Guttenbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gütenbach (definition of terms ) .

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Schwarzwald-Baar district
Height :	826 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.49 km 2
Residents:	1137 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	61 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	78148
Area code :	07723
License plate :	VS
Community key :	08 3 26 020
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 10 78148 Gütenbach
Website :	www.guetenbach.de
Mayoress :	Lisa Hengstler
Location of the community of Gütenbach in the Schwarzwald-Baar district

Gütenbach town center with the Faller company and town hall

Gütenbach is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the Schwarzwald-Baar district .

geography

Geographical location

Aerial view

Gütenbach is located in the central Black Forest , about 7 km west of the city of Furtwangen in the Black Forest, near the Rhine-Danube watershed (Rhine side). The Teichbach flows through the village, formed by the Vordertalbach and the Hintertalbach, which flow together in the center of the village. After flowing through the pond gorge , the Teichbach flows into the Wilde Gutach at the so-called Pfaffmühle .

The municipal area extends over an altitude of 530 to 1120 meters and has a high relief energy . The Gütenbach settlement is a clustered village in an overall rural area that is characterized by a negative population balance.

The soils are mainly composed of less thick brown soils and tendrils that could develop on the Variscan basement, consisting of granites and gneisses. Accordingly, the settlement guidelines lie along notch valleys or invert valleys . More than 62% of the district area is forested, which results in a heavy podsolization of the soil.

Neighboring communities

The community borders the city of Furtwangen in the east, St. Märgen in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in the south and Simonswald in the Emmendingen district in the west and north .

Community structure

The municipality of Gütenbach includes the village of Gütenbach, the hamlet of Scherensäge, the Zinken Breiteck, Hintertal, Hübschental, Im Grund, Ladstatt, Langengrund, Teich and Vogtsgrund, houses and farms in Oberkilpachtal and Oberlehmannsgrund, the farms at Eckhöfe, Ettenberg, Gschwendhöfe, Heiligenhof, Leimgrubenhof, Obergrundhof, Scherenhof, Untergrundhof and Unterlehmannsgrund and the residential areas Gaisberg, Gaisdobel, Ganterhäusle, Gutenhof, Neueck, Neueckhöhe, Sattelhof and Unterkilpachtal.

history

Until 1806

Gütenbach was first mentioned as Wuotenbach in 1360 and was thus founded in the high medieval clearing period. Between the 15th and 16th centuries, the name changed to Wüttembach . At the beginning of the 17th century the village came under the rule of Triberg , which belonged to Upper Austria . In 1806 Gütenbach became part of Württemberg , but joined the newly created Grand Duchy of Baden in the same year .

Population development

• 0June 6, 1961: 000001506 people
• May 27, 1970: 00000.1,754 people
• December 31, 1991: 1532 people
• December 31, 1995: 1465 people
• December 31, 2004: 1328 people
• December 31, 2005: 1,322 people
• December 31, 2006: 1296 people
• December 31, 2007: 1260 people
• December 31, 2008: 1243 people
• December 31, 2010: 1193 people
• December 31, 2011: 1178 people
• December 31, 2012: 1180 people
• December 31, 2013: 1174 people
• December 31, 2014: 1167 people
• December 31, 2015: 1170 people

Religions

Catholic Church of St. Katharina, in the background on the left the Old Catholic Church

Ev. church

Catholic Church

Gütenbach is a traditionally Catholic community. The parish church, built 1963–65 according to plans by Lothar Schmitt, is consecrated to Saint Catherine . Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling made the 5 bells . In 1972 the organ was installed by the Johannes Klais company . The Way of the Cross was painted by Josef Wagenbrenner from Rastatt . The parish has been part of the " Upper Bregtal Pastoral Care Unit" since 2007 . The church was a 2018 cultural monument under monument protection provided and served in 1965 as a model for the model kit B-235 ( "Modern Church") of the local Faller .

Protestant church

The Protestant parish of Gütenbach was the smallest parish of the Evangelical Church in Baden . Pastoral care is provided by the parish of Furtwangen. The community was merged with the communities in Furtwangen and Vöhrenbach on July 1, 2013. The worship and community life will continue as before the merger.

Old Catholic Church

Together with Neukirch and Furtwangen, Gütenbach belonged to a center of the old Catholic movement after 1870. Today, Gütenbach is still an independent parish, but is looked after by the old Catholic parish of Furtwangen.

politics

Administrative community

The community belongs to an agreed administrative community with the city of Furtwangen.

Municipal council

The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result. The turnout was 67.3% (2014: 64.2%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. He is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	2014 result
CDU / Free Voters	52.1%	4th	64.4%, 5 seats
We in Gütenbach	47.9%	4th	35.6%, 3 seats

mayor

Rolf Breisacher has been mayor since January 2010.

In December 2017 Lisa Wolber was elected as the new mayor.

coat of arms

The official description of the coat of arms reads: "In silver a broken black wheel with sharp points". It was proposed by the then General State Archives in 1899 and accepted by the local council. The wheel is the symbol of the patroness of the parish church in Gütenbach, St. Catherine of Alexandria .

Culture and sights

Old school house with the village and clock museum

The place is located on the German Clock Route and the Black Forest Crossing Black Forest – Kaiserstuhl – Rhine , both of which lead past many sights.

theatre

In 1994 the hanh-art art project with cabaret , gallery and studios settled in the vacated rooms of the Hanhart watch factory .

Museums

In the small village museum in the former school there are many exhibits on the history of Gütenbach, especially very beautiful antique clocks. A new exhibition set up in 2011 by the model maker, Gebrüder Faller, in the town center shows a multitude of miniature worlds.

music

Gütenbach has a music club and an accordion playing ring.

Regular events

An important role of the carnival . In Gütenbach the jester figures Jockele and Platte-Wiebli exist mainly in the Gütenbach jester society.

Pilgrimage beech

The Balzer Herrgott ⊙ in the south of the Gütenbach district is a stone figure of Christ grown into a willow beech . It stands between the Hexenlochmühle and the hamlet Wildgutach in the forest east above the upper Wilden Gutach .

Economy and Infrastructure

Watch factory Hanhart with art project hanh-art

Catholic Church of St. Catherine with elementary school and kindergarten

In the past, like in many Black Forest villages, clocks were made on the farms in winter. A modest watch industry was later established in Gütenbach. Today, the watch industry is represented by the watch manufacturer Hanhart at the entrance to Simonswald, and toy manufacturers and special machine manufacturers have also settled here.

traffic

Gütenbach is on Landstrasse 173 and there are connections with lines 7270 and 7272 of Südbadenbus GmbH via Simonswald to Waldkirch and Furtwangen to Triberg . The public transport is the transport association Schwarzwald-Baar guaranteed. Since 2011, Gütenbach has also been an RVF tariff point with the regional map of Freiburg i. Br. Reachable from.

Established businesses

The largest employer in town is Rena , a provider of process technology for wet chemical applications. The place is also home to the model building company Faller . The Hanhart company, as one of the last watch factories in the former watchmaking region, also primarily produces stopwatches and exclusive pilot's watches here . From the heyday in the 17th century, only this company is left of the local watch industry.

education

There is a primary school in Gütenbach . Secondary schools are located in Furtwangen . There is a Roman Catholic kindergarten for the youngest residents .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• 1787 , July 13 , Alois Schertzinger , † February 12, 1864 in Sarata, clockmaker
• 1800 , April 6 , Philipp Furtwängler , † June 5, 1867 in Elze, organ builder
• 1809 , November 10th , Wilhelm Furtwängler (classical philologist) , grandfather of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
• 1937 , May 2 , Manfred Hermann , † October 22, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau, art historian and pastor,

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 VI: Freiburg region Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . P. 573
3. ↑ Church leader of the Catholic parish church St. Katharina in Gütenbach / Black Forest , specialist publisher for church photography EK SERVICE Porth GmbH, Saarbrücken, 2000
4. ↑ Ruth Lehnen: The successful model. In: KirchenZeitung , issue 35/2018 of September 2, 2018
5. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office
6. ↑ http://www.suedkurier.de/region/schwarzwald-baar-heuberg/guetenbach/Rolf-Breisacher-neuer-Buergermeister;art372519,4115538
7. ↑ https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.guetenbach-lisa-wolber-ist-neue-buergermeisterin.25bb1a53-ab55-44f6-91c0-5fdfa030ec70.html
8. ↑ hanh-art. Retrieved December 12, 2014 . 

Web links

Commons : Gütenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Gütenbach  - Travel Guide

• Official website of the municipality