Schönau im Schwarzwald

Schönau im Schwarzwald (German pronunciation: [ˈʃøːnaʊ ʔɪm ˈʃvaʁtsvalt], lit. 'Schönau in the Black Forest') is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast of Basel, Switzerland, and 23 kilometres (14 mi) south of Freiburg.

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Schönau im Schwarzwald
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Schönau im Schwarzwald within Lörrach district
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Coordinates: 47°47′12″N 07°53′39″E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Lörrach
Government
• Mayor (2020–28)	Peter Schelshorn^[1]
Area
• Total	14.72 km² (5.68 sq mi)
Elevation	540 m (1,770 ft)
Population (2023-12-31)^[2]
• Total	2,448
• Density	170/km² (430/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	79677
Dialling codes	07673
Vehicle registration	LÖ
Website	www.schoenau-im-schwarzwald.de

Energy infrastructure

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a small group led by Michael and Ursula Sladek founded the Parents for a Nuclear Free Future group, to research how they could limit the community's dependence on nuclear power.^[3] Their first approach was on saving energy and getting others to save energy. They reactivated small hydropower plants in the region.^[3] The couple developed the idea of a power system independent of nuclear power plants, generating electric power through distributed mini power plants from renewable sources.^[4] After ten years of campaigning and raising awareness, they founded the first German green power utility, the Elektrizitätswerke Schönau (EWS), in 1994.^[5] They took over providing power for the community in 1997.^[5]^[3]^[6]^[7] With a system that combined efficiency and power-saving strategies, it became possible to satisfy the power consumption of the community. Schönau was the first community in a Western country that became independent of the national power grid and could decide how its power would be produced.^[4]^[8]

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Notable people from Schönau

Fridolin Dietsche (1861–1908), sculptor
Karl Geiler (1878–1953), legal scientist and politician
Albert Leo Schlageter (1894–1923), German Freikorps fighter
Michael Sladek (1946–2024), ecologist

Sport

Joachim (Jogi) Löw (born 1960), German footballer and coach of the national football team from 2006 to 2021
Markus Löw (born 1961), former footballer, now a coach, brother of Jogi Löw

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