Bad Rotenfels

Bad Rotenfels City of Gaggenau
	Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 48 ″ N , 8 ° 18 ′ 21 ″ E
Area :	20.14 km²
Residents :	4864
Population density :	242 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	76571
Area code :	07225
Location of Bad Rotenfels in Baden-Württemberg

Bad Rotenfels is a district of Gaggenau in the Baden-Württemberg district of Rastatt .

Location and infrastructure

Bad Rotenfels is located at the entrance to the Murg Valley in the northern Black Forest , directly northwest of the core town of Gaggenau. The Murg flows on the southwestern edge of the development. The federal road 462 follows the course of the valley as does the Murgtalbahn , which has three stops here. Beyond Murg and B 462 is the spa park with the Rotherma thermal baths . Out of the valley in the direction of Bischweier , the local development is followed by a large industrial area. The former community of Rotenfels had an area of 20.14 km².

history

The once independent place Rotenfels was in a deed of gift Heinrich III. first mentioned to the bishops of Speyer in 1041. In the 12th century, the Counts of Eberstein ruled and settled the Murg Valley from here. The Margraves of Baden have been lords since 1288 . Margrave Wilhelm Ludwig August von Baden-Hochberg , who ran a stoneware factory and a model agricultural business here in the 19th century, had coal drilled, and the Elisabethenquelle was discovered in 1839 . The mineral spring dried up in the same century. In 1944 and 1945 there was the Rotenfels security camp , a National Socialist forced camp. Boreholes in the 1950s opened up new thermal water resources that are used for swimming. On January 1, 1970 Rotenfels was incorporated into Gaggenau together with the Winkel district .

Attractions

Rotenfels Castle , a former stoneware factory converted by Friedrich Weinbrenner 1818–1827 into a classicist country castle for Margrave Wilhelm Ludwig August von Baden-Hochberg. Today the State Academy for School Art, School and Amateur Theater.
St. Laurentius , seat of the oldest parish and thus the “mother church” of the Murg Valley, today's building 1752–1766 by Franz Ignaz Krohmer , neo-baroque remodeling from 1902/03.
The Unimog Museum is in the vicinity of Rotenfels Castle, but already in the district of Kuppenheim-Oberndorf .

Rotenfels Castle
St. Laurence

literature

State archives office Baden-Württemberg, district Rastatt and state media center Baden-Württemberg (ed.): District descriptions of the state of Baden-Württemberg - The district of Rastatt. Volume 2, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-1364-7 , pp. 1-78, esp. 40-45.
Roland Feitenhansl: From ore smelting to school art forge. Rotenfels Castle in the Murg Valley (Gaggenau, district of Rastatt). In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 40th year 2011, issue 4, p. 241 f. ( online )

Web links

Commons : Bad Rotenfels - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Bad Rotenfels on the website of the city of Gaggenau
Bad Rotenfels in the regional studies portal LEO BW of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p. 361 ( digitized version ).
^ City information for the city of Gaggenau . Edition 2017. p. 14 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Clemens Kieser, Karlfriedrich Ohr, Wolfgang Stopfel, Martin Walter: Art and cultural monuments in the Rastatt district and in Baden-Baden. Konrad-Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1599-5 , pp. 200-204 ff.

[Gemeindeverzeichnis_1956-1] Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p. 361 ( digitized version ).

[2] City information for the city of Gaggenau . Edition 2017. p. 14 .

[KuKu2002-3] A ^b ^c Clemens Kieser, Karlfriedrich Ohr, Wolfgang Stopfel, Martin Walter: Art and cultural monuments in the Rastatt district and in Baden-Baden. Konrad-Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1599-5 , pp. 200-204 ff.