Kaltenbronn is a hamlet and old parish in the

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that belongs to the parish of Reichental in the municipality of

Gernsbach Gernsbach () is a town in the district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Murg, east of Baden-Baden in the Black Forest. Twin towns are Baccarat in France and Pergola, Marche in Italy. The town is the hist ...

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 ...

. The hamlet in the

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with its hotel, forester’s lodge and former Baden hunting lodge lies a little below the top of the Schwarzmiss Pass (933 m) between the Murg and Enz valleys at a height of about 860 metres above sea level (NN) in the centre of the largest contiguous woodland in Baden-Württemberg. Kaltenbronn is crossed by the Landesstraße 76 B, the road over the pass between the valleys of the Murg and the Enz, and is accessible by public buses from both Gernsbach and

Bad Wildbad Bad Wildbad is a town in Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located in the government district ('' Regierungsbezirk'') of Karlsruhe and in the district (''Landkreis'') of Calw. Its coordinates are 48° 45' N, 8° 33' E. About 1 ...

. Its average annual temperature is 6 °C and its annual precipitation is 1,600 mm. It is covered by snow for an average of 75 days per year.

Leisure

Kaltenbronn is a day trippers’ destination and local recreation centre in the

Central/North Black Forest Nature Park The Central/North Black Forest Nature Park (german: Naturpark Schwarzwald Mitte/Nord) is located in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It covers an area of 3,750 square kilometre, km2 and was founded in December 2000. As of 2018, it is the third- ...

. On 1 December 2007, the Kaltenbronn Information Centre opened, providing a visitor centre and nature park gateway for the municipalities of

and Enzklösterle. Kaltenbronn is the start point for trails into the

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of the

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s of Wildseemoor and

Hohloh The Hohloh is a mountain, , on the eastern main ridge of the Northern Black Forest in Germany. It lies near the village of Kaltenbronn in the borough of Gernsbach, a town in the county of Rastatt in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Its su ...

miss (Kaltenbronn Nature and Woodland Reserve) as well as a popular ski resort with

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s, a toboggan slope and extensive network of

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s. The long-distance paths of West Way and

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run through Kaltenbronn. Another attraction is the deer enclosure. The entire region is covered by the Pforzheim Branch of the Black Forest Mountain Watch. In the vicinity of the hamlet is the observation tower on the

(988 m), built in 1897 as an

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Geschichte

Wie Reichental gehörte Kaltenbronn ursprünglich zur Herrschaft Rotenfels, von 1387 bis 1676 war es gemeinschaftlicher Besitz ( Kondominat) of the Markgrafen von

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und of the Grafen von Eberstein, danach ging es vollständig in the Besitz of the markgräflichen Linie

Baden-Baden Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with Fra ...

. Bis 1872 war Kaltenbronn beim badischen Amt Gernsbach, seither liegt es im Amt bzw. Landkreis Rastatt. Das weite und einsame Waldgebiet is Kerngebiet des Rotwildvorkommens im nördlichen Schwarzwald und war daher jahrhundertelang beliebtes Jagdgebiet für the Hochadel (unter anderem Kaiser

Wilhelm II. , house = Hohenzollern , father = Frederick III, German Emperor , mother = Victoria, Princess Royal , religion = Lutheranism (Prussian United) , signature = Wilhelm II, German Emperor Signature-.svg Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor ...

) und ab 1954 repräsentative Staatsjagd des Landes Baden-Württemberg. Verwaltet wurde diese durch the Forstamt Kaltenbronn, zu dessen Leitern unter anderem Oberforstmeister Walter Frevert (von 1953 bis 1962) gehörte. Das traditionsreiche Forstamt wurde 1998 im Zuge einer Forstverwaltungsreform of the Landesregierung unter Ministerpräsident

Erwin Teufel Erwin Teufel (born 4 September 1939, in Zimmern ob Rottweil) is a German politician of the CDU. Political career Teufel was the leader of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1978 to 1991. Teufel was Minister ...

aufgelöst. Ein badisches Jagdhaus wurde 1740 anstelle einer ''Auerhahn-Hütte'' errichtet. Aus diesem Jagdhaus ging the Kurhotel hervor. 1869/70 wurde unter Großherzog Friedrich I. von Baden ein neues Jagdhaus (hunting lodge) erbaut, the heute ebenfalls zum Hotelbetrieb gehört. -->

Literature

* Hubert Intlekofer: ''Geschichte des Kaltenbronn. Von Hochmoor, Wald und Kaiserjagd.'' Special publication by the Rastatt County Archives, Vol. 9, Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2011, . * Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (publ.): ''Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Amtliche Beschreibung nach Kreisen und Gemeinden''. Vol. V, Stuttgart, 1976, pp. 167–171. * Ludwig Schülli: ''Der Staatswald Kaltenbronn. Ein Beispiel für the Entwicklung of the Forstwirtschaft in the Waldungen des nördlichen Schwarzwaldes während of the letzten 200 Jahre''. Schriftenreihe of the Baden-Württemberg Forestry Commission, Vol. 8. Maly, Karlsruhe, 1959.

External links

Infozentrum Kaltenbronn
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