 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.Since then the town was essentially unchanged, using the Baden-Württemberg territorial reform in the 1970s away.The renaming in "Bernau im Schwarzwald" was carried out on 1 January 1999.