Tiefenbronn () is a municipality in the Enz district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
History
In 1806, Tiefenbronn became a possession of the Grand Duchy of Baden at the expense of the . It was first assigned to the district of
Pforzheim in 1806 and remained in the larger city's jurisdiction until the , created on 25 June 1939, was dissolved in 1972. On 1 January 1973, as part of , Tiefenbronn was assigned to the newly created
Enzkreis.
Geography
The municipality (
Gemeinde) of Tiefenbronn covers of the
Enzkreis, a district of Baden-Württemberg,
Germany. It is located on the edge of the
Black Forest and the . The
buntsandstein of the Röt Formation, under the Black Forest, extends into the municipal area from the west as far east as the border with
Heimsheim. North and south of the buntsandstein are the wooded and
karstified hills of
muschelkalk of the Heckengäu. The main watercourse is the Würm, a tributary of the
Enz that flows through Tiefenbronn in several
meanders. The lowest elevation above sea level,
Normalnull (NN), is found where the Würm forms the border with
Pforzheim. The highest elevation is NN, on the northern slope of the Büchelberg.
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Coat of arms
Tiefenbronn's coat of arms displays a golden well with the bucket drawn up on green ground upon a field of blue. The well's usage as a symbol of the town dates to 1721, but was not made official until 1966, when the municipal pattern and tincture were decided with the advice of the . This coat of arms was approved by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on 30 March 1966 again on 15 February 1979 by the Enz district office after the merging of Lehningen and Mühlhausen into Tiefenbronn in 1972.[
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