Schramberg

Infobox German Location
Art = Stadt
Wappen = Wappen_Schramberg.pnglat_deg = 48 |lat_min = 13 |lat_sec = 37
lon_deg = 08 |lon_min = 23 |lon_sec = 03
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk = Freiburg
Landkreis = Rottweil
Höhe = 424
Fläche = 80.70
Einwohner = 22093
Stand = 2006-06-30
pop_ref = [cite web |url=http://www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de/ |title=Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg |language=German]
PLZ = 78142-44, 78701–13
PLZ-alt = 7230
Vorwahl = 07422
Kfz = RW
Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 3 25 053
Gliederung = Town centre plus three districts
Adresse = Hauptstraße 25
78713 Schramberg
Website = [http://www.schramberg.de/ schramberg.de]
Bürgermeister = Dr. Herbert O. Zinell
Bürgermeistertitel= Oberbürgermeister

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. [See Da-Bach-Na-Fahrt (German)]

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 and History

historical geography and history

The origines of Schramberg are situated in the year 1293 where the locality was first described as "Schrammenberg" (= wounded or scarfed hill). From 1643 Schramberg was part and center of the Herrschaft Schramberg - and from than on till 1805 belonging to Further Austria. From 1805 Schramberg was part of Württemberg (1805- 1918 Kingdom of Württemberg see also History of Württemberg).

Education

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, Suisse, since 1965
* Čakovec, Croatia, since 1989
* Glashütte, Saxony, 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 [http://www.carl-haas.de/en/general/eindex.htm] and the watch manufacturer Junghans.Also the worlds leading manufacturer of conductor boards, Schweizer Electronic [http://www.schweizerelectronic.ag/start_e.shtml] , 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
* Susanne Andreae (* 1963),writer
* 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

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