Hirschsprung (Black Forest)

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Höllenpass gorge from the north with a deer monument on the south side

As Hirschsprung is named first, the clammy like narrowest point of the Black Forest Hollental , even Hell's Pass called, and on the other the eponymous local legend ( Black Forest Hirschsprung ). Eight hundred meters further up the valley is the Hirschsprung station of the Höllentalbahn, which has been closed for passenger traffic .

canyon

The deer jump ( Saut-du-Cerf ) in 1796
Hirschsprung around 1900
Deer monument from the street

The gorge-like middle part of the Höllental narrows like a gorge at the Hirschsprung; the walls rise up to 130 meters above the Rotbach , also called Höllenbach here . The district boundary between Breitnau and Buchenbach runs over the lower, eponymous rock with a bronze deer sculpture . The rocks consist of gneisses that have been shattered by tectonic stresses long ago and were partially melted like granite ( migmatites ). Above the Enge, remains of a former high valley floor is preserved, which at that time, before the gorge-like division by the Rotbach, suggests a more gradual longitudinal profile of the Höllental.

Before the road was expanded, the Hirschsprung-Enge was only 9 meters wide at the base. The northern Hirschsprung rocks are tunneled under by the Höllentalbahn (Falkenstein tunnel, Unterer and Oberer Hirschsprung tunnels), the southern by the stream-parallel, now closed Jägerpfad . The Jägerpfad, named after its initiator, the forestry manager Jäger, was opened in 1926. It has been closed since 2002 due to the risk of falling rocks. Until 2001, there was a kiosk below the Hirschsprung on the parking lot of the same name along federal road 31 .

Hirschsprung station

The Höllentalbahn station , which is now only operated as a crossing point without passenger traffic, is named after the Hirschsprung . The noticeable size of the train station in this extremely sparsely populated area is due to the fact that the additional locomotives used to pull or push the trains on the steep stretch up to Hinterzarten were coupled here .

Deer jump legend

A knight from Falkenstein Castle went hunting in Höllental . After a while he spotted a splendid stag and started the trail. Driven by fear of death, the animal jumped over the ravine with one mighty leap and thereby escaped its pursuer.

In view of the gorge originally only 9 meters wide at the base, but also wider at the height of the rock, such a sentence is difficult to imagine.

Deer monument

In 1856 the community of Falkensteig set up a wooden stag on the occasion of the wedding of Grand Duke Friedrich and Luise of Prussia . On the occasion of the first meeting of the German foresters in Freiburg, forest taxator Schilling had a new deer erected in 1874. After this was destroyed by a storm, the last wooden model followed in 1887, which was located on the rock until 1904.

In 1907, donations made it possible to erect a bronze stag weighing 350 kg and 2.50 m high , which was designed by the sculptor Günther and manufactured in the Heidelberg zinc ornaments factory.

On August 6, 2010, the forest administration had the deer lifted from the mountain using a truck crane. The responsible forester in Falkensteig removed the five layers of paint and repaired the deer, because it had 35 bullet holes and 70 exit holes (due to splintered projectiles), as well as a sawed leg. The bullet holes were already oxidized, so that it is assumed that they were formed between the end of the war and the early post-war period. The monument kept its green color and was given a time capsule inside to commemorate this restoration. On October 10th it was transported to the Red Deer Days in houses as part of a Tour de Rothirsch and then put back on its stand on October 23rd, 2010.

In allusion to the green-red coalition after the state elections in 2011 , strangers painted the stag green and red. Later he changed the color again, was given wings and thus almost competes with the Holbein horse in Freiburg. The left antler, damaged in May 2016, is to be repaired.

  • The restored monument before it was erected

  • The deer on the way to its stand

Hirschsprung as a breeding ground for the rock tern

The rock tern has been breeding at Hirschsprung since 2013 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Up to 1933 cogwheel locomotives were used for this ; even after that, pushing locomotives were still required for heavy trains on the steep stretch.
  2. ↑ a b badische-zeitung.de: Buchenbach: TIERISCH , October 25, 2010, accessed on February 4, 2012
  3. ↑ Ines Fuchs: Southwest: Shot and sawed: Höllentäler Hirsch is being restored , in: Badische Zeitung from September 15, 2010, accessed on September 21, 2010
  4. ↑ SWR state show from October 26, 2010
  5. ↑ Susanne Filz: Houses: The Höllental-Hirsch is ready to travel , Badische Zeitung, October 8, 2010, accessed on May 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Photos: Der green-red deer from Höllental Badische Zeitung from May 5, 2011, accessed on June 15, 2011
  7. ↑ Nadine Paulus: District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald: Colored monument: Höllental: The deer remains neon green. Badische Zeitung, September 24, 2009, accessed on May 12, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Unknown lend Höllentäler Hirsch wing Badische Zeitung from May 30, 2012, accessed on November 7, 2012
  9. ^ Karl Heidegger: District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald: Landmark: Höllental-Hirsch: Unknown people saw off parts of the antlers. Badische Zeitung, May 11, 2016, accessed on May 12, 2016 .
  10. ↑ dpa, bz: Southwest: Repair: The stag in Höllental gets new antlers. Badische Zeitung, June 6, 2016, accessed on June 7, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Bettina Maier: Population development of the rock tern Ptyonoprogne rupestris in southern Baden-Württemberg (Germany) in 2017 . The Bird World 138: 123–140.

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 13 ″  E