Stone saw

Hotel Steinasäge

Former Steinabad spa

Steinasäge is a small hamlet in the municipality of Bonndorf in the Black Forest , which lies on the Steina river, which gives it its name . The hamlet of Steinasäge consists of a former sawmill , a hotel and the former school camp and today's Steinabad guest house .

location

The Steinasäge lies in the bottom of the Steina on the L170, which crosses the Steina here. On the right side of the river, the L159 branches off, which leads along the Steina valley via Untermettingen , Detzeln to Tiengen . On the left side of the Steina, a narrow lane leads over the Walkenmühle, the hamlet of Ötiswald to Sommerau, again a small hamlet, which lies in a floodplain of the Steina Valley. All of these hamlets also belong to the town of Bonndorf .

history

Before the L170 was built, roads already crossed the Steina at this point. Coming from Bonndorf, this was a direct and therefore steep road, which is known today as the old Steinasäger Straße. In the direction of Rothaus , Grafenhausen and Seebrugg , the route continued in Kohlhalder Straße.

In addition to its regional importance for transport, there was a mill and a sawmill here because of the water power available. A small reservoir with a trap is still available today and is used as a fish pond . A mill on the Steina is documented from 1368 and a sawmill from 1589. From 1668 stone saws and the mill belonged to Bonndorf ecclesiastically and the Steinen Seege sawmill was owned by the Pauline monastery in Bonndorf in 1697 . With the acquisition of Bonndorf by the St. Blasien monastery , the stone saw came into its possession and was leased as a fief . In the 20th century, only the sawmill was operated, which was in the meantime owned by the Duttlinger / Gerdes family.

Arma-Christi-Kreuz in the stone saw

The sawmill owner Martin Duttlinger (1871–1956) donated a St. Martin's window in the St. Peter and Paul Church in Bonndorf in 1938 in memory of his son Martin (1909-1927) who drowned in the Rhine near Cologne .

The sawmill owned a fire engine with ladders and seating, which was also used in Bonndorf in spring 1945 to extinguish fires following a French fighter-bomber attack. After more than 400 years, the sawmill burned down completely in 1977 and was no longer rebuilt.

There is an  Arma-Christi cross next to the Hotel Waldgasthof Steinasäge . The cross was moved several times because of the road construction and was dismantled in the 1980s and stored in the stone bath. Beate Rösch, who came from Steinasäge, took on the cross and had it restored in 1989 for 20,000 DM (2020: approx. 18,000 EUR), with the State Monuments Office granting a grant of 8,000 DM (2020: approx. 7,000 EUR). Hans Jakob Wörner from the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office , Freiburg branch, estimated the age of the cross at 250 years, so that the creation of the cross should fall between 1730 and 1750. In 1990 the restored cross, which was provided with a copper roof as weather protection, was erected at its current location. In a ceremony on April 1, 1990, the then pastor Eugen Fleig blessed the cross.

Web links

Commons : Steinasäge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry at leo-bw.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustration of the window .
2. ↑ Ulrich Werner Schulze: Bonndorf: End of the war: April 1945 - when Bonndorf's parish priest showed the white flag , Badische Zeitung, April 24, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2016
3. ↑ Juliane Kühnemund: Sawmills in the Bonndorf area In: Badische Zeitung of April 6, 2005.
4. ↑ Homepage of the hotel
5. ↑ Friedbert Zapf, Meinrad Götz: It is not far to eternity ... The small monuments on the Bonndorfer and Wutach districts. Schwarzwaldverein Bonndorf, G. Braun Buchverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7650-8607-6 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '  N , 8 ° 19'  E