Königsheide (Fichtel Mountains)
| Königsheide | |
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 The Fichtel Mountains in northeast Bavaria |
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 Location of the Königsheide in the Fichtel Mountains |
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| Highest peak | Hohberg ( 863 m above sea level ) |
| location | Bavaria , Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 59 ′ N , 11 ° 45 ′ E |
The Königsheide in Fichtelgebirge is the Ochsenkopf southwest of upstream wooded ridge from Gneisphyllit , which in the south and east by the warm Steinach and the west by the Franconian Line is limited.
Naturally , it belongs to the main unit of the Hohes Fichtelgebirge (394). Since September 2010 there has been a preliminary redesign of the natural areas of northeast Bavaria, according to which the Königsheide is counted as a finer subunit of the Hohes Fichtelgebirge (in the narrower sense) .
geography
Königsheide in the narrower sense of the word means today the partially swampy high plateau around the highest elevation, the Hohberg ( 863 m above sea level ) with its secondary summit, Königsheide (853 m). The town of Goldkronach , the municipality of Warmensteinach and the market town of Weidenberg are located on today's Königsheide.
The origin of the name of this extensive forest ridge has not yet been finally clarified. In 1317 the area was called "Wulwingesheide", in 1542 it was called Königsheide.
history
Originally, the southwestern Fichtelgebirge was divided into two heaths (pastures): The Hohe Heide west of the Schneeberg and the Königsheide described here south of the Ochsenkopf massif, east of the Warm Steinach also called Nasse Heide . The Nasse Heide is today, after its highest point Kreuzstein ( 838 m above sea level ), also known as the Kreuzstein group . The rivers Haidenaab and Tauritzbach , among others, originate in it, and it is bounded in the east by the Fichtelnaab .
Historically, these names are still valid today, since it was not until 1542 that a certain Caspar Brusch wrote a booklet about the Fichtelgebirge and (without any historical background) only referred to the area between Ochsenkopf and Weidenberg as Königsheide .
Development
The forest area is a state forest area; there is no public road, only forest roads. Local researchers have found that an important old road from Nemmersdorf (district of Goldkronach) used to run over the ridge to Warmensteinach. It came from the Franconian Alb and led to Eger , which is why it is referred to in literature as "Egerer Straße".
Numerous marked hiking trails, which were created by the Fichtelgebirgsverein , run through the forest area. From the south, from Markt Weidenberg, a hiking trail leads over the Hohberg to the sights. The main hiking trails Westweg, Südweg and Mittelweg come from the west and open up the forest area for hikers. A white-blue-white marked path connects the town of Nemmersdorf with Warmensteinach and leads along the "Himmelsleiter" over the Königsheide.
Contemplations of nature
There are numerous rivulets and brooks that have their origins on and on the Königsheide and flow in an easterly or westerly direction to the Warm Steinach in order to strengthen its course. The legendary Jungfernbrunnen (Dreijungfernbrunnen) is located south of the Hohberg.
The autochthonous tree species that covers the ridge and the slopes is the spruce . Most of the forest was cut down in 1848 and the ridge was not afforested for many years. In 1880, the forest administration decided to sow mountain pine seeds. The mountain pines, which are up to five meters high, date from this time. The summit area of the Hohberg has been a landscape protection area since 1951.
Small monuments
The most striking small monument in the Königsheide is the Dreihirtenstein, an old boundary stone on the white-blue-white marked hiking trail between Warmensteinach and Nemmersdorf with the inscriptions “Ein Gott 1605”, “Brandenburg”, “Kindsberg Weidenberg”. It originally marked the land line of the Lords of Künsberg-Weidenberg , the Lords of Laineck zu Nemmersdorf and the Margraves of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. In the 1970s, during an amateur restoration attempt, the word Laineck was transformed into "Ein Gott", and the original year 1615 was changed to 1605. The reason for this is not known. At some point the name of the stone was also changed: the Dreiherrenstein became the Dreihirtenstein. The legend reports that three shepherds killed each other there in an argument.
The Popp memorial stone stands on the Rügersberg – Königsheide hiking trail and commemorates the forest warden Friedrich Popp, who was shot in the immediate vicinity of poachers and wood thieves in December 1920. On July 16, 1921, women looking for berries found the forest ranger's body in a pit. The perpetrator could not be determined until 1927, and in April 1928 he was convicted by the Bayreuth jury court.
On the Westweg between Nemmersdorf and Kattersreuth is the aviator memorial, which commemorates the crash of a Ju 52 on November 25, 1938, in which the four-man crew was killed.
Say
According to the legend, there was a large castle on the Königsheide. After a battle, a king is said to have been buried there in a golden coffin with his treasures. Armor and bone finds fired the imagination of the residents in the area. The Dreijungfernbrunnen is a spring set in stone south of the Hohberg. The legend reports that three daughters of Lord von Weidenberg got lost in the forests of the Königsheide. After a night in the loneliness of the forest, they awoke to find a spring next to their sleeping place; the ringing of the Weidenberg church bells showed them the way back to their hometown.
Individual evidence
- ^ E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960)
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Karl Heinrich Vollrath: Viola in Northeast Bavaria (page 132-133)
- ↑ Hohe Heide in a physical-statistical description of the Fichtelgebirge
- ↑ Königsheide in a physical-statistical description of the Fichtelgebirge
- ↑ Nasse Heide in a physical-statistical description of the Fichtelgebirge
- ↑ Myrtles for thorns - stories from Weidenberg
literature
Josef Wiche: The forgotten castle on the Königsheide in: Der Siebenstern Heft 3-2015, pages 6–10 ( online , PDF, 12.8 MB)
Web links
- Königsheide and Kreuzstein group on the website of the Fichtelgebirgsverein
- The Königsheide on Fichtelgebirge-Oberfranken, de