Offshoot

The offshoot in 2009. The barn in the foreground was demolished in 2011.

Ableg is an abandoned hamlet in the town of Zwiesel in the Lower Bavarian district of Regen .

location

The Ableg is located about two kilometers north-northwest of Zwiesel in the Rabenstein district at an altitude of 750 meters. The Kaisersteig and, branching off from it, the Rabensteig lead here from Rabenstein.

history

Glassmakers and ash burners who worked for the glassworks in Rabenstein lived in Ableg. After the death of the young owner of the glassworks, Max von Kiesling, the heirs sold Gut Rabenstein to the state in 1847. The Schmid family of woodworkers followed the glassmaker families on the Ableg.

The offshoot included 12 days' work of land that the family had leased from the forestry office. After the Second World War, the forest below the Ableg was cut down, clearing the view of Little and Big Rachel . In 1951, the Rabenstein Forestry Office had a barn built above the house after two small stalls had been demolished.

Until recently, the water had to be fetched from a well 700 meters away, and there was also no power connection. Josef Schmid moved away after the wedding in 1962, Toni Schmid moved to Rabenstein at the end of 1966. The last inhabitants of the desert were her aunt Adelheid Schmid, who was widowed at an early age, and her granddaughter Michaela. They left the wilderness in 1968, soon after the house belonging to the state forest was demolished.

Only the barn remained. It served the forestry office as a storage room for equipment and as a warehouse for wild hay. In the past few years it was no longer entertained and fell into disrepair until it had to be demolished in the summer of 2011.

literature

• Sven Bauer: Only memories remain of life on the Ableg , in: Der Bayerwald-Bote from Wednesday, August 31, 2011, number 200, page 20

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '  N , 13 ° 13'  E