Baiersbronn is a well-known holiday community in the northern Black
Forest. The districts of the municipality are located in the upper Murg
valley at an altitude of approx. 500m. The wooded heights of the Black
Forest invite you to relax, they are to a considerable extent in the
Black Forest National Park.
Since the municipal reform in 1975,
the community of Baiersbronn has consisted of the sub-districts of
Baiersbronn, Friedrichstal, Huzenbach, Klosterreichenbach, Mitteltal,
Obertal, Röt-Schönegründ, Schwarzenberg and Tonbach, as well as a number
of other localities and hamlets. The municipal area has an area of
around 190 km² and is almost the same as the state capital of Stuttgart.
It ranges from 450m in the Murg valley to the Hornisgrinde, which at
1,153m is the highest point in Württemberg. Over 80% of the municipal
area is forested.
Neighboring communities are Seewald,
Freudenstadt, Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach, Oppenau, Seebach and Forbach.
Baiersbronn is also known as a starred village: three restaurants
have been awarded stars in the Michelin Guide. There are
the
Schwarzwaldstube in the Hotel Traube in Tonbach (3 stars)
the Bareiß
restaurant in Baiersbronn (3 stars)
the Restaurant Schloßberg in
Baiersbronn-Schwarzenberg (2 stars)
By plane
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (IATA: FKB) is just under
70 km away, and Stuttgart Airport (IATA: STR) is around 90 km away.
By train
Baiersbronn is on the route of the Murg Valley Railway,
stations on line S31 and S41 of the Karlsruhe Transport Association are
(from north to south) Friedrichstal, Baiersbronn, Klosterreichenbach,
Heselbach, Huzenbach, Schwarzenberg and Schönmünzach
In the
street
Baiersbronn can be reached on the B462 from Rastatt in the
north (approx. 56 km) and from Freudenstadt in the south (approx. 7 km).
There are good connections to the Schwarzwaldhochstraße B500 to
Baden-Baden and to the B294 in the Enztal to Pforzheim.
KONUS guest card
Overnight guests receive the Konus guest card
upon registration in Baiersbronn, which entitles them, among other
things, to free use of all public (local) transport in the Black Forest.
Museums
Hauff's Fairy Tale Museum in Baiersbronner Oberdorf is
dedicated to Wilhelm Hauff, the author of the fairy tale The Cold Heart.
The former life of the raftsmen, charcoal burners, glassmakers and
timber merchants in the upper Murg Valley is shown.
In the
Königshammer Museum, a reconstructed Breithammer and other exhibits are
reminiscent of the history of iron processing in Friedrichstal. From
1810 to 1965 there was a hammer mill of the Royal Ironworks on the site
of the museum. A 4.6 km long circular trail in the valley of the hammers
leads to mining and forestry sites, and through the industrial and
workers' settlement to the former hammer mills.
Kulturpark Glashütte
Buhlbach in Obertal Buhlbach: The Glashütte Buhlbach, founded in 1758,
was one of the largest industrial companies in the Black Forest in the
middle of the 19th century with around 200 employees. A flourishing
glass industry began under the Böhringer family in 1788. With the
production of the Buhlbacher Schlegel, which was exported to the Tsar's
court in Saint Petersburg, the glassworks achieved national importance.
Music
The Black Forest Music Festival has been taking place in
the region since 1998 as the musical highlight of the year. Under the
artistic direction of Mark Mast, the project has meanwhile developed
into a nationwide institution and established itself in the German
festival landscape.
Theatre
Since 2001, open-air theater
performances by the Neue Studiobühne amateur theater group have been
taking place at different locations in the summer. With the piece
Morlok.Mythos.Mädesüß. the ensemble won the special prize of the jury at
Oskarle, the Baden-Württemberg dialect theater prize.
Buildings
Minster church of the Reichenbach monastery from 1083 in
Klosterreichenbach
Marienkirche Baiersbronn
Rinkenturm on the
Rinkenkopf
Monuments
The Alexanderschanze is a ground monument
that refers to a military security system built by Duke Carl Alexander
von Württemberg in 1734 near Baiersbronn. It was part of a fortification
line on the Kniebisrücken and was intended to defend the pass road
across the Black Forest.
The Röschenschanze in the vicinity of the
Hotel Refuge is located exactly on the former border between Baden and
Württemberg, so partly on the Baiersbronn area, partly it belongs to
Oppenau.
On the Rinkenkopf is the Rinkenmauer, a fortification whose
date of origin and purpose are still unknown today.
The Tannenfels
castle ruins are a former tower castle on the right side of the Murg
valley between Rechtmurg and Ilgenbach. The remains of the two meter
thick walls can still be seen.
Gastronomy
With a short break
in 2020, Baiersbronn is the only German town with two three-star
restaurants according to the Michelin Guide:
Schwarzwaldstube in the
Hotel Traube Tonbach in Tonbach (head chef Torsten Michel); completely
destroyed by fire on January 5, 2020. In 2022, the restaurant, which had
been relocated to an alternative quarter, received three stars again
Restaurant Bareiss in the Hotel Bareiss in Mitteltal (head chef
Claus-Peter Lumpp)
The Schloßberg restaurant in the Hotel
Sackmann (head chef Jörg Sackmann) in Schwarzenberg and the Köhlerstube
in the Hotel Traube in Tonbach (head chef Florian Stolte) each received
another Michelin star in 2019. This means that there are a total of
eight Michelin stars in Baiersbronn - unique in Germany in this small
area.
Natural sights
Several cirque lakes lie within
Baiersbronn's district. These include the Huzenbacher See and the
Wildsee. A hiking trail leads south-west for about 4.5 km through the
Sankenbachtal up to the Sankenbachsee. Another cirque lake originally
lay in its basin. However, this ran out around 3000 years ago because
the Sankenbach washed away the terminal moraine that dammed the lake.
From 1980 to 1981, the Obertal Forestry Office and the Freudenstadt
Water Management Office built up a mound of earth, so that a lake was
dammed up again. A steep path leads from there further up to the
Sankenbach waterfalls. Over a cirque wall made of Lower Buntsandstein,
they fall 40 meters down into the valley in two stages.
The Black
Forest National Park is largely within the district of the municipality
of Baiersbronn.
Ice rink Baiersbronn, Wilhelm-Münster-Straße 8. Tel.: +49 7442 7702.
Only open in winter. Also offers the possibility of curling. Price:
Adults €5, children €4, rental skates €4.
Hike
Baiersbronn has
a total network of 550km of mostly natural hiking trails that have been
prepared for tourism under the name Wanderhimmel. In this context, a
uniform signage was carried out by the Black Forest Association, an
information center was created at the train station, there are
weatherproof hiking maps and several managed hiking huts. The German
Hiking Association has recognized the Baiersbronn region as one of the
ten partner regions of Wanderbares Deutschland, and a total of 25
accommodations received the quality host seal of approval in this
context.
Sankenbach Falls – The waterfalls are about 4km
south-west of the town in the Sankenbach valley.
Lotharpfad am
Plonskopf – Here, in 1999, the hurricane “Lothar” knocked down the trees
on an area of 10 hectares (in the entire Black Forest it was
significantly more). A nature trail near the Schwarzwaldhochstrasse
leads through the forest fall area. It ends at a viewing platform.
Upscale
1 Schwarzwaldstube, Tonbachstrasse 237, 72270
Baiersbronn-Tonbach (Hotel Traube Tonbach). Phone: +49 7442 492665 .
Feature: Michelin 3*Michelin 3*Michelin 3*. Open: Wed 19:00-21:00,
Thu-Sun 12:00-14:00, 19:00-21:00.
2 Restaurant Bareiss,
Gaertenbühlweg 14, Baiersbronn-Mitteltal. Phone: +49 7442 47 0 .
Feature: Michelin 3*Michelin 3*Michelin 3*.
3 Restaurant Schlossberg,
Murgtalstrasse 602. Tel.: +49 7447 289 0
1 Goldener Hahn, Oberdorfstrasse 72, 72270 Baiersbronn. Phone: +49
7442 8406-0.
2 Hotel Gasthof Pappel, Oberdorfstrasse 1, 72270
Baiersbronn. Phone: +49 7442 8412 0.
3 Hotel Sonnenhalde, Obere
Sonnenhalde 63, 72270 Baiersbronn. Phone: +49 7442 8454 0.
4 Hotel
Rosengarten, Bildstöckleweg 35, 72270 Baiersbronn. Phone: +49 7442
84340.
5 Hotel Gasthof Birkenhof, Ödenhofweg 17, 72270
Baiersbronn-Mitteltal. Phone: +49 7442 8424 0.
6 Hotel Gasthof
Sternen, Ruhesteinstrasse 160, 72270 Baiersbronn-Mitteltal. Phone: +49
7442 8458 0.
7 Waldhotel Sommerberg, Hirschauerwald 23, 72270
Baiersbronn-Obertal. Phone: +49 7442 92650.
8 Landhaus Mühlengrund,
Tonbachstrasse 95 and 97, 72270 Baiersbronn-Tonbach. Phone: +49 7442
84320.
9 Hotel Müllers Löwen, Murgtalstrasse 604, 72270
Baiersbronn-Schwarzenberg. Phone: +49 7447 311.
10 Hotel Traube
Tonbach, Tonbachstrasse 237, 72270 Baiersbronn-Tonbach. Phone: +49 7442
4920 . Feature: ★★★★★.
11 Hotel Bareiss, Gaertenbühlweg 14, 72270
Baiersbronn-Mitteltal. Phone: +49 7442 47 0 . Feature: Michelin
3*Michelin 3*Michelin 3*.
12 Hotel Sackmann, 72270
Baiersbronn-Schwarzenberg. Phone: +49 7447 2890.
Tourist information at Rosenplatz. Phone: +49 7442 84140, fax: +49 7442 841448, email: info@baiersbronn.de Open: Opening times: Mon - Fri: 9 am - 6 pm, Sat, Sun and public holidays: 10 am - 1 pm (01/05 - 31/10) and 10 am - 12 pm (01/11 - 30/04).
Baiersbronn
Baiersbronn, which has belonged to Württemberg since
1320, was first mentioned in a document in 1292. A first school is
proven in 1627.
A contemporary treatise by the Royal
Statistical-Topographical Bureau from 1858 writes about the people in
the Oberamtsbezirk of Freudenstadt in the Kingdom of Württemberg, and in
particular the people from Baiersbronn:
“The human race is generally
not very strong, rather under than over medium stature, rather poor than
well nourished and paler and sickly rather than fresh and healthy
complexion. This is especially true of Baiersbronn, whose population has
visibly run down and stunted through excessive work and deprivation of
all kinds [...]. Notwithstanding this frail appearance, these people,
namely the Baiersbronners, are very hardy against atmospheric influences
and physical exertion and show an unusual tenacity and resistance to
illness and physical injuries.
Due to the social situation (crops
failed, general poverty), many people from Baiersbronn emigrated to
North America from the mid-19th century. In 1901, the Murg Valley
Railway was connected to the rail network of the Württemberg State
Railways and the neighboring Baden State Railways, which resulted in an
economic boom. Baiersbronn became a climatic health resort and winter
sports area.
In the upper Murg valley, people traditionally
settled in individual farmsteads. Small hamlets and settlements, called
parcels, gradually emerged. Street names were introduced in the old
community of Baiersbronn in 1935 during the Nazi era.
Other
places
The other villages Klosterreichenbach, Heselbach, Röt,
Huzenbach and Schwarzenberg were created as closed villages. Both
Buhlbach and Schönmünzach came about through the founding of glassworks
in the late 18th century.
The Langenbach and, after unification,
the Schönmünz represent an ancient border. This stream has been the
tribal border between Alemannen (Swabia) and Franconia since the year
496 and is still the dialect border today. For many centuries it was
also the state border between Baden and Württemberg.
Since 1938, Baiersbronn has belonged to the district of Freudenstadt. After the Second World War, the town became part of the French occupation zone and was thus assigned to the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1947, which was merged into the newly founded state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.
On September 1, 1971, the municipality of Röt was incorporated. Huzenbach, Klosterreichenbach and Schwarzenberg followed on January 1, 1974.
Mainly because of the geographically remote location, people got
married “in the valley” for centuries. As a result, the surnames Braun,
Finkbeiner (over 150 times), Frey, Gaiser (over 170 times), Haist, Mast,
Klumpp (over 100 times) and Züfle are disproportionately represented.
Other long-established clans include the Beilharz, Eberhardt, Ehmann,
Fahrner, Faißt, Glaser, Günt(h)er, Keck, Möhrle, Morlok, Pfau, Rapp,
Rothfuss, Schmelzle, Seidt, Trück, Wein, Würth and Wurster.
Due
to the geographical conditions mentioned, a special dialect developed in
the old community of Baiersbronn within the Swabian dialect area, which
linguistically separates the people of Baiersbronn from the residents of
the neighboring communities.
The inhabitants of the Murg valley
were mainly employed in agriculture and the timber industry. It was not
just the forest fire of 1800 that impoverished the Murg valley, but the
almost complete deforestation by the timber companies led to this. Only
with the increase in tourism after the Second World War did Baiersbronn
experience an economic boom.
As of December 31, 2015, the
municipality had 14,667 inhabitants.
The municipal area of Baiersbronn extends from the Murg valley at 450 m above sea level. NN to the Dreifürstenstein east of the Hornisgrinde at 1153 m, which is also the highest point in Württemberg. The Dreifürstenstein was also the westernmost point of the state of Württemberg (within the limits confirmed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and in force until 1945). Today this is the point of the district boundary between the communities of Sasbach, Seebach and Baiersbronn.
The municipality consists of the districts of Baiersbronn-Dorf with
Friedrichstal, Huzenbach, Klosterreichenbach with Reichenbacher Höfe and
Heselbach, Mitteltal, Obertal with Buhlbach, Röt-Schönegründ, Tonbach
and Schwarzenberg with Schönmünzach and Schönmünz with a total of 115
villages, hamlets, tines, farms and houses .
The official naming
of the districts is in the form "Baiersbronn-...". In the districts of
Klosterreichenbach, Röt-Schönegründ and Huzenbach as well as the two
districts of Schwarzenberg and Schönmünz together there are localities
within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with
its own local council and mayor as its chairperson. For the election of
the local council in the village of Schönmünz, the spurious local
election is used accordingly and the electoral area is divided into
three residential districts. In the remaining districts, municipal
districts are set up in accordance with the Baden-Württemberg municipal
code, each with its own district advisory board.
In the municipal
area in the borders of 1970 are the deserted areas of Strubenhart,
Talbechenhalde, Bruderhaus, Dietersbronnen, Diebelsbach and Kannenwald.
In the area of the former municipality of Schwarzenberg are the deserted
settlements of Grasegenouwa, Schrampach or Vortpach and Bubabenhütte.
Spatial development of the municipal area
The following formerly
independent communities belong to the greater community of Baiersbronn
Baiersbronn with the districts of Buhlbach, Friedrichstal,
Mitteltal, Obertal Schönmünz and Tonbach (Kniebis was ex-communalized
with Jägerloch in 1974 to Freudenstadt)
Huzenbach (1974 at
Baiersbronn; until 1818 at Schwarzenberg)
Klosterreichenbach with
Reichenbacher Höfe and Heselbach, which was incorporated in 1936
(January 1, 1974 to Baiersbronn)
Red (September 1, 1971 to
Baiersbronn)
Schwarzenberg with Schönmünzach, Zwickgabel, Vorder-,
Mittel- and Hinterlangenbach (1974 to Baiersbronn)
protected areas
In addition to the Black Forest National Park, the Baiersbronn
municipal area also includes the Schliffkopf, Kniebis-Alexanderschanze
and Wilder See-Hornisgrinde nature reserves as well as the protected
landscape areas of Lake Huzenbach, Schönmünztal and Langenbachtal,
Rotmurg and Rechtmurg and side valleys of the Murg.
In addition,
there are several sub-areas of the FFH area Wilder See - Hornisgrinde
and Oberes Murgtal and the bird sanctuary Northern Black Forest in the
city area. Baiersbronn is also located in the Black Forest Central/North
Nature Park.
Baiersbronn received its first church in 1430. Since then, one can
count on the existence of a “Care for Mary”. In 1492 it became an
independent rectory, having previously belonged to Dornstetten
ecclesiastically. Since the Reformation in Württemberg, Baiersbronn has
been shaped by evangelical pietism.
The Reichenbach monastery did
not introduce the new faith until 1595. In addition to today's six
Protestant parishes in the community as a whole, there has been a Roman
Catholic parish since the middle of the 20th century, which belongs to
the Freudenstadt deanery. There are also five New Apostolic churches. In
the meantime, an evangelical Methodist and the free church Christ Church
were founded.
Baiersbronn village with Friedrichstal
The main town of the
municipality is Baiersbronn with almost 5400 inhabitants. The district
of Friedrichstal with another 400 residents can look back on early
industrialization thanks to the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke. The scythes
from Friedrichstal were especially famous.
Huzenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1289, when Count Palatine Ludwig von Tübingen donated the town to the Reichenbach monastery. For centuries, the people of Huzenbach lived mainly from the timber industry. Huzenbach, which had previously belonged to Schwarzenberg, became independent in 1810. Today it has around 700 inhabitants.
Reichenbach Abbey was consecrated in 1085 as a subsidiary of Hirsau Abbey by Bishop Gebhard. After the introduction of the Reformation, the Prior and his monks were forced to flee in 1595 and Reichenbach became a secular Reformed community and seat of the monastery office of the same name. In 1897 the place was renamed from Reichenbach to Klosterreichenbach. The neighboring town of Heselbach was incorporated in 1936. Klosterreichenbach has about 2420 inhabitants.
The largest part of the "old community" Baiersbronn is about 4 km west of the mother place. Due to the west-east orientation of the Murg Valley, there is a distinct winter and summer side here. The almost 2100 inhabitants of Mitteltal live in typical scattered settlements, also called "parcels". The place is famous above all for the "Hotel Bareiss" and the vehicle factory "Müller Mitteltal". In the early 20th century, Kolb & Schüle AG ran a flax roasting plant in Mitteltal. In 2003, the "Morlokhof" built by the miracle healer family was acquired by hotelier Bareiss and lovingly restored. In 2008 he received the Baden-Württemberg Monument Conservation Prize for this. There has been a natural pool in Mitteltal since 2009, which was created from the old outdoor pool.
The climatic health resort of Obertal has approx. 1330 inhabitants. Its origins lie in the Tannenfels valley with the Tannenfels castle ruins. Later, the district of Buhlbach gained in importance due to the glassworks there. The glassworks operated from 1721 to 1909. In 2004, the Förderverein Glashütte Buhlbach e. V. with the aim of preserving the remaining parts of the glassworks and expanding them into a cultural park. This has now become a popular destination. Today the place is characterized by tourism.
Röt-Schönegründ was first mentioned in a document in 1282. During the Thirty Years' War it was occupied and devastated by imperial troops. In 1812 a catastrophic fire destroyed the town again, which did not spare the church either. From 1890 onwards, with industrialization (including sawmills), the economic boom in the community began. About 760 people live here.
The founding of the Reichenbach monastery in 1085 also led to the first mention of Schwarzenberg, because an estate in the village was donated to the new monastery. A glassworks was built in the Schwarzenberg district in 1773, which existed until the beginning of the 20th century and from which the Schönmünzach district developed. The poet Wilhelm Hauff received the inspiration for his fairy tale The Cold Heart during a visit to Schwarzenberg. Schönmünzach has been a Kneipp spa since 1953. Here the river Schönmünz flows into the Murg. The district of Schönmünz stretches along the Schönmünz and the Langenbach. It consists of the settlements or hamlets of Zwickgabel, Schönmünz (or Volzenhäuser), Leiiß, Vorder-, Mittel- and Hinterlangenbach. Around 960 people live here.
The small side valley with no through traffic flows into the Murg valley shortly after Baiersbronn coming from the north-west and has around 800 residents. Tonbach is particularly famous for its gastronomy, especially the Hotel Traube Tonbach.
The economy in Baiersbronn is dominated by tourism and gastronomy. Two thirds of all employees subject to social security contributions work in the trade/transport/services sector. The remaining third works in manufacturing. Other sectors of the economy based in Baiersbronn are the crafts, cardboard and printing companies, mechanical engineering companies, wood processing and freight forwarders. Among other things, Mayr-Melnhof Karton has a production site here. The trailer and body manufacturer Müller-Mitteltal is based in the district of Mitteltal.
The community lies on the Murg Valley Railway, which opened in 1901
from Freudenstadt to Klosterreichenbach. The Royal Württemberg State
Railways built the station buildings in Friedrichstal, Baiersbronn and
Klosterreichenbach as standard type IIa, IIIa and IIIb stations. Due to
the steep route, the railway was partly operated as a rack railway until
1924.
Today, the S8 line of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn connects
Baiersbronn with Karlsruhe, Freudenstadt and Bondorf. Since December
2022, regional express trains of the DB Regio Mitte (former express
train line S81) have been running from Karlsruhe via Baiersbronn to
Freudenstadt. With connections in Freudenstadt Hbf, other destinations
in the Black Forest can be reached via the Kinzig Valley Railway and the
Gäu Railway. Baiersbronn belongs to the Freudenstadt District Transport
Community.
The federal highway 462 from Rastatt to Rottweil
connects Baiersbronn to the national road network.
In the west,
federal highway 500 (Schwarzwaldhochstraße) mostly runs along the
municipal boundary, which used to be the state boundary between
Württemberg and Baden.
In Baiersbronn, in addition to the Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Gymnasium with the Johannes-Gaiser-School in the main town, there is a secondary and secondary school with a secondary school, the primary and secondary schools with respective secondary schools in Klosterreichenbach and Mitteltal as well as the Wilhelm-Münster-School in the main town, the Friedrich-Rupps-School in Schönmünzach and the elementary school Obertal three pure elementary schools.
The winding connecting road between Baiersbronn-Obertal and the Ruhestein was used once for a motor sport event on July 21, 1946, the Ruhestein mountain race. To commemorate this event, the Baiersbronn Classic has been taking place since 2013, a three-day regularity and reliability drive for classic automobiles built up to 1975.
Ferdinand Oechsle (1774–1852), developer of a must scale (“Öchsle
degrees”)
Christian Friedrich Schaible (1791–1845), born in
Klosterreichenbach, Württemberg civil servant and chief magistrate
Andreas Faißt (1821–1878), chemist and entrepreneur
Heinrich
Friedrich Otto Abel (1824–1854), historian
Gottlieb Klumpp
(1829–1918), member of the Reichstag from Schwarzenberg
Karl von Hahn
(1848–1925), explorer and ethnographer
Emil Schmid (1873–1938), chief
magistrate
Emil Georg von Stauss (1877–1942), bank manager
Ernst
Braun (1878-1962), born in Schönmünzach, hydraulic engineer and
university lecturer
Erwin Ackerknecht (1880–1960), literary historian
and librarian, director of the Schiller National Museum in Marbach am
Neckar
Eberhard Ackerknecht (1883–1968), German-Swiss professor of
veterinary anatomy
Friedrich Rothfuss (1884–1960), mayor of
Freudenstadt from 1945 to 1948
Karl Sinn (1890–1961), District
Administrator in Balingen
Otto Kienzle (1893-1969), engineer,
production planner and university lecturer
Wilhelm Braun (1897–1969),
German cross-country skier
Ernst Beilharz (1905–1984), emigrant to
America
Fritz Gaiser (1907–1994), cross-country skier
Hans Jörg
Weitbrecht (1909–1975), psychiatrist and neurologist
Werner Klumpp
(1928-2021), politician (FDP), Saarland Minister of Economic Affairs,
President of the Saar Savings Banks and Giro Association
Hermann
Bareiss (born 1944), hotelier
Dieter Frey (* 1946), social
psychologist, professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University and
academic director of the Bavarian Elite Academy
Richard Wagner (*
1947), physicist, winner of the Leibniz Prize (1990), professor at the
Technical University of Hamburg, honorary professor at the Jiaotong
University in Shanghai, since 2006 director at the Institut
Laue-Langevin in Grenoble (neutron research)
Heiner Finkbeiner (born
1949), hotelier
Stefan Wisniewski (born 1953), ex-terrorist and
former member of the Red Army Faction
Mark Mast (born 1963),
conductor and artistic director of the Black Forest Music Festival
Maren Günter (born 1976), ski racer
Jens Gaiser (born 1978), Nordic
Combined
David Siegel (born 1996), ski jumper
Julius Ackerknecht (1856-1932), secondary school teacher 1879-1883,
then professor at a high school in Stuttgart
Otto Gittinger
(1861-1939), pastor and dialect poet
Clara Nordstrom (1886–1962),
writer; lived in Baiersbronn from 1938 to the early 1940s
Max
Himmelheber (1904–2000), inventor of chipboard
Margret
Hofheinz-Döring (1910–1994), painter; lived in Baiersbronn from 1939 to
1953
Heinrich Riethmüller (1921–2006), composer and voice actor;
lived in Baiersbronn
Gerhard Maier (* 1937), later regional bishop of
the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, was vicar and pastor in
Baiersbronn from 1968 to 1973
Harald Wohlfahrt (born 1955), master
chef; worked at the Hotel Traube, Baiersbronn-Tonbach
Jörg Sackmann
(born 1960), master chef; works at Hotel Sackmann,
Baiersbronn-Schwarzenberg
Claus-Peter Lumpp (born 1964), master chef;
works at the Hotel Bareiss, Baiersbronn-Mitteltal
Conny Mayer-Bonde
(* 1972), former member of the German Bundestag (2002-2005), professor
for tourism marketing at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State
University Ravensburg
Alexander Bonde (* 1975), German politician
(Greens), 2011 to 2016 State Minister for Rural Areas and Consumer
Protection in Baden-Württemberg, lives in Baiersbronn-Mitteltal
Melanie Faißt (* 1990), ski jumper, member of SV Baiersbronn
Manuel
Faißt (* 1993), Nordic combined athlete, member of SV Baiersbronn
Svenja Würth (* 1993), ski jumper, gold medal winner at the Nordic World
Ski Championships in Lahti, lives in Baiersbronn