Mahlberg
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Mahlberg | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Mahlberg
within Ortenaukreis district  | |
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| Location of Mahlberg | |
  Mahlberg  Mahlberg | |
| Coordinates: 48°17′13″N 07°48′41″E / 48.28694°N 7.81139°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Ortenaukreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2018–26) | Dietmar Benz[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 16.59 km2 (6.41 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 180 m (590 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 5,381 |
| • Density | 324.4/km2 (840.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 77972 |
| Dialling codes | 07825 |
| Vehicle registration | OG, BH, KEL, LR, WOL |
| Website | www.mahlberg.de |
Mahlberg (German pronunciation: [ˈmaːlbɛʁk] ⓘ; Low Alemannic: Mohlburg) is a city in the Ortenaukreis, in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 8 km southwest of Lahr, near the Europa-Park Rust. It is about 30 kilometres (20 mi) north of Freiburg im Breisgau and 30 km (20 mi) south of Strasbourg. It is in the Upper Rhine Trinational Metropolitan Region, a region combining Alsace (France) and parts of Switzerland and Southwest-Germany.
20th century
Until the 19th century Mahlberg was first mentioned in 1215. As early as 1223, the town was granted city rights by Emperor Friedrich II. At that time Mahlberg was an imperial castle and the seat of an imperial school. At that time the place belonged to the domain of the Lords of Geroldseck. After their extinction in the middle of the 15th century, the city came to the Margraviate of Baden-Baden, whereby a common rule was agreed with the counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken. After the joint ownership of Baden and Nassau was dissolved in 1629, the city then became a center of Baden-Baden rule.
After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, Mahlberg became the seat of the eponymous Oberamt, which belonged to the Landvogtei Hochberg. In 1806 it was subordinated directly to the province of Middle Rhine as a sovereign office. When it was reorganized in 1809, it was subordinated to the Kinzigkreis with headquarters in Offenburg as Mahlberg. Finally, the Mahlberg office was merged with the Ettenheim office in 1813. The new office was based in Ettenheim. From this point on, Mahlberg was no longer a city in the administrative history of Baden. In 1900, 962 mostly Catholic residents lived in Mahlberg. Since 1924 the city belonged to the district office of Lahr, which in 1939 became the district of Lahr.
In 1935, Mahlberg lost its city rights in the course of the National Socialist central administrative "cleanup", but was given it back in 1950 after the then Prime Minister of Baden, Leo Wohleb (before Baden-Wuerttemberg was founded). With the dissolution of the district of Lahr, Mahlberg fell to the new Ortenaukreis.
