Dürnbuch Forest

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The Dürnbucher Forst is a largely community-free area in the Lower Bavarian , partly also Upper Bavarian part of the Hallertau .

Location of the Dürnbuch forest in the Kelheim district

geography

View over the fish ponds in the western part

With a total area of ​​around 44.74 km², the community-free area is one of the largest in Bavaria and is located in the western part of the Kelheim district . The forested area extends beyond the municipality-free area, in the west also beyond the district boundary into the urban area of Vohburg an der Donau ( district Oberwöhr) and the municipality of Münchsmünster in the district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm .

It is bordered by federal highways 16 and 299 in the north, in the east and south by federal highways 300 and 301 as well as federal highway 93 . The places Geibenstetten and Umbertshausen are located on clearing islands in the forest.

There are numerous springs in the forest from whose drains the following streams arise: Wolfsgraben, Schallerbach, Kaltenbrunner Bach, Schrannenbach. Smaller fish ponds, which are primarily used for trout breeding, can be found on almost all of these streams.

In the far west is the pond area Einberger Weiher , which is also called Straßberger Weiher in common parlance .

history

Mariahilf Chapel

Starting from the 6th century, the Dürnbuch Forest was owned by the respective ruling house. It owes its size and cohesion to the fact that over the centuries its use was "placed outside public use" (= forestry). The residents were granted legal rights to take wood to meet their daily needs, but clearing was forbidden in principle after the end of the Bavarian land acquisition.

The Agilolfinger appeared as the first owner . After the fall of Duke Tassilo III. in 788 the forest fell to Charlemagne . In 1180 the Wittelsbachers , who in the following centuries liked to organize lavish hunts there, initially received the forest as a fief. In 1806, the right to remove wood was replaced and the “ lawyers ” were given forest land as compensation. In 1923, in the course of the replacement of the monarchy, the western half went to the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund . The eastern half became state forest .

Flora and fauna

Coniferous trees, predominantly pine and spruce, are predominant with 80% share. The rest are beech and mixed forests. Inland dunes are located on a 291 hectare former NATO bombing training ground in the north near Siegenburg and east of it in the small private forest . In the south are the litter meadows of the 260 hectare forest moss .

The Bechstein bat, which is very rare south of the Danube, has been found in the Dürnbuch Forest. Amphibians such as the common toad and the pond newt also occur in the permanently moist, springy valleys in the forest .

various

Seliger Bauer memorial column

Dürnbuch means something like forest with beech trees on arid ground.

The Mariahilfkapelle is located on the connecting road between Elsendorf and Münchsmünster . Around 1745 a shopkeeper was attacked by robbers there and saved by invoking Our Lady.

Only a few meters next to today's B 300, a 5 m high memorial column reminds of the "Blessed Farmer of Griesham" , also called "Blessed Farmer of Vohburg", who lived here as a hermit and was murdered here in 1471. The inscription reads: "Here the blessed farmer von Vohburg died at the hands of a murderer".

The forest is managed by the forest management of the Wittelsbacher compensation fund in Ingolstadt, the Bavarian State Forests , the Federal Forests division of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks as well as many small private forest owners .

On January 1, 2014, the 2.3 km 2 area of ​​the former Bombodrome was incorporated into the Siegenburg market .

Web links

Commons : Dürnbucher Forst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GENESIS table: 11111-003. Bavarian State Office for Statistics, accessed on June 3, 2020 . (As of January 1, 2019)
  2. ^ A b Hans Wagner: Chronicle Mühlhausen, rural parish between Herzogsforst and Donaumoos. Ed. Parish Mühlhausen, 1989, p. 397ff.
  3. ↑ Peter M. Busler: The Hallertau - portrait of an urban Bavarian landscape. W. Ludwig Buchverlag, Pfaffenhofen 1990, ISBN 3-7787-3365-6 , p. 39.
  4. ^ Government of Lower Bavaria (ed.): Official Journal . No. 16 . Landshut December 20, 2013 ( full text [PDF]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E