Offenburg is the district capital of the Ortenau district in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. It lies on the Kinzig, a tributary of the Rhine on the right bank of the Black Forest, and about 20 kilometres southeast of the French city of Strasbourg.
Since its reconstruction after the town fire of 1689, Offenburg's old town has been characterised by Baroque buildings. The town wall, which is still preserved for about 1.4 kilometres, is older.
The representative centre of the old town is the southern part of the main street, which runs from north to south and widens here into an elongated square. The fish market, also a widened street, forms one of the cross connections to the east to Klosterstraße. Lange Straße, at the eastern end of the old town, branches off from Klosterstraße in the north and forms a triangle with it, in which several cross streets are located, and Gerichtsstraße as a square between Ritterstraße and Gerberstraße. To the west of the main street, separated from it by a block of houses, is the rectangular market square.
Pictures from Offenburg
Gengenbach - Schutterwald
Strasbourg
