Grüntal-Frutenhof
Grüntal-Frutenhof is a district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg .
history
Already 8000-5000 BC Stone Age hunters roamed the wider area. Traces of a Mesolithic settlement were found near Wittendorf, a resting place near Schopfloch and above Hallwangen . Simple small chert tools at Freudenstadt ( lever , scraper , scraper , knife ).
When the first people settled in Grüntal-Frutenhof is unknown, as is the case with almost all towns and villages. There are no documents about it. The first written mention of “Gruonendal” occurs in the age of the Crusades around 1100 AD. In a document of the Tübingen Count Palatine from 1103, "Gruonendal" is mentioned in passing. The construction of the Reichenbach Monastery by monks of Abbot Wilhelm von Hirsau in the years 1082-1085 also fell during this period .
The place name Grüntal was subject to several phonetic signs and orthographic changes in the past . Around 1100 one reads Grindilen and Gruonendal, 1344 Grunethal, 1521 Griendel, then Grunthal, Grundel, Grondel, Grändel. The name clearly refers to the location in the green valley.
Around one kilometer above Grüntal, the "Fruthof" appeared for the first time in 1470 as a single estate and inheritance from the Württemberg dukes in the books of the ducal winery in Dornstetten and was already part of Grüntal at that time.
Originally there were also around 15 different spellings for Frutenhof, e.g. E.g .: Fruetenhooft, Fruotenhof, Fruedenhof, Fruttenhof, Frutten Hof. In a pledge from Ludwig Frut around 1500, the name for Frutenhof is "Kretzenbüel zu gredal".
Grüntal-Frutenhof appears in a first written forest property proclamation from the communities of Aach , Bentzingen, Dietersweiler , Dornstetten , Hallwangen , Wittlensweiler . The Waldgeding was an old economic and protection community and included the o. A. Places. The area was about 100 km². Alongside various forest uses, its own jurisdiction was the most valuable institution. The place of justice was in Aach, at today's restaurant "Waldgericht".
After the Count Palatine of Tübingen, the Counts of Eberstein near Baden-Baden owned Grüntal in the 13th century. They sold it in 1421 to the counts and later Dukes of Württemberg , where until 1806 the ducal bailiff was administered, and Vogt in Dornstetten.
During the Peasant War (around 1525) there were 13 residential buildings in Grüntal-Frutenhof, as well as two sawmills and a church. In 1650 Grüntal had 80 inhabitants, there were 21 buildings in Grüntal and 4 buildings in Frutenhof.
In 1599 Freudenstadt was founded by Duke Friedrich von Württemberg . His well-known and famous city architect Heinrich Schickhardt also extended the nave of the Johanneskirche in Grüntal.
During the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) there was also general hardship in this area.
Against repeated incursions by the French into the area, 22 men from Grüntal-Frutenhof have joined the duke of Württemberg's contingent. Therefore, in 1696/97 the ski jumps were built on the Schwarzwaldhochstraße , in which 14 men from Grüntal-Frutenhof also had to take part. In the French Revolutionary Wars , the barriers were overcome and the marching troops took quarters in Grüntal-Frutenhof on their way to Stuttgart . They looted 29 families and took away what was not nailed down.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, many families and individuals also emigrated from Grüntal to the USA , Poland and Belarus due to social hardship .
In the campaign of Napoleon to Russia in 1812 by the then "took the parish Grüntal" some more men. According to an entry in the church register, ten men died and eight died in hospitals. During Napoleon's Wars of Liberation 1813–1815, even Russian soldiers came to Grüntal. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, 18 soldiers and men had to take part.
In 1842 Gustav Werner was invited to give lectures in the Johanneskirche in Grüntal. This was also his first stop in the Black Forest. Gustav Werner, a Protestant vicar , founded his first brother house ( orphanage ) in Walddorf near Reutlingen in 1842 . In 1857 Gustav Werner's employees founded a branch in Frutenhof with 5 helpers and 18 pupils at the time.
After two years of construction, the Gäubahn Stuttgart – Freudenstadt was inaugurated on September 1, 1879 . The valleys over the Kübelbach, Stockerbach and Ettenbach had to be bridged with huge viaducts . The Grüntaler bridge over the Stockerbach alone is 279 m long and 50 m high. It is the tallest of these three bridges. Despite tough struggles between the communities of Grüntal and Wittlensweiler , a stop in Grüntal was only approved by the royal ministry in 1910, which was opened on July 1, 1911. This stop had to be closed in 1975 due to insufficient use. On April 17, 1945, the viaducts near Aach and Grüntal were senselessly blown up by German troops, just 5 hours before the French invaded. The two bridges were rebuilt in the post-war period , so that the Gäubahn Eutingen – Freudenstadt could be put back into operation on September 1, 1949. With the change to the summer timetable in 1976, the Grüntal stop was finally closed on May 29. The "Bahnhöfle" and the "Bahnwärterhäusle" were sold. The last stop at the Grüntaler "Bahnhöfle" was accompanied by a demonstration with a large participation of the population. The demonstrators drove to Freudenstadt Central Station and back again. When the timetable was changed on December 15, 2013, the new stop, now Grüntal / Wittlensweiler, was opened in Grüntal.
With the death of the night watchman Würfele in September 1923, the municipality let the senior office know that in view of a well-equipped fire brigade and a spring water supply with a hydrant connection, it would refrain from filling the night watchman post. In the years 1904/05 two springs were taken in the forest and a central water supply was set up. In 1911, the Graf electricity company in Frutenhof generated and supplied electricity for the Stockerbachtal with a 70 hp engine fed with petroleum . After the First World War , due to a lack of petroleum, the power supply was taken over by the overland plant in Glatten (coal, steam) and later by the energy supply company in Bettenhausen .
In the First World War (1914–1918) 22 men fell from Grüntal-Frutenhof, in the Second World War (1938–1945) 25 men died and 12 men were missing.
With the administrative reform of Baden-Württemberg in 1971, Grüntal (with the district Frutenhof) was incorporated into Freudenstadt and has been the district of Grüntal-Frutenhof of the major district town ever since .
Coat of arms of Grüntal
On March 20, 1957, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior awarded the community of Grüntal a coat of arms and the right to fly a flag in the colors “green-yellow”. The coat of arms shows a green wavy bar in gold, accompanied by two five-petalled gold-covered (= yellow) red roses, below by a red lily. The green wavy bars and the red flowers are supposed to indicate the place name, which is reminiscent of a meadow valley. The red roses are reminiscent of the Counts of Eberstein , who visited the place from 13th to 15th centuries. Century and had a red rose in the coat of arms.
The suggestion to purchase a coat of arms came from the district administration . She considered it sensible to decorate the district vocational school in Freudenstadt with the coat of arms of their association communities. The design was made by the painter Paul Kälberer from Glatt (now a district of Sulz a. N. ). In the years before, the community of Grüntal used the respective state coats of arms (Hirschhorn / Löwen) for their seals . When it was incorporated into Freudenstadt on January 1, 1972, the coat of arms lost its legal validity .
societies
- CVJM Grüntal-Tischtennis eV
- Diakonieverein Grüntal-Musbach-Hallwangen eV
- Evangelical parish Grüntal-Musbach
- Friends of Citizens' Meeting Grüntal-Frutenhof eV
- Freudenstadt volunteer fire department - Grüntal-Frutenhof department
- Motorradfreunde Grüntal eV
- Narrenzunft Stockerbachtal eV
- Schützengilde Grüntal-Frutenhof eV
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ' N , 8 ° 28' E