Saupark Jump

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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  E

Relief map: Lower Saxony
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Location of the Saupark and course of the wall
Jagdschloss Springe at the main entrance to the Saupark
Saupark wall with inlet gate; The Springer city arms can be seen on the gate

The Saupark Springe ( popularly just called Saupark or Mauerpark ) is an approximately 14 km² game reserve surrounded by a wall near Springe in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . The Saupark was the hunting ground of the kings of Hanover and later the German emperors .

The Saupark is located in the Kleiner Deister ridge southwest of Hanover and southeast of the town of Springe. The southern part of the park extends to the Nesselberg , a mountain range upstream of the Kleiner Deister, and the northern part of the park is in the Haller river valley .

Park description

The Saupark Springe is - unique in northern Germany - surrounded by a 16.3 kilometer long, two meter high and 60 centimeter wide stone wall. It runs in the north and east along the edge of the forest and in the south through the forest over the ridge of the Nesselberg. It consists of locally extracted Jura limestone and was built partly as a dry stone wall, partly with lime mortar.

The main entrance to the Saupark is located at the Jagdschloss , a work by the Hanoverian master builder Georg Laves . The hunting lodge, like the Saupark wall, is a listed building , the Saupark wall is considered to be the longest monument in Lower Saxony.

In addition to the main entrance, the Saupark has eight side entrances that are closed with wooden or steel gates to keep the game in the enclosure. Where hiking trails cross the wall, there are side gates or stairs, for example at the Hirschtor or the Streittor.

The park crosses the state road L 461, which branches off from the B 217 in Springe and leads via Eldagsen in the direction of Hildesheim , as well as the district road K 213, which comes from Alvesrode and meets the L 461 in Saupark. These streets pass the Saupark wall without gates; to keep the game off the road, they are enclosed with fences. In addition, a passage from the Forsthaus Morgenruhe via the Wolfsbuchen hiking car park to the Forsthaus Jägerhaus is freely accessible, but gates that are locked at night must be passed on this route.

The park offers numerous hiking trails totaling around 50 kilometers in length.

Since 1954, the Kleine Deister and the Nesselberg have formed a nature reserve of almost 2,445  hectares , which also includes the Saupark Springe. At the end of 2018, a cave area in Kleiner Deister , which was previously part of the “Saupark” nature reserve, was designated as an independent nature reserve.

Flora and fauna

Two thirds of the park's forest cover consists of an old deciduous forest with beech and oak . The spruce dominates the conifers . The Saupark State Forestry Office is responsible for the forestry and hunting operations of the Saupark. In addition to rock faces, caves, burial mounds , water springs and wild meadows and chestnut avenues , rare animal and plant species can be found in the park. The 16 km long dry stone wall also provides habitat for threatened species on the Red List . In Saupark there are various hoofed species, including deer , fallow deer , mouflon , wild boar and roe deer .

Hutewald

Snow-covered hut forest in the bison enclosure Springe .

The Lower Saxony State Forests (NLF) have been running the “Gelbbach” project in Saupark Springe between Coppenbrügge and Eldagsen since 2014 . On an area of ​​around 20 hectares, a hut forest is being created in the Osterwald , which has been tended by grazing with a herd of Highland Cattles since 2015 . The project is conceived as an eco-account ; because it serves as a substitute for the impairment of the natural balance elsewhere through the construction of roads and facilities.

To do this, the Saupark Forestry Office is removing the spruce forest and replacing it with natural mixed oak forests and swamp and quarry forests. The drainage ditches are closed. At the same time, small bodies of water are created for amphibians , insects and birds such as the black stork . Mountain newts , fire salamanders and common toads are also said to settle here. Typical types of near-natural swamp and bog forests such as oaks and alders are planted in certain areas .

In 2016, fifty single oaks were planted on a third of the area at larger intervals, which will grow into mighty trees with large crowns and shape the appearance of the future Hutewald. Some relics of the former Hutewald, which is now being replanted, still stand on the Gelbbach today.

The nature conservation forester Heiko Brede started the mentoring program in early 2016. It must be recorded how the plants and amphibians develop in the project area.

Bison enclosure

In the northeast of the Saupark is the bison enclosure Springe , a wildlife park with many species of wild animals. For example, bison , wild horse , elk , red deer , mouflon , otter , bear , wolf , wolverine , eagle owl and golden eagle can be observed .

history

Hunting in Saupark Springe in 1961 for the visit of President of Pakistan Muhammed Ayub Khan in Lower Saxony

The establishment of the Saupark is based on a court ruling that sentenced the Hanoverian kings in the 19th century to replace game damage and to reduce the game population. As a result, under King Wilhelm IV. Began to set up an enclosure at the Kleiner Deister. This area had been a royal court hunting ground since the middle of the 17th century . A 16 km long limestone wall was built between 1836 and 1839 as a fence . The building material came from local quarries. A game population of red deer and wild boar was protected in the enclosure. King Ernst August of Hanover set up his state hunt here in 1837. After the incorporation of the Kingdom of Hanover into Prussia in 1866, the Saupark continued to be a court hunting area, in which Kaiser Wilhelm II had royal driven hunts carried out every two years . In 1902 the coronation site was the site of the duel between District Administrator Adolf von Bennigsen and the royal Prussian domain tenant Falkenhagen. Since the Second World War , state hunts have been held by the Lower Saxony Prime Ministers with their state guests and well-deserved personalities from Lower Saxony. The state of Lower Saxony has waived this since 2013.

The Hunting Lodge Springe , located in the north of the park at the main entrance and built between 1838 and 1842 according to plans by the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , now serves as a hunting museum and hunting training facility. In addition to the hunting lodge, further buildings related to hunting and forestry were built by 1912, including two cavalier houses around 1880 .

Buildings and special features

Cone-shaped elevation Hallermundskopf with the remains of Hallermund Castle , seen from the north-west, behind the Kleine Deister
  • in the north, at the main entrance: hunting lodge with hunting museum and Saupark forestry office
  • in the north: remains of Hallermund Castle on the Hallermundskopf
  • in the southeast: Forsthaus Jägerhaus
  • in the west: Forsthaus Morgenruhe
  • in the northeast: Forsthaus Eispfad
  • in the east: Forsthaus Mühlenbrink
  • in the east: Bronze Age barrow field with 22 graves on the northeast slope of the Kleiner Deister
  • West of the Hallermundskopf, in a cliff on the ridge of the Raher mountain, the stalactite cave "Homeisters Loch"

literature

  • Wilhelm Puchmüller: Life and Hunting in the Saupark Springe. History and stories from a Hanoverian hunting ground. Edition Walter Schwartz published by J. Neumann-Neudamm KG, Melsungen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7888-1182-2
  • Ernst Andreas Friedrich : Designed natural monuments of Lower Saxony . Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1982, ISBN 3-7842-0256-X
  • Günter Gebhardt: Military affairs, economy and traffic in the middle of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover 1692–1866 . Studies on the history of Lower Saxony, vol. 1, ibidem (Edition Noëma), Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-8382-0184-9
  • Günter Haupt: Jump in old views. With illustrations by Springe, Saupark and Eldagsen. European Library, Zaltbommel (Netherlands) 1978
  • Roswitha Kirsch-Stracke: The Saupark wall at Springe - origin and current condition, nature conservation and monument value. In: BHU (Hrsg.): Significance of nature conservation of historically used forests using the example of hunting parks and zoos 2012, pp. 92-105.
  • Hery A. Lauer : Archaeological walks in southern Lower Saxony. A guide to sights of prehistory and early history. Volume III, Verlag H. Lauer, Angerstein 1988, pp. 58 to 59 with references to the literature (Saupark barrow field)
  • Friedrich-Albert Linke, Hans-Günter Peters: The excavation of a burial mound in the Saupark near Springe . In: News from Lower Saxony's Urgeschichte 43, 1974, p. 109 ff.

See also

Web links

Commons : Saupark Springe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.jaegerlehrhof.de/der_jaegerlehrhof/historie/
  2. Press release of the Lower Saxony State Forests from July 28, 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesforsten.de