Fox dance
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 Fox dance, view from Albrechtsweg |
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| Compass direction | north | south | |
| Pass height | 662 m above sea level NHN | ||
| district | Hochtaunuskreis , Hesse | ||
| Valley locations | Arnoldshain | Königstein im Taunus | |
| expansion | Hiking and forest trails | ||
| Mountains | Taunus | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 12 '58 " N , 8 ° 28' 4" E | ||
The Fuchstanz is a pass in the Taunus , Hesse , Germany . It is 662 m above sea level. NHN between the Kleiner Feldberg and the Altkönig .
history
Around the time around 400 BC. Chr. Settled Celts the Altkönig . Its ring and annex walls are still around the summit plateau at 798 m above sea level. NHN can be seen clearly. The two stone walls are around 980 and 1390 meters long. Even at this time, the pass, known today as Fuchstanz, was likely to have gained importance.
The pass was definitely used by the Romans since the reign of Emperor Vespasian (69–79 AD ). These maintained several forts with Vici nearby on the Upper German Limes . After 150 AD, the Romans led a paved connecting road, Feldbergstrasse , from Nida in what is now the northwest of the city of Frankfurt am Main , the capital of the Civitas Taunensium in the Roman province of Germania superior (Upper Germany), to the Kleiner Feldberg fort , the highest Castle of the Upper German-Raetian Limes . This connecting road leads over the eastern slope of the Altkönig and the Fuchstanz, the name Pflasterweg for this forest path, as well as another forest path called the Haderweg, remind us of it today. Material for the construction and expansion of the Limes im Taunus as well as supplies for the forts and Vici were transported over the road. According to current archaeological and historical findings, the Limes facilities began to decline gradually from the 3rd century onwards.
At the end of the 18th century there was a charcoal burner at the Fuchstanz.
In 1849, under Friedrich August Ravenstein , the gymnasts evaded political persecution and a ban on events by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel from the summit plateau of the Großer Feldberg to the Fuchstanz, which at the time was within the boundaries of the Duchy of Nassau , and held their Feldbergfest , a mountain gymnastics festival here . At that time the pass at the Fuchstanz was largely free of trees, so that there was a good view.
In 1882 the Taunus Club, co-founded by August Ravenstein, inaugurated a refuge on the Fuchstanz, which was soon cultivated. Later a second refuge was built directly opposite. Both shelters were then made of wood, each with an open front. Around 1890 beer, water and the necessary utensils for making coffee were stored in a hole in the forest floor, and the coffee was cooked in a small oven outdoors. In the 1920s, another restaurant was opened in the second refuge. The Fuchstanz was only supplied with electricity in 1973.
The fox dance is part of the property of the city of Schwalbach am Taunus .
Transport links
The Schmitten-Niederreifenberg Windeck bus stop is nearby. A shuttle bus to the Großer Feldberg drives a total of 14 parking spaces around the Feldberg on weekends and public holidays.
Excursion destination
The now wooded fox dance is one of the excursion destinations in the High Taunus . It can only be reached via hiking and forest trails, for example from the parking lot in the large curve (L 3004) after about 1.7 km. Further options are available from the parking lot at Kleine Feldberg (Schmitten-Niederreifenberg Windeck bus stop) after about 1.7 km or from the forest car park in Falkenstein after about 1.8 km. There is no direct public access.
The fox dance is also a meeting point for mountain bikers, hikers and, in winter, for sledge drivers. During organized hikes and orienteering runs, the fox dance serves as a control or marshal.
The origin of the name is unclear. Historical postcards depict two dancing foxes holding a banner with a poem; a similar motif is on a wooden shrine outside the restaurant:
Every year, on the first of May,
when nature has awakened,
when everyone is enjoying
the glorious spring splendor,
elves play the violins here,
forest birds sing their song.
there the foxes dance the dance,
but only when nobody sees them.
The fairy tale about the fox dance from the collection of Helmut Bode ( Between Main and green Taunus mountains. 1953) is possibly also connected to this place.
literature
- Dietwulf Baatz : Saalburg (Taunus). In: The Romans in Hesse. Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-58-9 .
- Dietwulf Baatz: The Roman Limes. Archaeological excursions between the Rhine and the Danube. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7861-2347-0 .
- Margot Klee : The Saalburg (= guide to Hessian prehistory and early history 5. ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1205-8 .
- Margot Klee: The Limes between Rhine and Main. From the beginning of the Upper German Limes near Rheinbrohl to the Main near Grosskrotzenburg. Theiss, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0276-1 .
- Anne Johnson: Roman forts of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD in Britain and in the Germanic provinces of the Roman Empire. Zabern, Mainz 1987. (Cultural history of the ancient world, Volume 37), ISBN 3-8053-0868-X .
- Egon Schallmayer (Ed.): One hundred years of Saalburg. From the Roman border post to the European museum. Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-2359-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Great Feldberg as a meeting place. In: alt-idstein.info. alt-idstein.info, accessed May 17, 2015 .
- ^ History of the Waldgasthaus Fuchstanz. (No longer available online.) In: fuchstanz-taunus.de. fuchstanz-taunus.de, archived from the original on May 11, 2015 ; accessed on April 12, 2018 .
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^ Excursion company on the Fuchstanz im Taunus, around 1898. Historical photo documents from Hessen. (As of March 28, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
The fox dance in 1905 ( Memento from July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - ↑ Shuttle Bus Großer Feldberg. (No longer available online.) In: taunus.info. Taunus Touristik Service, archived from the original on December 3, 2017 ; accessed on May 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Did the imagination dance when the name was given? (No longer available online.) In: usinger-anzeiger.de. Usinger Anzeiger, September 1, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 19, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
