Meilwald

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Erlanger Meilwald

The Meilwald is a forest area northeast of Erlangen on the slopes of the ridge of the Rathsberg . One of the 40 statistical districts of the city of Erlangen is named after him.

The area on the southern slope of the mountain range, which is directly adjacent to Erlangen, is the Erlangen Meilwald . The forest area on the western and northern slopes, which borders on Bubenreuth , is called the Bischofsmeilwald .

The Meilwald is partly owned by the city of Erlangen (the so-called Stadtwald), but also privately. It is a landscape protection area and partly also a nature reserve.

Recreation area

The Meilwald is a popular local recreation area in the neighboring towns. It is criss-crossed by numerous well-paved paths, which are intensively maintained by the responsible forestry office and expanded if necessary. In addition to well-marked regional hiking trails, there are also bridle paths, marked running routes and a variety of other leisure facilities. Countless athletes, young and old, enjoy running in the woods and Nordic walking in the fresh air and beautiful surroundings every day.

Landscape protection areas and nature reserves

The Bischofsmeilwald, the Erlanger Meilwald and the adjacent Eisgrube forest section (on the western and northern slopes of the Burgberg, formerly also called Solitude) are designated as "Meilwald mit Eisgrube" and "Bischofsmeilwald" protected landscape areas. The purpose of protection is to ensure its function as a "green lung" for the surrounding areas, as well as to preserve the beauty, diversity or character of the landscape and the recreational value for the general public. In protected landscape areas, cycling and horse riding are only permitted on the designated paths. Dogs must be on a leash. The tranquility in nature must not be disturbed.

Part of the Bischofswald on the northern slope of the Rathsberg is designated as a nature reserve "Wildnis am Rathsberg" . Both cycling and horse riding are not permitted here.

Leisure facilities

  • Jugendfarm Erlangen eV - Educationally supervised adventure playground with animal husbandry
  • Meilwaldbühne - in a clearing in the middle of the Meilwald, for private or public events
  • HSG Erlangen shooting range
  • Towel meadow leisure facility - playground and soccer field, fitness trail and the start of the fitness trail, Nordic walking trail, sweat drop track
  • Fitness trail (2300 m)
  • Nordic walking route over three distances (A: 5 km, B: 7.3 km, C: 11.1 km)
  • Waldlauf route weld droplet track (3430 m, marked: green circle with white center)
  • Orienteering course with 20 fixed posts (approx. 10 km), supervised by the support team OL Middle Franconia

history

The name Meilwald probably goes back to the two mile squares of 1002 . At that time, Heinrich II transferred part of the Königsforst to the St. Haug Abbey in Würzburg, east of the Regnitz , one mile north and south of the Schwabach . The Meilwald lies in the northern part. It was first mentioned in a document in 1314, when the Bamberg Bishop Wulfing von Stubenberg granted the newly founded Neunkirchen monastery am Brand wood rights in the forests of the "Meil" near Erlangen. When Emperor Karl IV. Acquired the village of Erlangen in 1361 from Bishop Lupold von Bebenburg from Bamberg , he deliberately excluded the forest north of the Schwabach from the sale. Since the Erlanger still had usage rights for their own use in the wood, their exercise led to disputes with the Bamberg Monastery in 1376 and 1406 and finally in 1565 to the division of the "Meil" into two equal parts. The southern part became the property of the municipality of Erlangen and henceforth called Erlanger Meilwald. The northern part stayed with Bamberg and was later called Bischofsmeilwald. Here Bubenreuth , Rathsberg and two farms in Oberrosenbach had timber rights, for which a forest code was issued in 1566.

Quarries

In both parts of the Meilwald forest and also on the adjacent castle hill , numerous stone quarries can be identified since the 17th century (also in the Bavarian first recording 1808–1864). Many views and rock debris lying around are still visible today. B. Protected as a geotope in the Rathsberg wilderness . The material was presumably already used for the early Erlangen churches and the old city wall, which was started in 1398. From 1686 the construction of the Erlangern Neustadt multiplied the demand. While five stonemasons were named in Erlangen in 1619, 100 people were already working in the quarries in 1687. The continuous increase in stone buildings in Erlangen led to the almost area-wide mining of the castle sandstone deposits into the 20th century . But also for street paving the particularly hard Feuerletten conglomerate was won on the lower part of the Rathsberg (from 1706, after the big fire of the Erlangen old town) . With the advance of brick, steel and concrete, the heyday of the Erlangen quarries came to an end. The last quarries on the castle hill were abandoned in the 1920s and 30s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Expansion of the "Bischofsmeilwald" nature reserve on protectedplanet.net
  2. ↑ Extension of the landscape protection area "Meilwald mit Eisgrube" on protectedplanet.net
  3. ↑ Ordinance on the Protection of Landscape Areas in the City of Erlangen (Landscape Protection Ordinance) [1]
  4. ^ Website of the youth farm Erlangen
  5. ↑ Meilwaldbühne on Erlangen.de
  6. ^ Website of the Royal Privileged Main Rifle Society Erlangen 1456
  7. ↑ Freizeitanlage Handtuchwiese - Meilwald on Erlangen.de
  8. ↑ Meilwald Erlangen Movement Path at trimm-dich-pfad.com
  9. ↑ Nordic Walking Board on Erlangen.de
  10. ↑ Article on the sweat drop railway in the forest on nordbayern.de
  11. ↑ Erlanger Meilwald orienteering map
  12. ^ Martin Schieber: Erlangen: an illustrated history of the city , CH Beck, 2002, link to books.google.de
  13. ↑ Ferdinand Lammers : History of the city of Erlangen from its origins under the Franconian kings to its cession to the Crown of Bavaria according to documents and official sources , edited by Ferdinand Lammers, first mayor of Erlangen, Erlangen 1834, on commission from FF Palm and Ernst Enke , Link to books.google.de
  14. ↑ Bertold Frhr. von Haller: Article Meilwald in the Erlanger Stadtlexikon [2]
  15. ↑ Quarries in Meilwald in the Bavarian premiere (1808-1864). In: BayernAtlas. Bavarian State Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying
  16. ↑ Claudia Maciol: Article Quarries in the Erlanger Stadtlexikon [3]

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '55.4 "  N , 11 ° 1' 4.2"  E