Hochfirst (Black Forest)
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 View from Titisee to the Hochfirst |
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| height | 1196.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Black Forest | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 54 '3 " N , 8 ° 11' 6" E | |
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| particularities | Hochfirstturm ( AT ) | |
 Panoramic view from the Hochfirst to the Feldberg massif , the Titisee and the place of the same name |
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The Hochfirst is a wooded mountain between Saig and Titisee-Neustadt in the southern Black Forest with a height of 1196.9 m above sea level. NHN .
Location and surroundings
The mountain is located on the municipal boundary between Lenzkirch and Titisee-Neustadt in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in Baden-Württemberg . There is a mountain inn and the Hochfirst tower on the Hochfirst . From its viewing platform you have a view of the nearby Titisee and the Feldberg . When the weather is clear you can see the Swiss and Austrian Alps, with ideal conditions you can even see the French Alps as far as the Italian border, including Mont Blanc .
history
A castle or a small town is said to have been located on the Hochfirst, from which the noble family von Hohenfirst , who appeared in Freiburg and Neuchâtel , came from.
Roland Weis locates the Honvirst settlement, which still existed in 1316 and is said to have disappeared in the 16th century at the latest, but at the foot of the Burgkopf , a mountain east of the Hochfirst. The castle will be on the castle head, more precisely on the Mühleföhrle ( 47 ° 54 '30.7 " N , 8 ° 14' 23" O ) , have approved and already in 1316 no longer have been nonexistent.
Around 1350 Hans von Falkenstein acquired the lower part of the Bruderhalde in the Bärental from Hans von Hohenfürst . In this context, there is talk of “Hohenfürst, a former knight seat above the village of Seig”.
Observation tower
The high ridge tower, built in steel frame construction in 1890 , is 25 meters high and stands on a natural stone base. This comes from a wooden tower built in 1888, which fell victim to a hurricane in 1890. Today the tower also carries antennae for radio relay and cellular radio . As a special feature, the high ridge tower is also guyed . It has been a listed building since 1989 . From May 2014 to March 2015 the tower was closed due to static problems. At the beginning of 2018, it had to be closed again until the end of April of the same year, as measurements showed that the radiation exposure for visitors from the antennas installed was too high.
Paths to the summit
You can get to the Hochfirst on the Freiburg – Lake Constance crossing from Titisee or the Mittelweg from Neustadt. The shortest route leads from Saig to the summit. However, there is also a road connection to the Hochfirstturm from Neustadt.
Winter sports
The Hochfirstschanze , on which World Cup ski jumping takes place, is located on the Hochfirst . Along the southeastern slopes of the mountain, a leading cross-country trail , the "High First track" (9,9 km length, altitude 910- 1057 m , start and finish near the church in Saig, classic ). A toboggan run leads on the western slope of the Saig Hochfirst to the shores of Lake Titisee.
Web links
Individual references / comments
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book , Volume 2, Heidelberg 1905, pp. 87-89 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- ↑ Honvirst could have been a result of the settlement efforts of the St. Gallen monastery in the 11th century from Bräunlingen and Löffingen and was founded by nobles from the hamlet of Hounfirst (today Hohfirst ) in the canton of St. Gallen .
- ↑ a b Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 73-80.
- ↑ Karl Müller (Ed.): Der Feldberg , p. 503.
- ↑ Attention hikers: Neustadts Hochfirstturm is closed ( memento from October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung , May 15, 2014, accessed on November 21, 2014.
- ↑ Attraction: Hochfirstturm remains closed until further notice ( memento from October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, May 27, 2014, accessed on November 21, 2014.
- ↑ All-clear: Neustädter Hochfirstturm will be released again ( Memento from October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, March 15, 2015, accessed on March 16, 2015.
- ↑ Eva Korinth: Neustädter Hochfirstturm remains closed due to high radiation levels ( memento from March 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Badische Zeitung, March 19, 2018, accessed on August 4, 2018.
- ↑ Eva Korinth: You can go back to the high ridge tower. Badische Zeitung, April 28, 2018, accessed on August 4, 2018 .