Large forest (Görlitz district)
The Great Forest is in Oberlausitzer Görlitz district east of Oppach located forest area . It is a good 300 hectares in size, about 1.5 kilometers wide (SO) and two kilometers long (NS). The forest is divided by the Flößchen (also called Flössel) with the Buschmühlteich, a tributary of the Beiersdorf water , in an east-west direction. The piece of forest to the north in the direction of Beiersdorf includes the Steinklunsen as well as the grove and the small forest. The southern part has different names. So the 440 meter high elevation in Oppach "Hebold's Kippe" (= dome) and inNeusalza-Spremberg called "Freunds Berg". Its former name "Koppritzer Forest" comes from the family name of the former owner. The northern slope is occasionally called Karrete.
The Hahneberg is southeast of the Great Forest , and the Fuchs is southwest .
Like the other forests in the area, the Great Forest was formerly used as a cattle guard and as a timber supplier . In 1756, for example, a fathom (= 3.4 cubic meters) of logs cost 3 marks and 80 pfennigs, and a shock of sticks cost 90 pfennigs.
Rock heaps and former quarries filled with water point to the strong mining of the two-mica granodiorite and its dike rocks since the middle of the 19th century . On the southeast slope (for example in the "company breach") lamprophyr was broken for several years from 1969 . In the upper areas of the rock outcrop, the egg-shaped to spherical blocks that are typical for this rock and that are formed by weathering can be observed, which stone breakers call boulders .
The Oppacher Brunnenpfad and Schönbacher Weg lead through the forest area from Oppach via the Tannenhof to Beiersdorf. Another path leads to the Steinklunsen.
Monotonous spruce forest has completely displaced the original species-poor birch-oak forest .
source
- Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 11 ″ N , 14 ° 31 ′ 12 ″ E