{{Expand German|topic=geo|date=February 2009|Elzach}} {{Infobox German place |type = Stadt |image_photo =Elzach.jpg |imagesize =300px |image_caption =Elzach viewing direction east |image_coa = DEU Elzach COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|48|10|29|N|8|4|18|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Elzach in EM.svg |state = Baden-Württemberg |region = Freiburg |district = Emmendingen |elevation = 361 |area = 75.28 |postal_code = 79215 |area_code = 07682 |licence = EM |Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 3 16 010 |website = [http://www.elzach.de/ www.elzach.de] |mayor = Roland Tibi<ref>[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse], Staatsanzeiger, accessed 11 September 2021.</ref> |leader_term = 2020–28 }}
'''Elzach''' ({{IPA|de|ˈɛltsax|-|De-Elzach.ogg}}; Low Alemannic: ''Elze'') is a town in the district of Emmendingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Elz, 26 km northeast of Freiburg.
==Geography== The town of Elzach is located at the eastern border of the district of Emmendingen and borders on the district of the Ortenaukreis and the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis. Topographically is the area characterised by the river valley of the Elz and the local hill called Rohrhardsberg. Also Elzach belongs to the Breisgau<ref>''[https://www.alemannische-seiten.de/deutschland/elzach.php Breisgau area Elzach]'', alemannische-seiten.de</ref> area and is located at the edge of the Southern Black Forest Nature Park.
===Urban districts=== The town has five urban districts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alemannische-seiten.de/deutschland/elzach_suche.php?id=ortsteile|title=Ortsteile Elzach|language=de|trans-title=Districts of Elzach|website=Alemannische-seiten|access-date=6 June 2025}}</ref> * Elzach * Yach * Prechtal * Oberprechtal * Katzenmoos
== Gallery == <gallery> Drei Stufen des Sehens.jpg|''Granite sculpture: "The three stages of seeing" (2002) by Dieter Oehm, in Elzach'' Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10015, Robert Hermann Dietrich.jpg|Robert Dietrich in 1930 as minister of finance </gallery>
==International relations== {{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}}
Elzach is twinned with:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gutach.de/kulturelles/partnerstae.htm |title=Partnerstädte der Gemeinde Gutach |access-date=2010-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050310185440/http://www.gutach.de/kulturelles/partnerstae.htm |archive-date=2005-03-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> :{{flagicon|GBR}} Worthing, United Kingdom :{{flagicon|FRA}} Ville, France :{{flagicon|AUT}} Telfs, Austria
==Sons and daughters of the town== * Hermann Dietrich (1879-1954) German politician of the liberal German Democratic Party, minister during the Weimar Republic {{clear}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Cities and towns in Emmendingen (district)}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Emmendingen (district)
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