Rombach (Gernsbach)

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Rombach (also Rombachhof ) is a residential area in the municipality of Gernsbach in the Rastatt district , Baden-Württemberg , which belonged to Reichental before the municipal reform in 1975 .

The living space is in the valley of the Rohnbach , a tributary of the Great Enz , which is also known as the Rombach in the upper reaches . Rombach is one of the colonist settlements that emerged after 1730 in the area of ​​today's Enzklösterle municipality and where wood cutters, raftsmen , charcoal burners , smearers , Harzers and carters lived. Agricultural use of this remote part of the northern Black Forest was hardly possible due to the harsh climate, the high rainfall, the unfavorable topography with numerous boulders and the nutrient-poor red sandstone . When the border between Baden and Württemberg was established in 1807, Rombach came to Baden in contrast to the other settlements. At that time, four families lived on the left bank of the stream.

The forest around Rombach belonged to the Gernsbach city forest before 1835 and was then sold to a captain Fülling. Fülling sold his property in 1850 to his brother-in-law, Count Ludwig von Langenstein . Langenstein employed a forest ranger who lived in Rombach. In 1856 the Baden state acquired the forest and the ranger's house; the forest ranger was accepted into the civil service. In 1858 the state in Rombach bought the house and meadows of a second colonist who moved to Gernsbach the following year. In 1874, the approximately 750 hectare Rombach forest district was established as one of four districts of the Kaltenbronn state forest . In the 1905 census, seven people lived in a household in Rombach, which was a residential area in the separate district of Kaltenbronn.

In the final phase of the Second World War , on April 14, 1945, German troops shot at French units advancing from Kaltenbronn and the Hohloh region via Rombach towards Enzklösterle. The forester and his eldest son were captured by the French army. On April 25, 1945, ten family members and relatives of the forester were found murdered in the forester's house; only a seven-year-old boy survived. The background to the murders was never cleared up. In the present, a memorial stone commemorates the dead.

Rombach was used as a forester's house until the 1960s . The Rombach district forester was still in existence in 2007; its seat was in Enzklösterle. According to the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection from December 2011, the former forester's house is in a very poor structural condition; There were no connections to the public electricity, water, sewage or telephone networks. The building was partially used by the Landesforstbetrieb ForstBW as a material store and bad weather workplace . The television film The Policewoman Murderer from the crime series Tatort , which was broadcast in January 2010, was partly shot in the former forester's house. An employee of the SWR , who was looking for a lonely house in the Black Forest, was made aware of Rombach by a forester.

literature

  • Uli Blumenthal: The old forest houses in the Kaltenbronn area and the new Kaltenbronn information center. In: Kreis-Geschichtsverein Calw eV (Ed.): Once & Today. Historical yearbook for the district of Calw. ISSN  2197-523X , 22 (2012), pp. 52-56.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Intlekofer: History of Kaltenbronn. About high moor, forest and imperial hunt. (= Special publication of the Rastatt district archive , volume 9) Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-938047-53-8 , pp. 12, 16;
    Max Scheifele : Young woodcutter and raftsman settlements on the upper reaches of Enz and Nagold. In: Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte 55 (1996), ISSN  0044-3786 , pp. 215-231, here pp. 215, 219-221.
  2. ^ Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , pp. 14 f, 36 f, 40.
  3. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt (Ed.): Local directory based on the census of December 1, 1905 (= contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Baden , issue 63) CF Müllersche Hofbuchhandlung, Karlsruhe 1911, p. 146.
  4. ^ Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , pp. 36 f, 69–71.
  5. ^ Intlekofer, Geschichte des Kaltenbronn , p. 37;
    Blumenthal, Forsthäuser , p. 53.
  6. ^ Forest houses in the northern Black Forest. Small question from the Member of Parliament Bernd Murschel in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, November 15, 2011 (pdf, 41 kB).
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Krokauer: When the forester gives the corrupt investigator. In: Schwarzwälder Bote , issue C 2, January 16, 2010 (12/2010)

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '  N , 8 ° 26'  E