Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach ( Low Alemannic: ''Ribbeldsau-Schaba'') is a

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in the district of

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in southern

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Geography

The Municipality is located in the black forest in the Wolftal valley, 15 km away from

. The Municipality is divided into two villages, Bad Rippoldsau and Schapbach. Bad Rippoldsau has an elevation of 560 meters and Schapbach has an elevation of 410 meters.

History

The first historical mention of Bad Rippoldsau was in 1179, of Schapbach in 1220. Until 1974 the two villages were two municipalities, but then they became one. Since the 15th century there has been a spa in Bad Rippoldsau.

Sights

- The

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pilgrimage church of Bad Rippoldsau, which was built in 1829 by Christoph Arnold, a pupil of Friedrich Weinbrenner. - The baroque church of Schapbach - The Kastelstein, a rock near Bad Rippoldsau. - The Glaswaldsee, a cirque lake which was formed by glaciers during the last ice age - The Burgbach Waterfall, at 32 metres, is one of the highest free-falling cascades in Germany - From September 2010 there has been a wildlife park here with bears and wolves, located between the villages of Schapbach and Bad Rippoldsau.

Sport and recreation facilities

- The spa of Bad Rippoldsau - The open air bath in Schapbach

Government

The current mayor of the municipality is Bernhard Waidele.

Personality

* George Michael Gaisser (1595–1655), Prior in St. Nicholas and Lord in Klosterbad Rippoldsau during the

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* Christian Haldenwang (1770–1831), artist and engraver, buried in Bad Rippoldsau * Christoph Arnold (1779–1844), architect, builder of Rippoldsau Catholic Church *

Joseph Victor von Scheffel Joseph Victor von Scheffel (16 February 1826 – 9 April 1886) was a German poet and novelist. Biography He was born at Karlsruhe. His father, a retired major in the Baden army, was a civil engineer and member of the commission for regulating the ...

(1826–1886), writer, poet of '' The emergence of Rippoldsau or the story of brother Rippold '' and '' The Sweden in Rippoldsau '' * Heinrich Hans Jacob (1837–1916), writer, author of numerous stories about the Wolf valley * Marc Rosenberg (1852–1930), art historian, philologist and collector, owner of the "Schlössle" on the Schmiedsberg in Schapbach where parts of his collections were housed.Hermann Fautz: The Schlößle on Schmiedsberg. In: The Ortenau 1970 330-333 * Otto Goeringer (1853–1920), the hotel owner and operator of the spa * Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), poet, spa guest in Bad Rippoldsau * Otto Kuner (1879–1953), lawyer and politician (BCSV, CDU) was born in Bad Rippoldsau * Anna Schmid (1928–2010), long-time head of Rippoldsauer old plant, holder of the Federal Order of Merit * Adolf J. Schmid (1934–2011), historian, local historian, author of several chronicles the upper Wolf valley, honorary citizen of * Chris Weller (born 1957), musician and composer, grew up in Schapbach * Ralf Bernd Herden (born 1960), Lawyer, lecturer, writer, historian, masonic scholar, mayor from 1991 to 2007 * Wolfram Lotz (born 1981), known playwright, grew up in Bad Rippoldsau

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References

Freudenstadt (district) Spa towns in Germany {{Freudenstadt-geo-stub