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Buchenbach municipality
former Wagensteig coat of arms
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 4 "  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 46"  E
Height : 513 m
Residents : 639
Incorporation : 1st August 1973
Postal code : 79256
Area code : 07661
Image from Wagensteig

Wagensteig is a formerly independent municipality, which became part of the municipality of Buchenbach in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district through incorporation on August 1, 1973 , and consists of two hamlet-like settlements and individual farms. The name of the valley goes back to a single farm. It later went over to the state road L 128 leading through the village , which connects the Buchenbacher district of Himmelreich with St. Märgen , and to the Wagensteigbach , which leads through the Wagensteig valley and thus also through the village.

history

Yard and settlement

The place was first mentioned in 1125 as Waginstat , which is said to be a personal name. That year, Bishop Ulrich von Konstanz settled a dispute between the Gallus Church in Zarten and the St. Märgen Monastery and determined that the tithe should belong to the monastery as far as Waginstat .

The monastery had established two offices in the valley of the Wagensteigbach, which was called Freudenbach (Frôdenbach) around 1270 . While one office extended from Schweinbrunnen to “Hof zu Waginstat” (today's butcher's farm ), the other ran from there down to the Diezenbach. The farm at the confluence of the Herrenbach in the Wagensteigbach separated the two parts of Freudenbach and served as the Meierhof of the Schweigbrunnen Office.

In 1463 which changed basic rule when the city of Freiburg, the advocacy of the monastery of St. Margen and the two "valleys", Schweinbrunnen and Wagensteig acquired. After Zarten and Kirchzarten had also become Friborg by 1496 , the area was administered by the Freiburg valley governor in the valley governor named after him in Kirchzarten. Since the Meierhof belonged to the monastery Selgut , it was a Freihof , i. H. it was free of interest and tax and was not subject to the monastic bailiff.

During the Thirty Years' War the farmers of Wagensteig and the surrounding area had the order to prevent the passage of soldiers. In 1637 the peasants killed 32 men and an officer of the Piccolomini cuirassiers when they tried to break through. This led to a fine of 1040 Reichstalers, which the farmers had to pay, in which the rule of Sickingen and the Abbey of St. Peter also participated.

Due to a lack of staff, the Wagensteig department of the volunteer fire brigade was dissolved in 2013 and merged with Buchenbach.

In the 2014 Buchenbach municipal elections , the independent electoral community won two seats in the municipal council. Since she had shown only one candidate on her list, she received only one seat. The second seat she was entitled to remained vacant, although Wagensteig was entitled to an incorrect sub-location with three seats according to the main statute of the Buchenbach community .

traffic

There are no known archaeological finds from the time of the Celts or the Romans in the Wagensteig Valley. However, there is a possibility that there have already been unpaved mule tracks to cross the mountains to the east. With this, the Freiburg historian Stülpnagel reduces the assumption of his colleague Heinrich Schreiber that there should have been a Celtic-Roman road. Otto von Eisengrein also mentions a Celtic-Roman road through wagon paths.

Nonetheless, one of the oldest thoroughfares ran through the valley from the Neckar and Danube regions over the Black Forest into the Rhine Valley: In the Middle Ages, the valley was expanded by the Zähringers as a connecting road from Freiburg im Breisgau across the Black Forest to the east towards the Baar and Villingen , which had passed to the Habsburgs in 1326 from the Counts of Fürstenberg . In 1310 it is mentioned as a "new path", which means a new extension or a new route. The alternative to the road through the Wagensteig Valley was the Falkensteige, a bypass of the Höllental Gorge on the side of the Falkenstein Castle . It led on the one hand to the Nessellachen and Breitnau , but also to the Church of St. Oswald and the community of Steig . A customs duty is mentioned for the first time in 1306 for the Falkensteig.

On July 21, 1340 Freiburg, Villingen and Rottweil concluded a protection and defiance alliance that demanded that the citizens of the cities be protected in the territory of the other cities. At that time, Wagensteigstrasse was in ruins and Falkensteige could only be used as a mule track, which is why the cities are said to have signed this contract. During the subsequent expansion of the road through the Wagensteig Valley, Abbot Berchtold, who was later murdered by his canons, allowed the city of Villingen to use the road over monastery properties. For this he obtained honorary citizenship in Villingen. In 1379 King Wenzel enfeoffed Duke Leopold III. , who on November 29 of the same year commissioned Villingen and Freiburg to maintain the road in such a way that everyone is safe from damage and accident.

In 1964, while digging a foundation for a building at the butcher's farm, at a depth of about four meters, an approx. 60 cm thick layer of stone with natural stone paving was found, which is said to have been covered with a layer of coal and belonged to the medieval street. In 1975, road debris is said to have been visible in the area, some of which comprised four lanes.

In 1628 the road through the Wagensteig valley was still the "main road" into the Black Forest. In the 18th century, Austria reduced the importance of this "old Villinger Landstrasse" by creating a permanently usable passage through the Höllentalschlucht. The reason for this was the traffic and the postal connection between the western Austrian areas in Breisgau and those in Upper Swabia, Vorarlberg and Tyrol.

The alternative connection to the Black Forest was examined in 1862/63 as a possible section of the Höllentalbahn . For the section between the Hinterzarten and Wagensteig stations, 12 of the 21.45 million gold guilders planned for the entire route between Freiburg and Donaueschingen were estimated. In addition to a two-lane stretch between Buchenbach and Wagensteig, the world's first spiral tunnel was supposed to overcome the height difference to Breitnau and Hinterzarten after a large loop through the Wagensteig valley (increased length) . The 58,600 foot journey between Wagensteig and Hinterzarten would have taken about four hours. However, preference was given to the steeper route through the Höllental, although this created the steepest standard-gauge railway in Germany and part of the route could only be traveled with racks .

church

Originally the entire area of ​​Wagensteig belonged to the (Kirch-) Zartener parish of St. Gallus. When the Buchenbach parish of St. Blasius was separated from the Kirchzarten parish in 1796 , part of Wagensteig came there. However, the silent farmers, backyards and upper courtyards including the little mountain house went to the St. Märgener parish of the Assumption of Mary .

In the late 16th century, a St. Nicholas patronage was first mentioned for Wagensteig . Today's branch chapel, which is still consecrated to this patron saint of pilgrims and travelers, is said to have been built for the first time in 1470. The chapel got its present form around the year 1600. It has been renovated several times and offers about 100 people. The evangelical believers belong to the Kirchzarten parish.

coat of arms

The former coat of arms showed "In a split shield in front in gold (yellow) a red sloping bar, behind in a field divided by silver (white) and red an abbot in mixed colors."

Personalities

  • Erwin Dold (1919–2012), entrepreneur and since 2002 honorary citizen of Buchenbach
  • Oskar Hog (1926-2006), local researcher and holder of the medal of honor of the Buchenbach community, was born on the butcher's farm and has documented its owner since 1502
  • Oskar Saier (1932–2008), Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freiburg from 1978 to 2002, was born on the Vogtshof

literature

  • Freiburg im Breigau. City and county. Official district description . Volume 2, 2, Rombach, Freiburg 1974, pp. 1108-1121.
  • Wolfgang Stülpnagel: From the Wagensteig valley. Old street and butcher farm . In: Schau-ins-Land. Annual issue of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland Volume 93, 1975, pp. 101-106 ( digitized version ).
  • Ursula Huggle (Ed.): Our home Buchenbach. From parish to parish; [Buchenbach, Falkensteig, Unteribental, Wiesneck, Wagensteig] . Buchenbach 1996, ISBN 3-922675-63-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Search at Geodatenzentrum.de
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 508 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Wagensteig (Altgemeinde-Teilort) - detail page. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Wagensteig - part of the municipality of Buchenbach in the Black Forest. In: Buchenbach.de. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Stülpnagel, p. 103.
  6. ↑ Freiburg im Breigau. City and county. Official district description . Volume 2, 2, Rombach, Freiburg 1974, p. 1115.
  7. ^ Andreas Peikert: Buchenbach: Off for fire brigade in Wagensteig. Badische Zeitung, October 23, 2013, accessed on February 15, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Markus Donner: Buchenbach: The crux with the third mandate for Wagensteig. Badische Zeitung, May 28, 2014, accessed on February 16, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Stülpnagel, p. 101.
  10. ^ Heinrich Schreiber: History of the City and University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Volume 1, Wangler, Freiburg 1857, p. 11 ( digitized version ).
  11. ^ Otto von Eisengrein: The Schloßberg near Freiburg . In: Schau-ins-Land. Annual issue of the Breisgau-Geschichtsverein Schauinsland , Volume 9, 1882, p. 37 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ A b Heinrich Schreiber: History of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau , Volume 2, Wangler, Freiburg 1857, p. 227 f. ( Digitized version ).
  13. ^ Franz Josef Baer : Chronicle of road construction and road traffic in the Grand Duchy of Baden , Springer, Berlin 1878, p. 217 ( preview in the Google book search and full text in the Google book search USA ); Josef Bader : The fate of the former S. Märgen Abbey in the Black Forest in Breisgau. in: Freiburg Diocesan Archive , Volume 2, 1866, pp. 241f. ( Digitized version ).
  14. ↑ Stülpnagel, p. 102.
  15. ^ Franz Josef Baer: Chronicle of road construction and road traffic in the Grand Duchy of Baden , Springer, Berlin 1878, p. 218 ( full text in the Google book search USA , digitized version ).
  16. ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny: The Höllentalbahn. From Freiburg to the Black Forest . Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1987, ISBN 3-88255-780-X , p. 31.
  17. ↑ Jens Freese, Alfred B. Gottwaldt: The railway through the Höllental . Transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70846-5 , p. 7, 90 f.
  18. ↑ Max Weber : History of the parish Kirchzarten. Supplementary volume to Günther Haselier (Ed.): Kirchzarten. Geography - past - present. Self-published by the Kirchzarten community, Kirchzarten 1967, pp. 86–89.
  19. ↑ Josef Faller: Buchenbach: "We love our band very much". Badische Zeitung, March 21, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Verena Pichler: Buchenbach: A life for the community. Badische Zeitung, September 15, 2012, accessed on February 13, 2017 . ; Oskar Hog died in Buchenbach-Wagensteig. Badische Zeitung, November 22, 2006, accessed on February 15, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Monika Rombach: Local researcher Oskar Hog from Wagensteig 80 years old. Badische Zeitung, May 16, 2006, accessed on February 15, 2017 .
  22. ↑ The artist Daniel Rösch designed a relief: Memory of Archbishop Oskar Saier. Badische Zeitung, May 4, 2009, accessed on February 13, 2017 .