Stone wall (Poppenhausen)

Stone wall Municipality Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '28 "  N , 9 ° 51' 59"  E
Height :	615 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.36 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents :	466  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	August 1, 1972
Postal code :	36163
Area code :	06658
In the foreground Tränkhof and behind it parts of the Steinwand district seen from the horse's head, at the upper edge of the picture Petersberg

The Phonilit rock face in stone wall

Steinwand is a district of Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda .

Steinwand is located in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve north of Poppenhausen. The place consists of numerous farms and farmstead groups without a classic town center, namely Bildstein, Eichenhof, Eichenwinde, Erlenhof, Eselsbrunn, Feuerloch, Grabenhöfchen, Grashof, Hausfürst, Heckenmühle, Heiligenhof, Heimenhof, Hohensteg, Hugofluß, Hugograben, Kalkofen, Klübershof, Krämerstock, Maulhof, Mittelberg, Obereichenzüge, Öttersbach, Pfaffenhof, Pielhof, Rauschelbach, Remerz, Remerzhof, Reppich, Schöpfersbach, Steinhecken, Teufelstein, Untermittelberg, Ziegelhof and some mills. Before the regional reform, the place was considered the largest municipality in Hesse with a wide network of field and farm roads; Even today the stone wall is considered the largest scattered settlement in all of Hesse. State road 3330 runs through the village, federal road 458 lies in the south .

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1549.

On August 1, 1972, Steinwand was incorporated into the newly formed large community of Poppenhausen by virtue of state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

The name of the settlement and known nationwide is the rock formation of the same name made of phonolite for climbing . This is around 100 meters long and around 20 meters high and offers 95 climbing routes of various levels of difficulty. It is located on private land in a wooded area - but is open to the public.

literature

• Michael Mott : The Dürrmühle near Poppenhausen (district Steinwand) / Former manorial mill of the Lords of Steinau called Steinrück , in: "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung , 62nd year, No. 7, March 16, 1989, pp. 25, 26; No. 13, May 17, 1989, pp. 49, 50; No. 14, May 27, 1989, p. 55.
• Literature on stone wall in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

Commons : Steinwand  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

1. ↑ Population statistics of the Fulda district , accessed in September 2015.
2. ↑ Measures for the construction of farm and field roads approved. Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Regional development concept for the Rhön habitat 2007–2013. Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Fulda and Hünfeld and the city of Fulda (GVBl. II 330-14) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 220 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 395 .
6. ↑ stone wall. Alpine Club, accessed on January 25, 2017 . 

Web links

• Districts In: Website of the municipality of Poppenhausen.
• Steinwand, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 7, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).