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The Great Loh in Immenhausen

The Big Loh , also Big Loh , is an extensive natural monument in Immenhausen .

history

The basic name is lô and means forest , grove , wood , wood or bushes. The quartzite formation on the northeastern outskirts of Immenhausen is a natural monument from the Oligocene . The natural monument is located on the Märchenlandweg hiking trail with the hiking sign M in a beech forest . In 1520 the reformer Bartholomaeus Rieseberg preached privately on the rock formations. The former sandstone pit is now used as a leisure facility.

Say of the devil who wanted to destroy Immenhausen

The insidious and coarse immenhausers, who are still insulted by Schlimmenhysen today, angered the devil by depriving him of the promised reward for his help with the construction of the Immenhauser city ​​church . So angrily he threw large boulders from the Hohen Habichtswald at the town of Immenhausen under blasphemous curses . The first stone flew too far to the right and hit the forester's stone . A second hit the Great Loh and a third fell on the windmill just outside the city . The throws were so powerful that the rocks shattered into pieces. Even today you can see the traces of the devil's claws on the boulders in some places.

literature

  • Rüdiger Germeroth, Horst Koenies, Reiner Kunz: In: Natural cultural assets - past and future of natural monuments in the Kassel district. Ed .: District Committee of the District of Kassel, Lower Nature Conservation Authority, Wolfhagen 2005, Appendix “Area-wide natural monuments”, p. 162.
  • FK Baas: 1982 yearbook of the Kassel district with illustrations by Roman Krasnitzky .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Germeroth, Horst Koenies, Reiner Kunz in: Natural cultural assets - past and future of natural monuments in the district of Kassel , publisher: District Committee of the district of Kassel, Lower Nature Conservation Authority, Wolfhagen, 2005, appendix "Area-wide natural monuments" p. 162.
  2. ↑ FK Baas: 1982 year book of the Kassel district , with illustrations by Roman Krasnitzky.

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 26 ″  E