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| State: | Baden-Württemberg |
| Capital: | Offenburg |
| Adm. Region: | Freiburg |
| Area: | 1,860.74 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 412,184 (2002) |
| pop. density: | 222 inh./km² |
| Car identification: | OG |
| Homepage: | http://www.ortenaukreis.de |
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The district was created in 1973 by merging the districts Kehl, Lahr, Offenburg and Wolfach.
The western part of the district is located in the upper Rhine valley, the east is part of the northern Black Forest. The highest elevation of the district, the 1164 meter high Hornisgrinde, is located in the north-east of the district. The lowest elevation with 124,3 m is in the Rhine valley to the north.
The district has a friendship with the district Altenburger LandAltenburger Land is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the district of Greiz, the Burgenlandkreis ( Saxony-Anhalt), and the districts Leipziger Land, Mittweida, Chemnitzer Land, Zwickauer Land in Saxony. Histo in ThuringiaState Service Flag Civil Flag Statistics Capital: Erfurt Area:16,171 km² Inhabitants:2 392 000 2003 pop. density:148 people/km² Homepage: ISO 3166-2:DE-TH Politics Minister-President: Dieter Althaus ( CDU) Ruling party: CDU Map The Free State of Thuringia. Offenburg already had a city partnership with AltenburgAltenburg is a town in the German Bundesland of Thuringia. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district. History The town (civitas Altenburg) is first mentioned in 976 in a deed to the bishop of Zeitz. Remains of a Slavonic castle on the Schlossberg, so after the reunification the district choosed this district to help to modernize the administration to west german standard.
France and Germany are negociating the creation of a Eurodistrict straddling the Rhine and combining the Ortenaukreis and the Greater StrasbourgStrasbourg ( German Strassburg "castle of roads", Alsatian Strossburi is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region of northeastern France. It is the prefecture (capital) of the Bas-Rhin departement''. Population: 250,000. Population of the metro, with an overall population of 860,000.