Malsburg-Marzell

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '  N , 7 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Loerrach
Height :	755 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.92 km 2
Residents:	1499 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	79429
Area code :	07626
License plate :	LÖ
Community key :	08 3 36 104
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 79429 Malsburg-Marzell
Website :	www.malsburg-marzell.de
Mayor :	Mario Thomas Singer
Location of the municipality of Malsburg-Marzell in the district of Lörrach

Malsburg-Marzell is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

The twin community of Malsburg-Marzell is located in the rear Kandertal in the south-western Black Forest . The municipality extends over an altitude of 429 meters above sea ​​level up to the 1165 meter high Blauen (also Hochblauen ) and is more than 70% covered by forest. In the northeast, the municipality is connected to the Kleiner Wiesental via the Lipple pass .

In the municipality southeast of the Hochblauen is the probably highest castle site in Baden-Württemberg, Stockburg Castle .

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Badenweiler in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald , in the east on the community Kleines Wiesental , in the south on Steinen and in the west on the city of Kandern and Schliengen .

Community structure

The community of Malsburg-Marzell consists of the two former communities of Malsburg and Marzell. The former municipality of Malsburg includes the villages of Malsburg, Kaltenbach , Lütschenbach and Vogelbach , Käsacker and the district of Höfe. The village of Marzell and the settlements Friedrichsheim and Luisenheim belong to the former municipality of Marzell. In the area of ​​the former municipality of Malsburg are the villages of Edenbach, Lausbühl and Tantenmühle, which have been dissolved into courtyards, as well as the deserted Burgberg.

Vogelbach, seen from the ruins of Sausenburg

history

Marzell was first mentioned in a document in 1152, Malsburg in 1301. The oldest district, however, is Kaltenbach, which was mentioned in 1095 and was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Kaltenbach . Due to the reform of the municipality , the municipality of Malsburg-Marzell emerged on January 1, 1974 from the previously independent municipalities of Malsburg and Marzell.

politics

Town hall Malsburg-Marzell

Administrative community

Malsburg-Marzell forms an agreed administrative community with the city of Kandern .

Municipal council

The municipal council in Malsburg-Marzell has 10 members. It consists of the voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, the local council was elected by majority vote. Majority voting takes place if no or only one nomination has been submitted. The applicants with the highest number of votes are then elected. The turnout was 68.2% (2014: 58.2%).

mayor

Mayor of the community is Mario Thomas Singer. His predecessor Gerd Schweinlin, whose term of office ended on June 30, 2018, did not run for the new mayor in April 2018. On April 29, 2018, in the second ballot, Mario Thomas Singer was elected as the new mayor with 45.02% of the valid votes and a turnout of 63.8%, after he was third out of five with 20.5% of the valid votes in the first ballot Had been a candidate.

Culture and sights

Michaelskirche in Kaltenbach

The highest point is the Hochblauen, a 1165 meter high mountain with a lookout tower. The ruins of Sausenburg are located near the Vogelbach suburb .

Churches

In the district of Kaltenbach is the oldest church, the origin of which is in the 11th or 12th century, the Evangelical Michael Church . In Marzell there is also the Protestant Martinskirche , which was mentioned for the first time in the 13th century; the current structure was built in the second half of the 17th century. The Catholic Church of the Assumption dates from the 1950s, but stylistically adapts to the older buildings. The St. Nicholas Church from the 1770s is located in the western suburb of Vogelbach .

Youth room terminus Malsburg

In 1994 the young people built a small building outside of Malsburg at the municipal building yard with the active support of the local craftsmen. In the future, this building was to house the youth room. Several generations of young people have made the name of the facility known: “Jugendraum Endstation Malsburg”. Parties are regularly celebrated in the self-supporting youth room.

Economy and Infrastructure

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  Friedrichsheim settlement. Above in the background is a building of the Kandertal Rehabilitation Clinic

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  Main building of the rehabilitation clinic

A specialty in the rural community is the Kandertal Clinic, 1½ km north of Marzell above the Friedrichsheim am Berg settlement. Formerly a lung sanatorium, then a therapy clinic for addictions, today, in 2019, it is a family rehabilitation clinic for psychosomatic diseases.

Web links

Commons : Malsburg-Marzell  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Entry "Kaltenbach" on discover regional studies online - leo-bw
3. ^ Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume 6: Freiburg administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 , pp. 848-850.
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 521 .
5. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections at the State Statistical Office
6. ^ Badische Zeitung: Five candidates want to move into the town hall of Malsburg-Marzell - Malsburg-Marzell - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on July 2, 2018]).
7. ^ Malsburg-Marzell - Mario Thomas Singer new mayor , accessed on April 30, 2018
8. ↑ Marzell - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort - detail page. In: LEO BW. Accessed December 31, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Kandertal Rehabilitation Clinic | Psychosomatic rehabilitation | Rehabilitation for families. In: Clinic website. Accessed December 31, 2019 .