Baiersbronn is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

and a village in the district of

Freudenstadt Freudenstadt (Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to the eas ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

in southern

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. It is situated in the

Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...

on the Murg river. Nearby is the mountain of Rinkenkopf (759.6 m) with its

hillfort A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Some were used in the post-Roma ...

, 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 Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeh ...

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 ''Haute cuisine'' (; ) or ''grande cuisine'' is the cuisine of "high-level" establishments, gourmet restaurants, and luxury hotels. ''Haute cuisine'' is characterized by the meticulous preparation and careful presentation of food at a high pric ...

in Germany, having 8 Michelin stars in total. In 2007 Claus-Peter Lumpp, whose restaurant ''Bareiss'' is the second three-star eatery in the town of Baiersbronn earned his third Michelin star. Lumpp's neighbour, Harald Wohlfahrt, of ''Schwarzwaldstube'' had joined the three-star list in 1992. The final two stars are held by Jörg Sackmann at his restaurant ''Schlossberg''. 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

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* Ferdinand Oechsle (1774–1852), developer of a most scale, Mostwaage ("Oechsle degree") *

Emil Georg von Stauß Emil Georg von Stauss (often rendered Emil Georg von Stauß, 6 October 1877 in Baiersbronn – 11 December 1942 in Berlin) was a German banker who served as Director-General of the board of the Deutsche Bank. Business career As well as his banking ...

(1877-1942), German banker * Erwin Ackerknecht (1880–1960), literary historian and librarian, director of the Schiller-Nationalmuseum

Marbach am Neckar Marbach am Neckar is a town about 20 kilometres north of Stuttgart. It belongs to the district of Ludwigsburg, the Stuttgart region and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart. Marbach is known as the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller, to ...

* Eberhard Ackerknecht (1883–1968), German-Swiss professor of veterinary anatomy * Werner Klumpp (born 1928), politician (FDP), Saarland Minister for Economic Affairs, President of the Savings Banks Association Saar * Dieter Frey (born 1946), a social psychologist, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Academic Director of the Bavarian Elite Academy *

Stefan Wisniewski Stefan Wisniewski (born 8 April 1953) is a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF). Early life Wisniewski was born in 1953 in Klosterreichenbach, a part of Baiersbronn, Baden-Württemberg, in the Black Forest. He was the son of Gisela, a ...

(born 1953), ex-terrorist and former member of the

Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970. The ...

* Jörg Sackmann (born 1960), master chef; works in Hotel Sackmann, Baiersbronn-Schwarzenberg * Jens Gaiser (born 1978), Nordic combiner * Melanie Faisst (born 1990), ski jumper *

Manuel Faisst Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name) * Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manu ...

(born 1993), Nordic combiner * David Siegel (born 1996), ski jumper

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Born in Baiersbronn

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