Zähringen is the northernmost suburb of Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
[1] On September 30, 1008 Henry II issued a deed of donation with which he ceded his exclusive hunting rights (hunting privilege) in the Breisgau forests to the bishop of Basel.
[2] Although the village must already have existed for quite some time, this is the first official document in which it is mentioned.
The word beginning Reute refers to cleared or deforested land and the ending Bach means stream.
[5] Reutebach was also the name of a former village which seems to have been larger than Zähringen, as its church was the parish church for the villages Gundelfingen, Heuweiler, Wildtal and Zähringen.