Herb island
| Herb island | ||
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| Waters | Chiemsee | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 52 '6 " N , 12 ° 24' 59" E | |
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| length | 366 m | |
| width | 171 m | |
| surface | 3.5 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 522 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Krautinsel with an area of 3.5 ha, the smallest of the three in the Chiemsee islands (except for the tiny artificial island Schalch west of Frauenchiemsee also woman island). The island got the name Krautinsel because vegetables and herbs were grown there in the Middle Ages. Politically, it belongs to the Chiemsee municipality in the Rosenheim district .
Two nameless small islands 54 and 80 meters south of the herb island form its southern foothills. They are connected to one another by a gravel bank. They each have only a few square meters and only offer space for one tree or shrub. These foothills no longer belong to the municipality of Chiemsee like the Krautinsel , but like the lake to the municipality-free area of Chiemsee in the Traunstein district .
use
In contrast to the neighboring island of Frauenchiemsee, the Krautinsel is uninhabited. In summer it serves as pasture for the cattle of the farmers around the Chiemsee. In autumn the cattle are brought back to the mainland by ship. In the Middle Ages, nuns of the Frauenwörth Benedictine convent ( Frauenchiemsee ) grew vegetables and herbs on the herb island.
Finds from the Stone Age
Traces of Neolithic settlement were found on the herb island for the first time in 1930 . Follow-up examinations from 1993 onwards also brought stone tools from the Paleolithic to light. The finds include knives, blades and arrowheads made of flint, flat axes made of stone and a flat ax made of copper.
The herb island is recorded as soil monument D-1-8140-0102 and the offshore smaller islands as soil monument D-1-8140-0106 in the list of "Chiemsee architectural monuments" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian Society for Underwater Archeology eV - Krautinsel
- ↑ Alexander Binsteiner , Robert Darga (Ed.): Stone Age in Chiemgau , Verlag Dr. F. Pfeil, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89937-012-6 .
- ↑ List of monuments for Chiemsee (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 139 kB)
- ↑ List of monuments for Chiemsee (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 62.8 kB)
