Untermatt
Unterstmatt is a group of houses on the Schwarzwaldhochstraße ( B 500 ) in the area of the city of Bühl ( Rastatt district ) and the municipality of Sasbach ( Ortenaukreis ).
Unterstmatt is located in the wooded northern Black Forest at an altitude of 928.4 m above sea level. NHN . Here, the district road 3765 - coming from the direction of Bühl or Bühlertal - joins the Schwarzwaldhochstraße. There are four ski lifts with the associated slopes. There is one drag lift at the Hochkopf , two directly at the Hotel Unterstmatt and one at the Ochsenstall. About three kilometers to the south is the highest mountain in the northern Black Forest, the Hornisgrinde .
origin of the name
The name Unterstmatt is derived from a mat (mountain meadow) on which the cattle "undert" ( ahd. Untorn , untarn for noon), d. H. the grazing cattle rested here at noon.
development
In 1905, the Unterstmatt Kurhaus was built on the Sasbacher district. Until 1922, only a roughly gravel road led from Lichtental via Bühlerhöhe and Sand to Hundseck . From Hundseck to Unterstmatt there was the "Mannheimer Weg", a footpath or hiking trail that was set up by the Mannheim section of the Black Forest Association in 1897 and is part of the Westweg . In a southerly direction, a partly very narrow and poorly graveled logging path or driveway continued to the Mummelsee and the Ruhestein .
With the construction of the Black Forest High Road, Unterstmatt became accessible for the postal service (omnibuses) and for motor vehicles (cars, trucks). In 1930 the section from Hundseck to Unterstmatt was completed, in 1932 the road to Mummelsee and in 1934 to Ruhestein. The road was intended for year-round operation and surface tarred.
In the Badnerland travel guide from 1935, Unterstmatt is referred to as a climatic health resort . Even the Baedeker speaks of a spa house with 40 beds in 1956 . Soon afterwards the house was called Höhenhotel Unterstmatt .
In the 1950s and 1960s, more intensive winter sports began on the slopes above Unterstmatt. In 1959/60 there was the Ochsenstall ski slope with a lift; In 1965 a second ski slope with a lift was built. This also increased the number of mountain accidents and the mountain rescue service needed new premises: first, after negotiations with the municipality of Sasbachwalden, the Ochsenstall rescue station was built, and in 1971 the joint rescue station of the Black Forest mountain rescue service and the Bühl Red Cross was built.
Tourism today
Today, Unterstmatt is a ski circus with floodlights, restaurants and après-ski temples in winter, and snow-making systems operate from around November to March. According to the operator, there were 116 lift days in the very favorable winter of 2005/06. In summer, Unterstmatt lives off tourism on the Black Forest High Road and is the starting point for hikes, for example to the Hornisgrinde ( 1163 m above sea level , about an hour). The public transport connections are the Baden-Baden - Bühlerhöhe - Hundseck - Unterstmatt - Mummelsee and Achern - Sasbachwalden - Unterstmatt - Mummelsee bus routes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b http://www.eichwaelder.de/Altes/altespost289.htm
- ↑ http://www.eichwaelder.de/Altes/altespost361.htm
- ↑ a b Chronology of the construction of the Black Forest High Road (compiled by Ernst Kafka)
- ↑ Baedeker: Black Forest . Fourth edition, Malente, 1956
- ↑ Höhenhotel Unterstmatt
- ^ Chronicle of the local mountain rescue group Karlsruhe
- ^ Newspaper clipping - Badisches Tagblatt on November 17, 2006
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 44 ″ N , 8 ° 12 ′ 25 ″ E