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Freiburg

Freiburg im Breisgau
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About Freiburg

Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg, is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of about 355,000 (2021), while the greater Freiburg metropolitan area ("Einzugsgebiet") has about 660,000 (2018).

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They did a study in the German city of Freiburg in the 2010s and found that 74% of cars at one moment were looking for a parking spot.

from No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club, 2025-08-14 at 00:40:10 · read transcript

Other times Freiburg came up

  1. I feel we've got two transport-based musical facts, so we just need like two more, and we can slip that over to this guys. I've got one more story that I'd love to just shove in here because it made me laugh, which is it's back to Germany, back to German rail. In 2015, members of Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party were on their way to Freiburg, because they were going to do a protest. The police stopped them from getting on.

    No Such Thing As Dwayne Johnson's Hare, 2025-12-11 · listen

  2. They found the DNA of the killer at the scene and they ran it through a database where obviously DNA has been stored from other crimes and they found multiple matches. In 2001 a 61 year old furniture dealer in Freiburg, Germany had been murdered by a strangulation and the DNA of the killer of the police was found in his apartment and so this is completely befuddling for the police because this is completely different MO.

    336: No Such Thing As A Delicious Emergency Salad, 2020-08-28 · listen

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Coordinates: 47.9950, 7.8500

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