Schweigmatt

Schweigmatt, a 780 meter high altitude hamlet in the southern Black Forest, as part of the district of the city Raitbach Schopfheim in the district of Lörrach in Baden- Württemberg.

History

The already in 1113 in a donation Walchos of Waldeck mentioned in documents hamlet Schweigmatt was about 100 years, a much visited and respected spa town, where eg Konrad Adenauer was a guest. Especially from the nearby Swiss city of Basel, many people came before the start of mass tourism on the Schweigmatt, to spend the weekend or longer to recover. Every second house was therefore inn, but most important was the great Kurhaus the National Insurance Institute, which was demolished in 1970 - today there is an open space.

The special feature of the Schweigmatt is the view over the Rhine Valley, the Jura to the Alps in conjunction with good accessibility from the valley - the next station Stockhausen Raitbach with direct connection to Lörrach and Basel is located only four minutes away by car. Easily accessible is the summit of the mountain High Möhr, located at the slope of the site. The local observation tower offers a good view of the Black Forest and the chain of the Alps.

Even today, there is a swimming pool in Schweigmatt from this period of treatment, at this level very rare in Germany. Various inns served before, during and after the Second World War as a children's convalescent homes, so the current inn forest house, formerly a home for girls, and the Lueginsland, that was a while Schullandheim the town of Rheinfelden. In Lueginsland well as today's Waldorf School Schopfheim had its starting point.

The American actress Q'orianka Kilcher was born in 1990 in Schweigmatt.