Waldbrunn, Baden-Württemberg

Forest Brunn is a to the Neckar -Odenwald district, in Baden -Württemberg belonging community. It lies about 10 km from Eberbach and 15 km from Mosbach away.

  • 2.1 Coat of arms of districts
  • 2.2 religions
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 parks
  • 5.1 Education
  • 5.2 Media
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.3 Other personalities who were active in forest Brunn and the districts

Geography

Forest Brunn is located at the foot of Katzenbuckel, the highest elevation of the Odenwald. The landscape is dominated by small plateaus and valleys. More than 55 percent of its territory is covered by forest.

Community structure

The community forest Brunn consists of the former municipalities Mülben, Oberdielbach, Schollbrunn, Strümpfelbrunn, Waldkatzenbach and Weisbach. To Mülben the hunting lodge " Max Wilhelm height, forest house" part. To Oberdielbach include the place " Maisental, development" and the homestead Post ( upper and lower ). To Schollbrunn include the homes and hunting lodge Talmuhle. To Strümpfelbrunn the homestead Höllgrund heard ( Oberhöllgrund ). To Waldkatzenbach heard the homestead Unterhöllgrund. To Weisbach house belongs Weis Mühle.

In the territory of the former municipality Mülben is the deserted village of Upper and Lower Ferdinandsdorf.

Climate

Forest Brunn is a nationally recognized health resort in the Neckar -Odenwald Nature Park. Climatically Waldbrunn attributable to Bergklimaten. Striking here is the frequent light wind, which is why the region is called to the cat's back also of Winter Veil.

History

1939 in Oberdielbach 550 inhabitants are counted, the end of 1945 there were 664 in the same period the population declined in Schollbrunn from 706 to 543, in Strümpfelbrunn it rose from 538 to 654 to, in Waldkatzenbach of 483 to 688, in Weisbach from 355 to 409 and in Mülben of 265 to 294 on January 1, 1973, Oberdielbach, Schollbrunn, Strümpfelbrunn, Waldkatzenbach and Weisbach united to the new community forest Brunn. On January 1, 1975, the incorporation of Mülben was.

Coat of arms of districts

Oberdielbach

Schollbrunn

Strümpfelbrunn

Forest - cats - bach

Weisbach

Religions

Brunn forest is dominated Protestant since the Reformation. Even today there are in the districts Strümpfelbrunn, Waldkatzenbach, Oberdielbach and Schollbrunn their own Protestant churches. The Protestant community in Weisbach with their village church Weisbach is always a branch church of Strümpfelbrunn. The Catholics of the parish of St. Mary are in Catholic pastoral care unit " Neckar - Odenwald High Edith Stein " (St. Afra - Eberbach Neckargerach, St. Mary - - Forest Zoo, St. Joseph and St. John of Nepomuk ) looked after.

Policy

There is a local government association of municipalities Binau, Neckargerach, Forest Brunn and forcing mountain.

Parish council

The municipal election in 2009 was as follows:

The turnout was 63.3 percent, up by 0.1 percentage points less than in the local elections of 2004.

Moreover, in the former municipalities of villages are set up for the purposes of Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with its own mayor and Ortschaftsrat as its Chairperson.

Mayor

The mayor is elected every eight years straight. Since 2013 Markus Haas officiating.

In the mayoral elections on February 17, 2013 Markus Haas was elected with 75.55 % in the first ballot.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: Argent ( white) in the form of a fir Wipfels three toothed green top, covered with an abutting silver ( white ) fountain bowl with three ascending silver ( white ) fountains above the other.

The fir and the fountain talking point on the place name. The six tips of the fir remember the six districts.

Twinning

Forest Brunn is twinned with Kober village in Burgenland, Austria since 1989. In addition, a very close relationship with Freyming -Merlebach exists in Lorraine, France.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Limes, World Heritage Site since 2005
  • The Protestant Church in Strümpfelbrunn was built from 1914 to 1916 after plans by Emil Doering and consecrated on 25 March 1917. Together with the adjacent rectory was built at the same time makes the ensemble a rare example of a Gruppenbau that time. The ensemble is regarded as a cultural monument, the church was extensively renovated in 1978-1995.
  • Hindenburg Tower. On the participation of the WK1 General Field Marshal and later Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and Beneckendorff during an autumn maneuvers on the Winter Veil in 1901, recalls the so-called Hindenburg column. This accessible tower with observation deck and fire bowl was built in 1927 by the Veterans' Association, among others between Strümpfelbrunn and Oberdielbach.
  • 18 meter high observation tower on the cat's back. From here one has a panoramic view of the forested hills and ridges of the Odenwald.

Parks

  • Mülben Kurpark

Economy and infrastructure

A fairly large number of small farms characterizes the economic structure of forest Brunn. The location of the districts on the heights of the Odenwald and off the federal trunk road network inhibits the development of larger companies. But have not yet received many agricultural part-time farms.

The largest employer is the Maschinenfabrik Gerd Mosca AG, one of the biggest strapping producers worldwide.

Another important source of income is tourism. Forest Brunn is a state- recognized health resort with numerous private flats and apartments as well as a holiday resort ( holiday village ). Besides recreation seekers, many guests come from the European countries to the community. A prominent destination is the cat's back (626 m above sea level. NN ), the highest elevation of the Odenwald, with its hiking trails and winter sports facilities ( trails, Katzenbuckel jumps ).

The cat's back -Therme at the site is a bathroom with several swimming pools (including outdoor pool ), sauna, steam room and a restaurant.

Education

With the Winter Veil school forest Brunn has a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule. The communities Fahrenbach, Limbach and forest Brunn joined at the beginning of the school year 2010/11 a cooperation agreement to establish a joint Werkrealschule. At the site Waldbrunn Grades 5 and 6 are performed at the site Limbach all classes from grades 7 to 10

In the village there are three kindergartens.

Media

  • Rhein- Neckar-Zeitung, issue Mosbach and Eberbach
  • Eberbacher newspaper
  • Cats Path Online Magazine

Personalities

Freeman

Forest Brunn has awarded the following honorary citizen Would:

  • Fritz Schmidt
  • Franz Vester, pastor
  • 1997: Gerhard Hauck, Mayor
  • 2003: Gerd Mosca, entrepreneurs
  • 2007: Manfred Fuchs. Mayor of the partner community Kobersdorf

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Leutwein Theodor (1849-1921), commander of the Imperial Colonial Army and governor of German South-West Africa
  • Harald B. Schäfer (1938-2013), politician ( SPD), Minister of the Environment Baden -Württemberg
  • Paul Steiner ( born 1957 ), football player, football World Cup 1990
  • Timo Bracht (* 1975), Triathlete

Other personalities who were active in forest Brunn and the districts

  • Karl Drais (1785-1851), Forstmann and inventor who lived and worked in 1839 as a forester in the forest district Brunner Waldkatzenbach, where he developed his railway handcar. In the street named after him still stands his former residence.
  • Erna Maria Geier (1923-1994 Waldbrunn ), politician of the CDU.
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