Ameisenbühl (Kohlwald)
| Ameisenbühl | ||
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| height | 525 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Bavaria | |
| Mountains | Fichtel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '17 " N , 12 ° 14' 24" E | |
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The Ameisenbühl is a wooded hill southeast of Schirnding in Upper Franconia . The summit is 525 m above sea level. NHN on the northwestern edge of the Arzberger Forest in the southeastern Fichtelgebirge .
Waters
To the west of the hill is the Lindenbach and its tributary Kalter Bach, to the east of it Schmeckenbach and Raitschenbach, the later Grenzbach (Czech: Pomezní potok ). After a short course they flow into the Röslau passing northwest .
history
In earlier years an important road ("Via que procedit de Egire") ran to Eger ( Cheb ) on the north side . Its eastern flank has always represented the natural border between the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Kingdom of Bavaria . In addition to the "official" trade route along the Röslau valley, numerous smuggling trails ran over the hill, then known as "Meisenbuhl". The field names such as Tabaksteig , Passauf or Durchschlupf , which appear in the Bavarian original cadastre in the 1810s, prove that this was an "open secret". After the Great Depression of the border demarcation local fell during the period of National Socialism for several years into insignificance, however, the land area names were recalled. Immediately after the end of the Second World War , the border was attached to the Iron Curtain as part of the isolation of the Eastern Bloc . Barbed wire barriers from the war were replaced by high-voltage fences , and sections of the so-called “green border” were mined and expanded into part of the “death strip”. It was not until the 1990s, with the break-up of the Soviet Union and the liberalization of relations with Czechoslovakia , that the border installations were partially dismantled. The former forest aisles on the eastern edge of the Ameisenbühl are still clearly visible in aerial photographs.
cards
- Fritsch hiking map 1: 50,000, sheet 52, Fichtelgebirge Nature Park - Steinwald
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geodata with the BayernAtlas
- ↑ Field names on historical map
- ↑ Troubled times; Border observations from nearby Hohenberg