Coal Road (Limpurger Mountains)

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Frosty December morning on the Kohlenstrasse near the source of the Irsbach

The Kohlenstraße , sometimes also known as the Kohlensträßle or Kohlwaldstraße , is an over 20 km long high-altitude path in the Limpurger Mountains in northeastern Baden-Württemberg .

General

The coal road runs on the mostly very flat and almost entirely wooded plateau of the western branch of the Limpurger Mountains, from the northwestern spur of Einkorn near Schwäbisch Hall to the highest mountain Altenberg near Sulzbach-Laufen in the southeast. It adheres almost exactly to the watershed between the Kocher in the west and the Fischach or Bühler in the east, which is barely recognizable in the often very flat areas of the plateau .

course

The coal road begins in the northwest in the area of ​​Einkorn at a little over 500  m above sea level. NN and in the Gewann Sahrlachen branches off to the right at a forest parking lot as a forest path from the Hessental – Herlebach road. It runs to the east of Michelbach an der Bilz and beyond in a southerly direction near the upper slope of the Limpurger Mountains. Otherwise almost everywhere flat, it descends for the first time at the Brandhalde by about 20 meters into a small cross pass in which there is a forester's monument in the form of an obelisk. From here, after a renewed ascent to the old height, it runs southeast through the Kohlhäu , where, as is often the case , there are trenches permanently filled with black water on both sides without a clear direction of flow. At the millstone it goes into a second small depression. Then it passes the Dreikaiserlinde and now runs close to the eastern slope to the Fischachtal and past the 1.3 hectare Haspelsee .

East of Gaildorf -Winzenweiler, it crosses the L 1066 Gaildorf-Mittelfischach in a short stretch in an open corridor . From here it is a public driveway, up to the former Hasenbühl military depot, even well developed, shortly before which the shorter Höhenweg Brünststraße branches off to the right. Then it runs as a dust road past the Saubuschhütte , where an artificial hollow indicates one of the former cabbage fields, which are not uncommon in the Limpurger Mountains and which probably gave the road its name. Shortly before Sulzbach-Kohlwald it runs again on a developed route, touches the cleared island of the scattered settlement and then that of the hamlet Hohenberg at the foot of the Altenberg and ends a little further to the east on the road Bühlerzell- Gerabronn- Abtsgmünd- Wegstetten again as a dust path.

connection

In the direction of the terminating coal road, an old route continues south-east to the northwest foot of the Büchelberger Grat at Abtsgmünd-Hinterbüchelberg, where another high-altitude path begins on this narrow Liash plateau above a dirt road at Hohenhöfen, which then extends about four kilometers more to the south-east .

Landscape and view

The first 0.2 km from Einkorn are grassy areas, from the tower there or the nearby slope edge there is a good view of the rose garden , the step edge bay of the Kocher southwest of Schwäbisch Hall, and its peripheral mountains up to ten kilometers . Then the road re-enters the open corridor for the first time at Winzenweiler and only for 0.4 km. The next section in the open lines the right over 1.5 km of the meadows-dominated Kohlwalder Flurinsel, the last immediately afterwards crosses the less arable clearing island around Hohenberg for 1.2 km, both times the location of the Flurinsel restricts the view to this itself. The Altenberg Tower at Hohenberg, however, allows a wide lookout. On the remaining sections of the coal road runs in the forest, mainly in the mixed forest, which in the first half from the Einkorn to the L 1066 near Winzenweiler is mainly mixed with deciduous forest, then mainly coniferous forest.

Elevation profile

The coal road begins at Einkorn at a height of about 508  m above sea level. NN and then remains on its first almost seven kilometers to the Dreikaiserlinde mainly at heights between 490 and 500  m above sea level. NN , apart from three narrow terrain cuttings, in which, in the extreme case, up to 475  m above sea level. NN falls off (at the Försterdenkmal at the Brandhalde ). On the next three kilometers to the L 1066 it is between 512  m above sea level. NN and 497  m above sea level NN , then to the end of the upgraded line between 497  m above sea level. NN and 511  m above sea level NN . Up to the Kohlwalder Stöckenhof it then falls quite steadily from around 500 to around 470  m above sea level. NN , then a good two kilometers further at the northern foot of the Altenberg her last high with about 512  m above sea level. To reach NN . It ends on the Gerabronn – Wegstetten road at 493  m above sea level. NN . Including all ups and downs, it has a total gradient of 200 to 250 m in each of the two directions over its 20 km length.

leisure

On the section between the Einkorn and the L 1066 near Winzenweiler, the coal road is a popular hiking trail, but due to its almost constant course in the forest, it allows little view of the surrounding landscape. However, the two mountains at the beginning and towards the end are good vantage points. The coal road is even more popular as a cycle path, probably because of its very flat course and the not uncommon paved sections.

Wind farms

Since 2015 there has been a "Kohlenstraße wind farm" run by Stadtwerke Schwäbisch Hall in the northern area between Michelbach and Eutendorf, with seven wind turbines with a total of 23 megawatts of nominal output. Further south, east of the natural electricity storage facility in Gaildorf, in the Obersontheim-Mittelfischach and Bühlerzell-Geifertshofen districts, there is still a "Kohlenstraße wind farm" with nine other Vestas V136s (31 MW in total) from Uhl Windkraft.

literature

  • "TK25": Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, single-sheet cut the maps No. 6924 Gaildorf, No. 6925 Obersontheim, No. 7025 Sulzbach-Laufen

Web links

  • "LUBW-FG10": River 1: 10,000
  • "LUBW-SG10": Standing water 1: 10,000
  • "LUBW-GEZG": water catchment areas
  • "LUBW-LS2000": Land use according to Landsat 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to LUBW-SG10.
  2. ↑ End after TK25.
  3. ↑ According to TK25, LUBW-LS2000.
  4. ↑ Estimated according to the contour line diagram of the TK25, which offers up to eight contour lines on a ten meter gradient.
  5. ↑ The elevation model of the TK25, which is otherwise quite flawed, but more reliable on sections remote from the incline, names an accumulated 221 m ascent and 226 m descent in the description direction.
  6. ↑ http://www.swp.de/gaildorf/lokales/gaildorf/daempfer-fuer-windkraftgegner-14123929.html
  7. ↑ http://www.uhl-windkraft.de/projekt/kohlenstrasse/

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '  N , 9 ° 49'  E