Buchenbach

Buchenbach is a municipality within the south west of the Black Forest in Germany. It is located in the district of Breisgau Hochschwarzwald. It is made of four groups, the primary city of Buchenbach and the villages of Falkensteig, Unteribental and Wagensteig. The modern day municipality changed into shaped via the merger of the previous entities of Buchenbach and Falkensteig on 1 December 1971, with Wagensteig being joined to them on 1 August 1973 and Unteribental on 1 January 1975. Lying within the decrease Wagensteig valley, Buchenbach is made of several small settlements and isolated farmsteads.

Constituent settlements consist of Ober and Unterbuchenbach and the village of Wiesneck, which turned into independent of the city until 1837. Wiesneck is in reality the oldest part of the municipality, with a citadel that is first documented in 1079. This turned into owned by using the counts of Haigerloch Wiesneck. In 1118, Bruno von Haigerloch Wiesneck founded the monastery of St. Margen. The Haigerloch Wiesneck line died out in 1170 and the fortress fell into the possession of a department of the Zollerns, who styled themselves as Counts of Hoheberg.