Kammerforst (Rheingau)

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Forsthaus Weißenthurm

The forests in the Rheingau are called chamber forest or state forest Rüdesheim , which are not owned by the Rheingau towns and communities as a communal forest , but are owned by the State of Hesse and, for Hessen-Forst, by the Rüdesheim am Rhein forestry office and the forest ranger's department in the Weißenthurm forest house , earlier also managed by the Forsthaus Kammerforst . They are summarized in the forest district Kammerforst . The forests essentially extended over the heights of the western Rheingau Mountains between the villages of Assmannshausen and Aulhausen in the south, Lorch in the west to the Kammerburg on the Wisper in the north and around Presberg .

The first documentary mention of the chamber forest, which has been handed down to this day, comes from 1108. At that time, it served as a dominial forest to finance the court chamber of the ore monastery in Mainz . Types of use of the forest were the extraction of timber and charcoal burning . Because of the stock of oaks , it was also used to extract tanneries and as forest pasture for fattening pigs. On behalf of the electoral court chamber, the cartographer and surveyor Andreas Trauttner was commissioned in 1758 to measure and map the forest in the chamber and to set boundary stones, a work that took over ten years to complete.

Web links

Commons : Kammerforst  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of the territorial boundaries see Hessen-Forst, Rüdesheim Forest Office
  2. ↑ Rheingau Echo from February 28, 2019: In the future near-natural economic forest or wilderness? Former director of the forestry office, Hans-Ulrich Dombrowsky, presented the chamber forest

Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 50 ″  E