Staufen in pago Brisgowe

• 770 first documentative registration of "villa staufen in pago Brisgowe"
• 1028 passing on of the rights of mining for the "Breisgau" to the bishopric Basel through emperor Konrad 11.
• 1211 registration of the lords of Staufen as bailiffs of the monestry St. Trudpert
• 1248 first documentative registration of the Staufen castle
• 1323 first documentative registration of Staufen as city
• 1336 first registration of the church "St. Martin"
• 1350 the black death (plague all around in Europe)
• 1356 heavy earthquake in and around Staufen
• 1487 building of the todays church "St. Martin"
• 1524 rebellion of farmers in Staufen
• 1533 processes of witchcraft in Staufen (until to 1632)
• 1534 refoundation of the hospital by "Ludwig von Staufen" (todays building from 1582)
• 1539 death of Faust in the restaurant "Loewen"
• 1546 building of the town hall with market-fountain
• 1566 building of the city-palace by the lords of Staufen
• 1595 year of the plague/new churchyard with the St. Sebastian - chapel (1597)
• 1602 death of the last lord of Staufen (the fief goes to Austria)
• 1626 Austria pledges the government of Staufen to "Hannibal von Schauenburg"
• 1632 in the 30-year-war Swedish troops occupy Staufen and burn down the castle (from then on ruin), then changing occupation of the city by emperor and Swedish troops, ravages and plunderers
• 1643 Staufen is headquarter of the Swedish-French Army, civilization lives in the woods for 4 months
• 1676 building of the monastery of the "Kapuziner" (today Goethe-Institute)
• 1676/79 Netherlands hereditary succession war: French troops occupy Staufen, plunderers, civilization escapes into the woods
• 1688/89 Palatinative hereditary succession war : French troops occupy Staufen und destroy the city wall
• 1725 and 1732 rebuilding of the city gates, 1827 final removal
• 1690 at the leaving of the French troops houses and the city church are being burned
• 1700 entering of Savoy families
• 1703 French soldiers plunder Staufen, civilization again in the woods
• 1722 government of Staufen goes again directly to Austria
• 1734 wood-rafting on the "Neumagen" is being stopped because of high water
• 1738 Staufen as fief to the monastery St. Blasien
• 1744/77 monastery of the "Ursulinerins" of Freiburg in Staufen
• 1792 French Revolution wars: Staufen becomes headquarter of the French immigrant-Army
• 1800 plunderer by French troops
• 1806 Staufen comes to the new founded duchy "Baden" after Napoleon’s victory in the "Pressburgian Peace"
• 1813/15 liberation wars against Napoleon
• 1828 last public execution in Staufen
• 1848 Baden Revolution: occupation of Staufen by volunteers and attack of the city by duke troops (september 24^th), end of the so called Struve-riot
• 1870 installation of the iron bridge over the "Neumagen"
• 1893 building of the city-swimming-pool
• 1894 opening of the railway Krozingen-Staufen-Sulzburg (1916 also to Münstertal)
• 1895 the city Staufen buys the castle ruin for 18.000,- Deutsche Mark
• 1899 building of the evangelist church
• 1974/78 new building of the schools (Thaddäus-Rinderle-School)
• 1980 building of the churchyard hall
• 1984 building of the St-Anna-Bridge and foundation of the pedestrian precinct in the center
• 1990 opening of the Ceramic Museum
• 1990 beginning of the annual cultural weeks

Grunern

• 1028 first documentative registration of the suburb "Kropbach" because of its silver
• 1111 belonging to the government of Staufen
• 1128 documentative registration of "Gruonre cum ecclesia"
• 1740 building of a bathing house with 36 bathes and guest rooms (Bärenbad)
• 1784 building of the old school house
• 1848 building of the town house
• 1953 building of the school house
• 1961 building of the kindergarden
• 1974 municipalication to Staufen

Wettelbrunn

• 1111 belonging to the government of Staufen
• 1275 first registration of the church
• 1953 new building of the school house
• 1957 new building of the town hall
• 1971 municipation to Staufen
• 1989 building of the kindergarten

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• 1480 (probably on april 23^rd 1478) Faust is born (likely iohann Georg Faust) in Knittlingen
• 1507 first Faust document: Johannes Trithemius, former abbot of Sponheim and now abbot of St. Jacob in Würzburg, writes a letter to the mathematics and astrology specialist Johann Virdung in Heidelberg on august 20^th . He drawed a bad and distorting picture of Faust: it is until to the middle of the 19^th century the only known fact for Faust and until to today the main source for his condemnation
• 1516 Faust is probably located in Maulbronn. He is engaged in producing gold as an alchemist for abbot Johann Entenfuss who is highly indebted because of his many building activities
• 1534 Faust makes bad forecasts for a trip to Venezuela of "Philipp of Hutten" likely in Augsburg
• 1539 Faust is invited by the indebted lords of Staufen and there died likely an unnatural death
• 1540 a letter from South America confirms Faust’s forecast on january 16^th
• 1565 many different versions of Faust’s death are being told in Staufen: Faust has died, Faust has died terribly, he was killed by the bad ghost
• 1587 the "Historia of D. Johann Fausten" is published, a book which is the basis of all the Faust-literature
• 1590 the known Faust drama is made by the english dramatic Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)
• 1772 Johann Wolfgang Goethe starts to work on his Faust

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