Princely Löwensteinscher Park

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Location in the Main-Spessart district

The Fürstlich Löwensteinsche Park is a 30.67 km² community-free area in the district of Main-Spessart in the Bavarian Spessart . 97 percent of the area is forested .

geography

location

District of Fürstlich Löwensteinscher Park

The Fürstlich Löwensteinsche Park is the largest municipality-free area in the district and currently the twelfth largest in Bavaria. It lies between the community of Bischbrunn and the city of Rothenfels . The highest elevation is the rear construction height with 533  m above sea level. NN . The valley of the Hafenlohr borders the Fürstlich Löwensteinschen Park in the entire north-west. The river Hafenlohr itself runs in some places through the area of ​​the park, which extends there down to the left valley slopes. In the southwest and southeast, the community-free area is bounded by the valleys of Wachenbach and Heinrichsbach . In the Fürstlich Löwensteinschen Park there are several exclaves of the municipalities of Hafenlohr , Rothenfels, Esselbach and Bischbrunn.

Neighboring communities

Forst Lohrerstraße
(community-free area) 		Neustadt am Main municipality
Municipality of
Rothenbuch
and
Rohrbrunner Forst
(municipality-free area) 		Neighboring communities City of
Rothenfels
Community
Bischbrunn 		Esselbach municipality
 Community
Hafenlohr

Surname

The Fürstlich Löwensteinsche Park is named after its owner, the Princely Löwenstein House . The founder, Ludwig I von Löwenstein , comes from the town of Löwenstein , which is indirectly the name of the park.

history

Forest, park and gatehouses in the Fürstlich Löwensteinschen Wildlife Park

The Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg received in 1803 after the secularization , in the course of the Peace of Lunéville , as compensation for the areas on the left bank of the Rhine (including Rochefort and Virneburg ) lost to France , possessions of the Neustadt am Main monastery . With the former monastery property, the forest between Bischbrunn and Rothenfels, the Löwensteiners not only had the right to hunt, but also the rights to fish in the Hafenlohr and Wachenbach.

Historic park wall

The former monastery forest was largely converted into a fenced game park between 1817 and 1819. Prince Carl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg gave the order to enclose over 3000 hectares of forest area with a 34-kilometer park fence. The prince had the forest houses Faun , Sylvan , Aurora , Diana and Fürstenbrücke as well as the gatehouses Breitfurt , Hubertus and Schleifthor built around the wildlife park . Further entrances to the wildlife park were the Neustädter Tor and the Schwarze Tor. The forester's house Carlshöhe with hunting lodge was also completed in the middle of the park . The new forester's house already existed. The Fürstlich Löwensteinsche Wildlife Park bordered the Royal Bavarian Wildlife Park to the west .

The seat of the Princely Forestry Office was relocated from Rothenfels Castle to Lindenfurt in 1850 . It has been in Einsiedel since 1977 .

Protected areas

natural reserve

The Fürstlich Löwensteinsche Park borders on long stretches of the FFH area 6022-371 Hochspessart . The following nature reserves are partly on the community-free area:

Bird protection

The Löwensteinsche Park is part of the bird sanctuary 6022-471 Spessart .

Architectural monuments

→ List of monuments in the Fürstlich Löwensteinschen Park

traffic

The MSP 26 district road runs through the Fürstlich Löwensteinschen Park from Windheim to Rothenbuch .

See also

Web links

Commons : Fürstlich Löwensteinscher Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Printing and publishing house Frankfurter Rundschau: MTB-Tour 59 / additional information ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (DOC, accessed on May 8, 2015)
  2. ↑ Aschaffenburg . In: Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Sheet 17. Topographical Bureau des Königl. Bayer. General Staff, 1859 ( digital copy - copper engraving, scale: 1:50 000).
  3. ↑ lfu.bayern.de (PDF).
  4. ↑ lfu.bayern.de (PDF).

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 15.5 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 48.9 ″  E