Albbruck

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Waldshut
Height :	324 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.69 km 2
Residents:	7335 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	185 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	79774
Area code :	07753
License plate :	WT
Community key :	08 3 37 002
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulstrasse 7 79774 Albbruck
Website :	www.albbruck.de
Mayor :	Stefan Kaiser ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Albbruck in the district of Waldshut

Albbruck is a municipality in the Waldshut district in the south of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

location

Albbruck is located on the southern edge of the Black Forest at the mouth of the Alb in the Upper Rhine , which forms the border with Switzerland here.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Dachsberg , in the east on the district town of Waldshut-Tiengen and Dogern , in the south on the Swiss communities Schwaderloch and Mettauertal , in the west on Laufenburg and Görwihl .

Community structure

The municipality of Albbruck within the borders of December 31, 1974 with the previously independent municipalities of Birkingen , Birndorf , Buch , Schachen and Unteralpfen include a total of 20 villages, hamlets, farms and houses:

• The village of Albbruck with Alb and the districts of Albert and Kiesenbach .
• The villages of Birkingen and Kuchelbach , the hamlet of Bohland and the homestead Behlen belong to the former municipality of Birkingen .
• The villages Birndorf and Schadenbirndorf and the homestead Mühle belong to the former municipality of Birndorf .
• The village of Buch, the hamlets of Etzwihl , Haide , Hechwihl and Steinbach as well as the houses Görwihler Steg and Hohenfels belong to the former municipality of Buch ; there is also the lost castle Rihburg or Iburg .
• The village of Schachen belongs to the former municipality of Schachen.
• The village Unteralpfen with the Unteralpfener Mühle and the houses Stieg and Jugendheim belong to the former municipality Unteralpfen ; the neighboring village of Oberalpfen is now a district of the district town of Waldshut-Tiengen.

history

The eponymous town center Albbruck with its districts Kiesenbach, Alb and Albert was first mentioned in 1403. The district of Birkingen was first mentioned in a document in 814 as "Birchinga" and initially belonged to the St. Gallen Monastery until it fell to the St. Blasien Monastery in 1528 . Birndorf was also mentioned for the first time in a document in 814. The district has a three-aisled church in Romanesque style. The church belonged to the Teutonic Knight Order, which had its seat in Castle Beuggen . Since 1271 the Dinghof in Birndorf belonged to the St. Blasien monastery. The district of Buch is mentioned as “Puach” in the St. Gallen document book.

Catholic Church of St. Joseph

Machine house of the Albbruck-Dogern hydropower plant

In the sandstone quarries near Unteralpfen, a “fragment” of a Labyrinthodontia sp. discovered. It was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942 in the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe .

From 1929 to 1934 the Albbruck-Dogern power plant was built under the direction of the Swiss civil engineer Heinrich Eduard Gruner , who became an honorary citizen in Albbruck in 1933.

On April 2, 1945, Albbruck was the target of an air raid. 4 people lost their lives.

On July 1, 1991, the district archives were merged into a newly built hall in the industrial area to form the district archive of the Waldshut district.

Spatial development

On April 1, 1924, the previously independent communities of Albbruck, Alb and Kiesenbach were combined to form the "new" community of Albbruck. On October 1, 1936, the Albert parish was incorporated into this parish. As part of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the two previously independent municipalities Birndorf and Schachen (district of Säckingen) were incorporated on January 1, 1973, and today's municipality of Albbruck was merged from the municipalities of Albbruck, Birkingen, Buch and Unteralpfen on January 1, 1975 newly formed.

Coats of arms of the former municipalities

Albbruck

Birkingen

Birndorf

Schachen

Unteralpfen

book

politics

Evangelical Christ Church in Albbruck, built in 1958. Church of the Protestant parish in Albbruck-Görwihl.

Municipal council

In Albbruck, the municipal council is elected using the spurious sub-district election. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipal council in Albbruck has 26 members after the last election (previously: 28). The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local election 2014  % 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 51.34% 27.06% 14.18% 7.42% CDU FW SPD Green Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -6.75  % p + 4.83  % p.p. -1.85  % p + 3.77  % p.p. CDU FW SPD Green
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	51.34	13	58.09	16
FW	Free electoral association	27.06	7th	22.23	6th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	14.18	4th	18.7	5
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	7.42	2	3.65	1
total		100.0	26th	100.0	28
voter turnout		58.10%		48.4%

mayor

The current mayor is Stefan Kaiser.

Community partnerships

Albbruck has had an official partnership with the Italian municipality of Carmignano di Brenta , Veneto region , Padua province , since 1965 .

Economy and Infrastructure

The largest local company was the Albbruck paper mill with a capacity of 310,000 tons of paper per year. In January 2011 it was acquired by the Finnish owner Myllykoski , which is also Finnish company UPM-Kymmene , which closed the paper mill at the beginning of 2012. UPM sold both the site and the factory to the Karl Group from Innernzell , which would like to set up businesses there.

A major tourist road is the L 154, which connects Albbruck with St. Blasien through the Alb valley. However, since Whitsun 2015 it has been closed between Albbruck-Hohenfels and Görwihl-Tiefenstein due to the risk of rock falls. It is uncertain whether it will ever open again. The Albbruck station is on the Hochrheinbahn .

Personalities

• Johann Albiez (1654–1727), born in Buch, saltpeter boiler and first leader of the saltpeter riots
• Johann Michael Hartmann (around 1725/30 - around 1810), late baroque sculptor
• Gustav Adolf Müller (1866–1928), born in book, writer, journalist, archaeologist and educator
• Jakob Ebner (1873–1960), born in Unteralpfen, pastor and local researcher
• Josua Leander Gampp (1889–1969), born in book, graphic artist, painter and university professor
• Hubert Ebner (1906–1990), born in Buch, cyclist
• Henry Tröndle (1906–1991), born in Buch, cyclist
• Herbert Tröndle (1919–2017), born in Kiesenbach, legal scholar

literature

• Municipality of Albbruck (Ed.): Bridges in Albbruck Documentation for the handover on April 22, 1983

Web links

Commons : Albbruck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Albbruck municipality
• Albbruck at LEO-BW

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality . Volume 6: Freiburg administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 949-954
3. ↑ Entry Unteralpfen - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort on discover geography online - leobw
4. ↑ Nadir (Internet portal) , November 16, 2002: nadir.org: Open letter 'Call for help from the staircase' (June 8, 2014)
5. ↑ Badische Zeitung , January 21, 2009: badische-zeitung.de: Fire protection company interested in the area on the staircase (June 8, 2014)
6. ↑ Südkurier , Manfred Dinort, August 21, 2009: suedkurier.de: In the "Stieg" musical tones will soon be heard (June 8, 2014)
7. ^ Franz Falkenstein: Saurians near the forest house - About the oldest fossils in the district ; in: Heimat am Hochrhein 16 (1991), pp. 70ff. ISBN 3-87799-097-5
8. ↑ Address on the website of the district of Waldshut ( Memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 505 and 523 .
10. ↑ Election information for the municipal data center
11. ↑ Doris Dehmel: Jubilee in the torchlight , Südkurier from June 14, 2010, queried on June 18, 2010
12. ^ MD Albbruck. Myllykoski Corporation, archived from the original on August 18, 2010 ; Retrieved November 27, 2011 . 
13. ↑ Jörg Buteweg: Economy (regional): Closure: Albbruck paper factory at the end , Badische Zeitung, November 27, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2011
14. ↑ Karl Group buys paper mill. In: Südkurier. May 30, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2012 . 
15. ↑ Susanne Ehmann and Hannes Schuster (text), Falko Wehr (video): Waldshut district: L 154: Rock falls in the Alb valley: a road dies here. Badische Zeitung, May 18, 2016, accessed on May 18, 2016 .