Elbenschwand

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Elbenschwand since 1 January 2009, a district of the municipality in the district of Lörrach Small meadow valley in Baden- Württemberg.

Geography

Elbenschwand is located in the Black Forest Nature Park in the valley of the Little Meadow in 500 to 1000 meters altitude. Forests cover 72% of the previous municipal area.

In the territory of the former municipality Elbenschwand are the villages Elbenschwand ( rear and front village), Holl and Maggiore and the group of houses Buck. In the former municipality is the deserted village Gebinbach.

History

Elbenschwand was mentioned in 1278 in a deed of the monastery of St. Blaise for the first time. The monastery was landlord until its secularization in 1806. Maggiore was incorporated in 1934, Holl was at that time already Maggiore. On 1 January 2009, the previously separate municipality Elbenschwand was incorporated into the newly established village of Little meadow valley. The community Elbenschwand belonged until its dissolution on 1 January 2009 also the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband " Small meadow valley " located in Tegernau on.

In Elbenschwand there is no school, primary and secondary school located in the neighboring Tegernau, Realschule and Gymnasium in Schopfheim, Lörrach or Schönau. In the book " The farming village in the Black Forest " tells the author Edith Flubacher her childhood in Elbenschwand in the period before 1936.