Mumpferflue
| Mumpferflue | ||
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 The Mumpferflue seen from Mumpf |
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| height | 510.7 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Kanton Aargau | |
| Mountains | law | |
| Dominance | 1.24 km → Lohnberg | |
| Notch height | 23 m ↓ northeast. Schupfart | |
| Coordinates | 637 074 / 265 738 | |
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The Mumpferflue (also Mumpfer Flue ) is 510.7 m above sea level. M. high hill between Mumpf , Stein and Obermumpf in the canton of Aargau and falls steeply northwards to the Rhine . To the southeast it passes directly into a high plateau of the Table Jura . On the Mumpferfluh there are also the archaeological remains of a fortified settlement area with section trenches (under cantonal protection KGS no .: 15647). The entire top of the hill is on Obermumpfer Boden.
Lookout tower on the Mumpferflue
The observation tower on the Mumpferflue was an observation tower that existed at the beginning of the 20th century. It was located above the vertically sloping northern slope of the Mumpferflue, east of the village of Mumpf , around 30 kilometers east of Basel . From this Fluh you can see the Fridolinsmünster in Bad Säckingen , the Rheinbögen and from Waldshut to the high buildings of the city of Basel.
history
The Mumpferflue has long been a popular excursion destination on Sundays and public holidays for the locals and the spa guests of the brine baths in Mumpf . In 1880 there was a forest management in accordance with the local council protocols of Obermumpf , operated by the pint landlord Adolf Stocker.
The observation tower can be seen on postcards from 1905 onwards. The Mumpferflue plateau must have had light wood, almost bush-like, where high mixed forest can be found today. On the postcards, the tower dominates the wood.
The 18 meter high tower was located a short distance east of the wooden walkway over the distinctive ditch, i.e. just next to the highest point of the Mumpferflue.
The tower was built by Amanz Meier, host of the Jägerstübli in the neighboring community of Stein (AG ). On June 8, 1905 , he wrote to the government council that he had built a wooden observation tower that could be climbed on Sundays for 20 cents admission. He asked the government council to review the security. The latter wrote back that the building had been viewed. However, this in no way means a state approval of the building and that hereby any responsibility for the use of the observation tower must be rejected. Two visits took place, first by the district engineer Herzog on June 25, 1905, then by the adjunct Wipf of the cantonal master builder on July 15, 1905. Their reports give a detailed picture of the observation tower on the Fluh.
Herzog wrote: "The tower is constructed from raw fir logs. The four corner posts consist of whole fir trunks with a mean diameter of approx. 20 cm, which are buried approx. 2 meters deep in the natural ground. At its base, the tower forms a square Square of 4.50 m, at the top a side length of 3.00 m. The tower has 4 floors of 5.50, 4.50, 4.50 and 3.50 m, altogether 18.00 m in height. The lower 3 floors are connected by 2 wooden stairs each; The top floor has only one staircase. The traverses of the individual floors are connected to the posts by strong iron screws, but the struts are only nailed. Stairs and platforms are provided with double backrests made of weaker round wood. The latter protective measures appear to be small and unsafe The coronation of the tower (top vantage point) requires a slightly better and more solid fence to secure the public. "
Adjunkt Wipf added: "No more than 10 people should climb the tower at a time. He also criticized individual construction and construction devices. The tower gave the impression of being a temporary solution. The main corner posts were weak and the wooden floors were too tight . "
Further details can be found in the files "Construction 1803–1934" in the State Archives of the Canton of Aargau .
The ornithologist Wilhelm Schuster (1880 to 1942) wrote the essay Die Mumpfer Fluh after 1905 . He dealt with geological, botanical and historical areas of the Mumpferflue and mentioned the wooden tower.
A violent summer storm caused the tower to collapse in August 1909 without harming people.
Several newspaper articles appeared on the observation tower, including the opening and its tragic end in 1909 (see gallery).
Because there are no close-ups of the observation tower to be found, the Mumpfer architect Felix Hurt created a sketch based on the information available.
gallery
Mumpferflue observation tower, drawn on a postcard from 1905
Advertisement for the opening of the tower in the "Volksstimme aus dem Frickthal" from July 15, 1905
Excerpt from the essay "Die Mumpfer Fluh" by Wilhelm Schuster
Report from the end of the observation tower in the "Volksstimme aus dem Frickthal" of August 18, 1909
literature
- Bruno Egloff: Obermumpf - A village through the ages, publisher municipal office Obermumpf
- Gerhard Trottmann: Mumpfer local history . 2014, ISBN 978-3-03304831-7 , pages 57-59.
Web links
- To the Mumpfer Flue on schwarzwaldverein-bad-saeckingen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swisstopo map T214 edition 2009
- ↑ B-Objects AG 2018 . Canton Aargau KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (no changes compared to the previous year). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, p. 19, accessed on March 29, 2020 (PDF; 677 kB, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
- ↑ A tower on the Mumpfer Fluh should guarantee a beautiful view. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. August 5, 2012, accessed June 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Aargau State Archives: StAAG DB01 / 0571/01.
- ↑ The document The Mumpfer Fluh by Wilhelm Schuster is located in the city archives Mainz