Kaltenbronn (Gernsbach)
Kaltenbronn is a hamlet and old parish in the Black Forest in Germany that belongs to the parish of Reichental in the municipality of Gernsbach in Baden-Württemberg. The hamlet in the northern Black Forest with its hotel, forester’s lodge and former Baden hunting lodge lies a little below the top of the Schwarzmiss Pass (933 m) between the Murg and Enz valleys at a height of about 860 metres above sea level (NN) in the centre of the largest contiguous woodland in Baden-Württemberg.
Kaltenbronn is crossed by the Landesstraße 76 B, the road over the pass between the valleys of the Murg and the Enz, and is accessible by public buses from both Gernsbach and Bad Wildbad. Its average annual temperature is 6 °C and its annual precipitation is 1,600 mm. It is covered by snow for an average of 75 days per year.
Leisure
Kaltenbronn is a day trippers’ destination and local recreation centre in the Central/North Black Forest Nature Park. On 1 December 2007, the Kaltenbronn Information Centre opened, providing a visitor centre and nature park gateway for the municipalities of Gernsbach, Bad Wildbad and Enzklösterle.
Kaltenbronn is the start point for trails into the nature reserves of the raised bogs of Wildseemoor and Hohlohmiss (Kaltenbronn Nature and Woodland Reserve) as well as a popular ski resort with ski lifts, a toboggan slope and extensive network of loipes. The long-distance paths of West Way and Middle Way run through Kaltenbronn. Another attraction is the deer enclosure. The entire region is covered by the Pforzheim Branch of the Black Forest Mountain Watch.
In the vicinity of the hamlet is the observation tower on the Hohloh (988 m), built in 1897 as an Emperor William tower.
Literature
- Hubert Intlekofer: Geschichte des Kaltenbronn. Von Hochmoor, Wald und Kaiserjagd. Special publication by the Rastatt County Archives, Vol. 9, Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-938047-53-8.
- Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (publ.): Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Amtliche Beschreibung nach Kreisen und Gemeinden. Vol. V, Stuttgart, 1976, pp. 167–171.
- Ludwig Schülli: Der Staatswald Kaltenbronn. Ein Beispiel für the Entwicklung of the Forstwirtschaft in the Waldungen des nördlichen Schwarzwaldes während of the letzten 200 Jahre. Schriftenreihe of the Baden-Württemberg Forestry Commission, Vol. 8. Maly, Karlsruhe, 1959.
