Höckendorfer Heath
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 28 ″ N , 13 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E
The Höckendorfer Heide is a 2.5 km² forest area in the Eastern Ore Mountains, east of the eponymous village of Höckendorf . It is located on the territory of the municipality of Klingenberg in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in Saxony .
In the east the forest area borders on the Paulsdorfer Heide . Adjacent villages are Höckendorf in the west, Ruppendorf in the southwest and Borlas in the northeast. It is between 390.5 m above sea level. NHN and 421 m above sea level NHN .
Responsibility lies with the Forestry Office in Bärenfels , owned by the Free State of Saxony.
history
As early as 1330 Conrad von Theler had several gold mines opened, which were shut down in 1662. On a map that was created in 1586/1607, it is already mentioned as Höckendorfer Heide. Three quarries are mentioned in 1881, of which two larger ones were later used to quarry sandstone . At the intersection of Kirchweg / Marktsteig is the Höckendofer football pitch, which was laid out in 1922 after the property was given to the Höckendorfer sports club and was given a massive changing area in 1975. From the 17th century, clay pits were used to extract clay for the production of high-quality ceramics by the pottery craftsmen based in Dippoldiswalde, in the same year a stone table served as a resting place for the Electors of Saxony and his comrades, and is still on one in the 18th century Map on the southern edge of the heather in the direction of Paulshain. The Höckendorfer chief forester: Rudolf Carl ERAS, had the WETTIN-PLatz built in 1889, which also planted an oak here.
Attractions
At the entrance to the heath is the former forest estate in Höckendorf, from which the Höckendorfer Heide and the Paulsdorfer Heide were administered. Not far from this is the Höckendorfer Heide zoo , which opened on May 5, 2002 . Opposite the sports field it was the largest heather quarry, where adjacent the highest point of the heather, the Mücken-Berg at 421 m above sea level. NHN , lies.
ways
The Kleine Straße - in earlier times also the "Salzstraße" over the Schenkberg past the soccer field to Possendorf, is an old trade route. The L-Weg is an old forest path, which today runs from Wettin-Platz (Marktsteig intersection) to the southern section The Paulsdorfer Heide runs, where it ends in a meadow. In the forest book created in 1727, this started in Höckendorf and ended in Paulsdorf. The church path from Höckendorf to Borlas also crosses the heath at the sports field with the Kleine Straße and runs to the Butterstraße in Höckendorf The developed aisle from the Butterstraße near Borlas through the heath to Ruppendorf used to be the Marktsteig and was also called the R-Weg.
