Bernau is located in a high valley in the southern Black Forest, south of the Feldberg and west of the Schluchsee.

Again in the winter of 2020-2021 snow was abundant starting December 1 and continuing for many weeks well into March.

The colonization of today's municipal area began in late 11th century with deforestation and construction of courts by lay brothers of the monastery of St. Blasien.

1934 four independent municipalities of Bernauer valley, Bernau-Innerlehen (with Riggenbach and Schwendele), Hof, Bernau-Dorf with Goldbach and Bernau-Except feudal united (with the Imperial House, Altenrond, Oberlehen, Gass, Unterlehen and Weierle) to the community Bernau.

In winter, in Bernau and Todtmoos regularly sled dog races with international participation.

Manufactured were mainly in the winter months at first commodities like cooking spoons, wooden vessels, chip baskets and boxes.

The sometimes extreme and erosion-prone hillsides made agriculture difficult, low yields and virtually non-mechanized.

So already sat early in the 1930s, the structural transformation a, which after the Second World War strengthened continued - away from agriculture and towards tourism.