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46-469: Günterstal is mentioned by name for the first time in a property deed from the year 804, at that time as "Gundherrerhusir" (Houses of Günther) in the march of Merzhausen . Around 300 years later the town reappeared under the name "Guntheristal". Around 1221, a nobleman, who according to tradition from the 18th century was called Günther of Kibenfels, gave his daughter Adelheid land in Günterstal. There she built

92-439: A brewery. From 1833 to 1834, the government of Baden constructs the present-day church, using parts of the baroque church facade and the headstone of the last abbes, and of one priest. By and by a wall is built and the church is newly equipped. The oldest piece is a madonna with a child at the entrance, dating back to the 14th century. From the former Church of the dissolved Tennenbach Abbey , the church receives an altar (table) and

138-671: A garden on the Schlossweg and been documented. Concerts and exhibitions such as Merzhausen in December take place in the Forum Merzhausen. In summer, there is a Dorfhock and on the Saturday before the 1st day of Advent there is a Christmas market on the Marktplatz . Johann Michael Winterhalder Johann Michael Winterhalder (7 September 1706, Vöhrenbach – 12 May 1759, Vöhrenbach)

184-626: A mild, mountainous landscape." The tallest tree in Germany is in Mühlwald, a part of the Arboretum Freiburg-Günterstal , a Douglas fir with a trunk circumference of 300 cm at the base, and a height of around 65 metres. It was given the name Waldtraut vom Mühlwald 47°57′12″N 7°51′40″E  /  47.953365°N 7.861127°E  / 47.953365; 7.861127  ( Standort Waldtraut vom Mühlwald ) . In August 2008,

230-516: A small hall which can seat around 120 and a separate big hall which can seat 457. Between the Forum and two residential homes is the new Marktplatz . There is a swimming pool in Merzhausen which has a sauna, sunbathing area and an outdoor pool for small children. In the middle of town, there is a sports hall with a beach volleyball arena as well as at the renaturalised Dorfbach there is a wading pool. On

276-507: A small monastery (monastic attachment?). In a document from 1224, the nunnery was first mentioned in "Gunterstal". However, Günther von Kibenfels cannot be the town's namesake because "Günter" appeared in the place name much earlier. The community around Adelheid joined the Cistercian order, which, especially since Bernhard of Clairvaux had also preached in Freiburg, sparked enthusiasm during

322-496: A villa in tuscany style , was constructed for Judge August Wohlgemuth from Müllheim . It was built from 1906 to 1913. In 1927 the order of Saint Leoba took over the estate. In the autumn of 2008, a Waldhaus was opened at the Wohnhalde. Its task is to sensibilities and to educate school classes and the public about the ecosystem of the forest. They also plan to establish a renewable forest economy. Besides changing exhibitions there

368-517: Is a cafe which is open on Sundays and bank holidays. In close relation to the Waldhaus the laying of the stone for the new Forstamt starts in 2020. A Forstamt is an office that regulates and administers forest and forest economy. The "Stiftung Waldhaus" constructed a four-story high wooden house for 2.1 million euros. It is planned for the end of 2021, that the Forstamt moves in there. The new building

414-626: Is also an addition to the Waldhaus . In the closest district Wiehre, there is the Forest Experimental and Research Establishment of Baden Württemberg. Günterstal has been connected to the town centre by line 2 the Freiburg trams since 1901, which is operated by the Freiburger Verkehrs AG . Most of the rails run next to the "Schauinslandstraße" (Schauinsland street). In Günterstal the tram has three stops: Wiesenweg , Klosterplatz , and

460-464: Is attached to the town of Freiburg im Breisgau . To the south, Merzhausen borders the municipality of Au , which belongs to the administrative region of Hexental and to the west, the municipality of Ebringen . Merzhausen is the smallest municipality in the local area with the highest population density, which is also higher than that of Freiburg. Between Schönberg and the Black Forest , lying at

506-544: Is connected with the new church, was renovated in 1978. The former Jesuitenschoss of 1666 received its modern-day form in 1727 and accommodated a tavern next to a winery. In the middle of the town is the Alte Schloss (Old Castle) of Merzhausen. The Forum Merzhausen (officially Schreibweise FORUM | Merzhausen) in the middle of town is a culture and town house and was finished in November 2012. The transparent walls surround

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552-437: Is released every two years about the municipality of Hexental in the A + K publishing house. Alongside different kindergartens and nurseries, Merzhausen possesses a primary school (Hexentalschule) and different private schools. There is one Catholic public bookstore and two retirement homes. The school's building, which until 2011 also contained a secondary school, was located on private grounds. In recognition of his donation,

598-510: The Battle of Günterstal , the irregulars were put on the run and haunted till after Günterstal. In the battle, 20 irregulars and 3 soldiers died. Two of the soldiers are remembered with a memorial at the Jägerbrunnen , which still can be visited today. The number of farms has declined. Instead, new country houses and villas have been built. At the northwest part of the village the "Villa Wohlgemuth",

644-623: The Eberdach Douglas fir was relegated to second place. The measurements of both trees were taken by a measurement team from the Geodetic Institute of the University of Karlsruhe . The measurement in March 2017, commissioned by the municipal forestry office, resulted in a height of 66.581 m. The measurement from 19 November 2019 resulted in 67.18 m. After years of planning and arguments

690-552: The Unterstadt division of the Freiburg fire service. Merzhausen is the headquarters for the Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien im Internet (The centre for instructional media on the internet) The L122 connects Merzhausen with the town of Freiburg and the municipality of Hexental. The bus line 12, which is part of the Freiburger Verkehrs AG , connects Merzhausen with Au and Vauban , a part of Freiburg and its tram network . In addition,

736-518: The (church) tabernacle, both constructed by Johann Michael Winterhalder (1706-1759). From the latter are also the cross on the right side wall and the pulpit. The stations of the cross, from 1863, were created by Wilhelm Dürr (the older), they were originally created for the Collegium Borromaeum in Freiburg. The colourful windows were created by the local class painters Helmle & Merzweiler, they were installed from 1885 to 1902. The grid behind

782-787: The Bohrertal dam took place in February 2020, and construction on the Breitmatte should begin in the summer. From the end of 2022, not only should the existing Freiburg districts be protected from a flood of the century by this 19.5-million-euro project, but they are also a prerequisite for the construction of the planned Dietenbach district. Merzhausen Merzhausen is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany . The northern and eastern part of Merzhausen

828-461: The Bohrertal dam. After the city made replacement land available to the Horben farmer, the legal dispute ended. There are also plans to increase the height of the existing flood control reservoir on the Breitmatte by two metres between the districts of Günterstal and Wiehre. The Mittel- and Unterwiehre citizens' association also resisted this, but no legal steps were taken against it. The ground-breaking for

874-623: The Crusade movement. After the death of Adelheid's father, his other possessions were also passed on to the monastic community, including the "Kibenfels" castle (on the Kybfelsen mountain). A property register from 1344 shows that the nunnery owned properties in 90 villages at the time, including today's city animal enclosure in Mundenhof . At this time, the municipality of Günterstaal comprised around 25 houses in addition to other properties. Noble families of

920-542: The Lorettostraße in Wiehre District . More important buildings and institutions: The Russian writer Maxim Gorky , who lived in Günterstal in 1923, wrote about the landscape the following: "We live in a beautiful, green valley near Freiburg. We intend to stay here over the winter. The vegetation here is very interesting, not only because of the colours, but due to its shape: thuja, cypress, and different pine trees. its

966-582: The Schnewlin family. The crest is horizontally divided into a gold part and a green part. Merzhausen has been partnered with Dardilly in the département of Rhone in France since 1982. Untied purchasing power per inhabitant was €20,871 in 2005. There are only 40 other communes in Baden-Württemberg, that have a higher purchasing power. Except for a discount supermarket to the north and a full-range provider to

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1012-512: The Schönberg. The local elections, which took place on 25 May 2014, resulted in the following seat distribution. The turnout was 50.9%, down from 2009 (55.62%). In March 2024, Melanie Kienle was elected mayor of Merzhausen. Merzhausen's coat of arms depicts on a silver (white) background a black bear, the symbol for being part of the St Gallen cloister, which holds in front of itself the crest of

1058-613: The abbess Maria Franziska Cajetana von Zurthannen, who came from the Black Forest and was as pious as she was energetic. Nothing of the abbey survived apart from the portal. Of the formerly rich furnishings of the abbey, only the following are still there: a Holy Blood relic that the Reichenau Abbey gave to the Cistercians in 1737, the associated monstrance from 1738 and the assumed baptismal font in Günterstal. Two side altars are now in

1104-523: The altar was installed in 1888. The reredos , side-altars and die steps of the pulpit were redesigned, by Petter Hillenbrand, an architect, during a renovation from 1998 to 2002. For the redesign, he used found objects of various origins. During the Baden Revolution of 1848/49, Günterstal becomes the scene of a tragic battle. The neighboring village Horben is the operation base of Franz Sigel . Here his vanguard, led by Gustav Struve , they are met by

1150-530: The area of trade, crafting and servicing as well as freelance professions within Merzhausen. Until 2005, Merzhausen had its own police force. This was dissolved which meant that the next police station in Ehrenkirchen is the only one in the local area. Hexental publishes the Hexentäler Amtsblatt fortnightly, which is delivered to all households free-of-charge. Additionally, a free information brochure

1196-472: The border with Au, the sports facilities of VfR Merzhausen have tennis courts and a sports hall. Merzhausen is the starting point for the historical Bettlerpfad (Beggar's Path), one of the old connections, which is still used to this day as a public footpath, to Freiburg via Staufen im Breisgau and Salzburg to Badenweiler. The village also has a lot of breathtaking nature, so much so that in 2015 successful breeding pairs of long-eared owl have been observed in

1242-481: The bus line 7208, maintained by Südbadenbus, operates between Bad Krozingen and Freiburg train station via Vauban. Merzhausen belongs to the tariff zone of the Regio-Verkehrsverbundes Freiburg. The Church of St. Gallus was first mentioned in 786. The "Old Church" was built between 1759 and 1760. Next to this building, a new church was built between the years of 1976 and 1978. The "Old Church" which

1288-484: The cable car station, and each hour a bus calls at Horben. Since 2019, there are two ride sharing benches in Güntertal. People who don't have a car, can sit there and wait for someone to pick them up. One is located at the last stop of the tram line and the other one is located at the southern entrance of Güntertal in the direction to Freiburg. The district can be divided into Oberdorf , the southern part, and Unterdorf ,

1334-509: The church of Buchenbach , the choir stalls in Kirchzarten , and the confessional in the church of the former Schuttern Abbey . The complex of nunnery buildings and their walls still characterise the town centre today. In 1806 the nunnery was dissolved by the order of Napoleon . In 1812, the Mez company bought the monastery building and installed a factory there. For the inhabitants of Günterstal this

1380-623: The end stop Dorfstraße . Until the end of 2014, when the extension of the cross-border line 8 of the Basel tram to Weil am Rhein was opened, this was the southernmost tram stop in Germany. Now it is only the southernmost tram stop of any German transport company . At the last stop of the tram, bus line 21 starts. During the day the bus calls at the valley station of the Schauinslandbahn and ends in Horben . The busses are running each 15 to 20 minutes to

1426-407: The former abbey buildings were acquired by the Freiburg orphan foundation. After the incorporation into Freiburg, the transportation system improved, due to the construction of the tram line in 1901. The restaurant industry gets an upswing. In 1829, the monastery is completely destroyed due to a fire. Initially, the entrepreneur family Hermann rebuilds part of the monastery buildings and established

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1472-490: The municipality named the building after Alois Rapp in 2011. The rooms of the secondary school, which became available, were obtained by local associations. Additionally, there is also a post office and a recycling centre in the town. Merzhausen is one of the few municipalities that does not possess its own fire service . Instead Freiburg's fire service has taken over the job of keeping Merzhausen fire-free. Citizens of Merzhausen are allowed to help as volunteer firefighters in

1518-574: The northern part, which faces the city. The border passes through the Maximilian-Kobe-Weg to the end tram stop and then runs along the Kuenzersteige . In the Oberdorf there are many villas and comfortable one Single-family detached homes . There are also The Unterdorf is located closer to the city of Freiburg. In the 2010 years two bakeries had to close down. The next supermarket is located in

1564-416: The northernmost part of Hexental, Merzhausen belongs to both the so-called the foothill area as well as the Black Forest, which the main fault passes through the municipality between Oberrheingraben and the Black Forest. The municipality is located at a height of 254 to 538m. The municipality is made up of the village of Merzhausen and the castle Jesuitenschloss. Merzhausen was first recorded in 786, when

1610-552: The nuns narrowly escaped the Swedes by fleeing to the Rheinau Abbey . In 1674 the nunnery, under Abbess Agnes von Greuth, released its subjects from servitude. After the economic situation of the nunnery had improved, in 1727 Abbess Maria Rosa von Neveu decided to replace the old nunnery building with a new building. In the period from 1728 to 1738, a completely new, baroque nunnery complex was built according to plans by Peter Thumb , under

1656-652: The original land owner Heimo Güter gave it away to the Abbey of Saint Gall. After diverse noble families of Freiburg occupied the land, the Society of Jesus of Freiburg acquired it. After the abolition of the holy order in 1773, the land passed over to the Schnewlin family of Bernlapp and after them, in 1838, the land became the Schauenburg. Eventually, the land pass over to the newly created Grand Duchy of Baden, alongside all of Breisgau. Population development: Merzhausen stayed after

1702-545: The pilgrimage church in Svatý Kopeček (today part of Olomouc ). This was to be their last joint project. Anton and Josef remained in Moravia . In 1733, Johann returned home to assist his overworked, eighty-year-old father. A year later, on the occasion of his marriage to Maria Scherzinger (1713–1749), the workshop became his. They had six children, two of whom, Josef and Anton (1745–1805), also became sculptors. Anton inherited

1748-594: The reformation Roman Catholic. The parish church is dedicated to Saint Gall. The parish community belongs to the pastoral unit of Hexental. Because of the immigration of the people who were driven from their homes after the Second World War, an Evangelical community arose, called the Johannes-Gemeinde, John's community. Between 1980 and 1981, the Schoenstatt Movement was created at the northern slope of

1794-624: The region such as the Küchlin, the Geben, and the Schnewlin made donations to the nunnery. Unlike in a so-called women's convent, their unmarried daughters entering the nunnery had to transfer all property to the nunnery and provide the abbesses, who also had a seat and voted in the Further Austrian Landstände (estates). In 1486 the nunnery was affected by a flood. The nunnery was also pillaged in periods of war and lost many possessions. In 1632

1840-555: The south, Merzhausen also possesses several smaller retail stores on Hexentalstraße and in the middle of Merzhausen. Every Saturday, there is a weekly market which is located in the Marktplatz in front of the Forum Merzhausen and is open from 8am-1pm. Six gastronomical companies, three of which have guestrooms, offer their services next to four vineyards, which grow the following wine varieties, Müller-Thurgau, Chasselas, pinot noir, pinot gris and pinot blanc as well as Riesling. Elsewhere, predominantly small and medium-sized companies in

1886-610: The state of Freiburg promised a subsidy of 8.8 million euros for the construction of a 13.5 metre-high, 275 metre-long, and up to 80 metre-wide embankment dam in the Bohrertal to Horben boundary. A Horben farmer, whose fields were mainly affected, had complained to the Administrative Court in Mannheim against the planning approval decision of the city, which approved the dam in Horben. Nature conservation associations and Freiburg citizens' associations had also raised large objections to

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1932-525: The student Hermann Mors, who reports that Freiburg changed side on the 22 of April 1848 and now supports the partisans, and are waiting for the Freischärler (troops/irregulars) of Sigel. Disregarding the orders from Sigel, Struve takes his 400 men through the Günterstal towards the end of the valley. Here he is met with/by Baden Army . Struve hopes that the soldiers would change sides proved wrong. It comes to

1978-469: The workshop when Johann died. His best known projects include one that had been commissioned from his father in 1715, but never completed; twelve figures for the side altars at the Vöhrenbach parish Church of St. Martin  [ de ] . It was the first project he undertook after returning home. The original church was demolished in the 1950s, and the figures were loaned out or kept in an attic until

2024-702: Was a German artist in the Baroque style; from the Winterhalder family  [ de ] of sculptors. He was one of three sons born to the sculptor, Adam Winterhalder  [ de ] . His training took place in his father's workshop, as it did for his older brothers, Anton (1699–1758) and Josef . In 1725, together with one of his father's apprentices, Matthias Faller  [ de ] , he set out on his Journeyman years . After spending some time in Gengenbach with his cousin, Philipp  [ de ] , who

2070-443: Was a historical break, for six hundred years the nunnery had influenced life in Günterstal. Günterstal is now a fully politically independent village. Although, it was not sustainable for to long, since an appropriate fortune is missing. As an "island" within the district of Freiburg, the people of Günterstal had to participate in the maintenance of the road network. In 1890 a town meeting decided to be incorporated into Freiburg. In 1892

2116-573: Was ill, they continued through Colmar , Augsburg and Munich, to Prague and Vienna. In Vienna he made contact with the sculptor, Georg Raphael Donner , which would be significant to his career. From 1728 to 1730, he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts ; following Josef, who had attended the Academy the two years prior. From 1731 to 1732, all three brothers worked at the Hradisko Monastery , and at

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