Weil am Rhein to Stockach and the B 3 federal highway from Buxtehude to Weil am Rhein connect Kandern to the long distance traffic network. The Chanderli heritage railway runs along the route of the former Kander Valley Railway from Kandern to Haltingen. Education The August Macke School Centre in Kandern consists of a Hauptschule and a Realschule. There are grade schools (grades 1 - 4) in Kandern and Tannenkirch. In addition, there are two communal and two Lutheran kindergartens, and one private Waldorf kindergarten. Black Forest Academy (BFA), an English-speaking private school (grades 5-12) is also located in Kandern. There is also a bi-lingual grade school located in Wollbach (grades 1-4) associated with the Freie Evangelische Schule in Lörrach. Notable residents Born in Kandern Carl Mez (1808–1877), Industrialist and politician. Member of the Frankfurt Assembly, member of the Baden Landtag(parliament). John Sutter (born 1803; died 1880 in Washington, D.C.), known as the "California Kaiser". Resided in Kandern Adolf Kußmaul, Doctor and medical pioneer, practiced for a time in 1850 in Kandern. Paul Hübner, Painter and author. August Macke, Expressionist painter - Used Kandern streets as a subject. Max Böhlen, Painter who lived and painted in Kandern-Egerten from 1939 to his death in 1971. Bibliography Scheer, Volker G.: Kandern. Stadt seit 1810. Ereignisse, Personen und Bilder der Kanderner Stadtgeschichte seit der Stadterhebung und bekannte und bedeutende Personen aus der älteren Geschichte Kanderns, Todtnauberg: Scheer, 2nd revised and expanded edition, 2006, 520 pp., 367 ill., See also Kander River in Switzerland Notes External links Official site of the Markgräflerland Golf Club Heraldic information Village information Kandern:History and images Kandern: Pictures and history (German) Lörrach (district) Towns in Baden-Württemberg Baden