Karlstal

Karlstal
location	Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany
Waters	Moosalb
Mountains	Palatinate Forest ( Palatinate Woodland )
Geographical location	49 ° 20 '59 "  N , 7 ° 45' 27"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '59 "  N , 7 ° 45' 27"  E

The Karlstal der Moosalb is a nature reserve near Trippstadt in the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) and registered under the number 335 055 as Karlstalschlucht .

Geographical location

The Karlstal is about ten kilometers south of Kaiserslautern near the climatic health resort of Trippstadt. The approximately three kilometer long Karlstal Gorge can be accessed via a hiking trail .

history

On behalf of Baron Karl Theodor von Hacke , owner of the Trippstadt estate, († 1792, grandson of Ludwig Anton von Hacke ), Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell , who designed the first landscape gardens in Germany , was responsible for the renovation and expansion of the Trippstadter Schlossgarten . He got to know the nearby Karlstal and characterized it as follows:

“ One of the most beautiful valleys that I have seen in this way ... is in the Trippstadt rule ..., then called the Karlstal. "

- Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell

At the request of the baron, Sckell made changes in the center of the gorge, which is a good kilometer long, and fitted a hiking trail with small wooden bridges and a wooden pavilion (renewed) into the valley in such a way that the natural overall impression was reinforced. The Karlstal, located to the southwest below the castle park, was supposed to be its extended, natural continuation. Originally it was called the desert valley , then it was named Karlstal after Freiherr Karl Theodor von Hacke .

The entire Dominalgut Trippstadt, including the castle and Karlstal, was acquired by Reichsrat Ludwig von Gienanth in 1833 .

An iron plaque at the valley entrance indicates a princely visit: Ex-King Ludwig I of Bavaria , Grand Duke Ludwig III. von Hessen-Darmstadt and Archduchess Hildegard of Austria and her entourage visited the valley on August 9, 1862. The king had already been here in 1858.

landscape

Karlstal

The largely natural rock gorge , through which the Moosalb flows, is one of those destinations in the Palatinate Forest that are offered as worth seeing by those responsible for tourism because of the large rubble from the red sandstone of the region, the numerous small waterfalls and the old foliage and coniferous trees .

On the left-hand slope of the Karlstal valley, which can only be reached via a barely paved path, there is a formerly inhabited rock cave, further up on level ground is the Amseldell , a formerly park-like, now dilapidated facility from the 19th century, originally with a maze, a Shooting range and a hut.

Further sights in the area are covered in the article Moosalb .

traffic

Historical view around 1900, with the old pavilion

Memorial plaque to the king's visit in 1862

At its western end, along the Biebermühlbahn, there was once the Karlsthal stop , which was closed in the 1980s due to a lack of profitability. The closest train station has since been Schopp .

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literature

• Wolfgang Dammbrück: The last inhabitant of the rock cave at the entrance to the "Amseldell", the "rock woman" from the Karlstal in Trippstadt . In: Leaves on the local history of Trippstadt . No. 6, 1996, pp. 40-42 .

Web links

Commons : Karlstal (Moosalb)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Palatinate Forest Touristik, climatic health resort Trippstadt in the Palatinate Forest: The Karlstal

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical page on Karl Theodor von Hacke
2. ^ Andreas Stieglitz: Hiking in the Palatinate Forest , DuMont Reiseverlag, 2013, p. 139, ISBN 3-7701-8033-X ; Digital scan
3. ↑ Website for Amseldell Trippstadt
4. ↑ Wolfgang Dammbrück (see literature )
5. ^ Hermann-Josef Ehrenberg: Open Monument Day. The other garden in Trippstadt. (PDF; 389 kB) (No longer available online.) 2007, archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; Retrieved March 18, 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.