Freiburg was the first major city with a Green as Lord Mayor.
Dieter Salomon was elected in 2002 and ruled for almost 16 years.
The green attitude towards life is deeply rooted in the university town in Breisgau: in districts like Vauban there are hardly any cars, there are ecological housing projects and there is a lot of citizen participation.
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Freiburg works differently than the rest of Germany.
This is also what Chantal Kopf, the green direct candidate for the Bundestag, says.
This time she is sure that it will work.
But what have the Greens learned in their stronghold in order to be a people's party - and what is the core of the green electorate?
This summer we will take you on a trip every Monday and Wednesday.
We visited the most successful constituencies of the SPD, FDP, Greens, CDU, Left, AfD and CSU.
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