title: March, Breisgau
text: # March, Breisgau
  
  March is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
  
  ## History
  
  The four villages of Buchheim, Hugstetten, Neuershausen and Holzhausen merged in 1973 to the new community of March.
  
  ## Coat of arms
  
  The coat of arms shows on the left side the cross of the Lorsch Abbey and on the right the silver bear of the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland. Both abbeys owned land in the area, what is today March.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  Population development:
  
  | Year | Inhabitants |
  | - | - |
  | 1990 | 8,042 |
  | 2001 | 8,825 |
  | 2011 | 8,617 |
  | 2021 | 9,269 |
  
  ## Famous inhabitants
  
  Konrad Stürtzel von Buchheim (* about 1435, + 1509), was chancellor of Maximilian I of Habsburg
  
  