Location The Münstertal stretches from Staufen im Breisgau up into the Black Forest. It divides into several side valleys and extends in the direction of Belchen, via the district of Stohren towards the Schauinsland and via the Münsterhalde towards Badenweiler. The altitude of the Münstertal ranges from 380 m above sea level up to 1414 m on the summit of the Belchen, which represents a difference of 1060 meters. Constituent communities The Münstertal consists of the formerly independent communities Obermünstertal and Untermünstertal with a total of 65 villages, hamlets, farms and houses. The villages of Breitmatt, Diezelbach, Hasengrund, Laisacker, Landensberg, Langenbach, Lehengasse, Limberg, Rammelsbach, Sägerstrasse, Sirnitz, Sirnitzgrund, Wildsbach, which were established between 1949 and 1950, are situated in Untermünstertal, and the villages of Fischmatte, Gufenbach, Hinterer Rotenbuck, Hof, Kaltwasser, Mulden, Münster, Münster, Neuhäuser, Neuhäuser, Prestenberg-Lehn, Süßenbrunn, Vorderer Rotenbuck, Upper Wasen, Lower Wasen and Ziegelplatz were established in 1960.
History
The village of Münster was first mentioned in 1258 and gave the valley its name. In 1346 it was destroyed by the Counts of Freiburg. On December 1, 1971, the independent communities of Obermünstertal and Untermünstertal merged to become the municipality of Münstertal.
The museum in the Black Forest House 1902, where the ARDtelevision series under the same name that received the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in 2003 has been produced, reports on everyday life on a mountain farm as well as on the creation of the famous TV production.
The bee museum is known across the borders of Baden and shows the cohabitation of men and bees from the Stone Age to the present. It is the biggest of its kind in Europe.
The exhibition mine Teufelsgrund displays the mining tradition of the Black Forest. The silver mining of the Middle Ages brought Münster, how Münstertal was called back then, great wealth. Until 1958 fluorspar and barite was mined here. Today, the mine disposes over an Asthma therapie tunnel where respiratory- and skin diseases are being treated.
The museum for mining, forest- and settlement history gives an insight on the tradition and the history of the Münstertal.
Famous Buildings The monastery St. Trudpert was founded in the 9th century. For a long time it was the village´s center and the starting point of the christianization of the southern part of the Black Forest. Today, it represents the mother house of the nuns of the holy Josef. In the district Obermünstertal you can visit the ruin of the castle Scharfenstein. Deer sculpture On the main road L L 130 between Rotenbuck and Münsterhalden, unknown persons set up a life-size deer sculpture on a rock during the Nacht night of May 1, 2016.
was a castle whose ruins can be visited in Obermünstertal.
Literature
André Bechtold: Die Bergstadt Münster und die habsburgische Herrschaftsbildung am Oberrhein im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert. In: Das Markgräflerland, Band 2/2003, Schopfheim 2003, S. 81–91.
Korinna Thiem: Die Historische Landschaftsanalyse als Methode für die Fließgewässerbewertung am Beispiel des Münstertals im Schwarzwald.. Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006
