Eschelhof

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Eschelhof 1685, forest inventory book by Andreas Kieser
Eschelhof hiking home

The Eschelhof on a flat hill ( 492  m above sea level ) on the plateau of the Murrhardt Forest consists of two half-timbered houses and three ancillary buildings and has been used as a hiking home since 1976. It is located on the outskirts of Ittenberg , a district of Sulzbach an der Murr in the Rems-Murr district, three kilometers south of the main town, and is surrounded by a clearing island , which, together with small parts of the forest on its edge, forms a small landscape protection area within the Schwäbisch Nature Park. Franconian Forest is designated. The summit of the wooded, 544.1  m above sea level is about 800 meters to the southwest . NHN high folding rule , the highest mountain in the western murrhardt forest, on the slope of the diesseitigem Eschelbach springs, which on the southeastern tip of the forest clearing before the start of his blades run for Murr semi-hectare Eschelweiher passes.

In 1509, the Eschelhof was first mentioned by name in Sulzbach's warehouse book as the farm of Hans zu Eschelbach . In 1575 it was mentioned as Eschelbacher Hof . In 1831 the Eschelhof had 25 residents. From 1838 to 1869 the place was a state domain owned by the Kingdom of Württemberg . The buildings were used for many years by the forest administration and from 1828 as a primary school for Eschelhof and the Sulzbach suburb of Ittenberg and the Murrhardt suburb of Siebenknie . The former forester's house (today's address: Eschelhof 1 ) bears the dates 1722 and 1787, the other building (Eschelhof 2 ), which was used as a schoolhouse, was built around 1800. There is also a barn and a smaller one used by the forest administration in the local area Half-timbered building with cellar.

In 1975 the Swabian Alb Association took over the forester's house as a tenant. After being converted and converted into a hiking home, it was inaugurated on October 24, 1976 by Helmut Schönnamsgruber , the then president of the Swabian Alb Association. In 1980 the Swabian Alb Association also took over the former schoolhouse and expanded it. The inauguration was on May 16, 1985. On the weekends, the Eschelhof is alternately served by local groups.

The Eschelhof is on the route of the Jakobspilgerweg which leads from Rothenburg ob der Tauber to Rottenburg am Neckar , as well as on the Georg-Fahrbach-Weg . This 130 km long long-distance hiking trail of the Swabian Alb Association, opened in 1977, connects his place of birth Ingelfingen- Criesbach in the Hohenlohe district with Stuttgart-Uhlbach, based on the life of Georg Fahrbach .

literature

  • "Ten centuries of Eschelhof - today a hiking home of the Swabian Alb Association" , Natur-Rems-Murr-Verlag, Remshalden-Buoch, 1986.

Web links

Commons : Eschelhof (Sulzbach an der Murr)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sub-town Eschelhof. Sulzbach an der Murr community, 2006, archived from the original on May 24, 2006 ; Retrieved September 4, 2012 .
  2. ^ The Rems-Murr-Kreis. Stuttgart. Konrad Theiss publishing house. 1980, ISBN 3-8062-0243-5 , p. 162.
  3. ↑ http://eschelhof.de/geschichte.html
  4. ^ Website of the Swabian Alb Association .

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 40 ″  N , 9 ° 30 ′ 37 ″  E