Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide
The Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide is a Saxon forest area in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains . It forms the easternmost point of the island-shaped chalk - sandstone relics in the Eastern Ore Mountains .
location
This forest area extends east of the municipality of Reinhardtsgrimma on a ridge that is located between the valleys of the Lockwitzbach and the Müglitz . Its tree population extends to the bottom of the valley on both slopes and is accessed through several forestry aisles .
A country road leads from the house village to the north through the Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide in a south-westerly direction to Reinhardtsgrimma. Shortly after Haudorf it forks and the branch leads down into the Müglitztal to Schlottwitz . There she opens at the station down Schlottwitz in the Müglitztalstraße S 178 . Another fork in the road exists in the forest south of the bush houses. Here a side street branches off to Cunnersdorf , which leads to Luchau and Glashütte .
The highest terrain points are in the eastern part of the forest (352.8 m) and at the bush houses (345.1 m). The forest area lies on a flat sandstone level with only a low relief. The valley of the Schlottwitzbach forms the most striking profile cut .
colonization
To the north and south of the Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide are two villages, Hausdorf and Cunnersdorf, whose fields border directly on the forest area. The two classicist bush houses stand on the country road that runs through the heather . Settlers have built a group of houses on the southern edge of the forest area.
Flora and fauna
The tree population is predominantly characterized by pine and spruce, which has only a few plant species in its undergrowth. However, there are also larches and birches. There are bushes ( buckthorn ) and deciduous trees on the valley slopes . In the south-western section there was a bog that is hardly recognizable today because it has dried up. There was peat moss , narrow-leaved cotton-grass and sheath cotton-grass . Furthermore, pipe grass , seven star varieties and red stem moss mainly grow here . Cypress sleep moss occurs in upholstery . The plant community corresponds to an acidic soil, which is typical for the sandstone subsoil.
In addition to bracken, there are a few other distinctive ground plants. There are the wire Schmiele , heather , blueberry , lingonberry and woolly riding grass .
Wild boars live in the forest area .
Geology and hydrology
The Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide lies partly on a Cretan sandstone relic , which is one of the southernmost fragments in the Elbe Chalk and has a common history of origin with the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . At the base of the ashlar sandstone, fluvial-like pebbles and layers of sand from the Niederschöna Formation are represented. The ashlar sandstone on top is light, almost white and very firm, and belongs to the lower Cenomanian . Pyrite , rutile , tourmaline and zircon as well as bulbous concretions of dark iron minerals occur in small amounts in the sandstone . In the bush houses, the sandstone has been removed in places and a gneiss is pending. The Schlottwitzbach has worked its way through the sandstone ceiling and exposed rhyolite rocks that also form the mountain spur at the Grimmstein castle ruins.
The southern tip of the heather ends with the field name “Auf dem Sande”. There store gravels of quartz with small amounts of dark clasts of shales and siliceous shales , more rarely of rhyodacites and gray gneiss . A few meters north of it, near the new houses , amethysts and agates appear in the rubble .
The natural runoff is in an easterly direction. The Schlottwitzbach (also called Cunnersdorfer Bach) takes on the ridge of the ridge of the streams of the Dorfgründel and the Vorderen and Hinteren Gründel . Two of them flow towards him from the south from the Cunnersdorf corridor.
The headwaters of the Schlottwitzbach lies above Hausdorf. In its lower reaches it takes on another short stream. Finally it flows into the Müglitz .
use
The Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide area is primarily used for forestry purposes. There is an inn in one of the two bush houses . In the vicinity there is a playground with wooden figures from well-known fairy tales .
In the north-eastern edge of the forest there are several small stone quarries that served regional needs. The largest quarry was the Naake'sche quarry of the homonymous landowner von Maxen . From his lower bank position he delivered a white and mostly fine-grained sandstone . The grain structure in its lower work stone bench is only slightly coarse to conglomerate. Wall blocks, steps and slabs were made from it. The quarry area has been filled in and built over.
In the corridor “Auf dem Sande” in the direction of Cunnersdorf, conglomerate rubble was mined in several gravel pits . These sediments of the Niederschönaer Formation have only a low grain-binding capacity and disintegrated very easily due to the weather , which made mining much easier. The gravel pits were later filled.
Attractions
- Bush houses
- The bush houses are two classicist hunting buildings with only one storey, which were built between 1810 and 1811 according to the designs of Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer . They belonged to the Danish envoy and authorized minister at the court of Saxony, Friedrich Ludwig Ernst von Bülow , and originally belonged to Reinhardtsgrimma Castle. Both buildings have a hipped roof and their entrance is each decorated with a clay relief. Both works are probably by Ferdinand Pettrich , the son of Franz Pettrich . At the back of the manor house, an avenue of oak trees leads to a historic shooting range (1830) 100 meters away.
- Path pillar on the country road between Hausdorf and Reinhardtsgrimma leading through the heather
- Stone bridge on an old country road in the valley of the Cunnersdorfer Bach
- Views of the Eastern Ore Mountains from the southern edge of the forest
- Relics of a small desert castle complex (former Grimmstein Castle )
- Selected sights
Architectural jewelry at the Buschhaus tavern
Architectural jewelry on the hunting lodge
Relics of the Grimmstein castle complex
Stone bridge over the Cunnersdorfer Bach
Path pillar
View from the north of the forest area and the Eastern Ore Mountains
literature
- Ferdinand Schalch : Explanations of the special geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony: Section Glashütte-Dippoldiswalde sheet 101. , 1888
- Reinhold Reinisch : Geological map of Saxony. No. 101 sheet Dippoldiswalde-Glashütte . 2nd edition, Geological State Survey, Leipzig 1915
- Werner Pälchen, Harald Walter (Hrsg.): Geology of Saxony. Geological structure and history of development . Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-510-65239-6 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments. Sachsen I . Munich Berlin (Deutscher Kunstverlag) 1996 ISBN 3-422-03043-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical note on the person
- ↑ Dehio, Sachsen 1, pp. 751-752
Web links
- Green League Osterzgebirge e. V .: Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide . at www.osterzgebirge.org
- Bush house hunting lodge. History. ( Memento from February 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Jürgen Hiller: History of Glashütte, OT Reinhardtsgrimma, section Reinhardtsgrimmaer Heide . on www.hiller-neuenbuerg.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '42 " N , 13 ° 46' 48" E