Hirsau (formerly Hirschau ) is a district of the town of Calw in the German state of Baden-Württemberg , located in the south-west portion of the country, about two miles north of Calw and about twenty-four miles west of Stuttgart .
15-518: Hirsau's economy includes small retail establishments, tourism, and light industry. There is a saw mill on the Ernstmuhlerweg , the road that runs along the railroad in the post card pasted above. The saw mill is a long building at the upper edge (in the picture) of town. The town has been called a "Luftkurort" ("air spa") for the purity of its air. The town's bridge over the Nagold River dates to
30-609: The Carolingian period. The town grew round the Benedictine monastery that is its main historical significance and was once among the most famous in Europe . It was founded in about 830 by Count Erlafried of Calw and re-founded, after a period of collapse, in 1059. William of Hirsau , abbot from 1069 to 1091, brought it to international prominence as the origin of the Hirsau Reforms . It
45-634: The Neckar . The main tributaries of the Nagold are the: The Nagold flows through the counties of Freudenstadt , Calw and Pforzheim (urban county). Until the great territorial upheavals around 1803 and 1806, the course of the Nagold was predominantly on the territory of Old Württemberg . Smaller areas belonged to the Margraviate of Baden or the Order of Saint John . Altensteig, Nagold, Wildberg, Calw and Liebenzell were
60-874: The Northern Black Forest and flows in an easterly direction past Nagold, Calw and Liebenzell and joins the Enz in Pforzheim , near what is now the Parkhotel Pforzheim. The Nagold flows mainly through the Black Forest . Around the town of Nagold (between Rohrdorf and Pfrondorf ) it flows through the Heckengäu region. At the Pforzheimer Kupferhammer, it enters the Pforzheim Enz Valley, which, like
75-621: The B 28 between Tübingen and Freudenstadt via Herrenberg, Nagold and Altensteig runs in a large arc to the north). Until its closure in 1967 there was a narrow gauge railway between Nagold and Altensteig: the Altensteigerle . Timber rafting was important in the Black Forest until the early 20th century. Like the Enz, the Nagold was used to transport logs. Many places, such as Weißenstein, earned their living from timber rafting and ponds were created in
90-617: The Enz, the Nagold runs mainly through protected areas . Besigheim Besigheim ( German pronunciation: [ˈbeːzɪçˌhaɪ̯m] ) is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany . It is situated 13 km north of Ludwigsburg at the confluence of the Neckar and Enz rivers. The town has many old buildings and a town hall that dates back to 1459. There are two medieval towers, Gothic church, cobblestone market place and other historical objects of interest. Besigheim
105-570: The Heckengäu, also belongs to the natural region of the Gäu . The Nagold is regarded by convention as a tributary of Enz. However, it carries more water than the upper course of the Enz at their confluence, is longer by a factor of about 2, and has a larger catchment by a factor of 3.5. Hydrographically, therefore, the main line of the Enz-Nagold- river system runs along it them. The upper Enz, however, has
120-513: The Nagold is a spring called the Nagoldursprung at Urnagold in the municipality of Seewald , on the territory of Besenfeld. After just a few kilometres, at Erzgrube, the Nagold is impounded to form the Nagold Reservoir . Up to the first town, Altensteig , the Nagold valley is mostly uninhabited. In front of Rohrdorf, the Nagold leaves the Black Forest, makes its great change of direction at
135-584: The administrative centres of the Old Württemberg; Hirsau and Reuthin were Old Württemberg monastic estates. Hirsau Abbey was important in European history. The present areas around Pforzheim (territories of Weißenstein, Dillstein and Pforzheim) belonged to Baden. Rohrdorf was the seat of a commandry of the Order of Saint John under Württemberg's sovereignty. The Nagold valley between Pforzheim and Altensteig forms
150-404: The backbone of various main transport axes. North-south traffic between Pforzheim and Nagold and further towards Horb is carried by the B 463 and Nagold Valley Railway . Between Nagold and Altensteig the Nagold valley picks up the important east-west link of the B 28 (whose traffic increasingly however is switching further south to the direct link between Freudenstadt, Horb and Tübingen, because
165-483: The foot of the ruins of Hohennagold and enters the Black Forest again north of Pfrondorf. The Nagold now passes through the above mentioned meander hills as well as its most important settlements: Wildberg, Calw , Hirsau and Bad Liebenzell . Between Dillstein and Pforzheim the Nagold leaves the Black Forest and enters into the former old town of Pforzheim merging with the Enz from the right and south. The Enz then continues eastwards to Besigheim where it empties into
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#1732845321644180-521: The renowned "elm tree" immortalized in Ludwig Uhland's eponymous poem. Nagold River The Nagold is a river in Baden-Württemberg , southwestern Germany . A tributary of the Enz , it gave its name to the town of Nagold . It merges with the smaller Enz in the town centre of Pforzheim . The Nagold is 90.7 kilometres in length and has its source in Urnagold in the municipality of Seewald in
195-525: The river for this purpose, e.g. near the village of Erzgrube . In the Black Forest today, the timber industry is still important; around Nagold agriculture is more prominent. Heavy industry and service industries play a key role, especially in Pforzheim (jewellery, precious metals, clocks, business, administration), as well as Ebhausen , Nagold, Kentheim (historic cotton mill), Calw (county town) and Liebenzell (spa). On its way to its confluence with
210-615: The wider valley and maintains its direction of flow. The upper reaches of Nagold run predominantly east and southeast as far as the town of Nagold, where it swings almost completely around, to head to Pforzheim, mainly in a northerly direction. The Nagold has formed numerous loops and 'meander hills' ( Umlaufberge ), for example at Pfrondorf (Bettenberg), in Wildberg , at Hof Waldeck (Schlossberg hill and Waldeck Castle ), near Tannenberg (Rudersberg, with hillfort) and in Weißenstein. The source of
225-517: Was secularised in 1558, and the buildings destroyed by the French in 1692. The archaeological site of Hirsau features a blend of architectural styles, with the remnants of a columned basilica, once the largest Romanesque church in southwest Germany, and the walls of a Gothic cloister. Additionally, the site includes a representative hunting lodge from the Renaissance period. Notably, the grounds once housed
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