English (Spessart)
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The Englishman is a forest house in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg in Spessart . It was founded in 1845 by I. King Ludwig built.
The local population incorrectly uses the incorrect name “the English” for the ridge on which the forest house is located. What is meant is the ridge of the northern Eselshöhe .
Geographical location
The Englishman is located between Jakobsthal and Sommerkahl on the Spessart-Höhenstraße from Sailauf towards Heinrichsthal , in the community-free area of Sailaufer Forst . The curvy district roads AB 2, AB 23 and AB 19 meet directly at the Waldhaus. The Englishman lies on the saddle between the peaks of the Steigkoppe ( 502 m above sea level ) and the Spindelberg ( 520 m above sea level ). The Eselsweg and, until 2011, the Degen-Weg pass the Englander .
Origin of the name
For a long time it was believed that the name Engländer was derived from the Old High German word Egelter . Loosely translated it means "hedgehog wood". This was the name given to young conifers that were slow to grow . Others believed that an Englishman who was carrying a stolen bag with a lot of money from the war chest of the Battle of Dettingen was slain at this place . However, these theses have all proven to be wrong.
The head of the forest office in Wiesen gave the following “lecture to the forest history section of the forestry faculty of the English University in Spessart” on Shrove Tuesday 1931. The truth of the matter is therefore at least doubtful. When researching old files and letters from the court chamber in Mainz , a letter was found that allows the origin of the name to be traced back exactly. It emerges as follows:
A new forester from the Bavarian Forest was assigned to the Steigkoppe forest area in the 18th century . The strong man, who lived in Sailauf when he was in office, often returned to the Knöpphütte tavern (now Jakobsthal) after work. There were mostly fights with the locals. These men wanted to get back at the forester. At that time, when gold and silver ore were being mined by archaeologists on the summit ridge , a railing made of oak planks had to be erected for safety. This was defiled in the lowest possible way by the locals as an act of revenge.
The drunken forester, who staggered from the inn over the mountain to Sailauf, braced himself unsuspectingly on these planks. At home he noticed the crime, cleaned his clothes and wrote a letter in his Bavarian language to the court chamber in Mainz. " Should mer on the ferschissnen Gländer oom on the mountain a Hittn baun, that mer di lumpn can better watch ".
This letter stayed in Mainz for several years, so that some of the writing could no longer be read. When the Electorate of Mainz was dissolved and the lands passed to Bavaria, the letter went to King Ludwig I. The latter read the words: " am EnGländer Hüttenbau ". The king came to the Spessart to look for this hut. When he discovered that it didn't exist at all, he immediately gave the order to build it.
history
The Englishman was inaugurated on August 16, 1846 by Ludwig I and his wife Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen . In World War II it was destroyed and later rebuilt.
Culture and sights
Winter sports facility on the Engländer
There has been a ski lift on the Engländer since 1969 . There are two double-bar drag lifts and a children's drag lift. The ski slope is around 400 meters long. There is also a toboggan run.
The Engländerstraße in Sailauf, Jakobsthal and Vormwald are named after the Englishman .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Forsthaus Engländer ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Our Kahlgrund 1977 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN 0933-1328 .
- ↑ Information board on the English
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 21.3 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 42.4" E