Enzklösterle

Enzkloesterle is a municipality in the district of Calw in Baden- Württemberg.

• 3.1 Mayor

• 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town

• 5.1 Rußhütte
• 5.2 Adventure Golf Park
• 5.3 Schnitzereimuseum Krippena 2000
• 5.4 giant slide
• 5.5 Bannwald Bärlochkar
• 5.6 Enzquelle
• 5.7 Kaltenbachsee
• 5.8 Waldklettergarten
• 5.9 alpine skiing

• 6.1 Water supply

Geography

Geographical location

The state-approved climatic health resort is located in the upper Enztal in the northern Black Forest in 560-917 meters altitude.

Of the 2020 hectares of the municipality is 1790 ha ( 88%) of forest land, 6% is used for agriculture, the rest is built-up and traffic area.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north and east of the town of Bad Wildbad, on the southeast by Simmer field, on the southwest by Seewald in the district of Freudenstadt and to the west by Gernsbach and Forbach in the district of Rastatt.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into the districts Enzkloesterle Enzkloesterle ( chief town ), Poppeltal, Gompelscheuer and Nonnenmiß whose northern half is no longer owned Enzkloesterle, but to the neighboring village of Bad Wildbad. The municipality therefore include the village of Enzkloesterle, the hamlet Gompelscheuer, Lappach means Enztal, Poppeltal, Rohnbach and Süßbächle and the homestead Hetschelhof. Within the area are the waste places Birkenäckerle, Kaltbronn, Boppelseehaus and Zwickgabel.

History

The name of the village goes back to a Cistercian abbey founded in 1145, which was in 1330 the monastery Herrenalb assumed and dissolved in 1536 after the Reformation. The place Enzkloesterle belonged until 1826 to Wildbad and was then independently. In 1935, joined with the community Enzthal that had belonged until 1829 to the municipality Simmer field together. Although Enzthal was the greater community, they decided on the name " Enzkloesterle ".

Policy

Mayor

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Karl Schmückle ( historian ) ( born September 9, 1898 in Gompelscheuer, † March 14, 1938 in Moscow), German historian and literary scholar

Culture and sights

Rußhütte

In Kienrußbrennereien by burning or smoldering of resinous tree components ( eg softwood pin or needle sticks ), carbon black ( eg for ink and oil paint ) won as a coloring agent. Only with the introduction of Steinteerproduktion in the second half of the 19th century died out of this ancient craft.

Built in 1829, 1982 and rediscovered 1992-1994 fully restored Rußhütte counts as one of the few and best preserved buildings of its kind in Germany and is classified as a cultural monument under monument protection law.

Adventure Golf Park

On more than 3,000 m² Enzkloesterle offers centrally located in the town center, a mini-golf course ( Adventure Golf Park ). The 18 holes are adapted to the natural environment. The game is played on typical materials of the Black Forest: About Holzrugel, a film of water over dry stone walls or through a rock field. The tracks Schneckentäle and Poppeltal distances over 30 meters are to master. The game success stems from skill, strategic approach and a bit of luck. The adventure golf park can be visited with the Black Forest Card free of charge.

Schnitzereimuseum Krippena 2000

The wood and nativity figures show Krippena 2000 includes, inter alia, the biggest hand-carved nativity scene in the world and a variety of other wood carvings, some of which are built in the form of dioramas (eg, a representation of the rafters crafts in Enztal 1:10 scale ).

Giant slide

With its 1,500 m uphill and downhill the summer toboggan run in Enzkloesterle - Poppeltal is southern Germany 's longest and most rapid toboggan made ​​of stainless steel. With a large surface lift, you go to the level of Seekopf - and then it goes into steep turns and other finesses the valley. The speed can be self-determined.

Bannwald Bärlochkar

The Bannwald Bärlochkar is a 100 -acre forest preserve, where the forest is located left to jungle -like self and only the trail leading through it is kept free of fallen trees and broken branches. Information boards on the good three -kilometer trail impart knowledge to the forest, the native fauna and flora and the geological history of the landscape.

Enzquelle

The source of the Enz is located in Stone caught in the middle of the district Gompelscheuer below the further up the hill situated on a forest path, now privately owned forest historic house, which stands beside the barn, including a historical monument. The Enzquelle is also the starting point of the 115- km long Enztal - cycle path which accompanies the Enz up to its confluence with the River Neckar in Walheim.

At the Enzquelle in Gompelscheuer

Kaltenbachsee

The 1782 scale as Flößersee Kaltenbachsee can be from the district Gompelscheuer (starting point: Enzquelle ) reached in about an hour on foot. From the approximately 100 meters long and 30 meters wide dammed lake that required for rafting additional from swell could be discharged on call to bring together bound to rafts tree trunks into the valley and on about Enz, Neckar and Rhine to the destination in the Netherlands. The original dam was built mainly of wood. Only built in 1813 Colonel Duttenhofer the dam in its present form with the impressive passage of stone and earth.

Waldklettergarten

In Hirschtal is since spring 2008 Waldklettergarten Enzkloesterle, which is operated by the company CS concepts of nature. In four to 13 meters in height can be climbed to more than 30 elements here. The Waldklettergarten Enzkloesterle is the first high ropes course in Germany, who has created a level trail. This is actually a forest trail in up to eight meters in height, whose learning platforms are connected by rope bridges.

Alpine skiing

Enzkloesterle has with the large and small deer head lift one of the longest ski slopes in the Black Forest ( 1,200 m).

Economy and infrastructure

Due to the sometimes extremely steep slopes in the upper Enztal agriculture was only possible on the limited areas of the valley floor. The last full-time agricultural operations were already on in the 1970s, in 2005 the statistics called three -time farms. In earlier times the population lived mainly on the forest economy, that is, from logging, rafting, charcoal, resin extraction and the production of carbon black. Today, tourism is the main source of income.

Water supply

The community Enzkloesterle with drinking-water from the Black Forest Association purpose water supply, which has belonged since 1996. By joining the community-owned water production plants were transferred to the special purpose association. 2001, the districts Gompelscheuer and Poppeltal were connected to the drinking water supply for the purpose association Schwarzwald water supply.