Gengenbach

Coat of arms

Gengenbach

Location of Gengenbach within Ortenaukreis district

Coordinates: 48°24′N 8°01′E / 48.400°N 8.017°ECoordinates: 48°24′N 8°01′E / 48.400°N 8.017°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Thorsten Erny

Area

• Total

61.91 km² (23.90 sq mi)

Population (2015-12-31)^[1]

• Total

10,941

• Density

180/km² (460/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

77723

07803

Website

www.stadt-gengenbach.de

Gengenbach (Low Alemannic: Gängäbach) is a town in the district of Ortenau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and a popular tourist destination on the western edge of the Black Forest with about 11,000 inhabitants. Gengenbach is well known for its traditional Alemanic "fasnacht", ("Fasend"), a kind of historically influenced celebration of carnival, where tradition is followed, from wearing costumes with carved wooden masks to clapping with a "Ratsche" (a traditional-classic wooden "sound-producing" toy). Gengenbach also boasts a picturesque, traditional, medieval town centre ("Altstadt"). The traditional town Gengenbach is the proud owner of the world's biggest advent calendar. The 24 windows of the 18th century town hall represent the 24 "windows" of an Advent calendar. The town also hosts a department of The Graduate School of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, part of the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg. The nearest cities in the region are Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Strasbourg/France. Gengenbach is twinned with the town of Obernai, Alsace, France.

History

Gengenbach was founded in the 13th century and became an Imperial Free City in 1360.

Gengenbach

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Culture and landmarks

Gengenbach ist the start point of Schwarzwald-Querwegs Gengenbach–Alpirsbach and situated at the Kinzigtäler Jakobusweg (a pilgrim route) as well as the Kandelhöhenweg (a hiking path), passing by many landmarks. Furthermore, the city is located at the German Fachwerkstraße.

Museums

Flößerei- und Verkehrsmuseum
Museum Haus Löwenberg
Narrenmuseum im Niggelturm
Kunst- und Paramentenmuseum im Mutterhaus der Franziskanerinnen
Wehrgeschichtliches Museum im Kinzigtor

Sons and daughters of the town

Hermann Maas (1877-1970), evangelical pastor
Frieder Burda (born 1936), publisher and art collector
Otto Lohmüller (born 1943), painter, sculptor and author of scout adventure books
Helmut Dorner (born 1952), painter

References

↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland nach Fläche, Bevölkerung und Postleitzahl am 30.09.2016". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.

External links

(German) Gengenbach: information and pictures

Free imperial cities of the

Holy Roman Empire

By 1792

Free Imperial Cities as of 1648

Lost imperial immediacy or no longer part of the Holy Roman Empire by 1792

^D Member of the Décapole
^H Member of the Hanseatic League
^S Member or associate of the Swiss Confederacy

Swabian Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Ecclesiastical	Augsburg Constance Ellwangen Kempten Lindau

Secular	Baden Buchau Heiligenberg Hohenzollern-Hechingen Klettgau Liechtenstein Tengen Waldburg Scheer Trauchburg Waldsee Wolfegg Wurzach Zeil Württemberg

Prelates	Baindt Buchau Elchingen Gengenbach Gutenzell Heggbach Irsee Kaisheim Mainau Marchtal Neresheim Ochsenhausen Petershausen Roggenburg Rot Rottenmünster Salmanweiler St. George's in Isny Schussenried Söflingen Ursberg Weingarten Weißenau Wettenhausen Zwiefalten

Counts Lords	Altshausen Baar Bondorf Eberstein Eglingen Eglofs Fugger Jakob Johann Markus Gundelfingen Gutenstein Hausen Heiligenberg Hohenems Hohengeroldseck Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Justingen Kinzigerthal Königsegg and Aulendorf Lustenau Meßkirch Mindelheim / Schwabegg Oberdischingen Öttingen Baldern Öttingen Wallerstein Rechberg Rothenfels and Stauffen Stühlingen and Hohenhöwen Tettnang / Langenargen Thannhausen Wiesensteig

Cities	Aalen Augsburg Biberach Bopfingen Buchau Buchhorn Dinkelsbühl Eßlingen Gengenbach Giengen Heilbronn Isny Kaufbeuren Kempten Leutkirch Lindau Memmingen Nördlingen Offenburg Pfullendorf Ravensburg Reutlingen Rottweil Schwäbisch Gmünd Schwäbisch Hall Überlingen Ulm Wangen Weil Wimpfen Zell

Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories

Towns and municipalities in Ortenau (district)

Achern Appenweier Bad Peterstal-Griesbach Berghaupten Biberach Durbach Ettenheim Fischerbach Friesenheim Gengenbach Gutach Haslach Hausach Hofstetten Hohberg Hornberg Kappel-Grafenhausen Kappelrodeck Kehl Kippenheim Lahr Lauf Lautenbach Mahlberg Meißenheim Mühlenbach Neuried Nordrach Oberharmersbach Oberkirch Oberwolfach Offenburg Ohlsbach Oppenau Ortenberg Ottenhöfen im Schwarzwald Renchen Rheinau Ringsheim Rust Sasbach Sasbachwalden Schuttertal Schutterwald Schwanau Seebach Seelbach Steinach Willstätt Wolfach Zell am Harmersbach

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 126138981 LCCN: n78056902 GND: 4020146-6

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