Baiersbronn

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Baiersbronn
Municipality
Baiersbronn
Coat of arms
Location of Baiersbronn within Freudenstadt district
Baiersbronn Show map of Germany Baiersbronn Show map of Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48°30′21″N 8°22′16″E / 48.50583°N 8.37111°E / 48.50583; 8.37111
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Karlsruhe
District	Freudenstadt
Government
• Mayor (2019–27)	Michael Ruf[1] (Ind.)
Area
• Total	189.70 km2 (73.24 sq mi)
Elevation	584 m (1,916 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	14,942
• Density	79/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	72270
Dialling codes	07442, 07447, 07449
Vehicle registration	FDS, HCH, HOR, WOL
Website	https://www.gemeinde-baiersbronn.de/

Baiersbronn is a municipality and a village in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest on the Murg river. Nearby is the mountain of Rinkenkopf (759.6 m) with its hillfort, the Rinkenwall.

Administratively, Baiersbronn consists of the following nine villages:

• Baiersbronn
• Friedrichstal
• Huzenbach
• Klosterreichenbach
• Mitteltal
• Obertal
• Röt-Schönegründ
• Schönmünzach-Schwarzenberg
• Tonbach

In its current form, Baiersbronn was created in the 1960s and 1970s by joining five municipalities. Its main industry is tourism.

Baiersbronn is twinned with Midhurst in West Sussex, England. Reichenbach Priory, a medieval monastery building, is located in the village of Klosterreichenbach.

Baiersbronn is famous as a centre of haute cuisine in Germany, having 8 Michelin stars in total. According to the New York Times of April 2013, Baiersbronn has the same number of Michelin three-star restaurants as London and twice as many as Chicago.^[3] According to the New York Times, "Baiersbronn is now on its way to becoming recognized as the world’s most unexpected restaurant capital."^[4]

• Ferdinand Oechsle (1774–1852), developer of a most scale, Mostwaage ("Oechsle degree")
• Emil Georg von Stauß (1877-1942), German banke
• Werner Klumpp (born 1928), politician (FDP), Saarland Minister for Economic Affairs, President of the Savings Banks Association Saar
• Stefan Wisniewski (born 1953), ex-terrorist and former member of the Red Army Faction
• Jens Gaiser (born 1978), Nordic combiner
• Melanie Faisst (born 1990), ski jumper
• Manuel Faisst (born 1993), Nordic combiner
• David Siegel (born 1996), ski jumper

Lakes within the municipality

• Buhlbachsee
• Sankenbachsee

Waterfalls

• Sankenbach Waterfalls