Ravenna Gorge
The Ravennaschlucht is a gorge in the southern Black Forest . It opens into the trough-shaped upper Höllental . The Ravennabach drains the extensive high trough to the north of it around the village of Breitnau , within the boundaries of which there is also the 4 km long, winding gorge. Here the Ravenna forms several waterfalls , including the 16 meter high Great Ravenna Fall on a traversing fault and the Small Ravenna Fall with a height of 6 meters. The gorge follows the Black Forest homeland path, partly over stairs and rock galleries . South of the gorge, the B 31 winds up the valley head of the Höllental (Höllentalsteige). It protrudes from a serpentine around the so-called Kreuzfelsen in the Ravennaschlucht.
The name of the gorge is mostly derived from the French ravin for gorge . According to another opinion, the name formed from the owner's name Rappen and A for Bach was blunted to Ravenna .
In earlier times there were several mills in the gorge, two of which have been preserved. In the case of the listed Großjockenmühle at the upper end of the gorge, which was built in 1883 , the water was notably directed through the roof of the mill onto the water wheel.
The Höllentalbahn cable car crosses the gorge exit via the 37 meter high Ravenna bridge . The St. Oswald Chapel (built in 1148) and the Hofgut Sternen are nearby. As part of her bridal trip from Vienna to Versailles, Marie-Antoinette is said to have stopped at Sternen in 1770. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed there in 1779. Since 2010 there has been a Christmas market under the illuminated viaduct on the Advent weekends.
Below the Ravennabrücke, the Galgenbühl towers over the valley floor by around 30 meters. Death sentences were carried out there on the former gallows . A pavilion built there later deteriorated over time. The slopes, which were initially used as pasture, were reforested with Douglas firs and spruces in the 1950s. In 2010 all the trees were felled and a new, clapboard-roofed pavilion was set up on the hilltop .
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Adam Kraus: Where does the name Ravenna in Höllental come from? - A contribution to the discussion , in: Schau-ins-Land 99, Freiburg 1980, pp. 137f.
- ↑ Peter Stellmach: Breitnau: Höllental: Christmas market in the Ravennaschlucht: only here you can get Rothaus punch. Badische Zeitung, November 18, 2014, accessed on December 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Dieter Maurer: District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald: Free view from Galgenbühl , Badische Zeitung, October 21, 2010, accessed on June 24, 2011
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Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 11 ″ N , 8 ° 5 ′ 6 ″ E