Sölden, Baden-Württemberg

Sölden ( Alemannic Sailede ) is a municipality in the district of Breisgau in the Black Forest, about ten kilometers south of Freiburg im Breisgau.

• 2.1 The monastery 2.1.1 provosts of Sölden

• 3.1 Mayor
• 3.2 municipal

• 5.1 Structures
• 5.2 Leisure

• 6.1 traffic

• 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 7.2 freeman

Geography

Located between the Schönberg Hohfirstgebiet and the Black Forest in Hexental, Sölden is both the so-called foothills, and already the Black Forest because by the municipality runs the main fault between the Upper Rhine Valley and Black Forest. After the height above sea level extends the hilly community from the lowest point at 318 m up to 732 m above sea level. NN.

Community structure

The municipality includes the village of Sölden Sölden and the tines Gaisbühl.

Neighboring communities

Sölden is bordered to the northwest by the municipality Ebringen, on the northeast by Wittnau and on the south by Bollschweil.

History

Sölden was first mentioned in AD as Marca Selidon in 805.

The monastery

To 1087, the Prior of Ulrich Zell ( 1080s -1093 ) had the cluniazenische Priory Grüningen for Zell Möhlintal, later St. Ulrich, laid. In the neighborhood of the monastery, in Bollschweil, Ulrich founded only a short time later, a community of nuns, which was relocated in 1115 to Sölden into the Black Forest Hexental. Sölden was as a priory under the direct authority of the Abbey of Cluny, de facto, however, exercised the Priory of St. Ulrich supervisory control. Approximately 13 to 20 nuns were living under the guidance of a provost, who was appointed by the mother monastery of Cluny, in this monastery. After the fire of church and monastery in 1468 collapsed the monastic order, in 1500, there was no woman in Sölden Convention. From 1546/1547 the provost was administered by the St. Georgen monastery and went on in 1560 to the Abbey of St. Peter, who was only in 1598 finally incorporated. In the Thirty Years' War it burned again in the church. After another fire in 1746, the Gothic church was remodeled in Baroque style. Secularization in 1807 also affected the spiritual community in Sölden and led to the dissolution of the monastery.

The Sölden basic rule was not particularly extensive and focused im Breisgau, the ( Screen ) bailiwick was connected with that of the priory of St. Ulrich.

Sölden is a member of Fédératon of sites Clunisiens, a European association of places that are connected with the history of the monastery of Cluny.

Provosts of Sölden

• Rudolf Ecklin (1514-1541)
• Johann Maternus Roth ( 1570, 1580 )
• Christoph Sutter ( 1581)
• Gallus Vögelin ( 1596)
• Michael Stöcklin (1597 )
• Johann Jakob Pfeiffer (before 1601-1610 )
• John Schwab ( 1612, 1635? )
• Matthew Welzenmüller ( 1624? -1637 )
• Johann Baptist Heinold ( 1672 -1692 )

• Placidus Steiger (1692-1705)
• Ulrich Bürgi (1705-1712)
• Gregor Gerwig (1712, 1716)
• Heinrich Füegl (1718 )
• Aemilian Kaufmann (1723, 1730 )
• Cajetan Hildtprandt (1744, 1746 )
• Franz Dreer (1756 )
• Ulrich van der Lew (1776-1786)
• Paul Starting Ingersoll (1786-1807)

Population Development

To the community

Policy

The municipality is a member of the administrative community Hexental, which includes the communities Merzhausen ( seat of VG), Au ( Breisgau), Horben and Wittnau belong.

Mayor

On 19 April 2009, the Diploma in Public Administration Mark Rees was elected mayor elected in the second round with 51.76 percent of the valid votes in a turnout of 67.42 percent. He received 22 votes more than his competitor Michael Baumann, which accounted for 48.24 percent of the votes cast.

Parish council

The local council of Sölden has 10 seats. After the local elections on 7 June 2009 was awarded with a voter turnout of 64.2 %, the civil list Sölden (58%) again six seats, the Independent Citizens' List (42%) again four seats.

Religion

Approximately 73 % of the population belong to the Roman Catholic Church. The parish of St. Faith and Mark heard since 2006 with seven other parishes in the pastoral care unit "Upper Möhlintal " to; about 16% of Sölden are evangelical faith and belong to the parish Merzhausen; the rest belong to other confessions, or is non-denominational.

Culture and sights

Structures

From the medieval - baroque monastery Church of St. Faith and Mark, the Priory and the connecting structure are preserved in between. In the former priory of the Verwantungszentrum village assistants work Sölden is housed eV since 2001.

On the 456 m high Saalberg (also Sale Mountain ) is the 1875 -built hall mountain chapel to Our Lady of Sorrows. From there one has a good view over the Hexental.

Leisure

The historical path beggar, a trans-regional trail from Merzhausen / Freiburg to Badenweiler (more than 30 km) also passes through Sölden.

Economy and infrastructure

The once agricultural community has now only a farm full-time operation, seven farmers practice farming as a sideline. About 400 residents commute to their workplace in Freiburg and the surrounding area.

Traffic

Through the village leads the provincial road 122, which runs through the Hexental and Freiburg connects with Kirchhofen. This service also operates a bus of SüdbadenBus GmbH (SBG ) with access to Freiburg and in Bad.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Henry Gassert (1857-1928), physician and poet
• Franz core (1925-2012), priest and local historian

Freeman

In 1963 Franz core of his services to his home town was named an honorary citizen.