Triberg im Schwarzwald

Triberg im Schwarzwald is a town in the German state of Baden- Wuerttemberg and part of the Schwarzwald- Baar-Kreis in the administrative district of Freiburg.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 Twin towns

• 4.1 Economic and utilities
• 4.2 Tourism
• 4.3 projects

• 9.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 9.2 Connected with the city

Geography

Geographical location

Triberg lies in the southern part of the Middle Black Forest in 600-1038 meters above sea level, the national roads 33 and 500 as well as at the German Clock Route and stop one of the famous mountain railways in Europe, the Black Forest Railway. The next largest cities are south-east the old Zähringerstadt Villingen -Schwenningen (about 32 km) and southwest of the famous university city of Freiburg im Breisgau ( about 45 km).

Hardly a town in the Black Forest is in similar deep incised valley. Within the development of the core city of Triberg differences in height of 250 m to be overcome ( the railway station is 600 m, about 850 m Hostel. Above sea level. NN ). For urban planning, this means always new challenges. With the industrial park Triberg above the falls for the first time resorted to the less steep high face direction Schoenwald.

Neighboring communities

The city is bordered to the north by the town of Hornberg in Ortenaukreis and Schonachbach, a borough of Schonach. Schonach also forms the western boundary of Triberg. In the east there are common borders with the city Schramberg ( Rottweil district ) and the town of St. Georgen in the Black Forest, in the south is bordered to the community Schoenwald Triberg in the Black Forest and the town of Furtwangen in the Black Forest.

Boroughs

At Triberg in the Black Forest with the formerly independent communities Nußbach and Gremmelsbach include the city of Triberg in the Black Forest, and 86 more villages, hamlets, tine, farms and houses.

→ See also: List of places in the Schwarzwald- Baar-Kreis

In the territory of the former municipality Gremmelsbach the Postal Althornberg is.

• Blazon of the arms of Nußbach: "In silver on blue sign foot a flat green hills, from which a deciduous tree grows. "
• Blazon of the arms of Gremmelsbach: " Rippled shared by silver and blue, above a large black latin " G " below a floating to the left silver fish. "

History

Triberg was first mentioned in 1239 in a document in which a ministerial Peter of Triberc is mentioned. 1330 Triberg was first described as a town in 1349 was the first time the potentially long established market law mentioned. From 1355 to 1797 the city to the house of Habsburg, and thus to the Austrian dominions front Austria belonged.

In 1884 Triberg built the first public electric street lighting in Germany; the power has been gained over 150 m high waterfalls.

The name component in the Black Forest leads the city since June 20, 1963. On 1 January 1973, until then independent municipality Nußbach was incorporated. On October 1, 1974 Gremmelsbach was incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

The local elections of 7 June 2009 yielded the following result:

In Triberg, the council of mayors and 19 members elected by the citizens is composed.

Mayor Dr. jur. Gallus Strobel (CDU), is also a board of remaining Triberg Adventure World AG and responsible for various corporate investments of the city like the aqua villa GmbH. Strobel is a lawyer and holds a PhD to a justizgeschichtlichem topic.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In silver and red geviertem sign over a three green mountain toppled two mutually spent hunting horns in confused colors. "

Twin Cities

Triberg is the twin town of Fréjus ( France) and member of the Lazarus - of - Schwendihotel - Cities and Towns.

Economy and Tourism

Economic and utilities

1896 saw the establishment of the Electricity Company Triberg GmbH (EGT ) by Frederick William Schoen, Wilhelm Eduard von Schoen and Carl Linde. She is still active and active in the fields of power generation, power distribution and electrical contracting. In 1922, Triberg, St. Georgen, Furtwangen, Hornberg and the community Schonach involved in the share capital of EGT, which was renamed in 2008 as AG. The aqua villa GmbH is a spin-off that operates water supply networks.

The former is strongly represented watchmaking industry is now reduced to museum offers and sales transactions. And the local work of Bühler Motor was closed and demolished. The most significant employer in the city is 2013, the Asklepios Clinic. The population is declining, not even 5,000 people living in 2012 in Triberg, a few years ago there were 8,000.

Tourism

Due to the special topology and landscape, the subalpine climate and numerous recreational facilities in the area which includes the towns of Triberg offers Nußbach and Gremmelsbach good conditions for tourism. The village lies on the German Clock Road. As a health resort Triberg, Nußbach and Gremmelsbach have 1500 guests beds. Holidays on a farm and developed to Ferienwohnungen Schwarzwald courtyards complete the tourist offer.

Together with four other municipalities ( Emmen things, stones, Stühlingen, weir) Triberg received the title gateway to the Black Forest Nature Park and is therefore a gateway to Germany's second largest natural park.

According to the Badische Zeitung visited the beginning of the decade, about 250,000 visitors in the immediately adjacent waterfalls, some years before there were twice as many. After 11 September 2001, many U.S. tourists stayed away. Dealing with a high number of days tourists and a few overnight guests is a challenge for the small town.

Projects

2007 was yet of the 90 - million project Triberg world of experience talking. The world of experience itself has sought to promote by disputes between the jewelry retailer Thomas Weisser, who sat on coach tourism, and the former SAP chief developer Günther Mökesch, sustainable tourism, shelved. The 2 -million-euro car park with the viral become known men parking is the only construction project that has so far been implemented on the largest local industrial wasteland of Triberg.

In the meantime, was of demanding fees in the tens of millions of architect Max Dieter Mack, a relative of the amusement park mogul Roland Mack, the speech. Mayor Strobel had in his capacity promised a much smaller budget for a preliminary study as CEO of Adventure World Triberg AG Mack and this also granted. The contract itself for the planning and construction of the parking garage was awarded to another architectural firm. Meanwhile, a shopping center and smaller tourism services are planned.

Traffic

Triberg is connected via the Black Forest Railway to the rail network. Hourly operate regional express or inter-regional express trains towards Karlsruhe and Konstanz. In addition, keep some individual intercity trains at Triberg station.

Sports

Triberg had in 1908 the first electric-powered ski lift in the world. 1925 were held in figure skating in the city's European Championships.

Since 2012, enters the SV Triberg in the first wrestler league.

Attractions

• The Triberg Waterfalls, which are advertised as the highest in Germany
• The Black Forest Museum
• Of mountain lake in a north-western neighbor Kar Waterfall boiler
• The pilgrimage church of Maria in the fir on mountain lake
• The carved wooden town hall
• The world's largest walk-in Cuckoo Clock
• A natural high ropes course in close proximity to the waterfall
• Watch factory Hubert Herr, maker of the world's smallest cuckoo clock
• Castle Althornberg
• Castle Triberg
• Triberg gallows

Triberg has an extensive, well-marked network of hiking trails. The middle Pforzheim- Waldshut and the cross travel Lahr- Rottweil lead over the district.

In addition, Triberg is in a technically exceptional and scenic section of the Black Forest Railway, a railway line with a total of 40 tunnels. Near the station is a monument to Robert Gerwig, the chief engineer in the construction of the Black Forest Railway.

Waterfall of Schonach in the Triberg basin

Mountain lake with Church of Our Lady in Tann

Maria in the fir

Education

At educational institutions are in Triberg available

• Kindergartens Mariengarten and St. Anna in Triberg, St. Sebastian in Nußbach and kindergarten Gremmelsbach
• Primary and secondary schools in Triberg and Nußbach
• The Realschule Triberg
• The Black Forest High School Triberg
• The folk high school Triberg

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Baptist Bekk (1797-1855), lawyer and politician, Deputy, Minister of the Interior
• Heinz Bierbaum (* 1946), German politician (The Left )
• Albrecht Dold (1928-2011), mathematician and professor at Heidelberg
• Christof Duffner (* 1971), ski jumpers
• Alexander Fischinger ( b. 1964 ), football coach
• Karl Josef Fortwängler (1875-1960), called " Schnitzer Sepp " genius in the field of carving ( creator of the Town Hall room)
• Huck Tobias (* 1990), clarinet ( among other federal awards for " Youth Music " and numerous television appearances )
• Hubert Lienhard ( born 1951 ), Chairman of the Management Board of Voith GmbH
• Karl Friedrich Linnebach (* 1849, † June 1944 in Zell im Wiesental ), 1884 train managers in Triberg station. Literature: Karl Friedrich Linnebach - Memoirs of a Baden railway official from 1849 to 1944. Published in the series West German personalities when G.Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 2007
• Hans -Peter Pohl (* 1965), Olympic champion in the discipline of Nordic Combined
• Georg Reinbold (1885-1946), politician, Member of Parliament (SPD )
• January Rotter (* 1991), Ringer (including bronze at the European Championships )
• Franz Anton Scherzinger (* February 7, 1735; † August 21, 1793 in Sigmaringen - Good stone), priests, wholesale canon, buried in the St. Gallus Church Good stone ( Epitaph on the north side of the nave )
• Karl Friedrich Otto Schuster (1846-1927), Mayor from 1895 to 1904

Connected to the city

• Theodor Huber (1758-1816), Obervogt
• Efim Bogolyubov (1889-1952), Ukrainian- German chess grandmaster

Reception

After Triberg the asteroid ( 619) Triberga and a locomotive of the Deutsche Bahn was named. Ernest Hemingway mentioned Triberg in his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. 2002 planned by the city Hemmingway Days were sold on the basis of a public Krontroverse over alleged war crimes Hemingway.