Rührberg (Grenzach-Wyhlen)

Rührberg Community Grenzach-Wyhlen Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 42 ′ 16 ″  E
Height :	494 m
Residents :	500
Postal code :	79639
Area code :	07624

Rührberg is a residential area and district of Grenzach-Wyhlen in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg with about 500 inhabitants. At the same time, the road on site forms a pass between Inzlingen and Grenzach-Wyhlen.

location

View of Rührberg from the west from the St. Chrischona TV tower

Rührberg is only about 1000 meters away from the Swiss border in the west (pilgrim mission St. Chrischona ) and the Swiss community of Bettingen . The place itself is located on the 478 m high Rührberg, which belongs to the Dinkelberg , about two kilometers north of the federal highway 34 . Degerfelden is three kilometers to the east, and it is around 2.5 kilometers to Herten in the southeast and Inzlingen in the north.

The Rührberg is also the penultimate place on the 13th stage from Degerfelden to Basel (variant B, eastern route), a section of the western route . The oldest of the three Black Forest high-altitude trails from Pforzheim to Basel was laid out in 1900 by Philipp Bussemer.

history

The Rührberg was first mentioned in a document from the Rheinfelden Monastery on July 12, 1294. A historical form of the name of the residential area is passed down in 1404 with ze Rurberg uff dem berg . The Middle High German word "ruor" = loosening up the earth or plowing is mentioned as one possible interpretation of the name . The meaning “Reute” or “ clearing ” could also be meant, so that it could be a clearing settlement. The "Hof Rührberg" was later divided into three parts, as three Meier have been recorded since at least 1734 .

The village was under the spell of Wyhlen. Pre-Germanic fortifications have been found on the Rührberg.

passport

→ Main article : List of passports in the Lörrach district

The connecting road, the district road 6332 , in north-south direction between Inzlingen and Wyhlen is also the pass road over the Rührberg. The Rührberg Pass has its culmination point at 505  m above sea level about 100 meters north of the entrance to the settlement area . NHN . On the edge of the forest, the pass has a small parking lot. The north ramp of Inzlingen overcomes 1.8 kilometers of 118 vertical meters in gently curved curves to the top of the pass. The average gradient is 6.5%. The southern ramp to Wyhlen is 2.5 kilometers and has a height difference of 227 meters, which corresponds to an average gradient of 9.1%. The maximum gradient is 12%. At the lower end of the pass road leads past the Himmelspforte Abbey .

On 24./25. In July 2010 the German endurance athlete Christoph Fuhrbach set a new altitude record on the Rührberg with his racing bike . For the benefit of a Misereor project in Peru , he drove an altitude difference of 180 meters on the Rührberg Pass from the former Himmelspforte monastery on the outskirts of Grenzach-Wyhlen up to the entrance to the hamlet of Rührberg and back (route length around 3600 meters) 117 times within 24 hours and completed 21,060 meters in altitude.

Worth seeing

• Hornfels Castle , a prehistoric fortification, can be found on the nearby Hornfelsen .
• Less than a kilometer west of the Rührberg is the 250 meter high TV tower St. Chrischona , the highest TV tower in Switzerland. However, it is not open to the public.
• South of the Rührberg in Wyhlen is the former Himmelspforte abbey from 1304, which is considered a place of pilgrimage.
• The Leuengraben nature reserve is located south of the Rührberg .
• On the Rührberg there is an internationally frequented holiday village with two self-catering houses, which is run by two Protestant communities.
• To the northeast of the hamlet of Rührberg, already in the municipality of Rheinfelden (Baden) , the Rührberg transmitter is located at around 518 meters above sea level .

literature

• Erhard Richter : 700 years of Rührberg , lecture at the anniversary celebration on September 24, 1994. Das Markgräflerland , 1995, issue 1, pp. 112–117. ( Digitized version )

Web links

• Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (LeoBW): Rührberg - archive material

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Misereor: A world record for MISEREOR. (PDF; 1.0 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 10, 2014 ; Retrieved October 22, 2012 . 
2. ^ The Rhine Palatinate , Ludwigshafen: Cycling world record: Fuhrbach sets a new record , July 26, 2010
3. ^ Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafen: The chills come at six o'clock , July 27, 2010