Bühlertal is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of
Rastatt
Rastatt () is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river, above its junction with the Rhine and has a population of around 51,000 (2022). Rastatt was an ...
in
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
Germany
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.
Geography
Geographic location
Bühlertal encompasses almost the entirety of the Bühlot Valley and its side valleys on the Western slope of the
Northern Black Forest
The Northern Black Forest () refers to the northern third of the Black Forest in Germany or, less commonly today, to the northern half of this mountain region.
Geography
The Northern Black Forest is bounded in the north by a line from Karlsruh ...
at the ridge to the Upper Rhine Valley from an elevation of 190 meters to 1000 meters above sea level.
Municipality
To the municipality of Buehlertal belong the Obertal (Upper Valley), the settlements Altenberg, Denni (now fused with the Obertal), Boosweg (joined with Obertal), Laengenberg, the hamlets Buchkopf, Buechelbach (joined with Butschenberg), Laube (bridging Untertal and Obertal), Liehenbach (fused with Untertal), Schafhof, Schoenbuech (joined with Obertal and Buchkopf), Schwarzwasen, Sessgass, Steckenhalt, Untertal, Wintereck and Wolfsbrunnen, the hamlets Eichwald, Freihoefen, Haaberg, Hatzenwoerth, Hirschbach, Hof, Hungerberg, Klotzberg, Lachmatt, Matthaeuser, Schmelz und Sickenwald, the farmsteads Butschenberg und Gertelbach, Grasiweg, Holzmatt, Immenstein, Kohlbergwiese, Mittelberg, Oberer Plaettig (Upper Plaettig), Wiedenfelsen und Wolfshuegel. The hamlet Mistgraben is defunct since 1492, but was mentioned in two baptism records around 1860 as a location.
History
Oldest records about Buehlertal are from
1301. It belonged to the
County of Eberstein. The
Margraviate of Baden
The Margraviate of Baden () was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the right banks of the Upper Rhine in south-western Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, when it was split into the tw ...
owned farms in Buehlertal since 1536. In 1688, the ownership of Bühlertal was transferred between the Earl of Eberstein and the Margrave of Baden. It belonged to the county of Bühl, which became the
Landkreis Bühl. When the county (Landkreis) of Bühl was dissolved in 1973, Bühlertal became part of the county of Rastatt (
Landkreis Rastatt).
External links
Official website of BuehlertalBuehlertal on leo-bw.deMuseum GeiserschmiedeBuehlertal Family Book
Buehlertal-vom Wiedenfelsen-16-Obertal-Friedhof-2021-gje.jpg
Buehlertal-Obertal-Liebfrauenkirche-04-2021-gje.jpg
Buehlertal-Obertal-Liebfrauenkirche-58-zur Empore-Orgel-2021-gje.jpg
Buehlertal-Obertal-Liebfrauenkirche-Kreuzweg-14-Der heilige Leichnam Jesu wird ins Grab gelegt-2021-gje.jpg
Buehlertal-Kriegerdenkmal-12-2021-gje.jpg
Buehlertal-vom Kriegerdenkmal-28-Untertal-2021-gje.jpg
Buehlertal-Obertal-Dr-Josef-Schofer-Schule-12-Kindergarten-2021-gje.jpg
Buehlertal-Obertal-Rathaus-06-2021-gje.jpg
References
Rastatt (district)
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