Hägele and fountain blade

Hägeles and Brunnenklinge nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
location	Germany , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Rems-Murr-Kreis , Kaisersbach
surface	5.4 ha
Identifier	1025
WDPA ID	81795
Geographical location	48 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '11 "  N , 9 ° 40' 20"  E
Setup date	11/13/1969
administration	Regional Council Stuttgart

Hiking trail in the Hägelesklinge

Rock steps at the rear of the blade

The Hägeles and Brunnenklinge area is a nature reserve (NSG number 1.025) in the municipality of Kaisersbach in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg , which was designated by the Stuttgart Regional Council of November 13, 1969 .

location

The 5.4 hectare nature reserve is located around three kilometers southeast of Kaisersbach near the hamlet of Ebersberg. It is located in the natural area 107 - Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald within the natural spatial main unit 10 - Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land . The double blade is one of the most impressive natural beauties of the Welzheimer forest . It was made accessible 150 years ago. Hidden in the dark fir forest, it is a left (eastern) side incision, further branching uphill, to the "Täle" near Kaisersbach, through which the Finstere Rot flows, the Ebersberger Mühle about one kilometer below the converging Hägelesklinge and thus about three kilometers below its source drives.

history

The Hägelesklinge got its name after the son of the mercenary Christian Hägele and his wife Rosine born on March 21, 1806. Schaaf in Ebersberg born Johannes Hägele from Ebersberg. The young Hägele first learned the less profitable profession of weaver and then went to the military. After the end of his own service, he earned his money as a contractor by taking over the service for other, mostly wealthy sons. The money he earned with it was his undoing: the otherwise good-natured Hägele became extremely careless to the great annoyance of his superiors. The long life in the barracks made him daring and he had to go to the barn . When he was faced with another punishment, he fled and hid in the rocky crevices at home that he had known since childhood. He was not particularly concerned about food, he was very familiar with the houses in his hamlet and got kitchen utensils, bread, flour, butter, bacon, smoked meat and eggs as much as he needed to be able to live in the forest for a few days or weeks. In the shelter of the forest, the deserter knew for sure if the country hunters wanted to catch him. If there was enough work in the summer, he hired himself out with the Ebersberg farmers.

When he could no longer support himself, he found shelter in the Bohnschen, later Eisenmannschen house in the upper Ebersberg, where he spent his last years. Hägele died childless on March 13, 1859 at the age of 52.

Geography, protection purpose

The source arm, which runs further to the east, has created the Hägelesklinge , a memorable rock canyon. At its upper end there is a narrow, crack-like grotto, which may once have been just part of a much larger deep cavity, the vaulted part of which collapsed afterwards.

A few minutes' walk away, the second, western branch of the double blade runs almost parallel: the fountain blade . At the impressive head of the valley there is an extensive, dome-like sandstone grotto that would accommodate a two-story house. The water trickling down the rocks collects at the bottom to form a small pool.

The Hägeles and fountain blades lie in the parlor sandstone layers of the central keuper. The rock formations are formed by the 35 to 40 meter thick layer of the Upper Stubensandstein . Weathering and erosion by water and frost have created a variety of shapes, such as cornices and scouring, pulpit-like protrusions and grottos. The conservation area serves to preserve these cliffs and rock formations with the canyon forest of the beech-fir area with a particular wealth of magnificent silver firs. There is also a very species-rich, lush moss and fern vegetation. Crashed boulders increase the impression of the wildness of the scenery. Due to the large number of visitors to the Brunnen- and Hägelesklinge. the area was classified as "endangered by recreational activities" in the forest biotope mapping in 1997.

See also

• List of nature reserves in Baden-Württemberg
• List of nature reserves in the Rems-Murr district

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the municipality of Kaisersbach [1]
2. ↑ Website Schwäbisch-Sibirien ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

literature

• Reinhard Wolf , Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5176-2 , pp. 601-603.
• Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, single-sheet cut the maps No. 7023 Murrhardt and No. 7024 Gschwend (includes the entire nature reserve and most of the side blade to Finsteren Rot).

Web links

Commons : Hägeles and Brunnenklinge nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park
• Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas