Brotenau (place)

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Brotenau was a residential area in the community of Gernsbach in the Rastatt district , Baden-Württemberg , which belonged to Reichental before the community reform in 1975 .

The living space in the valley of the Brotenaubach was built after 1720 as one of the colonist settlements in the northern Black Forest , where woodcutters, raftsmen , charcoal burners , smearers , Harzers and carters lived. Agricultural use of this remote part of the Black Forest was hardly possible because of the harsh climate, the high rainfall, the unfavorable topography with numerous boulders and the nutrient-poor red sandstone .

In October 1843, the grand ducal directorate of forests, mines and smelting works for Baden appointed a colonist resident in Brotenau as forest ranger with responsibility for the Brotenau valley and the neighboring Dürreychtal valley to the north . In 1862 the Baden state bought the forest ranger's house. In 1874 the 750 hectare Brotenau forest district was created as one of four districts of the Kaltenbronn state forest . In 1879 the forest ranger responsible for Brotenau was transferred to poaching . He was discharged from civil service; he escaped a four-month prison sentence by emigrating to America.

At the 1905 census, eight people lived in a household in Brotenau, which was a place of residence in the separate district of Kaltenbronn. In 1934 and 1936, Prince Philip of Greece , who later became the Prince Consort of the British Queen Elizabeth II , spent his holidays in the forester's house in Brotenau. After the November Revolution , the state forest of Kaltenbronn was left to the abdicated Grand Duke Friedrich II for security-free usufruct - a right that expired in 1952 with the death of the former Grand Duchess Hilda von Nassau .

In 1951 the forester's house was torn down and replaced by a new building in the same place. In the course of austerity measures, the Brotenau forest district was dissolved in 1975. In the following years the house was rented to forest workers. The last tenant moved out at the end of 2008 after her husband had died shortly before. The house was demolished in spring 2011.

When the Baden state took over the house, there was a meadow in Brotenau that enabled the residents to keep cattle. Until the mid-1960s there was no connection to the public telephone network; however, there was a fault-prone telephone line to Kaltenbronn within the forest. The remote location of Brotenau was particularly problematic for parents of school-age children. Two forest paths in the Brotenau valley, the Merkel and Mohr paths , are named after forest rangers who were active in Brotenau.

literature

  • Uli Blumenthal: The old forest houses in the Kaltenbronn area and the new Kaltenbronn information center. In: Kreis-Geschichtsverein Calw eV (Ed.): Once & Today. Historical yearbook for the district of Calw. ISSN  2197-523X , 22 (2012), pp. 52-56.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Intlekofer: History of Kaltenbronn. About high moor, forest and imperial hunt. (= Special publication of the Rastatt district archive , volume 9) Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-938047-53-8 , pp. 12, 16;
    Max Scheifele : Young woodcutter and raftsman settlements on the upper reaches of Enz and Nagold. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 55 (1996), ISSN  0044-3786 , pp. 215-231, here pp. 215, 224.
  2. ↑ Blumenthal, Forsthäuser , p. 56.
  3. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt (Ed.): Local directory based on the census of December 1, 1905 (= contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Baden , issue 63) CF Müllersche Hofbuchhandlung, Karlsruhe 1911, p. 146.
  4. ↑ Blumenthal, Forsthäuser , p. 56;
    Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , pp. 11, 23.
  5. ↑ Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , pp. 35 f, 40.
  6. ^ Forest houses in the northern Black Forest. Small question from the Member of Parliament Bernd Murschel in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, November 15, 2011 (pdf, 41 kB).
  7. ↑ Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , pp. 33, 40, 80 f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '  N , 8 ° 27'  E