Forbach (Baden)

Forbach is a municipality in the northern part of the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg district of Rastatt.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Town twinning
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Established businesses
  • 4.3 Education
  • 5.1 Museums

Geography

The nucleus Forbach is located in the middle Murg valley at the Murg. The station has the height of 303 m above sea level mark. NN. The districts Kirschbaumwasen (434 m above sea level. NN ) and Raumünzach (392 m above sea level. NN ) are slightly upstream, the places Gausbach (300 m above sea level. NN ) and Long Brand ( 270 m above sea level. NN ) down the river. Erbersbronn (514 m above sea level. NN ) and dog stream (714 m above sea level. NN ) are in side valleys above the core site in the southwest and Bermersbach (410 m above sea level. NN ) above Forbach in a valley in the northwest.

The places Herrenwies ( 761 m above sea level. NN ) and Schwarzenbach be due to the Schwarzenbachtalsperre west of the core site.

The nearest large towns are situated in the northwestern cities of Baden -Baden, about 12 miles and Gaggenau, about 14 km away. To the west lies Buhl, about 17 km away and up the river in the south of Baiersbronn located about 20 km away and the city of Freudenstadt about 26 km away.

Mountains

The highest elevation Forbachs is 1054.5 meters above sea level. NN, the High ox head, the highest peak in the district of Rastatt. The Baden height and Mehliskopf be in part Forbach municipality.

Community structure

The municipality Forbach included the former municipalities Bermersbach, Gausbach and Lange fires with a total of 28 villages, hamlets, tines, farms and houses. For the former municipality Bermersbach included the village Bermersbach, the inn Rote Lache and the houses Wolfsheck. The municipality Forbach in the borders of 30 June 1974 included the village of Forbach, the hamlet Erbersbronn, dog Bach clay court, dog Bach cattle inventories, Kirschbaumwasen, settlements Herrenwies, dog Bach Biberach, dog Bach Centre and Raumünzach, the courtyards Schindelbronn, Seebachhof and Trabronn and the houses Baden height, Kaltenbach, St. Anton, Sasbach, cutter head and Tauchert. For the former municipality Gausbach included the village and the houses Gausbach Röhret. For the former town Long fire the village of Long Brand, the settlements were Breitwies ( Weisenbach factory) and Wolfsheck and the houses station Lange fire Bermersbach. In the municipality of Forbach in the area June 30, 1974, the deserted village was glad wells.

History

Forbach was named in 1360 in a testamentary document of Ebersteiners Henry II for the first time.

1387 Forbach was half and half ebersteinisch Margrave. Count Wolfram sold it to his uncle, the Margrave Rudolf VII for 8000 guilders, inter alia, from all his villages half. Forbach was from then on half of Eberstein, half tributary of Baden. In 1404, the parish Forbach assigned to the Margrave Bernhard in the possession of division between the Margrave Bernhard and the Ebersteiner Count Bernhard and Wolf.

1455 sold Margrave Karl to several citizens in Forbach, Gausbach and Bermersbach its forests in the Birkenau up to the Hartmann fountain and the red water with fishing rights for 250 guilders. Margrave Philip in 1532 confirmed the sale of forest in 1455 and demanded that parish communities Forbach, Bermersbach and Gausbach an interest of 65 guilders to 50 years.

In 1543 Forbach received a village rules, they determined in several dozen articles on what and what was not allowed lawful and permitted and what needed to be done for protection from enemies and other hazards. 1569 sold Count Philipp von Eberstein its forest holdings, including sawmills and raft rights for 3500 florins to the Murgschifferschaft. 1624 married the Ebersteinerin Maria Count von Wolkenstein, who got with Maria and semi Forbach.

Religions

From 1555 on, the religious conflict in Forbach did not stop; in the hundred years to 1655 the Forbach changed eight times the denomination. Finally, the Roman Catholic Church was able to prevail, which still belong to the most Forbach today. A Protestant church was built just before the First World War.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1974, the incorporation of Bermersbach, Gausbach and Lange fire occurred.

Policy

Parish council

The council are after the local elections of 7 June 2009 - next to the mayor as chairman - 19 members. The choice was as follows:

Twinning

Forbach maintains partnership relations since 1963 to the French community Andilly and, since 2007, the Italian parish of Monte al Metauro. On April 24, 2008, the partnership deed in Italy was signed.

Coat of arms

A silver slanting, quite introspective blue ax with black stem, accompanied by two blaubesamten red roses up and down. As a symbol of the timber wealth of the community this coat of arms first appeared in a 1722 engraved seal. In the coat of arms for the sealing of the homage Protocol of 1811, the roses were missing as a reference to the Rose character of the house Eberstein. In 1850 the roses went back to the blazon. 1901 took the council to the coat of arms colors.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Forbach has five breakpoints at the Murgtalbahn ( Rastatt - Freudenstadt ) in Karlsruhe Transport Association. These are of the high-speed railway lines S31 ( Odenheim - Freudenstadt ) - uses the Stadtbahn Karlsruhe and S41 ( Eutingen in Gaeu Karlsruhe).

Federal highway 462 ( Rastatt - Rottweil ) connects the town with the national road network. The connecting road to Baden -Baden via the Rote Lache.

Established businesses

The Rudolf - Fettweis plant, a hydro power plant, EnBW, is next to the town hall and the hospital Mittelbaden with his district hospital Forbach the last major employer in Forbach. The former paper mill Wolfsheck was closed in 2007.

Education

Forbach features a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule in the nucleus and another primary school in the village of Long fire. There are also two municipal and one Roman Catholic kindergarten in town.

Culture and sights

The covered bridge over the Murg was built from 1778 to 1779. They crossed the river with a span of 37.8 m without intermediate pillars and is thus in contrast to their predecessors flood-proof. The first building was until 1954, the following year, the bridge was rebuilt true to the original.

The Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist surmounted with two 50 meter high towers, the Forbach town center. It was built 1886-1891 in neo-Romanesque style by architect Adolf Williard.

By Forbach the distance footpath west route, which takes in many sights runs.

Museums

In the Festival Hall ( former school ) of the district Bermersbach is the Murgtalmuseum, which deals with the circumstances of previous generations of the region. The museum is run by the home club Bermersbach.

Personalities

  • Günther Becker (1924-2007), German composer
  • Manfred Gotta ( b. 1947 ), resident in Forbach Dog Bach
  • Matthias Fritz (born 1969 ), former professional footballer
  • Peter Maria Schnurr (born 1969 ), star chef
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