Wörnersberg () is a municipality in the district of

Freudenstadt Freudenstadt (, Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is the capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, 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 i ...

in southern

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Geography

Wörnersberg is located about 18 kilometers from the county town of Freudenstadt, nestled between meadows and woods in the central

Black Forest The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the States of Germany, 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 th ...

in 600 to 700 meters above sea level. Approximately 56% of the district is forested.

Municipality arrangement

The municipality Wörnersberg includes the village Wörnersberg and the house Reesenmühle.''Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Amtliche Beschreibung nach Kreisen und Gemeinden. Band V: Regierungsbezirk Karlsruhe'' Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, . S. 655

History

Wörnersberg was first documented in 1364, in 1487 a church was built. The

Duchy of Württemberg The Duchy of Württemberg () was a duchy located in the south-western part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a Imperial Estate, state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1495 to 1803. The dukedom's long survival for over three centuries was mainly du ...

acquired 1614 "semi Wörnersberg with all righteousness". The division did not last long, because already in 1625 bought Württemberg also the other half of the village with five farmers and a half day laborers.

Religions

Wörnersberg had indeed a church, but no priest. The pastor was supported from the parish

Grömbach Grömbach is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Se ...

. Wörnersberg had to give him a horse and after the service a meal. The Protestant church community Wörnersberg has a former pilgrimage church (Our Lady) with Romanesque and Gothic elements and is part of the church district

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 ...

Population Development

With an average age of 36 years Wörnersberg was the end of 2010, the municipality with the youngest average population in Baden Württemberg. Pressemitteilung Nr. 294/2011 2011 Wörnersberg lost that position on Riedhausen in district Ravensburg. Pressemitteilung Nr. 283/2012

References

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