Talgang (Kellerwald)
| Valley passage | ||
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| height | 566.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Frankenau ; District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse , ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Kellerwald | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 6 ′ 31 ″ N , 8 ° 57 ′ 19 ″ E | |
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| particularities | with the former Quernstkirche and today's Quernstkapelle nearby | |
The valley is a 566.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Kellerwald in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse ( Germany ). The valley passage and its northern foothills Quernst (approx. 545 m ) is known as the former location of the Quernstkirche and today's Quernstkapelle as well as from there as a distant view.
geography
location
The valley passage is located in the western part of northern Hesse in the southern part of the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park , the area of which is almost congruent with the Eder heights. It lies between the Lorfe valley ( Lorfebach ), in which Frankenau and Frankenau- Altenlotheim are located here , in the west and that of the Eder tributary Wesebach , in which Frebershausen (district of Bad Wildungen ) lies near the valley , in the east.
The northern branch of the wooded valley is the Quernst, from which the small Quernstgrund rises, a Wesebach tributary flowing to the southeast.
Natural allocation
The valley passage belongs to the natural spatial main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (No. 34) and in the main unit Kellerwald (344) to the sub-unit Große Hardt (344.3). The landscape leads east into the Wildunger Bergland subunit (344.2), to the southeast into the Mittelkellerwald subunit (344.1) and south-west to west into the Frankenauer Flur natural area (344.50), which is part of the Niederkellerwald subunit (344.5).
Buildings
Quernstkirche
On an unforested plateau north of the Quernst are the remains of the Quernstkirche , a little northeast of a fork in the path at an altitude of 534.9 m .
It is assumed that a pagan - Germanic sanctuary or such a place of worship was located on the site in pre-Christian times and that later - perhaps at the beginning of the 8th century, but before the Christianization of the area of the Kellerwald - the lonely one Quernstkirche was built as a pagan building.
Even after Christianization, people paid homage to their pagan sanctuaries. Gradually, the Christian missionaries did not completely destroy the pagan churches and temples , but mostly only the former images of gods and symbols, whereupon they had the sanctuaries redesigned into Christian churches, among other things by building altars . With regard to the mountain church, this may have been done by Irish-Scottish missionaries.
The Quernstkirche was probably consecrated to Bishop Quirinus . The church is said to have been subordinate to the Pope since Winfried Bonifatius , who from 718 did missionary work in Hessen and in the Kellerwald area . The first documentary mention, however, comes from the year 1230. The Quernstkirche served as a pilgrimage church in the Middle Ages and as a church with a walled cemetery for the residents of Frankenau, Altenlotheim, Frebershausen, Asel , Bringhausen and Gellershausen until the 16th century . Every year on May 3rd, the day the cross of Christ was allegedly found (in the year 326), a market was held at the church building. It is believed that the Quernstkirche was abandoned as a result of the local Reformation (1527), after which it began to decline and the last church service took place in 1570. As early as 1590 it was noted on a map as a ruin, but in 1860 the six meter high ruins of the two church towers are said to have stood.
The Quernstkirche was probably not deliberately destroyed, but only after its normal deterioration did the residents of the area use the stones from the church building and cemetery wall as material for other structures. Today only earth walls and exposed remains of walls can be seen.
Today's Quernstkapelle
After a group interested in the church tried to build a place of worship on the unwooded plateau where the Quernstkirche used to stand, the "Quernstkapelle" was built as a new chapel near the ruins of the former church building. It consists of natural stone walls with greywacke and wood. It was inaugurated on December 3, 2006 (1st Advent ) with a small prayer room. In addition, the structure contains a shelter for hikers.
Pfaffenwald
The area around the former Quernstkirche is called the Pfaffenwald, which was completely reforested with spruce at the beginning of the 20th century . The hurricane Vivian destroyed the forest cover in the night of 25 to 26 January 1990 almost completely. The resulting open spaces were reforested with conifers , whereby a large part of the open space was grazed due to heavy game browsing, preventing the deciduous forest from returning .
Possibility of viewing
Not from the wooded Talgang, but from the treeless plateau before Quernst you look north to Waldeck Plateau on which Korbach is, the west is Rothaar to recognize that with the Langenberg to 843.2 m is high; otherwise one looks over the cellar forest .
Transport links and hiking
State road 3085 (Altenlotheim – Frankenau) leads past the valley to the west and L 3332 (Frankenau – Frebershausen) south to east. The valley and its northern foothills Quernst can be reached from the hikers' parking lot north of the National Park Information Center “Kellerwalduhr” (north-northeast of Frankenau in the “Feriendorf Frankenau”). Both can be reached on the "Forest Ecological Educational Trail" that begins there and on the "Quernstweg" via a crossroads on the plateau in front of the Quernst (approx. 526 m ). The Kellerwaldsteig leads over the western slope of the mountain .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
Web links
- Quernstkirche - The history of the Quernstkirche , on frankenau.de