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Rench Valley Trail
The Rench Valley Trail (german: Renchtalsteig) is a 98-kilometre-long 'prestige hiking trail (''Prädikatswanderweg'') in the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park in Germany. It runs in five stages around the Rench valley with its start and finish near Oberkirch. History The Rench Valley Trail was first certified on 15 January 2011 by the German Rambling Association as a high quality German trail (''Qualitätsweg Wanderbares Deutschland'') and opened on 22 May 2011. Short description From its starting point in Bottenau the Rench Valley Trail runs through vineyards to Schloss Staufenberg and continues to the Mooskopf with its Moos Tower. With steep ascents and descents in places, the route runs along the southern side of the Rench valley past Oppenau and Bad Peterstal to the Alexanderschanze The Alexanderschanze (Alexander's Redoubt) is a mountain pass, , on the B 28 federal road at Freudenstadt in the Northern Black Forest in southern Germany. In the vicinity is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a total area of nearly , it is the third-largest German state by both area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria). As a federated state, Baden-Württemberg is a partly-sovereign parliamentary republic. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm. What is now Baden-Württemberg was formerly the historical territories of Baden, Prussian Hohenzollern, and Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg became a state of West Germany in April 1952 by the merger of Württemberg-Baden, South Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Rambling Association
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All Saints Waterfalls
The All Saints Waterfalls (german: Allerheiligen-Wasserfälle) are located in the Black Forest on the territory of the town of Oppenau in the German state of Baden-Württemberg at an elevation of about . The Lierbach stream, also called the Grindenbach, cascades, as a natural waterfall, down seven steps, a total drop of 83 metres. Due to the scouring of the rocks under the cataract which have formed basin-like holes known as ''Gumpen'' or kolks), the falls are also called the Büttensteiner Waterfalls ("Tub Stone" waterfalls) or Sieben Bütten ("Seven Tubs"). Location and access The waterfalls belonged for centuries to All Saints' Abbey, the ruins of which are only a few hundred metres away. Because they lie in a deeply incised and narrow valley, they were inaccessible for a long time. Not until the early 19th century were they discovered with the aid of ladders. In 1840 the forestry authorities built a path that enabled access to the falls via several flights of steps and br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints' Abbey (Baden-Württemberg)
All Saints' Abbey (Kloster Allerheiligen) was a Premonstratensian monastery near Oppenau in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located at 620 metres above sea level in the upper valley of the Lierbach. History According to legend, around 1192, Dutchess Uta of Schauenburg considered where to build a monastery in memory of her late husband, Welf VI. She tied a bag of gold to a donkey and set it to roam. At length the donkey threw off the bag at this remote and inaccessible spot and Uta constructed a wooden chapel where it came to rest. The chapel was gradually extended to a Premonstratensian monastery. In 1196 the foundation charter was issued by Duchess Uta of Schauenburg. In 1200 Philip of Swabia recognised the foundation, and in 1204 Pope Innocent III confirmed it. The first abbot was Gerung. In 1248 canons from All Saints were sent to Lorsch Abbey to turn it into a Premonstratensian monastery; and Lorsch was counted as a daughter house of All Saints. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexanderschanze
The Alexanderschanze (Alexander's Redoubt) is a mountain pass, , on the B 28 federal road at Freudenstadt in the Northern Black Forest in southern Germany. In the vicinity is also a fortification and hotel of the same name. Pass The Alexanderschanze Pass lies between Freudenstadt-Kniebis, Bad Peterstal-Griesbach, Oppenau and Baiersbronn and provides a connection between the Rhine Plain at Strasbourg and the Neckar valley, which allows the Black Forest to be crossed from east to west without any other major valley crossings and pass ascents. North of the present-day Kniebis-Freudenstadt road, which largely runs along the Forbach valley, there are routes called the ''Alte Straße'' ("Old Road") and even ''Römerstraße'' ("Roman Road"). Even if there are no reliable sources that the Romans built this road, it can be safely assumed that the pass was on a long-distance route in the early Middle Ages; this is also evidenced by tracks found in the forest. In this context, "track" r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Peterstal-Griesbach
Bad Peterstal-Griesbach ( gsw, label= Low Alemannic, Bad Petersdal-Griesbach) is a municipality in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Matthias Erzberger was murdered here on August 26, 1921, for signing the 1918 Armistice for the German Empire. Two former military fortifications are located in ''Zuflucht'', a village in Bad Peterstal-Griesbach: the Schwedenschanze (Zuflucht) and the Röschenschanze. They are two of the many military protection forces in the history of the Black Forest, which were created since the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) mainly to repel French troops. See also * Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ... References External links * Relief map of the Schwedenschanze and the Röschenschanze Ortenaukreis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oppenau
Oppenau () is a town located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It has a population of 4,700 inhabitants. Geography Oppenau is situated in the Rench valley in the Black Forest. The nearest major cities are Offenburg and Freudenstadt. History In the 12th century an agricultural settling made up the village Noppenouwe, which succumbed to the House of Zähringen until 1218. After they have been died out, the dominance in the Rench-valley was fragmented. The in 1192 in Lierbach founded All Saints’ Abbey took a high political, cultural and religious influence to Oppenau at this time. In 1316 bishops from the French Strasbourg started reign about the Rench-valley. After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803, Oppenau became part of Baden. In 1990, German politician Wolfgang Schäuble suffered an assassination attempt in Oppenau. Culture Oppenau's main attractions are the ruins of the All Saints' Abbey, which was destroyed by fire in 1804, and the All Saints Waterf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moos (mountain)
The Moos is a mountain range in the Central Black Forest in southern Germany. Its highest points are the ''Siedigkopf'' () and the ''Mooskopf'' (), actually the ''Geisschleifkopf''. The Moos is the local mountain or ''Hausberg'' of Gengenbach and Oppenau. The Moos separates the valleys of the Rench and the Kinzig in an east-west direction. At the same time the Nordrach valley and theformerly free imperial valley of the Harmersbach rise on it and flow in a north-south direction. Due to its formerly dense and dark afforestation, the Moos is the scene of numerous legends and legendary figures. A leading character that appears time and again is the ''Moospfaff'', an old monk from All Saints' Abbey, who on his way to an extreme unction lost the host and now searches around leads people astray whilst he tries to find the host. The fictional character Simplicius Simplicissimus, who is commemorated on a monument, from the novel ''Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus'' by Hans Jakob Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staufenberg Castle (Black Forest) , German noble family
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Staufenberg may refer to: *Staufenberg, Hesse, a town in the district of Gießen, Hesse, Germany *Staufenberg, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany *Staufenberg (Reinhardswald), a mountain in the Reinhardswald in the district of Kassel, Hesse, Germany *Staufenberg (Vellmar), a mountain near Vellmar in the district of Kassel, Hesse, Germany *Staufenberg (Gernsbach), a village incorporated into the town of Gernsbach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany See also * Stauffenberg The Schenk von Stauffenberg family is a noble (''Uradel'') Roman Catholic family from Swabia in Germany. The family's best-known recent member was Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in the 1944 "20 July plot" to as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberkirch (Baden)
Oberkirch (Low Alemannic: ''Owerkirch'') is a town in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany about 12 km North-East of Offenburg and belongs to the Ortenaukreis district. Oberkirch is twinned with Haverfordwest which is a town in Pembrokeshire, in the country of Wales in the United Kingdom, and Oosterzele, a town in Oost-Vlaanderen, in Belgium. Image:Oberkirch Rench.jpg, Mühlbach channel in the historic city center File:Oberkirch Oberen Linde 343.jpg, Historical facade from 1659 Image:Weissmann_Oberkirch_2006.jpg, "Ronia the Robber's Daughter ''Ronia, the Robber's Daughter'' ( Swedish: ''Ronja rövardotter'') is a children's fantasy book by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, first published in 1981. The book has been adapted as a prize-winning 1984 film, a Danish and a German musi ..." at an open-air theater (2006) People from Oberkirch * Karl Stecher (1831-1923), painter * Michael Gerber (born 1970), Roman Catholic bishop References External links *Informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers. Its highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of above sea level. Roughly oblong in shape, with a length of and breadth of up to , it has an area of about 6,009 km2 (2,320 sq mi). Historically, the area was known for forestry and the mining of ore deposits, but tourism has now become the primary industry, accounting for around 300,000 jobs. There are several ruined military fortifications dating back to the 17th century. History In ancient times, the Black Forest was known as , after the Celtic deity, Abnoba. In Roman times (Late antiquity), it was given the name ("Marcynian Forest", from the Germanic word ''marka'' = "border"). The Black Forest probably represented the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rench
The Rench is a right-hand tributary of the Rhine in the Ortenau (Baden (Land), Central Baden, Germany). It rises on the southern edge of the Northern Black Forest at Kniebis near Bad Griesbach im Schwarzwald. The source farthest from the mouth is that of the ''Schöngrundbächle'' which rises at a height of around in the parish of Zuflucht (Black Forest), Zuflucht near the old youth hostel. After flowing through its steep mountainside ''klinge'' it is joined by other streams to form, first, the Old (''Alter''), then the Wild Rench (''Wilder Rench''), which first becomes the Rench below Bad Griesbach. The Rench runs in a prominent southerly arc through the Central Black Forest and crosses the hilly region of Ortenau with its orchards and vineyards before breaking out into the Rhine Plain. After just under 57 km it discharges, together with the Mühlbach (Rench), Mühlbach, into the Rhine at 314.7 km between Helmlingen (Rheinau (Baden), Rheinau) and Lichtenau (Baden), Licht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
