Kendlmühlfilzen

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Renatured water surface created by peat extraction
View from the Hochfelln to the Kendlmühlfilzn

The Kendlmühlfilzen (also Kendlmühlfilz or Kendlmühlfilzn ) is a high moor area in the Traunstein district . It is located south of the Chiemsee between Rottau , Grassau and Übersee .

The Kendlmühlfilzen developed from the siltation zone of the formerly much larger Chiemsee. It is the largest contiguous raised bog in Bavaria. The peat layer had reached a thickness of seven to eight meters. In past centuries, this peat was primarily used by farmers to obtain litter and heating material. From the middle of the 19th century there was also the industrial extraction of peat. A peat station was built in 1920 on the Rosenheim – Salzburg line in Rottau. The prisoners of the Bernau prison were used as peat workers. In the 1970s and 80s, large areas of milled peat were then used for the production of potting soilwon. The destruction of the moor was fought by residents and environmental associations with the citizens' initiative Rettet die Kendlmühlfilzen . After decades of disputes, the mining of milled peat ceased in 1988 and in 1992 it was designated a nature reserve . The areas were renatured as far as possible.

Today the peat station and the remains of the field railway (gauge 880 mm), the so-called "Bockerlbahn", are an industrial monument that can be visited and is preserved by the Museum Association Torfbahnhof Rottau eV . The Bavarian Moor and Peat Museum housed in it deals with the history of Bavarian moors and peat extraction as well as the technology used there. The peat station is on the edge of the Kendlmühlfilzen, directly on the railway line between Munich and Salzburg. It is also worth mentioning that this peat factory houses the only complete peat baler in Europe that is still in its old location. The peat baler was fitted with an electric drive again in spring 2013 and is now being demonstrated fully functional.

Not far away, along the B 305 between Grassau and Rottau, is the Klaushäusl Salt and Moor Museum , which not only deals with the transportation of brine but also with the subject of moor.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gotthard Kießling: Monuments in Bavaria - Traunstein district (plus monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 22). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  E