In late May 2016, severe weather led to flooding of Orlacher Bach and Schlossbach within 3 hours that strewed rubble across the town causing large damage but no casualties.

[3][4] "The Girl from Orlach" is a ghost story of the Biedermeier whose protagonist, Magdalena Gronbach, allegedly was capable of extrasensory perception.

She said she was the Cistercian nun Mariane Susanne from Orlach who had been born just as Magdalena on September 12, but not in 1812, but precisely 400 years before that, i.e. in 1412.

In early June of the same year the ghost of a Capuchin friar appeared to her in the form of a dark menacing black shadow.

After having observed Magdalena for five weeks the chief medical officer Justinus Kerner concluded that this was a "state of possession.