In the year 1502, a court estate – the later Landgasthof Bären – was first mentioned in documents. However, the history of the farming village Zarten is about 1,600 years older. When the Egyptian geographer Ptolemy wrote his standard work on the then known world, he named 150 BC. Chr. In the Dreisamtal located celtic settlement “Tarodunum”. From this name later derived the Roman “Zarduna”, today’s delicate.