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City in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Oberkirch
City
Oberkirch
Coat of arms
Location of Oberkirch within Ortenaukreis district
Oberkirch Show map of GermanyOberkirch Show map of Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48°32′N 8°5′E / 48.533°N 8.083°E / 48.533; 8.083
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Ortenaukreis
Subdivisions	Kernstadt and 9 Stadtteile
Government
• Lord mayor (2023–31)	Gregor Bühler (CDU)
Area
• Total	69.13 km (26.69 sq mi)
Elevation	192 m (630 ft)
Population
• Total	20,092
• Density	290/km (750/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	77695–77704
Dialling codes	07802 und 07805
Vehicle registration	OG, BH, KEL, LR, WOL
Website	www.oberkirch.de

Oberkirch (Low Alemannic: Owerkirch) is a city in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany about 12 km North-East of Offenburg and belongs to the Ortenaukreis district.

Twin towns

Oberkirch is twinned with Haverfordwest which is a town in Pembrokeshire, in Wales in the United Kingdom, and Oosterzele, a town in Oost-Vlaanderen, in Belgium.

Gallery

Churchtower (Sankt Cyriak Kirche) in Oberkirch
Mühlbach channel in the historic city center
Historical facade from 1659
"Ronia the Robber's Daughter" at an open-air theater (2006)

People from Oberkirch

Karl Stecher (1831-1923), painter, moved to Paris, New York & Wichita, Kansas
Bernhard Maier (born 1963), professor of religious studies, publishes mainly on Celtic culture and religion.
Michael Gerber (born 1970), Roman Catholic bishop (of Fulda)

References

Oberbürgermeisterwahl Oberkirch 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
"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.

External links

(in German) Information about and images

v t e Towns and municipalities in Ortenau (district)
Achern Appenweier Bad Peterstal-Griesbach Berghaupten Biberach Durbach Ettenheim Fischerbach Friesenheim Gengenbach Gutach Haslach Hausach Hofstetten Hohberg Hornberg Kappel-Grafenhausen Kappelrodeck Kehl Kippenheim Lahr/Schwarzwald Lauf Lautenbach Mahlberg Meißenheim Mühlenbach Neuried Nordrach Oberharmersbach Oberkirch Oberwolfach Offenburg Ohlsbach Oppenau Ortenberg Ottenhöfen im Schwarzwald Renchen Rheinau Ringsheim Rust Sasbach Sasbachwalden Schuttertal Schutterwald Schwanau Seebach Seelbach Steinach Willstätt Wolfach Zell am Harmersbach		Coat of arms of Ortenau County

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