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On match days, a sea of football fans travel along the FR1 and descend on the 24,000-seat Schwarzwald-Stadion, Germany’s first solar-powered football stadium that’s home to local heroes SC Freiburg. “They’re letting the river overflow on the right-hand side to double its size, and welcoming back birds and insects,” she said. As we rode alongside the fast-flowing Dreisam River, Philipp told me about a renaturation project that’s designed to be an environmental tit-for-tat to compensate for the nearby train line expansion. Thanks to this sharing of knowledge, Padua, a sister city in northern Italy, has since installed Italy’s largest solar farm while Madison in the US state of Wisconsin is currently planning the construction of a Sustainability Centre based on the Solar Centre in Freiburg.Īfter sampling a 35cm Lange Rote (Long Red) sausage, the city’s favourite edible emblem, we left the Old Town along the FR1, a dedicated bike highway that carries the 15,000 cyclists who travel daily along its 10km route. Last year, Freiburg invited some 25,000 officials and urban planners from around the world to learn from these ground-breaking projects.

2017: New Town Hall becomes world’s first public building producing surplus energy.

2012: Named most sustainable city in Germany.

2010: Wins national award for its climate protection efforts.

2002: Wins Dubai International Best Practices award for sustainable development.

2002: Elects Germany’s first Green Party mayor, Dieter Salomon.

1994: Builds Heliotrope: the world‘s first energy-plus house.

In the decades since, Freiburg has quickly developed as an environmental economics and solar research hub with a packed green CV: Though spearheaded by locals, the eclectic group of protesters grew to include left-wing activists, Alsatian winegrowers, skiers, German farmers, architects, doctors, educators, journalists, orchestral musicians and police officers, all united in their mission to stop construction of the proposed Wyhl nuclear power plant.Īs the trucks rolled out nine months later, with construction permanently halted, this successful exemplar of citizen-led activism led Freiburg to become a breeding ground for alternative thinking and birthed a green movement. “The protest was peaceful at the time, deeply rooted in solidarity,” said Axel Mayer, who took part in the event and is now the managing director of BUND (Federation for Environment and Nature Protection Germany).

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Thousands of protestors camped out for nine months on a patch of land 30km north of Freiburg deep in the Black Forest.

So, while the city reflects on its 900-year history, I’m here to find out what makes it a city of the future.įor most, the city’s sustainable turning point can be traced back to February 1975. These ingredients have all helped create a Freiburg that is one of Germany’s, if not the world’s, most liveable, progressive, sustainable and child-friendly cities. And the colourful half-timbered houses and car-free cobblestone streets lining its Old Town are, in fact, relatively young, as they were faithfully reconstructed after World War Two bombings. Mayor Martin Horn was just shy of 34 when he was inaugurated at Town Hall in 2018. Around 10% of the city’s 220,000 residents attend the prestigious Albert Ludwig University, making the population one of Germany’s youngest.

It does, however, have youth on its side. Celebrating its 900th anniversary since originating as a merchant settlement in 1120, the medieval German city nestled at the foot of the Black Forest near the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany is arguably quite old. “900 years young” reads the bold slogan emblazoned on the side of the tram as it rattles through Freiburg im Breisgau’s historical Old Town.