Breisach

Breisach is a city with approximately 16,500 inhabitants, situated alongside the Rhine inside the Rhine Valley, within the district Breisgau Hochschwarzwald, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany, approximately halfway between Freiburg and Colmar 20 kilometers faraway from each and approximately 60 kilometers north of Basel near the Kaiserstuhl. A bridge leads over the Rhine to Neuf Brisach, Alsace. Its name is Celtic and approach breakwater. The root Breis can also be observed inside the French word briser meaning to interrupt. The hill, on which Breisach came into lifestyles changed into as a minimum when there was a flood inside the center of the Rhine, till the Rhine changed into straightened by the engineer Johann Gottfried Tulla inside the 19^th century, thus breaking its surge.

The seat of a Celtic prince become at the hill on which Breisach is constructed. The Romans maintained an auxiliary citadel on Mons Brisiacus which got here from the Celtic phrase Brisger because of this waterbreak. The Staufer based Breisach as a town in today's experience. But there had already been an agreement with a church at the time. An 11^th century coin from Breisach changed into found within the Sandur hoard.