Dürreych (place)

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Dürreych (also Dürreich ) is a residential area in the municipality of Gernsbach in the Rastatt district , Baden-Württemberg , which belonged to Reichental before the municipal reform in 1975 .

The residential area in the Dürreych valley 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 .

A Kaltenbronner forest map from 1790 shows a hut and a meadow of a colonist in the Dürreychtal, called Steinemanns Hütt and Steinemanns Wies . Since 1847 the Baden forest administration tried to buy the house. The colonist could not prove that his house was on his own land. A purchase agreement was concluded in 1866, whereby the Baden state also financed the emigration of the colonist family to the United States . The building was in such poor condition that it was torn down and not converted into a forester's house as originally planned . Instead, a forester's house was built around 500 meters down the valley in 1874, which served as a district forester for around 750 hectares of the Kaltenbronn state forest. At the 1905 census, six people lived in a household in Dürreych, which was a place of residence in the separate district of Kaltenbronn.

A forester lived in Dürreych until 1994; later the house was rented to forest workers. 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. There was also no connection to the public electricity and water supply. The remote location was particularly problematic for parents of school-age children.

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. ^ Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , pp. 33 f, 40;
    Scheifele, Holzhauer- und Flößersiedlungen , p. 224;
    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. ↑ Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , p. 33.

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '  N , 8 ° 28'  E