Hirsau

48.7388.7328327Koordinaten: 48 ° 44 ' 17 " N, 8 ° 43' 58" E

Hirsau, until 1975 an independent municipality, is now a district of the major district town of Calw in the northern Black Forest. Hirsau has 2,400 residents and is predominantly touristy.

Geography

The Württemberg health resort is located in the northern Black Forest, about 2 km north of the main town of Calw in deep Nagoldtal ( between 330 m at St. Aurelius, 560 m at the state hospital ). In Hirsauer spa gardens of the small river Tälesbach which is situated east of the Calw district flows through a valley opens. On the opposite, western Nagoldtalseite is the tributary of the pig creek, which also opens in Hirsau in the Nagold. North of Hirsau is the brother cave.

History

The essential role for the history of the place Hirsau played the Hirsau at which was formed the same place. Above the Nagold river originated from 1082 to 1091 was then the largest German monastery and the largest Romanesque church in Germany, a three-aisled, almost 100 meters long basilica with two west towers, which were finished around 1120. The monastery was the most important German stronghold of the monastic renewal movement that emanated from the French monastery of Cluny in the Middle Ages.

1556 the monastery was a Protestant monastery school after the Reformation. Württemberg dukes were also 1586-1592 a three-wing Renaissance palace built on the monastery grounds. 1692 the mighty monastery church, the convent school and the castle of the French troops were put under the command of General Mélac on fire, destroying the Palatinate War of Succession. Then the stones of the ruins were used as material for other buildings. This further destruction was finished in 1808 by a decree of the King of Württemberg.

The area of the monastery Hirsau was managed until 1807 by the steward Hirsau, which was then combined with the upper office Calw. 1830 a separate municipality Hirsau was formed within the Oberamts Calw.

In 1874 it was connected to the Nagold Valley Railway, which gave the place connections in Pforzheim and Horb, also you could from Calw, a station south of Hirsau, go with the Württemberg Black Forest Railway towards Stuttgart.

1956 St. Aurelius was rededicated after restoration work as a Catholic parish church. St. Aurelius was the second and older monastery in Hirsau, whose origins go back to the beginning of the 9th century.

In 1968 the development of the western hill to build the country's Clinic Northern Black Forest, today Clinic Northern Black Forest. The facility began operations in 1975.

In the course of municipal reform the church Hirsau was incorporated on January 1, 1975 with the town of Calw to the town of Calw - Hirsau. But already the new city was renamed in Calw with effect from 1 January 1976.

Personalities

• Abbot William of Hirsau

Attractions

• Hirsau
• Ruins of the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul with cloister

Public institutions

There is a spa center with Kurhalle, application facilities and park and a mini golf course. In the center is the old town hall, in which the management of the district as a library are housed.

Hirsau has two sports clubs. The VFR Hirsau is a football club with a large sports field. The TSV Hirsau offers among other things, handball, tennis, table tennis and gymnastics.

Hirsau has a primary school.

Religion

Except Lutheran and Catholic churches are in Hirsau also a mosque and two Christian free churches, the Evangelical Church of God ( Free Churches covenant of God's church ) and the Protestant Kingdom -Faith community.