Wagnerstal

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Wagnerstal
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location Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Waters Mühlenbach
Geographical location 48 ° 0 '26 "  N , 8 ° 9' 36"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '26 "  N , 8 ° 9' 36"  E
Wagnerstal (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Wagnerstal
height 1000 to  750  m

The Wagner valley, which slopes steeply to the northwest, is located in the Black Forest between St. Märgen and Furtwangen in the district of Furtwangen-Neukirch . It is formed from the Kajetan and the Königendobel and is flowed through by the Mühlenbach. It ends near the Hexenfelsen in Heubach Valley, where the Mühlenbach flows into the Heubach. Today the valley is no longer permanently inhabited. Several hiking trails lead through the valley.

history

The upper part of the Wagnerstal is divided into the Kajetandobel and the Königendobel. In the early 19th century there were two courtyards there, the Königenhof and the Kajetanhof. The royal court, also known as the royal court, was first mentioned in a document in 1540. It consisted of the main building with a court chapel, a granary and a grinding mill, as well as two smaller buildings nearby that were inhabited by other families. The royal court was destroyed by a snow avalanche around midnight on February 24, 1844. Of the 24 people who stayed in the house that evening, 17 died. The accident was documented in an engraving by Casimir Stegerer from Vöhrenbach. The courtyard was not rebuilt; the approximately 90 hectares of land were sold to the Kajetanhof and the forest domain. In the Neukirch cemetery there is a memorial from 1844 with the names of the 17 dead. In 1908 a memorial plaque was attached to the court.

In the steep valley you could only use the wood by burning charcoal. Presumably the king farmer had cut too many trees above the courtyard building. In the winter of 1844 it did not start to snow until the New Year. Then up to two meters of snow fell. The thaw in February then favored the snow avalanche.

Kajetankapelle

After the destruction of the royal court, only the Kajetanhof was inhabited in the Wagnerstal, which was named after its owner Kajetan Löffler . This farm was sold to the state of Baden in 1878. The courtyard was later demolished and an outbuilding burned down in 1911. Only the chapel remained and was used as a storage room. The Gutach entrepreneur Kurt Gütermann, who owned a hunting lodge nearby, met Stephan Blattmann, who later became the parish priest of Furtwang, in the concentration camp. The two vowed to restore the chapel and rededicate it if they were released safely from the camp. On August 29, 1954, the chapel was re-consecrated by the Furtwang parish priest Stephan Blattmann and the Neukirch pastor Josef Nöck. One or two services are held there every year.

The events in Kurt Gütermann's hunting lodge on April 29, 1945

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The sewing silk manufacturer Kurt Gütermann (1899–1978) from Gutach leased a building site from the forest administration in 1936 to build a hunting lodge. A group of SS men holed up in the hunting lodge built there in April 1945. After the hunting lodge was destroyed, Gütermann signed a new hereditary building contract with the forest authorities in 1953 and built a new hunting lodge in 1955. According to recent investigations by Hellmut Naumann, SS man Karl Pütz , who commanded a special group consisting of 13 SS / SD people, was also in this hunting lodge. Six Germans died in the attack by French soldiers on April 29, 1945 and are buried in Neukirch today. In the Neukirch cemetery there is a tombstone for the six soldiers, which since 2012 also bears the name of the only identified soldier. Seven people, including the leader Pütz, were able to flee.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b When winter becomes dangerous , Wolfgang Schyle, Badische Zeitung, March 18, 2009, accessed October 28, 2015
  2. ↑ From the story of Neukirch. Court chronicle of a Black Forest community. Published by the Neukirch community, 1968.
  3. ^ History of the Kaspershäusle in St. Maergen
  4. ↑ Buried and Frozen , hjwe, Badische Zeitung, February 24, 2014, accessed October 28, 2015
  5. ↑ Ludger Beckmann: The difficult memory of the victims of the fighting in April 1945 in the Furtwanger Wagner valley . In: Remembering and Forgetting. Stories of memorials in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg region , contributions to the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg region, vol. 1, ed. Friedemann Kawohl. Baarverein, Donaueschingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-7883-0892-6 , pp. 193-198
  6. ^ A dark chapter in local history , Stefan Heimpel, Südkurier, November 17, 2012, accessed October 28, 2015
  7. ↑ Peter Stellmach: The silent disappearance of a war grave. Was the St. Märgen community allowed to clear the grave of SS Commander Karl Putz - or should it have respected the memory of the dead? In: Badische Zeitung , September 16, 2015

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