1928, a direct connection to Rastatt (Baden) was established. Eutingen and Stuttgart are connected with the Gäubahn. There is a rail service every hour with consolidations in school transport. Since 2006, coming from Karlsruhe, S41 goes every two hours about Freudenstadt up to Eutingen where is connection to the Regional Express (RE) Stuttgart-Singen. The connection to Offenburg is via the Kinzig Valley Railway. The trains of the Ortenau-S-Bahn (OSB), connect Freudenstadt hourly over Alpirsbach, Schiltach and Hausach to Offenburg. The central bus station (ZOB) with more than 40 bus lines is a main transport hub in the Black Forest. City buses run to destinations in the urban core. Public transport to towns in neighboring districts, such as to Oberndorf, Wolfach, Altensteig or Dornhahn. On the nights of Saturdays, Sundays and holidays an overnight bus service completes the night rail service. Administration Freudenstadt is home of the Amtsgericht, which belongs to the court Rottweil and the superior court Stuttgart. It is the seat of the district office of the homonymous district and home to the majority of its administrative authorities. There is also a notary and a tax office. It is the seat of the church district Freudenstadt of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg. Education The schools sponsored by the city are on the one hand the Kepler-Gymnasium and the Kepler secondary school. Southeast towards the central station is the Falken-Realschule, not far away from the Hartranft Elementary School. The Theodor-Gerhard-primary school with integrated Werkrealschule as a second primary school of the main town is located opposite to the Kepler schools. Among the schools sponsored by the district are the Eduard-Spranger-School, a business school with an economic high school, the Heinrich-Schickhardt school as industrial and technical school with a technical high school and Luise Büchner School as domestic school with a nutritional scientific school. The Christopher's School, a special school, is found north the building yard. Notable people Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557–1608), founder of Freudenstadt Karl Burger (1883–1959), footballer Georg Lindemann (1884–1963), colonel general in World War II Klaus Mehnert (1906–1984), political journalist, publicist and author Margret Hofheinz-Döring (1910–1994), painter, lived here in 1953–1974 Hermann Wagner (born 1941), physician Costa Cordalis (1944–2019), German-Greek pop singer; lived here Michael Volle (born 1960), operatic baritone Kevin Kurányi (born 1982), footballer; graduated 1997 from Kepler secondary school Petra Lammert (born 1984), track and field athlete in the discipline shot put Ben Salfield