Graefensteinberg Forest

It is located between the villages of Graefensteinberg and Brombach in the north and Frickenfelden in the south in the areas of the communities Haundorf and Pfofeld and the city of Gunzenhausen . To the north are the Haundorfer Forest and the Mönchswald . The Spalter hill country borders in the north .

To the east of the forest lies the Kleine Brombachsee with the wastelands of Furthmühle , Hühnermühle and Neuherberg . The state road St 2222 and the district road WUG 20 cross the southern, the federal road 466 the western part of the forest area. The source of the Reutbach , which flows into the Brombach in the western forest area, lies within the Graefensteinberg Forest . There are several ponds in the forest area , including the Ödweiher . The Brombachmoor in the west has been designated as a nature reserve since 1983 . The Altmühlüberleiter , a canal built for water management purposes , crosses the forest from west to east, on a long section underground.

The forest belonged to the Rieter von Kornburg and Kalbensteinberg family until the Ansbach margraves bought it in 1766 . The forest area fell to Prussia in 1792 and became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 . The Graefensteinberg Forest is accessible to tourists through several hiking trails.

Individual evidence

^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 260), 1964, column 783
↑ Topographic Maps , Bavarian Surveying Administration
^ Nature reserve 51 - Brombachmoor, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Central Franconian government , accessed on February 19, 2015
^ Friedrich Jacobi: Prehistory of the city and the former principality of Ansbach: at the same time the oldest history of most parishes, palaces, castles, towns and villages in Middle Franconia . Ansbach 1868, p. 135 ( digitized version )
↑ Hiking , Haundorf Municipality, accessed on February 19, 2015