Kaltenbronn (Gernsbach)
Kaltenbronn is a group of houses and district of the district Reichental the town Gernsbach in Baden-Wuerttemberg . The hamlet-like place in the northern Black Forest with a hotel, forester's house and former Baden hunting lodge is located at around 860 m above sea level. NN , between Murg and Enztal , a little below the Schwarzmisspass (933 m) and the summit of the Hohlohmassiv (988 m), over which the north-eastern Black Forest main ridge runs. The district is very large and extends from the Rombachtal in the south near Enzklösterle to the Eyachtal in the north.
Kaltenbronn is located in the largest contiguous forest area in Baden-Württemberg, which extends to the west and east of the Murg Valley. The district is the only one of the Baden - Eberstein districts around Gernsbach that is not in the Murgtal, but to the east of it in the catchment area of the Enz. From the village of Kaltenbronn down the valley there are only old Württemberg villages (the first is Sprollenhaus ).
Kaltenbronn is crossed by the state road 76 B, which connects the valleys of Murg and Enz as a pass road and can be reached by public bus lines from both Gernsbach and Bad Wildbad . The mean annual temperature is 6 ° C. The annual rainfall is 1,600 mm; on average there are 75 days a year with a blanket of snow.
leisure
Kaltenbronn is an excursion and local recreation center in the Black Forest Central / North Nature Park . On December 1, 2007, the Kaltenbronn information center opened as a visitor center and nature park portal for the communities of Gernsbach , Bad Wildbad and Enzklösterle .
Kaltenbronn is the starting point for hikes in the nature reserves of the high moors Wildseemoor and Hohlohmiss ( nature and forest reserve Kaltenbronn ) as well as a popular winter sports area with ski lifts, toboggan slopes and an extensive network of trails . The long-distance hiking trails Westweg and Mittelweg run through Kaltenbronn. Another attraction is a game reserve. The entire area is looked after on a voluntary basis by the Black Forest Mountain Rescue Service , Pforzheim local group.
In the vicinity of the village, on the summit plateau of the Hohloh, there is an observation tower that was built in 1897 and later increased . The tower is called the Hohlohturm or Kaiser Wilhelm Tower and is located just below the highest point at 984 m.
history
Originally, the Kaltenbronn area was not oriented towards the Murgtal. The part to the south of the Hohloh was developed from Simmersfeld and Altensteig, the northern part from Wildbad. However, the Kaltenbronn district already appeared in the High Middle Ages as part of the Rotenfels dominion in the Murg Valley . From 1387 to 1676 this was jointly owned ( condominium ) of the margraviate of Baden (from 1536 Baden-Baden line ) and the county of Eberstein , after which it was completely owned by the Baden-Baden line, which in 1771 with the Baden-Durlach line again was reunited to form the margraviate of Baden. Until 1872, Kaltenbronn was part of the Gernsbach office in Baden, since then it has been in the office or district of Rastatt .
The wide and lonely forest area is the core area of the red deer population in the northern Black Forest and has therefore been a popular hunting area for the high nobility for centuries. In 1894, 1895, 1897 and 1899 Kaiser Wilhelm II came to Kaltenbronn to hunt capercaillie . From 1954 the area was the representative state hunt of the state of Baden-Württemberg. This was administered by the Kaltenbronn Forestry Office , whose directors included Chief Forester Walter Frevert (from 1953 to 1962). The traditional forestry office was dissolved in 1998 as part of a forest management reform of the state government under Prime Minister Erwin Teufel . A hunting lodge in Baden was built in 1740 instead of a wood grouse hut . The spa hotel emerged from this hunting lodge. In 1869/70 a new hunting lodge (hunting lodge) was built under Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden, which today also belongs to the hotel business.
literature
- Hubert Intlekofer: History of the Kaltenbronn. About high moor, forest and imperial hunt. Special publication of the Rastatt district archive, vol. 9. Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-938047-53-8 .
- Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality . Volume V, Stuttgart 1976, pp. 167-171.
- Ludwig Schülli: The state forest Kaltenbronn. An example of the development of forestry in the forests of the northern Black Forest over the past 200 years . Series of publications by the State Forest Administration of Baden-Württemberg, Volume 8.Maly, Karlsruhe 1959.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedbert Zapf: 1340-2015 - Reichental - stories of a village in transition. Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2015, p. 154.
Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ' N , 8 ° 26' E