It is located at the Elz River, 14 km (8.7 mi) north of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Emmendingen is bordered by several cities and municipalities; clockwise from the north: Malterdingen, Kenzingen, Freiamt (Black Forest), Sexau, Denzlingen, Reute (Breisgau), Windenreute, Maleck and Teningen.

Manuel II Palaiologos, and in 1590 was raised to the status of a town, and walled, by Margrave Jacob III.

[3] The author Johann Georg Schlosser (1739–1799), a brother-in-law of Goethe, was Oberamtmann (bailiff) for a few years.

The councillors were also judges, who met several times a year for sessions, appointed Schultheißen by the margrave.

The mayor and the lord mayor since 1883 (still incomplete): Together with the municipalities of Freiamt, Teningen, Teningen, and Sexau, the city of Emmendingen forms the association of administrations which began on 1 January 1975 for the purpose of the establishment of the land use plan for the districts of the participating municipalities.

It depicts the symbol of the coat of arms of the local lord (the bend) and the knight which symbolises the ability to put up a fight.

The town lies in Breisgau, between the foothills of the Black Forest and the Kaiserstuhl which rises out of the Rhine plain to the north of Freiburg.

Employees subject to insurance: 10,117 (As of: 31 December 2012), This includes the areas of: Transport Emmendingen does not have a direct connection to the motorway.

The nearest slip road is in Teningen to Federal Motorway 5 which runs to Karlsruhe and to Basel.

In addition to the station, there are bus stops in districts of Kollmarsreute and Mundingen (part of Teningen-Mundingen).

From the Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof (ZOB, Central Bus Station) at the train station, regional buses go to Freiburg, Herbolzheim, Kenzingen, Heimbach, Waldkirch, Denzlingen, Vörstetten, Reute, Bahlingen, Riegel, Sasbach and Freiamt.

Educational Institutions Two years after the start of the Reformation (1556) the first primary school was set up in Emmendingen.

Meerwein School and the Fritz Boehle Grundschule, which provide basic education in the city centre.

Cornelia Schlosser (maiden name: Cornelia Friederica Christiana Goethe) was the only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and lived with her husband Johann Georg Schlosser in a house on the main square in Emmendingen.

[clarification needed] Today the building is still utilized, but it is now home to the only archive of diaries in Germany.