Aerial shot of Vogtsburg

The Kaiserstuhl (literally "emperor's chair") is a small group of hills of mostly volcanic origin in the Upper Rhine Valley in southwest Germany, northwest of Freiburg. The highest elevation is the Totenkopf with 557 meters. The Kaiserstuhl features one of the warmest climates in Germany, with the town Ihringen being the town with the highest average temperature in Germany. This and the good soil make it an excellent wine growing region. The area is also home to many rare species of plants and animals: the variety of orchids in Kaiserstuhl, for example, is one of the greatest in Europe with over 30 species having been registered. Image File history File links Kaiserstuhl_Vogtsburg. ... Image File history File links Kaiserstuhl_Vogtsburg. ... Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl is a city in Kaiserstuhl, a volcanic region in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg. ... Smoking Bromo and Semeru (background) volcanoes on Java in Indonesia. ... Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ... Freiburg city from Schlossberg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) with about 214,000 inhabitants. ... Totenkopf is the German word for Dead Head and is used to describe a military insignia featuring a skull with crossed bones. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of fruit, typically grapes though a number of other fruits are also quite popular - such as plum, elderberry and blackcurrant. ... Orchid re-directs here; for alternate uses see Orchid (disambiguation) Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ... World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ...

External links

• (German) Kaiserstuhl:History and images
• (German) Kaiserstuhl:images of landscape, orchids, other plants and animals

Towns in the Kaiserstuhl include:

• Riegel
• Ihringen
• Endingen
• Gottenheim
• Vogtsburg