Staufen im Breisgau

Müllheim station (273 m)
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: [1]

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Breisgau-Upper Black Forest
Height :	284 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.26 km 2
Residents:	8209 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	353 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	79219
Area code :	07633
License plate :	FR
Community key :	08 3 15 108
LOCODE :	DE SBR
City structure:	3 districts
; City administration address :	Hauptstrasse 53 ; 79219 Staufen im Breisgau
Website :	www.staufen.de
Mayor :	Michael Benitz
Location of the city of Staufen im Breisgau in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district

Staufen im Breisgau is located in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg , Germany. The city has around 7,800 inhabitants and, together with the municipality of Münstertal, forms a municipal administration association and, with the city of Bad Krozingen, forms a medium-sized center south of Freiburg .

geography

Aerial view of Staufen

Geographical location

Staufen is located at the foot of the Black Forest at the exit of the Münstertal . The valley of the Neumagen merges directly into the Rhine plain , the foothills of the Black Forest is less pronounced. To the north of the valley exit, the steeply rising Schlossberg dominates, while the hilly landscape of the Markgräflerland begins to the southwest . Staufen is therefore on the border of two natural and economic areas; on the one hand the Rhine plain or the foothills zone with the cultivation of grain , wine and fruit , on the other hand the Black Forest, which was characterized by livestock farming and forestry and in earlier times by mining . The area of the city of Staufen extends from 260 m above sea level. NN in the north up to 810 m above sea level. NN in the southeast. The city itself is traversed by the Neumagen.

geology

The city lies on the Black Forest Fault as a tectonic border between crystalline basement , which is glacial overformed, and the Upper Rhine Rift . The mountain ranges rising to the Black Forest ridge consist primarily of gneiss with enclosed porphyries , the valley level of gravel areas deposited by Neumagen . The Schlossberg, which is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a volcanic cone because of its shape, is part of the foothills zone and consists mainly of Great Dane clods and tertiary conglomerate ; Red sandstone , dogger, lias , accumulated loess and keuper still occur in the foothills .

City structure

St. Gotthardhof

Staufen im Breisgau, with the formerly independent communities of Grunern and Wettelbrunn, includes Staufen im Breisgau and 17 other villages, hamlets , farms and houses. The former municipality of Grunern includes the village of Grunern, the hamlets of Etzenbach and Kropbach, which are on the border with the municipality of Münstertal, and the farms of Hohacker, Sahlenbach, Schleifsteinhof and Schöneck. The town of Staufen im Breisgau within the boundaries of 1970 includes the town of Staufen im Breisgau, chapel and house St.-Johannes-Kapelle (stations mountain), the courtyards Gutleuthaus, Rothof, St. Gotthardhof and the residential areas An dem Hollnau-Buck, Burg- Café, sawmill and Wasenhaus. The village of Wettelbrunn belongs to the former municipality of Wettelbrunn. The towns of Am Strenzleweg and Bötzen were merged in Staufen in Breisgau in 1969, while the lost town of Burdeltzhusen is in the Staufen im Breisgau district.

Neighboring communities

Staufen im Breisgau borders the municipalities of Ehrenkirchen , Münstertal / Black Forest , Sulzburg , Ballrechte-Dottingen , Heitersheim and Bad Krozingen .

climate

Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for the Müllheim station (273 m)

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	6.2	7.7	12.3	16.8	20.4	25.3	27.6	27.0	22.2	16.2	10.5	8.0	O	16.7
Min. Temperature (° C)	-0.8	-0.7	1.2	3.8	8.0	12.6	13.8	13.3	9.2	5.8	2.5	0.3	O	5.8
Temperature (° C)	2.7	3.3	6.7	10.4	14.2	19.0	21.3	20.0	15.4	10.7	6.5	4.1	O	11.2

Precipitation ( mm )	61	46	40	71	96	105	88	86	49	54	54	42	Σ	792

Rainy days ( d )	17th	14th	14th	14th	16	13	11	12	10	12	13	14th	Σ	160

Source: [2]

history

Prehistory to the early Middle Ages

Only a few finds prove a prehistoric inspection or settlement: some flint artefacts date to the Middle and Neolithic , for the Bronze Age a settlement of the Urnfield culture is assumed due to terrain features and ceramic fragments , this also applies to an Iron Age settlement of the Hallstatt culture .

Settlements that have been archaeologically proven do not begin until the Roman Empire . Using modern archaeological methods such as aerial archeology and geophysical prospecting , a building complex between Staufen, Grunern and Kropbach, referred to as villa rustica , is well documented, even if not completely recorded. There are other Roman finds in the area of the medieval town or on the Schlossberg, but their extent and exact time remain unclear due to the medieval overbuilding.

Alemannic finds on the Schlossberg date back to the time of the Great Migration , such as a sax (a one-sided sword); Grave fields above Wettelbrunn are dated to the Merovingian period.

Staufen is documented for the first time in the Lorsch Codex with the donation of goods in pago Brisgowe , in villa Staufen (village of Staufen im Breisgau) to the Lorsch monastery on April 16, 770 . Further donations are documented for the years 772 and 773; it is also because of the Saint-Martin - Patroziniums the later town church from a larger settlement to a Frankish assumed manor.

High Middle Ages

The importance of mining is documented very early on : In 1028, Emperor Konrad II granted mining rights near Kropbach to the Bishop of Basel . Traces of mining on silver and lead can be found in the Kropbachtal south of the hamlet.

The further history of the place is closely connected with the Lords of Staufen . These were not related to the high aristocratic family of the Hohenstaufen and had the rule of Staufen continuously for almost 500 years as a fief ( there is no evidence for a partially accepted allodial property ). The continuity of rule over half a millennium is also remarkable because the Lords of Staufen usually divided the inheritance among the members of the family.

View of the Staufen castle ruins

For the year 1111 an Adelbert von Staufen is mentioned for the first time in the Rotulus Sanpetrinus , the list of donations of the St. Peter monastery , who transfers property in the neighboring town of Ballrechte to the monastery. The same source attests to the Lords of Staufen as ministerials to the Dukes of Zähringen , as does a document from the Cluny Abbey from 1115. Adalbert may already have owned a castle in or near Staufen; It is questionable whether it was about Staufen Castle, which is still visible today . However, it is believed that they were created during the 12th century.

The Lords of Staufen come from a branch line of those from Blankenberg, who probably had their seat on a small mountain near Opfingen and owned property in the Dreisamtal . As with their relatives, the Lords of Weiler and the Lords of Falkenstein , they are probably old nobility who entered the ministry with the advance of the Zähringers, and thus not originally unfree servants of the Zähringers. A special position of the Lords of Staufen among the Zähringers is evidenced by the assumption of the court office of the marshal .

It is questionable who enfeoffed the Lords of Staufen with their main sources of income, the Bailiwick of the St. Trudpert Monastery and the Bergregal in the Münstertal, alongside Staufen themselves . They are first recorded as bailiffs in 1211, but due to the foundation of a silver lecture cross from 1175 with the pictures of the donors Anna and Gottfried von Staufen, older rights can be postulated. Due to the ministerial relationship with the Zähringers, a Zähringer fief was assumed for a long time, although there are no written sources for it.

Possible one by the in appears Kaiserstuhl -based Lords of Üsenberg preserved after fief of the Bishopric of Basel . Along with other fiefs, this is documented for the suburb of Grunern; Furthermore, the first mention of Staufen Castle in 1248 refers to the presence of two Üsenbergers who conclude a contract with the Tennenbach Monastery at the castle .

This is countered by the fact that the von Staufen witnesses, like the other witnesses, are to be assigned to the retinue of the Zähringer heirs as witnesses to the contract. The choice of Staufen Castle as the notarial location at least proves that the position of the Lords of Staufen was characterized by relationships with various rulers.

Interestingly, neither the Üsenberg nor the Zähringer or their heirs are mentioned in connection with the rights of the Lords of Staufen in the Münstertal (the sources are, however, poor due to later forgeries by the St. Trudpert monastery, the neighboring Möhlintal near Ortisei like the valley of the Neumagen are excluded at least in independent contracts on the rights of the Zähringer heirs).

Since later disputes with the monastery about mining rights in the Münstertal were carried out before the Bishop of Strasbourg , an enfeoffment by their legal predecessor, the Count of Nimburg , who died out at the beginning of the 13th century , appears possible. Duke Berthold V. von Zähringen recognized the upper bailiwick of the Strasbourg bishops, at least for the Möhlintal in 1214. Ultimately, the high medieval history of Staufen and the formation of rule by the Lords of Staufen remain unresolved.

Late Middle Ages

After the Zähringer dukes died out in 1218, their heirs in the Breisgau, the Counts of Urach (who later called themselves " Counts of Freiburg " due to the loss of the eponymous seat ), tried to claim suzerainty over Staufen, but this was done by the Lords of Staufen for Staufen itself, but not for other fiefdoms. Furthermore, the Lords of Staufen seem to have held the office of marshal under the Counts of Freiburg, in a treaty of the counts from 1239 they were referred to as their ministerials, but called themselves nobilis in a treaty with the Bishop of Basel in 1258 vir .

In the same year, a coinage agreement between Marshal Gottfried von Staufen and the city of Freiburg to protect the Breisgauer Pfennig is dated . Possibly it was less an expression of the unity of the parties involved, but rather the harbinger of the later open conflict. The development of Staufen into a town was closely related to these disputes. Staufen was still referred to as a villa in 1269 , the church is occupied as an independent parish in 1275 .

A first feud between the Lords of Staufen and the city of Freiburg is reported from the years 1280/81. An original feud with Freiburg from 1306 ended with a defeat for the Lords of Staufen, who had to make an atonement from the city of Freiburg for ten years as a result of the war from 1309. In 1313 an unspecified epidemic broke out in Breisgau, which also struck Staufen. As a result, there was a famine in 1315-1317; Between 1321 and 1325 members of the von Staufen family even had to pledge their shares in Staufen Castle.

Staufen itself is referred to as a city for the first time in 1323 in a document from the Heiligen-Geist-Spital in Freiburg (there is no evidence for the often mentioned founding date of 1280). Possibly there was no actual founding act, but rather a steady growth from a market place to a city surrounded by a city wall due to the conflicts .

In the cityscape, next to the complex around the church and the adjoining small-scale village center, a formerly wide market street can be seen. The foundation of Staufen as a market for and to control the older, later abandoned, pure mining town of Münster in the Münstertal seems likely. It is possible that the Lords of Staufen also wanted to expand their economic influence on the mining districts in the Möhlintal to the north and the mining town of Sulzburg in the south , whose former market was located far in the Rhine valley due to the narrow valley.

In 1325/26 the Lords of Staufen were engaged in a guerrilla war with Freiburg over mining in the Münstertal and allegedly withstood a siege . The conflict was settled to the detriment of the Lords of Staufen in April 1326, possibly due to the acquisition of pledged shares in Staufen Castle by the city of Freiburg in 1327 at the latest.

In 1350 the Black Death was also rampant in Staufen; Destruction by the Basel earthquake of 1356 is also reported. In 1369 the income of the city of Staufen was pledged to Freiburg merchants; In 1370 the barons of Staufen had to accept the suzerainty of the Counts of Freiburg.

However, the Lords of Staufen approached the Habsburgs , who had been strengthened in Breisgau since 1368 ; Gottfried and Hans-Ullrich von Staufen were among those killed in the Battle of Sempach in 1386. Furthermore, the barons' conflicts with the St. Trudpert monastery and the city of Freiburg have calmed down since all those involved had committed themselves to the Habsburgs.

As a result, the city of Staufen became part of Upper Austria ; From the 15th century onwards, the barons held various Habsburg office posts in Upper Austria. At this stage, there was possibly an extension of the city (the city is following the then still wide market street a shift in the axis of the road with a focus on the castle apparent that at that time a new Palas received with representative front facing the town) ; Furthermore, the town church of St. Martin was built in its current form in 1487.

Modern times

View through the main street to the north to the castle

Cracks in a building near the town hall (2009)

Town hall of Staufen

Early modern age

In 1602 the von Staufen family died out with the death of the last baron. Castle, town and all fiefdoms fell to Austria . Swedish troops occupied the city during the Thirty Years War and burned the castle down in 1632. Staufen was then temporarily pledged to the Lords of Schauenburg and in 1738 came to the St. Blasien monastery in the Black Forest .

19th century

In 1806 Staufen came with the Breisgau to the Grand Duchy of Baden . On September 24, 1848, regular troops during the Baden Revolution near Staufen placed the Baden irregulars under Gustav Struve and defeated them in the battle for Staufen , which ended the Struve Putsch .

20th century

Individual teachers on site had a decisive influence on the establishment of National Socialism .

Towards the end of the Second World War , on February 8, 1945, Staufen was the victim of an Allied air raid . He wreaked havoc and left the city center in ruins. Contemporary witnesses report that at the time of the attack, many German troops that had been withdrawn from France were stationed in Staufen. It is said that French pilots flying British planes wanted to destroy the railway bridge as it was important for the withdrawal of German troops.

The city has had its name affix in Breisgau since March 4, 1965. On July 1, 1971, Wettelbrunn was incorporated. On January 1, 1973, Staufen, which was the seat of the Baden district of Staufen until 1936 and then belonged to the district of Müllheim (from 1939 district of Müllheim ), became part of the newly formed district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. The incorporation of Grunern took place on January 1, 1974.

Uplift cracks

Geothermal boreholes for heating the renovated town hall led to the uplifting of the old town from 2007, which by October 2010 had cracked 268 houses, 127 of which were particularly badly damaged. By September 2012, the uplift could be reduced from one centimeter to three millimeters per month. In 2020, the country reckoned that groundwater would have to be pumped out permanently in order to avoid damage to buildings.

politics

Municipal council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Parties and constituencies		%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats
Parties and constituencies		2019		2014		2009		Local elections 2019 Turnout: 68.3% (2014: 59.0%) % 40 30th 20th 10 0 31.9% 22.0% 31.0% 15.1% FWG CDU Green SPD Gains and losses compared to 2014 % p 10 8th 6th 4th 2 0 -2 -4 -6 -8th -1.7 % p -6.9 % p + 9.6 % p.p. -1.0 % p FWG CDU Green SPD
FWG	Free community of voters	31.9	7th	33.6	8th	37.4	8th
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	22.0	5	28.9	7th	29.4	7th
GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens ^*	31.0	7th	21.4	5	18.6	4th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	15.1	3	16.1	4th	14.6	3
total		100	22nd	100	24	100	22nd
voter turnout		68.3%		59.0%		60.7%

^* until 2009: Staufen environmental list, 2014: Staufen environmental list / The Greens

coat of arms

Blazon : "Three golden goblets in red, covered with the same paten (2: 1), accompanied by five golden six-pointed stars."

The coat of arms of the city of Staufen is based on the coat of arms of the Barons von Staufen , which had three golden goblets covered with paten (2: 1) in red.

The coats of arms refer to the dominant position of the Schlossberg above the Rhine plain and go back to the double meaning of the Germanic noun stauf , which can stand for both mug and cone-shaped mountain and which gave the settlement its name in Alemannic times.

Town twinning

Staufen maintains the following city partnerships

Kazimierz Dolny ( Poland )
Bonneville ( France )

In autumn 2018, a letter of intent to develop a friendship was signed with the Argentine city of Dolores (Province of Buenos Aires) .

Administration union

Staufen is a member of the cross- border local association Mittelhardt-Oberrhein , which promotes cross-border communal cooperation between municipalities in Alsace and Baden on the basis of the Karlsruhe Convention .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Etzenbach railway stop

Staufen is located on the Münstertalbahn , which runs from Bad Krozingen to Münstertal / Black Forest and has been electrified since 2013. The place is thus connected to the Rhine Valley Railway from Karlsruhe to Basel . The Münstertalbahn is a branch line operated by SWEG . Local transport can be used according to the tariff of the Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg . There used to be a branch of the railway from Staufen to Sulzburg .

Established businesses

OWIS GmbH, a manufacturer of optical beam guidance, positioning and nano-positioning systems. According to its own information, the company had around 50 employees in 2007.
IKA , Jahnke & Kunkel GmbH & Co. KG, a leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment, analysis devices and process engineering machines and systems, with branches around the world, has had an average of over 300 employees at the Staufen site in recent years.
Alfred Schladerer, Alte Schwarzwälder Hausbrennerei GmbH , one of the leading suppliers of branded fruit brandies.
Stadtwerke MüllheimStaufen GmbH, energy supply for the cities of Müllheim and Staufen.
Bilcare Research GmbH, manufacturer of rigid PVC films.
Obstparadies Staufen, organic farm that produces fruit and beverages containing fruit, winner in the national organic farming competition 2019.

dishes

The city is the seat of the district court of Staufen im Breisgau .

media

The Badische Zeitung and the weekly ReblandKurier report on local events in Staufen im Breisgau .

Leisure and sports facilities

The Alemannenbad is a solar-heated outdoor pool with a large sunbathing area and listed buildings.

recreation

Supraregional: historical beggar path from Merzhausen (south of Freiburg ) to Badenweiler

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Martin

Evangelical Martin Luther Church

former Capuchin monastery

Churches and chapels

Parish church St. Martin , Kirchstrasse 17. Late Gothic , three- aisled basilica consecrated in 1518 . Two sculptures of a mourning Johannes and a plaintive Maria are attributed to Hans Multscher . The statue of the city's patroness St. Anna, a Pietà and a crucifix made of pine wood are partially attributed to Hans Sixt von Staufen from the construction period . After the Thirty Years' War the church was redesigned in Baroque style . A Madonna by Johann Isaak Freitag and the paintings St. Josef and St. Anna by Simon Göser have been preserved . The neo-Gothic design from 1870/79 was removed in 1956 and partially restored in 1993.

Evangelical Martin Luther Church , Münstertäler Straße 1. In the still undeveloped “suburb” in 1899 for the then diaspora community with almost 200 members, church with Gothic style elements.

St. Sebastian cemetery chapel, Wettelbrunner Str. 17. As a replacement for the cemetery near St. Martin, which was abandoned at the end of the 16th century, a cemetery was laid outside the city walls. The oldest gravestone is from 1597. The late Gothic cemetery chapel was consecrated in 1600. After severe damage in the Thirty Years' War, it was repaired in 1652 and decorated with rich wall paintings, which were renovated in 1826, but were signed. After a renovation in 1936, the dilapidated building was extensively renovated from 1983 to 2014.

Magdalenenkapelle , Krozinger Strasse 1 a. Erected in 1586 as a leper house chapel and rebuilt in its current form after a fire in 1738. 1827 Sale and conversion into a wash house and distillery. Since 1996 property of the Arbeitskreis Staufener Stadtbild eV , which celebrated the re-inauguration three years later after the renovation.

Gotthard Chapel, Bötzenstraße 67. First mentioned in 1352 as a branch church in Krozingen “ad sanctum Gothardum”. Initially used as a leper chapel, it became a hermitage after the Johannes chapel was built . The baroque altar from the Magdalenenkapelle has been located here since 1896, and in the meantime was housed in the Sebastian chapel.

Johanneskapelle , on the Dürenbuck, St.-Johannes-Kapelle 1. Erected in 1685 by the hermit Johannes Willi after he had to leave the St. Gotthard chapel. Since 2003 the property of the Arbeitskreis Staufener Stadtbild eV , which two years later completed fundamental renovation work. The chapel was named Monument of the Month November 2004 by the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg .

Gefallenenkapelle St. Josef, Bötzenstraße 39. Baroque devotional chapel built around 1760 by the court farmer Schlegel. After it had not served its purpose for decades, it fell into disrepair after the Second World War because its roof tiles were used for reconstruction after the bombing of Staufen. Finally, the Catholic parish bought the property with the chapel and consecrated it on June 22, 1952 as a Christian, non-martial memorial for the victims of both world wars. In the simple chapel there is still a panel painting of St. Joseph from around 1760; the other baroque furnishings, a round relief of the Holy Trinity and a carved bust of God the Father, have been transferred to the parish church of St. Martin.

Parish Church of St. Agatha, Grunern

Grunern:

Parish church St. Agatha , Grunern, Dorfstraße 1. First mentioned in 1144. In the substructure of the tower there are still parts from the Middle Ages. The simple, now neo-Gothic church itself was built in 1726. The pulpit is said to come from the abandoned Capuchin monastery in Staufen. On the north wall of the choir is a painting by Simon Göser from the former baroque high altar.
Grunern cemetery chapel, Altenbergstrasse. Built in 1869 on the occasion of the relocation of the cemetery from the parish church.
Hofkapelle Schneider in Grunern-Kropbach, Kropbach 4. Built in 1881 as thanks for the recovery of the former farm owner. The chapel is maintained by the court owner.

Wettelbrunn:

Parish church St. Vitus , Wettelbrunn, St. Vitus-Straße 1. The nave of the church was rebuilt in 1733 after a fire. The late medieval choir was included. On the south side there is a Romanesque tower with a baroque extension.

theatre

Auerbach's cellar theater (Auf dem Rempart 7) is known beyond the region . The private theater founded in 1987 by Eberhard Busch (“I want to do intelligent and not intellectual theater”) has been located in an old vaulted cellar, a former schnapps store of the Schladerer company, under the former Goethe Institute, and offers space for 99 visitors.

Museums

Ceramic Museum

Town Hall Square

The city museum is housed in the historic town hall. The main topics are: the medieval city, silver mining, Hans Sixt von Staufen , the story of Dr. Johann Georg Faust and the Baden Revolution of 1848.

The permanent literary exhibition Peter Huchel - Erhart Kästner is set up by the German Literature Archive in Marbach in the parlor.

The Staufen Ceramic Museum is a branch of the Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe . In addition to the original pottery workshop in the house with clay pit, disk, glaze mill and listed wood kilns, there are temporary exhibitions with contemporary ceramics, which can also be purchased.

The Tango and Bandoneon Museum was opened in July 2014 in a room in the Kapuzinerhof. It presents the well-known Konrad and Axel Steinhart collection (Kirchzarten) with 450 bandoneons and numerous exhibits on the topic.

The technical monument "Fark'sche Werkstatt" in Bahnhofstrasse, a mechanical engineering and locksmith's workshop from the early days of mechanical engineering, is only open on request.

Buildings

Neumagen Bridge

Most of the buildings in the old town of Staufen are recorded as simple or normal cultural monuments according to § 2 DSchG . In addition to individual cultural monuments of particular importance in accordance with Section 12 of the DSchG in the monument book , the entire “Historic City Center of Staufen” as a “picture of the old town” is under monument protection according to Section 19 of the DSchG.
The ruins of Staufen Castle rising above the Rhine plain are visible from afar. The castle can be visited and is brightly lit at night. The ruin is now owned by the city of Staufen.
The cast iron bridge over the Neumagen, also popularly known as the Decker Bridge, as the café of the same name sets up tables and chairs on this bridge. This bridge is a listed building and is the last remaining cast-iron road bridge in Germany.

Regular events

Annafest

The Annafest (city patronage festival) takes place on the last Sunday in July. The celebration of the Eucharist is in the market square with a subsequent procession. Then there is a folk festival until Monday evening.

Music week

Every year from the end of July to the beginning of August, the music week is held, to which visitors and musicians travel from large parts of Germany. The focus of the concerts is on classical music from the Middle Ages to Viennese classical music . Part of the program is also a final concert developed during the multi-stage course week . The music festival was founded in 1949 by Ernst Duis and the then mayor Eckart Ulmann.

Markgräfler Wine Festival

The Markgräfler Weinfest takes place on the first weekend in August. In the arcades, winegrowers' cooperatives and wineries from the entire Markgräflerland wine-growing area host . On the occasion of the festival, the Markgräfler wine princess is also chosen.

Staufen time travel

Since 2003, the time travel on the third weekend of September has offered the opportunity to go back to the city's past in a great spectacle. The whole city becomes an open-air stage on which over 800 participants present scenes from the city's history.

Culture week

This series of events in October has an annually changing basic theme, on which lectures, demonstrations, concerts and other events take place.

Altstaufen Christmas market

On the first Saturday in December, the Christmas market takes place all over the old town .

Personalities

Inscription at the Löwen inn in Staufen

sons and daughters of the town

Walter Barth (1911–1945), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime

Franz Xaver Bernauer (1768–1831), organ builder

Hans Joachim Faller (1915–2006), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1971 to 1983

Ignaz von Gleichenstein (1778–1828), lawyer and close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven

Elmar Gutmann (* 1952), musician, actor, voice actor

Johann Baptist Haas (1732–1791), engraver

Hans Hildebrandt (1878–1957), art historian

Johann Baptist Metzger (1771–1844), engraver and art dealer in Florence; brought important works by Italian painters to the Munich Pinakothek

Thaddäus Rinderle (1748–1824), mathematics professor and clock maker

Michael Sattler (around 1490–1527), Benedictine prior and later Anabaptist leader and martyr (see also Michael Sattler Peace Prize )

Wolfgang Schäfer (* 1945), choirmaster

Hans Sixt von Staufen , carver and stone mason, active around 1515–1532 in Staufen and Freiburg. Works: Locherer altar in the Freiburg Minster , rulers at the Freiburg department store

Kurt Wehrle (1905–1976), administrative lawyer, NS police chief, SS standard leader and district administrator of the Emmendingen district from 1953 to 1970

Heidi Wiesler (* 1960), ski racer

Associated with Staufen

Johann Georg Faust (around 1480 – around 1541), faith healer, alchemist, magician, astrologer and fortune teller

Staufen adorns itself with the name Fauststadt. The indebted lord of the castle Anton von Staufen is said to have employed the legendary alchemist , astrologer and black artist , who is described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the tragedy Faust , as a gold maker. Faust is said to have died in an explosion in a room in the Löwen inn (on the market square) in 1539 , probably during an alchemical experiment. This is reported by an inscription on the facade of the inn:

In 1539 Doctor Faustus is in Leuen in Staufen

such a wonderful nigromanta [black artist] been,

died miserable and the legend goes

the supreme devil, Mephistopheles,

which he only owned during his lifetime

Called brother-in-law, got him after the

Pact of 24 years expired that

Neck broken off and his arms

Soul surrendered to eternal damnation

Bacchus by Kurt Lehmann with castle

Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), poet of Alemannic poems and Protestant theologian, dedicated a stanza of his poem to The Black Forest in Breisgau :

Z'Staufen on a market

henn si what belongs to me:

Dance and Wii un Lustberkait,

what delights aim numme's heart,

z'Staufen uf em market!

(In Staufen on the market there is what you want: dance, wine and merrymaking, whatever delights the heart.)

Thommie Bayer (* 1953), German writer, musician and painter, lives in Staufen
Blasius Bernauer (1740–1818), organ builder
Hoimar von Ditfurth (1921–1989), professor of psychiatry and neurology, freelance science journalist, lived in Staufen for the last few years before his death
Yannic Han Biao Federer (* 1986), writer, grew up in Staufen
Leif Geiges (1915–1990), photographer and reporter, lived in Staufen
Ingeborg Hecht (1921–2011), writer and contemporary witness, lived in Staufen from 1943–1948, where she is also buried
Hellmut Holthaus (1909–1966), magazine editor and writer, died in Staufen
Peter Huchel (1903–1981), German poet (poetry), lived in Staufen for the last ten years of his life
Erhart Kästner (1904–1974), German writer and librarian, lived in Staufen from 1968 until his death, where he is also buried
Dominik Kalata SJ (1925–2018), Slovak clergyman and bishop, lived in the Grunern district since 1976
Kurt Lehmann (1905–2000), German sculptor, lived in Staufen from 1970 to 1998, where several of his works can be seen in public spaces
Ralf Obergfell (* 1971), photographer, grew up in Staufen (1971–1988)
Alois Schnorr (1896–1962), banker, politician, mayor of Staufen 1945/46
Jörg Weigand (* 1940), writer, lives in Staufen

literature

Joseph Bader : Die Burg und Stadt Staufen , Schau-ins-Land , 7th year, 1880, p. 7–30 ( digitized from Freiburg University Library ) and 8th year, 1881, p. 37–60 ( digitized from Freiburg University Library ) .

Web links

Commons : Staufen im Breisgau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Staufen im Breisgau - travel guide

Wikisource: Staufen in the Topographia Alsatiae (M. Merian) - Sources and full texts

Official website of the city
Staufen im Breisgau at alemannische-seiten.de
Staufen im Breisgau at leo-bw.de

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: District Freiburg Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 164-167.
^ Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2701, April 16, 770 - Reg. 478. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 209 , accessed on April 28, 2018 .
^ Lorscher Codex: Staufen , Archivum Laureshamense - digital, Heidelberg University Library.
↑ Kropbachtal ( memento of November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), rub-kleinander.de, accessed on October 10, 2010.
↑ Rudolf Hugard: The sale of Kameralherrschaften Staufen and Kirchhofen of St. Blaise. In: Schau-ins-Land , 14th year (1887), pp. 30–32 ( digitized version from Freiburg University Library ).
↑ Rainer Ruther: From 1933 the climate changed ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung , February 12, 2015.
↑ Staufen: No all-clear in Fauststadt: Risse in Staufen: Pumping, repairing and hoping ( memento of October 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, October 15, 2010, accessed on March 5, 2013.
↑ Alexander Huber: Staufen: Interim balance: Risse drama lasts 5 years - but Staufen looks ahead ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 22, 2012, accessed on March 5, 2013.
↑ dpa: Staufen has to continuously pump out water to protect buildings . Badische Zeitung, March 9, 2020, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
↑ Preliminary result of the municipal council elections 2019. City of Staufen im Breisgau. Statistical State Office of Baden-Württemberg , 2019, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Staufen / town twinning. staufen.de, accessed on June 26, 2020 .
^ Rainer Ruther: About the Tango for Friendship , Badische Zeitung, December 2, 2017.
^ The cross-border local special purpose association Mittelhardt-Oberrhein , gemeinde-eschbach.de.
^ Hermann Brommer : Catholic parish church St. Martin Staufen i. Br. , Lindenberg 2001.
↑ Friedrich Wittig: Texts and images on the history of the Evangelical Church in Staufen - Münstertal in: Staufener Weihnachtsblatt 1987.
↑ Jörg Martin: On the history of the St. Sebastian Chapel , in: Festschrift for the inauguration of the renovated St. Sebastian Chapel, Staufen im Breisgau , Staufen 2015 ( digitalisat at staufen.de ).
↑ Board with the inscription: St. Sebastianus Chapel / built in the plague year 1597 / renovated in the anniversary year 136 / last renovation 1983–2014.
↑ St. Josefskapelle Staufen , program sheet for the inauguration 1952.
^ Hermann Brommer: Grunern, Catholic Parish Church St. Agatha , Regensburg 1994.
↑ Ute Wehrle: Staufen: Anniversary: Auerbach's Cellar Theater: How it all began 25 years ago ( memento from December 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, April 7, 2012, accessed on April 15, 2017.
^ Lore Wüst: 25 years of Auerbach's cellar theater , Staufen o. J. (2012).
^ Permanent literary exhibition "Peter Huchel and Erhart Kästner in Staufen" in the parlor on the market square. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
^ Museum> Branch Museums> Staufen Ceramic Museum - Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
^ Staufen Ceramics Museum near Freiburg in the Black Forest. freiburg-schwarzwald.de, accessed on April 15, 2017 .
^ Dancing, Tango and Bandoneon Museum Freiburg. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
^ Working group Staufener Stadtbild e. V. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
↑ Wolfgang Kaiser et al .: City of Staufen, Münstertal / Black Forest , Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg Volume III.1.1, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1708-4 .
↑ Gerd Schwartz: The cast iron bridge over the Neumagen. Published by City of Staufen, Staufen 2014.
↑ Dorothee Philipp: Unique and uncomfortable ( Memento from October 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 10, 2013, accessed on September 14, 2014.
^ A foundation made of boulders ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), section Open Monument Day, Badische Zeitung, September 12, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014.
↑ Manfred Burkert: A very special transition ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 16, 2014, accessed on September 16, 2014.
↑ Stefan Zahler: Time travel: The Staufen city stories offer history under the open sky ( Memento from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 16, 2016, accessed on September 18, 2016.
↑ Staufener Zeitreise - Greetings from the district administrator , stadtgeschichten-staufen.de, accessed on September 30, 2019.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BW-1] State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).

[2] The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: District Freiburg Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 164-167.

[3] Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2701, April 16, 770 - Reg. 478. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 209 , accessed on April 28, 2018 .

[4] Lorscher Codex: Staufen , Archivum Laureshamense - digital, Heidelberg University Library.

[5] Kropbachtal ( memento of November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), rub-kleinander.de, accessed on October 10, 2010.

[6] Rudolf Hugard: The sale of Kameralherrschaften Staufen and Kirchhofen of St. Blaise. In: Schau-ins-Land , 14th year (1887), pp. 30–32 ( digitized version from Freiburg University Library ).

[7] Rainer Ruther: From 1933 the climate changed ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung , February 12, 2015.

[8] Staufen: No all-clear in Fauststadt: Risse in Staufen: Pumping, repairing and hoping ( memento of October 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, October 15, 2010, accessed on March 5, 2013.

[huber-9] Alexander Huber: Staufen: Interim balance: Risse drama lasts 5 years - but Staufen looks ahead ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 22, 2012, accessed on March 5, 2013.

[10] : Staufen has to continuously pump out water to protect buildings . Badische Zeitung, March 9, 2020, accessed on March 9, 2020 .

[11] Preliminary result of the municipal council elections 2019. City of Staufen im Breisgau. Statistical State Office of Baden-Württemberg , 2019, accessed on June 26, 2019 .

[partnerschaft-12] Staufen / town twinning. staufen.de, accessed on June 26, 2020 .

[13] Rainer Ruther: About the Tango for Friendship , Badische Zeitung, December 2, 2017.

[14] The cross-border local special purpose association Mittelhardt-Oberrhein , gemeinde-eschbach.de.

[15] Hermann Brommer : Catholic parish church St. Martin Staufen i. Br. , Lindenberg 2001.

[16] Friedrich Wittig: Texts and images on the history of the Evangelical Church in Staufen - Münstertal in: Staufener Weihnachtsblatt 1987.

[17] Jörg Martin: On the history of the St. Sebastian Chapel , in: Festschrift for the inauguration of the renovated St. Sebastian Chapel, Staufen im Breisgau , Staufen 2015 ( digitalisat at staufen.de ).

[18] Board with the inscription: St. Sebastianus Chapel / built in the plague year 1597 / renovated in the anniversary year 136 / last renovation 1983–2014.

[19] St. Josefskapelle Staufen , program sheet for the inauguration 1952.

[20] Hermann Brommer: Grunern, Catholic Parish Church St. Agatha , Regensburg 1994.

[21] Ute Wehrle: Staufen: Anniversary: Auerbach's Cellar Theater: How it all began 25 years ago ( memento from December 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, April 7, 2012, accessed on April 15, 2017.

[22] Lore Wüst: 25 years of Auerbach's cellar theater , Staufen o. J. (2012).

[23] Permanent literary exhibition "Peter Huchel and Erhart Kästner in Staufen" in the parlor on the market square. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .

[24] Museum> Branch Museums> Staufen Ceramic Museum - Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .

[25] Staufen Ceramics Museum near Freiburg in the Black Forest. freiburg-schwarzwald.de, accessed on April 15, 2017 .

[26] Dancing, Tango and Bandoneon Museum Freiburg. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .

[27] Working group Staufener Stadtbild e. V. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .

[28] Wolfgang Kaiser et al .: City of Staufen, Münstertal / Black Forest , Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg Volume III.1.1, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1708-4 .

[29] Gerd Schwartz: The cast iron bridge over the Neumagen. Published by City of Staufen, Staufen 2014.

[30] Dorothee Philipp: Unique and uncomfortable ( Memento from October 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 10, 2013, accessed on September 14, 2014.

[31] A foundation made of boulders ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), section Open Monument Day, Badische Zeitung, September 12, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014.

[32] Manfred Burkert: A very special transition ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 16, 2014, accessed on September 16, 2014.

[33] Stefan Zahler: Time travel: The Staufen city stories offer history under the open sky ( Memento from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, September 16, 2016, accessed on September 18, 2016.

[34] Staufener Zeitreise - Greetings from the district administrator , stadtgeschichten-staufen.de, accessed on September 30, 2019.