Sankt Märgen
St. Margen is a municipality in the district of Breisgau in the Black Forest, Baden -Wuerttemberg ( Germany ). In the climatic spa and pilgrimage, which is located in the Black Forest, is home to around 1,800 inhabitants.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 Management Community
- 3.4 Coat of Arms
- 3.5 Partner community
- 4.1 theater
- 4.2 Klostermuseum St. Margen
- 4.3 Structures
- 4.4 Nature Adventure Park Pfisterwald
- 4.5 Sports
- 4.6 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic
Geography
Geographical location
St. Margen is located in the southern Black Forest is approximately 18 km (air line) east of Freiburg im Breisgau. The extensive area extends largely on a plateau from Thurnerpass in the south to the eastern foothills of the candelabra in the north and lies 570-1132 m above sea level. NN. To the west and east some deep valleys delimit the district. The source areas of the Wagensteig stream and its tributary Ibenbach located in St. Margen.
Neighboring communities
St. Margen bordered to the northwest of St. Peter, on the north by Simon forest in Emmendingen, to the east by Guetenbach and Furtwangen im Schwarzwald- Baar-Kreis, in the southeast of Titisee -Neustadt, south to Breitnau and to the west book Bach.
Community structure
In the built-up lives about half of the population. The remaining inhabitants are distributed widely scattered to 85 small settlements, farm groups and individual farms, covering almost the entire municipality. Particularly noteworthy in this case commonly referred to as districts hamlet Glashütte, Thurner and Schweighöfe be mentioned.
In the municipality is the village Outbound Bernhaupten.
History
Its history is closely connected with the history of the monastery of St. Margen. Between 1115 and 1118 the Augustinian Canons Maria- cell was constructed on the Black Forest as a rival to the nearby Zähringen monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest of Count Bruno of Haigerloch - Wiesneck, Chancellor of Henry V, and Strasbourg Cathedral Provost. In the 1460s the monks moved to the monastery of Saints of the Augustinian Canons in Freiburg im Breisgau due to ongoing difficulties. After his resignation, the monastery was revived and built a two-towered Baroque church monastery and new monastery buildings from 1716. 1806 was finally resolved in the course of secularization.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats:
The Independent Citizens' (2004: 16.7 % 1 seat) did not recur for election and as a candidate on the list of Burgesses.
Mayor
In the mayoral election on February 24, 2013 Manfred Kreutz was elected with 79.0 % of the vote for the new mayor.
Management community
St. Margen heard how the communities Glottertal and St. Peter the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband St. Peter with headquarters in St. Peter.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows in red on white ( silver ) is a stylized representation of the monastery church - an expression of the importance that had the monastery for the place.
Partner community
Culture and sights
The village lies on the German Clock Road.
Theater
Since about 20 years ago in the town of the amateur theater group St. Margen. Since the reopening of the Golden Crown of the Art Nouveau hall of the former Grand Hotel serves as a venue. While in the first years mainly comedies and comedies were on the program, the Group has adopted, with local relevance since 2004 historical themes. 2004 and 2005, the play was " The Black Forest Englishman " section. 2006 was " The Monastery sculptor " on the program.
Monastery Museum St. Margen
In the former premises of the monastery is a museum that shows significant local issues. As such, the watch industry and the watch trade, emigration, the reverse glass painting, the monastery sculptor Matthias Faller and religious folk art of past centuries are.
Structures
The dominant building is the church stylized in the municipal coat of arms depicted St. Margen. You and 1 km from the center away, situated on a mountain spur Ohmenkapelle are pilgrimage destinations Roman Catholic believer.
Another incident in the local image building is the Golden Crown. This building was 1757/58 built under Abbot Peter Glunk a convent hostel. From 1771 it was inhabited by Matthias Faller, who there had his sculpture workshop. After the secularization of the building was used as an inn in 1902 and expanded in the style of the time at a Grand Hotel. To prevent further decay in the late 20th century, 2003, a citizens' initiative was established to save the building. It was built apartments and the ground floor next to the former ballroom of the Grand Hotel furnished cafe, which is run by the rural women of the community.
The nearby the village Rank mill is a popular walking destination and a well known photo. Also worth mentioning is the located in the historic townscape einfügende Gallery Endriß who won the " Exemplary Building ": ". , A modern new building in close proximity to the historic monastery "
Nature Adventure Park Pfisterwald
In Pfister forest east of the town center, a leisure facility has been established with forest playground, adventure playground, beach volleyball area, artificial grass tennis courts, riding arena, soccer fields, naturhaftem swimming pond, lighted jogging trail, lighted toboggan run in an old sunken road, cross-country trails ( near the famous Thurnerspur ), sophisticated mountain bike circuit (supervised by the team Rothaus -Cube ), hiking trails including forest trail to fauna and flora, a large fairground and the Black Forest Hall, an event hall in the building tradition of old Black Forest farms.
In a similar design, the community of St. Margen created in 2005 a " white fir hall " with multifunctional use, which sets new standards by size and construction from local silver fir wood. The construction of the white fir hall the landscape and eco-tourism activities such as horseback riding, cross country skiing, mountain biking, fitness training and running, Nordic walking, beach volleyball are also available in a railed -independent variant. In the hall the clubhouses of the SV St.Märgen and the RSV St.Märgen including Rothaus-Cube MTB Team, as well as a restaurant are integrated.
Sports
St. Margen is the seat of the Club Thurnerspur, which maintains the same " cross country center for everyone".
The internationally successful mountain bike team Rothaus -Cube is based in St. Margen. A professional permanent mountain bike route serves the team as a house, training and racing track for Bundesliga race. The route is part of the Olympic training Freiburg.
Regular events
Most important is the regular event - popularly called " Ross Festival" - Day of the Black Forest horse. This has become a popular festival breeders meeting, hosted by the Black Forest Pferdezuchtgenossenschaft eV, presents the most beautiful Black Forest horses and old craftsmanship. The festival takes place every three years on the second weekend of September, the last time 2013.Vorlage: Future / In 2 years in 2006 also provided an opportunity to hold an annual showcase for the breed Black Forest cold blood. In the center indicates a larger than life bronze horse sculpture on the tradition of horse breeding in St. Margen.
Economy and infrastructure
The economy has three main pillars: tourism, agriculture and crafts.
Traffic
From three directions is connected to the road network of St. Margen. The national road 127 connects the town with over St. Peter Freiburg im Breisgau, the leads 128 L Himmelreich book Bach ( B 31 ) through the town to the B 500, which in about 6 km passes through the district to the town center. For B 31 on the way to Freiburg is 15 km.
To Rhine Valley motorway A5 Basel -Karlsruhe is about 28 km, east to the A81 Stuttgart-Singen is 40 km.
The nearest train stations to the Höllentalbahn are heaven and Hinterzarten (about 15 per km ), the next ICE railway station is the main train station in Freiburg.
The nearest airports are Stuttgart (160 km), Euro Airport Basel -Mulhouse -Freiburg (100 km) and Zurich (110 km)
Personalities
- Matthias Faller (1707-1791), Barock-/Rokoko-Bildhauer, lived mainly in St. Margen and also created here his major works
- Gustav Traub (1885-1955), German artist and landscape painter, moved in 1941 after he had spent in the previous year a holiday in St. Margen, a studio in the community, where he died in 1955.
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Professor of Philosophy, spent the years 1920-1937 many semester break to rest and work in St. Margen.
- Ruth Schaumann (1899-1975), poet and artist, lived with her family from 1943 to 1946 in St. Margen.
- Kottenrodt Ulrich (1906-1984), sculptor, lived from 1971 in St. Margen
- Peter Dreher ( born 1932 ), painter, lives partly in St. Margen.