sentences:  Wagensteig is first heard of in 1125, at which time it belonged to the St. Märgen monastery.After the secularisation mandated by the German Mediatisation it came under the authority of the state of Baden, from 1819 forming part of the Freiburg district.One of the oldest routes from the Neckar and Danube regions across the Black Forest to the Rhine Valley passes through the Wagensteig valley.