Glottertal

Glottertal is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The history of mining in the Glottertal goes back to Roman times and villages in the area are mentioned in the 12th century chronicles of the Abbey of Saint Peter in the Black Forest. From 1567 until the Napoleonic Wars the area was part of Further Austria and therefore part of the Habsburg monarchy. The Glottertal municipal area was formed in 1970. The four former independent villages Unterglottertal, Oberglottertal, Ohrensbach and Föhrental were merged into the Glottertal municipal. The 1914 built Carlsbau in Glottertal was the set for the 1980s medical drama television series The Black Forest Clinic. The outside of the building and the surrounding area was filmed while the interior was filmed in a set in Hamburg. The building was used as a clinic till it was closed down in 2004. The first archaeologic artefacts demonstrating iron smelting date back to the Roman time. The mining of silver started in the 11th century.