Waldsee (Freiburg im Breisgau)

The Dreisam flows through Waldsee from the east to the west and forms the northern boundary of the residential development area here.

Previously, there was only the Carthusian monastery on the north side of the valley and the Zum Schiff inn, which was built in 1777 on the road leading into the Black Forest.

A long since abandoned stop on the railway line Höllentalbahn passing nearby made these facilities easily accessible.

From 1905, this was also the terminus (which had the first reversing loop) of a tram line that was to be extended in the direction of Littenweiler in 1925, which provided good access to the emerging Waldsee district.

Between the two world wars, numerous streets were laid out and developed in the area that extends from the Schiff inn up to approximately where the Holy Trinity Church is today, where there was predominatingly a low building-density with large gardens.

In the 1990s, the district made a name for itself with numerous, sometimes violent, protests against the planned and later completed new construction of the federal highway B 31.

The new road was supposed to relieve residential areas of long-distance traffic, which was achieved, but it also created new difficulties for other residents and reduced the high recreational value of the district, aside from the fact that this new road consisting of four lanes and free of intersections brings additional, burdensome long-distance traffic into the city.