DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk: Freiburg
Landkreis: Ortenaukreis

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Nordrach is situated at an elevation of 297 m along the river of the same name in the west of the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg. The municipality has a population of about 1,900 (2017).

The earliest known written document referring to the place dates from 1139. One part of the village belonged to the monastery Gengenbach, the other belonged to Zell. Nordrach was separated from Zell in 1803 and in 1929 the two communities of Nordrach-Dorf and Nordrach-Kolonie were merged into a single municipality. It remained part of the district Wolfach until 1973 when the district was dissolved and for the most part was merged into the new district Ortenaukreis (together with the districts Lahr and Offenburg).

Until 1975 four sanatoria for tuberculosis operated here. Most notably, the clinic of Dr. Otto Walter and his wife, Dr. Hope Bridges Adams, was founded in 1884 in Nordrach-Kolonie. Hope Adams was the first female doctor obtaining a medical degree in Germany in 1880 (although she was not acknowledged as a doctor or permitted to use the title until 1904).

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordrach; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Bridges_Adams_Lehmann]