Oberreichenbach () is a municipality in the district of

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History

The villages of Oberreichenbach and Oberkollbach were donated in 1303 by the to

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. 300 years later, the nearby village of Igelsloch became a possession of the

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when it purchased the town of

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. The village of Würzbach also became a possession of Württemberg when it acquired Zavelstein Castle in the early 14th century. In 1807, Oberreichenbach and Oberkollbach were assigned by the government of the

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to , and Igelsloch to in 1809. When these districts were dissolved in 1938, Oberreichenbach, Oberkollbach, Igelsloch, and Würzbach were all assigned to Landkreis Calw. With the exception of Oberkollbach, which grew substantially in the 1960s and 1970s, there was not much development in the modern municipal area after

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. In 1974, Oberkollbach and Igelsloch were merged into Oberreichenbach to form a new municipality that was further expanded on 1 January 1975 with Würzbach.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Oberreichenbach is situated in

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, in

, one of the 16 States of the

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. Oberreichenbach is physically located on the plateaus and in the valleys of the Enz and

Nagold Nagold () is a town in southwestern Germany, bordering the Northern Black Forest. It is located in the '' Landkreis'' (district) of Calw (Germany/Baden-Württemberg). Nagold is recorded for the first time in a historical document dating back to ...

. Roughly half of its municipal area is in the Grinde to the west, while the other half is in the

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to the east. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

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(NN) to a low of NN. Portions of the Federally protected and

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are located in Oberreichenbach's municipal area.

Demographics

Population development:

Politics

Oberreichenbach has four boroughs (''Ortsteile''), Igelsloch, Oberkollbach, Obrerreichenbach, and Würzbach, and four villages: Kunstmühle, Naislach, Siehdichfür, Unterkollbach. In addition, the minor administrative unit of Eberspiel and the

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of Oberwürzbach are found in the municipal area. Oberreichenbach is in a with the city of

Coat of arms

Oberreichenbach's municipal

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shows four

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fir trees rooted to a

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, above a

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, wavy

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and a checkboard pattern of five

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squares and five yellow squares at the base of the

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. This pattern is largely a combination of the coats of arms of Oberkollbach and Würzbach, as Oberreichenbach did not actually have a coat of arms. The wavy fess is a reference to the names Oberreichenbach, Oberkollbach, Würzbach, and Unterkollbach, as

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means "stream" in German. The four trees reference the

and references the name Igelsloch, derived from "loh", an old German word for "forest". The checkerboard pattern is taken from the arms of the Lords of Zavelstein. The municipal coat of arms was approved by the Calw district office on 5 September 1983.

Transportation

Oberreichenbach is connected to Germany's network of roadways by . Local public transportation is provided by the .

References

External links

* (in German) {{Authority control Calw (district)