Hubwald Altlußheim

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The Hubwald Altlußheim is an approx. 210 hectare jointly managed private forest in the Altlußheim district, in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg between the communities of Neulußheim , Reilingen and Waghäusel . The Kriegbach flows through it.

The commercial forest consists mainly of pine forest, with parts of Douglas fir, oak, beech and linden. The forest has been PEFC-certified since 2011 and has been designated as an FFH area since 2003 . Parts of the Hubwald are bird and nature reserves.

Word meaning and form of organization

The word "Hube" (old. "Huoba" = small property, farm) denotes a share in a field community, i.e. a jointly used agricultural or forestry area. The Hubwald itself is a cooperative forest, which is divided into 29 Huben, going back to originally 29 Huebner (shareholders). In the case of the Hubwald, this form of communal forest ownership can be traced back to the early Middle Ages. Due to the inheritance of the shares, the number of Huebner is much larger today; it is usually calculated in proportions of 1/8 stroke.

history

The area of ​​today's Hubwald has a long history of settlement that goes back to Roman times. An old Roman road  with a dam still visible today runs through the Hubwald in a north-south direction to today's Ladenburg (Roman Lopodunum ) and cuts the Kriegbach. During excavations in the years 1956–1960, a Roman burial ground and the foundations of a heated building from Roman times were unearthed in the forest area. The building could possibly be a grain skewer and it was about 150 m south of the burial ground. A total of 146 graves were uncovered, which were dug from the Vespasian period to the end of the 2nd century / beginning of the 3rd century . The area of ​​the Roman cemetery is estimated to be around 30 × 50 m. The settlement is likely to have been located south and west of the Roman road.

The origins of the forest cooperative, which still owns the Hubwald, probably go back to the early Middle Ages and are based on the old Germanic ownership rights of the march comrades . From the middle of the 12th century, the Maulbronn Monastery assumed the role of Obermärker when it took possession of the Lußheim district, but without its own claim to ownership of the Hubwald, which remained in the hereditary possession of the original Huebner.

In 1769 the right to use the cooperative forest was the subject of a dispute with the community of Neulußheim, founded in 1710, which was decided in favor of the Altlußheimer Huebner after a failed attempt at settlement by the Duke of Württemberg .

In 2003, the Altlußheimer Hubwald attracted national attention as a crime scene when the homeless Johann Babies was mistreated there by a group of young people and ultimately died. Today a memorial stone marks the place of the crime.

literature

  • Dreisbusch, Gabriele: The Roman burial ground of Altlußheim-Hubwald: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. With contribution from F. Parsche, U. Maurer et al. Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1154-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentary mention of forest rights of the Maulbronn Monastery in Altlußheim from the 12th century (from the Baden-Württemberg State Archives) [1]
  2. ↑ Fuchs, Robert, Gemeinde Neulußheim (ed.): "275 Years Neulußheim 1711–1986", Weinmann, Hockenheim 1986, p. 110
  3. ↑ Morgenweb.de article of October 18, 2003: "Homeless man slain at the edge of the forest with a piece of wood" Neulussheim: Eight 12 to 19 year olds kill Johann Babies in the forest on October 15 , 2003 Documentation and archive information from December 12 , 2003

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  E