Einkorn (mountain)
| Einkorn | ||
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 The Einkorn seen from the west. |
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| height | 510.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | District of Schwäbisch Hall , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Limpurger Mountains | |
| Dominance | 1.8 km → Bauernschnäue | |
| Notch height | 20 m ↓ fork in the road southwest of the Bauernschnäue | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 5 '26 " N , 9 ° 46' 30" E | |
| Topo map | Geoportal Baden-Württemberg | |
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| rock | Mittelkeuper , plateau silica sandstone | |
| particularities | Einkornturm ( AT ) | |
The Einkorn is a 510.8 m above sea level. NHN high western mountain spur of the northern Limpurger mountains near Hessental , a district of Schwäbisch Hall . On top of it are the ruins of a baroque pilgrimage church to the Fourteen Helpers in need and the Einkornturm observation tower .
Geography, nature, themed trails
The Einkorn rises prominently about 3.5 km southeast of Hall city center and more than 120 m high above its immediate surroundings. It is the northernmost western spur of the Limpurger Mountains. On its south-south-west side it slopes down to the small erosion bay of the Remsbach around Rauhenbretzingen , which is part of the inner Haller Bay , while its north foot along the Hessentaler Waschbach also runs west to the nearby Kocher , initially in the Haller level , which is part of the other lowlands the natural area of the Hohenlohe Plain .
The completely wooded right spur flank of the Hessentaler Halde as well as the left, which after an open slope area directly at the top soon turns southwards as Bretzinger Halde over the Remsbachmulde, form steep step edges over which only a few paths lead, including the only road K 2599 Hessental –Herlebach. From here, a cul-de-sac opens up the mountain spur. Some steep footpaths and beaten paths lead through ravines and past such from the mountain foot to the plateau.
The front tip of the Einkorn is an approximately 4 hectare forest-free plateau triangle, at the western corner of which the almost completely wooded Limpurger Mountains end, which are traversed by many car-free forest roads. The longest of these is the coal road branching off from the K 2599 , a forest road that stretches in a south-south-east direction for about 10 km to the state road 1066 near Winzenweiler and then again as far to about Altenberg above Sulzbach am Kocher .
In the Einkorn Forest, less than 2.5 km east-south-east of the Bergsporn, the upper Fischach arises from the confluence of several, previously smaller lakes ( Bombensee ), running through spring branches in a valley basin surrounded by forest mountains. There are also protected forest areas around the Einkorn . During the Second World War , part of the Einkorn Forest was used as a bomb dropping area
From Schwaebisch Hall Keckenburg Museum a leading geo trail up to the einkorn, several stations of him lying on the slopes or on the plateau of the mountain. Overall, this geological nature trail leads 7 kilometers from the Middle Muschelkalk in downtown Hall over the gypsum keuper ( grave field formation ) of the foot of the slope to the pebble sandstone of the plateau. There are also some stations on the so-called Stone Age Path on the plateau. The routes of both themed trails are not marked in the landscape.
The heather on the southwest flank of the Bergsporn is designated as a Natura 2000 area. For example, the nodding catchfly grows here . The centaury flourishes here as well as the heat-loving Carthusian Elke . The flowers that grow on the sunny slopes of the Einkorn are often visited by butterflies such as the swallowtail , the blue sunflower or the imperial mantle. Up until the end of the 20th century, burnt orchid was also found. Despite frequent searches, it could no longer be detected.
The plateau of the mountain and the northern drop of the mountain ( Hessentaler Halde ) belong to the town of Schwäbisch Hall , in the west and especially in the south the municipality of Michelbach an der Bilz has a share of the slope.
Pilgrimage church to the fourteen helpers in need
From the pilgrimage church to the fourteen helpers in need only a ruin remains today.
In 1472, Sigmund Weinbrenner, a town runner from Hall, founded the pilgrimage to the Einkorn. In 1482 the Comburg monastery had a chapel built on the Einkorn. The pilgrimage church was consecrated in 1683 . In 1710 it was expanded by the Würzburg master builder Joseph Greissing . On May 6, 1814, lightning struck the baroque building, it burned out and was never rebuilt.
Single grain tower
The Einkornturm with its high concrete base and wooden structure is one of the main attractions of the mountain today. It stands on the west side of the church ruins and is accessible through the still-preserved portal.
The 28 m high observation tower was built on the former main portal of the church and opened on May 1, 1893. Baptized in the name of King Karl Tower , it is now only called the Einkornturm .
A wooden staircase, the topmost steps of which run inside a guard tower attached to the northeast corner of the tower , leads to the roofed viewing platform , which is around 25 m high. From here you have a wide view over the Haller and Hohenloher plains and down into the Kocher valley . The ascent leads over 137 steps including a door threshold.
The Einkornturm served temporarily as a VHF radio transmitter. For him, the frequency 104.3 MHz is still coordinated.
View, touristy
Already in front of the tower you can see the entire rose garden from Westheim in the south to Michelfeld in the west from the edge of the forest-free south-west slope , Buchhorn, Steinbühl, the Rote Steige and the Streiflesberg line the basin of the wide Kocher bay . A few steps away there is also a barbecue area, a children's playground and a restaurant with a beer garden.
The Einkorn is a popular destination for hiking, playing and barbecuing, especially for school classes. When the weather is right, hang-gliders and paragliders start on the unwooded southwestern edge . Open-air concerts sometimes take place in the ruins.
Settlement places and district names
At the top of the mountain spur is the Schwäbisch Hall settlement area Einkorn with the street address Einkornallee. A few meters above the road on the K 2599 on the central south-west slope is Hof Einkorn, which already belongs to Michelbach an der Bilz and has the street address Vorderer Einkorn. At the foot of this slope there is a Michelbacher Gewann called Hinterer Einkorn made of meadows with a few strips of corridor wood.
On a map from 1841, a building Hinter Einkorn is shown , roughly at the current departure of the Sauklingenstrasse at the first bend in the S-curve of the K 2599 from Einkorn. At that time it was apparently on the eastern corner of an approximately isosceles triangle, the shorter base of which ran from there about 0.2 km to the southwest to just before the edge of the slope. The more westerly leg followed roughly the edge of the slope to the north-north-west, the more easterly the road in the direction of Einkorn to the north-west to the junction around the present-day right-angled connection of the climbing route.
literature
- Topographic map TK 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg (north), single-sheet cut the maps No. 6824 Schwäbisch Hall and No. 6924 Gaildorf.
- Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1:50 000, Sheet XXX, 1841. Reproduction from an original from the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart, Graphic Collections. Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Surveying Office, Stuttgart 1983. Map online at Wikimedia Commons (JPG, 33 MByte).
Web links
- Map of Einkorn and its surroundings on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
- Private website with photos of the view, ruins, overview board of the Stone Age Path
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ http://www.erwinschumacher.de/fliegerhorst.htm
- ↑ LGRB Baden-Württemberg: Geopfad Schwäbisch Hall ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2007 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.
- ↑ Einkornturm . In: Hiking in the Swabian-Franconian Forest.
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- ↑ LGRB Baden-Württemberg: Schwäbisch Hall, observation tower on the Einkorn ( memento of the original from July 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Found on own visits.
- ↑ See “Topographical Atlas…” under → Literature .
