Dippoldiswald Heath
The Dippoldiswalder Heide is a 12 km² forest area north of the eponymous town of Dippoldiswalde .
Geography and geology
The Dippoldiswalder Heide is located on the territory of the city of Rabenau . In the southwest, the hilly forest area borders on the Malter dam . Adjacent villages are Malter in the southwest, Oberhäslich in the southeast, Karsdorf in the northeast, Oelsa in the north, Seifersdorf in the northwest and in the far south the town of Dippoldiswalde. It is between 310 m above sea level. NHN and 411 m above sea level NHN .
From a geomorphological point of view, the heath is located south of the Karsdorf Fault , in the Eastern Ore Mountains . With regard to the origin of its subsoil, the sandstone , it is one of the relics in the southern area of the Elbe Chalk zone .
reachability
The Dippoldiswalder Heide (also called "Dippser Heide" for short) is touched by the federal highway 170 to the east and the 193 state road to the north . The K 9011 district road , developed forest paths and historic paths such as the Marktsteig also lead through the forest . The Weißeritztalbahn , which is tangent to the west, comes closest to the forest between the Seifersdorf and Malter stops, from which the heath can be reached.
administration
The former Karsdorf Forestry Office, which is responsible for the Dippoldiswalder Heide, has been part of the Bärenfels Forest District since 2005 .
history
According to legend, the forest area used to be the northernmost part of the Dippoldicz Forest, named after the owners of the giant castle near Ossegg in northern Bohemia . According to the story, a descendant of the legendary Dippoldicz family, Bishop Adalbert of Prague , stayed as a hermit in the Dippoldiswald Heath. He was canonized by the Pope after his death. It was included in the city arms of Dippoldiswalde.
Clay extraction
Clay pits in the Dippoldiswalder Heide were used from the 17th century to extract raw material for the production of high quality ceramics by the potters based in Dippoldiswalde , which was confirmed by a scientific comparison of clay samples and Dippoldiswalde ceramics.
Bomb finds
Since 2013, considerable amounts of ordnance from the Second World War have been removed from the Dippoldiswalder Heide. On November 12, 2013, one of the largest bomb disposal operations in Saxony took place. A total of eleven aerial bombs from World War II, each weighing 250 kg, were rendered harmless by the ordnance disposal service within a few hours. In 2014, eleven more bombs were found, eight of which could be defused in the forest, but three had to be blown up on site. The bombs came from two American bombers that crashed during the bombing of Dresden in April 1945 over the forest area due to poor visibility. In addition, various ordnance was blown up or buried in the Dippoldiswalder Heide during and after the Second World War. The remnants of it were systematically searched for, defused and disposed of from 2013 onwards. It is believed that more ammunition is hidden in this forest area, so the search will continue.
Worth seeing
The “König-Johann-Turm” is located on the southern edge of the heather. The lookout tower, built in 1885 and consecrated on June 18, 1886, was built over sandstone quarries on a small hill in the heath and named in honor of the Saxon King Johann . The tower is around 20 meters high and rests on an octagonal base. 102 steps lead to the viewing platform. The "Windischhaus" located near the tower was built in 1899 by the Erzgebirge Preachers' Conference under the direction of the Deacon Büchting. The “Heidehof” inn is also located south of the tower.
In the Dippoldiswalder Heide there is also the approximately ten meter high sandstone rock "Einsiedlerstein", which can also be climbed. Occasionally, old rectangular depressions can be seen, which served as accommodation for earlier layers of beams and thus point to an old dwelling. Not far from the rock are the foundations of the former hermitage. A regional legend reports that the hermit monk Dippold is said to have lived here. Today it is assumed that this dwelling is related to the Katharinkapelle, a little to the northwest, which was a Catholic chapel and was demolished in 1539 for the Reformation. Their foundations are still there. Next to the Katharinkapelle are the remains of the second stone table.
The Upper Cretaceous sandstone of the rock has a pronounced layering. With tipped rock fragments, the stratification is usually vertical. In some places you can see clear oblique stratification. The sandstone here is very iron-shaped and therefore shows a clearly red-brown structure on fresh surfaces. Typical weathering phenomena occur in the form of sanding and as alveolic formations (honeycomb structures).
The boulder cross is located in the high forest near the stone knife. A hiker died here in winter in the 19th century.
The "stone knife" is a stone cross that was used as an atonement cross. Both arms were cut off. An H has been chiseled on the front top left and an N on the back top right. The present ground monument was mentioned as the "Stone Cross" in the " Electoral Forest Sign Book " as early as 1572.
The "wolf column" commemorates the last wolf hunted in the heather in 1802 .
The "Barbarakapelle" is a chapel built around 1500 that bears the name of the patron saint of miners . In 1539, shortly before the Reformation in 1541, the Meißen bishop Johann VIII von Maltitz had the chapel destroyed. The Maltitzers are said to have taken the altarpiece with them to Bohemia. Parts of the outer walls have been preserved as ruins.
The salt licks were used to feed salt bread from roe deer and deer. There are four such salt licks in the heather: on Rabenauer Weg, in Antonswiese, in Zipfelheide and in Zscheckwitzer Holz. They were built in 1736.
The "Tatar grave" is on the edge of the Dippoldiswalder Heide, a stone column with a crescent moon and a star. It commemorates the fallen lieutenant Mustafa Sulkowicz, who fought on the Saxon-Austrian side in the Seven Years' War and was buried here, presumably because as a Muslim he could not be buried in a Christian cemetery.
The branch of the Saxon forest school Reinhardtsgrimma is located on the outskirts of Karsdorf. The neighboring "Heidemühle" is now a restaurant in the southwest of Karsdorf (formerly Wendisch Carsdorf ) on the Oelsabach . This is dammed up to the " Heidemühlenteich ". Upstream is the artificial “Hafterteich” with the former pond mill. The Waldstadion Oelsa is located on the northern edge.
Web links
- Across the heather at dippoldiswalde.d e
- Climbing information Einsiedlerstein
- About the stone knife and the wolf pillar
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luxury goods from Dippser potters, Sächsische Zeitung, July 5, 2018
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ 60 grenades blown, Sächsische Zeitung, September 29, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 45 " N , 13 ° 40 ′ 36" E