Wolfach lies where the two rivers Wolf and Kinzig meet in the Kinzig valley. The mixture of valleys and mountains is a characteristic of the town, which stretches between 250 and 880 m above sea level.
City Hall in Wolfach
District villages within the borough of Wolfach include Kirnbach, Halbmeil, Kinzigtal, and St. Roman.
History
The exact foundation year of Wolfach is not known.
The history of the town Wolfach can be traced back to the year 1084, although some finding even point back to the Roman times.
On April 21, 1945, before fleeing the city, the Gestapo took the French resistants and political prisoners held in the prison of Wolfach to a forest outside of the town, forced them to dig their own graves, and shot them on the spot, just three hours before the arrival of the French 2nd Armored Division commanded by General Leclerc.[3]
Kinzig in Wolfach
Tourism
Wolfach hotels and bed & breakfast places have an occupancy rate of 128,000 nights each year (year 2000).
1880–1900: Friedrich Armbruster, (son of J. G. Armbruster)
1900–1909: Bruno Burger
1909–1918: Karl Friedrich Armbruster, (son of F. Armbruster)
1918–1925: Gustav Bulacher
1925–1936: August Hämmerle, (from 1933 NSDAP)
1937–1941: Adolf Oehler (NSDAP), Oehler was since 1929 NSDAP-member, joined in 1940 the Waffen-SS and died in 1941 as a soldier
1941–1945: Alfred Albanus
1945: Max Vivell, (gave the town to the commander of the marching in French troops)
1945–1946: Johannes Faißt (temporarily)
1946–1951: Hans Allgeier (1891–1951)
1951–1978: Arthur Martin (1911–1999)
1978–1991: Hans-Peter Züfle
1992–2014: Gottfried Moser
since 2015: Thomas Geppert
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the town of Wolfach displays a golden wolf's hook rod on a blue background and is based on the "Wolfsangel" banner from the "Herren von Wolfach" (Lords of Wolfach) who established their control on the town in 1260. It is believed that they adopted the wolf trap sign as their banner having cleared the area of wolves to establish the town.[4]
The Dorotheenhütte glass blowing workshop is the last active glassworks using traditional methods in the Black Forest. The glasses are manufactured, i.e. they are blown, cut and engraved, in front of the visitors.
Notable people
Natives
Ernst Bassermann (1854-1917), lawyer and politician, member of Reichstag
Hans Klumbach (1904–1992), archaeologist and scholar of classical and provincial Roman studies
^Sadlier, Klemens (1971). German Coats-of-Arms. Federal Republic of Germany: Municipal Coats-of-Arms of the Federal State of Baden-Wurttemberg). Vol. 8. Angelsachsen-Verlag. p. 115.
^Amerasinghe, Terence P. (2009). Emerging World Law, Volume 1. Institute for Economic Democracy. ISBN978-1-933567-16-7.
Book references
Disch Franz: Chronik der Stadt Wolfach. Wolfach, Karlsruhe 1920.
Harter Hans: Adel und Burgen im oberen Kinziggebiet. Studien zur Besiedelung und hochmittelalterlichen Herrschaftsbildung im mittleren Schwarzwald. München 1992.
