Tettnang Forest
The Tettnang Forest is a forest area and a nature reserve of the same name in the area of the city of Tettnang and the municipalities of Eriskirch , Kressbronn and Langenargen in the Lake Constance district of Baden-Württemberg .
location
Tettnang Forest encloses an area between the Langenargener districts beer cellar , Oberdorf , Tunis forest , belonging to Eriskirch districts Moss , Schlatt , Mariabrunn , shot Reute and Braitenrain , Tettnang districts Kau , Hagen Book , Reutenen , Neuhäusle , Tannau and Laimnau and the Kressbronner district casting bridge .
In the north-east-south-west direction (Tuniswald-Tannau) the area extends for about nine kilometers, in the north-west-south-east direction (Kau-Gießenbrücke) around 4.6 kilometers. The highest point is the Argenhardter Kopf with a height of 549 m above sea level. NN .
Name and story
An earlier name that still belongs to the time when it belonged to the Swiss rulership on the opposite side of the lake is Argenhardt or Argenhard , where Hard is the Middle High German word for forest and the word part Argen means the river of the same name not far from the forest, whose name has common roots the Swiss Aargau has. This term is still present today in the name of a small settlement that goes back to a former cell of the Pauline hermits.
According to other sources, there were even two neighboring, albeit small, cells in the Tettnang Forest. These are the Pauline monastery or the upper cell ( forest brothers 1355-1359, Pauliner hermits 1359-1652) as can still be seen today, and the forest brothers house or the lower cell (forest brothers around 1291 to around 1425), but can no longer be localized today.
The main state archive in Stuttgart summarizes the history of the Pauliner settlement (1359–1736) based on finding aids under item B 365 as follows:
- "The Pauline Hermit Monastery of Argenhardt, built in 1359, has been administered from the Pauline Hermit Monastery of Langnau since 1598, incorporated into it in 1672 and abolished with it in 1786."
Furthermore, archival material from Argenhardt is listed, which was extracted from the Bavarian Reich Archives in Munich in 1835.
Today Argenhardt is a small collection of agricultural residential buildings and stables, surrounded by orchards and pastures, located in a valley basin surrounded by forest. The only access to the village, apart from impassable country lanes, leads from a junction of the old Tettnanger Landstrasse (for a longer stretch parallel to the B467) which cuts through the Tettnang Forest, with entry at Tettnang at the “Grüner Baum” inn in Reutenen or at Gießenbrücke der Argen, not far from the former, now silted up moated castle Gießen in the Kressbronn district of Gießen .
Historical reports
The following passage can be found in the description of the historical Oberamt Tettnang:
- "6.
There are no specially named districts , if we don't want to take Argenhard here, a large forest district between Langenargen, Oberdorf, Laimnau, Tannau, Tettnang and Mariabronn, now called Tettnang Forest. "
Furthermore, the following story is broken down for the Langnau monastery and the Argenhardt, which will soon be integrated into it:
- "13. Parish Langnau
[…] In 1389 the abbot Walter von Schaffhausen exchanged the priory [note: von Langenargen] with all the people, goods and assets belonging to it to Count Heinrich von Montfort-Tettnang, and his son Rudolph, Herr zu Scheer , against the people and goods at Frickenweiler and Hunoldsweiler . The Benedictine priory has now been abolished, and Count Heinrich and his two sons Rudolph and Wilhelm, on the other hand, founded a new, independent monastery, which they shared with the Paulines of the upper cell in Argenhard (see Argenh.) With the property of the previous and the Hiltensweiler parish April 24, 1405 on condition that the order always hold 5 priests there and recognize the owner of the county of Tettnang as its bailiff. Pope Gregory XII. confirmed the foundation in 1406. The class’s possessions increased through gifts and purchases; Although it suffered many hardships, especially in the Peasants 'War (1525) from its own monastery owners, at whose head the pastor of Esseratsweiler stood, and also in the Thirty Years' War , where it was completely abandoned for a time; but it always recovered. The monastery was under Montfortic sovereignty , but exercised both the right of collection and jurisdiction under contract in its possessions. The possessions comprised the greater part of the current district of Langnau, then various goods and grades in foreign rulers. When the monastery was abolished, its assets, including 7,520 florins [Note: Gulden ] capital, were calculated at 99,310 florins. The whole fortune became the oestr. Religious Fund withdrawn. With the exception of the church [note: according to the context in Hiltensweiler] and a wing of the monastery, the monastery buildings and the peculiar monastery courtyard, called the building yard, were sold for 13,800 florins. "
The upper cell in Argenhardt also had its own chapel, which is still preserved today as a structure:
- “After the abolition of the Langnau monastery in 1786/87, the Argenhardter Hof was sold as a hereditary lease and in 1829 was split into two parts. The nave of the chapel was converted into a stable and barn, the choir into a residential building. In the current renovations, the former two-story main building and the chapel with the semicircular end of the choir are still recognizable. " ELMAR L. KUHN
In the work Geographisches Statistisches-Topographisches Lexikon von Schwaben (Ulm, 1791) the following mention can be found:
- "Argenhard, hermit monastery in the county of Tettnang, which is probably now closed."
The work itself indirectly describes itself as incomplete, since both the diocese of Augsburg and some knight cantons had forbidden their experts to contribute to the work.
The Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual (1828) lists Argenhard in chapter D. District and local administration, IV. Danube district, 12. Oberamt Tettnang on page 431 in the heading 20. Tannau as a farm with a population of 3.
Development
The forest cover mainly consists of a mixture of spruce, pine and beech (forest development type: so-called Lake Constance type) with firs, larches, oaks and other native tree species being added. Game population is given. A moderate forest operation is practiced. The ground of the area is rich in ice age gravel. At individual points, dismantling was or is being carried out.
The forest itself serves the population as a hiking area; Forest parking spaces in front of the Tettnang district of Schäferhof, Hagenbuchen and other places make it easier to get started. Resting points and adventure facilities in the form of a fitness trail are available in different care stages. The forest is also known among mountain bikers, including an aviator memorial .
Among other things, the eastern branch of the Upper Swabian Jakobweg runs through the Tettnang Forest, leading from Brochenzell via the center of Tettnang , whose destination, after crossing the Kressbronn districts of Gießenbrücke , Atlashofen and Gattnau, is the St. Jakobus Chapel in the Bavarian Nonnenhorn .
Geo-hiking trail
The Tettnang geological hiking trail is a geological educational trail in the Tettnang Forest. At ten stations, the hiker is shown interesting insights into the geological layers of the Tettnang Forest. The trail, which was inaugurated in June 2008, is part of the Upper Swabian geographic information network.
Protected areas
The conservation area " Tettnanger Forest with Hochwacht, Krüntenbühl, Reichenbühl, Argenhardter Kopf, Schoos and Steilrand des Argentales on the Schwandenbogen " was decreed on September 19, 1954 and listed under the LSG number 4.35.021 with a total of 701 hectares . It is thus a neighbor to the historically significant area, which is also protected by landscape protection, “ Ice Age Rims of the Argental with Argenaue ” (LSG no .: 4.35.040; 1.621 ha). The Birkenweiher nature reserve is located within the Tettnang Forest .
See also
Web links
- Chronology of the Langnau monastery with mentions of Argenhardt
- History of Oberlangnau with founding information about Argenhardt
- Short story of the monastery at Habsburg.net
- Deeds from the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich - Repayment Deed 7983 of August 27, 1436 , the "Prior and Convent in Argenhard" as debt collection trustee (PDF file; 2.17 MB)
- Bündnis 90 Grüne Tettnang - History of the Sunday driving ban on the old Tettnang country road
- Argenhardt bei Tettnang - Picture by Wolfram Gimple
- Pictures from the Tettnang Forest
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klöster-BW: Agenhard, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from July 23, 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.
- ^ Pauliner settlement, main archive Stuttgart
- ↑ Description of the Oberamt Tettnang, Chapter A 1, Wikisource
- ↑ Description of the Upper Office Tettnang, Chapter B 13, Wikisource
- ↑ Elmar L. Kuhn on Argenhardt, Klöster-BW, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from December 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.
- ^ Lexicon of Swabia, Google Books
- ^ Kgl.-Würt. Court and State Handbook, Google Books
- ↑ Suggested bike route “Tettnanger Forest and Argental” at GPSies.com
