Teufelsküche (Landsberg am Lech)
The Teufelsküche is a spring and recreational area in the large district town of Landsberg am Lech , from which the town draws part of its drinking water. It is traversed by the Dorfängerbach .
Landscape protection
It belongs to the local recreation area Pössinger Au , which stretches south of Landsberg along the Lech and begins with a remnant of the old city fortifications, the Nonnenturm. The area belongs to the Lechtal-Süd landscape protection area and makes an important contribution to nature and environmental protection; rare animal and plant species such as eagle owls or orchids can be found here, but human visitors are also catered for.
leisure offers
In addition to a Kneipp bath, walk-in game enclosures with wild boars and fallow deer , the reservoir with boat rental and the romantic Devil's Gorge, a campsite, numerous cycling and hiking trails and gastronomic offers invite you to spend your free time.
As part of the “Wasser Landsberg 2010” project, the Teufelsküche Pitzling underwent a general refurbishment , which enabled the drinking water supply for Landsberg-Ost to be ensured for years to come. A panorama restaurant with a view over the lake was integrated into the building of the pumping station, which was renovated in 2006.
Say about the devil's kitchen
Thanks to Karl Freiherr von Leoprechting , who lived in the nearby Pöring Castle with the beautiful castle chapel until 1857 and from whom a collection of legends was published in 1885, the numerous sagas and legends of the Teufelsküche and Lechrain have been preserved up to our time.
A legend tells that an old woman, considered a witch during her lifetime , disappeared from her grave and only left a heap of coal there. The horrified inhabitants of the city had carried these coals to the devil's kitchen to dump them into the water there, but the coals there caught fire by themselves and the smoke and smoke could still be seen over the devil's kitchen at night.
In addition to the smoke from the witches' coals, a headless man can also be seen in the ravine - the ghost of an adulterer who once met his young girlfriend in the devil's kitchen, fell to death there and was beheaded.
In the Rauhnächten around Epiphani (Holy Three-King), legend has it that “Sixtus with the glowing hands”, who was walled in alive at Pöring Castle in the late Middle Ages and tried in vain to free himself from his stone grave, the Pitzlinger today still in breath.
Web links
- Lechpark “Pössinger Au” side of the town of Landsberg am Lech
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 18 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 16 ″ E