Hornesselwiese

Hornesselwiese Elmstein municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	255 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	67471
Area code :	06328
Location of Hornesselwiese in Rhineland-Palatinate

The Hornesselwiese is a hamlet that belongs to the local community Elmstein in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim . Sometimes the Stilles Valley, 1 kilometer south, is considered part of the Hornesselwiese.

Geographical location

The Hornesselwiese is located in the middle of the Palatinate Forest in the southern municipality of Elmstein am Helmbach . To the left and right of the Helmbach Valley, which opens into a small floodplain with a reservoir , the 474-meter-high Bierenberg and the 405-meter-high Große Schweinsberg rise to the northwest and north, respectively, and the 456-meter-high Birkenkopf to the southeast .

The Stille Tal runs south of the Hornesselwiese and west of the Birkenkopf, through which the Dachsloch is reached via a forest path up the Grobsbach and (after a good 4 kilometers) the Taubensuhl forester's lodge, which is 505 meters high on a mountain saddle . The connection to the main town of Elmstein is an 11 kilometer long, narrow, winding road that first descends on the left bank of the Helmbach and then in the same way up the Speyerbach . It is marked on maps as a particularly scenic route .

history

The name of the Horn basin area comes from the Palatine name Horn basin for the Hornet , the largest occurring in Germany wasp. A Hornesselwieserhof was mentioned in a document as early as 1795 in the Silent Valley, which flows into the south . According to its name, it was an offshoot of the Hornesselwiese, and it is possible that today's Gasthaus Stilles Tal emerged from it.

The actual Hornesselwiese only consists of a few buildings. It was established as a pub in 1905/1906. It was later expanded into a forest hotel, which received three stars in 2001 . On November 14, 2002, the property, which was largely made of wood, caught fire after a technical defect in the sauna. At first only outbuildings were destroyed and the fire seemed to be extinguished. However, when it flared up again two days later, the main house burned down to the ground. The hotel complex has been in ruins since then, but plans for rebuilding it became known seven years after the damage occurred. This took place in the course of 2010. Since January 2011 the house has been open again as a forest tavern.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mairs Geographischer Verlag: The General Map No. 12
2. ^ Elmstein community: Elmsteiner districts. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 2, 2008 ; accessed on December 31, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Voluntary fire brigade Esthal: Brand Waldhotel Hornesselwiese. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on December 31, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung, edition 2002/47: "Hornesselwiese" burned down. (No longer available online.) November 23, 2002, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 31, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung, 2009/40 edition: Hornesselwiese returns. October 3, 2009, p. 29 , accessed December 31, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung, 2011/08 edition: New beginning after almost nine years. February 19, 2011, p. 26 , accessed April 11, 2011 .