Baiersbronn: general information

 Location:
•   Baiersbronn; mother place and 8 neighbouring villages
•   In the northern part of the black forest
•   Belongs to the district Freudenstadt
  Inhabitants:
•   16.100 incl. all neighbouring villages
  Altitude:
•   from 460 m to 1.150 m
•   Baiersbronn (548 m)
•   Schönmünzach / Schwarzenberg (460-550 m)
•   Klosterreichenbach / Heselbach (520 m)
•   Obertal / Buhlbach (600 m)
•   Huzenbach (500 m)
•   Tonbach (568 m)
•   Mitteltal (570 m)
•   Röt (500 m)
•   Ruhestein / Schliffkopf / Hornisgrinde (916 m)

  Area:
•   18.970 hectar in total;
•   east-west extension up to 57 km;
•   5 lakes resulting from the glacial period ( lake Buhlbach, lake Ellbach, lake Huzenbach, lake Sankenbach, lake Wildsee);
•   40 km watercourse of the river Murg;
•   50 mountains reaching from 800 m up to 1150 m

  Proportions of the wood:
•   about 81% of the whole area;
•   biggest wooded municipality of Baden-Württemberg;
•   3 public forest offices

  Historical points:
•   Schwarzenberg-Schönmünzach: documentary mentioned since 1289.
•   Klosterreichenbach: 1082 foundation document of the monastery.
•   Heselbach: Documentary mentioned since 1289;
•   Oldest farm of the year 1470;
•   church Petrusstein is the oldest church report in the upper Murg Valley, worth seeing is the portal decoration.

  Special awards:
•   several honoured restaurants and hotels
•   prize winner of the national competition „Familiyholidays 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009“

  Arrival:
•   Arrival by car:
•  Motorway Karlsruhe-Basel (A5), exit Rastatt (B462) or exit Baden-Baden (B 500) passing by the Schwarzwaldhochstraße or exit Appenweier (B 28);
•   Motorway Stuttgart (A8) ,exit Pforzheim (B 294)
•   Motorway Singen (A 81), exit Herrenberg, Horb / Freudenstadt
   
•   Arrival by train:
•   daily Inter Regio-connection to/from Baiersbronn
•   hourly commuter trains to/from Karlsruhe
•   2 railway stations: Baiersbronn and Schönmünzach
•   4 stations: Klosterreichenbach, Röt, Huzenbach, Schwarzenberg
•   pick up service by the host in Baiersbronn at the railway stations

  Some distances:
•   Berlin 719 km
•   Dortmund 420 km
•   Dresden 597 km
•   Frankfurt 211 km
•   Hamburg 695 km
•   Köln 374 km
•   München 298 km
•   Saarbrücken 265 km
•   Straßburg 75 km
•   Stuttgart 94 km
   
  Local traffic:
•   Bus-connections in all locations to Freudenstadt
•   Leisure-time bus at weekends and on public holidays

•   Travel agency Klumpp, Freudenstädter Straße, Tel: 07442/180000