Hirschsprung (Krofdorfer Forest)

The deer jump in the Krofdorfer Forest (municipality of Wettenberg ) arises from an old legend. The Gleiberger counts were hunting in the forest. From the parked stuff wagon , ropes with rags were stretched through the forest in a funnel shape to drive the game into the trap. A red deer cornered in this way is said to have jumped over the wagon in its panic and thus escaped the hunters. Two stones mark the places where the deer jumped off and where it came up again. There is a stag on one and the year 1642 on the other.

The two stones are ground round on the top, because woodcutters used them to sharpen their axes.

Today's amphibian reserve , the "Weiher Hirschsprung", is named after the location of the legend .

source

• Jürgen Leib: Krofdorf-Gleiberg between tradition and progress. Home book for the 1200th anniversary of the community of Krofdorf-Gleiberg. Giessen 1974