St. Märgen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ' N , 8 ° 6' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Freiburg | |
| County : | Breisgau-Upper Black Forest | |
| Height : | 895 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 33.32 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 1861 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 56 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 79274 | |
| Area code : | 07669 | |
| License plate : | FR | |
| Community key : | 08 3 15 094 | |
| Community structure: | 2 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Rathausplatz 6 79274 St. Märgen |
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| Mayor : | Manfred Kreutz | |
| Location of the municipality of St. Märgen in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district | ||
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St. Märgen is a municipality in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Around 1800 inhabitants live in the climatic health resort and pilgrimage site in the Black Forest .
geography
Geographical location
St. Märgen is located in the southern Black Forest around 18 km (as the crow flies ) east of Freiburg im Breisgau . The extensive municipal area extends largely on a plateau from the Thurner Pass in the south to the eastern foothills of the Kandel in the north and lies between 570 and 1132 m above sea level. NN . In the west and east, some deeply cut valleys delimit the area. The source areas of the Wagensteigbach and its tributary Ibenbach are located near St. Märgen.
Neighboring communities
St. Märgen borders in the north-west on St. Peter , in the north on Simonswald in the district of Emmendingen , in the east on Gütenbach and Furtwangen in the Schwarzwald-Baar district , in the south-east on Titisee-Neustadt , in the south on Breitnau and in the west on Buchenbach .
Community structure
Around half of the population lives in the closed town. The remaining inhabitants are widely spread across 85 small settlements, groups of farms and individual farms that cover almost the entire municipality. The hamlets Glashütte , Thurner and Schweighöfe, commonly referred to as districts, are particularly worth mentioning.
The abandoned village of Bernhaupten is located in the municipality .
history
The history of the place is closely linked to the history of the St. Märgen Monastery . From 1115 to 1118 was Count Bruno of Haigerloch - Wiesneck Chancellor of Henry V and Strasbourg Cathedral Provost , the canons Augustinian -Stift Maria cell in the Black Forest as a rival to the nearby Zähringen Abbey of Saint Peter in the Black Forest built. In the 1460s, due to continued difficulties, the monks moved to the All Saints Monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Freiburg im Breisgau . After its resignation, the monastery was revived and from 1716 a baroque two-tower monastery church and new convent buildings were built. A Silbermann organ came into the church. In 1806 the monastery was finally dissolved in the course of secularization; the organ was preserved, but only until the church fire in 1911 caused by lightning.
After the end of the First World War, tourism gained its first importance in this place, whose main occupation before that was agriculture.
The Glashütte district, which formerly formed the Hinterstrass community together with Wildgutach , was incorporated into the municipality in 1936.
In 1973 St. Märgen was recognized as a climatic health resort , which was confirmed in 1993 and 2000. The place now has around 100,000 overnight stays per year, for which around 1,000 beds are available.
In 2017 the community published an illustrated book as the starting signal for the 900th birthday in 2018.
politics
Municipal council
The parish council in St. Märgen has 10 members. 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 municipal council consists of the voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The turnout was 71.3% (2014: 64.8%).
mayor
- 1977–1993: Manfred Holzmann ( CDU )
- 1993–2013: Josef Waldvogel (CDU)
- since 2013: Manfred Kreutz (independent)
In the mayoral election on February 24, 2013 Manfred Kreutz was elected as the new mayor with 79.0% of the vote.
Administrative community
St. Margen heard how the communities Glottertal and St. Peter the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband of St. Peter is based in St. Petersburg.
coat of arms
The municipal coat of arms shows a stylized representation of the monastery church in red on white (silver) - an expression of the importance the monastery had for the place.
Partner communities
Culture and sights
The place is on the German Clock Road .
St. Märgen Monastery Museum
The monastery museum is located in the former rooms of the monastery and shows topics of local and regional importance. These include watch manufacture and the watch trade, emigration, reverse glass painting, the monastery sculptor Matthias Faller and religious folk art of the past centuries.
Buildings
The dominant building is the stylized church of St. Märgen, shown in the municipal coat of arms . It and the Ohmen Chapel on a mountain spur, 1 km away from the town center, are pilgrimage destinations for Roman Catholic believers.
Another building that stands out in the townscape is the Golden Crown . This building was built in 1757/58 under Abbot Petrus Glunk as a monastery hostel. From 1771 it was inhabited by Matthias Faller, who also had his sculptor's workshop there. After secularization, the building was used as an inn and in 1902 it was expanded into a grand hotel in the style of the time. In order to prevent the impending decline towards the end of the 20th century, a citizens' initiative was founded in 2003 to save the building. Apartments were built in and a café was set up on the ground floor next to the former ballroom of the Grand Hotel, which is run by the rural women of the community.
The Rankmühle near the village was built around 700 meters from Rankhof in the middle of the 18th century. It is located on the country path used by walkers and offers a view towards the village.
The Endriß Gallery won the "Exemplary Building" award: "A modern new building in the immediate vicinity of the historic monastery."
Pfisterwald Nature Adventure Park
In Pfisterwald east of the town center one's leisure center has been decorated with forest playground , adventure playground , beach volleyball face, artificial turf - tennis courts , riding arena , soccer fields , naturhaftem swimming pond , lighted jogging trail , lighted toboggan run in old sunken road , cross-country skiing - trails (near the famous Thurnerspur ), mountain biking - Round course (supervised by the Rothaus-Cube team ), hiking trails including a forest nature trail on fauna and flora , a large fairground and the Black Forest Hall , an event hall in the building tradition of old Black Forest farms . The Black Forest Hall has served the St. Märgen Theater, a cooperation between rural youth and traditional costume dance group, as a performance location since 2013. Even before this cooperation there had been an amateur drama group in St. Märgen for over 20 years, which occasionally appeared in the Golden Crown.
Silver fir hall
In a similar construction to the Black Forest Hall, the municipality of St. Märgen built the “White Fir Hall” in 2005 with multifunctional use, which was made from local silver fir wood. With the construction of the silver fir hall, the landscape and environmentally friendly tourism offers such as horse riding, cross-country skiing, mountain biking, fitness and running training, Nordic walking, beach volleyball are also offered in a weather-independent variant. The club houses of SV St. Märgen and RSV St. Märgen, including the Rothaus Cube MTB team and a restaurant, are integrated into the hall.
Sports
St. Märgen is the seat of the cross-country skiing club Thurnerspur , which maintains the "cross-country skiing center for everyone" of the same name.
The internationally successful mountain bike team Rothaus-Cube is based in St. Märgen. A professional permanent mountain bike track serves the team as a home, training and racing track for Bundesliga races. The route is part of the Freiburg Olympic base .
The resident sports club St. Märgen eV (short: SV St. Märgen) offers not only football but also children's gymnastics as a sport. The first active team plays in the district league B III of the South Baden Football Association, the reserve team in the district league C. The youth teams are from the C youth in cooperation with the neighboring club SV St. Peter as a game community "SG St. Märgen / St.Peter" structured.
Regular events
The most important regular event is the "Day of the Black Forest Horse" - popularly known as the "Rossfest". The breeders' meeting, which has become a folk festival, organized by the Black Forest Horse Breeding Association eV , presents the most beautiful Black Forest foxes and old craftsmanship. The festival takes place every three years on the second weekend in September, most recently in 2019. In 2006, an annual performance show for the Black Forest draft horse breed was started .
In the center of the village, the larger-than-life bronze horse sculpture "Great Horse" refers to the tradition of horse breeding in St. Märgen. There are three casts of this work by the Münstertal sculptor Franz Gutmann . One of them was acquired by the municipality of Münstertal around 2014 after the loan agreement had expired. Although there is no longer a contract with the artist in St. Märgen either, the horse remains in place for the time being.
Economy and Infrastructure
Economic life has three pillars: tourism, agriculture and handicrafts.
traffic
St. Märgen is connected to the road network from three directions. The state road 127 connects the town via St. Peter with Freiburg im Breisgau , the L 128 leads from Himmelreich-Buchenbach ( Bundesstraße 31 ) through the town to the B 500 , which passes the district around 6 km away from the town center. The B 31 on the way to Freiburg is about 15 km.
It is around 28 km to the Rheintalautobahn Bundesautobahn 5 Basel – Karlsruhe, to the east to the A 81 Stuttgart – Singen it is around 40 km.
The next train stations on the Höllentalbahn are Himmelreich and Hinterzarten (each around 15 km), the next ICE train station is Freiburg Central Station .
The nearest airports are Stuttgart (160 km), Basel-Mulhouse Airport (100 km) and Zurich (110 km)
Personalities
- Matthias Faller (1707–1791), baroque / rococo sculptor, lived mainly in St. Märgen and also created his main works here.
- Lorenz Frey , a carpenter, is said to have built one of the first Black Forest clocks based on the Bohemian model in the middle of the 18th century
- Hermann Dischler (1866–1935), painter, painted in the spring of 1903 with Karl Biese and Wilhelm Nagel on the Thurner, just as he spent the entire winter of 1904 there with Nagel in the vicinity
- Gustav Traub (1885–1955), German graphic artist and landscape painter, moved into a studio in the municipality in 1941 after he had spent a vacation in St. Märgen the previous year, where he died in 1955.
- Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), professor of philosophy, spent many semester breaks between 1920 and 1937 to relax and work in St. Märgen.
- Karl Biese (1863–1926), landscape painter and lithographer, moved to St. Märgen in 1907 and lived in the Hättichhaus on Wagensteigstrasse
- Karl Hauptmann (1880–1947), painter, regularly spent several weeks in the Krone and the Hirschen hotels in the 1940s, painting the surroundings
- Ruth Schaumann (1899–1975), poet and artist, lived with her family from 1943 to 1946 in St. Märgen.
- Ulrich Kottenrodt (1906–1984), sculptor, lived in St. Märgen from 1971.
- Roland Peter Litzenburger (1917–1987), graphic artist, painter and sculptor, lived in the former house of Biese
- Peter Dreher (1932–2020), painter, partly lived in St. Märgen and there created his work "Tag um Tag Gute Tag"
- Fabian Rießle (* 1990), athlete, Nordic combined; Olympic medalist, team world champion
- Adelheid Morath (* 1984) athlete, MTB Cross Country, two-time Olympic participant
literature
- Kerstin Bütow, Siegfried Rombach: Sankt Märgen. a search for traces: ten encounters . DesignConcepts GmbH publishing house, St. Märgen 2004, ISBN 3-9807059-3-5 .
Web links
- Sankt-Maergen.de - Official homepage of the municipality
- St. Märgen between St. Peter and Thurner
- Monastery Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ St. Märgen: Greetings from the mayor
- ^ Freiburg administrative district . In: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality . tape IV . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 , p. 157-160 .
- ↑ a b c History of St. Märgen. sankt-maergen.de, accessed on November 12, 2016 .
- ^ Heinrich Fehrenbach: St. Märgen: 900 years of home on 480 pages. Badische Zeitung, December 5, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.badische-zeitung.de/st-maergen/manfred-kreutz-ist-neuer-buergermeister-von-st-maergen--69431390.html
- ↑ n.v., Sankt Märgen. A search for clues | Ten encounters . St. Märgen, 2004. ISBN 3-9807059-3-5
- ↑ Rankmühle: Rankmühle. hochschwarzwald.de, accessed on November 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Entry in akbw.de
- ↑ Website Theater St. Märgen
- ↑ Joachim Frommherz: St. Märgen: Steadfast Horse: NO. Badische Zeitung, February 15, 2014, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Full text / preview in Google Book Search
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- ↑ Ruth Hötzel-Dickel: Hermann Dischler. Modo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-86833-049-6 , p. 60
- ↑ a b Alexandra Wehrle: St. Märgen: Gladly politically engaged. Badische Zeitung, January 26, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Ruth Hötzel-Dickel, Horst Dieter Meier (ed.): Karl Hauptmann 1880–1947. the Black Forest painter: on the 60th anniversary of the artist's death , modo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 3-937014-81-0 , p. 150
