Haller Landheeg

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Land tower near Hörlebach
Land tower near Hörlebach

The Haller Landheeg was the approximately 200 km long Landwehr in the territory of the imperial city of Schwäbisch Hall . This was able to acquire an important land area, which in 1802 comprised an area of ​​330 km² with about 21,000 inhabitants.

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It is a very complex system. It did not encompass the entire imperial city area, but a large part of it; in particular the south-eastern areas around Vellberg and the Honhardt office, which belonged to the imperial city, were not surrounded. There was also some foreign territory in the interior, which meant that ridiculously long sections for only a little enclosed area were avoided. There was an outer guard, partly also an inner one, which followed the outer one at a strongly fluctuating distance. In addition, so-called wing enclosures also separated some interior areas from one another. In both cases it can sometimes be remnants of different expansion stages. Structurally, as far as it can still be reasonably ascertained in the area today, the Hege showed quite different shapes, namely it consisted of up to three trenches and ramparts one behind the other. At that time, it was less developed and noticeable in the forest area than in the open field. Wherever it adheres to watercourses, the border was usually only a demarcation line that was not structurally identified in the terrain.

Land Towers

The Landheeg was guarded by four so-called land towers , one near Hörlebach , built in 1587, is still preserved. It is located north of the hamlet on the road to Obersteinach. In the municipality of Michelfeld , on the road to Witzmannsweiler, above the old Rote Steige, there is a Landturm residential area , which used to be the approximate location of another of the four towers. The other two were to the west of Brachbach at a fork in the road and south of Sanzenbach on the forest plateau of the Lichten Platte. The names of Hegenhäule and Hegenhof near Mainhardt- Lachweiler are due to the location of these residential areas on the Landheeg.

Leftovers

Nowadays, almost only sections in the forest or on the edge of the forest are preserved, but even these are often inconspicuous and difficult to distinguish from old ravines and boundary ditches. Indications of the former course, which two surviving Heeg descriptions from the time of their existence in parts only as vaguely as their shape, provide, however, also the conspicuously elongated cut of plots in the Heeg area on old cadastral maps from the time before the land consolidations. The Hege area, which was once unused for agriculture, was sold to private individuals for the first time after it was abandoned at the beginning of the 19th century, which means that the new property boundaries marked out the old contour. Old winners' names also provide clues, as do the vegetation, which in some places is still supposed to be shaped by the ecotope of the former border hedge.

The remains of the boundary structure still on the ground are disappearing more and more today, mainly due to the agricultural and forestry use of heavy equipment.

Some preserved sections

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the Hörlebacher Landturm at 49 ° 11 ′ 18 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 27 ″  E
  2. ↑ Location of the land tower above the Rote Steige at 49 ° 5 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 46 ″  E
  3. ↑ Location of the Brachbacher Landturm at 49 ° 11 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 37 ″  E
  4. ↑ Location of the Sanzenbacher Landturm at 49 ° 3 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 36 ″  E
  5. ↑ See the book by Mattern / Wolf mentioned under literature .

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