Rusel
The Rusel is a place in the front Bavarian Forest northeast of Deggendorf and a popular excursion area with a golf course and restaurant. However, this and two ski lifts are currently not in operation. As a district of the same name, the Rusel belongs to the community of Schaufling .
history
In the 12th century, the Bavarian Duke Leopold gave this forest area to the Niederaltaich monastery as a thank you for allowing him to stay in the monastery until his death. The huge forests were worthless until Abbot (1619–1634) Johann Heinrich Lutz had wood flooding, so-called Rusel, built, on which the wood was flooded down to the Ohe and then over the Mühlbach to the monastery. This complex fell into disrepair and it was not until Abbot (1700–1739) Joscio Hamberger had an agricultural homestead built in 1719, a so-called Schwaige .
In the course of secularization , Leopold Rechenmacher bought the Rusel from the Bavarian state for 9,250 guilders in 1804 , but on the condition that he could run a tavern there and that the planned road from Deggendorf to Regen would pass here. The road was actually built a few years later. For fiscal reasons, the remaining grounds were divided into four settler positions.
The Rusel developed into one of the most famous inns in the Bavarian Forest, which was not only appreciated by the truckers who transported their goods on this road between Bohemia and Bavaria . The earlier “road”, which was mentioned in an imperial charter in 1029, was very steep and dangerous. The new Ruselstrasse was also used by the Bavarian King Max II with his wife, Queen Marie , or by Friedrich Nietzsche (1867). The Rusel was owned by the Rechenmacher family for 100 years until a fire in 1904 reduced everything to rubble and ashes.
In 1921 the doctor Dr. Elisabeth Gilbert-Lichtwer (1872–1952) took over the area and built a new building for lung patients with 120 beds and an inn nearby. For financial reasons, however , the Rusel Sanatorium had to be closed at the end of the 1950s. From 1976 the building was used as a hotel and guest house on a long lease. In 2008 Arcobräu leased the property for 3 generations (3 times 33 years). From December 2008 to June 2010, the buildings were temporarily used as a discotheque and dance hall under the name Berghouse .
The lease proceeds are used by the Elisabeth Gilbert Lichtwer Foundation for charitable and social purposes. To mark the 50th anniversary of the donor's death, a granite memorial was inaugurated on July 23, 2002 at the Berghof lookout point.
Personalities
- Franz Handlos (1939–2013), lawyer, publisher, journalist and politician (CSU, REP, FVP, FDP)
traffic
Until 1979 the B11 also ran over the Ruselberg route , which was then moved further west; at the same time the Ruselberg line was downgraded to State Road 2135 . The most famous curve just before the Ruselabsatz is the Wegmacher curve, where serious accidents occur again and again.
Rusler forest
At an altitude of 700 to 819 meters, the 23.9 hectare Rusler Wald natural forest reserve is located on log heaps to protect the spruce, fir and beech forests that occur here. The Rusel is also the namesake of the Rusel power plants in Deggendorf.
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '36.8 " N , 13 ° 5' 6.7" E