Kirgel

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Kirgel
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height 459.4  m above sea level NHN
location Baden-Württemberg
Mountains Mainhardt Forest
Dominance 1.1 km →  Lehberg
Notch height 55 m ↓  Kirgelsattel
Coordinates 48 ° 59 '28 "  N , 9 ° 45' 34"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '28 "  N , 9 ° 45' 34"  E
Topo map Geoportal Baden-Württemberg
Kirgel (Baden-Württemberg)
Kirgel
rock pebble sandstone on top
Age of the rock Mittelkeuper , top layer Hassberge formation
particularities Kernerturm ( AT )
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The up to 459.4  m above sea level. NHN high Kirgel is the most south-eastern foothills of the Mainhardter forest at Gaildorf in northeastern Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Location and surroundings

The Kirgel rises about 1.3 km southwest of the center of Gaildorf about 120 m above the valley floor of the towing northwest cooker . On its southwest side, the Michelbach (in the upper course: Erlenbach ) runs southeast to the lowest Fichtenberger Rot near Fichtenberg - Mittelrot . The church is part of an approximately 5 km long and narrow mountain ridge that widens in places on both sides through irregularly protruding leveling areas in the upper central keuper. It begins in the south-east above the confluence of the Rot in the Kocher near Unterrot -Arwatal and meanders in a north-westerly direction to north of Fichtenberg-Erlenhof, where it widens to a wider plateau at the White Swamp .

The Kirgel is the southeastern third of this mountain ridge and extends from the slope over Unterrot-Arwatal to the small forest path pass of the Kirgelsattels (approx. 405  m above sea level ), which is a continuation of the Gaildorfer Kernerstraße above a small path. To the north and north-west of the saddle, the Kappelesberg ( 435  m above sea level ) and the Lehberg ( 472.6 m above sea level ) adjoin  , which in the further course are followed by the elevations Druckele ( 471.8  m above sea level ), Lehberg ( 469.9  m above sea level ), Ebersberg ( 485  m above sea level ) and the Haftelswald ( 486.6  m above sea level ), which already merges into the White Swamp , follow.

The mountain ridge mentioned is quite narrow and divided into individual elevations connected to saddles due to the erosion attacking partly steep blades on both sides . The church itself, which is less profiled on the ridge than elsewhere, has three small peaks, the southernmost reaching 457.3  m above sea level. NHN , on its small, wedge-shaped plateau there is a large water reservoir. About 0.3 km northwest of it, an intermediate summit only reaches 446.1  m above sea level. NHN . The 459.4  m above sea level. NHN highest is again this time on a Z-shaped plateau, which then slowly falls over about 0.4 km to the Kirgelsattel .

The entire ridge line is followed quite closely by a forest path that bypasses some of the peaks, some of which are only accessible via footpaths through clay slopes or block rubble. In the area of ​​the church it is well established and practicable everywhere.

Almost everywhere the church, like the entire mountain ridge, is at least halfway down the slope with forest. The 415 m long Kappelesberg tunnel of the Waiblingen – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental railway line runs between the Gaildorf Westbahnhof and Fichtenberg-Mittelrot, under the mountain that gives it its name to the north of the Kirgelsattel.

geology

The church rises from the gypsum keuper and mostly reaches the lower colored marl on its ridge , on the two small plateaus also the silica sandstone , which forms small planarization areas here. At the northwestern tip near the Kirgelsattel there is below 418.2  m above sea level. NHN also a small leveling area in the reed sandstone .

Kernerturm

Kernerturm near Gaildorf

On the north side of the z-shaped plateau stands at 457.5  m above sea level. NHN high crest of the wooden core tower, about 12 m high . It was built in 1902 by the Swabian Alb Association and named after the poet and doctor Justinus Kerner and his son Theobald Kerner , who was born in Gaildorf . A northeast slope down to the city is kept free, which is why you can look out from there over the Gaildorfer Kocherbucht and the Limpurger mountains rising beyond . Sometimes the Rosengarten-Westheimer Bergkirche is about seven kilometers in the north-northwest , but currently (2010) not because the trees are too tall. Thanks to a cleared area on the forest path from the church tower to the water reservoir, on the other hand, you currently have a view of the southern slope of the Rottal up to the Welzheimer Wald around Gschwend , in the south-south-east above, with good visibility, of the northern tip of the Frickenhofer Höhe .

Ascent and hiking trails

From the slope of the Unterroter district of Arwatals in the southwest, an unpaved logging path leads in serpentines up to the first saddle behind the reservoir plateau, its entrance can easily be misinterpreted as a property entrance. At about the same point as this, the paved supply path to the water reservoir joins the ridge path above, it leads over an arch to the west up from the lower Arwa valley. The usual ascent, however, goes over the Kirgelsattel and begins on the Gaildorf side behind the last houses in the city at a parking lot at the edge of the forest. The other small and short climb to the small pass in Fichtenberg-Michelbächle begins in the other side of the Michelbach valley.

The Kirgelsattel is a crossroads of hiking trails. A coming from Einkorn via the Kohlenstraße and Gaildorf crosses the ridge into the lower Rottal and then continues into the Welzheimer Wald to the Hagberg . Another one runs across the ridge from the Kernerturm to the north of Fichtenberg-Erlenhof, where it splits up; a subsequent path towards the west via Oberrot reaches the Flinsberg , another leads north-east past the Steinbühl to Rosengarten- Westheim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ According to GK50.
  3. ↑ Read on TK25.
  4. ↑ Estimated according to TK25.
  5. ↑ Estimated according to the contour lines of the TK25.
  6. ↑ Heights and distances according to TK25.
  7. ↑ Geology according to GK50.

literature

  • "TK25": Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, single-sheet cut the numbers 6924 Gaildorf and 7024 Gschwend.
  • "GK50": Geological map of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park 1: 50,000, published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg i. Br. 2001.

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