Frauenseer forest
The Frauenseer Forst is a mixed forest area in the west of the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The management - mainly state forest - is carried out today by the forest authorities in Marksuhl and Bad Salzungen.
location
The Frauenseer Forst is located between the places Vacha in the southwest, Berka / Werra in the northwest, Marksuhl in the northeast and Unterrohn in the southeast. The forest extends ten kilometers in north-south and about twelve kilometers in east-west direction. The highest peaks are the Lehnberg with the forest hut Lehnhaus ( 447.4 m above sea level ) and Hohe Wart ( 400.1 m above sea level ).
Waters
Several brooks and rivers that belong to the Werra catchment area have their source in the Frauensee Forest . The region is rich in sinkhole lakes and sinkholes, including the legendary Hautsee near Dönges, the Albertsee and the Frauensee, which originally consisted of two isolated parts. About 50 ponds and the Ettenhausen dam are also located in the catchment area of the Frauensee forest.
economy
For more than four centuries, the Frauensee Forest was shaped by forestry and hunting. After the secularization of the Frauensee monastery, it was a hunting area for the Landgraves of Hesse, who also used the forest area to supply the state capital Kassel with wood and for this purpose built the Flößerholzstrasse in the Richelsdorf mountains. Around 1800 the forest was largely cleared, the reforestation of the forest area described as heather (e.g. around the Springer Höhe ) took place only slowly. In 1815 the office of Frauensee and with it the Frauenseer Forst passed to the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . The Großherzoglich-Sächsische Forstlehranstalt Eisenach , founded in Eisenach in 1830 , was entrusted with a reforestation program. During this time, mainly pine and spruce were planted around Frauensee and Marksuhl. With the establishment of the potash industry in the Werra district, a huge network of pipelines was created that distributed the salty wastewater and lye from potash production to underground storage facilities, of which there were around 50 underground storage facilities, according to the official map, in the Frauensee forest and in the Horschlitter basin.
natural reserve
The Dolinen slopes nature reserve is located northwest of the village and has a total area of 75.25 hectares . It was expelled on December 9, 1996.
tourism
The Natur- und Heimatverein Frauensee e. V. was founded in 1991. The approximately 30 members look after the local history museum in the castle and the extensive network of hiking trails in the Frauenseer forest around the village. The ecumenical hiking trail St. Jacobus and the Lulluspfad as two supraregional trails touch Frauensee. The Hallalli Frauensee hunting association indulges in hunting - they look after a 1,510 hectare hunting area in the Frauensee district.
literature
- Waldemar Döpel: History of Marksuhl . Printing and publishing house of the Hofbuchdruckerei Eisenach H. Kahle, Eisenach 1909.
- C. Gerlach: The community of Marksuhl from 1883–1907 . Printing and publishing house of the Hofbuchdruckerei Eisenach H. Kahle, Eisenach 1908.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Schmidt: The Wartburg district. Nature and landscape . In: Wartburgkreis (Ed.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . tape 7 . Printing and publishing house Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, p. 87 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 12 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 27 ″ E