Bad Teinach-Zavelstein


Bad Teinach-Zavelstein is a town in the district of Calw, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

History

The township of Bad Teinach-Zavelstein was formed on 1 January 1975 by the merging of Bad Teinach, Zavelstein, and the towns of Emberg, Rötenbach, Schmieh, and Sommenhardt.

Geography

The township of Bad Teinach-Zavelstein is located at the center of the district of Calw, in Baden-Württemberg, one of the 16 States of the Federal Republic of Germany. Bad Teinach-Zavelstein's municipal area rests upon the plateau of the Enz and Nagold rivers, a landscape defined by severe river erosion, in the greater Black Forest region. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of Normalnull to a low of NN.
A portion of the Federally protected nature reserve is located in Bad Teinach-Zavelstein's municipal area.

Politics

Bad Teinach-Zavelstein has six boroughs, Bad Teinach, Emberg, Rötenbach, Schmieh, Sommenhardt, and Zavelstein, and five villages, Kentheim, Kollwanger Sägmühle, Lützenhardt, Teinachtal, Wilhelmshöhe.

Coat of arms

Bad Teinach-Zavelstein's municipal coat of arms is divided party per fess into an upper field of yellow with three black, and a lower field of five yellow and red squares in a checkerboard pattern. The checkboard pattern is an archaic reference to the name Zavelstein using the word , and the stag antlers are taken from the Coat of arms of Württemberg. This coat of arms was awarded by the Calw district office to Bad Teinach-Zavelstein with an accompanying municipal flag on 13 February 1981.

Transportation

Bad Teinach-Zavelstein is connected to Germany's network of roadways by the and to its rail system by the Nagold Valley Railway. Local public transportation is provided by the.