Forest ways of reading
The Leseffahrten Waldweise is an approximately 20 km long tourist educational trail in Märkisch Buchholz in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg .
location
Most of the hiking trail stretches along the Dahme . A crossing is in the Münchehofener district Hermsdorf at the local mill and lock . From there the path runs south on both sides along the river to Märkisch Buchholz, where the second crossing over the Dahme is located. In the north-western area there is an approximately three-kilometer junction to the Hammer Forest District. The Prussian Forestry Office was initially located in the listed building from 1737. It was expanded into a representative building in 1897 and 1898 and is the seat of the forest administration in 2015. Behind the building there is an information board with the route to the east. Two springs each mark the entrance to the hiking trail.
history
In 2005, the Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, together with the Austrian draftsman , sculptor and author Wolfgang Georgsdorf, opened the first section of the trail, which led from the forest ranger's office over a length of around three kilometers to the Dahme. A year later, it was expanded to a six-kilometer circular route, which led on a branch path for another five kilometers to the city center at Märkisch Buchholz. On the occasion of the International Year of Forests in 2011, the state company expanded the route from the mill in Hermsdorf on the eastern side of the Dahme to Märkisch Buchholz, thus completing the circular route.
construction
A total of 50 reading desks were set up on the hiking trail at a distance of around 300 meters. They stand on a massive pillar made from a notched pine trunk. In the 19th and 20th centuries they were worked by Harzers to obtain resin as a raw material for the production of pitch , tar and turpentine . The injuries to the tree caused by the “tearing” of the bark are reminiscent of the pages of an open book on the one hand, and the quill pen and flags of a feather on the other . The texts themselves come from around 1400 years of cultural history, including poems and prose by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Elias Canetti , Matthias Claudius , William Shakespeare and Alexander von Humboldt . The state enterprise wants to draw attention to the "importance of the forest for the environment and for society".
Examples
- From the Synod of Nantes: “With the greatest zeal the bishops and their servants should fight to the last room so that the trees, which are consecrated to demons, and which the people worship, keep them in such worship that they do not even dare to unite To cut off a branch or a piece of rice, cut it out with the root and burn it. "
- Frank Fühmann from the children's book Von der Fee, who could breathe fire : “Then the Schneeseekleerehfee / drank the / Schneeseekleerehfeedrehzehwegvergehteekessel / in one go, and when the Schneeseekleerehfeedrehzehwegvergehteekessel / was drunk, the Schneeseekleerehfee had the light / Schneeseeedreheeheedreheehweg / Schneeseekleerehfee hexed away, / and then the happy fairy uttered a loud yelp / that resounded through all the woods. / She hopped happily home, and on the / way there, the fairy hugged again / very dearly the deer, in the clover, by the lake, full of snow. "
- Note from Marilyn Monroe in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City from 1955: "You dear, sad trees - / I wish you - peace / But you must watch".
- Quotation from an information board on the forest nature trail on the Leutenberg near Tuttlingen : "The structure of the mixed forest: ruling upper class, fighting middle class, servant shelter, shrub layer, herbs and moss"
Web links
- Forest ways of reading , website of the Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, accessed on February 15, 2016.
- Flyer on the forest ways of reading , (PDF; 1.3 MB), website of the Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, accessed on February 15, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 56.4 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 6.8" E