Waldshut-Tiengen

Waldshut-Tiengen
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Waldshut-Tiengen within Waldshut district
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Coordinates: 47°37′23″N 08°12′52″E / 47.62306°N 8.21444°E / 47.62306; 8.21444
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Waldshut
Subdivisions	2 Kernstädte und 10 Stadtteile
Government
• Lord mayor (2023–31)	Martin Gruner[1] (Ind.)
Area
• Total	77.98 km2 (30.11 sq mi)
Elevation	341 m (1,119 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	24,605
• Density	320/km2 (820/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	79741–79761
Dialling codes	07751, 07741, 07755 (Oberalpfen, Waldkirch)
Vehicle registration	WT
Website	www.waldshut-tiengen.de

Waldshut-Tiengen (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltshuːt ˈtiːŋən]; Alemannic: Waldshuet-Düenge), commonly known as Waldshut, is a city in southwestern Baden-Württemberg right at the Swiss border. It is the district seat and at the same time the biggest city in Waldshut district and a "middle centre" in the area of the "high centre" Lörrach/Weil am Rhein to whose middle area most towns and communities in Waldshut district belong (with the exception of seven communities that belong to Bad Säckingen's area). There are furthermore complexities arising from cross-border traffic between this area and the Swiss cantons of Aargau, Schaffhausen and Zürich. This classification relates to Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory, however, and not to any official administrative scheme.

The city, which was newly created in the framework of the 1975 municipal reform, at that time passed the 20,000 mark in population. City council then applied to have the city raised to Große Kreisstadt, which the government of Baden-Württemberg granted on 1 July 1976. Waldshut-Tiengen is also in an "administrative community" (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) with the communities of Dogern, Lauchringen and Weilheim.