Gutach (Black Forest Railway)

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Ortenau district
Height :	294 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.74 km 2
Residents:	2294 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	72 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	77793
Primaries :	07833, 07831
License plate :	OG, BH , KEL, LR, WOL
Community key :	08 3 17 039
LOCODE :	DE GAH
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 38 ; 77793 Gutach (Black Forest Railway)
Website :	www.gutach-schwarzwald.de
Mayor :	Siegfried Eckert
Location of the community Gutach (Black Forest Railway) in the Ortenaukreis

Gutach (Black Forest Railway) is a municipality on the Baden Black Forest Railway on the Gutach River in the central Black Forest in the Ortenau district . The municipality bears the official addition Black Forest Railway to distinguish it from Gutach im Breisgau , which is located in the Breisgau a little further south in the district of Emmendingen . Together with the neighboring villages of Kirnbach and Reichenbach, Gutach is the home of the Bollenhut . This part of the local costume is now known worldwide as a symbol for the Black Forest.

geography

location

Gutach lies at an altitude of 259 m to 850 m . The district covers about 3200 hectares.

Community structure

The Gutach community (Black Forest Railway) includes the village of Gutach (Black Forest Railway), the Beim Mattenbauernhof settlement, the hamlet of Wannenbach, the Zinken Herrenbach, Linker Sulzbach, Ramsbach, Rechter Sulzbach, Riesenbach and Wonnenbach, the houses and farms Beim Löwen, Berntenhof, Bühlerstein, Ebersbach, Saumerhöfe and Wellerhof, the farms Blumbach, Bühl, Ob der Kirche and Singersbach and the residential areas Alte Straße, Am Felsen, Bahnhof, Buck, Eckle, Engengraben, Herrengarten, Hohweg, Hohwegschule, Hohwiel, Insel, Leimen, Mausloch, Neudorf, Pfaffenbach, Rebberg, Säge, Steingrün, Turm, Vor-Blumbach, Vor-Ebersbach, Frontsingersbach, Vorderesulzbach and the Steinenbach.

history

Sunday in Gutach 1905 by Wilhelm Hasemann

Expert in costume, 1898

Gutach belonged to Württemberg until 1810 .

In the border treaty between Württemberg and Baden , which was concluded in Paris on October 2, 1810, several “staffs” from the Hornberg Upper Office, such as Gutach, the towns of Hornberg and Schiltach and the Kirnbach community, came to the Grand Duchy of Baden .

There, the town belonged first to the district office Haslach and then fell in 1864 to the district office Wolfach , from 1939, the district Wolfach was.

When this was dissolved in 1973, Gutach came to the new Ortenaukreis .

Religions

A church has been mentioned in Gutach since 1275, which was built by the Lords of Hornberg .

The place has been predominantly evangelical since the introduction of the Reformation .

In addition, the Catholic community in Gutach has a separate church, namely the Church of St. Peter and Paul right next to the Gutach.

Peterskirche 1880
Peterskirche Gutach 2017
St. Peter and Paul 2017

The evangelical Peterskirche (pencil drawing by Wilhelm Hasemann) is shown on the left, next to it the gravestone of the Hasemann family in the cemetery behind the Peterskirche, on the right a photo of the Peterskirche (2017). On the far right is the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul (2017).

politics

mayor

2003 until today: Siegfried Eckert ( CDU ).

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gutach has 12 members. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019 % 30th 20th 10 0 28.4% 23.1% 28.1% 20.4% FW SPD FDP CDU Gains and losses compared to 2014 % p 8th 6th 4th 2 0 -2 -4 -3.8 % p -3.7 % p + 6.4 % p +1.0 % p FW SPD FDP CDU
FWV	Free electoral association	28.4	3	32.2	4th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	23.1	3	26.8	3
FDP	Free Democratic Party	28.1	3	21.7	3
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	20.4	3	19.4	2
total		100.0	12	100.0	12
voter turnout		68.7%		61.8%

Community partnerships

Gutach (Black Forest Railway) maintains a town partnership with the following cities :

Germany Mühlberg / Elbe , Brandenburg , Germany, since 1991
France Stosswihr , Alsace , France, since 2003

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

As the name suggests, Gutach is located on the Black Forest Railway between Triberg and Offenburg , Germany's oldest mountain railway. However, Gutach no longer has a train stop. The Gutach open-air museum stop at Vogtsbauernhof for the Ortenau S-Bahn has been in existence since the 2014 timetable change . Neighboring places on the railway are Hornberg and Hausach . The federal road 33 leads through the village .

education

In addition to the Hasemannschule, a primary school , there is a kindergarten in Gutach .

Culture and sights

Gutach is located on the Großer Hansjakobweg , a hiking trail that leads past many sights.

Museums

Vogtsbauernhof open-air museum

In Gutach there is the Vogtsbauernhof open-air museum with several old farms from the Black Forest and numerous historical outbuildings.

leisure

Another attraction for guests since August 2004 has been the park with all the senses with a 2.1 km long barefoot path . In July 2006 the new Gutach-Bob summer toboggan run opened .

War memorial

The local sculptor Curt Liebich created the war memorial for those who fell in the First World War .

Personalities

Hasemann tomb

Sons and daughters of the church

Richard Nutzinger (1896–1963), local writer, Alemannic dialect poet and Protestant pastor
Anton Joos (1900–1999), communist functionary and SED cadre

Other personalities who have worked in the community

Wilhelm Hasemann (1850–1913), painter; worked and died in Gutach
Gustav Adolf Müller (1866–1928), writer, journalist and archaeologist; spent the last years of his life in Gutach
Curt Liebich (1868–1937), sculptor, professor; Honorary citizen of Gutach
Max Ludwig (1873–1940), writer, painter and graphic artist; lived temporarily in Gutach

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Gutach (Black Forest Railway) - travel guide

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
^ Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality . VI: Freiburg administrative district. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 , p. 339-340 .
↑ Gränzvertrag between the Kingdom of Wurtemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden. Retrieved September 25, 2014 .
^ Vogtsbauernhof: open-air museum in Gutach now has its own train stop. badische-zeitung.de , archived from the original on October 8, 2017 ; accessed on December 15, 2014 .
↑ Park with all your senses
↑ Gutach toboggan run
↑ Dressler's Art Handbook , Volume 1, page 610

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BW-1] State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).

[2] Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality . VI: Freiburg administrative district. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 , p. 339-340 .

[3] Gränzvertrag between the Kingdom of Wurtemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden. Retrieved September 25, 2014 .

[4] Vogtsbauernhof: open-air museum in Gutach now has its own train stop. badische-zeitung.de , archived from the original on October 8, 2017 ; accessed on December 15, 2014 .

[5] Park with all your senses

[6] Gutach toboggan run

[7] Dressler's Art Handbook , Volume 1, page 610