Esterholz (municipality-free area)

Location of the community-free Esterholz area in the Donau-Ries district

Haselbach geological organ

The Esterholz is a 3.23 km² community-free area in the Donau-Ries district in Swabia in Bavaria .

geography

The area is a state forest and forms a forest area on the northwest-southeast running ridge between Rain (Lech) ( Donau-Ries district , Swabia ) in the west and Ehekirchen ( Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district , Upper Bavaria ) in the east. On the Esterholz are the districts of Wallerdorf with the districts of Agathenzell and Wächtering in the west, Etting in the north and Haselbach in the southeast. To the south, the forest area continues with the private forest of the Barons von Gumppenberg .
The forest lies in the flat tertiary heights of the Aindlinger terrace staircase. In terms of natural space, it belongs to the Danube-Iller-Lech-Platte , which in turn is part of the Alpine foothills , one of the main natural spatial units in Germany.

history

In the Esterholz there are barrows near Etting ("Dreibück") with subsequent burials from the early La Tène period . At Agathenzell there are remains of a Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement.
In the valley floor west of the Esterholz there are Roman cremation graves near Wallerdorf.
On the western slope of the Esterholz there is a bulwark with a section wall near Wächtering.
The first mention of Esterholzes (from Oester wood , so wood in the East ) was in 1322, when Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria the monastery Niederschönenfeld allowed firewood from his ducal Osterholz to pick. To this day the Esterholz is state.
In 1913 a sawmill ("Säger property") was built on Esterholz near Etting . ^▼ Today the trade no longer exists, but the wasteland still has the street name “Am Esterholz”.48.64757 11.01142