Kirchzarten
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Location of Kirchzarten within Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district
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| Coordinates | 47°58′N 7°57′E / 47.96667°N 7.95°ECoordinates: 47°58′N 7°57′E / 47.96667°N 7.95°E |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald |
| Mayor | Georg-Wilhelm von Oppen |
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| Area | 21.14 km2 (8.16 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 380 m (1247 ft) |
| Population | 9,770 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 462 /km2 (1,197 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | FR |
| Postal code | 79199 |
| Area code | 07661 |
| Website | www.kirchzarten.de |
Kirchzarten is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the federal-state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.
A Zionist agricultural training farm was founded in Kirchzarten in 1919 to prepare young people to become farmers in Eretz Israel.[2]
The Kirchzarten synagogue had a set of Jugendstil windows by artist Friedrich Adler, who made a duplicate set now in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[2]
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