High Flum
| High Flum | ||
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 Hohe Flum observation tower |
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| height | 536.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Wiechs and North Swabia ; District of Loerrach , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Dinkelberg | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 37 '36 " N , 7 ° 48' 40" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone | |
| particularities | Hohe Flum observation tower | |
The or the Hohe Flum is 536.4 m above sea level. NHN the highest point of the Dinkelberg mountain range . It is located between the villages of Wiechs and North Swabia in the Baden-Württemberg district of Lörrach . The Hohe Flum observation tower is on the mountain .
geography
location
The Hohe Flum is located east of the center of the Dinkelberg, which - apart from the westernmost part, which is on Swiss territory - lies entirely within the Southern Black Forest Nature Park . The flat summit crest is located around 500 m south of the outskirts of Wiechs' , the southernmost district of Schopfheim , and around 800 m northwest of the outskirts of northern Swabia , the northernmost district of Rheinfelden (Baden) . To the north the landscape slopes down into the Wiesental , to the south it leads over the high altitudes of the Dinkelberg to the valley of the High Rhine .
Natural allocation
The Hohe Flum belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Hochrheingebiet (Dinkelberg and Hochrheintal) (No. 16) and in the main unit Dinkelberg (161) to the natural area Eastern Dinkelbergplateau (161.02).
Hohe Flum observation tower
There is a stone observation tower on the Hohen Flum . The tower has a square base area of 5.10 m on each side and is 13.5 m high. 62 steps lead to the viewing platform .
In 1873 a tower building commission was founded to collect donations for the tower construction. Carl August Friesenegger (1798–1875), a brother of the painter Gustav Wilhelm Friesenegger , had drawn up the plans for the tower. The contracts were awarded at the beginning of 1874 and work began in March. The foundation stone was laid on May 4, 1874 , with various documents, newspapers, photographs and coins being walled in. As early as 1874, the Badische Schwarzwaldverein , local association Schopfheim, was one of the sponsors of the tower . On August 8th and 9th, 1874, the Schopfheim district song festival took place on the Hohen Flum, during which the tower was handed over to the community of Wiechs on August 8th and inaugurated on August 9th. Since the cost estimate was exceeded by about 100% for various reasons, the tower building commission was in debt and the community of Wiechs took over the tower, including the debts. The community also struggled with the burden of debts and maintenance, as the entrance fees for the tower were not sufficient and the demand for free entry was repeatedly made. In 1897 the community offered the tower to the Black Forest Association, which had built the Hohe Möhr tower in 1894 . However, the club was not able to shoulder the double burden. However, it was agreed that the association would pay the community a flat fee for the entrance fees, provided that these visitors grant free entry and take over the building maintenance. However, the community could not keep this obligation and the tower increasingly fell into disrepair. In 1914 it was in very bad shape and was closed anyway because of the First World War . By 1918 at the latest, there was a post in the tower to observe enemy aircraft movements. In 1921 the tower was supposed to be repaired with the help of Basel and was accessible again in 1922. But on June 22, 1922, it was badly damaged by fire. In the years 1924 to 1927 the tower was then restored, with the community and the Black Forest Association raising funds. During the Second World War , an air observation post was again set up on the tower from 1939 to 1945. On August 9, 1999, there was a celebration for the 125th anniversary in the run-up to which the tower was subjected to a thorough renovation.
From the viewing platform of the tower, which is now a listed building, there is a panoramic view of parts of the southern Black Forest and areas of the southern Vosges ; but in particular one looks south over the Swiss Jura to the Bernese Alps . The Hotel-Restaurant Hohe Flum is located 120 m east-northeast of the tower .
Traffic and walking
Over the east of the High Flum the summit between the localities is approximately 500 m ESE Wiechs and Nordschwaben the County Road 6336; From this a cul-de-sac branches off at Wiechs, which leads to the summit region. The Hohe Flum is a stop on the twelfth stage of the Schwarzwald-Westweg (Pforzheim – Basel), variant B (eastern route). The field and forest path Rheinfelder Weg runs over the western flank of the mountain .
Events
Since 1993 the Wiesental riding club has organized a star ride to the Hohen Flum on All Saints' Day . In 2017 more than 200 riders from Germany and Switzerland took part in this star ride.
literature
- Heinz G. Rotzler: The Hohe Flum Tower. The story of a tower. Schopfheim 1985
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ see Rotzler p. 1
- ↑ Hohe-Flum observation tower (Hohe-Flum-Turm) , on schopfheim.de (PDF; 66 kB)
- ↑ see Rotzler p. 6
- ↑ see Rotzler
- ↑ see Hans O. Steiger, Werner Beetschen: In the valley of the meadow. Between the Black Forest and the knee of the Rhine. Part 1: On the threshold of the new millennium. P. 79
- ↑ Wiechs: Primary school pupils receive an award for their commitment to the monuments in the village in the Südkurier on January 22, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2018
- ↑ Homepage of the hotel-restaurant
- ^ Homepage of the association; accessed on January 11, 2018
- ↑ Ralph Lacher: Hohe Flum star ride with record participation. 200 horses and riders above Wiechs. In: Badische Zeitung of November 2, 2017; accessed on January 11, 2018.