)

	Fondation du Devenir : fiche53
		During these meetings, representatives of the city council and the administration discuss questions concerning the development of Vauban before these are brought to a vote in the city council.
		The Forum Vauban was successful in passing on many suggestions from the citizens to the decision makers.
		Forum Vauban was recognized as its legal body by the City of Freiburg in 1995.
	www.fdd.org /site/tiki-print.php?page=fiche53 (375 words)

	New German community models car-free living - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Vauban development — 2,000 new homes on a former military base 10 minutes by bike from the heart of Freiburg — has put into practice many ideas that were once dismissed as eco-fantasy but which are now moving to the center of public policy.
		There are numerous incentives for Vauban's 4,700 residents to live car-free: Carpoolers get free yearly tramway passes, while parking spots — available only in a garage at the neighborhood's edge — go for ?17,500 (US$23,000).
		Vauban, which is located in the southwestern part of the country, owes its existence, at least in part, to Freiburg — a university town, like Davis — that has a reputation as Germany's ecological capital.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/techinnovations/2006-12-19-german-eco-town_x.htm (1028 words)

	Vauban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Studentendorf Vauban, established in the former Vauban barracks on Merzhauser Strasse, comprises circa 600 spaces.
		The houses are idylically situated on park-like grounds surrounded by plenty of green and a number of old trees.
		Vauban is in a sense a "new" dormitory, as the renovation of the building was completed in 1997.
	www.studentenwerk.uni-freiburg.de /index.php?id=vauban&L=4 (187 words)

	Rocky Hillside - Post details: (Mostly!) Carfree Vauban, Germany
		The main reason I chose to build in Vauban is that it is one of the few areas relatively near the center of town in which building prices are somewhat affordable.
		The fact that it was a low-car area, that a new tram line providing direct service to downtown was going to be opened, and that the group I joined was constructing a passive solar building definitely added to the appeal, but the main criterion was financial.
		The earlier pictures taken in Freiburg that I've posted on Flickr are from the Wiehre, the neighborhood we used to live in.
	www.rockyhillside.net /Blogs/index.php/2006/12/20/carfree_vauban_germany (1859 words)

	The Albert-Ludwigs-University
		uring the French occupation of Freiburg in the war between Ludwig XIV and the German Empire, and after handing-over the city to France in 1679, part of the University faculty fled to Konstanz.
		With the humanities and the University Library in the centre of town, the institute quarter (natural sciences) in the north, its large clinic and the technical faculty to the west of the old part of town, the University has grown together with the city.
		The "Capital of the Black Forest", as Freiburg calls itself, is compact, but is still able to provide the cultural offerings in theatre, concerts, and art of a big city.
	www.endocytobiology.org /conference1998/university.html (1473 words)

	Freiburg: Sustainable Model City District Vauban
		In the city of Freiburg an area called Vauban was left by the French Army and became the location for planning and implementation of a new district according to sustainability principles.
		The process of urban development in the Vauban district is actively supported by the Forum Vauban association which was approved as official coordinator of citizens' participation by the city in early 1995.
		As responsibilities for this process lie with the private Forum Vauban association, there is a tendency for this organisation rapidly to become an agent of the local residents and, in consequence, representing their interests instead of serving general public matters in general.
	www.eaue.de /winuwd/178.htm (2808 words)

	PORTAL - Promotion of results in Transport Research and Learning
		According to these guidelines the Vauban quarter is a 'car free' area were parking is only possible at the borders in shared 'quarter garages'.
		Moreover the Freiburg tram is going to be extended to connect Vauban with the rest of the city.
		Futour is a travel agency specialised on professional excursions in the Freiburg region and which closely cooperates with the city of Freiburg.
	www.eu-portal.net /unitdesign/studyvisitsites.phtml?sprache=&site_id=24 (200 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Car-free Urban Living in Vauban, Germany
		From its first stages of planning, in the early 90s when the Vauban army based closed, the development was intended to be a beacon of ecological living, and a haven for younger generations in a country with an aging demographic.
		This distributed approach to the establishment of Vauban lent itself to a harmonious melding of grassroots community interests and government influence.
		It's early on the Vauban's life, but like BedZED, this development appears to be a model for modern, urban, ecological living -- the sort that even a green-shy househunter would want, simply for its style, proximity and livability.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/005639.html (1226 words)

	Louis XIV and Frederick the Great
		The Habsburgs recover Freiburg in the peace treaty of Ryswijk in 1697 but all their other possessions in the Alsace and the free Imperial City of Strasbourg are definitively lost.
		Eventually the French cannot avoid that the Freiburg is returned to the much hated Habsburgs but before leaving the city they blow what had remained of Vauban's masterpiece into pieces.
		On that occasion all houses in Freiburg are painted white and the city erects a Gate of Honour.
	www.freiburg-madison.de /freiburg_history/1648-1789_Louis_Frederic.htm (1901 words)

	EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Sustainable Model District Vauban
		In the South of Freiburg, on the former area of the French barrack site Vauban, a new district is being developed.
		Forum Vauban, which is the local citizen's association and legal body of the extended participation process and the social work within the district.
		With the implementation of the extended citizen participation in 1995 and the social work in 1999, people were able to use the Vauban project as a platform to express their needs, to receive support and to start own initiatives.
	www.eukn.org /eukn/themes/Urban_Policy/Urban_environment/Environmental_sustainability/freiburg-vauban_1199.html (890 words)

	Passivehouse "Wohnen & Arbeiten", Vauban District, Freiburg, Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Since both Lange and Gies were well enrooted -they still are- in Freiburg's "energy scene", the idea of building a passive house attracted great outright interest.
		Forum Vauban, one of the first assembly groups was created.
		This assembly group was a union of private owners who took the organization of the construction in the hand.
	www.passivhaus-vauban.de /idee.en.html (490 words)

	Construcción del barrio sostenible de Freiburg-Vauban, Friburgo, Alemania --CONTINUACIÓN
		Vauban es por tanto un área que atrae a las personas jóvenes, principalmente a familias jóvenes.
		En junio de 2002 la oficina dedicada a Vauban dentro del departamento de construcción del ayuntamiento de Friburgo y Forum Vauban calcularon que hasta ese momento se habrían creado 170 nuevos puestos de trabajo entre personas asalariadas en oficinas y tiendas.
		Vauban fue presentado como Práctica Best alemana en la conferencia Habitat II de Estambul en 1996, y como finalista al Premio de Asociaciones (Partnership Award) en la conferencia "Negocios y Ciudad", que tuvo lugar en Bremen en 2001 (http://www.bremen-initiative.de).
	habitat.aq.upm.es /dubai/02/bp312.html (4960 words)

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