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Baiersbronn

Field	Value
image_coa	DEU Baiersbronn COA.svg
image_photo	Baiersbronn 2012.jpg
image_caption	Baiersbronn
coordinates
image_plan	Karte Baiersbronn.png
state	Baden-Württemberg
region	Karlsruhe
district	Freudenstadt
elevation	584
area	189.58
postal_code	72270
area_code	07442, 07447, 07449
licence	FDS, HCH, HOR, WOL
Gemeindeschlüssel	08 2 37 004
website	https://www.gemeinde-baiersbronn.de/
mayor	Michael Ruf
leader_term	2019–27
party	Independent

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. According to the New York Times, "Baiersbronn is now on its way to becoming recognized as the world’s most unexpected restaurant capital."

Born in Baiersbronn

Ferdinand Oechsle (1774–1852), developer of a most scale, Mostwaage ("Oechsle degree")
Emil Georg von Stauß (1877-1942), German banker
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

References

[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse], Staatsanzeiger, accessed 12 September 2021.
Kulish, Nicholas. (2013-04-04). "One Tiny German Town, Seven Big Michelin Stars". The New York Times.
(4 April 2013). "One Tiny German Town, Seven Big Michelin Stars". The New York Times.

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