Schramberg

Schramberg
Schramberg
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Rottweil
Town subdivisions	Town centre plus three districts
Lord Mayor	Dr. Herbert O. Zinell
Basic statistics
Area	80.70 km2 (31.16 sq mi)
Elevation	424 m  (1391 ft)
Population	22,093  (30 June 2006)[1]
- Density	274 /km2 (709 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	RW
Postal codes	78142-44, 78701–13
Area code	07422
Website	schramberg.de Coordinates: 48°13′37″N 08°23′03″E / 48.22694°N 8.38417°E / 48.22694; 8.38417

Schramberg is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the eastern Black Forest, 18 km northwest of Rottweil. With all its districts Talstadt, Sulgen, Waldmössingen, Heiligenbronn, Schönbronn and Tennenbronn (since 2006) it has about 22,000 inhabitants.

The small river Schiltach flows through the town, and is famous as the course over which tub-rafting takes place during the carnival season in February or March.^[2]

Nearby towns and municipalities

The following towns and municipalities border Schramberg:

Lauterbach, Schiltach, Aichhalden, Fluorn-Winzeln, Oberndorf am Neckar, Bösingen, Dunningen, Eschbronn, Hardt ,Königsfeld im Schwarzwald, Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald, Triberg im Schwarzwald (Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis) and Hornberg (Ortenaukreis).

Geography, communication and transportation

Railways

Schramberg was the end terminus of the Schiltach-Schramberg railway, which was formerly a critical railway line for freight traffic. The line existed from 1982–1990.

History

The origines of Schramberg date back to year 1293, when the locality was first described as "Schrammenberg" ("wounded" or "scarfed hill"). From 1643 Schramberg was part and center of the Herrschaft Schramberg, belonging to Further Austria until 1805. From 1805 Schramberg was part of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Education

This section requires expansion.

Schramberg has a prominent high school, the so called Gymnasium Schramberg, which is one of the greatest and most prominent schools in the Black Forest.

Town twinning

• Hirson, France, since 1958
• Charleroi (subtown Marcinelle), Belgium, since 1964
• Lachen, Switzerland, since 1965
• Čakovec, Croatia, since 1989
• Glashütte, Germany, since 1989 informal contacts
• Pilisvörösvár, Hungary, since 1990 informal contacts

Industry

Some internationally recognised firms founded in the 19th century have their headquarters in Schramberg. These include the precision springs and plastics company HAAS [1] and the watch manufacturer Junghans. Also the worlds leading manufacturer of conductor boards, Schweizer Electronic [2], has its Head Office in Schramberg.

Notable people from Schramberg

(translated from the German wiki)

Notable natives

• Bernhard Heine (1800–1846), physician and bone expert
• Erhard Junghans d. J. (1849), Kommerzienrat,
• Arthur Junghans (1852), Geheimer Kommerzienrat
• Josef Andre (1879–1950), politician (ZENTRUM, CDU), MdR, MdL (Württemberg, Württemberg-Baden),
• Otto Ernst Schweizer (1890–1965), Architect
• Georg Knöpfle (1904–1987), football star (soccer),
• Vinzenz Erath (1906–1976), writer
• Martin Herzog (* 1936), politician
• Dizzy Krisch (* 1954), jazz musician
• Martin Weppler (* 1958), sportsman
• Martina Pfaff (* 1963), artist
• Uta-Maria Heim (* 1963), writer and artist
• Gitta Saxx (* 1965) , German Playmate of the century
• Kerstin Andreae (* 1968), politician
• Daniel Roth (* 1969), artist
• Myriam Krüger (* 1989), female football star SC Freiburg

Other notable people linked to Schramberg

• Erhard Junghans d. Ä., * 1823 in Zell am Harmersbach, founder of the Junghans watch and clock company.
• Augustinus Hieber, * 1886 was a chaplain in Schramberg.
• Eva Zeisel, * 1906 was a designer in the Schramberger Majolika.
• Ernest Majo, * 1916 artist.
• Julius Viel, * 1918 - 2002 Untersturmführer of the Waffen-SS, who was sentenced in 2001 to 12 years of prison for war crimes, and had been the local chief of the Schwäbischen Zeitung newspaper in Schramberg.
• Martin Grüner, * 1929 FDP politician who grew up in Schramberg.
• Elfriede Wendel, * 1934 - 2005 local SPD politician and Suffragette.
• Evelyne Marie France Neff, * 1941 local and regional SPD politician and Suffragette, who lived for a long time in Schramberg (1967-2006). In 2003 she received the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande for her political work.
• Bernd Richter, * 1943 founder of the ödp, and its president from 1993–1995, lives in Schramberg.
• Christophe Neff, * 1964 the geographer passed his childhood and youth in Schramberg. As scientist he does some scientific research in the Raumschaft Schramberg, including experiments on controlled wildfire.

More information

• More information about Schramberg in the German wikipedia (in German)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schramberg

some bibliographic sources about Schramberg

• Franz Fehrenbacher und Gisela Lixfeld: Stadt im Bild.Schramberg. Sutton, Erfurt 1999. ISBN 3-89702-150-1
• Erich Keyser (Hrsg.): Württembergisches Städtebuch. Band IV Teilband Baden-Württemberg Band 2 aus "Deutsches Städtebuch. Handbuch städtischer Geschichte". Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962.
• Gisela Lixfeld: Momentaufnahmen Schramberg. Ein Lesebuch. Straub, Schramberg 1992.
• Grosse Kreisstadt Schramberg (Hrsg.): Schramberg. Ein Bildband mit Texten. Mit Texten von Franz Fehrenbacher und Rolf Linkenheil. Eigenverlag, Schramberg 1981.
• Museums- und Geschichtsverein Schramberg e.V. und Große Kreisstadt Schramberg (Hrsg.): Schramberg. Adelsherrschaft, Marktflecken, Industriestadt. Straub, Schramberg 2004. ISBN 3-9807406-3-3
• C. Neff, S. Bassing, A. Scheid, C. Jentsch, S. Franger: Emploi du brûlage dirigé pour la protection de l’environnement et l’entretien du paysage – observations sur quelques examples français (Pyrénées Orientales & Gard) et allemands (Raumschaft Schramberg Forêt Noire /Allemagne). In: Alexander Scheid, Christophe Neff, Christoph Jentsch (Hrsg.): Flächenextensivierung im Mittleren Schwarzwald. Ergebnisse und Diskussion der in der Raumschaft Schramberg durchgeführten geographischen und landschafts – feuerökologischen Untersuchungen. (Materialien zur Geographie, Bd. 34). Geographisches Institut der Universität Mannheim, Mannheim 2004. ISBN 3-923750-92-7

References

v • d • e Towns and municipalities in Rottweil (district) Aichhalden | Bösingen | Deißlingen | Dietingen | Dornhan | Dunningen | Epfendorf | Eschbronn | Fluorn-Winzeln | Hardt | Lauterbach | Oberndorf am Neckar | Rottweil | Schenkenzell | Schiltach | Schramberg | Sulz am Neckar | Villingendorf | Vöhringen | Wellendingen | Zimmern ob Rottweil

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