Amseldell
| Amseldell | ||
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 Memorial plaque to the king's visit in 1862 |
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| place | Trippstadt | |
| Client | Carl von Gienanth | |
| Construction year | 19th century | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 20 '56.9 " N , 7 ° 44' 59.1" E | |
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The Amseldell is a former park-like facility in the Palatinate Forest south of Kaiserslautern ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).
geography
The Amseldell lies in the middle of the forest at 360 m above sea level. NHN about 2 km southwest of the center of Trippstadt . From the naturally designed Karlstal der Moosalb a notched valley , also called Amseldell , extends to the left up to about 400 m above sea level. NHN . The former park extends about halfway. The ascent begins at a height of around 300 m near the lower entrance of the Karlstal Gorge, roughly opposite the confluence of the Kaltenborn and the Moosalb.
On this narrow path, a rock cave is passed on the left. The rock, which serves as the cave ceiling, was closed off by a coarsely bricked outer wall with door and window openings towards the front. A woman who was popularly known as the "rock woman" lived there until 1843. The cave is one of numerous cave dwellings that existed in the Palatinate , Alsace or even in the Harz (there e.g. the Langenstein cave dwellings ) around the middle of the 19th century.
One of the forest and cultural-historical hiking trails that were signposted in 1997 under the motto "Search for traces " starting from the hamlet of Johanniskreuz , also leads to the Amseldell with a detour. A leaflet about this 21 km long and orange-yellow marked path contains further information about the Amseldell; it is available in Trippstadt and Johanniskreuz.
history
The name means Amselmulde and means that blackbirds could be seen in a depression there. It must have been given at a time when the blackbird was still a shy forest bird, i.e. before the 19th century.
The complex in the Amseldell was designed in the 19th century under Baron Carl von Gienanth (1818–1890), whose family owned an ironworks in Trippstadt and since 1833 also the local castle , to enrich the promenade in Karlstal; the valley itself had already been artistically worked on in the 1780s by the garden architect Friedrich Ludwig Sckell .
A cast-iron dedication plaque reports on the royal visit in 1862:
“Dedicated to the memory of the second visit to Karlsthales and the Amseldelle of His Majesty King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, His King. Highness of the Grand Duke Ludwig III. of Hesse and the Rhine, your Kaiserl. Highness of the Archduchess Hildegarde of Austria, Königl. Princess of Bavaria, along with high entourage on August 9, 1862. "
In 1890, after the death of Carl von Gienanth, his heirs donated the Karlstal and the Amseldell to the Trippstadter Beautification Association , which maintained both facilities until the 1930s.
In May 1914, the Amseldell site was the venue for a regional gymnastics festival in which around 250 gymnasts took part. A memorial stone with another cast iron text plaque reminds of this on site.
investment
The facility was designed as a site for various leisure activities. Today it is in dire need of restoration. Recognizable remains of a maze made of hedges , a bowling alley , a shooting range and a pavilion are still preserved .
literature
Wolfgang Dammbrück: The last inhabitant of the rock cave at the entrance to the "Amseldell", the "rock woman" from the Karlstal in Trippstadt . In: Leaves on the local history of Trippstadt . No. 6 , 1996, pp. 40-42 .
Web links
- Location of the Amseldell on: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Dammbrück: The last inhabitant of the rock cave at the entrance to the "Amseldell", the "rock woman" from the Trippstadter Karlstal . 1996, p. 40-42 .
- ↑ a b c Hermann-Josef Ehrenberg: Open Monument Day. The other garden in Trippstadt. (PDF; 389 kB) (No longer available online.) September 9, 2007, archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; Retrieved May 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b The Amseldell near Trippstadt. Tourist-Information Trippstadt, accessed on May 18, 2015 .
