Schauinslandstrasse

Schauinslandstrasse
L 124
Basic data
Operator:	Baden-Württemberg
Start of the street:	Freiburg im Breisgau ( 47 ° 59 ′  N , 7 ° 51 ′  E )
End of street:	Notschrei ( 47 ° 53 ′  N , 7 ° 55 ′  E )
Overall length:	22.3 km
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Development condition:	two-lane
The summit of the Schauinslandstraße, view down the valley. From here, motorbikes are not allowed to pass through on weekends during the summer months.

The Schauinslandstraße or Landesstraße 124 is a street in the southern Black Forest on the district of Freiburg im Breisgau and (in the lower part) Horben , which leads to the 1284.4 m high Schauinsland with a height difference of over 900 meters . She became known through the ADAC Schauinsland races , which were held between 1925 and 1984.

course

Today the Schauinslandstraße begins following Günterstalstraße on Holbeinstraße in Freiburg's Wiehre district at 286  m above sea level. NHN and ends at Notschrei at 1120.1  m above sea level. NHN at the confluence with Landesstraße 126. It runs not only via Freiburg and Horben at the top of the pass but also via Oberried-Hofsgrund and briefly touches Münstertal-Stohren before the dump .

history

Hüetlinsruh refuge by the wooden bat mat

Before the road was built, there was only the connection leading almost directly from the Bohrertal to the summit and - bypassing the summit - a connection from the Rhine to the Wiesental, from Horben over the Eduardshöhe (named after the Freiburg mayor Eduard Fauler ), the Gießhübel and the Halde to the emergency cry . The urban forests on the Schauinsland, the Bohrerwald, were poorly developed and the wood was transported to the valley by means of rafting via the Bohrerbach (so called after the handicraft of the dike drill , which used to be practiced there , in the further course from Günterstal: Hölderlebach ). In the hope of help from the district, negotiations were held for years with the neighboring communities about a road via Horben and the Eduardshöhe to the Schauinsland. After the failure, the citizens' committee decided on December 14, 1893 to build a “road from the drill inn to the rest house on the Schauinsland”. The rest house is today's mountain hotel to the west below the summit. The street should cost 90,781 marks .

The road was opened on September 15, 1896: “In pursuance of this plan, the forest road on the Schauinsland (1,286 m above sea level) from Bohrer (440 m above sea level) to the rest house was first built 13 km as a wood removal and Chaisenweg (private road), the cost of which amounted to 121,000 marks. About half of this sum was covered by the net proceeds of the Weglinienholz, the other by raising capital. ” In his celebratory speech, Lord Mayor Otto Winterer mentioned Chief Forester Hüetlin as the actual initiator of the road, who had been in the service of the municipal forest administration for 35 years. On the wooden bat, a shelter called Hüetlinsruh reminds of him. He is also responsible for the planting of spruce trees on the Ochsenberg between 1864 and 1870. Around 1600 the mountain was still used by Freiburg butchers as pasture and before it was planted around 1860 it was an abandoned pasture overgrown with weeds.

In expectation of increasing motorization and local recreation, the Hotel Friedrichshof (named after the then reigning Grand Duke Friedrich I ) with a garden restaurant was built by Karl Küchlin at the fork between Schauinslandstrasse and the road to Horben .

Old Schauinslandstrasse in Horben-Bohrer

In the years 1900 to 1901 the extension from the Halde zum Notschrei and the district road 9854 from the Gießhübel curve to the Gasthaus Gießhübel were built.

For the first hill climb in 1925, the road was repaired and rolled by the municipal forest office. For this purpose, in addition to the existing quarry at Bohrer (right next to the restoration for the drill ), another one was created at the Brünnele curve.The most striking curves have the following names (uphill between Friedrichshof and the pass summit): Forsthaus curve, Diesendobel curve (also Dießendobel curve ), Tiefenbach curve, Heibrain curve, Brünnele curve, Weißenfels curve, Holzschlägermatte, Gießhübel curve, lower roadhouse curve, Ochsenberg curve and upper roadhouse curve. The original course of the road between Friedrichshof and Forsthaus curve was a little further south. The forest path there is still called Alte Schauinslandstraße today . The Schauinslandstraße was relocated in Günterstal, too, in 1905 at the Kybfelsen inn to the south-west. The former Schauinslandstraße is now called Dorfstraße and is partially traffic-calmed .

In 1932 the gravel road was paved with tar. In 1964 it was widened and the strong arch removed. Another renovation was completed in 1972, when it received a new surface and double guardrails .

Since 1984, the Schauinslandstrasse has been closed to motorcycles on weekends and public holidays from April 1st to November 1st .

Toll

To finance the maintenance of the road, a toll was introduced from October 28, 1925 . In addition, trucks (except with solid rubber tires ) were not allowed to drive on the road . Omnibuses were only allowed to drive downhill. The fee for every trip (uphill and downhill) was 2 Reichsmarks for cars and 1 RM for motorcycles. The toll keepers (younger, single forest workers from Horben) stood at a barrier after the Friedrichshof and collected the money. Appropriate signs were put up both there and at the top of the pass. Payments were only made during the bright times of the day from April to November. The barrier remained open in darkness and fog. From November 27, 1925, due to snowfall, tolls were no longer collected.

The Freiburg local branch of the ADAC had approved the measures, but did not consider that their members, who were involved in the races, also had to pay. Finally, a reduced fee and, from 1931, a flat rate of 600 RM became due.

In June 1933, Mayor Franz Kerber lifted the toll. It was hoped that this would provide economic help for the hotels in need and stimulate tourism.

Web links

Commons : Schauinslandstraße  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ E. Fieser: "On the suspension railway over the Freiburg city forest" (in: Black Forest, Upper Rhine, Lake Constance, Freiburg, 5th year, July 15, 1930, edition A)
2. ↑ Hans Sigmund: An extremely versatile building. Badische Zeitung, September 28, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2017 . 
3. ^ Henning Volle: Mountain record on the Schauinsland - the history of the famous ADAC hill climb 1925–1988. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-895-1 . P. 7 f.
4. ^ Henning Volle: Mountain record on the Schauinsland - the history of the famous ADAC hill climb 1925–1988. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-895-1 . P. 11 f.
5. ^ Henning Volle: Mountain record on the Schauinsland - the history of the famous ADAC hill climb 1925–1988. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-895-1 . Card in the header on the right
6. ^ Henning Volle: Mountain record on the Schauinsland - the history of the famous ADAC hill climb 1925–1988. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-895-1 . P. 145
7. ^ Carola Schark: Not quite so village street , Badische Zeitung, August 6, 2012, accessed on April 19, 2015
8. ^ Henning Volle: Mountain record on the Schauinsland - the history of the famous ADAC hill climb 1925–1988. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-895-1 . Pp. 81 + 142
9. ↑ Doreen Fiedler: Sicherheit: Schauinsland: Motorcyclists ignore driving ban - Radler in Angst , Badische Zeitung, June 28, 2010, accessed on April 19, 2015
10. ^ Henning Volle: Mountain record on the Schauinsland - the history of the famous ADAC hill climb 1925–1988. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-895-1 . P. 16